topic Re: Palettes offscreen / disappearing in Modeling

Palettes offscreen / disappearing

jbArch — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 05:55:27 GMT

Some of my palettes are disappearing when I use my laptop, most likely offscreen.

I go between a normal monitor and my laptop display, so I have two different work environment profiles setup: one for the 19" LCD, another for the 15.4" laptop. So I thought I had this under control (i.e. I understand why the palettes fly offscreen when I switch to the small monitor).

But the quicklayers palette is still causing me some grief. It never stays visible when I restart archicad, no matter what display I use. So it also won't "stick" with my work environment profiles.

How can I get the quicklayers palette to show up again in my current profile? And how can I get it to be there again when I restart archicad?

TIA & Cheers,
JB

Re: Palettes offscreen / disappearing

__archiben — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 21:36:19 GMT

jbArch wrote:
How can I get the quicklayers palette to show up again in my current profile? And how can I get it to be there again when I restart archicad?

unfortunately you can't. the quicklayers palette has never been a part of the work environment palette schemes.

for that reason i have the quicklayers commands in my toolbar - then i actually have control over their appearance . . .

it's a shocker that three years after the introduction of the 'work environment' there are still palettes and main dialogues that still don't conform.

~/archiben

Re: Palettes offscreen / disappearing

Aussie John — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 22:06:42 GMT

You need to make a separate pallette scheme for the laptop as indeed they are off the screen due to the different resolutions of your main computer and the laptop.

Re: Palettes offscreen / disappearing

jbArch — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 22:22:08 GMT

for that reason i have the quicklayers commands in my toolbar - then i actually have control over their appearance . . .

Thanks Ben... that solves the problem for me. I didn't know I could customize the toolbar, so until now I'd been hanging onto my old ways and using the vertical toolbox. If I can get more customization out of the toolbar, then I'll give it a shot.

Cheers,
JB

Re: Palettes offscreen / disappearing

__archiben — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:54:44 GMT

jbArch wrote:
If I can get more customization out of the toolbar, then I'll give it a shot.

go crazy >

Re: Palettes offscreen / disappearing

jbArch — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 04:56:31 GMT

Thanks Ben. Looking forward to playing around with that one... After I finish this deadline.

Cheers,
JB