Search and Replace toolwindows have disappeared

[ebbe]

On Windows, SE 28.02.00 hotfix 19:

For some reason, these are no longer shown on any of my screens when I press Ctrl-S or Ctrl-R. The edit window does lose focus so I suspect the the missing toolwindows are shown off-screen. As the mini versions of search and replace are way too finicky for my taste, I'd really like the toolwindows back.

How do I get that?

[Graeme]

This might help.
https://community.slickedit.com/index.php/topic,10149.msg42884.html#msg42884

You could also try closing slick and renaming vrestore.slk (it might be vrestore.xml now) to something like vrestore.bak - but that will lose a bunch of stuff compared to tbResetAll.
You could also try the windows alt+space then "M" to move the hidden window when it has the focus.

[ebbe]

Thanks for the advice.

After a bit of experimenting I have found out that the Find and Replace windows are not SE Toolwindows (they are probably ordinary dialog windows) and therefore the Alt+Space M trick does work on them.

As for tbResetAll or renaming vrestore.xml (it was vrestore.slk up to and including SE v27), this will have to wait till Monday as the problem is on my work PC.

[Graeme]

vrestore.slk was pretty much binary but vrestore.xml sounds like text - or perhaps ascii encoded binary  -  but editable.  If you flick through it you will probably find a section for toolwindows where the location and size of the toolwindow is stored.  If you run slick in a new empty configuration folder  ve.exe +new -sc some-empty-folder   - then look at the title bar to get an idea of the name of the toolwindow and search for that name in vrestore.xml   - then copy that section of xml into the misbehaving vrestore.xml  - or something similar.  Or run a diff on two copies of vrestore.xml where the only difference is the size/location of the two toolwindows you're interested in.