Hi Doug, Thanks!
Just holding the Shift key down and run (click the green button) from any method appears to have worked. Yeah!!! Appreciate, John… > John: > > I saw this documented only recently so I thought it was for V17 but I just > checked it in 15.4 - Win server, Mac client. > > Hold down the Shift key to reset the boundaries for the editor windows in > design mode. > > In the case of the debugger, create an empty method (I have one called > “aTestDoug”) and type in “Trace”. Hold down the Shift key and click the green > “go” button to run the method. 4D will execute the Trace command and will > open the debugger in the default position. > > For the Explorer, make sure that the Explorer is closed, hold down the Shift > key, and open the Explorer with the mouse. > > Before I learned the Shift key trick, I had to resort to throwing out the > config file. From my “4D Text File Locations” document: > > > C:\Users\Doug\Application Data\4D\4D Window Bounds > v15\development\[projectForm] > Change "explo_preview" > Refer to Explorer.json file in 4D/14.5 (OS X) > > Debugger Window Settings (and others) > c:\Users\dvonroeder\Application Data\4D\4D Preferences v13.4DPreferences > > \Volumes\C\Users\Doug\Application Data\4D Server\4D Window Bounds v14 > \Volumes\C\Users\Doug\Application Data\4D Server\4D Window Bounds v15 > C:\Users\Doug\AppData\Roaming\4D\4D Window Bounds v15 > C:\Users\Doug\AppData\Roaming\4D Server\4D Window Bounds v14 > > > -- > Douglas von Roeder > 949-336-2902 > > > On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 10:08 AM John J Foster via 4D_Tech > <4d_tech@lists.4d.com <mailto:4d_tech@lists.4d.com>> wrote: > Hi All, > > Mac OS 12.6 4D 15.2 (have to stay with this version until client upgrades to > v16/v17). > > In the last few days I’ve experienced a strange Debugger issue (corruption) > that I cannot seem to fix. I think it happened after a crash. What is > happening is that the top parts of the debugger screen, like the toolbar, are > hidden above the top of the debugger screen. It’s like what used to happen > when you tabbed to a variable offscreen and you couldn’t get back to the top > of the screen but weirder. > > On the left side pane the Variables is the top and anything above that I do > not have access to. I cannot get to the debugger buttons. I cannot abort into > a method, etc. Expanding the window to full screen doesn’t help. Moving > various splitters doesn’t help. Needless to say it makes debugging a near > impossibility! > > I have tried throwing away the application preference folder: > > Library->Application Support -> 4D ... have it recreated but that didn’t help. > > I have even downloaded and installed a fresh copy of 4D 15.2. Still no help, > > Is there another set of files that controls the debugger screen display? > > I think this is a first in over 30 years! > > Thanks, > John… > > > > ********************************************************************** > 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) > Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html > <http://lists.4d.com/archives.html> > Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech > <https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech> > Unsub: mailto:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com > <mailto:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com> > ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com **********************************************************************
