Disappearing pop-up windows (like the Find window dialog in Code References, and sometimes the entire Debug window)
VFP9SP2 Win10Pro Dell Latitude 3400 and my favorite color today is red.
Has anyone come across where your resource file just seems to get crazy and show windows in coordinates that are entirely off-monitor and you cannot see them? I do! Started not too long ago. I use a dual-monitor setup and on very rare occasion have my laptop lid open too while on the dock for a (unintended) 3rd monitor display. I can only guess that my re-arrange monitors perhaps has caused this. It's very frustrating. I've nuked the resource.dbf file a couple times but it repeats behavior. (Off the top of my head, I can't recall if the ZAP of resource.dbf fixes it or not, but if it does, eventually it happens again where I cannot see the Find window.)
Only thing more I can contribute: leftmost monitor is #1 and right (and sometimes middle) is #2. Laptop sits at far right of my desk.
Ideas? Tia.
My workaround is to delete all the foxuser.id rows with 'debug' in them but that's a PITA.
On 8/9/2021 7:56 PM, MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote:
VFP9SP2 Win10Pro Dell Latitude 3400 and my favorite color today is red.
Has anyone come across where your resource file just seems to get crazy and show windows in coordinates that are entirely off-monitor and you cannot see them? I do! Started not too long ago. I use a dual-monitor setup and on very rare occasion have my laptop lid open too while on the dock for a (unintended) 3rd monitor display. I can only guess that my re-arrange monitors perhaps has caused this. It's very frustrating. I've nuked the resource.dbf file a couple times but it repeats behavior. (Off the top of my head, I can't recall if the ZAP of resource.dbf fixes it or not, but if it does, eventually it happens again where I cannot see the Find window.)
Only thing more I can contribute: leftmost monitor is #1 and right (and sometimes middle) is #2. Laptop sits at far right of my desk.
Ideas? Tia.
Hi Michael,
the resource file will store the position of the various windows, as I'm sure you know. If the left or top value gets set to something negative then it won't be visible. So maybe in your screen setup somehow things are getting changed around and you are ending up with a position off the screen somewhere?
If you know the debug window is the active window, you can press Alt, then left arrow, then down arrow, then "M" and you will be able to move the window with the arrow keys. That might give you a better idea of where the window is.
Frank.
Frank Cazabon
On 09/08/2021 9:57 pm, MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote:
My workaround is to delete all the foxuser.id rows with 'debug' in them but that's a PITA.
On 8/9/2021 7:56 PM, MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote:
VFP9SP2 Win10Pro Dell Latitude 3400 and my favorite color today is red.
Has anyone come across where your resource file just seems to get crazy and show windows in coordinates that are entirely off-monitor and you cannot see them? I do! Started not too long ago. I use a dual-monitor setup and on very rare occasion have my laptop lid open too while on the dock for a (unintended) 3rd monitor display. I can only guess that my re-arrange monitors perhaps has caused this. It's very frustrating. I've nuked the resource.dbf file a couple times but it repeats behavior. (Off the top of my head, I can't recall if the ZAP of resource.dbf fixes it or not, but if it does, eventually it happens again where I cannot see the Find window.)
Only thing more I can contribute: leftmost monitor is #1 and right (and sometimes middle) is #2. Laptop sits at far right of my desk.
Ideas? Tia.
Hi Mike,
I suspect when your laptop is open in the dock it becomes Monitor #1, and the main monitors are in the negative numbers then. Are these windows in the Screen or on the Desktop directly?
Tracy
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Frank Cazabon Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2021 8:58 AM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: Disappearing pop-up windows (like the Find window dialog in Code References, and sometimes the entire Debug window)
Hi Michael,
the resource file will store the position of the various windows, as I'm sure you know. If the left or top value gets set to something negative then it won't be visible. So maybe in your screen setup somehow things are getting changed around and you are ending up with a position off the screen somewhere?
If you know the debug window is the active window, you can press Alt, then left arrow, then down arrow, then "M" and you will be able to move the window with the arrow keys. That might give you a better idea of where the window is.
Frank.
Frank Cazabon
On 09/08/2021 9:57 pm, MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote:
My workaround is to delete all the foxuser.id rows with 'debug' in them but that's a PITA.
On 8/9/2021 7:56 PM, MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote:
VFP9SP2 Win10Pro Dell Latitude 3400 and my favorite color today is red.
Has anyone come across where your resource file just seems to get crazy and show windows in coordinates that are entirely off-monitor and you cannot see them? I do! Started not too long ago. I use a dual-monitor setup and on very rare occasion have my laptop lid open too while on the dock for a (unintended) 3rd monitor display. I can only guess that my re-arrange monitors perhaps has caused this. It's very frustrating. I've nuked the resource.dbf file a couple times but it repeats behavior. (Off the top of my head, I can't recall if the ZAP of resource.dbf fixes it or not, but if it does, eventually it happens again where I cannot see the Find window.)
Only thing more I can contribute: leftmost monitor is #1 and right (and sometimes middle) is #2. Laptop sits at far right of my desk.
Ideas? Tia.
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I think I had a script that reset all screen-related settings, just in case ... :) This problem can happen to single monitor setup.
On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 7:57 AM MB Software Solutions, LLC mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:
VFP9SP2 Win10Pro Dell Latitude 3400 and my favorite color today is red.
Has anyone come across where your resource file just seems to get crazy and show windows in coordinates that are entirely off-monitor and you cannot see them? I do! Started not too long ago. I use a dual-monitor
Maybe Doug Hennig's whitepaper will be of some help: https://doughennig.com/papers.aspx There look for "Handling Multiple Monitors"
wOOdy
Yeah Richard sent that to me today too...gonna check that out.
On 8/10/2021 1:52 PM, Jürgen Wondzinski wrote:
Maybe Doug Hennig's whitepaper will be of some help: https://doughennig.com/papers.aspx There look for "Handling Multiple Monitors"
wOOdy
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I've never gotten VFP to work reliably with this sort of setup. IMO it's from a time before dual monitors and doesn't know what the hell is happening.
I ran into this before for users with 2 monitors. In my situation, the cause was using the old BROWSE command within a VFP5 application. This sometimes changes VFP Windows registry values. My solution was to update the registry using a startup app. The startup app updates the registry and then runs the main app. Of course, this only works if users have admin rights on their own machine.
Wayne
On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 3:27 AM Alan Bourke alanpbourke@fastmail.fm wrote:
I've never gotten VFP to work reliably with this sort of setup. IMO it's from a time before dual monitors and doesn't know what the hell is happening. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
On Tue, 10 Aug 2021, at 12:56 AM, MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote:
VFP9SP2 Win10Pro Dell Latitude 3400 and my favorite color today is red.
Has anyone come across where your resource file just seems to get crazy and show windows in coordinates that are entirely off-monitor and you cannot see them? I do! Started not too long ago. I use a dual-monitor setup and on very rare occasion have my laptop lid open too while on the dock for a (unintended) 3rd monitor display. I can only guess that my re-arrange monitors perhaps has caused this. It's very frustrating. I've nuked the resource.dbf file a couple times but it repeats behavior. (Off the top of my head, I can't recall if the ZAP of resource.dbf fixes it or not, but if it does, eventually it happens again where I cannot see the Find window.)
Only thing more I can contribute: leftmost monitor is #1 and right (and sometimes middle) is #2. Laptop sits at far right of my desk.
Ideas? Tia.
-- Michael J. Babcock, MCP Fox/VFP dev since 1997 Developer of FabNet estimating software - mbsoftwaresolutions.com
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