This looks like a bug, the size of dialogue window shouldn't be larger than the physical window.
On 6 Jun, 2017 6:11 am, "'Mike Day' via Programming" < [email protected]> wrote: > Yes, Bill, it seems to be something like that. A day or two ago - > earlier in the same > session - the dialogue window became very wide, wider than the real > screen, and > wasn't easy to use, as one needed to move it left and right to enter a > search string > and then press the find button, so your hypothesis is likely right. > > Later, I couldn't find the dialogue, presumably when x became negative. > So I closed > the session and altered the coordinates in winpos.dat to sensible values. > FiF was fine > in the new session. > > Let's hope it remains a rare occurrence; it's useful to know how to > correct the > coords, even if one doesn't quite know why they got messed up! > > So - no problem for now, just a warning to other (Windows) users. > > Thanks, > > Mike > > > On 05/06/2017 23:01, bill lam wrote: > >> If Window supports virtual desktop viewport, then I think the large >> negative x meant measured from a viewport on the right hand side. >> >> On 6 Jun, 2017 1:17 am, "'Mike Day' via Programming" < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> This problem has just re-surfaced for me, J806 under Windows 10, >> details below. >> >> Today's inaccessible fif has >> Fif=-1383 154 2394 529 >> in the configqt file, winpos.dat >> >> Difficult to say what caused it, as I tend to keep J sessions going until >> they >> fail for some reason. >> >> I'll try to reset the values to something reasonable, and report back if >> the >> problem persists. >> >> Thanks, >> Mike >> >> JVERSION >> >> Engine: j806/j64avx/windows >> >> Beta-3: commercial/2017-04-10T18:03:23 >> >> Library: 8.06.02 >> >> Qt IDE: 1.5.3/5.6.2 >> >> Platform: Win 64 >> >> Installer: J806 install >> >> InstallPath: c:/d/j806 >> >> Contact: www.jsoftware.com >> >> >> >> On 21/10/2014 16:31, chris burke wrote: >> >> This problem was reported earlier by Mike, and has been fixed for the next >>> 803 beta. >>> >>> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 7:03 AM, R.E. Boss <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Obviously Fif has the same bug as Fiw had: >>> >>>> My winpos.dat looked like >>>> Fiw=792 259 938 109 >>>> ... >>>> Fif=-2053 282 1924 350 NB. also a negative value >>>> so it seems obvious the window was invisible. >>>> >>>> After copying the Fiw-value in Fif, it worked fine. >>>> Thanks very much. >>>> >>>> >>>> R.E. Boss >>>> >>>> (Add your info to http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Community/Demographics >>>> ) >>>> >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> >>>>> From: [email protected] [mailto:programming- >>>>> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Day >>>>> Sent: dinsdag 21 oktober 2014 15:33 >>>>> To: [email protected] >>>>> Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] find in files window inaccessible >>>>> >>>>> I posted around 14/9/14 about a missing find window. >>>>> My problem was with find in window, so the following >>>>> might not be relevant. >>>>> >>>>> Greg Heil had commented; I replied: >>>>> >>>>> <<Thanks Greg - .... I looked >>>>> in regedit but found nothing relevant there. Then I had a >>>>> brainwave, looked in ~user/configqt and found a J file >>>>> called winpos.dat. >>>>> >>>>> This looked very fishy: >>>>> Fiw=-22947 378 65517 122 >>>>> compared to >>>>> Fif=55 108 960 529 >>>>> ! >>>>> >>>>> So I changed the Fiw values to something more sensible, >>>>> and my missing Find window reappeared. >>>>> >>>>> This suggests a question - can one configure maximum >>>>> (and minimum) allowed values for these parameters? >>>>> Presumably the error was inadvertently caused by a >>>>> huge search term going in the "search for" field. >>>>> >> >>>>> >>>>> Fif might be relevant to your problem. >>>>> >>>>> Good luck! >>>>> >>>>> Mike >>>>> >>>>> On 21/10/2014 11:38, R.E. 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