Mark, On the PC, I use the menu option "Window --> Workspace --> Reset Palette Locations" - this 'should' reposition palette windows to within your system identified monitor screen size ?
Regards, Mark Scholmann Internet Analyst Lotterywest Direct phone : (08) 9340 5232 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Secker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WAMUG Mailing List" <wamug@wamug.org.au> Sent: Thursday, 4 September 2003 12:52 Subject: help! one for the Photoshop gurus > just came across something weird with Photoshop (PS 7 on OS X)... > > Normally I have my PowerBook at home and plugged in to a 21" monitor > that sits to the left (remember "to the left" - sounds trivial but is > important) of my PB - as this monitor is somewhat old and a bit faded > I use this for my menus etc and have the picture I'm working on > displayed in the PowerBooks screen. > > I went to a users office to do some quick photoshoping for something > they need to get to a publisher and came across a very curious > problem. > > I started the Powerbook without the second monitor (obviously) and > launched Photoshop and while the toolbars and pallets where now > located on the built in, now only, screen when ever I tried to pull > up the layer blend window or the layer effect window it was off on to > the now non existent monitor. > > I tried "detect monitors" but the powerbook knew there was only the > internal so it was obviously a photoshop issue. > tried Photoshop's view menu options and changing the resolution but > no mater what the "lost" windows would not come back. > > In the end plugged in my powerbook in to the users monitor - > fortunately they had a Apple LCD so correct monitor plug and the > external monitor appeared and arrange by the system to the right of > the built in screen... but still no layer pallet until I rearranged > the external monitor in the control panel so it was logically to the > left.... bingo... dragged it back to the internal monitor then > unplugged the external so he could use his mac again. > > just got me thinking - what if next time there isn't a spare monitor > or I don't have my apple to vga adaptor? > Just how would I get this pallet back then? > > > > -- > ~ > Mark Secker [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ph#9380 1855 (ECEL) > ECEL Computer Support Officer, University of Western Australia. > CRICOS Provider No. 00126G > ~ > > "'We are all children of $root' > or so says a wise old programer..." > Anon. > > "There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and > UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." > -- Jeremy S. Anderson > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro >
