[Interest] Qt 4.8.0 Main form always opening in the same location ?

Andreas Pakulat apaku at gmx.de
Mon Jan 23 08:30:30 CET 2012


On 23.01.12 13:50:43, Tony Rietwyk wrote:
> Hi Everybody, 
> 
> I've recently upgraded my application from Qt 4.6.0 running on Windows XP to
> 4.8.0 running on Windows 7.  Now my main form is always opening at the same
> location on screen, whereas in XP, it would use a different position each
> time it was run.  The problem is that it's always over my Visual Studio
> output pane, so I have to move the main form to see the debug output.  I
> don't know whether this is a change in Qt, or Windows 7 feature.  It would
> be really nice to know where the values have been stored so that I can
> change them!  

I guess that means you're not using saveState/saveGeometry yourself in
your application to save/restore the window's geometry? If your
application does not do this, then you'll need to find out how Windows 7
changed in this regard, since Qt does not do this all by itself either
AFAIK.

Andreas




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