Misaligned Ribbon

[MichaelWDenney]

A user provided the attached image with the ribbon interface shifted beyond the UI to the left. Has this behaviour been seen before? As far as I am aware, no other users have experienced this problem and we have never seen it during development or testing. I am wondering if it is a video driver issue (note that the top left corner of the GUI is also not refreshing properly).

[kirill-grouchnikov]

To reproduce:

1. Resize the ribbon frame so that it takes up the full screen width
2. Double click on one of the ribbon task buttons to minimize the ribbon
3. Drag the ribbon frame (not resize) to the right, so that it's partially beyond the right edge of the screen
4. Click one of the ribbon task buttons

This brings up the content of that ribbon task in a popup - which is the intended outcome. But that popup is positioned in a way that fits that full popup in the screen, ignoring the position of the ribbon frame.

On one hand, maybe the right thing to do is to anchor the popup so that it "follows" the frame position, essentially cutting off the trailing content. On the other hand, the current logic makes sure that the entire popup is shown. There are pros and cons to both approaches.

[MichaelWDenney]

Oh! The user provided no context at all. They just sent the screenshot. What you describe makes a lot of sense, if the ribbon frame goes beyond the entire desktop. On a multi-display setup, where the ribbon frame extends into a second display, the trailing content would not be cut off so anchoring the popup would seem more correct.

[kirill-grouchnikov]

Right, this is why there's some explicit logic in the Radiance popups that checks for the screen bounds and adjusts the location of the popup accordingly. I'm leaning right now towards closing this as "working as intended", as the current behavior feels the most balanced.

[MichaelWDenney]

I would agree this is "as intended" except for the multi-display case. When I try it on my multi-display desktop with the GUI across both displays, I see the same behaviour whereas I would expect the popup to be aligned with the GUI. (I'm not sure I understand what you meant about the explicit logic. Did you expect it would align under these conditions?)

[kirill-grouchnikov]

I'm referencing the logic in this block and a few others where the popup content is explicitly positioned to not overflow the bounds of the current screen (the screen associated with the ribbon).

Maybe it can be tweaked to do something different (or nothing at all?) for the multi-display case. It can get tricky. It's not just having more than one GraphicsDevice returned from GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment().getScreenDevices(). It's trying to track if the ribbon (or any other popup originator) is fully displayed across all the screens, and I'm not sure how that logic would even look like.

[MichaelWDenney]

Another consideration is that, if the ribbon tab contains a fair bit of dead space to the right, it results in a shifted popup where one wasn't really necessary. That is, this could have easily aligned with the ribbon frame without anything of importance in the popup falling off the edge: