If the form is off screen there is a way of getting it back. Focus the application then do the following:
Hit Alt-Space. That should bring up the windows menu (ie from the top left of the window) for the current window. You may not be able to see it though if the form is offscreen. Press the down arrow once (this will move focus to the Move command). Hit enter (to select Move). Do Ctrl-Left (as in left arrow key, or in fact any of the arrow keys). This will move the window one pixel BUT more usefully it also locks the form into drag mode with the mouse cursor. Move your mouse now and the form should appear on screen following the mouse cursor. Cheers, David. From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] On Behalf Of David O'Brien Sent: Sunday, 15 May 2011 1:27 p.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: Re: [DUG] Delphi 2007 & Vista What code is used to launch the programs? From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] On Behalf Of Charlie Kerscher Sent: Sunday, 15 May 2011 1:18 p.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: Re: [DUG] Delphi 2007 & Vista David, I did as you suggested and the program still doesn't appear. Oh, the settings are in afd.ini. Charlie --- On Sat, 5/14/11, David O'Brien <d...@iccs.co.nz> wrote: From: David O'Brien <d...@iccs.co.nz> Subject: Re: [DUG] Delphi 2007 & Vista To: "NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List" <delphi@delphi.org.nz> Date: Saturday, May 14, 2011, 8:50 PM Where does it store the positions? Registry or .ini file? Have a look where the forms left and top are... Set them to 0,0. From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] On Behalf Of Charlie Kerscher Sent: Sunday, 15 May 2011 12:38 p.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: Re: [DUG] Delphi 2007 & Vista Thanks David, the original application is Accounting for Delphi. It does, as best as I can determine, "remember" last screen size/position. I can not start the other programs (modules) although the task manager says they are running. The curious thing, to me, is that when I start the 'real' main menu, the splash screen appears, the user id/pw screen appears and the "main" menu screen appears. I even moved the main menu to a different screen position and when I restarted the app the main menu appeared where I had placed it. But when I select another program/module from that main menu that program does show. So I'm still at a lost as to what to do. Charlie --- On Sat, 5/14/11, David O'Brien <d...@iccs.co.nz> wrote: From: David O'Brien <d...@iccs.co.nz> Subject: Re: [DUG] Delphi 2007 & Vista To: "NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List" <delphi@delphi.org.nz> Date: Saturday, May 14, 2011, 8:19 PM Do you save and restore the last positions of the windows? I’ve fallen into the trap of having left or top positions outside the screen on start up. Also, what code are you using to start the other programs? Can you start them manually? From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] On Behalf Of Charlie Kerscher Sent: Sunday, 15 May 2011 12:12 p.m. To: delphi@delphi.org.nz Subject: [DUG] Delphi 2007 & Vista Hi, Until Wednesday I was developing using an XP laptop with Delphi 2007 and DBase files. My computer died and I borrowed my son's laptop which has Vista. I installed Delphi 2007 with the 3rd party controls, copied my program (.pas files) and recompiled my program. Actually I did this with two programs. The second one runs both within the IDE and outside the IDE. The first program will load the main form (outside of the IDE) but when I click a button to open another form which is data dependent the form doesn't show. Actually the application has exe's that are called in the onclick event of the buttons; for example order entry, inventory, customer add/edit, etc. I click the order entry button and task manager shows the exe is running; however the form doesn't show on the laptop. I sincerely appreciate any suggestions. Charlie -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
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