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

[Tony Rietwyk]

> Sent: Monday, 23 January 2012 6:31 PM
> 
> 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

Thanks Andreas.  I forgot to say that the app was not explicitly setting the
location of the main window.  

I have found a Windows 7 free app (AutoSize) that allows me to specify a
location just for the app window and it works well so far.  

Regards, 

Tony.