Survex 1.2.8: Aven can't get out of full screen mode

[Rowena Larkins]

Hi and thanks.

The screen width had been set in the registry to be the hex equivalent of -1.
I reset it to a more reasonable value, somewhat smaller than the width of my screen, 500 pixels.

Aven 1.2.8 now behaves, and full screen/normalises.

Rowena

> Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 06:47:18 +0000
> From: olly at survex.com
> To: rowena1234 at hotmail.com
> CC: survex at survex.com
> Subject: Re: Survex 1.2.8: Aven can't get out of full screen mode
> 
> On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 12:03:40AM +1100, Rowena Larkins wrote:
> > I selected the menu option in Aven to view the legs in full screen
> > mode and now I cannot get Aven to return to windowed mode and work
> > properly.
> > In full screen mode there is no menu, however I am able to use
> > keyboard shortcuts to move my rendering.
> 
> That's as expected - in full-screen mode you just get the sub-window
> with the survey drawn in it.
> 
> > Also no other windows can be brought to the front. All I can do with
> > my pc is move a survey 3d file in aven.
> 
> Is that also how full-screen mode behaves in other applications on
> Windows?
> 
> > When I press the F11 key, Aven returns to a window, however there is
> > no menu bar, and the window does not respond to any events. The only
> > way to close the window is to use the task manager.
> > When in windowed mode there are no survey legs showing, only a black
> > screen. 
> 
> That's not good.
> 
> > I have shutdown the machine several times and Aven still starts in
> > full screen mode.
> > 
> > In the short term I have reverted to Survex 1.2.7 which is behaving itself.
> > 
> > Can you assist me in understanding why aven 1.2.8 only starts now in
> > full screen mode; is there a config file somewhere I can modify so it
> > starts in windowed mode?
> 
> The default size and full-screen-ness of the window is stored in the
> registry on Windows.  You can edit settings in there with "regedit"
> which you probably have installed by default, but I'm not sure what
> the exact name of the entry for this is (it's handled by wxWidgets).
> 
> If 1.2.7 works, you should be able to get out of full-screen with that,
> and then if you install 1.2.8 again, you should still be out of
> full-screen mode.
> 
> Since this doesn't seem to affect others (Footleg and Brian on list, and
> Jenny also tested it for me), I don't have any bright ideas as to how
> to work out what's going wrong, but I've just uploaded 1.2.9, which is
> built with wxWidgets 3.0.0 (1.2.8 was built with 2.9.5, which was a
> development version).  If this is an issue with wxWidgets handling of
> full screen mode, then 1.2.9 might fix it.
> 
> Cheers,
>     Olly