The Mysterious Disappearing Tools Palette

[phaworth]

Revolution is so great yet so madly frustrating at times! If I am in debug mode and stop processing when an error is flagged by the debugger, my Tools Palette disappears. It's still checked in the Tools menu. Unchecking it and checking it again does nothing, neither does anythi ng else except quitting Revolution and restarting.

Is there some way to get the Tools palette back in these circumstances?

[Curry]

This does happen sometimes!

(I can also make Tools disappear by editing a script, making a change, pressing close box on script editor window, and not saving changes.)

I believe you can get Tools back by opening the script editor and then closing it again via the close box. Works for me!

[Curry]

Or: show stack "revtools"

[Mark]

Hi phaworth,

In the Script Editor section of the preferences window, you can turn off the option to hide palettes while editing scripts. Does that help?

Best,

Mark

[RogerK]

I use two screens and often lose not only the tools palette but also the Documentation panel when I revert to one screen use on my laptop. (Even though I drag them to the main screen before disconnecting the second screen. The quickest way I have found to resolve this is to search for the openStacks using the control panel and then relocate the topLeft of those that are 'missing' to say 100,100 via a command.

[phaworth]

Mark - I'll try the preference setting. That already helps since I often want to see the custom properties of a control while I'm writing a script.

Thanks to the others for workarounds.

Pete

[exheusden]

I'm experiencing the same disappearing Tools palette problem, but in LiveCode 4.5.1.

Running

show stack "revtools"

in the message window returns "true" but does not show the Tools palette.

Editing a script, but not saving the changes doesn't help and neither does turning off the option to hide palettes in the Script Editor section of Preferences. Also not after quitting LiveCode and restarting.

Edit: running

show stack "revTools"

(note the upper-case T in revTools) solved the problem for me.

Well, it did temporarily. Now I'm back to no Tools palette and a "true" response to the show stack command.

Any other suggestions?

[shaosean]

try

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revSEShowPalettes

[mwieder]

or

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set the loc of stack "revTools" to the screenloc