full screen preview panel

freemp31 · 07-02-2019, 09:30 AM

sigil v 0.9.14 running on win 10.

I'm not usually this thick... my only excuse is being new to sigil.

installed... opened as expected: three vertical panes.
All OK so far.

In the course of exploring I managed to do something and now I have the preview panel full screen.

If I open any of the other panes it simply opens on top of it.

The new panes I can resize in the usual way, or drag about, but I cannot 'reach' the sides of the full screen on in order to move/resize.
Oh and they randomly become horizontal panels if you double-click on the top borders. Is this normal?
I uninstalled and re-installed in the hope of getting the original format back but no luck.

DiapDealer · 07-02-2019, 10:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by freemp31

Oh and they randomly become horizontal panels if you double-click on the top borders. Is this normal?

Yes. This is normal. Double-clicking the title-bar of a dockwidget when it's floating re-docks it in the last place it was previously docked. Double-clicking it again "floats" it. It's not random, it's the inherent behavior of QtDockWidgets.

I'm not sure it's actually possible to make a dockwidget go full-screen. Are you certain you can't grab the top of the window and drag it down and over far enough to get a hold of a side to resize it?

freemp31 · 07-02-2019, 11:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Yes. This is normal. Double-clicking the title-bar of a dockwidget when it's floating re-docks it in the last place it was previously docked. Double-clicking it again "floats" it. It's not random, it's the inherent behavior of QtDockWidgets.

I'm not sure it's actually possible to make a dockwidget go full-screen. Are you certain you can't grab the top of the window and drag it down and over far enough to get a hold of a side to resize it?

No. Unlike the other panes, the cursor goes to the absolute edges of the screen without changing to the' -¦¦- ' marker where you could click and hold. Ditto if I could grab the top border, it will only move vertically, so not changing the position of the sides. I have tried various things to check that I'm not over-scanning, and the edge of the frame is definitely the absolute edge of the app.

DiapDealer · 07-02-2019, 02:35 PM

Weird. I've never had a widget go true full-screen on me before. I'm always able to grab the top bar and move it left/right/up/down (even if it moves some parts off-screen).

If worse comes to worse, you could manually edit the sigil.ini preference file to reset all the widgets/toolbars to their defaults. Or if you don't have much in the way of customization, you could just delete the sigil.ini file completely and start over.

The sigil.ini file is found in the Sigil Preferences folder.

If you don't want to delete it entirely, you could remove the three lines that begin with:

maximized=

geometry=

toolbars=

They can be found under the [mainwindow] section. The last two will be incredibly long bytearrays. More than likely you'll be able to delete everything from (and including) "maximized=" down to (but exluding) [preferences_dialog] .

Just make sure Sigil isn't open when you delete the ini file, or when you edit/save it, if that's what you decide.

BetterRed · 07-02-2019, 06:31 PM

@freemp31 - the common/standard way out of true full screen is the Esc key.

But it sounds like the PV window is 'over' sized, that's happened to me with other software.

What happens if you press Alt+space? The Window menu should pop, with Move, Minimise, Maximise etc. Try selecting Move, then move the window down and to the right with the arrow keys until you can the top and left edges. Hit return and resize with mouse

BR

07-02-2019, 09:30 AM	#1
freemp31 Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2019 Location: France Device: kindle	full screen preview panel sigil v 0.9.14 running on win 10. I'm not usually this thick... my only excuse is being new to sigil. installed... opened as expected: three vertical panes. All OK so far. In the course of exploring I managed to do something and now I have the preview panel full screen. If I open any of the other panes it simply opens on top of it. The new panes I can resize in the usual way, or drag about, but I cannot 'reach' the sides of the full screen on in order to move/resize. Oh and they randomly become horizontal panels if you double-click on the top borders. Is this normal? I uninstalled and re-installed in the hope of getting the original format back but no luck.

07-02-2019, 02:35 PM	#4
DiapDealer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 28,352 Karma: 203720150 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD	Weird. I've never had a widget go true full-screen on me before. I'm always able to grab the top bar and move it left/right/up/down (even if it moves some parts off-screen). If worse comes to worse, you could manually edit the sigil.ini preference file to reset all the widgets/toolbars to their defaults. Or if you don't have much in the way of customization, you could just delete the sigil.ini file completely and start over. The sigil.ini file is found in the Sigil Preferences folder. If you don't want to delete it entirely, you could remove the three lines that begin with: maximized= geometry= toolbars= They can be found under the [mainwindow] section. The last two will be incredibly long bytearrays. More than likely you'll be able to delete everything from (and including) "maximized=" down to (but exluding) [preferences_dialog] . Just make sure Sigil isn't open when you delete the ini file, or when you edit/save it, if that's what you decide. Last edited by DiapDealer; 07-02-2019 at 02:42 PM.

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07-02-2019, 06:31 PM	#5
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,612 Karma: 29710338 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	@freemp31 - the common/standard way out of true full screen is the Esc key. But it sounds like the PV window is 'over' sized, that's happened to me with other software. What happens if you press Alt+space? The Window menu should pop, with Move, Minimise, Maximise etc. Try selecting Move, then move the window down and to the right with the arrow keys until you can the top and left edges. Hit return and resize with mouse BR

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