On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 11:39, Scherl, Richard <> wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I'm finding it difficult to do a sequence of runs with different settings made through the Generic Object Editor. The first time I use the editor it works fine. The second time, I can't see the entire menu, because the Generic Object Editor window is too big. If I switch to full screen, I can use the editor one more time. But the 3rd time, because of the size of the Generic Object Editor window, I can't even switch to full screen. I am using Weka on a machine that I access from my PC using VNC. I don't know if this is related to the problem.
>
> The only way I can do more runs is to exit Weka and  restart. But this is inconvenient for comparing the results.
> I'm wondering if anyone has had a similar problem and knows how to fix this.
>
> Rich
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Rich,

Sorry in advance for the long post with probably excessive details.

Is this happening to you in Linux? If not, you can pretty safely
ignore the rest of this e-mail. I can't seem to find a resizable
GenericObjectEditor on either Windows or OS X, but some Linux window
managers will allow resizing of any window. I believe I encountered a
similar problem previously, although at the time I blamed it on my
somewhat eccentric choice of window manager, xmonad. Doing some
extremely limited testing with OpenJDK IcedTea6 1.11.1 and Weka 3.6.6
in a VNC session, both twm 1.0.7 and Gnome 3.2.2 have
GenericObjectEditors increasing in sizes upon subsequent openings, but
they seem to stop increasing after reaching a certain size. That
said, with twm the placement of the second opened editor with a
resolution of 1024x768 (my VNC's default) makes interaction
impossible, but increasing the VNC server resolution "fixes" this.

Windows 7 (Java 1.6.0_31-b05 with Weka 3.7.5) and OS X 10.6 (Java
1.6.0_29-b11-402-10M3527 with Weka 3.6.2 and 3.7.1) are behaving as
expected.

In summary, if you're running Linux and have some manner of control
over your VNC server, a "not very satisfying" solution should be to
try spawning with a slightly larger geometry (1280x1024 was large
enough for me to contain even the largest GenericObjectEditor I saw in
testing) or with a different window manager. Speculatively, if you're
running with OpenJDK, it's possible switching to an Oracle-provided
JRE would help (completely untested shot in the dark). Hope that
helps, at least until a better solution comes along.
--
Alex Speder


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