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Swift

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Lost Properties Dialog
« on: July 15, 2009, 11:40:20 AM »
This seems so n00bish but I've lost my properties dialog in ACAD 2009.

I have dual monitors and have maxed my screen resolution out and can't see the dialog, any ideals?
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Re: Lost Properties Dialog
« Reply #1 on: July 15, 2009, 11:43:24 AM »
This happened to me before when I was playing around with the monitor set up and swapped the primary with the secondary and then opened/closed AutoCAD.  When I swapped the monitors back and then re-opened AutoCAD, I couldn't see some of the dialog boxes because of the limits of the monitor and what AutoCAD had saved for dialog box locations in the registry.
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Re: Lost Properties Dialog
« Reply #2 on: July 15, 2009, 11:43:35 AM »
Quote from: Swift on July 15, 2009, 11:40:20 AM
This seems so n00bish but I've lost my properties dialog in ACAD 2009.

I have dual monitors and have maxed my screen resolution out and can't see the dialog, any ideals?

    
Lost dialog - off screen.

If you have lost a dialog in AutoCAD or other Windows application - got off-screen (e.g. after a change of display resolution) - you can try to get it back blindly, with your cursor arrow keys.

   1. Run the command displaying the given dialog - e.g. the LAYER command in AutoCAD
   2. Press the key combination ALT+Spacebar
   3. Press once the Down-arrow key and then Enter (=move)
   4. Now use your keyboard arrow keys (up, down, left, right) and try to retrieve ("hunt") the hidden dialog back on the visible screen.

never tried this, though, so I can't comment on it's successfulness... but I've seen it suggested in many places.
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Re: Lost Properties Dialog
« Reply #3 on: July 15, 2009, 11:47:16 AM »
Quote from: James Cannon on July 15, 2009, 11:43:35 AM
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   2. Press the key combination ALT+Spacebar
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I'm don't think that works with palettes though, which is what the properties "dialog" is.
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Re: Lost Properties Dialog
« Reply #4 on: July 15, 2009, 11:52:03 AM »
Quote from: Matt W on July 15, 2009, 11:47:16 AM
Quote from: James Cannon on July 15, 2009, 11:43:35 AM
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   2. Press the key combination ALT+Spacebar
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I'm don't think that works with palettes though, which is what the properties "dialog" is.

No it doesn't, the palette doesn't draw the system focus
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Re: Lost Properties Dialog
« Reply #5 on: July 15, 2009, 01:07:22 PM »
can you dock the palette in the cui manager?
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Re: Lost Properties Dialog
« Reply #6 on: July 15, 2009, 01:19:47 PM »
Quote from: Keith™ on July 15, 2009, 01:07:22 PM
can you dock the palette in the cui manager?

I investigating that now.
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Re: Lost Properties Dialog
« Reply #7 on: July 15, 2009, 01:51:57 PM »
I believe that when you switch to a single screen the position of the palettes will be restored.
After that the second screen can be enabled again.
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Re: Lost Properties Dialog
« Reply #8 on: July 15, 2009, 02:05:02 PM »
Quote from: Crank on July 15, 2009, 01:51:57 PM
I believe that when you switch to a single screen the position of the palettes will be restored.
After that the second screen can be enabled again.

Negative, I killed screen 2 (in the NVIDIA Control Panel) and restarted Autocad, no effect
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Re: Lost Properties Dialog
« Reply #9 on: July 15, 2009, 02:17:58 PM »
Quote from: Swift on July 15, 2009, 02:05:02 PM
Negative, I killed screen 2 (in the NVIDIA Control Panel) and restarted Autocad, no effect
Perhaps you should have killed screen 1.  :lol:
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Re: Lost Properties Dialog
« Reply #10 on: July 15, 2009, 02:29:21 PM »
close autocad

change your screen reolution (to something smaller than it is)

open autocad

see your palette
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Re: Lost Properties Dialog
« Reply #11 on: July 15, 2009, 02:38:53 PM »
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Re: Lost Properties Dialog
« Reply #12 on: July 15, 2009, 03:08:56 PM »
Thanks for the help guys.

In the cui editor I'm getting a JIT error when I try to edit the workspace so I assume I am going to have to do a reinstall, again.
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Re: Lost Properties Dialog
« Reply #13 on: July 15, 2009, 03:10:01 PM »
ooohhh .. that might be a problem ... those JITs are always mucking things up
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