Mac OSX Advance View is invisible
19 Sep 2012 16:35:39 UTC
Topic 196530
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I can use the basic view of Boinc but if I switch to advanced I get nothing.
I believe it has something to do with sometimes using an external monitor. My guess is that the window is positioned off screen somehow.
Does anyone know how to reset that position? Evidently uninstall/reinstall is not the answer.
Thanks,
Joe
Mac OSX Advance View is invisible
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Aren't there some hidden files (name starting with dot) in Mac OS with initial data for applications (equivalent to windows registry)? IIRC they can be seen with "ls -la".
Gruß,
Gundolf
Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)
thanks Gundolf, That does
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thanks Gundolf,
That does give me a place to start but I don't see anything obvious in my home directory or in the /Applications/BOINCManagner.app.
I will take this as a good excuse to learn more about the Mac way to make my life miserable.
Joe
Check in
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Check in /Users/[username]/Library/Preferences/BOINC Manager Preferences
Thanks Jord, That looks
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Thanks Jord,
That looks promising. Would you remove a file or directory (like MacOS/BOINCManager, or delete the whole thing and reinstall BOINC?
Joe
I'd not remove any file, but
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I'd not remove any file, but check in the files there for the screen x, y and z positions. As I understand there's one or more text files in this directory that hold all the information about BM. When comparing it to the Windows version, this is where BM writes its information to, that it would write to the registry under Windows.
I seem to have fixed it
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I seem to have fixed it without any file level surgery.
First of all I didn't find any relevant text files, but didn't do an exhaustive search. Based on file names that looked interesting they were all binary.
The zoom command under the Window menu brought it up maximized, proving the problem.
Then the restore button shrunk it down to something that was maybe 40 pixels tall and one pixel wide. The trick was clicking the mouse with one pixel accuracy, a non-trivial problem for my old-man eyes. Once I clicked on it, I was able to open it back up.
I'm still not sure how I got into that situation but I hope it doesn't happen again..
Thanks for the help.
Joe
Requested by the BOINC
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Requested by the BOINC developers, which OS X was this on, with which BOINC version? And did you skin it differently, or what Simple View skin was selected (in the View menu in Simple View, click Skin if available)?
RE: Requested by the BOINC
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Jord,
OS X 10,7.4 - Lion, uname -a calls it Darwin 11.4.0
Boinc 7.0.31 (x86) with wxWidgets 2.8.10
It is http://einsteinathome.org/host/4797633
No effort on my part to skin it specially. when in Simple view the Skin option from the View menu is grayed out. The edges look sort of like the stock photo of Andromeda almost completely covered by the task and project panes.
I'm happy to do what I can to help reproduce it.
Joe