Yahoo Widgets 4: Where has the heads-up-only display settings gone?

How can you lock the position of your yahoo widgets even after the screen resolution has changed??

• I have several Yahoo Widgets utilities on my desktop and I have positioned them where I liked them to be. Now, when I play games wherein the game takes full screen and changes the display settings of the screen to a lower resolution and after playing when i come back to my desktop all of my widget utilities are cramped up on the upper left hand side of the screen. I have to arrange the widgets to their previous location and I mean each and every widget. I dont want that to do that everytime I play my games fullscreen. HELP!

• Answer:

  Hi, This is an interesting scenario. :-) I think we need to live with this :-( . To explain this first we need to understand what happens in the background: The default position of display of a widget is defined in .kon file. The developer who writes the code for widget defines it as follows: <onFirstDisplay> mainWindow.hOffset = (screen.width/2) - 114; mainWindow.vOffset = screen.availHeight + 195; </onFirstDisplay> The position arguments are passed with reference to screen width and height. Now when the screen resolution changes, the dimesions of the screen also gets changed. Hence the position of the widgets change. Now switching back to the default resolution of the screen, the position of widgets remain as per changed resolution of the screen. That's the reason the get messed up. In order to test the scenario, i can suggest a simple test case: 1) Let's say the default resolution of your screen is 1280*1024. You open up a few widgets on your screen and place them as on places of your choice. 2) Now change the resolution of your screen, to say, 800*600 (This can be done by Right Click on Desktop -> Properties -> Settings Tab -> Screen Resolution). 3) You will see that the screen has become smaller and font size has increased considerably. Also, the widgets will get new positions. 4) Exit Yahoo Widgets and restart them. Don't change the positions of widgets this time. 5) Now Switch back to older screen resolution i.e. 1280*1024. You will find the widgets on there desired positions. So, this is something which is as coded. You might have noticed that the position of Yahoo widgets engine (Dock) remains same, but widgets get displaced. The position of Yahoo Widgets Engine is set through 'Align' property but position of Widgets is set through Offset property. Alignment property does not depend on Screen Resolution but Offset does.... Hence we need to live with this...