Question

Restoring off-screen window

Asked by: speyfisher

One of my applications disappears when I click the top right button "Restore Down" of the IDE .  Maximize works fine.  But clicking "Restore down" causes the IDE to disappear-- I'm assuming off-screen.

Here's what happens:

1. Launch Flash.
2. Flash appears in taskbar but is off-screen.

I've tried several methods to restore:

--
1. Right-clicking Flash in taskbar displays context menu with options: Move, Size, Minimize, Maximize, Close
2. Clicking Maximize restores Flash
3. Clicking the button in top-right corner "Restore Down" causes Flash to dissappear again.
--
1. Right-clicking Flash in taskbar displays context menu with options: Move, Size, Minimize, Maximize, Close
2. Clicking Move causes cursor to change from white arrow to black cursor with 4 arrows
3. Using arrows keys up, down, left, right-- changes cursor to white arrow.  At this point I expect the Flash window to appear somewhere but never does.
--
1. I'm using dual LCD monitors with max resolution of 1280x1024.  I've alternately disabled each monitor and tried dual-monitors chaning trying each one as the primary device.  Tried various screen resolutions.


Using the context-menu controls hasn't allowed me to find the window.  I'm hoping there's an INI file somewhere or some other config that I can edit, delete, or reset.

Where are the windows settings 'remembered'--
How should I restore or find this window--

Thanks

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Answers

 

by: vojansPosted on 2008-04-25 at 12:24:03ID: 21442529

Take the move option (right click on application icon in task bar), click left mouse button but try not to move mouse while clicking, hold it and move to the left/right/up/down until it appears in the screen and stop holding the mouse button. What you just did - by choosing move, mouse pointer is positioned at the top of the window. By clicking the left mouse button you are holding ot. By moving mouse you are trying to move it to the area that you see. By releasing the mouse, you are "telling" the system to accept new coordinates and new screen where it will be opened next time.
Hope this helps, because some applications tend to "forget" the last position.

 

by: speyfisherPosted on 2008-04-25 at 12:52:03ID: 21442736

I tried using the mouse--  to see what's happening, I did those steps on other windows so I could get used to how to move the windows around using the mouse and/or arrow keys.


For this mis-behaving window it's not working.  Using arrow keys (5sec in positive x direction, 10sec in negative x direction, etc.) or mouse does nothing.   On the other windows, the usual behavior is to select "Move" from the context menu and the cursor appears on the top of the window and cursor becomes black-4-pointed icon.  For this misbehaving window, selecting "Move" brings the cursor to the top left of my desktop and is not black-4-pointed icon.  Rather, it is the usual white arrow pointer.  A slight motion of the mouse turns it to the black-4-pointed icon however.

No luck--

 

by: speyfisherPosted on 2008-04-25 at 14:38:09ID: 21443381

I looked in the registry for flash.exe and found something--   changing these values did nothing
/HKCU/software/macromedia/flash8/settings/Window = [-32768 90 -30196 1118]

I found this config file and renamed it:
C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Local Settings\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash 8\en\Configuration\panelset.xml

Flash started again and all windows are visible again.  The above file was recreated and registry values changed to [35 30 1206 948].

Success-!

 

by: speyfisherPosted on 2009-10-07 at 23:31:39ID: 25522704

Same thing happened again with Flash CS3.  Same method to fix but the config file has changed:

C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Flash CS3\en\Configuration\workspacelayout.xml

Of course, you may wish to manually edit the restored workspacelayout.xml file-- keeping your previous layout configs, only changing the new window position settings.

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