topic Re: Resetting the pet pallet's position in Modeling

Resetting the pet pallet's position

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:31:08 GMT

I physically work in more than one space so I have many different multi-monitor setups my computer keeps track of.

One of the configs I use is my laptop + and external 7" USB monitor I use to offload my pallets and tool-bars on to. Unfortunately my pet pallet is landing in a way where the left half of it is off screen and I can't touch it's handle to move it. This has put a real damper on my usability when I'm away from a monitor-laptop workplace.

Is there a way to reset the pallet or force it into a certain position?

Re: Resetting the pet pallet's position

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 20:19:40 GMT

You should be able to rearrange your screens so the left end of the palette is available on the adjoining screen. Once fixed you can put the screens back the way you want them.

Re: Resetting the pet pallet's position

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 22:10:40 GMT

I was aware of that option but I would rather reset the pallet than move the desktop spaces around. I have other things going with my desktop that make moving them a pain and it would make a complicated matter easy if I could force Archicad to generate the pet pallet in a neutral position.

And ultimately, I switch desktops around and Archicad has a hard time with that as far as floating windows are concerned. This will happen again, as it already has several times. I'm hoping someone might now a trick or an config file or something like that where I can modify or force the pet pallet to appear in a certain spot.

Know of any?

Re: Resetting the pet pallet's position

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:00:06 GMT

There is a setting in the 'Dialog Boxes and Palettes' section of the work environment that allows you to choose whether the Pet Palette follows the cursor, or jumps to a preferred position. I was hoping by switching to 'follow cursor' temporarily then changing it back, it would reset the default position to where it was when it last followed-the-cursor. Sadly, it doesn't!

If you are only using that size of screen for a short time perhaps you could just put up with it set to 'follow cursor' until you change screens again.

It's just a thought, but I believe some laptops allow you to set the screen resolution to larger than the screen area displayed, and automatically scrolls over when you get near the edge. Can you then reach the Pet Palette to reposition it?

Re: Resetting the pet pallet's position

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:18:37 GMT

Good idea with switching the pallet behavior, too bad it doesn't work.

Unfortunately my laptop doesn't do extended desktop. I'm not sure but I think that's an ATI, now AMD, thing.

I'm just going to switch the desktops around like Matthew had suggested. If it were only one time, maybe twice this happened, it wouldn't be a problem. But off the top of my head I have eight different display configurations my laptop may end up in. And on a nearly daily basis, my laptop will end up in at least 2-4 of those configs. The switching around causes this and I was hoping to learn a way to make this easy.

I started to dig in the /users folder for preference files. I did find one file called pallets.bin but it's a data file and I can't edit it.

I think it would be an interesting notion if Graphisoft took on the philosophy of putting all those pref, config, and ini type files into editable xml files. It would be nice to get to the stuff there is no front end to. There are some xml files now so maybe some day they will?

Re: Resetting the pet pallet's position

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:09:58 GMT

zeropointreference wrote:
I think it would be an interesting notion if Graphisoft took on the philosophy of putting all those pref, config, and ini type files into editable xml files. It would be nice to get to the stuff there is no front end to. There are some xml files now so maybe some day they will?

If you export your work environment, it saves it as an XML document. Can you manually edit that and import it in again?

Re: Resetting the pet pallet's position

Bruce — Sat, 15 Jul 2017 07:48:46 GMT

Any update on this? I'm encountering the same situation: 2 screens at work (1 is the laptop), and I bring the laptop home (ignore my signature for now). I can't find the pet palette with the 'preferred position' option at home.