Dialog Editor off the screen

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Dialog Editor off the screen

Post by AndrewT » Thu Apr 08, 2021 1:52 pm

I am trying to edit one of my old program's dialog windows, but when I open the dialog editor, it opens the windows such that the top control bar is off the top of my monitor. I have tried all the tricks I know to move the windows, but because they open as a special child window of MS, I haven't had any luck.

Anyone had/solved this problem or have any good tricks to try?

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Re: Dialog Editor off the screen

Post by Grovkillen » Thu Apr 08, 2021 3:13 pm

Let>ME=%Script%

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Re: Dialog Editor off the screen

Post by Dorian (MJT support) » Thu Apr 08, 2021 3:14 pm

Grovkillen wrote:
Thu Apr 08, 2021 3:13 pm
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10878
That's exactly the thread I was looking for. Cheers! :)
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Re: Dialog Editor off the screen

Post by AndrewT » Thu Apr 08, 2021 3:27 pm

The script fix worked for me. Thanks.

Sounds like I have the same setup as Grovkillen and the same issue. Not sure how repeatable it is for MS staff, but hopefully a fix can be made in upcoming versions because it is a truly frustrating problem.

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Re: Dialog Editor off the screen

Post by Dorian (MJT support) » Thu Apr 08, 2021 4:14 pm

Frustratingly, we haven't been able to replicate it at all.
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Re: Dialog Editor off the screen

Post by Dorian (MJT support) » Thu Apr 08, 2021 4:32 pm

This gets it visible again. Edit accordingly :

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Let>REG_INTASSTR=1
RegistryWriteKey>HKEY_CURRENT_USER,SOFTWARE\MJTNET\MSched15,dlgToolFormLeft,300
RegistryWriteKey>HKEY_CURRENT_USER,SOFTWARE\MJTNET\MSched15,dlgToolFormTop,300
RegistryWriteKey>HKEY_CURRENT_USER,SOFTWARE\MJTNET\MSched15,dlgPropsHeight,500
If it's an existing Dialog, you can also control where it's displayed on screen with the Left and Top parameters. They may be too low or off screen.
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Re: Dialog Editor off the screen

Post by Grovkillen » Thu Apr 08, 2021 7:27 pm

Please try having different zoom/dpi settings of the screens. I think it's causing problems.
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Re: Dialog Editor off the screen

Post by Grovkillen » Tue Apr 20, 2021 3:13 pm

I have solved my problems using MS (meta to fix problems I have with MS using MS) :)

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10878#p46715
Let>ME=%Script%

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Re: Dialog Editor off the screen

Post by Dorian (MJT support) » Tue Apr 20, 2021 3:31 pm

On the subject of using MS to do something in MS, I often use a script to write a script. For example extracting 600 field Ids and creating hundreds of XLGetCell lines for those Excel sheets that have so many columns the column name starts spelling words.
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