Marky Mark

You can use Visual Basic to start a program running without any visible window. Let's say you want to run C:\Users\MyUsername\MySpecialProgram.exe; then create someNameOrOther.vbs containing: Dim WinScriptHost Set WinScriptHost = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") WinScriptHost.Run Chr(34) & "C:\Users\MyUsername\MySpecialProgram.exe" & Chr(34), 0 Set WinScriptHost = Nothing then just run that vbs file to start the program. Or if you want it to run hidden away whenever the PC starts then go to the system...

You can use Visual Basic to start a program running without any visible window. Let's say you want to run C:\Users\MyUsername\MySpecialProgram.exe; then create someNameOrOther.vbs containing: Dim WinScriptHost Set WinScriptHost = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") WinScriptHost.Run Chr(34) & "C:\Users\MyUsername\MySpecialProgram.exe" & Chr(34), 0 Set WinScriptHost = Nothing then in the system Startup folder add a shortcut to the full path of your someNameOrOther.vbs. Then your program will run hidden...

Thanks guys. Got to love those one-line fixes.

Ah I know more than I would like to about the difficulties of layout constraints, having played around with attachment resources. I'm not entirely convinced that there is no elegant solution, certainly using Motif widgets and suitable containers, although perhaps you don't have enough control via Tk. I might learn more and experiment. Your preference suggestion works for me and I will run with that on the whole, but you might want to take another look at the issue given this screenshot of a partially...

I meant a vertical resize to a smaller vertical dimension. I observe that resizing it vertically back to its original size makes the status line re-appear. Maybe there's just some minimal-height constraint on the main diff panel?

Status line goes missing on vertical resize

There were no prior actions. it just came straight up like that. Using Magnifier, I note that the top of the first diff region (line 9) is mis-aligned by the thickness of the black border surrounding the text area, but that bottom of that first diff region is not mis-aligned. Then the top of the second diff region is similarly mis-aligned and the bottom of that region is mis-aligned by 8 times the thickness of that black border i.e. border-thickness * (n-1) where n is the number of lines in the diff...

Mis-alignment between line-no/change-bar panels and file contents