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IDEMSInternational / R-Instat

A statistics software package powered by R
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Docking on main windows #3864

Open maxwellfundi opened 7 years ago

maxwellfundi commented 7 years ago

We need to have all the controls with main windows docked because some machines machines with different displays, display the controls differently when they are not docked.

dannyparsons commented 7 years ago

I think I can see which ones are not docked correctly from my machine because they display differently in design view. So I can look into this first.

rdstern commented 7 years ago

How about the message that the command is taking a long time? When I use 2 screens with R-Instat on the second, then this is displayed on the other screen.

dannyparsons commented 7 years ago

Separate issue, but @maxwellfundi could look into this, I assume it's a start position option.

dannyparsons commented 7 years ago

@maxwellfundi have you looked into this?

maxwellfundi commented 7 years ago

This is just about the start position and is quite easy to fix. Will have this and the icon done

maxwellfundi commented 7 years ago

A solution to @rdstern issue is to make sure the setuploading dialog start position would be centered but then there is a potential problem when this loads for the first time and we need to have the the dialog boxes from R visible. @dannyparsons is there a way we could bring those dialog boxes from R to the top of everything else?

dannyparsons commented 7 years ago

I don't think we have any control over how the RLink displays pop up boxes. We could try changing the Waiting dialog so that it isn't set to Top Most? What are other options?

maxwellfundi commented 7 years ago

About this, I think we can have it start in a manually in a position but then that would mean @rdstern problem is not solved. The other options are center parent which would make it appear on the centre of the data view window as i have noticed. the other is to have it at defaultwindows position which is not great.

@dannyparsons my suggestion is get to start in the centerscreen then make a way of making it not the topmost window.

maxwellfundi commented 7 years ago

@dannyparsons something interesting that i think is great is that, we can set the frmsetuploading to center screen but have it topmost to false. All our dialogs have topmost property to false, so the frmsetuploading appears on top of the dialog which would solve rogers issue. Now i am not sure if the dialogs from R when we install R-Instat for the first time will appear topmost since our frmsetuploading will be false.

dannyparsons commented 7 years ago

That sounds like a good idea. But we need to see it with the R windows first as you say, because that is the most important issue.

dannyparsons commented 7 years ago

You can test my moving your packages folder to another location and then running R-Instat so that it tries to create it again.

dannyparsons commented 7 years ago

That's now resolved, the original issue still has more to do possibly. I have tested the docking on my machine and improved it for any controls and dialogs that needed it. We now want to test an installed version on a machine we know had issues with docking.

I also found a bug in the grid which crashes on close sometimes, although the error isn't visible. Possibly because of now having the grids inside another control. I think this could be resolved by opening each tab on load.