Appreciate the quick responses guys.
Yes, I forgot to mention this is specifically with XPression Designer for me, so it does happen to be a multi-monitor setup (laptop and external display) with my second monitor being 4K with 150% scaling.
I haven't noticed it working when I keep things on the primary display, but I do tend to put those secondary windows on the external (visual logic, material browser, etc). I'll keep that in mind and see if it mitigates things.
A bit disappointing to have an issue like this, specifically from a designer perspective, but I can imagine the display mismatch being a difficulty. I never had issues like this previously working in the office with a 3 display setup, but those were all identical displays, so your reasoning makes sense.
Would definitely appreciate getting some insight into it from the Dev team. Thanks @Garner Millward!
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Mike DeMarco
Freelance Graphics Developer
MikeDeM Productions, LLC
Tokyo Japan
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Original Message:
Sent: 12-04-2023 14:50
From: Garner Millward
Subject: XPression 11 Right-Click Bug on Windows 11 Laptop
Don't reinstall XPression/change versions or reinstall Windows. Its not going to change the behavior.
Do you have multiple monitors on your system? Or is your single display high DPI?
I think this issue gets triggered by a few things, and right now, I don't think there are any workarounds or fixes.
- XPression doesn't work great with high DPI monitors
- your windows text scaling is set to something other than 100%
- XPression always runs (or trys/fails to) its context menus from the primary monitor, even if you move it to a secondary monitor, and even if you pin XPression to the secondary monitor
- If you run XPression from the primary monitor, the right click menus should work
I don't know if we've every actually tried to fix this issue....let me check and see if we can get an proper answer from the XPression development team on why this happens and if it can be improved.
Original Message:
Sent: 12-03-2023 20:24
From: Mike DeMarco
Subject: XPression 11 Right-Click Bug on Windows 11 Laptop
Anybody else run into an issue where the right-click menu works normally until you have a secondary XPression window open (a Virtual Output, the Visual Logic window).
It's a really weird bug, only seems to affect XPression, like right-clicking works outside of XPression still, and as soon as you close the secondary window, right-click functionality is restored.
I've tried reinstalling XPression, including a different version to no avail. So, I imagine it has to be a bug interaction with my computer / Windows specifically, but can't figure out what could be the cause and would love to avoid formatting and reinstalling Windows.
Anybody have any insight?
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Mike DeMarco
Freelance Graphics Developer
MikeDeM Productions, LLC
Tokyo Japan
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