Forever Floating Palettes

[Anonymous]

I know this has been mentioned before, but has anyone figured out a way to keep the palettes from moving whenever a file is closed and reopened?

I guess this only happens on Macs, but it it VERY annoying and time consuming to have to constantly relocate and re-adjust them.

Don Lee

Latest AC10 (987?)
Dual 1.8 Mac G5

[Anonymous]

The only moving palette problem that I can recall was the Navigator slowly creeping toward the bottom of the screen. This seems to have gone away recently. The Quick Options palette occasionally disappears (despite remaining checked in the menu) and I have to deselect/reselect it to bring it back.

Other than these I haven't seen any relocating palettes. Have you saved your Work Environment? If not that might account for the problem.

[Link]

ArchiCAD should remember the palette position of the last open version of ArchiCAD. So if you have multiple versions open, it should only remember the last one open. Having said that I know some windows are not remembered, like the 3D window, which GS is aware of.

You may want to delete (or at least move) your ArchiCAD preference file and see if that fixes it. One of the Mac-heads here should be able to tell you where they're located if you can't find the correct .prf files. I think it is stored under ArchiCAD 10 Basic.prf.

Cheers,
Link.

[Anonymous]

Specifically, the coordinate palette moves from the bottom of the screen (where I keep it) to the middle, the organizer shrinks, the navigator preview detaches from the organizer and one of the palettes at the top goes from one horizontal row to two rows.

It's not the end of the world, but constantly reshuffling the palettes is a big pain. Not sure what or where prefs are, but I might give that a try.

Thanks,

Don Lee
AC 10 987
2-1.8 G5
OS10.4.7

[Thomas Holm]

I don't think it will help.

but if I want to manage the .plist files in MacOSX, I'd try this one:
–/Library/Preferences/com.graphisoft.AC 10.0.0 SWE v1.plist

the – means that it's the current user folder.

Of course the above goes for my version.

There is a program that's called PrefSetter that helps with this task.
http://www.nightproductions.net/prefsetter.html

But I think the right way to fix this is to just delete the .plist file, and let Archicad rebuild it, or simply re-install Archicad.

Use the Disk Utility to Repair your permissions first.

[Anonymous]

Thomas:

Thanks for the advice! I'll give it a try.

Don

[__archiben]

Don wrote:
Specifically, the coordinate palette moves from the bottom of the screen (where I keep it) to the middle, the organizer shrinks, the navigator preview detaches from the organizer and one of the palettes at the top goes from one horizontal row to two rows.

two things i can think of:

1. when you open archicad you're choosing a work environment scheme other than 'Current Scheme' from the menu? once you've moved the palettes to your preferred positions, go into the 'work environment' set up and save/redefine your palette scheme . . .

2. you've had archicad open but hidden, and changed the resolution of your monitor . . . the hidden apps will all move their palettes to suit a smaller monitor size too . . . do you have an application that automatically changes your screen resolution? or do you regularly plug in to a projector or second screen with a smaller resolution?

~/archiben