Close open windows.

[Tom Krowka]

Anyone know of a way to close open windows, (plan and s/e, not casement and awning) quickly. If one works for a while, several windows will be tiled one behind the other. They will regenerate upon coming to the front, which can take a while. Any other way to close them besides the x in the upper right hand corner? Could save some time.

Thanks.

[Thomas Holm]

I f you want to avoid multiple window chaos, there is a setting in Archicad to Always Open new views in a new window, which you can turn OFF!

On the Mac, Command-W will always close the foremost window, and Alt-Command-W will close all windows, but in Archicad, if you close the floorplan, it thinks you want to close the project file and prompts you to Save - remember to NOT Close without saving, or else you will lose all your work since the last save.

In Windows - I have no idea!

[Anonymous]

I f you want to avoid multiple window chaos, there is a setting in Archicad to Always Open new views in a new window, which you can turn OFF!

Thomas, would you happen to know where that setting is in AC9?
Thanks, Doug

[Djordje]

Thomas wrote:
In Windows - I have no idea!

ALT F4 or click on the X in the upper right corner

[vistasp]

Thomas wrote:
In Windows - I have no idea!

CTRL+W works to close the current window.

Djordje wrote:
ALT F4 or click on the X in the upper right corner

I'm not sure if I've set things up differently, but ALT+F4 closes ArchiCAD on my system.

CTRL+F4 on the other hand works like CTRL+W and closes only the current window (in floor plan view it tries to close the project as Thomas mentioned).

I find the latter much easier on the fingers.

[Tom Krowka]

Let's say I want to keep the current window open, but close the six windows behind it. It seems that if I go to another window, it will regenerate if I have aoutrebiuld on, which I usually do. Is there a way to turn each window off without getting to the X, if it is behind the current window.

[Thomas Holm]

On the Mac you can close any window that has it's red close button visible - you just hover the cursor over the button and it turns red, then click, and this works even if the window is in the background and partially obscured by others.
On Windows, again I have no idea.

[vistasp]

Tom wrote:
It seems that if I go to another window, it will regenerate if I have aoutrebiuld on, which I usually do. Is there a way to turn each window off without getting to the X, if it is behind the current window.

Thomas wrote:
On the Mac you can close any window that has it's red close button visible - you just hover the cursor over the button and it turns red, then click, and this works even if the window is in the background and partially obscured by others.
On Windows, again I have no idea.

Natively, Windows (XP at least) has no such feature. The TweakUI Powertoy from MS <http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx> has an Xmouse setting but changing focus also raises the background window - which will lead to a regeneration if you have turned on autorebuild.

There is a small free utility called True Xmouse which avoids this problem <http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/nt/TXMouse/> but needs registry tweaking to work the way you want.

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Tom wrote:
Let's say I want to keep the current window open, but close the six windows behind it. It seems that if I go to another window, it will regenerate if I have aoutrebiuld on, which I usually do. Is there a way to turn each window off without getting to the X, if it is behind the current window.

I think you can achieve what you want by working with windows that aren't maximized. Even if you manually stretch the window to take up the most area available, you should be able to minimize the window(s) you're working on and close the rest using the X, without them rebuilding.

Cheers,
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