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John B. 2008-06-02 12:38
I'm experiencing a problem using 'Restore Position' for desktop shortcuts with UltraMon 3.0 Beta 2.1 on Vista x64. This occurs on Windows startup, disable/enable secondary, manual 'Restore Position', etc. From what I can tell, it seems that similarly named (not identical) shortcuts are mistakenly being placed in the same locations, causing shortcut positions to shift.
This similar to the problem seen in another forum posting:
http://realtimesoft.com/multimon/forum/messages.asp?Topic=8632&tmpl=UltraMon
However in this case the shortcuts do not identical names. At a guess, could this be happening because these shortcut names contain spaces and pattern matching is only occurring on the beginning portion of the name?
Example saved positions contained in registry for problem shortcuts:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Realtime Soft\UltraMon Components\Saved Positions\Icons]
"Half-Life 2"=hex:0e,03,00,00,02,00,00,00 -> [X:14+768=782, Y:2]
"Half-Life 2 Episode One"=hex:62,03,00,00,02,00,00,00 -> [X:98+768=866, Y:2]
"Half-Life 2 Episode Two"=hex:b6,03,00,00,02,00,00,00 -> [X:182+768=950, Y:2]
"Mozilla Firefox"=hex:02,06,00,00,86,02,00,00 -> [X:2+1536=1538, Y:134+512=646]
"Mozilla Firefox 3 RC1"=hex:02,06,00,00,e2,02,00,00 -> [X:2+1536=1538, Y:226+512=738]
"Mozilla Thunderbird"=hex:02,06,00,00,3e,03,00,00 -> [X:2+1536=1538, Y:62+768=830]
Not sure if it matters, my dual monitor screen layout is currently configured as such:
[2][1]
Thanks in advance,
John.
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Christian Studer 2008-06-03 12:38
So far I haven't been able to reproduce this issue, I'm also not sure what would cause this, UltraMon uses the full icon name when positioning icons.
I tested on 64-bit Vista with UltraMon 3.0.2, with icons named 'Mozilla Firefox' and 'Mozilla Firefox 3 RC1'.
Let me know if you find out anything else.
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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John B. 2008-06-05 17:25
I've been looking into this a little further and I've found a way to reproduce the problem. As odd as it sounds, this problem may be caused by the order in which shortcuts/files/directories are created. At the moment, I'm not sure why it matters - some Windows Vista quirk?
Steps to reproduce:
- On the desktop, create a directory called "test 1"
- On the desktop, create a directory called "test"
- position directories beside each other horizontally
- using UltraMon, 'Desktop Icons -> Save Positions'
- using UltraMon, 'Desktop Icons -> Restore Positions'
At this point, "test 1" directory position is restored to the "test" directory saved position, "test" is shifted to location below.
Running through the same procedure, but creating "test" first and then "test 1" (after deleting the originals) does not recreate the problem.
At least a work-around for the issue is to recreate the shortcuts/directories in alphabetical order.
John.
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