location of icons on bottom of frame in CVI 2009

[menchar]

Am I confused (a distinct possibility) or has the location of the icons on the bottom of the CVI editor frame been switched to the right corner from the left corner?

I was pleased to see a debug/release build mode indicator (finally)in the lower right hand corner - would be better maybe if it were up top or combined with the mode toggle button but this is an improvement.

Is there any way to configure the location of these icons back over to the lower left corner of the frame?

This may be peculiar to my setup since I'm using a large second flatscreen monitor to my right and the icons seem like they're a mile away.  Guess I could swap monitor locations.

[Wolfgang]

Hi Menchar,

I didn't remember the previous version so I went to the lab where we still have CVI 8.5.1 installed and checked... just for you... and indeed, line numbers etc. were located at the left side, while now they are more in the center.

Yes, the debug indicator is nice. It would be even nicer if clicking on it would change between debug and release (hello NI: a suggestion...), similar to the 'file saved' indicator etc.

To my knowledge, there is no possibility to customize the appearance of the status bar.

If your monitors are too large and distant I could offer a tiny one 🙂

Wolfgang

[menchar]

They gave me a second monitor, a nice one, HP LA2405wg, I don't know why - I am usually not treated as if SW is anything except some nonsense to make the HW work better.  My main monitor is an HP 19.5" so I have a lot of monitor landscape to work with.

I am able to use much longer text lines in the editor, so don't have to distort statements to fit on short width lines.   So this is fine for me but maybe not someone who has to look at my code with a normal width monitor.  The compiler doesn't care, I think the max line length is 255 chars or some such.  It is a problem if there's code out of view on a line on a short monitor, that can drive you nuts.  It happens with cut and paste mistakes and tab settings - I spent two days once tracking down a problem that was a code snippet left out of view to the right that was an expression that compiled all OK but had a side effect that was bad.  This is somewhat less likely to happen with a wide monitor.

But, it is a long way over to the lower right corner - I wear progressive lens glasses so I have to rotate my head and then move it up and down to focus on the small icons waaaaaay over in the lower right corner.

Good luck on getting a wide second monitor - most of the senior developers here at my company have these now.

Menchar