Unable to access lower IDE pane when switching to a small monitor

[lukeis]

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 1249

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. On a large monitor reduce the size of the bottom pane(log, etc) using the drag bar.
2. When moving to a monitor the pane is now unavailable, but there is also no way to
access the resizing functionality to bring it into the reduced viewing area.

This occurred when switching from an attached monitor, back to the laptop's own monitor.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Maximising the window should resize the panes to the proportions selected previously,
or some minimum value.

The table pane is clipped and the bottom pane and it's drag bar are unavailable.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

1.0.10

Windows Vista

Please provide any additional information below.

Reported by notreadbyhumans on 2011-02-01 09:34:58

[lukeis]

Hi,

Can you attach a screen shot after moving it to the smaller monitor? Once you maximise
the IDE window on the smaller monitor, you should be able to resize all the panes to
your liking.

Cheers,
Samit

Reported by Samit.Badle on 2011-02-01 10:33:46

• Status changed: NeedsClarification
• Labels added: Priority-Low, Component-IDE
• Labels removed: Priority-Medium

[lukeis]

Here's a screenshot of the problem. I maximize the Selenium IDE window but I still cannot
access the bottom panels to read the logs or documentation. 

I tried uninstalling the Selenium IDE firefox plugin and then reinstalling it but that
did not reset the size of the command table. The only way I can fix it now is to plug
in the laptop to a large monitor again so I can enlarge the window enough to access
the resizing control between the command table and the lower panel where the log and
documentation resides.

Reported by joesondow on 2011-02-18 03:01:10

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• Attachment: selenium-ide-cannot-access-bottom-panels.png
  

[lukeis]

Thanks. I will investigate it further.

Cheers,
Samit

Reported by Samit.Badle on 2011-02-18 12:44:06

• Status changed: Accepted

[lukeis]

This hack worked for me:

Close Selenium/Firefox
Open this file with your favorit text editor:
C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile_hash>.default\localstore.rdf
Search for selenium-ide.xul#mainhbox with an xml attribute height, change height to
200.
Start Firefox/Selenium

I look forward to the real fix.
(Windows XP, Firefox 3.6.15, Selenium 1.0.8/1.0.10)

Reported by rhettmcc on 2011-03-11 06:10:06

[lukeis]

Hi,

Fixed in r11687. There is now a Reset IDE window menu item in the Options menu that
allows you to reset the IDE window. Once the IDE window is reset you can resize it
to the new size. You can wait for Selenium IDE v1.0.11 or try out this new feature
now from the bamboo website (http://xserve.openqa.org:8085/browse/IDE-IDE/latest) and
getting the latest snapshot through the artifacts tab.

Cheers,
Samit

Reported by Samit.Badle on 2011-03-14 16:06:26

• Status changed: Fixed

[lukeis]

Reported by luke.semerau on 2015-09-17 18:11:55

• Labels added: Restrict-AddIssueComment-Commit