Screen layout problem

Hi all,

I just upgraded from 3.198 to the latest build and I'm having a problem with the screen layout. When the program first starts up the fan art window is huge, and the poster window is squished down to a sliver. Also the filters underneath the movie listing is pretty much minimized as far as it could go. After resetting things the way I like them, when I restart the program I'm back to square 1, everything is out of whack again. Is there someplace I should be saving these layouts before exiting? I'm running on Win7 (as Admin) so it should be able to save changes properly.

Thanks, and keep up the great work Billy!

I'm not seeing this, any alterations to the layout I make are saved automatically when I quit the program.

You could check the 'profile.xml' located in the 'settings' folder to make sure that the correct profile is being loaded on startup.
Here is a copy of mine in a single profile setup

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<profile>
  <default>Default</default>
  <startup>Default</startup>
  <profiledetails>
    <actorcache>C:\MC\Settings\actorcache.xml</actorcache>
    <config>C:\MC\Settings\config.xml</config>
    <moviecache>C:\MC\Settings\moviecache.xml</moviecache>
    <profilename>Default</profilename>
    <regex>C:\MC\Settings\regex.xml</regex>
    <filters>C:\MC\Settings\Settings\filters.txt</filters>
    <tvcache>C:\MC\Settings\tvcache.xml</tvcache>
  </profiledetails>
</profile>

Pay attention to the <startup> tag and the <profilename> tags, they should be the same, and check that the configpath is correct.

The tags within the config.xml file that set the split containers are
<splitcontainer1>300</splitcontainer1>
<splitcontainer2>461</splitcontainer2>
<splitcontainer3>300</splitcontainer3>
<splitcontainer4>25</splitcontainer4>
<splitcontainer5>422</splitcontainer5>

Check if these are being updated when you quit MC.

Thanks for the info... this is pretty bizarre. All my paths look ok.... When I look in the config.xml it's seems to change on it's own after each load. For example:

After reading your message I looked in config.xml and had:

<splitcontainer1>670</splitcontainer1>
<splitcontainer2>1097</splitcontainer2>
<splitcontainer3>593</splitcontainer3>
<splitcontainer4>319</splitcontainer4>
<splitcontainer5>875</splitcontainer5>

I started MC, and immediately exited. The values changed to:

<splitcontainer1>1324</splitcontainer1>
<splitcontainer2>459</splitcontainer2>
<splitcontainer3>593</splitcontainer3>
<splitcontainer4>319</splitcontainer4>
<splitcontainer5>875</splitcontainer5>

Another load and exit resulted in:

<splitcontainer1>1836</splitcontainer1>
<splitcontainer2>298</splitcontainer2>
<splitcontainer3>593</splitcontainer3>
<splitcontainer4>319</splitcontainer4>
<splitcontainer5>875</splitcontainer5>

At this point the movie listings area basically occupied the entire screen. I set things to where I liked them, exited and had:

<splitcontainer1>375</splitcontainer1>
<splitcontainer2>1011</splitcontainer2>
<splitcontainer3>593</splitcontainer3>
<splitcontainer4>319</splitcontainer4>
<splitcontainer5>700</splitcontainer5>

Loaded up one more time, and things were out of whack again. When I exited (without resizing any windows) config.xml now has:

<splitcontainer1>741</splitcontainer1>
<splitcontainer2>1026</splitcontainer2>
<splitcontainer3>593</splitcontainer3>
<splitcontainer4>319</splitcontainer4>
<splitcontainer5>875</splitcontainer5>


This version of MC was freshly unzipped to a new folder and ran from scratch. On the first run all I did was add my directories.

I'm getting the same issues, when I first ran MC after the update the screen split container positions where wrong. I adjusted them but when MC restarts they are still incorrect.

The Movies tab seems to behave if the page is not maximized on save, but it doesn't seem to make any difference with the TV Shows.

Also I see in the config.xml...

<remembersize>false</remembersize>
<locx>-4</locx>
<locy>-4</locy>


Changing the remembersize tag I don't think helped, but I see there is no setting in the preferences to set this true or false any more.

Also should the loc values be negative (perhaps when maximised?)

Further, If I repeatably reopen MC on the Movie Tab OR the TV Show Tab , the left pane gets wider & wider by itself!

Cheers

StormyKnight wrote:

Further, If I repeatably reopen MC on the Movie Tab OR the TV Show Tab , the left pane gets wider & wider by itself!

That's exactly what I'm seeing too. Glad it's not me just doing something wrong

Ah. yes also same. Every version after 3.198 I get this same issue.

I can duplicate the issue when the form is maximised,

Is that the same as everyone else is experiencing.

Yep when maximised for me

Just tested when not maximised & I'm getting the same issue on TV Shows, movies seems to be fine....

Cheers

I think i've got this worked out now,

The spilt containers have to be setup in a certain order, and it only seems to work when the form is visible,

Seems to work ok now, for both maximised and normal.

The odd thing is Billy it work fine with the previous version(s).....was something added that upset that?

Good to see you've got it sorted.

Cheers

Split containers have some very strange behaviours,

When MC starts the main form is hidden and the splash displayed while everything is setup, I noticed that the command to make the main window visible occured before the setup was completed so I moved it to after everything was loaded.

Unfortunately their was a reason I had put it where it was, namely, the split panels have to be visible for the setting to work, in fact, they not only have to be visible, but they have to be displayed at the front, this is the same reason why when the start tab is 'movies' it flicks quickly to the 'tv' tab and back again.

I can't understand the behaviour, but changing the splitter programatically when the window or tab containing the splitpanel is not visible on screen, results in nothing.

I've added a comment to the load sub so it shouldn't happen again.

Sorry for the delay... was away for a few days. Yes, I too was running with the screen maximized. Glad to see you were able to replicate it.