using Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2013 Version 12.0.30324.0 REL Microsoft .NET Framework Version 4.5.50938
I just upgraded a project from VS2010 to VS2013. On certain forms I can no longer use the mouse to move or resize controls. In some cases when attempting this VS2013 locks up
It's not just the controls either. I can't use the mouse to resize a "sizable" form. I also can't drop new controls on the form. I can however use shift arrow keys to resize the form and key in the size I want under properties. No I'm not debugging. Yes I have my snap to grid settings the way I want them. No I don't have controls "locked". This is clearly a phenomenon with VS2013. Occasionally, by futsing around with it the form seems to fix itself and the mouse actions function as normal. But as soon as I exit VS2013 and restart it, the ability to use the mouse on a form in design mode is hosed again. The issue seems worse on forms with many controls but can occur on any form.
As an experiment I created a new plain Jane form in VS2013 and dropped a couple buttons on it. I was able to resize the form with the mouse and do whatever I needed. However, when I exited VS and restarted it, The form exhibited the same behavior as my converted forms, in that I could no longer resize it or move my controls around.
I believe the issue is with the IDE and I'm forced to roll back to VS2010 so I can actually continue development.
I do also have VS2010 installed on the same PC which is suppose to be fine and dandy so I'm wondering it there is in fact some sort of conflict occurring.
If someone has some new insight on this I would love for you to share.
Thanks and happy coding,
Chris
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I've been working in Altium since version 10 and my usual workflow in schematic capture has been:
Freely drag components around with mouse left-click-hold (attached nets don't stick to component's pins)
While holding the mouse, pressing the spacebar would rotate the component
I've recently installed a clean version 17 (i.e. not an upgrade of existing installation) on Win10 x64 and now to do the same actions in schematic capture I have to hold down "CTRL" key, which is very annoying:
To freely drag components (so that the nets remain detached from the pins) I have to use CTRL+left-mouse.
To rotate while dragging, I have to press "CTRL"+Space.
I quickly got fed up with this, unable to find an option to modify this behavior, I uninstalled version 17 and installed 16, which has been known to work as expected in the past. Immediately after the installation version 16 behaved as expected (no need to use "CTRL" key).
But now, without any further computer/software modification the installed version 16 behaves as the version 17 did (i.e. "CTRL" key is required for the above operations). No options inside Altium have been modified to provoke a different program behavior.
Can anyone else confirm this behavior? Is there an option in Altium that I'm overlooking that would give me a choice of behavior in this regard?
I'm generally suspecting a Win10/.NET direction, but am not sure how to troubleshoot this.
Thanks!
For those looking to solve this as I did:
In Altium Preferences -> Schematic -> Graphical Editing uncheck "Always Drag". This should allow to move and rotate components freely without "ctrl" modifier key.
I updated BW6 studio from 6.2.1 to 6.2.2 and when I reloaded a project, I ran into this issue. I'm not able to visually see the elements. I can see the elements in the outline view, which then outlines their location on the screen, as the screenshot shows.
Things I tired(and didn't work) :
Highlighting them all, and dragging them down.
Same as above, but using the keyboard keys and down arrowing them
Restore from TFS, even the older versions do the same thing.
I have recently upgraded from Delphi7 to Delphi XE5 and one of the differences that first jumped out at me is that by default, the IDE sets a forms default position to be in the top left corner of the screen instead of the center of the desktop like it was in D7 and I have looked all around in the options menu and have yet to find a way to set it so that when a new project is created, all forms default to be positioned in the center of the desktop and was hoping I was overlooked the option to do this or to confirm if it was not possible to set this option to be default.
I know there is the little box at the bottom right hand side of the form designer pane which allows you to move the form around so it is placed anywhere on the screen and of course you can set it to be in the center of the screen using the object inspector, but if I could set it to default to this position by "setting and forgetting" an option in the IDE, than that would be one less thing I need to bother with when starting a new project.
Anyway, any help would be appreciated and thanks in advance for any and all replies.
I figured it out myself in a roundabout way. It does not answer the question to the exact specifications that it was asked in but it works out close enough for my needs. The trick was to set the (now hidden) "Embedded Menu Designer" option to FALSE in the registry which causes the form to float independent of the rest of the IDE like it used to in Delphi 7.
Why this option was hidden from the options panel in Delphi XE3 and above is beyond me, but at least there is a way to get it back to the classic look I was after.
Source: http://theroadtodelphi.wordpress.com/2012/09/04/disabling-the-embedded-designer-in-rad-studio-xe3/
Note: The article talks about XE3, but the same technique applies to other Delphi versions as well. All that needs to be changed is the version number in the registry branch needs to match the version of Delphi that is being using. Everything else remains the same.
Isn't poDesktopCenter (TForm.Position property) enough? You set it in design time and forget about this.
I don't know what will happen if you have 1500x1200 form and the screen resolition is 800x600 - try it youself :)
I'm getting started with windows 8 visual studio.
I would like to embed user controls inside user controls, like I used to do in vb.net. The designer allows me to do this, I can visually create user control uc1, and put some controls on it. Then, I make a new user control, uc2. While I am editing uc2, uc1 is available in the toolbox, and I have built the project so it should be up to date.
But if I put uc1 into uc2, the frame is visible, but the contents are not, either at design time or runtime.
Am I missing something or is this something you can't do in windows 8?
Thanks
Sorry, not sure what I was doing wrong but I tried it all again and it seems to be working now.
I have been experiencing a strange issue in Flex Builder 3 where certain dialogs such as the Add New Project wizard and the SVN Commit dialog are completely empty save for the title area.
I'm running Flex Builder v3.0 (build 3.02.2.214193) on the Windows 7 RC. I have tried completely uninstalling and reinstalling Flex Builder to no avail. I don't think it's Windows 7 causing the issues because it was working a couple of months ago with no problems. Even more strange is that I have not installed any additional plugins or made any configuration changes to Flex Builder between the time before these problems began and now.
Has anyone else encountered this problem, and if so, know of any solutions?
Here are a couple of screenshots to illustrate the behaviour.
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alt text http://www.colincochrane.com/image.axd?picture=2009%2f9%2femptydialog.png
You are probably running Logitech SetPoint. Try killing all setpoint processes. (you don't even have to restart flex). It worked for me :-S
According to this Adobe forums post, there are multiple causes:
SetPoint (as indicated by Scheea)
Wacom Tablet drivers
In addition, comments suggest the following:
UltraMon
These seem to suggest that the cause is any program which monitors keystrokes or mouse movement.
Workaround: In the new wizard dialog above, note the question mark on the bottom left (the help button). When you click on the help button a help panel is added to the dialog on the right separated from the main dialog by a splitter. When you drag the splitter the rest of the dialog appears. You may need to scroll to a position where you can see all of its contents, but it should become usable. Resizing the dialog alone was not sufficient for me.
In addition, I couldn't fully use the mouse to select elements so I had to type into the filter field in order for the correct projects to show up.
I had the issue with Window7 x64 Ultimate with FB3 Pro and shutting down Set Point seems to have fixed the issue.
For me it was Set Point and Display Fusion (allows you to set up multiple background images as wallpaper on multiple monitors). Took a lot of hair pulling to figure this out.