Hi all, Today I received a very common question. An Athena user had just purchased a new laptop and Athena did not display properly on the small screen. When reading in a file, the "OK" button on the column selection dialog was off the bottom of the screen. This question comes up with enough regularity that I wrote a FAQ entry about how to work around this problem. See question 14 at http://cars9.uchicago.edu/ifeffit/FAQ/HoraeQuestions Regards, B -- Bruce Ravel ------------------------------------ bravel@bnl.gov National Institute of Standards and Technology Synchrotron Methods Group at NSLS --- Beamlines U7A, X24A, X23A2 Building 535A Upton NY, 11973 My homepage: http://xafs.org/BruceRavel EXAFS software: http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~ravel/software/exafs/
Dear Bruce, dear All, I've just wanted to inform you that it works not always. I have changed font size but it didn't change the size of window under Windows XP. I work temporary at 1024x600 screen size, and to open files I need to change it to 1024x768. Additionally, the *.ini files in my case are in the folder c:\Program Files\Ifeffit\Share\Athena best regards darek -----Wiadomość oryginalna----- Od: ifeffit-bounces@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov w imieniu Bruce Ravel Wysłano: Pt 2010-05-14 19:15 Do: XAFS Analysis using Ifeffit Temat: [Ifeffit] small screens and my software Hi all, Today I received a very common question. An Athena user had just purchased a new laptop and Athena did not display properly on the small screen. When reading in a file, the "OK" button on the column selection dialog was off the bottom of the screen. This question comes up with enough regularity that I wrote a FAQ entry about how to work around this problem. See question 14 at http://cars9.uchicago.edu/ifeffit/FAQ/HoraeQuestions Regards, B -- Bruce Ravel ------------------------------------ bravel@bnl.gov National Institute of Standards and Technology Synchrotron Methods Group at NSLS --- Beamlines U7A, X24A, X23A2 Building 535A Upton NY, 11973 My homepage: http://xafs.org/BruceRavel EXAFS software: http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~ravel/software/exafs/ _______________________________________________ Ifeffit mailing list Ifeffit@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov http://millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/ifeffit
On Monday 17 May 2010 04:08:36 am Zajac, Dariusz A. wrote:
I've just wanted to inform you that it works not always. I have changed font size but it didn't change the size of window under Windows XP. I work temporary at 1024x600 screen size, and to open files I need to change it to 1024x768. Additionally, the *.ini files in my case are in the folder c:\Program Files\Ifeffit\Share\Athena
Darek, There are two initialization files -- one system-wide, one for each user. The first time Athena starts, it copies the system-wide file into the user's space. This is true on both Windows and unix. The folder you mention is the location of the system-wide initialization file. Each subsequent time that Athena starts, it initializes all preferences using hard-coded values. It then reads the system-wide file and resets all preferences to those values. Finally, it reads the user's initialization file and again resets all preferences to those values. In this way, all preferences are guaranteed to be set to something, a system administrator can set sensible system-wide defaults, and the user can maintain a personal set of preference values. This is, perhaps, overkill for a machine that only has one user, but it is a system that meets a wide variety of needs. If you edit the system-wide file without either also editing or deleting your personal init file, then you will not see the effect. That is because the values from the personal init file over-ride the edit you made to the system-wide file. As I said, the personal init file is placed in "C:\Documents and Settings\bravel\Application Data\" on my Windows computer. Obviously, your location will not have "bravel" in the path. B -- Bruce Ravel ------------------------------------ bravel@bnl.gov National Institute of Standards and Technology Synchrotron Methods Group at NSLS --- Beamlines U7A, X24A, X23A2 Building 535A Upton NY, 11973 My homepage: http://xafs.org/BruceRavel EXAFS software: http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~ravel/software/exafs/
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