Sqlyog Not Visible

[pragmatic_lee]

Shame on you guys – just kidding 🙂

Wonderful program, but just ran into something that should be easily fixable.

If I open SQLyog, resize and position it, “thankfully”, the next time I open it, it will be in the same position and same size; however, this can cause a major problem when using multiple monitors.

Often times when using my laptop, I have a second monitor attached with the desktop “extended” to the second monitor. I'll place SQLyog on the second monitor. BUT, if I forget to drag it back to the primary monitor before closing, AND, the next time I open SQLyog and the second monitor is NOT present – guess what. It is not visible and there's practically no way to get it back except find and connect the second monitor.

For my programming, I use a FOSS language (ooRexx) that includes an ooDialog “tool kit”. One of the methods of this tool kit is “ensureVisible”, which is designed for the exact problem described above. Once a dialog is display, the method determines if it is visible on the “current” display configuration – if it isn't, it will “gracefully” decrease the X & Y positions until it is visible. If, it'd be of any help I'm sure I can track down the Windows API used by this method.

Lee

[pragmatic_lee]

Sorry, broke the cardinal rule of not specifying version in use.

SQLyog Enterprise – MySQL GUI v5.25

[pragmatic_lee]

Peter, I posted the following question to the ooRexx Development team

Does the “ensureVisible” method of ooDialog use a Windows API to accomplish its goal or is this pure ooRexx code?

And here is the response I just received.

It uses a Windows API. What is done is that the DM_REPOSITION message is sent to the dialog window. This is a dialog specific message, not a general window message. (DM_ -> dialog message as opposed to WM_ -> window message.)

When a dialog gets this message it repositions itself so that it is completely on the screen (if it needs to.)

Hope this helps

Lee

[peterlaursen]

Yes, your are right!

When we open the program we do not check if the coordinates stored are available.

I do not know exactly how to do this, but there must be a way!

I added this issue here:

http://code.google.com/p/sqlyog/issues/detail?id=433

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