Drop Down Selection Boxes Are Drop Up!

[Gary_M_Mugford]

Hi all,

Since there is a lack of furor over this, my problem is PROBABLY something of my own making. But here goes. Since the update to v1.32x64, when I edit or right-click or click on a button that would result in a drop down menu, the menu appears at the top of the screen, under the confluence of the Convert Books and Save to Disk buttons on the main toolbar. For example, right clicking on the cover image in the right pane does this:


To the best of my knowledge, everything else on my Win7x64 box is operating correctly. I did patch on Thursday of last week but haven't seen any deleterious effects. I have opened and closed Calibre. The effect persisted through a reboot. It's not that the issue is debilitating. It's just annoying right now.

Any ideas on how I might fix the situation? Thanks in advance.

[BetterRed]

@Gary_M_Mugford - Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling calibre, you wont lose anything but usual caveats - just in case, do a backup of library and config data.

what about in dialogue boxes - eg with the conversion or edit metadata - are they OK or equally off kilter.

BR

[Gary_M_Mugford]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

@Gary_M_Mugford - Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling calibre, you wont lose anything but usual caveats - just in case, do a backup of library and config data.

what about in dialogue boxes - eg with the conversion or edit metadata - are they OK or equally off kilter.

BR

BR,

My next step. The various sub-windows show up correctly. It's only the odd placement of any drop-down menu. If I have to pick from a picklist, it's moved. Right click system menus move too. As does the drop down menus from the arrow buttons on those main toolbar buttons that have them.

So, a re-download of v1.32, then a re-install. And if that fails, I give 1.31 a try. It's obviously a machine issue rather than a calibre issue. But it's annoying.

One piece of evidence that MIGHT be involved. Over the weekend I did a little pruning using the Duplicates button. I switched from viewing individual cases to see the full list (that way, I could scan for docx/doc pairs and just delete the doc's). Grasping at straws, but it might be a clue if things continue to go south. (One last detail, my usual placement of Calibre is on the second monitor, full screen. That's a 2000x1200 window. The placements of the dropdowns is ballpark pt 300 by pt 48, or so.

Back to the re-install salt mines. Appreciate you thinking about this issue.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Gary_M_Mugford

If I have to pick from a picklist, it's moved. Right click system menus move too. As does the drop down menus from the arrow buttons on those main toolbar buttons that have them.



So, a re-download of v1.32, then a re-install. And if that fails, I give 1.31 a try. It's obviously a machine issue rather than a calibre issue. But it's annoying.

One piece of evidence that MIGHT be involved. Over the weekend I did a little pruning using the Duplicates button. I switched from viewing individual cases to see the full list (that way, I could scan for docx/doc pairs and just delete the doc's). Grasping at straws, but it might be a clue if things continue to go south. (One last detail, my usual placement of Calibre is on the second monitor, full screen. That's a 2000x1200 window. The placements of the dropdowns is ballpark pt 300 by pt 48, or so.

Back to the re-install salt mines. Appreciate you thinking about this issue.

Could be a corrupt download problem, although that usually results in something more catastrophic like calibre not starting. But someone had a problem relating to displaying covers - IIRC that was fixed by an uninstall, fresh download and fresh install.

Have you tried running calibre on the primary monitor?

I wouldn't have thought it was anything to do with cleaning up duplicates.

BR

[Gary_M_Mugford]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Could be a corrupt download problem, although that usually results in something more catastrophic like calibre not starting. But someone had a problem relating to displaying covers - IIRC that was fixed by an uninstall, fresh download and fresh install.

Have you tried running calibre on the primary monitor?

I wouldn't have thought it was anything to do with cleaning up duplicates.

BR

It does appear like it was a problematic download. I re-downloaded the file and everything now seems to work as expected. Being jolly on the spot to try out any release occasionally leads to such imponderables.

[Gary_M_Mugford]

Typed too quickly. The problem DID persist. But I don't think it's a Calibre bug. I have a multi-monitor setup and I run UltraMon to handle those monitors. I like to have Calibre show up on the second monitor of the group, running full-screen. When I re-installed Calibre, of course I ran it from the installation dialog. Everything worked. So, I closed it down and went back to mundane work. I just re-opened Calibre to check something, using the shortcut from the UltraMon second monitor taskbar, just as I have done for the last few years. The problem was back. Hmmmmm. I then tried the desktop icon (which I normally delete by rote, but which I had left around this time) and everything worked okay, although I had to move the window to the second monitor. Problem solved.

So, two things occur. First, I'd like Calibre to remember window state and position between runs. THAT would be good. And that 1.32 has an issue with UltraMon's shortcut system. Since that's a pretty rare combo, I'm not going to register a bug since I'm not sure Calibre's at fault here and we'd alll rather Kovid spend his time on universally productive issues. BUT something changed between 1.31 and 1.32. I re-installed the earlier version and it did not exhibit this odd behaviour. Back to 1.32 now.

Most peculiar.