On Jul 9, 2018, at 6:24 PM, Chip Scheide wrote: > when (re)opening a database all windows previously opened in the design > environment are closed. > what did I do, and how do I get 4D to leave all the design windows open?
Hi Chip, I can think of 3 things: 1) Remember that if the Option key is down when you are entering Design — however you cause that to happen — will open with no windows. This was a very long-time-ago fix for when you had a corrupt method or form open. Going into Design it would try to open the corrupt method or form and that would cause 4D to crash. So to get around this you held down the Option key so that you could get into Design and not crash. Then, if you were lucky, you could delete the corrupted item and continue life. Classic example: You have an invisible button on a form that has the “Standard Action” of “Design”. You assign a keyboard shortcut to the button of "Command-Option-Y". So to drop into Design when the form is displayed you just press Command-Option-Y. Notice that option key. I had to change the shortcut on my 4D applications to Command-Shift-Y to avoid the problem of no windows open in Design. I couldn’t press Command-Option-Y and release the Option key before it got to Design and closed all my previously opened windows. 2) 4D stores in the .4DB file the open windows and their location in Design for each 4D user. They are not stored in a “prefs” text files on disk somewhere. I know this because I work on a project with multiple developers and we all connect to 4D Server with our own 4D user account. Everyone gets their Design environment open windows preserved when doing 4D Server Team Developer work. If I get a copy of the .4DB file and put it to my local machine and open it and drop into Design, all my windows reappear. So it could be structure file damage. Maybe MSC repair on the structure file will fix the problem. 3) If you crash, or something goes wrong when you quit 4D, it will not save the open window in Design information. Tim Tim Nevels timnev...@mac.com <mailto:timnev...@mac.com> Innovative Solutions 785-749-3444 ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com **********************************************************************