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Bug 367156

Summary: Dual-screen setup can cause Action Errors when executing click test steps
Product: [Technology] Jubula Reporter: Martin Müller <martin.mueller>
Component: CoreAssignee: Project Inbox <jubula.core-inbox>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Oliver Goetz <Oliver.Goetz>
Severity: minor    
Priority: P3 CC: alexandra.schladebeck
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: Indigo SR2   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 7   
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Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 515745    

Description Martin Müller CLA 2011-12-20 04:14:37 EST 
Build Identifier: 1.1.0

When using a dual-screen setup with a monitor to the left of the main screen this monitor is adressed using negative X-values causing Jubula to assume the coordinates are invalid. Hence, executing a click test step with any negative coordinates causes an Action Error "Point to click (-998, 401) is outside of screen bounds".
The same Action Errors occur when Jubula comes across negative Y-values, such as with a monitor above the main screen.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set up a secondary screen to the left of the main screen.
2. Move the AUT onto the left screen
3. Execute a click test step
Comment 1 Alexandra Schladebeck CLA 2012-01-04 08:50:20 EST 
Hi,

We do not currently support multi-monitor setups. We have neither tested what does work, nor have we evaluated the feasibility of adding support for this kind of environment. This is partially because of the relatively small amount of use cases that require multi-monitors and partially because of the effort that would be involved in testing such support for all actions, on a variety of platforms and window systems. 

If it's avoidable in your use case, I would avoid it. You could try using positive coordinates and see whether Jubula interprets them correctly, but I don't know whether this would work all or even some of the time. 

I'm going to set this to won't fix, as it currently isn't high on our list of priorities to look at.