Tools palette not visible or accessible

[richardgarner]

I have been using the particular installation of Labiew (V 6.0, under Windows XP) for a long time without the following problem.  All of a sudden, one day, the Tools Palette was not visible, and I was not able to get it back.  Tried, of course, clicking "Window >> Show Tools Palette" but this does nothing.  I can still cycle through some of the tools using the keyboard (Tab and space bar).   Tried cold rebooting -- nothing.  Hopefully, I don't have to reinstall. 

[Darren]

Here's something to try...perhaps the Tools palette location got stored in the LabVIEW INI file with some funky location, such that it is showing up, but not within the visible bounds of the screen.  I'm not sure what the INI entry would be, but it's probably something human readable, like "ToolsPalleteLocation="2000,2000".  If you see an entry like that, delete it and restart LabVIEW.  But if you don't see anything immediately obvious, you could close LabVIEW, delete (or rename) your LabVIEW INI file, relaunch LabVIEW, and see if your Tools palette shows up again.  If so, then it's definitely something fishy in your INI file.

Also, I seem to recall from my days long long ago in the AE department that there might be a KnowledgeBase entry, or a previous Dev Exchange post, on this issue.  So if my suggestion is no good, try checking those resources.

Good luck,
-D

[richardgarner]

Thanks, Darren -- you have truly "Proven" your "Active Veteran" status.  That was precisely the problem (bad numbers for ToolsPaletteLocation in INI file)  -- Rich