Where is Audio Player's Window Size / Position stored?

[Lawless]

Something happened to the audio player, to where it is now invisible - if I minimize / restore via the task bar I can see where it nominally is, but it's like the size is too small - 0 pixels wide / high possibly.

Trying to restore the program's window, I've : uninstalled and reinstalled the dBpowerAMP Audio Player - no help, the problem remains. Rolling back the registry to before it happened also hasn't helped, although now the music collection's display is messed up.

Anyone know where / how to fix these issues? Thanks.

[xoas]

Re: Where is Audio Player's Window Size / Position stored?

What skins do you have installed? Did you install Skin Designer?
Skin Designer installs some sample skins one of which (called Blank Skin) is entirely invisible and there aare a few others which are pretty non-functional save for teaching purposes.

If you have installed Skin Designer or if you have installed other skins, open up dAP (dBpowerAMP Audio Player). If the skin is not visible, click on your dAP icon in the lower right-hand corner of your menu bar. This should call up a mini-skin. Click on any inactive portion of this skin to access the Options menu. Check to see what skin is selected and which skins you have installed. If you have more than the default skin installed, select some other skin than the one which is currently not visible and make that the active skin. If you have set up an option for dAP to alternate skins every so often (either each time you open it or every so many minutes) then make sure that you have the Blank Skin, Sliding Skin, Simple Skin, Slider Example and Complex Skin unchecked (these are learning tools for Skin Designer, not functional skins) to take them out of rotation.

This should help you get started. If these ideas alone don't help, let us know which skin(s) you have installed, whether dAP and the skins were installed to their default locations, whether this problem occurs with one skin or all, and what Windows version you are using. It may also help to know your screen reolution. I am assuming that you have used dAP for a while and that this problem popped up out of the blue and that you have dBpowerAMP Music Converter also installed. If any of these assumptions are not correct, please let me know.

Best wishes,
Bill

[Lawless]

Re: Where is Audio Player's Window Size / Position stored?

Yep, I'd been using DAP about a week or so, no problems until the player disappeared. I don't have Skin Designer installed, and I don't think I have any skins (they'd show up in the Skins sub-directory, right? Nothing there but Default). What I did install was DAP, the Music Converter, Audio CD Input, and the CD writer.

So - no skins, and while I used to be able to get the mini-control from the task bar icon, I don't get that anymore, while the music collection program's client areas are all black. This is on Windows XP Media Center 2005, two monitors both set to 1280x1024x32.

Dual displays - right before this happened, I'd been dragging DAP from one monitor to the other while a hog of a program was loading (Open Office I think); when the other program came on screen, releasing the mouse didn't release DAP to a new position - instead it kept following the mouse cursor, albeit jerkily.

After many mouse clicks and whatnot, it finally seemed to set into a position, only the position was offscreen. I brought it back on screen by selecting 'Move' on the task bar icon for DAP and using the keyboard directional keys, but it wasn't visible : I could simply see the cursor moving, and see where the program nominally was/is when doing Minimize/Restore.

After this, I tried uninstalling and re-installing, which didn't resolve the problem (but this was when the Music Collection app started to not display correctly). Finally, using XP's system restore to go back to before the problem started (last night) also didn't fix anything, hence my asking where the program stored its window size/position information, since it doesn't seem to be in the registry (else rolling that back should have fixed it).

Edit: Oh, everything was installed in the default locations : C:\program files\Illustrate\dBpowerAMP.

Thanks for the reply, and any other ideas or help.

[Lawless]

Re: Where is Audio Player's Window Size / Position stored?

Well - when in doubt, use brute force. Uninstalling all of Illustrate's programs, ogg vorbis codecs, etc, then manually removing Illustrate's keys from the registry, then deleting the C:\Program Files\Illustrate directory and only then reinstalling everything fixed it. Not my first choice (since I then had to search out all my scattered music directories for the music collection) but it's all working again.

Still might be good to know where / how to reset the window size/position in case the display gets mangled again.

Thanks though.

[xoas]

Re: Where is Audio Player's Window Size / Position stored?

Glad you got it sorted out.
In the future you might first try re-setting your display's screen resolution setting.
I actually have had occasion to re-set an skin's position setting, though this was some time back. Basically if you enter Run>regedit you browse this path:
Regedit>H_KEY_CURRENT_USER>Software>Illustrate>dBp owerAMP>skin>default>Amp>Amp. (This is for the default skin). The last two entries (X and Y) control the position (I do not believe there is any way to control the size). If you think you may need to try this in the future your best bet is to check these values in your registery and save those values for future reference.

Glad things worked out.
Bill