I use to use the simple option of settings the forms Top, Left, Height, and Width, but if the window was maximized when the app was closed, it would save the size of the full screen, so there is no easy way for the user to restore to the original position before the maximize.
Storing and loading the rcNormalPosition, and the WindowState solves that problem. I suppose I could try using alClient Alignment. I do have controls above and below the listview which could go into separate panels if necessary. I'm not sure if it will make any difference but I will try this and send it to a user for testing. The Anchors should still work though. I'm wondering if the bug in Win2k is due to the SetWindowPlacement being done too close to the change of WindowState. Perhaps the WindowState is non-modal and is performing operations while the WindowState is being set and stuffs something up. A Sleep() may solve it. I didn't mention it as I don't think it's related but I'm also restoring the column positions of the listview immediately after the main form sizing and positioning. I was hoping someone else had used SetWindowPosition and come across this problem on Win2k with a solution, but it appears not. Something I just thought of may work. I could store the rcNormalPosition but convert this into Height (Bottom - Top) and Width (Right - Left) when loading the figures and use the standard Form properties. This will likely fix it properly. Regards, Ross. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Meek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Borland's Delphi Discussion List'" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 5:52 AM Subject: RE: Win2k window problems I think you should be resetting the form's Top, Left, Height, and Width instead of as you are with the Bottom and Right. This always worked for me in Windows 95, 98, 2000 and XP. Make sure too that the alignment of your TListView is set to alClient. Just setting your anchors is NOT the same! If you can't align to alClient because of needing space between it and it's parent's borders, use panels or spacers in between so that you can. Also, I've experienced a lot of registry problems with Win2000. For example, even with Microsoft's own products when uninstalled, registry entries were not always cleaned up as they should be. So I stopped using the Registry except for those things that were absolutely necessary. For everything else I went back to inifiles and the only difference I noticed was an increase in speed! <g> from: Robert Meek at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] dba "Tangentals Design" home of "PoBoy" freeware Windows apps and utilities located at: www.TangentalsDesign.com Proud to be a moderator for the "Delphi Programming Lists" at: elists.org -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ross Levis Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2005 8:54 PM To: Delphi Discussion List Subject: Win2k window problems I have a problem which only occurs on Windows 2000 workstations. XP and Win9x work fine. I'm storing the window sizes and positions of several windows when closing my app. I'm using similar code to the following when my program loads: with WindowPlacement do //(TWindowPlacement) begin Length := Sizeof(WindowPlacement); rcNormalPosition.Top := Reg.ReadInteger('Top'); rcNormalPosition.Left := Reg.ReadInteger('Left'); rcNormalPosition.Bottom := Reg.ReadInteger('Bottom'); rcNormalPosition.Right := Reg.ReadInteger('Right'); showCmd := SW_HIDE; SetWindowPlacement(MyForm.Handle, @WindowPlacement); MyForm.WindowState := TWindowState(Reg.ReadInteger('State')); end; In one example, a form has a ListView which is anchored at Top, Left, Bottom, and Right. On Win2k (and only Win2k), the listview does not resize when the window is resized. It stays the same size so you end up with blank space to the right and bottom when the form is made bigger or maximized. It's as if the 4 Anchors are set to False. This only occurs after the above code is run. The reason for using SetWindowPlacement is so the restored size of the windows are stored and loaded regardless of whether the form is maximized or not. The user can then Restore to the original form size. I don't have Win2k here so it's my users who have reported this problem and I can't test any changes here to resolve it. Any ideas? Thanks, Ross. _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi
