No visible text in the editor pane - double clicking fixed it

[Dennis Hoskins]

Hello Paul,

I had started using the 1.26 version of the tiko editor and trying Jose's AfxNova template examples. All was working well until, one morning, no text was visible in the editor pane.

I have closed and restarted tiko. I have switched between light and dark themes. I have copied the tiko.exe and tiko.tiko files from the development branch. I looked for anything that seemed relevant in the preferences. All without fixing the issue.

And then, almost accidently, I double clicked in the editor pane and now the text is visible again. If I double or triple click now, I select text as I would expect.

Any thoughts on what might have happened?

Dennis

[Paul Squires]

I think I've seen something similar when I use multiple copies of Tiko active at once. Once all instances are closed then (I think) that maybe the Compiler Results pane extends to cover the entire editor area. That's my initial thinking of what happened. To fix, I simply copied in a previously used settings.ini config file to the editor's Settings folder.

If you see the problem again, close the Editor and then examine the settings.ini file for these values:

ShowOutputPanel=1
ShowOutputPanelHeight=166
ShowOutputPanelMinimized=0

If you see "weird" looking values for these settings then maybe that is the offending problem.

I will also keep my eyes open to see if I can replicate the problem.

[Dennis Hoskins]

Thank you. I don't think I had multiple copies open but I can't say that with certainty. If I see that behavior again, I will check the ini values as suggested.

Dennis