Hello Leon - well done for finding the answer in the archives! This pesky bug is also fixed in the latest build of the Jalview 2.7 branch, which can be launched here: http://www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/~ws-dev1/jalview/latest/webstart/jalview.jnlp
Jim. On 20/01/2012 23:01, Leon P. Martinez Castilla wrote: > Hi! > > I continued searching for answers to the window-behind-menubar problem and > noticed that it had come up > previously on may 5, 2011 ([Jalview-discuss] Alignment window beyond top of > Jalview window). The solution was > posted by Jim Procter: > > It is a bug - and seems to be a problem with the way that OSX's java > implementation fails to handle interior menu bars properly. > http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-368 is the most recent iteration of > it. > > From the bug report, you can see there is a workaround: A colleague - > Richard Bickerton found that if you use X, followed by G, to expand and > then collect all the views on the alignment (after first creating > another view with control-T if you don't have one), then all the windows > should get placed within the visible region of the desktop again. > > Since I´m using a mac (MacOS x 10.6) i was able to creat a new view using > the option key + T, although using X > and G to expand and then gather the views was useless (a Mac-specific bug?). > Fortunately, the menu bar on my > alignment window was still visible, so I was able to expand the views using > the View menu, which brought the > windows to the middle of the desktop, where I could close the new view window > and resize and replace the > original one to my heart's content. > > I'm sorry I hadn't read the discussion archives carefully enough before > posting my previous message! > > Best, > > Leon > > > >> I have what I think is a very dumb problem, but I´ve perused the >> discussion >> archives and and haven't found a thread wit a similar problem. The thing is I >> somehow managed to drag my main alignment window behind the desktop menu bar, >> so that neither the red, yellow and green buttons or the top edge of the >> alignment window are visible. As a result, I can no longer move the alignment >> window. Is there anything I can do to restore its former mobility to the >> alignment window? >> >> Any hints will be much appreciated. >> >> Best, >> >> Leon >> >> -- >> Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org) >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Jalview-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/jalview-discuss > ------- End of Original Message ------- > > _______________________________________________ > Jalview-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/jalview-discuss _______________________________________________ Jalview-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/jalview-discuss
