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Offline fiction

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Contact List location on startup problem
« on: 22 09 2016, 18:57:35 »
Hey,

Love the program, thanks for continuing Miranda after the original project died. I have a weird issue with my contact list. Whenever I start up NG, the window starts at the bottom of my screen, docked to the right edge. The very bottom, so that it scales so small that not even a single name can be seen.

I always drag it up to the top of my screen (top right corner) and it auto expands to cover the 90% distance that I have it set to take up. After that it properly returns to that position whenever I restore the contact list, until I shut down and start up again.

Any idea what's going on here? How can I fix this so that I don't have to drag the contact list up to the top of my screen on startup? I keep it on my secondary monitor, if that makes a difference.
 

Offline Goraf

Re: Contact List location on startup problem
« Reply #1 on: 23 09 2016, 17:28:08 »
Has Clist changed height or is it out of the screen? Dragging for me it's just moving but you are saying that it is scaled down and that kinda lost me.

Few things could be helpful for anyone trying to help here:
1) VersionInfo - for plugins
2) screenshot (or gif etc.) of the problem - if possible
3) screenshot and/or description of some clist settings (depends on used clist plugin)
« Last Edit: 23 09 2016, 17:35:17 by Goraf »
 

Offline fiction

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Re: Contact List location on startup problem
« Reply #2 on: 23 09 2016, 22:57:57 »
Attached is a screenshot of what it looks like, down to the bottom right corner of my monitor.

I don't believe I'm using any plugins besides what came with the default NG installation.

Also attached clist settings and uploaded both of those screenshots here:

https://i.sli.mg/jdP0iI.jpg

https://i.sli.mg/D65FFX.jpg

VersionInfo
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CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz [Intel64 Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7] [DEP Enabled] [4 CPUs]
Installed RAM: 16368 MBytes
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate Edition, 64-bit Service Pack 1 (build 7601)
Internet Explorer: 9.11.9600.18282 (build 99600)
Administrator privileges: Yes
OS Languages: (UI | Locale (User/System)) : English/English | English/English
Free disk space on Miranda partition: 16301 MBytes

Miranda NG Version: 0.95.5 build #17003 x64
Build time: 8 Jul 2016 0:52:06
Profile: C:\Program Files\Miranda NG\Profiles\<name>\<name>.dat (dbx mmap driver)
Profile size: 9568256 Bytes
Profile creation date: 6 Dec 2010 4:27:21
Language pack: No language pack installed
Service Mode: No

Active Plugins (17):
¤ AdvaImg.dll v.0.11.0.2 [17 Jun 2016 23:10:34] - Miranda image services
¤ AIM.dll v.0.11.0.1 [5 Jul 2016 21:46:02] - AIM protocol
¤ AVS.dll v.0.95.3.4 [5 Jul 2016 21:46:00] - Avatar service
¤ Clist_modern.dll v.0.9.1.4 [5 Jul 2016 21:46:40] - Modern contact list
¤ CrashDumper.dll v.0.0.5.2 [5 Jul 2016 21:46:38] - Crash dumper
¤ Dbx_mmap.dll v.0.95.3.1 [8 Jul 2016 0:49:54] - Miranda NG mmap database driver
¤ Facebook.dll v.0.2.14.0 [8 Jul 2016 0:50:34] - Facebook RM
¤ GG.dll v.0.11.0.3 [5 Jul 2016 21:46:12] - Gadu-Gadu protocol
¤ ICQ.dll v.0.11.3.4 [5 Jul 2016 21:46:08] - IcqOscarJ protocol
¤ Import.dll v.0.95.4.3 [5 Jul 2016 21:46:00] - Import contacts and messages
¤ IRC.dll v.0.11.0.3 [5 Jul 2016 21:46:06] - IRC protocol
¤ Jabber.dll v.0.11.0.4 [5 Jul 2016 21:46:14] - Jabber protocol
¤ MSN.dll v.0.12.1.2 [21 Jun 2016 0:01:50] - MSN protocol
¤ PluginUpdater.dll v.0.1.2.5 [5 Jul 2016 21:46:46] - Plugin updater
¤ TabSRMM.dll v.3.4.0.12 [25 Jun 2016 1:03:44] - TabSRMM
¤ TopToolBar.dll v.0.8.0.4 [17 Jun 2016 23:10:22] - TopToolBar
¤ Yahoo.dll v.0.95.5.1 [5 Jul 2016 21:46:06] - Yahoo protocol

Unloadable Plugins (1):
¤ DbChecker.dll v.0.0.0.0 [8 Jul 2016 0:50:44] - <unknown>


Protocols and Accounts:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
AIM                      0 - Enabled 1 - Disabled  Loaded
Facebook                 0 - Enabled 0 - Disabled  Loaded
GG                       0 - Enabled 0 - Disabled  Loaded
ICQ                      0 - Enabled 0 - Disabled  Loaded
IRC                      2 - Enabled 2 - Disabled  Loaded
JABBER                   1 - Enabled 0 - Disabled  Loaded
MSN                      0 - Enabled 0 - Disabled  Loaded
YAHOO                    0 - Enabled 0 - Disabled  Loaded
MetaContacts             1 - Enabled 0 - Disabled  Loaded

Icon Packs:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Proto_AIM.dll [5 Jul 2016 21:46:32]
 Proto_Facebook.dll [8 Jul 2016 0:50:30]
 Proto_GG.dll [5 Jul 2016 21:46:32]
 Proto_ICQ.dll [5 Jul 2016 21:46:34]
 Proto_IRC.dll [5 Jul 2016 21:46:34]
 Proto_Jabber.dll [5 Jul 2016 21:46:34]
 Proto_MetaContacts.dll [8 Jul 2016 0:51:20]
 Proto_MSN.dll [21 Jun 2016 0:02:14]
 Proto_Yahoo.dll [5 Jul 2016 21:46:34]
 TabSRMM_icons.dll [25 Jun 2016 1:04:22]
 Toolbar_icons.dll [5 Jul 2016 21:46:34]
 xStatus_ICQ.dll [5 Jul 2016 21:46:06]
 xStatus_Jabber.dll [5 Jul 2016 21:46:06]
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Offline Goraf

Re: Contact List location on startup problem
« Reply #3 on: 24 09 2016, 07:51:43 »
Secondary monitor could be the case. Try to turn off "Automatically resize window..." option from "Behavior" tab then adjust height of the list and test if it will be preserved. That's my quick guess
 

Offline Vulpix

Re: Contact List location on startup problem
« Reply #4 on: 25 09 2016, 03:54:11 »
What about directly telling it where to go via the StartPosition plugin? ( http://wiki.miranda-ng.org/index.php?title=Plugin:StartPosition/en )

 

Offline fiction

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Re: Contact List location on startup problem
« Reply #5 on: 25 09 2016, 08:03:56 »
Secondary monitor could be the case. Try to turn off "Automatically resize window..." option from "Behavior" tab then adjust height of the list and test if it will be preserved. That's my quick guess

That seems to stop the issue. However, I am quite partial to the automatic resize option, I've used it for years and it's extremely nice. Any chance this could be fixed with an update?
 

Offline fiction

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Re: Contact List location on startup problem
« Reply #6 on: 03 10 2016, 04:03:07 »
What about directly telling it where to go via the StartPosition plugin? ( http://wiki.miranda-ng.org/index.php?title=Plugin:StartPosition/en )


I tried this plugin, but there doesn't seem to be an option to make the clist start on a secondary monitor when using it. I can only position it in different places on my primary monitor.
 

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Re: Contact List location on startup problem
« Reply #7 on: 24 11 2016, 07:22:23 »
Any chance this could be filed as an issue to be fixed in time? It's very consistent and I would really appreciate not having to deal with it at some point in the future.
 

Offline Vulpix

Re: Contact List location on startup problem
« Reply #8 on: 24 11 2016, 08:27:31 »
You can report it on the miranda github as an issue: https://github.com/miranda-ng/miranda-ng you can do this yourself, no need to be a developer or anything.