Ovation Pro missing left-side tools
Alan Adams (2486) 1147 posts |
I’ve encountered this once before, and I remember some discussion on how to fix it. However I’ve forgotten the details. OK, I’ve now found a solution, but I’ll still post this, as it could help someone else. Save the document as DDL, close the original, open the DDL version and save over the original. The downside is that this loses some view options, and the print settings. |
David J. Ruck (33) 1629 posts |
Are you using any multiple desktop programs? These sometimes causes tool windows to end up on the wrong desktop. |
Alan Adams (2486) 1147 posts |
I’m not. I think I can recall from previous discussions that the offset coordinates between the main and tool windows get corrupted, meaning the tool window ends up lost in space off-screen – or in one case, behind the main window. |
Gavin Crawford (560) 29 posts |
One way that often fixes this problem is to open the Application choices (Adjust click on the Ovation Pro iconbar icon), go to the View settings and un-tick and re-tick the options for Attach toolbox (and Attach the info palette) if needed. Then try moving the window and see if the toolbox re-attaches itself. |
David J. Ruck (33) 1629 posts |
Pressing F12 and return should bring back on screen anything which is meant to be there. |
David Pilling (8394) 96 posts |
Ovation Pro stores the X and Y offsets of the toolbox, for some reason these occasionally get corrupted to large values, hence toolbox lost off screen. Gavin Crawford’s solution is the correct one. |
Matthew Phillips (473) 719 posts |
Speaking as an application developer, should I feel slightly reassured that an eminent developer still has known but intractable bugs hidden in a major application? |
Rick Murray (539) 13806 posts |
There are always bugs. We just categorise the ones that don’t blow up (and cause data loss) as annoyances or quirks that will be looked at “at some later time” that may or may not ever happen… …because users would prefer fancy new feature rather than fixing a bug that doesn’t affect them, and time is finite. |