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to: Jack Stein
from: Sean Dennis
date: 1999-11-02 03:38:12
subject: Weird windows...

Hello Jack.

Saturday October 30 1999 17:08, you wrote to me:

 SD>> For some weird reason, when I open my VIO windows, they all come
 SD>> up minimized... I have to maximize them to be able to see
 SD>> them completely.  I've checked the properties of the 'main' window
 SD>> object in the Command Prompts folder in OS/2 System and all looks
 SD>> well.  Any suggestions?

 ET>> The only thing I can think of now is that you somehow made
 ET>> the minimized state the default for all windowed sessions,
 ET>> if that's the case then I think this should cure it: open
 ET>> one windowed session, make sure it is not minimized, then
 ET>> doubleclick on the titlebar. The doubleclick on the titlebar
 ET>> saves the 'state' (='minimized' or 'normal' or 'maximized')
 ET>> and the position of the upper left corner, which becomes the
 ET>> new default for all windowed textmode sessions.

 JS> I think you may need to hold down the ALT key when doing this.  I
 JS> prefer to set the MAXIMIZED=YES setting in the object itself.  If you
 JS> have my GETSET.cmd, this is not too hard.  Just look up the ObjectID,
 JS> have GetSet save it to a CMD file to recreate the object, and add the
 JS> MAXIMIZED=YES to the settings, then run the command file.  Works every
 JS> time...  I like to do things the hard way for some reason.:-)

Could you netmail me that CMD file?  I tried to do that click with the ALT key 
and it's not responding to it.  I'm not completely sure HOW I did this of all
things. :)

Later,
Sean

... You remind me of a young Jack Stein - Slappy Squirrel
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