How to make PDN to remember the last position of windows?

[xod]

Hello,

 

I want to change default position of windows.

How to make PDN to remember the last position of windows? (Tools, Colors, Layers, History).

 

Thanks in advance.

[Pixey]

Hi Xod, just go to the cog wheel, upper right hand corner & pick 'Tools' to set those things.

 

 

 

[Rick Brewster]

Pixey, that's something different.

 

The floating windows are supposed to remember their positions. For some reason, it does not work for a small percentage of folks and I haven't been able to figure out why.

 

To debug and fix this I would basically need direct access to a system that this happens on (e.g. physically borrowing it, or Remote Desktop w/ administrator privilege). 

[Pixey]

Ahhh - thank you for explaining that Rick.  Luckily I've never experienced the problem @Xod describes .

[xod]

Thanks for answers.

I have Windows 7 SP1, without some updates.

I wonder if it is not about updates?

[Rick Brewster]

Always install all updates. That always tends to cause problems if you don't do that.

[operamint]

Hi, I just registered to comment on this!

 

Rick, thanks for responding on this issue and xod for bringing it up again. I don't think this affects "only a small percentage of folks". In fact, I think this must affect a large percentage of users, the reason being:

 

I have installed v4.0.6  (also tried v4.0.5) on at least 5 different PCs, some Windows 7, and some Windows 10. All have this issue!

 

I wonder if this is a locale specific bug, as I live in Norway. The PC at work has English Windows 7 (but uses norwegian locale), the rest have Norwegian versions installed.

 

For me, this is so annoying that I use v3.5.11 - the last version where window positions sticks. Thank you for an otherwise fantastic software!

 

/edit: ps: Maximised main window does stick in v4.0.x, but that's it.

Edited November 14, 2015 by operamint

[xod]

@operamint, thank you very much!

 

That's the issue, I reverted to english and now the floating windows it does remember their positions.

[Rick Brewster]

Well that's interesting ... hmm

[xod]

After several tests I found that:

 

When we change Formats in Region and Language, click on Additional settings... and in Numbers tab

it is very important that the decimal symbol of real numbers to be point and not comma.

 

In many country from Europe the decimal symbol is comma and perhaps that is an issue to calculation in PDN.

[Ego Eram Reputo]

You may well have identified the problem xod. Great piece of detective work between you and operamint.

[Rick Brewster]

You have Paint.NET configured for Nederlands? And what is Windows configured for?

[Zagna]

Same here, just by changing the decimal separator, windows remember their position.

With paint.net in finnish, Windows also in finnish every way possible.

[Rick Brewster]

Aha, well that's a little embarassing for a UI dev.

 

The size and location of the floating windows is saved to the registry as a rectangle; "x,y,width,height". It always uses the separator for US English (commas). When this string is loaded from the registry, it parses using the language you're actually using. Which, because your settings already use commas for something else, means it'll be looking for semicolon ; as a separator instead.

Fix will be to make parsing always use US English (commas!) as well.

 

This should be a super easy fix

[Rick Brewster]

Okay, should be fixed for the next update. Thanks for the help  

[Pratyush]

Okay, should be fixed for the next update. Thanks for the help

 

One of the biggest mysteries solved. Isn't it? 

[Rick Brewster]

Yeah, actually it is