session windowsize doesn't work

[Elaine Meng]

When I opened a session file, it detected that my current windowsize was smaller than in the session, but instead of increasing that, it increased a blank gray area to the right (image attached). Each time I reopened the session, it would do the same thing so that the gray area would get wider and wider.

Please reassign as appropriate.

[Elaine Meng]

Oh, I see that even just using the windowsize command no longer works. E.g. "windowsize 600 200" keeps extending the gray area and the Command Line is not visible (to see Command Line you have to manually resize larger vertically... then trying windowsize 600 200 again hides it and makes the gray area even wider).

[Elaine Meng]

Belay that. It is true that the windowsize command won't work after the session windowsize didn't work. However if I start a fresh ChimeraX and don't try to open a session, the windowsize command does seem to work correctly. So, to reproduce the problem, save a session, then manually resize the window smaller, and then restore the session.

[Tom Goddard]

I'm not able to reproduce this bug. I open a pdb, save a session, command close, resize window smaller, open session, and it restores to the correct size without problems. Tried in Feb 21 daily build. I tried many variations and never got it to misbehave.

I see from your screen capture that when the problem occurs the outside window frame is expanded probably to the correct size but then all the interior panels including the graphics do not get resized to fill the space. This is likely some bug in Qt 5.7.1 but I have not been able to reproduce it.

[Elaine Meng]

Now when I try it, the graphics window goes to the right size, but I get a Pinocchio effect of the remainder of the  window.  That is, if I repeatedly close and reopen the session, the stuff on the right side gets longer and longer (and longer…).  Crazy.

[Elaine Meng]

Could it be because I am using a laptop with a smaller screen? Maybe there is some built-in assumption about the default initial size. I know the default initial size is much smaller on this laptop than on my desktop.

[Tom Goddard]

That is possible. ChimeraX sizes the initial window when starting up to be 2/3 of the screen size in width and height.

I just set my iMac display to 1280 x 720 (from its normal 2560 x 1440) and still could not reproduce this bug.

[pett]

I can't reproduce this either.

--Eric

[pett]

Should I close this as "can't reproduce"?

--Eric

[pett]

Yeah, with the code base changing so much -- including new releases of Qt -- we should probably close tickets whose reproducibility is iffy. When things are more stable, then tracking these kinds of things down will be more feasible.

--Eric