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Gary: The mystery of the reincarnation of the shrunken MW display may be an unsolicited miracle! Perhaps Papert the Sorceror has found one of Macbeth's rare Voodoo dolls, the proper Mohammad Atta pin and a magic spell, and from this unholy braid, we can let medieval superstition, as it has so often before, provide a robust, sure and certain "non-answer" to your scientific problem..... Failing this alternative, "Plan B!" First, open the project again, and in the command center, type in projectsize to see if Microworlds believes (reports) your size-altered project it is as small as you receive it. If you're on a PC, and never used newprojectsize on this project, expect MW to report [744 426]. (Mac is different) If you get any other dimensions, then somehow, on the last save, MW "managed" to save the project with a different format. If the size reports the expected [744 426], than you've somehow corrupted the file. Curious as to where the projectsize is kept, I created an MW 2.0 project, altered its display parameters utilizing newprojectsize [400 300], of course saved it, then reopened it with notepad. On the first line, notepad presented the term "projectsize" and after this [400 300], - as expected. I altered those parameters to [500 400], playing "Steroid-Supersleuth", imagining that I would have good news to report, and soon would be settling down for some grateful online applause and a swig or chug of Rhino-hearted Lowenbrau, (or perhaps a hummingbird-esque sip of Hungarian Tokay). However, when I reattempted to reopen it in MW, I got a "program not responding" message. Now I suppose I was lazy. Perhaps I should have saved it as a text file, then gone into the system and altered the file type back to mw2 or mwz. To recover, (and you probably already know this), send $25.00 in an unmarked............. Create a new project, then import first the old shapes, then the individual pages and finally the procedures, saving the new project, reclaiming your work that way. However this workaround doesn't reveal how after a number of successful saves, that projectsize variable may have become altered. When you revisit the old project, and in the command center type show projectsize, you'll get your telltale results. That variable is not "supposed" to be alterable after even a single alteration of any object in a first-time, not-yet-even-once-saved project. Perhaps LCSI knows how to alter this variable....... But, in any case you have discovered something LCSI will want to know about. It is easy to overwrite variables, even in mature programs. I would try to reproduce the problem. Good Luck, Harvey At 09:54 AM 8/29/2002 -0600, you wrote: I have a project I have done in MW. I saved it and worked on it several times with no porblem. Then I put it away for a time and only recently pulled it back up. Suddenly my screen size is half what it was (or less). Everything else in MW is normal size such as the command center, tool bar, etc. But the screen the project works on is small and I can see my desk top around it. What happened? How do I fix it? "Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind, but mankind cannot comprehend." Ludwig van Beethoven Gary: The mystery of the reincarnation of the shrunken MW display may be an unsolicited miracle! Perhaps Papert the Sorceror has found one of Macbeth's rare Voodoo dolls, the proper Mohammad Atta pin and a magic spell, and from this unholy braid, we can let medieval superstition, as it has so often before, provide a robust, sure and certain "non-answer" to your scientific problem..... Failing this alternative, "Plan B!" First, open the project again, and in the command center, type in projectsize to see if Microworlds believes (reports) your size-altered project it is as small as you receive it. If you're on a PC, and never used newprojectsize on this project, expect MW to report [744 426]. (Mac is different) If you get any other dimensions, then somehow, on the last save, MW "managed" to save the project with a different format. If the size reports the expected [744 426], than you've somehow corrupted the file. Curious as to where the projectsize is kept, I created an MW 2.0 project, altered its display parameters utilizing newprojectsize [400 300], of course saved it, then reopened it with notepad. On the first line, notepad presented the term "projectsize" and after this [400 300], - as expected. I altered those parameters to [500 400], playing "Steroid-Supersleuth", imagining that I would have good news to report, and soon would be settling down for some grateful online applause and a swig or chug of Rhino-hearted Lowenbrau, (or perhaps a hummingbird-esque sip of Hungarian Tokay). However, when I reattempted to reopen it in MW, I got a "program not responding" message. Now I suppose I was lazy. Perhaps I should have saved it as a text file, then gone into the system and altered the file type back to mw2 or mwz. To recover, (and you probably already know this), send $25.00 in an unmarked............. Create a new project, then import first the old shapes, then the individual pages and finally the procedures, saving the new project, reclaiming your work that way. However this workaround doesn't reveal how after a number of successful saves, that projectsize variable may have become altered. When you revisit the old project, and in the command center type show projectsize, you'll get your telltale results. That variable is not "supposed" to be alterable after even a single alteration of any object in a first-time, not-yet-even-once-saved project. Perhaps LCSI knows how to alter this variable....... But, in any case you have discovered something LCSI will want to know about. It is easy to overwrite variables, even in mature programs. I would try to reproduce the problem. Good Luck, Harvey At 09:54 AM 8/29/2002 -0600, you wrote: I have a project I have done in MW. I saved it and worked on it several times with no porblem. Then I put it away for a time and only recently pulled it back up. Suddenly my screen size is half what it was (or less). Everything else in MW is normal size such as the command center, tool bar, etc. But the screen the project works on is small and I can see my desk top around it. What happened? How do I fix it? Ludwig van Beethoven To save an attachment to your computer, PC users should right-click (Mac users, click and hold the mouse button) on the link and then choose 'save target as' from the pop-up menu. A window will then pop up in which you can choose a location for the file. | |||||||