Re: [Rails-devel] Game report - 1.7.8 - 18EU hangs

[John D. G. <jd...@di...>]

On 2012-09-08 23:26, Stefan Frey wrote:
> Starting place for Game Report:
> Do you refer to the window position on the screen or the position of the 
> report inside the report window. The latter is wrong at startup of the 
> game, as it does not scroll to the bottom. I am under the impression 
> this did work in the past. Will have to check that.

I'm referring to the position of the window on the screen.  I am assuming that
the content in the window is always upper left justified, with scrollbars if
needed.

> If it is the former: All window positions/sizes are saved automatically 
> after closing of Rails. I do not know what happens during the game at 
> resizes (does it resize to the latest saved position or does it resize 
> to the current status?)

It seems to use the saved positions (even for a later playing of the same game)
even though some of them are now off screen.  It would be nice to have a "reset"
ability, at least in configuration, but preferably usable in mid-game too.

> For me the major annoyance is that windows that are on the second 
> monitor if I start Rails dual-heads. Next time I start up with only one 
> monitor, some windows will be completely hidden (as they are located 
> off-screen).

I've never tried dual monitors on a Windows system.

> So two possible remedies:
> A) Provide an option to reset the window positions to some robust defaults).

Yes.  (The existing "cascade windows" option seems to work for all except the
Report window.)

> B) Check if a window is located on an invisible position and then move 
> that window back to the default (at least at startup).

Auto-detecting this would be nice but probably not strictly necessary, unless
the off-screen window is going to start causing exceptions to be thrown.