Don Taylor wrote:
When running a form design from the Designer I expected the initial size
of the running form to be based upon the size of the form in the
Designer but it appears to be based upon the size of the form as it was
when it was last run.
This makes sense when running as a stand-alone app, but I expected to be
able to resize the form in the designer, save it and then have that size
as the initial default size.
The same is true for a form's initial position.
Yes, this is a feature. The settings by default get saved in your home
directory (c:\Documents and Settings\<userName>\Application Data\Dabo on
Windows, /home/<userName>/.dabo on Mac/Lin). There are files there named
like userSettings-*.ini.
If you erase the user settings file, the form will take the default
position/size as defined in your cdxml file.
Other than that, you can change the value of the form's
SaveRestorePosition property. Setting it to False will not set the
position and size from the user settings table. Setting it to True will.
You could do this dynamically even, so that on your development system
the size/position isn't restored, but on systems you distribute your app
to, the size/position will be restored. Set an environmental variable
"_devbox" on your system, to "yes". Then try this in your form's
initProperties method:
def initProperties(self):
import os
if os.getenv("_devbox").lower() in ("yes", "true"):
# This is the development system. Don't restore size
self.SaveRestorePosition = False
I haven't tested the above, but the idea is sound.
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Paul McNett
http://paulmcnett.com
http://dabodev.com
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