I am in the process of configuring MAX9 on my notebook computer.  This entails transferring various settings from my main MAX workstation which uses 4 monitors to the single monitor of the notebook.  I have it almost setup properly but when I execute a macroscript button on a toolbar that then opens a dialog for the function, the dialog is opening in it’s normal location for the 4 monitor system which is off-screen on the single monitor notebook system.

I can’t seem to find the INI or CUI file that specifies the off-screen positioning of these various dialogs.  If I can find it, I can edit it and get these dialogs back on the visible screen and then place them where I want them.

Any idea where these positions are recorded?

I can find the listed macroscript buttons in the CUI file but not a position coordinate.

Thanks!

Sincerely,

Mike Truly
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I think they live in the main 3dsMax.ini - you can check that by renaming it then running Max (it will create a new one). If your dialog now appears normally then that’s where the info is stored.

Failing that, try this

-Bring the dialog into “focus” using its keyboard or menu item.
-Hold ALT and hit Space bar.
-Hit the letter M (move)
-Use keyboard arrow keys to return it into view.

Max 4.2 through 2013.
XP-64 (SP2)
NVidia 9800GTX-512 (Driver 266.58).
Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz, 8Gb Ram, DX9.0c.

Steve,

Thanks for that.  The 3dsmax.ini is the one INI I didn’t investigate.  In the meantime, I turned on NView on my display card and set ALT-M to be the keyboard shortcut of ‘Move to Monitor1’ and used this to move each offscreen dialog back onscreen.

Strangely, I found the keyboard commands you mentioned on the web and tried that but could not get the dialogs to move back on-screen.  Worked fine for dialogs that I could see but never seemed to move the invisible dialogs back onscreen… but I was operating blind.

Anyway… problem sorted.

Thanks!

Sincerely,

Mike Truly
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Truly Media
1.800.829.4990
http://www.trulymedia.com

Hi Mike.

There is also a utility called SnapWindows that works well. Josh posted this, but I do not know who the author is. I always thought it was Gary Davis, but I don’t think it is.

http://discussion.autodesk.com/thread.jspa?threadID=499801

Anna

E. K. Anna Hennequet [FA]

Thanks for that Anna!  Nice to know there are several ways to get this sorted.

Thanks again.

Sincerely,

Mike Truly
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Truly Media
1.800.829.4990
http://www.trulymedia.com