Screen(0)

Targets macOS
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I’m using the following which seems to work fine on my Desktop iMac but not on my MacBook Pro. On the Desktop I get a centred screen for my app but on the MacBook I get a window pushed off to the right. What have I missed?

MainWindow.Width = screen(0).AvailableWidth *.65
MainWindow.Height = screen(0).AvailableHeight *.8

//Centre Window
Dim tScreen as screen = screen( 0)
Dim newFrame as new Rect( 0, 0,mainwindow.width, mainwindow.height)
newFrame.left = ( ( tScreen.availableWidth - newFrame.width ) * 0.5 ) + tScreen.availableLeft
newFrame.top = min( ( ( tScreen.availableHeight - newFrame.height+tScreen.availableTop ) * 0.5 ) + tScreen.availableTop, tScreen.availableTop*2 )
me.bounds = newFrame
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newFrame.left = ( ( tScreen.availableWidth - newFrame.width ) * 0.5 ) + tScreen.availableLeft

this basically calculates the left offset twice and adds it.

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Here’s the debug for your code on my M1 MBP:

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MainWindow sees centered horizontally, but not vertically.

MainWindow was added to a current project and displayed at run time. Your code is in MainWindow.Open.
MainWindow size is Xojo default size.

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Thanks for the pickup Christian. Even with that change the when run on the MacBook it still displays off centre and off screen slightly.
I thought if I moved that code to the App open event it might make a difference but it is still the same??

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Thanks Emile

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Ok, some more info. The code does behave and centre horizontally if I set the MacBook display to the maximum scaled display size but not on any other setting.

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Oh ! That is why it worked here…

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window.top    != window.bounds.top
window.height != window.bounds.height

window.top is the top point of the content area (top + window chrome height).
window.bounds.top is the top point of the window.
window.height is the height of the content area of the window.
window.bounds.height is the height of the content area + window chrome height.

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The top and height behave as expected (even though I have things a little muddled).
The horizontal adjustment is what is not consistent between iMac and MacBook.
Does the .availablewidth take screen scale into consideration or does it just look at maximum availability?

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My bad, sorry.

Well, you’ve got gold here as you have a machine that can reproduce the problem. I would suggest using system.debuglog to make sure that the values are what you think they should be.
Write out the screen dimensions, then the available dimensions, then the window dimensions.

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Have you checked, on your machine, how much equals Screen(0).Width-Screen(0).AvailableWidth, just to be sure the difference is what you expect?

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Macbook Pros give a message that on the lowest resolution Apps may not appear correct so I think I will stop chasing this one.