Or any other way of putting reflection into a scene.

I guess that says it all.

I fixed the problem by unmaximising the Sketchup window and then changing the dimensions of the unmaximised window to be the same as the maximised. Makes the start up slicker and faster.

The relevant registry entry seems to be:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\SketchUp7\MainFrame]
"FirstTime"=dword;00000000
"wp.bottom"=dword;00000307
"wp.flags"=dword;00000000
"wp.left"=dword;00000000
"wp.ptMaxPosition.x"=dword;00000000
"wp.ptMaxPosition.y"=dword;00000017
"wp.ptMinPosition.x"=dword;ffffffff
"wp.ptMinPosition.y"=dword;ffffffff
"wp.right"=dword;00000500
"wp.showCmd"=dword;00000001
"wp.top"=dword;00000017

Thanks for your help.

@anssi said:

It does this for me too in a standard Windows environment. I am not sure if it appeared with SU 7.1 or if it was there earlier. I would guess that it is normal-SU is checking your monitor size.

I'm not sure that can be right, because it did not happen for me until I started choosing different window sizes.

Next week, if I feel strong enough, I will look at the Wine Windows Registry!

Regards

Apparently there is a preference file if you are running MacOS X (it's sketchup.plist). Is there one for Windows XP?

I am actually running Sketchup under Wine under Ubuntu (Linux).

The reason I am asking is that when I first started using Sketchup, I had the window maximised and Sketchup always started up with its window maximised.

Then I tried using it with a smaller window (so that I could see other windows). Then I went back to using a maximised window. However, ever since then, whenever I start up Sketchup, it flashes up a couple of small windows, removes them and displays the maximised window. It's only a second or so of delay but it slightly irritates.

I thought that maybe if I deleted the preference file, it might solve this problem. But it is not obvious that it exists. Hence my question.

Thanks in advance.