Maximising issues: VLC Luggage and Win7

[MacEachaidh]

Hi all,
Since I couldn't find any threads on this, I gather it's not a common problem, so I'd appreciate any suggestions to help me resolve this.

I'm running VLC 1.1.10 ("The Luggage") on a fully-patched Windows 7 64-bit. I normally keep the app windowed in one quarter of my screen, and in Preferences have deselected "Minimal view mode" and "Resize interface to video size". Any video files I play are letterboxed in the frame, which is what I want.

Sometimes, though, I want to maximise VLC. If I double-click on the image in the frame, I get a maximised, frameless window, which is what I want. However, I can't get it to go back the other way - once it's maximised, double-clicking on the image just gives me a maximised, *framed* window (so, slightly smaller) - to get it back to where it was, I have to manually resize and reposition the frame.

This is not how previous versions of VLC have worked for me. Is there some kind of setting that I've missed, or that works differently in recent versions from how it worked before?

I've tried uninstalling VLC, including the preferences and application folders, and then installing it from scratch, but I still get the same result.

Can anyone shed any light on this, please? Thanks.

[VLC_help]

If you open Tools -> Messages (set Verbosity to 2) and then doubleclick, does it generate messages to message log?

[MacEachaidh]

Thanks for the reply

Yes, this is what it generates:

main debug: auto hidding mouse
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'resize' 1920x956 window
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'mouse button' 0 t=8
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'mouse button' 0 t=9
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'double click'
qt4 debug: Qt4: Fullscreen state changed
qt4 debug: Qt: Entering Fullscreen
qt4 debug: Qt4: Fullscreen state changed
qt4 debug: Qt4: Fullscreen state changed
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'resize' 1920x1080 fullscreen
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'mouse button' 0 t=8
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'mouse button' 0 t=9
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'double click'
qt4 debug: Qt4: Fullscreen state changed
qt4 debug: Qt: Quitting Fullscreen
qt4 debug: Qt4: Fullscreen state changed
qt4 debug: Qt4: Fullscreen state changed
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'resize' 1920x956 window
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'resize' 1904x940 window
main debug: auto hidding mouse

(One other aspect I'll mention: in spite of saying it is "hidding" (?!) the mouse, it doesn't. In fullscreen, the tools panel at the bottom auto-hides, but the mouse remains visible.)

[VLC_help]

Mouse hiding issue can be fixed with
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=80735&p=301602#p301506

I will open ticket for the other issue later

[MacEachaidh]

OK VLC_help, I really appreciate your responses. Thank you!

(And thanks for the link re the mouse issue too.)