[ jEdit-devel ] [ jedit-Bugs-590430 ] Dialog boxes opening off-scren

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Bugs item #590430, was opened at 2002-08-02 20:32
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Category: editor core
Group: severe bug
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: PDoubleYa (pdoubleya)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Dialog boxes opening off-scren

Initial Comment:
Using JEdit 4.0.3 using JDK 1.4 on Win2K sp2.

I first noticed this in the XML plugin, in Global
options, in trying to set catalogs; then again, just
trying File/Open from the regular editor.

Dialog boxes open in the top-left corner of my screen,
essentially "floating" off screen to the top left. I
can see the lower corner of the dialog box, basically
the OK and Cancel keys. I can't reach the menu bar and
so can't reposition the windows. So--I can't open files!

I've been trying out JEdit on another Win2K machine
with JDK 1.3.1_04, and that's been fine.

Ideas?

This is on an HP Omnibook 6100 laptop; it could be
video drivers although all other apps are well-behaved.

Thanks
PDoubleYa

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2002-12-08 18:02

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Experiencing the same thing on Win2K SP3 with JRE 1.4.1.01.  It does 
the same thing from JRE 1.3.1.02.  Changing screen resolution has no 
effect at all.  First noticed it in the Background plugin, then everywhere 
else.<br><br>Adding this to ~/.jedit/properties fixed 
things:<br>vfs.browser.dialog.x=100<br>
vfs.browser.dialog.y=100

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Comment By: PDoubleYa (pdoubleya)
Date: 2002-09-01 01:49

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I just figured this out, at least in JEdit 4.1pre4.

The problem is in GUIUtilities.loadGeometry(). The position
for the file-open dialog (vfs.browser.dialog) is being
overridden to a negative value for x,y. The first part of
the code, that figures out the position based on the screen
size, is correct. The bug appears to be in looking up the
location using the properties file:

		x = jEdit.getIntegerProperty(name + ".x",x);
		y = jEdit.getIntegerProperty(name + ".y",y);

In my system, there are no such properties, or at least,
they come back with negative values (-169, -500 something
like that)

I replaced this with 


		int _x = jEdit.getIntegerProperty(name + ".x",x);
		int _y = jEdit.getIntegerProperty(name + ".y",y);

		if ( _x >= 0 ) x = _x;
		if ( _y >= 0 ) y = _y;

This preserves the original values as long as the values
read from properties are negative. With this fix, the
file/open dialog opens in the middle of the screen--meaning
I can use it yay!

Tomorrow I will look at the code for 4.0.3 and see if the
same bug is there. For some reason this has been working for
other people; could be because there was a properties file
not found or badly installed.

Regards
pdoubleya

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