BENT
Anyone still on Braintree getting the same results as I am?

I get it on Braintree, Cambridge and X3 ...

Yep, on Platinum, wherever you the plugin was that you last closed, is where the next plugin will open. Looks like a dumb side-effect of the window 'recycling' that was added recently, which presumably uses the location of the last closed plugin so that it knows where to put the new one.

Kylotan
Yep, on Platinum, wherever you the plugin was that you last closed, is where the next plugin will open. Looks like a dumb side-effect of the window 'recycling' that was added recently, which presumably uses the location of the last closed plugin so that it knows where to put the new one.

That was also my impression ... a side effect from the recycling ... strangely it also affected X3 somehow (common component?) ...
 
Anyway, time to report as a problem it is then, isn't it???

problem report to fix this ... or feature request to improve this?

I'd say feature request.

Maybe it's best if moderators simply move this thread to feature requests and slightly adjust the title???
Otherwise the whole discussion starts over ...

I am curious how this affects X3 as well. All plugins opened in X3 appear where the last one was closed.

So this is nothing that came with Platinum, just tried X3 on a machine that I retired and never upgraded to Platinum: identical behaviour i.e. all plugins in X3 open where the last one was closed.
 
Feature request indeed.

I am glad you confirmed that, since as I was playing with X3 I could not remember "for sure" where they opened! I figured it would be better to bump the thread than make that assumption.
 
I typically open, move, do my thing, close... so reviewing this thread was the first time I think I have ever "just opened" three at once (and they are stacked when doing that).
 
Edit: From a parent/child perspective it makes sense for this behavior, since Windows will open a new window based on the last child creation (typically tiled format). Remembering a particular plugin once released (and worse by plugin location - say three of the same plugin, but on different tracks) may be a bit more difficult than initially meets the eye. Once closed/released, that data is "gone" unless specifically stored "somewhere."

mettelus
I am glad you confirmed that, since as I was playing with X3 I could not remember "for sure" where they opened! I figured it would be better to bump the thread than make that assumption.
 

 
It's probably always been like that but once see them all on top of each other, you seem to be smelling the fish and off you go with "hey, that can't be right" ... I would have bet that it was not like that before simply because I'm so used to programs and dialog windows remembering their location these days that if it's not the case I don't believe it ...
 

mettelus
Edit: From a parent/child perspective it makes sense for this behavior, since Windows will open a new window based on the last child creation (typically tiled format). Remembering a particular plugin once released (and worse by plugin location - say three of the same plugin, but on different tracks) may be a bit more difficult than initially meets the eye. Once closed/released, that data is "gone" unless specifically stored "somewhere."

Yeah, this is native windows behaviour but as I said many applications have that save/recall of dialog window positions build in these days ... it's after all just two coordinates to store ... and if coded in the right base class it applies to all windows ...