Grasshopper Feature Request - Default screen on multi-monitor

[dswindle]

Is it possible for the program window to remember it’s location when closed?
When I boot grasshopper, I typically have an external monitor. Currently, it always loads a new session or a new file within a current session on top of my rhino window regardless of whether or not another monitor is connected. I then have to drag it off the main screen to my second after it’s done loading, which occasionally takes several minutes with large files.

A secondary request is to be able to drag a widget from one place on the grasshopper canvas to another with drag velocity proportionate to the distance I drag the cursor off screen.

Thank you so much for this program! You all do amazing work, I am very very grateful for the tools you make.

[RIL (Rolf)]

@dswindle

When I boot grasshopper … it always loads a new session or a new file within a current session on top of my rhino window

Yes, this is a known issue. It will probably be fixed sooner or later.

GrassHopper window always shows up on Display 1

I should have pointed out that I usually have Rhino on screen 1 and GH on screen 2. So if I open a new def in GH the GH window jumps to screen 1 (where Rhino resides). So it is not that they “drift apart”, instead it is that they are like magnets. I want the GH window to stay where I put it. At least once it has been opened, regardless of if I open multiple definitions in the GH window. As it is now I have to move it back to screen 2 every time I open new defs (like when opening demo defs from…

// Rolf

[dswindle]

copy that.
what about the drag acceleration?

[DavidRutten]

@dswindle

A secondary request is to be able to drag a widget from one place on the grasshopper canvas to another with drag velocity proportionate to the distance I drag the cursor off screen.

The panning speed is proportional to the distance between the mouse cursor and the canvas control boundary:

Canvas auto-panning speed

Or did I misunderstand?

[ivelin.peychev]

As we’re creating a wishlist, can I add a couple?

I wish that Grasshopper window can be disconnected from Rhino window in such a way that:

1. When I click on Rhino window it does not put GH window on top of every other app I have opened.
2. When I minimize Rhino I want GH to be kept in its restored/maximized position. Sometimes I just need Rhino and sometimes I just need GH and if have a window with some book or data on the side it gets hidden, so I have to move GH window on top of Rhino window.
   BTW, that second one should also be valid for RhinoPython editor.

(mainly using single monitor)

[dswindle]

just circling back to this.
I do see that the drag is proportional. however, I have a multi monitor setup and I find that the drag velocity implements when I drag far off the edge of the grasshopper window. since my screens aren’t the same resolution or orientation, when I move the cursor to another screen to speed the pan along, it will jump which makes the panning hard to follow.