Step type properties dialog too small!

[weltaran]

Hi!

Just have a look at the screenshot of the step properties dialog. It does not show everything I used to see in earlier versions of test stand. There are no buttons visible!

What to do?

ciao

 weltaran

[RayFarmer]

Hi,

Need some more details.

Operating System, TestStand version...

[weltaran]

Hi Ray!

Windows 7, TS 4.2.1

Ciao

  weltaran

[RayFarmer]

Hi,

Do you see this effect what ever the Step Type Properties Dialog you open?

[weltaran]

Yes, it is independent from the step type.

I checked a lot of other dialogs (edit property loader, edit  IVI steps, edit database steps) and none else seems to have this problem.

The difference of the step type properties dialog is that there are so much tabs within the dialog (three rows of tabs). The design of the tabs looks different

compared to for example the property loader editor. Maybe it was rewritten because some compatibility issue and the problem was not

recognized.

Anyway I am wondering why I am the first one to recognize this issue.

Ciao

 weltaran

[RayFarmer]

Hi,

Maybe it's an Window 7 related problem. There isn't anything extra on the Tab that was on previous versions

[Norbert_B]

Na, i don't think that this is purely related to Windows 7. At least on my Windows 7 machine, it does not display the dialog as seen in the screenshot.

Therefore, we have to dig in what possible reasons could be.

The screenshot shows the step properties of a Tcl step from the NI example opened in the NI Sequence Editor in the type palette. weltaran states that it does appear for every step type there, but is limited to step property dialogs in the type palette (that's what i understood).

My first question, independend of above chapter: What happens, if you change screen resolution? Does it improve or worthen the issue?

Norbert

[weltaran]

Hello Norber B (from Munich?)

Thanks. Last week I already changed the font size (in the win system settings) and it did not show any effect.

But some minutes ago I just recognized THE behaviour of the dialog size. It is in fact directly dependent on the

size of the main sequence editor window! Try yourself. If the main window is just about 500 pixels in height then

the dialog of the step type property dialog is also just about half the height then it should be.

I am working with a laptop with an additional 21" TFT connected. The resolutions are 1600x900 (laptop) and 1680x1050 (external TFT).

If the dialog height is directly related to the main window size then you folks out there should have the same problem

(1280x1024 --> 1024 is even smaller than 1050).

Can anyone reproduce this behaviour. It's a bug not a ...

ciao

 weltaran

[Norbert_B]

hi weltaran,

well, i have a hardtime in reproducing this:

As you can see, the dialog is bigger than the window of the Sequence Editor. So are there any steps i missed?

Norbert

[dug9000]

weltaran,

Most likely this is due to the font size changes you made. MFC Dialogs (of which this is one) are generally sized proportionally to a specific font. Did you try rebooting after changing the font size back? Is there some other system setting you might have changed?

Hope this helps,

-Doug