Stumped by tool bar behavior

[Contours]

Further investigation has led me to conclude that my entire text tool bar is truncated. One indication is that the ab button at the end isn't completely displayed. I recall that it's supposed to be button-like and have a small arrow on its right side.

I think it's possible that a longer bar was displaying the text tools I need ... but that somehow the definition of the bar's width has changed.

I've tried various drags, CTRL combinations, etc. with no success. Maybe the reboot will help.

[handrawn]

following on from what egg said there may be a registry entry for this - try looking in ......options/bars for SuperWideInfobar and if it's 0 set it to 1

XaReg may have an option if you don't want to edit the registry directly

I can't recall exactly which version this became an issue, but worth a look

[Contours]

Success!

With Xara off, I located the width value and changed it 0 to 1. Upon restarting Xara, the text controls were back.

I'll skip any attempt to understand how it ever changed. I'm just relieved to be back on track.

Thanks to you both.

[handrawn]

good news

at the time the text tool infobar was first extended it was not at full length by default, that was changed soon after and the UI option egg mentioned was added in later version[s]

no idea why your ver 9 should suddenly change behaviour - unless maybe you reinstalled it and it does not have all the updates ?

[Contours]

unless maybe you reinstalled it

Interesting that you mention that. Indeed, I moved Xara and all my projects to a new PC at the first of this year. I thought I had everything set up the same, but this is something I probably missed. Even so, I don't recall ever having to set up the text tools. But it's nice to know there's a likely cause for this.

Thanks for pointing this out.