HeuristicLab Applications do not respect their previous location and size

[mkommend]

When for example the optimizer is started and moved to another display, after restarting the application it starts again on the primary monitor. This could be quite annoying for the user and should be fixed.

A solution is to save the last location, size and window state of the opened form in the user settings and use to saved settings to position the application accordingly.

[mkommend]

r13567: Implemented saving and restoring the window position, size and state of the optimizer.

[mkommend]

Could you have a look if this is also possible for the starter form in the plugin infrastructure and the splash screen.

[pfleck]

Please also check what default values are used in case the settings file does not contain any stored location and size.

After the last update I recompiled and then HL opened at the top left of my monitor and was scaled to the minimum size. My guess is that the location and size was set to 0, resulting in a Window so small I could not even click on because it was hidden by my taskbar.

[gkronber]

Replying to pfleck:

Please also check what default values are used in case the settings file does not contain any stored location and size.

After the last update I recompiled and then HL opened at the top left of my monitor and was scaled to the minimum size. My guess is that the location and size was set to 0, resulting in a Window so small I could not even click on because it was hidden by my taskbar.

Same happened to me.

[jkarder]

r13586: worked on saving Location/Size/WindowState settings

• added settings for StarterForm
• removed ShowMaximized setting used by MainForm
• implemented checks to fall back to default values if necessary

[mkommend]

Reviewed r13567 and r13586.

Cool feature!

[mkommend]

r13884: Merged r13567 and r13586 into stable.