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Remember ALL window positions when QUITTING.

e14 Contributor

HI,

 

I am not sure if this has been asked before..

 

When opening EagleCad, the Control panel appears in the middle of the

screen. ( yep that's about it!)

 

I would like to have Eaglecad remember EVERY WINDOW and its POSITION SAVED,

when eagle cad quits. then when you re-open EagleCad, all your windows will

be as they were when you last left it!

 

Its very annoying at the moment..

 

especially when writing ULP's that I have to open a project ( for testing)

place it and resize it where I last left it.Open the help window, place it

and resize it where I last left it. reposition the Control panel resize it

where I last left it.open up my last ULP ( and maybe a few more), resize it

and position it. click though the menus of the control panel to find my

last project.. etc

 

this gets tedious.

 

I see no reason why, when eagle cad quits , it just records ..

 

1) The window(s) that were opened

2) The size of each window

3) the position of each window.

4) the stacking order

5) The current state of the hierarchy menus in the control panel.

 

This should be done for ALL windows ( including help, ulps, etc)

This should not effect anyones workflow, only improve it.

 

What do you guys think?

 

thanks

 

Dave M

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Web access to CadSoft support forums at www.eaglecentral.ca.  Where the CadSoft EAGLE community meets.

 

  • in reply to e14 Contributor

    eSilviu wrote:

    "Joerg" <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote in message

    news:j3880a$mfn$1@cheetah.cadsoft.de...

    >> Morten Leikvoll wrote:

    >>> "Joerg" <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote in message

    >>> news:j345hh$lo9$1@cheetah.cadsoft.de...

    >> However, I make sure that I buy name-brand systems with well-validated

    >> drivers. Software that is of questionable quality gets voted off the

    >> island almost immediately. With a lesser quality system I don't doubt

    >> that there could be massive problems.

     

    From my experience, problems with drivers are easiest to solve. The hardest

    part is to configure the software and services that you will use, and to

    choose good antivirus/firewall/etc software. In my case, system will either

    not enter into hibernation, either locked my keypad after resume... changed

    Kaspersky for an other security software and problems are gone.

     

     

    A lot of times it's also that people think "Oh dang, it trashed this or

    that". For example, in the morning when I turn it on it first fails to

    recognize the office file server. All you have to do to "fix" this is

    get a coffee (I have one anyhow every morning), come back and ... voila

    ... all servers are now there.

     

    --

    Regards, Joerg

     

    http://www.analogconsultants.com/

     

  • in reply to e14 Contributor

     

    "Joerg" <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote in message

    news:j3880a$mfn$1@cheetah.cadsoft.de...

    Morten Leikvoll wrote:

    >> "Joerg" <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote in message

    >> news:j345hh$lo9$1@cheetah.cadsoft.de...

    However, I make sure that I buy name-brand systems with well-validated

    drivers. Software that is of questionable quality gets voted off the

    island almost immediately. With a lesser quality system I don't doubt

    that there could be massive problems.

     

    From my experience, problems with drivers are easiest to solve. The hardest

    part is to configure the software and services that you will use, and to

    choose good antivirus/firewall/etc software. In my case, system will either

    not enter into hibernation, either locked my keypad after resume... changed

    Kaspersky for an other security software and problems are gone.

     

     

     

  • in reply to e14 Contributor

    Morten Leikvoll wrote:

    "Joerg" <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote in message

    news:j345hh$lo9$1@cheetah.cadsoft.de...

    >> Oliver Betz wrote:

    >>> Joerg wrote:

    >>>> Another option is what I do: My PC goes to "Hibernate" instead of off.

    >>>> So Eagle and all other programs are always exactly where they were

    >>>> yesterday evening. Plus it starts a lot faster.

    >>> Things can go wrong with hibernate, I disapprove your suggestion.

    >>>

    >> Nothing has ever gone wrong with hibernate here. I started doing that

    >> with the first PC I bought that offered it, a Compaq laptop. That was

    >> almost 20 years ago and I never looked back.

     

    I think that is very related to the software installed and

    running. There are many bad drivers out there and there are many bad

    programs that run in the background. If one fails the hibernate cycle, you

    end up with a messed up system.

     

     

    Then you can just restart. Very little time lost.

     

    However, I make sure that I buy name-brand systems with well-validated

    drivers. Software that is of questionable quality gets voted off the

    island almost immediately. With a lesser quality system I don't doubt

    that there could be massive problems.

     

    As I wrote, I do this since the early 90's and never had problems. I

    remember sitting next to folks on very long flights and their Thinkpads

    took forever to boot. Their eyes popped wide open when they saw me

    typing away 15sec after the stewardess had cleared our tray tables.

     

    --

    Regards, Joerg

     

    http://www.analogconsultants.com/

     

  • in reply to e14 Contributor

     

    "Joerg" <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote in message

    news:j345hh$lo9$1@cheetah.cadsoft.de...

    Oliver Betz wrote:

    >> Joerg wrote:

    >>> Another option is what I do: My PC goes to "Hibernate" instead of off.

    >>> So Eagle and all other programs are always exactly where they were

    >>> yesterday evening. Plus it starts a lot faster.

    >>

    >> Things can go wrong with hibernate, I disapprove your suggestion.

    >>

    Nothing has ever gone wrong with hibernate here. I started doing that

    with the first PC I bought that offered it, a Compaq laptop. That was

    almost 20 years ago and I never looked back.

     

    I think that is very related to the software installed and

    running. There are many bad drivers out there and there are many bad

    programs that run in the background. If one fails the hibernate cycle, you

    end up with a messed up system.

     

     

     

  • Hi,

     

    no need to be against the idea,

     

    There is no reason that the positions cannot be saved, along with the

    screen size, this is VERY SIMPLE PROGRAMMING, and if the project is opened

    on a different sized screen then it could be saved for that screen size and

    or proportionally adjusted for either. its just a few X & Y digits to deal

    with.

     

    boy, I could write some "DUMMY" CODE to show the maths if you wish?

     

     

    regards

     

    dave M

    --

    Web access to CadSoft support forums at www.eaglecentral.ca.  Where the CadSoft EAGLE community meets.

     

  • in reply to e14 Contributor

    On 8/25/2011 3:38 AM, Joerg wrote:

    Oliver Betz wrote:

    >> Joerg wrote:

    >>

    >>

    >>

    >>> Another option is what I do: My PC goes to "Hibernate" instead of off.

    >>> So Eagle and all other programs are always exactly where they were

    >>> yesterday evening. Plus it starts a lot faster.

    >>

    >> Things can go wrong with hibernate, I disapprove your suggestion.

    >>

    >

    Nothing has ever gone wrong with hibernate here. I started doing that

    with the first PC I bought that offered it, a Compaq laptop. That was

    almost 20 years ago and I never looked back.

     

    I use hibernate both at work and home and I had no problems with it in

    years. I typically restart my computer every two weeks or so for

    updating drivers or various software components.

     

    Regarding the windows positioning issue I have to be against it as I

    work on the same project on different computers (work & home computers

    and a laptop) and everything will be messed up.

     

  • Oliver Betz wrote:

    Joerg wrote:

     

     

    >>>> Another option is what I do: My PC goes to "Hibernate" instead of off.

    >>>> So Eagle and all other programs are always exactly where they were

    >>>> yesterday evening. Plus it starts a lot faster.

    >>> Things can go wrong with hibernate, I disapprove your suggestion.

    >> Nothing has ever gone wrong with hibernate here. I started doing that

                                                ^^^^

     

    My advice was addressed to the other readers.

     

     

    My suggestion was as well.

     

     

    Your systems are known to behave different from average.

     

     

    Yeah, they tend to work nicely when the software running on them is of

    good quality. Such as Eagle image

     

    --

    Regards, Joerg

     

    http://www.analogconsultants.com/

     

  • in reply to e14 Contributor

    Oliver Betz wrote:

    Joerg wrote:

     

     

    >>>> Another option is what I do: My PC goes to "Hibernate" instead of off.

    >>>> So Eagle and all other programs are always exactly where they were

    >>>> yesterday evening. Plus it starts a lot faster.

    >>> Things can go wrong with hibernate, I disapprove your suggestion.

    >> Nothing has ever gone wrong with hibernate here. I started doing that

                                                ^^^^

     

    My advice was addressed to the other readers.

     

     

    My suggestion was as well.

     

     

    Your systems are known to behave different from average.

     

     

    Yeah, they tend to work nicely when the software running on them is of

    good quality. Such as Eagle image

     

    --

    Regards, Joerg

     

    http://www.analogconsultants.com/

     

  • Joerg wrote:

     

     

    >>> Another option is what I do: My PC goes to "Hibernate" instead of off.

    >>> So Eagle and all other programs are always exactly where they were

    >>> yesterday evening. Plus it starts a lot faster.

    >>

    >> Things can go wrong with hibernate, I disapprove your suggestion.

    >Nothing has ever gone wrong with hibernate here. I started doing that

                                                ^^^^

     

    My advice was addressed to the other readers.

     

    Your systems are known to behave different from average.

     

    Oliver

     

  • in reply to e14 Contributor

    Oliver Betz wrote:

    Joerg wrote:

     

     

    >> Another option is what I do: My PC goes to "Hibernate" instead of off.

    >> So Eagle and all other programs are always exactly where they were

    >> yesterday evening. Plus it starts a lot faster.

     

    Things can go wrong with hibernate, I disapprove your suggestion.

     

     

    Nothing has ever gone wrong with hibernate here. I started doing that

    with the first PC I bought that offered it, a Compaq laptop. That was

    almost 20 years ago and I never looked back.

     

    --

    Regards, Joerg

     

    http://www.analogconsultants.com/