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  • bhnh
  • Posted: 06 May 2008 03:03 PM
  • Location: Peterborough, NH USA
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OK, OK, I did something, don’t know what, while in my Max9 Customize UI... dialog.  Now whenever I launch Max it opens with all the floating toolbars scattered across the screen.  The Customize > Show UI > Show Floating Toolbars item is not checked.  If I check it then uncheck it again the Toolbars go away.  Alternatively, if I drag each toolbar a bit it closes.  Any suggestions of how to take care of this?  Many thanks.



Bruce Hammond
e-nimation.com
Peterborough, NH USA

Max8-32 SP3, Max9-32 SP2, WinXP

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Looks like you loaded the Modular Toolbars UI scheme… can you just load another UI?

The Toolbars are dockable, and each can be closed, so you can streamline what you need and don’t need… if the toolbars are all floating, just dock them.  If you want the other more minimal toolbar UI, load another UI scheme.



Maneswar Cheemalapati [FA]

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I’m having the exact same issue.

Docking the toolbars SEEMS to work, but then if I roll the mouse over where the toolbar used to be, the rollover animation for the buttons still happens and the buttons are still clickable.

If I attempt to drag a floating toolbar, it disappears. Then it seems to be really gone, the buttons aren’t active. However, when I shut down and restart Max, they’re all back.

If I get rid of them, either by dragging them or, like mentioned above, checking then un-checking Floating Toolbars, then SAVE my ui, then quit and restart, there they are back again. If I manually load my previously saved UI that supposedly didn’t have floating toolbars, it still pops them up.

It’s wierd. It actually removes them, then makes them appear again.

I’m glad to see I’m not the only one. The other two animators in my office aren’t having this problem.

I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled twice, the second time going so far as to delete all the folders related to Max on my computer (including the hidden Applications folder in my Documents and Settings folder). No fix.



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  • bhnh
  • Posted: 20 May 2008 09:17 AM
  • Location: Peterborough, NH USA
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OK, it seems I found the solution. 

- Launch Max.  All the floating toolbars pop up in the middle of the workspace.
- Right-click each floater and select “Dock"… it doesn’t matter where (top, bottom, left, right) you select to dock it.
- The floater disappears, and doesn’t automatically reappear when you launch Max again.



Bruce Hammond
e-nimation.com
Peterborough, NH USA

Max8-32 SP3, Max9-32 SP2, WinXP

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