FIX: Menus on Wrong Monitor for Multi-monitor Configuration

• Microsoft Visual Studio 97
• The Development Environment, included with:
  • Microsoft Visual C++, 32-bit Editions, version 5.0
  • Microsoft Visual InterDev, version 1.0
  • Microsoft Visual J++, version 1.1
• Microsoft Developer Network April 97
• Microsoft Developer Network July 97

SYMPTOMS

The Developer Studio menus will always be drawn on the primary monitor of a multiple-monitor system, even if the menu bar is elsewhere.

This only applies to versions of Windows that provide multi-monitor support.

RESOLUTION

Developer Studio must be run from the primary monitor.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This bug has been fixed in Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 3.

For more information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q170365 INFO: Visual Studio 97 Service Packs - What, Where, and Why

MORE INFORMATION

If Developer Studio is run in a monitor other than the primary monitor, the menu bar will be displayed on the correct monitor, but any of the sub-menus (File, Edit, View, etc.) will be displayed on the primary monitor.

Additional query words:

Keywords          : kbVS97sp2fix kbvbp500sp3fix 
Version           : WINDOWS:1.0,1.1,97; winnt:5.0
Platform          : WINDOWS winnt 
Issue type        : kbbug 

Last Reviewed: April 16, 1999