Project pane appears 1x1 when another pane maximized

[scottbilas]

See screen shot. That little circle in the upper left is actually the project pane!

Here's what I think is the repro:

• Open the Project Explorer pane
• Dock it to the left and set it to auto-hide
• Maximize the edit pane
• Close and reopen HE
• View -> Panes -> Project Explorer

When I choose to open that pane I see that little 1x1 window animate by widening just as the Project Explorer normally does, except its height remains 1. When it's done, it goes back to 1x1, though the drop-down box for choosing a file to open is visible.

The workaround is to un-maximize and re-maximize that edit pane. Then everything works normally again.

This is in build 1.43.656.

[scottbilas]

Hmm, my workaround doesn't actually work.. It worked the first few times I tried it but now it makes no difference if I minimize/maximize the edit pane. I now always get that 1x1 window.

[scottbilas]

By the way, this happens in 1.43.659 as well.

It definitely makes a difference on launch whether the edit pane was maximized when I closed it. If the edit pane was maximized, then I have this problem. If it was not, then I don't have this issue.

I hope this info helps.

[alex]

Hello Scott,

thanks a lot for bug report. Should be fixed with 1.43.660 published just now

Best regards,
Alex.

[scottbilas]

The 1x1 window is resolved in 660, but now my edit window gets un-maximized when I show the project pane.

I think this makes sense when showing a window that is in a docked pane. But for a hidden pane, there is no need to un-maximize the edit window, is there?

Now when I bring up the project pane to open a new file, I have to go back and re-maximize the edit pane...

[alex]

Hello Scott,

this is designed behaviour. If HippoEDIT is in expanded(maximized) mode, and you want to see one of the panes (of course if it is not that pane that currently expanded) it should be un-expanded before.

In the expanded mode, no other panes can be visible. So that is a reason that it turnes off expanded mode before.
The pane can be docked, tabbed, in auto hide mode, floating or hidden. There is no state for pane to be visible in expanded mode.
The bug you have reported was caused specially by this undefined state. And this was solved

Yes. Maybe this was not that you want, but this is how it is designed Overwise pane come from nowhere, without outer containers etc.

Best regards,
Alex.