Forum: SDL Trados support
Topic: Message windows appear offscreen in SDL Trados Studio 2011
Poster: pyxxel
Post title: Same issue here....
I'm using Trados Studio 2015 Professional SR2, version number 12.2.5196.7 (so this problem still exists in the current version of Studio).
I've recently moved my laptop from my work location (with second screen) to home location (with a different second screen) to work from home for a few days. When I returned to the office my auto-propagate window did not show up anyway.
As you say, it has no entry on the Windows taskbar so cannot be moved conventionally. It also blocks all further work in Studio until it is "clicked on" (which is impossible as it is displayed way off-screen). In some cases pressing ESC gets you out of the window but then you cannot use its benefits.
The value in the UserSettings.XML file is:
< Setting Id="AutopropagateDialogLocation"> x, y < /Setting >
where x and y are two numbers. As you correctly say the first number is the problem, but I am pretty sure they stand for the X/Y pixel coordinates on-screen in relation to the top-left corner of the screen, which is 0,0 - i.e. 150, 200 would be 150 pixels in to the right and 200 pixels down.
My values were 3686 and 227 - my monitor is 1920 pixels wide so anything over 1920 will move the dialog off the screen to the right. Even a value of 1919 would just about display a thin 1-pixel-wide sliver of the dialog along the right screen border!
Thanks to your suggestion, Nicole, I changed my values to 100, 227 and lo and behold, the dialog showed up again! Great solution, good catch. Now SDL should fix this bug!!
Martin
[Edited at 2017-01-06 14:58 GMT]