Lost component palette toolbar

[bobbie100]

I made the mistake of doing some testing on the effects of changing the user setting of the windows Font Size while having Delphi 7 open. After I changed from Normal to Extra Large my Delphi toolbar layout had been thrown into complete disarray. Worst of all after I changed back to Normal the Component Palette toolbar disappeared completely. I think it's probably still there, but is outside the maximum dimensions of the toolbar area.

I looked at the Registry settings for the Delphi toolbars (HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Borland/Delphi/7.0/Toolbars), but they're all REG_BINARY, so nothing obvious to change.

Anybody got any suggestions other than reinstalling Delphi from scratch?

Bob

 

[DelphiAaron]

when delphi loads it opens your last opened application
the desktop layout can be saved with each application you write.

so if you delete these files i think you should get your default desktop back
(i think thats how i did it when it happened to me)

delete all unnessesary files from your appplications directory.

required files are dfm,pas,dpr,res.

or just rename its dir so delphi cant find it and see if that works before deleteing files.

Aaron Taylor
John Mutch Electronics

http://www.jme.com.au

 

[bobbie100]

Tried renaming directories and deleting files, but all to no avail.

Problem occurs with all projects, even if I just open Delphi with blank project. I have never saved any desktops and don't even have any .dst files on my disks.

Any other suggestions gratefully received.

Bob "To err is human, but it takes a programmer to really screw things up!"

 

[bobbie100]

In the end bit the bullet and went through a full Delphi 7 reinstall. After reinstalling various associated packages and customizing the toolbars (again!) everything seems to be back to normal.

Thanks to all for spending the time to read and respond.

Please learn from my problem -
Exit Delphi before changing the desktop appearance font size setting!

Bob "To err is human, but it takes a programmer to really screw things up!"