Kerbal Engineer Redux window minimized in VAB, how to get it back

[Pirate Roberts]

I'm using Kerbal Engineer Redux 1.1.7.1. Been using it a while no problems, today I somehow managed to minimize the Engineer data pane in the VAB to a very small grey box with no buttons visible and I cant resize it. The icon on the bottom of screen is still there but all it does is make the Kerbal engineer pane appear or dissappear. It looks like the pane has collapsed to a minimised version of itself but without an obvious way to expand it back to normal size.

I think it minimized when I either clicked (in kerbal engineer top tabs) "settings" or maybe "compact", the minimized pane is now just a tiny gray box, I've tried clicking all over it, closing reopening , searching online.

Thanks.

 

 

 

Edited March 8, 2020 by Pirate Roberts
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[HvP]

Hello @Pirate Roberts

I think I found a way to fix this for you. See if this works.

Make sure that KSP is not running and go to your KSP installation folder. By default it's called KSP_win64.

Navigate to the settings folder for Kerbal Engineer which is "\GameData\KerbalEngineer-1.1.7.1\KerbalEngineer\Settings"

In that folder you should see a file called "GuiDisplaySize.xml". Go ahead and open it with a text editor like notepad.

Look for these lines:

  <SettingItem>
    <Name>increment</Name>
    <Value xsi:type="xsd:int">0</Value>

The >0< in the last line indicates the size of the interface. In your case it probably shows a negative number. Replace the number in "> <" with a zero. Then save the file.

The next time you run KSP your data display should be back to normal size.

[Pirate Roberts]

Thanks HvP,

I fixed it by deleting Kerbal Engineer \GameData\KerbalEngineer directory completely and reloading Kerbal Engineer in Ckan. Its back to normal though KE is back to default settings which is ok at this point. I had backed up KE dir before I deleted it, I checked the files you mentioned but the line you mentioned was correct. (see below).

Once I fixed it I tried to reproduce error and couldnt. Anyway thanks for your help, I can get back to my SRB drag estimates.

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ArrayOfSettingItem xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <SettingItem>
    <Name>multiplier</Name>
    <Value xsi:type="xsd:double">1.1</Value>
  </SettingItem>
  <SettingItem>
    <Name>increment</Name>
    <Value xsi:type="xsd:int">0</Value>
  </SettingItem>
</ArrayOfSettingItem>