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Title: command line off screen
Post by: CottageCGirl on June 22, 2018, 12:17:34 PM
vanilla acad

control 9 doesnt work
changing screen resolution doesnt work

is there a way to dock the command line from the keyboard or cui?
Title: Re: command line off screen
Post by: CottageCGirl on June 22, 2018, 12:32:57 PM
reloaded cui.. was hoping it was just a command..

never mind.. lol..

Happy Friday
Title: Re: command line off screen
Post by: tombu on June 22, 2018, 01:20:57 PM
Several methods, but whenever one of the Palettes display isn't on screen anymore open the CUI editor, select the current Workspace, pick the [Customize Workspace] button on the right, expand Palettes, select Command Line or whichever Palette is missing and change it's Orientation to something else like Bottom.

As long as your Workspace Settings… When Switching Workspaces is set to: "Do not save changes to workspace" simply switching to another Workspace and back again will fix the Palette as long as it's not set to Floating in the Workspace.
Title: Re: command line off screen
Post by: mjfarrell on June 22, 2018, 04:33:39 PM
Always a good idea to save and export ones ACAD Profile (.ARG) file to someplace safe.

Then when something like this happens, import and set your profile current...and viola` problem solved.
Title: Re: command line off screen
Post by: CottageCGirl on June 26, 2018, 10:42:39 AM
ended up reloading the CUI,

there really should be a docking command, this seems to happen regularly
Title: Re: command line off screen
Post by: mjfarrell on June 26, 2018, 11:36:33 AM
Quote from: CottageCGirl on June 26, 2018, 10:42:39 AM
ended up reloading the CUI,

there really should be a docking command, this seems to happen regularly

See post above....
Title: Re: command line off screen
Post by: rkmcswain on June 26, 2018, 01:50:07 PM
Quote from: CottageCGirl on June 26, 2018, 10:42:39 AM
there really should be a docking command, this seems to happen regularly

I find it hard to believe that the Windows (and Mac) operating systems do not know the limits of the current display.
I know that AutoCAD knows the location of a window or palette when said window/palette is open.
So it stands to reason that some simple calculations could tell AutoCAD when a window/palette is "off the screen" and if so, just display it in the center of the main application.
Title: Re: command line off screen
Post by: Crank on June 26, 2018, 02:23:00 PM
Of course the OS knows the position/size of the windows. But if Autodesk doesn't use that information, the window still can disappear off screen.

There is also a bug that if you start the program maximized, it covers the Windows Taskbar. Reported, but nothing is done about it.  :knuppel2:
Title: Re: command line off screen
Post by: rkmcswain on June 26, 2018, 02:26:00 PM
Quote from: Crank on June 26, 2018, 02:23:00 PM
Of course the OS knows the position/size of the windows. But if Autodesk doesn't use that information, the window still can disappear off screen.

There is also a bug that if you start the program maximized, it covers the Windows Taskbar. Reported, but nothing is done about it.  :knuppel2:

I know.
My point is, this could easily be fixed, but fixing things like this does not help them make new software rentals.
So it goes ignored.
Title: Re: command line off screen
Post by: dgorsman on June 26, 2018, 02:31:30 PM
Sounds simple to implement but it's not - for example, consider what happens to screen coordinates when users make their right-most monitor the primary.
Title: Re: command line off screen
Post by: ronjonp on June 26, 2018, 02:34:05 PM
Quote from: Crank on June 26, 2018, 02:23:00 PM
en.
There is also a bug that if you start the program maximized, it covers the Windows Taskbar. Reported, but nothing is done about it.  :knuppel2:
I wondered about that!