Unable to move and dock windows

[StreamOfTheSky]

When I drag a pane to the edge of the screen/map pane, it does not dock.
This happens on multiple computers and multiple versions of maptool.
A screenshot showing the chat window half off-screen is attached.

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[aliasmask]

Docking is relevant to your mouse, header bars and edges. I did have some weirdness happen to me when opening a frame with a macro using a function key. New frame couldn't find other custom frame until I clicked on background first and then moved it. Gray boxes appear when showing where the frame will be docked. Usually left, right, above, below or tabbed.

[Full Bleed]

This happens on multiple computers and multiple versions of maptool.

This is the odd thing. Maybe it's an OS thing... I suspect that different versions of java, video drivers, and operating systems probably change how things look while docking with swing.

For me, I have no problems docking, tabbing, and organizing my windows in MT (on multiple computers, windows platforms). But, I have had players that just always seem to have problems and when I see how they have their layouts poorly setup it's usually because they have trouble setting things up. With one player who complained a lot, I logged into his computer using remote assistance and had no trouble setting things up (even with the lag and low frame rate you get from remote assistance)... so, at least in his case, it was simply user error (and, yes, to this day he still seems incapable of settings thing up easily.)

In your screen shot it looks like you are trying to position the chat window.

Try this:

1) Drag the chat window to the middle of your screen and size it down to about the size of a playing card.
2) Then, grab header bar (left click and hold) and drag it *very slowly* toward the Draw Explorer. What happens? In Win10 the Chat window stays in place and I am dragging an empty gray frame.
3) As you near the Draw Explorer, the "empty frame" you are dragging will eventually snap into a new orientation. If you let go of the left mouse button the chat window itself will snap into that orientation/position. You should be able to move the "empty frame" all around the screen, touching various other windows and edges of the screen to indicate different places you can dock the frame. Is this not happening for you?

[Braelen]

I also have this problem. If I move a window to the right side it does not show a dock unless I move it to the top right and then it docks across the whole top of the screen and not to the right. I have tried resetting the layout. the gray outline appears but just pushes off the side of the screen instead of docking and two screens will not join together when moved next to each other (one above the other).