topic Re: SAS Enterprise Guide needs to close (SplitterDistance must be between Panel1MinSize and Width -. in SAS Enterprise Guide

SAS Enterprise Guide needs to close (SplitterDistance must be between Panel1MinSize and Width -...

claudiajc — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 21:08:48 GMT

Hi,

I have been using SAS Enterprise Guide 7.12 in Citrix for about a month. All was fine until yesterday when I closed my citrix session and all the programs. After reopening everything again, my program would not open. Instead the following message appeared:

"SAS Enterprise Guide needs to close". Below are the exception details.

The solution in SAS support (http://support.sas.com/kb/43/655.html) won't work for me. I have no "4.3" folder. I only have a "7.1" folder but I don't have permissions to delete it. Here is what I have: C:\Program Files\SASHome\SASEnterpriseGuide\7.1

I'd appreciate your suggestions.

Thanks,

Claudia

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Exception:

SplitterDistance must be between Panel1MinSize and Width - Panel2MinSize.

-------------------------- Technical Information Follows --------------------------

Exception Details:
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Exception type: System.InvalidOperationException
Message: SplitterDistance must be between Panel1MinSize and Width - Panel2MinSize.
Source: System.Windows.Forms
Target Site: set_SplitterDistance

Stack Trace:
at System.Windows.Forms.SplitContainer.set_SplitterDistance(Int32 value)
at SAS.EG.DockingManager.CloseDockingPanel(DockingPanel panel, Boolean asAutoHide)
at SAS.EG.DockingManager.SetPersistenceSettings(Settings settings)
at SAS.EG.MainForm.LoadMainFormPosition()
at SAS.EG.MainForm..ctor()
at SAS.EG.App.Startup(String[] args)
at SAS.EG.App.Main(String[] args)
at SAS.EG.EntryPoint.Main(String[] args)

Re: SAS Enterprise Guide needs to close (SplitterDistance must be between Panel1MinSize and Width -.

ChrisHemedinger — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 12:56:50 GMT

Try deleting this file. You should have access to it:

%APPDATA%\SAS\EnterpriseGuide\7.1\Settings.xml

Chris

Re: SAS Enterprise Guide needs to close (SplitterDistance must be between Panel1MinSize and Width -.

claudiajc — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 14:08:51 GMT

Hi Chris,

Thanks for the solution. It arrived after the IT helpdesk found my profile to have become corrupted; so it was deleted and created again. I'll keep your answer in mind in case it happens again.

I appreciate your help.

Best,

ClaudiaJC

Re: SAS Enterprise Guide needs to close (SplitterDistance must be between Panel1MinSize and Width -.

SilvioW — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 06:36:55 GMT

Hi Claudia,

facing same challenge. Can you please let me know what exactly you did in order to overcome challenge. What steps did you follow to delete and recreate profile?

Thx,

silvio

Re: SAS Enterprise Guide needs to close (SplitterDistance must be between Panel1MinSize and Width -.

Damo — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 12:26:28 GMT

Hi Silvio,

As mentioned earlier by @ChrisHemedinger and as per the SAS-Note, you can simple:

- Open your Windows Explorer

- Copy the following path into the address bar:

%appdata%\SAS\EnterpriseGuide

- Rename the folder version (if you have SAS Enterprise Guide 7.1, you'll have a 7.1 folder, etc.)

- Start EG

Hope that helps

Cheers,
Damo

Re: SAS Enterprise Guide needs to close (SplitterDistance must be between Panel1MinSize and Width -.

harishpl02 — Sun, 06 Aug 2017 19:13:00 GMT

Thank you, sir. It works after deleting. Thanks for the question and brilliant solution.

Re: SAS Enterprise Guide needs to close (SplitterDistance must be between Panel1MinSize and Width -.

harishpl02 — Sun, 06 Aug 2017 19:14:32 GMT

Thanks a lot, I have been installing and uninstalling SAS EG. Your Solution helped me lot.

Re: SAS Enterprise Guide needs to close (SplitterDistance must be between Panel1MinSize and Width -.

Wang_Yajun — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 09:48:24 GMT

Thanks for your reply, it works great.

Re: SAS Enterprise Guide needs to close (SplitterDistance must be between Panel1MinSize and Width -.

nagaraj1991 — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 06:40:56 GMT

Hi Chris it worked well .Thanks a lot .What was the issue ?will it occur again

Re: SAS Enterprise Guide needs to close (SplitterDistance must be between Panel1MinSize and Width -.

ChrisHemedinger — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 11:30:46 GMT

@nagaraj1991 - I hope not! Somehow the saved settings for window positions got jumbled in your scenario. Removing those saved settings resets it. I hope it's a bug that's been addressed in a more recent version of EG.

Re: SAS Enterprise Guide needs to close (SplitterDistance must be between Panel1MinSize and Width -.

nagaraj1991 — Mon, 18 Jun 2018 14:02:11 GMT

Thanks chris

Re: SAS Enterprise Guide needs to close (SplitterDistance must be between Panel1MinSize and Width -.

Dumi — Thu, 21 Jun 2018 19:34:49 GMT

This worked beautifully, thank you so much.

Re: SAS Enterprise Guide needs to close (SplitterDistance must be between Panel1MinSize and Width -.

broz — Tue, 14 May 2019 04:29:03 GMT

Hi Chris,

I notice through the 'SAS Message Log' (after you manually enable it) that if you open more than one EG client they all share the same roaming profile settings files. Do you suppose the cause may be that one EG session updates it, the other one re-refers to it and finds an incompatible change and then goes toes up?

Re: SAS Enterprise Guide needs to close (SplitterDistance must be between Panel1MinSize and Width -.

ChrisHemedinger — Tue, 14 May 2019 11:45:38 GMT

@broz., perhaps. But in general I think these settings are initialized at the start of your session, then saved at the end when you close. Last session to close probably "wins". This problem reported here was bug, addressed long ago. The solution here (delete your preference files) was a workaround that helped before the fix.