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CCS/CC3220SF-LAUNCHXL: Dual monitor support

joe boer
Expert 1280 points

Part Number: CC3220SF-LAUNCHXL

Tool/software: Code Composer Studio

Does CCS support dual monitor use?  When a dialog pops up and I move it over to my second monitor, it hides. Since I need to close that dialog to get back to the main app, I am stuck and need to close CCS altogether because I have no access to the dialog.  Is this truly a single monitor app (does anyone only work with 1 monitor these days?)

I am on a 16" MacBook Pro as well as 27" iMac with second monitors on both. With other IDEs I'd have both monitors plastered with various windows, would like to do the same with CCS.

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    TI__Guru**** 173310 points

    I use a dual monitor and move dialogs and views around both monitors without issues, but I am on a Windows system. As you mentioned, most of us do work with multiple monitors these days and I haven't heard of this issue. When you say the dialog hides, you mean it does not come back into focus when you bring the CCS app into focus?

  • 0 in reply to AartiG
    Expert 1280 points

    Pressing "show all windows" on a Mac shows all the windows an app has in diminished form while all other open apps hide. This is so that one can quickly locate a "lost window" if there are a ton open. When I use the "show all windows" with CCS, I can see the open dialog as if it continues to be part of the screen on the first monitor as well as part of the main app. It should have been showing on the 2nd monitor as its own window so that I can select it and dismiss it. 

    Hopefully this makes sense; if not, pls use a Mac to see for yourself.

  • 0 in reply to joe boer
    TI__Guru**** 173310 points

    Sorry for the delayed reply. I now understand what you mean and actually see the same thing on Windows as well. Dialog windows are considered part of the main app, so even if moved to a 2nd monitor, it will come into focus only when the main CCS app is selected and is not treated as a separate window by itself. That is the way Eclipse (that CCS is based on) behaves.

    One option may be to create another instance of the workbench (using menu Window->New Window), move it to the second monitor and set it up to view a different perspective or different views than the one in the first monitor. 

    Hope this helps.

  • 0 in reply to AartiG
    Expert 1280 points

    Thanks for the suggestion but CCS is such a "heavy" IDE (its cluttered IMHO), I rather run something else instead of more of the same. I am running BBEdit as my second (third etc.) editor window on the other monitors. CCS does pick up the changes/edits fine which makes it fairly seamless.  I wish I could take over more with BBEdit (project management) but this will have to do for now.