I'm running the 1.5.7 release of the IDE. When I double-click to load it, it opens approximately mid-screen. If I then "double-arrow" the bottom margin to enlarge it and drag the lower margin down to the lower edge of my display, it immediately snaps to full vertical height, but creates duplicate message boxes at the bottom. If I resize the bottom just off the lower margin of the display, the double-message area becomes a single area as expected.
I'm running Windows 8 with 16G of memory and an I7-4470K processor.
econjack:
Understand. But many times the job determines the OS.
Actually, I'm running 7 on this machine and 8 on my laptop, but the behavior is the same.
I've managed to avoid both on my own machines so far (still running XP) but I suspect it won't be too long before I have to bite the bullet. I'm dreading it
Am I the only one on the planet running Windows for the IDE? If not, is anyone else having the same problem or is it just this machine? Both of my Windows systems are from HP, so that may be a common denominator.
Am I the only one on the planet running Windows for the IDE?
No. I tried the same thing you did, and got the same behavior. As soon as I changed the width of the window, the screen refreshed correctly.
Something that Windows is doing when autoresizing the screen to attach to top and bottom is being done wrong BY WINDOWS. No real surprise, there. That has to be just about the stupidest "feature" that the Redmond isiots have come up with.
Thanks, Paul...glad you figured out a fix. I was so miffed I never tried resizing in the horizontal direction. Yep, the "snap to" feature of Windows is one I could well do without.
Hi All,
For my sins I run Windows 7 (64bit) but ideally I would like to do everything on my Mac, but you just can't get GOOD free software for Schematic/PCB CAD, etc.
If you click the IDE icon, when it opens the small window, drag it to the top of the screen and it will Automaticly expand to full size, a feature of win-7!!
Yep, I did know that. However, I usually keep the IDE about 1/3 the screen size as I'm using a 32" monitor, so it's a little too in-your-face at full screen.
KenF:
I've managed to avoid both on my own machines so far (still running XP) but I suspect it won't be too long before I have to bite the bullet. I'm dreading it
XP to 7 isn't too big of a jump. If your machine is good enough, you can always run a virtual XP machine in 7.
See VMware player. It's free for non-commercial use.
Going to 8 or 8.1 is a big jump. I'd wait until 10 is ready, as it includes the best bits of both 7 and 8.
I've got both XP and 10 (beta) running in virtual machines (not both at the same time).
KenF:
I've managed to avoid both on my own machines so far (still running XP) but I suspect it won't be too long before I have to bite the bullet. I'm dreading it
Hi Ken,
For what it's worth, I was a staunch supporter of XP, I had it since Beta 2 about early 2000, and I have sung it's praises for 15 years as the BEST OS Microsoft have ever made. But earlier this year I had YET ANOTHER 1TB drive failure, and decided enough was enough, I was sick of the 'Your operating system is no longer supported and your PC is at risk' bol**ks every time I turned on....... I had played with the exceptionally SHT Windows 8 on virtualbox, and decided if I wanted an OS that looked like a phone I would get a phone..... So I also tried Windows 7........ It is like XP but newer, only small quirks that need fixing, but generally I wish I ditched XP in preference to 7 much sooner. ;D
