Why LiveCode can't remember the state of its windows?

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Why LiveCode can't remember the state of its windows?

Post by Mag » Wed Oct 05, 2016 7:30 pm

Strangely enough, a development tool so is not able to remember so basic things and you have to deal with things like these: if the Tools window was open when you come back from the Script editor you'll find it close; if you reopen the app, you must manually reopen the Project Browser (and all its hierarchy) because it remains close; every time you come back from fullscreen then the Inspector disappears; the Project Browser will acquire from itself a few pixels in length occasionally, random...

These are problems that I see in the Mac version for years. Maybe it only happens to me? I do not think that, because over the years I've changed computers, OS versions and versions of LiveCode and nothing seems to have changed.

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Re: Why LiveCode can't remember the state of its windows?

Post by dunbarx » Wed Oct 05, 2016 7:37 pm

Hi.

I am still in v6, but all those windows you mention, including the states they were in from the last session, are restored in a new session. Mac OS 10.9.

The only thing that is not, and I think this is "fixed" in v8, is the location of the script editor when one has two monitors. That has to be repositioned by me each new session.
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Re: Why LiveCode can't remember the state of its windows?

Post by Mag » Wed Oct 05, 2016 7:55 pm

Thank you for the feedback Craig.

Then it is a problem of version 8 and I don't remember correctly.

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Re: Why LiveCode can't remember the state of its windows?

Post by Mag » Thu Oct 06, 2016 4:51 pm

Somebody that experiences this problems in 7 or 8?

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Any advice to get Project Browser open automatically when opening the app will be very welcomed! :lol:

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Re: Why LiveCode can't remember the state of its windows?

Post by dpatterson » Tue Feb 14, 2017 12:45 am

Mag,

Don't know if you're still looking for a solution for this, but this is working for me:

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on preOpenStack
  local filePath
    
  #
  # Special initialization for development mode.
  #
  if toLower( char 1 to 3 of environment()) is "dev" then 
    modeless stack "revIDEProjectBrowser"
    modeless stack "Message Box"
  end if
end preOpenStack
Make sure you use modeless, not openStack or the project browser will behave strangely.
See Issue http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19193 (Not a bug) :D

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