# VIsion Client popup

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/vision-client-popup/95730>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** vision\
**Created:** [September 9, 2024, 1:48pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/vision-client-popup/95730 "2024-09-09T13:48:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Ayanakoji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Ayanakoji](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Ayanakoji)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2024, 1:48pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/vision-client-popup/95730/1 "2024-09-09T13:48:03Z")

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Hi guys, have you experienced this bug when you move the popup outside the vision client it will automatically resize the client, any idea on how to fix this problem? because all the popup screens is doing this bug

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**Author:** ![michael.flagler](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/michael.flagler/32/26272_2.png) [@michael.flagler](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/michael.flagler)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2024, 1:52pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/vision-client-popup/95730/2 "2024-09-09T13:52:25Z")

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I believe this is restricted to where each "desktop" in Ignition has popups isolated to that desktop. You can turn off infinite desktop and it will prevent you from moving the popup outside the bounds of the desktop window, but I don't believe there's a way to allow the popup to go outside the desktop window in any way. If there is, I'd love to hear it as it would be super helpful, but I've never found a way to do this without it expanding the screen/window or turning off infinite desktop to restrict the popups to the current desktop.

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**Author:** ![Ayanakoji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Ayanakoji](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Ayanakoji)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2024, 2:36pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/vision-client-popup/95730/3 "2024-09-09T14:36:26Z")

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> [@michael.flagler](#):
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> turn off infinite desktop

Thanks for your suggestion, for now I will stick to the Infinite desktop as a solution because I have no idea too to drag the popup outside the client

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2024, 3:11pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/vision-client-popup/95730/4 "2024-09-09T15:11:18Z")

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> [@michael.flagler](#):
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> I don't believe there's a way to allow the popup to go outside the desktop window in any way

There is not. All Vision "windows" are lightweight Swing containers, not true frames that can be elevated to the OS.

As with most things in Vision, it's _technically_ possible to pierce this abstraction and either render your own arbitrary components, constructed entirely in code from Swing components ("easier", by some definition of easy) _or_, theoretically, to render your actual Vision components/windows in a floating JFrame ("harder", in that I'm confident it's possible, but I would strongly recommend against it).

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2024, 3:15pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/vision-client-popup/95730/5 "2024-09-09T15:15:31Z")

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> [@paul-griffith](#):
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> render your actual Vision components/windows in a floating JFrame

Been there, done that. Quite some time ago.

> [@paul-griffith](#):
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> ("harder", in that I'm confident it's possible, but I would strongly recommend against it).

Yeah, there was a host of weird side-effects. Wasn't stable at all. If I needed something like that today, I'd launch an extra desktop in windowed mode, dockless, use jython to hide its client menu, then open the desired Vision window maximized therein.