SU7 XP Materials Window Too Big- goes off screen [SOLVED]
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I've tried everything I can think of (right-click, size, move, minimise, maximise, task manager), I've searched these forums, I've Googled like crazy and I'm stumped by what ought to be the simplest thing to fix. The new "select" portion of the Materials Window is permanently maximised to the bottom of my screen, obscuring the VCB/Measurements Box. I know the VCB is now moveable, but I don't want to move it, I like it exactly where it is. If the XP taskbar is not hidden the bottom edge of the Materials window goes behind it so I can't grab it to resize it. If the XP taskbar is auto-hidden and I try to grab it the taskbar pops up obscuring the window. This is driving me crazy, please somebody put me out of my misery!
Thanks in advance,
Jackson
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Couldn't you resize it by grabbing the top of the Materials window..?
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haha, give me some credit Thomas!
If you try to move the top of the Materials Window up it sticks to the upper edge of your screen and won't go beyond it (although that may be my graphics card settings), so the bottom edge is still off the bottom of the screen. I'm not sure how it happened, whether it was that way when I installed SU7 or I accidentally resized it off my screen. Anyhoo, it's fixed now, thanks. -
I didn't mean move the window upwards, but grad hold of the top edge when you get the resize cursor and move it downwards. Then the window is smaller and might be small enough so that when you then move it upwards the bottom pops up.
Nice app you found though. Thanks for linking.
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@thomthom said:
I didn't mean move the window upwards, but grab hold of the top edge when you get the resize cursor and move it downwards.
That doesn't work, for me at least.
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Ok. Just a thought. Worked here. But maybe I didn't have the same setup.
Good that you posted your solution though. Too many people ask questions and later sorts it out, but never posts back.
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@jackson said:
...Just out of interest, can anybody work out what the point of the new "select" portion actually is? As it's simply a clone of the "select" portion above, the only time it would be useful would be when you have your "In Model" materials folder open, but still want to browse to other materials folders, but then that's always been possible via the top portion anyway. I just don't get it.
Yeah, basically for that. I generally keep it collapsed (maybe this way you could've got the bottom of the top window). When I find it useful is when I import and scale a texture image properly finally, I can just drag and drop it from the In model windpow into any other folder on the HD.
The same goes with the Component browser.
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LOL... of course 2 minutes after posting this topic I found a solution. This neat little Windows app lets you resize or move any window by holding down Alt and right-click or left-click respectively. I got my edge back!
http://corz.org/windows/software/accessories/KDE-resizing-moving-for-XP-or-Vista.php
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