Re: [Audacity-devel] Problem with hidden second project window on Windows WAS: Re: wxGetClientDisplayRect

[John C. <jc...@gm...>]

Ed Musgrove wrote:
> Hi John!
>
> Let me take your points in reverse order. Personally, no thanks are necessary; I am thoroughly enjoying renewing my C++ skills with Audacity -- after a 5 year hiatus, not only am I rusty, but the language has matured greatly and the IDE of Visual Studio (especially the 2010 version) is beyond acceptable.
>
> As for repairing the configuration file, I beta test another commercial program which has a way of dealing with this. This program is a 3-D CAD program and is normally started by double-clicking on the program icon or a project icon. However, when run from the command line one may add switches one of which deletes the configuration file and one of which restores all Windows registry settings to their default value. Given the Audacity does not use registry settings anymore it would be a trivial matter to add this code for any OS which has a command line (I know UNIX does and Windows does what I do not know about Mac or any other OSes that Audacity might run on).
>
> As for case (M), as I understand your explanation, what you are saying is that Audacity does not respect alternate Taskbar positions (across the bottom being the "normal"). Once again, I have no knowledge of UNIX or the Mac OS, do they have Taskbar's and if so where are they "normally" and are they adjustable by the user? Currently, Audacity hard codes a "default" window size and location -- off the top of my head I do not recall what the exact figures are but they are a few pixels down and right from 0, 0.
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> I am sure that on Windows there is a function built into the operating system which returns the size and location of the Taskbar. I could "repair" Audacity for case (M), but it would be specific to Windows. Making this a cross platform change would require other programmers to write code for those other OSes.
>  -Ed Musgrove 
>   
Ed,

Thanks again for your attention to this matter.  Case (M) is not of 
significance to me - I merely brought it up so that you were aware of 
it.  - John