Stop moving of minimized windows on startup

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Wed, 01/30/2013 - 07:21 am

Hi,

when i'm working with igor i often minimize graphs, tabels and layouts. They all line up sound and safe on the bottom of the igor window.
The problem is when i safe the experiment and reopen it. First i see all the windows lined up very well, but after the laoding process all the minimized windows move and end at random postions. I would be very pleased when they could stay in a line on the bottom of the igor window

Maybe someone of you can help me. I'm using Win7 Igor Pro 6.21 with an addon software MFP3D 090909+1409 (This is software for an AFM from Asylum Research.)
This behaviour is due to the software you are using (MFP3D) calling the "Retrieve All Windows" command when loading. I am not sure why "Retrieve All Windows" moves minimized windows away from their location at the bottom left of the main screen?

As a workaround you could comment out the line in your MFP3D software which calls "Retrieve All Windows" but you risk having windows drawn off screen when the experiment loads if you are working on a screen smaller than the one used when initially saving the experiment.

January 30, 2013 at 08:40 am - Permalink

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I am not sure why "Retrieve All Windows" moves minimized windows away from their location at the bottom left of the main screen?


This turned out to be a bug. Thanks for the report.

I have made the following change for Igor Pro 6.30:

On Windows, Retrieve Window and Retrieve All Windows no longer attempt to retrieve minimized windows. There is no good way for Igor to determine the size and position of a minimized window so Retrieve Window can not do the right thing. When you resize the Igor frame window, the system automatically shifts minimized windows appropriately so there is no need to retrieve them.

February 1, 2013 at 01:18 pm - Permalink

kilpatrj wrote:
As a workaround you could comment out the line in your MFP3D software which calls "Retrieve All Windows" but you risk having windows drawn off screen when the experiment loads if you are working on a screen smaller than the one used when initially saving the experiment.


That worked for me, thank you. There is no problem with screen size here.

Good that this bug is going to be fixed in the next Igor Version.

February 7, 2013 at 02:59 am - Permalink