FF3.10 no longer start up fully

[Joakim Schramm]

Hi,

let me first say that I haven't been here for a while and was sorry to hear about your decision to quit PB development Paul, but I fully understand you.

Now to my problem. I don't use PB so often these days but when I do I like to use my FF3, and as I haven't bothered with PB10, I am stuck with FF3.10, and it worked fine a few months ago when last used. But now, this evening, when trying to start I just gets the "FireFly Project" dialog window and when I select a recent (or existing) project, a small progress bar dialog flashes and then nothing more. In my Windows 7 taskbar I can see the FF3 icon and when I hover it with the mouse I can even see a tumbnail image of the projects currently open code window but when I click it nothing happens. Apperently is FF loaded but somehow doesn't display. Any idea what this can be about?

As I said, it worked fine last time I used it. Not sure exactly when that was but maybe 2 months ago, or maybe I just opened to have a look a few weeks ago, can't remember exactly. Grateful for any idea of where to look... I tried to reinstall latest 3.10 but to no avail.

/Joakim

[David Kenny]

It may be off screen... Try this - While holding down the Windows key (between the Ctrl and Alt Keys), hit the left arrow once (twice if it doesn't come up with the first one).

David

[Joakim Schramm]

Excellent! It worked, thanks. I actually forgot to mention that I have a dual monitors system, and now recall that since my last use I may have changed which of them are primary. This may have caused this. Again, thanks.

/Joakim

[Eddy Van Esch]

While holding down the Windows key (between the Ctrl and Alt Keys), hit the left arrow once

Nice trick, David! I didn't know that one !!!! 

[David Kenny]

Eddy,

I have a dual monitor system also, and that method is designed to dock a window to the side of a monitor and also to move a window from one monitor to the other easily.  I realized that it really didn't care where the window currently was, it just tells it to be in the monitor you are pointing to.  I tested it by pulling a window down so that just the top couple pixels are visible above the bottom of the monitor.  Using that technique, the window is moved fully back into the monitor. I figured it would work when one gets "lost" also.  I have Win7 and am not sure how far back that trick works... Vista perhaps, but I don't think it works in XP or earlier.

Joakim, glad it worked for you.    If that didn't work, then you could have edited FireFly.ini manually to set the location of the window.  It lives in one of two places, depending on the options you chose at FF install time. Mine is in the Settings folder under the FF install folder (which itself is located in C:\Program Files).

David

[Knuth Konrad]

While holding down the Windows key (between the Ctrl and Alt Keys), hit the left arrow once

Nice trick, David! I didn't know that one !!!! 

There's also the ALT + <space> key combo to access the window's system menu, where you then have the choice to min/max/move the window with keys.