Progressbar opens on the wrong monitor

[PaoloVeronelli]

Hi, my MacBook has a second bigger monitor on the right where Indesign is usually open.
In my script:

- if I open a 'dialog' (alert for example), it appears correctly on the rightside monitor over the Indesign document

- if I open a 'progressbar' (see code below), it appears on the MacBook monitor on the leftside not over the Indesign document (then even dialogs start to appear on the wrong monitor)

Is there a way to open the progressbar over Indesign on the rightside monitor?
If you're ask yourself 'why?', it's because I need to let a Teamviewer client to launch my scripts AND see the progressbar

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function creaPannelloProgress(valoreMassimoProgress, larghezzaBarraProgress) {

pannelloProgress = new Window('window','Linkamento dei codici');

with (pannelloProgress) {

pannelloProgress.barraProgress = add('progressbar',[24,24,larghezzaBarraProgress,50],0,valoreMassimoProgress);

}

return pannelloProgress;

}

pannelloProgress = creaPannelloProgress(100,600);

pannelloProgress.show();

[Peter Kahrel · Accepted solution]

Instead of [24,24, . . .] force the palette on to the second screen by using something like [2000, 24, . . .]. Depends on the size of your screen.  To find out your screen sizes, see https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/scriptui.html

P.

[PaoloVeronelli]

Thank you, I will try.
Thankyou also for the suggested ScriptUI manual.

🙂

[PaoloVeronelli]

It works.

    if ($.screens.length > 1) { //two monitors?

        left_dy_w = $.screens[0].right;

        right_dy_w = $.screens[1].right - $.screens[0].right; //$.screens[1].right is the sum of both monitors width

    } else { //only one monitor

        left_dy_w = 0;

        right_dy_w = $.screens[0].right;

    }

var dialogoArray = new Window("dialog"); 

dialogoArray.frameLocation = [(left_dy_w + (right_dy_w / 2) - (430 / 2)), 200]; //430 is my dialog width