I'm running VS2013 Professional on Windows 7 x64 and often finding that, after a debug session, the yellow tooltips from the debugger don't go away and stay on the screen on top of other windows. For example, the image attached shows a debug tooltip now also showing on top of me posting this question.
I am able to hide it temporarily by pressing Win + d to show the desktop, but as soon as I open / navigate to any window, the tooltip is right back.
The only way I've been able to get rid of these tooltips has been to close and re-open my Visual Studio. Any thoughts about what else I could do?
Try sending the WM_CLOSE message to the tooltip window.
I had hoped to be able to do that with Spy++, but alas you can't send messages from that.
I downloaded SendMessage from StephansTools, this then lets me use the cross hair to select the offending tooltip window and then send the WM_CLOSE message to it.
Caveat: This only seems to work in some circumstances. It's worth a try but may not work every time.
On your screenshot, the tooltip is "this is the next statement that will be executed". This tooltip appears when you hover over a yellow arrow to the left of the code while stepping in debugger (there must be no breakpoint on the current line).
It's quite likely that when the tooltip is stuck, you can un-stuck it by howering over that yellow arrow again, then moving mouse cursor away from it.
As for permanent solution to the problem, I would blame third-party applications that install hooks. Try to temporarily disable whatever such software you have and see if it helps. If you can't figure the exact repro to get the problem, you can simply close any other software you can and do your debugging for a while.
Some typical examples of hooking software:
Input assistance (voice to text, ...)
Automatic keyboard layout correction
Dictionary and language translation
Anything that creates new buttons in other programs
Screenshot software
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Maybe a stupid question. I'm new to TradingView and pine script, so please bear with me if there's some simple way to do this...
I figured out how to copy and modify a script from the library. At first, I could see a tiny edge of a window at the bottom of the script. When I saved or attempted to add the script to the chart, the window showed whether the script processed or had errors.
Now, though, I seem to have "lost" that window. How can I display that window? Also, once displayed, how can I make it larger?
Edit:
Here's a screenshot of the bottom of my editor -
Right-clicking on the console (errors) window showed a little pop-up saying:
While my cursor is in the editor window, holding Ctrl (or Cmd on a Mac) plus the backtick key toggles the console window open and closed.
Now, I can see the console log window whether I have errors or not.
you can show/hide the pane with pine scripts with the "_" icon on the right side:
show
hide
On the rigt side next to the "_" icon you can toggle/maximize the pine script window.
Add any error to your script and save the script.
In the lower left corner, you will see a small gray triangle.
Drag it up with the mouse.
The "Show console" was never visible in my browser. Only the "Toggle console", which did not do anything for me.
I tried a different browser and the console showed well. So I figure it was the browser I was using "Firefox".
So, I re-started Firefox, by going to Un-install Programs in Windows, clicking "Remove program", in front of the Firefox logo, which gave me the choice to restart Firefox. I did took that choice and this fixed the problem for me. I hope it helps others.
On Firefox, it may bug and never show it even with the shortcuts (because it becomes a tiny single-line that can't be dragged at the bottom of the page).
In order to fix it without uninstalling firefox: clean the site data for the domain.
I managed to get VS2013 in this strange state a couple times now: The program loads fine but when I click on the solution explorer tab, the error list tab and a few others the program won't repaint in response to my click. I have to minimize the program and remaximize, whereupon everything appears as it should have right after the click.
I don't know if anyone had this issue before.. if not, where can I file a bug report?
I changed back to software rendering, it worked properly immediately. I was using 3d acceleration.
My manager thinks he's seen other people "lock" the windows on screen keyboard to the bottom of their applications, effectively docking it with their window, and wants me to reproduce this. They're using vb6 and occasionally vb.net.
I've done a good amount of googling on the subject and I'm resorting to looking into the windows SDK at the minute, but if someone out there can save me a few days of pain by either confirming that it's not possible or pointing me in the right direction if it is I'd appreciate it.
I find that the keyboard locks if I open it from the taskbar icon. It will stay on the bottom of the screen then, even if I'm not on a text field.
No idea how to achieve that programmatically though
In a custom toolset I have installed for Visual Studio, there is a popup window that should appear to me so that I can manipulate one of the lists (an in-built editor). The component is Telerik, but I don't think that has anything to do with it (maybe).
The popup window is no longer popping up to me. I wonder if it got minimized or it's a z-index thing, where the window is behind VS? But this locks up VS, and I can't do anything within it until I cancel the window. But I can't cancel the window because I can't see it... and so that is really slowing me down and is really frustrating.
Is there a way to get around this? A key press to bring this to the front or give it the focus?
Thanks.
You should be able to cancel it with ESC. You can also test if you can find the window with CTRL-TAB. If this not help then an uninstall, boot and reinstall seems the only possible solution.
This might be a z-index issue indeed. Try using FireBug or IE dev toolbar to get a hold on the popup and its container and check their styles and z-indices.
Dick
I am using Visual Studio 2005 with Team Foundation Server.
When I right click a file under the source control and choose "compare" VS appears to freeze until I hit escape. My guess is that the window that is supposed to be popping up is somewhere I can't get to. I tried minimizing all the windows that I can and it is nowhere to be found.
Try the keyboard shortcut to get to the window's main menu () then hit 'M' for move and hit an arrow key to attach the window to the mouse - then at the next move of the mouse it should jump to it.
Experiment with a window you can see first.
i had the same problem when trying to check in to TFS - no dialog and ESC escape key undid the freeze.
I had recently, before the problem, changed my Laptop + Monitor configuration as follows:
from Primary screen being the laptop and secondary screen being the monitor
to primary screen being the monitor and secondary being laptop.
I got rid of my secondary screen and tried again. SUre enough the invisible dialog was no longer invisible.
I had to disable my Second Screen as well. Now the check-in screen where you can add a comment IS visible.