Re: [be] Moving windows

[Dan Dennison]

It's for this very reason that Bibledit Lite has the old UI back in place, so that the many windows do not confuse the end-users, and so that the width between the panes is adjustable.

If you use Windows, give it a shot.

dan :)

On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Kim Blewett <address@hidden> wrote:

Unfortunately, Alt+F7 does the same thing that Alt+Drag does: for BE it moves the entire BE program window rather than individual BE project windows. The problem people are having is that a BE *project* window can get moved off the screen; the project windows in BE don't behave in a "standard" way, by either Win or Ubuntu standards.

It would be very nice if someone could work on the Bibledit windows: make them resizable from any edge rather than just the lower-right corner, give them a maximize/unmax. button on the title bar, etc.

Kim

On 06/25/2011 12:11 PM, Birch Champeon wrote:

I just found the right keystroke in Ubuntu - Alt+F7  will grab the window that is currently in focus and then you can use the arrow keys to move it.

You can move dialogs off the screen in any program, but for some reason it just seems easier in to do in BE.  Dan's right restarting BE should be made to fix any lost dialogs.

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Dan Dennison <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:

   In Windows, you can alt-spacebar and select Move, and then arrow
   key down the window.

   I think this is more of a window manager issue than anything. The
   only BE bug there may be here is saving the obscured window
   position and then restoring it on application restart.

   dan :)


   On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Oreo Warpok

   <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:

       Please, please, I really hope someone will write the patch
       suggested by Teus. It would be best if BE's windows acted like
       the windows in all other programs, in the ways in which they
       can be moved, resized, and alternatively given focus when
       there is overlap. I fear that this one fault has given many
       people who try the program the unfortunate impression that BE
       is a quirky, immature program.

       Phil

       On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Paul-Jennifer_Schaefer
       <address@hiddenorg

       <mailto:Paul-Jennifer_address@hidden>> wrote:

           Hi all,

           When I had the same problem some months ago (in an
           installation using Bibledit for Linux in Xubuntu--part of
           SIL's Low Power Computing initiative called BALSA),
           somebody suggested using the ALT key. But in that
           version/system, this does not grab the active window and
           move it--it rather grabs the whole main Bibledit window,
           which doesn't do any good. I tried just now (on the same
           system) the Alt F3 plus M (in various configurations) but
           none of this worked either.

           A fellow user suggested the solution of editing the
           configuration file (which I sent separately), but Teus's
           solution of Control-M to close the window, and then reopen
           it; this works nicely (in my version at least) and is
           simpler than editing the configuration file and has the
           great advantage can be implemented by a local typist.

           Paul


           On 6/24/2011 10:56 AM, Birch Champeon wrote:

           Are you running in windows?  If so you can just right
           click the window's button on the taskbar, choose move and
           then use the arrow keys and/or the mouse to bring it back
           on screen.  Press enter to set the position.

           If you are in ubuntu (and perhaps other flavors) and if
           you can see any part of the window then hold the ALT key
           and click inside the window that you can see. Then you
           can drag the window anywhere.  If you can't see the
           window at all then click then make sure that is the
           active window in the taskbar, press Alt+F3 then M, then
           use the arrow keys to move it.



           On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Tim Beckendorf

           <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:

               Greetings,

               Today one of our translators moved one of his windows
               up beyond the menu bar and we weren't able to find a
               way to be able to grab it and move it back down
               again. It sounds like a really silly problem now that
               I write this but not having control over the window
               was really bothersome.

               Thanks for any help,

               Tim

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