Is it possible to start the QA403 software in full screen modus? Changing the link properties doesn’t work. I’m using W11 using 2 CAD monitors 1980 x 1200.
Something has changed in the software. Yes, you used to be able to specify run “maximised” in the properties tabs. Notice if you do that, the software first opens full screen for a second and then shrinks to that small screen.
You can fix it by making the Default.Settings file read-only after setting the main screen up the way you want and specifying (editing) the default.setting file to the width and height you want.
That works for me and has done for a while. There is also a difference between the maximize button and dragging the border windows in terms of remembering. Closing the SW via the X or via the alt-file menu also can make a difference.
For me, it was setting up the default.settings file exactly as I wanted and then making it read only so I know it always starts up the same way everytime, regardless of how it was on close that made all the difference.
I’m not sure how windows “keeps track” (or doesn’t) of the last used window position for an application. It seems to be always at least one step behind. If you move the window, resize it, then operate and then shut it down, it often re-opens the app at the 2nd last window position and size it was. Let alone if you use the windows super key to (snap) maximise/move/minimize windows- that makes the QA40x open at least one, sometimes two positions prior to the last one you used.
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Unfortunately this didn’t work for me, see below. I tried various window sizes and tried with the file on read-only as well as read-write access. Is there anything different in your setup?
Hi @Gerritube, @restorer-john john is right that something changed. It looks like back around 1.201 a change was made where the app was getting stuck in minimized mode. This appears to be a known C#/Winform bug without a good work around. If you minimized the app, and the from the taskbar closed the window, you’ll see the app restore itself before closing. If it stayed minimized when you closed it, it was almost hopeless to get it restored again. You could using shift+left click, but since 1.201 MSFT seems to have deprecated that shortcut. If you do it today, it launches another instance. But not too long ago that key sequence would open the old Maximize/Minimize/Restore menu. But that’s now gone.
So, the upshot was the app was getting stuck closed until the 1.201 change.
Now, part of the 1.201 change is that you are maximized, it will also revert to the smaller size before closing. You can see this by maximizing the window and then closing. It should change to a small window and then close.
this is the code to avoid the taskbar bug.
I know it’s not quite the same, but if you make it almost full screen, it won’t fight you and it will remember that.
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