Emergency Repair's Glitch

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peter quitzgard

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Mar 11, 2025, 3:39:39 PM3/11/25
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Hello, I'm using your extension with two different SRWare Iron (x64) portable instances,
and found out that under certain circumstances, invoking the "Emergency repair" function
in one of them, will cause the window from the other instance to get restored. How to reproduce:

1- Open the "portable 1" with a loaded tab and, optionally, one or more windows.

2- Open the "portable 2"  and then a new "incognito" window.

3- Invoke the "Emergency repair" function from the "incognito" window.

That will make the "portable 1" windows (even "incognito" ones) get their size restored.

I leave you a short demonstration video:


Note I used a "32 bit" instance along with an old "x64" one, but using two latest "x64"
instances the problem will still show up.

Thanks.

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Mar 11, 2025, 10:14:29 PM3/11/25
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Thanks for your report.
Perhaps the problem happens not only during emergency repair but whenever an AutoControl instance starts up.
Can you please verify that by opening the "Portable 2" instance while the "Portable 1" instance is already open with maximized windows.

peter quitzgard

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Mar 11, 2025, 11:14:42 PM3/11/25
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It won't happen that way, but after testing it a little more, I found out that there is a way of triggering the issue
without having to do it through an "incognito" window. The next way:

1- I closed the "portable 2" windows (main and incognito ones).

2- I executed the "portable 2" again, without opening an "incognito" window.

3- I left maximized just one window of the "portable 1", leaving the other two minimized.

4- I invoked the "Emergency repair" function from the main "portable 2" window.

It only happened after making sure the "portable 1" had just one maximized window.

Here the demonstration:

peter quitzgard

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Mar 24, 2025, 2:36:50 AM3/24/25
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Helo, just to know if this is due to an extension's bug as well?

Thanks.

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