editor woes
[1/9] from: gchiu:compkarori at: 18-Mar-2002 12:58
Has anyone seen this problem? I go to edit a reblet on my
desktop, and although the editor appears in my task bar in
WinXP, nothing appears on screen.
The IOS editor appears okay though.
--
Graham Chiu
[2/9] from: rebol:optushome:au at: 18-Mar-2002 13:39
> Has anyone seen this problem? I go to edit a reblet on my
> desktop, and although the editor appears in my task bar in
> WinXP, nothing appears on screen.
>
> The IOS editor appears okay though.
Hi Graham,
If it is an offset problem then you can..
Edit the file called edit-prefs.r (to be found in the View directory)
And fix the pair value for offset.
Else if it is just the change in XP that makes new windows open minimised in
the background..complain to MS for changing that behavior.
Cheers,
Allen K
[3/9] from: carl:cybercraft at: 18-Mar-2002 20:56
On 18-Mar-02, Graham Chiu wrote:
> Has anyone seen this problem? I go to edit a reblet on my
> desktop, and although the editor appears in my task bar in
> WinXP, nothing appears on screen.
Hi Graham,
Been having the same problem on my Amiga, so I've just looked into
what I suspected was the problem, and it was. Namely that if the
editor window is too big for the screen or offset so it'd overlap the
edges it won't open.
Now, I think there's a bug in View that causes windows not to open
quite where they should sometimes, (or it may be just a Desktop
thing), or not to open at all if they can't fit in the screen. So,
if you opened your editor window to full-screen size and then closed
it, trying to open it again might not work. (Just tested this and
it's the behaviour I got.)
Anyway, you can edit the editor's window size and offset in the
edit-prefs.r file to be found in your REBOL directory. That should
allow you to get your editor window opening again if your problem has
the same cause.
> The IOS editor appears okay though.
If your View editor can be made to not appear by opening it up to
full-screen size, does the same happen with the IOS one? Be nice to
know it doesn't and that this is now a fixed bug.
--
Carl Read
[4/9] from: gchiu:compkarori at: 19-Mar-2002 8:08
> > The IOS editor appears okay though.
>
> If your View editor can be made to not appear by opening
> it up to
> full-screen size, does the same happen with the IOS one?
> Be nice to
> know it doesn't and that this is now a fixed bug.
Thanks Carl, Allen. This was in my edit-prefs.r
offset: -31999x-31999
size: 1016x704
wrap: true
and IOS has the same problem.
--
Graham Chiu
[5/9] from: greggirwin:mindspring at: 19-Mar-2002 10:13
Hi Graham,
I had a similar problem. I think it happened when I closed the editor while
it was minimized.
--Gregg
[6/9] from: ldwyer:esign:au at: 20-Mar-2002 11:56
I also had the same problem and lived without rebol editor for a while until
these posts.
My system is Win2000 though.
Cheers,
Luke
[7/9] from: gchiu:compkarori at: 20-Mar-2002 13:23
> I had a similar problem. I think it happened when I
> closed the editor while
> it was minimized.
Hi Gregg,
Perhaps we should try and reproduce this so the bug can be
fixed.
--
Graham Chiu
[8/9] from: carl:cybercraft at: 20-Mar-2002 7:57
On 19-Mar-02, Graham Chiu wrote:
>>
>>> The IOS editor appears okay though.
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> wrap: true
> and IOS has the same problem.
That's not what was happening in my Amiga's case, so I suspect it's an
XP thing and that (perhaps) RT have worked around it with IOS. Looks
like a change from signed to unsigned integers or somesuch.
--
Carl Read
[9/9] from: brett:codeconscious at: 21-Mar-2002 0:31
Hi,
I reported it to feedback in Nov last year. Feedback responded that they
were annoyed by it too and that it will be added to their bug database. It
is due to minimisation of the editor window producing a very large offset
which subsequently gets saved as your preference.
Regards,
Brett.
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