VFP 8 Screen sizing problem

[TheFoxRocks]

After I had a program crash VFP now opens maximized and cannot be sized at all.

When I doubleclick on the title bar or click the restore control box VFP minimizes.

Can someone help me get this fixed so that I don't have to reinstall?

Thanks!

rr

 

[fluteplr]

try deleting the foxuser.dbf

 

[craigsboyd]

Is it possible that your _screen's properties for Minheight and MinWidth have been set to a size that is large enough to prohibit you from resizing?

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[TheFoxRocks]

The first fix I tried was moving the foxuser.* files to another drive ( and rebooted).
I since restored them.
I now deleted them.
(I also checked for foxuser.* in the path and tried unchecking using foxuser.dbf resource file.)

Next I examined the _screen properties including:
o=_screen && I'm a (oxymoron) lazy programmer
?o.MinHeight && displays -1
o.Minwidth && displays -1

From the VFP help file I get that -1 is the default.
MaxHeight and Maxwidth are also -1

One other behavior that I have noticed is that if I use the "Restore Down" control box (Windows XP pro) VFP minimizes and the command window IS visible (I have Dockable selected.)

Still not working...

rr

 

[TheFoxRocks]

I have resolved the problem!

I tried restoring the VFP8 directory but that did not fix it.

So I started looking at the screen properties (again) and noticed that on the window menu you can get at the properties toolbox for "Screen"

I manually set the width and height to less so that I could size the window with the mouse.

After that, minimize and maximize and restore all work as they should.

Very strange.

Thanks again for your ideas!

rr

 

[rgbean]

Actually, I've found that the settings in the REGISTRY at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualFoxPro\8.0\Desktop\ can be the problem / solution. Be especially aware of the values for Height, Width, Zoomed, Row and Column. When I'm testing and this may be a problem, I'll just save off a .REG file with the default settings, and then when they get messed up, I just "Merge" the right values back in before bringing up VFP again.

Rick