Hello,
When working in Microstation for any significant length time (more than an hour), dialog boxes start to drift off screen. For instance, the drop down for selecting element colors will initially open directly beneath the colors button, but over time, will open a few pixels to the right, and move further right each time I open it it. Eventually, it drifts off screen, and locks the program because I cannot select a color or otherwise dismiss the box. This has occurred for several different tools, including the scales dialog, wordprocessor dialog, the spellcheck dialog opened from within the word processor, etc. I have lost work several times due to having to use Ctrl-Alt-Del to close Microstation when a dialog box gets lost off screen (the lost dialog apparently block autosaving edits).
Is there any setting that can prevent this from happening, or reset where boxes open (short of restarting Microstation several times a). Is there at least a way to force the offscreen dialog to close so that I can save my work before closing and restarting?
I am using:
"Microstation V8i (SELECTseries 4)"
Memory Statistics:
Element: 43.7M, 405 BlocksAvailable: 9853M (Physical), 2132M (Virtual)System: 16265M (Physical), 4096M (Virtual)Free Limits: 50.0M (Physical), 150M (Virtual) [MS_MEMORY_FREELIMIT]NOTE: Unable to use all of the memory in your system because current user does not have "Lock Pages in Memory" privilege. See Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Local Security Policy>User Rights Assignment.
Computer:
Windows 10 Enterprise
Intel Core i7-8650U CPU @1.9 GHz 2.11 GHz, 64 bit x64
16.0 GB (15.9 available)
set your pop tool to be on and move the select tool dialog box to a spot of choice, and as long as the pop dialog green ball stays green all your dialogs will always pop in the same place, just dont close dialogs just use exit or change to select tool, never close or move dialogs again...
if you cant find this look in help for pop tool.. still cant find it then give me a screen shot of you top two or 3 lines of the screen and Ill tell you which or where it is later...
or PM me and I 'll give you more detailed instructions to load it....
Lorys
Started msnt work 1990 - Retired Nov 2022 ( oh boy am I old )
But was long time user V8iss10 (8.11.09.919) dabbler CE update 16 (10.16.00.80)
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