annoyance : incorrect positioning of Audacity window
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 1:59 am
This has been raised before as "Audacity start position under Windows XP" in 2007 but hasn't been fixed in v1.2.6.
With the wide screens we have these days, it makes sense to have the Windows Taskbar parked at the left edge of the screen, not the default bottom location.
Audacity doesn't recognise this and opens behind the taskbar. The fix suggested in the earlier thread assumes the taskbar is 10 pixels wide, which is wrong.
The width is whatever the user sets it as, and should be available to Audacity as some System.Form variable (guessing).
Maximising the window works OK, but Restoring puts the windows behind the taskbar again.
Dragging the window into the open works OK, and maximising-restoring remembers where it was dragged to, but File > Exit > doesn't save the new window position.
Dave
With the wide screens we have these days, it makes sense to have the Windows Taskbar parked at the left edge of the screen, not the default bottom location.
Audacity doesn't recognise this and opens behind the taskbar. The fix suggested in the earlier thread assumes the taskbar is 10 pixels wide, which is wrong.
The width is whatever the user sets it as, and should be available to Audacity as some System.Form variable (guessing).
Maximising the window works OK, but Restoring puts the windows behind the taskbar again.
Dragging the window into the open works OK, and maximising-restoring remembers where it was dragged to, but File > Exit > doesn't save the new window position.
Dave