Re: Re: Palettes always on top
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- Subject: [mg41413] Re: [mg41386] Re: Palettes always on top
- From: "Dr. Wolfgang Hintze" <weh at snafu.de>
- Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 05:03:59 -0400 (EDT)
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Bobby, so you are very well equipped with hardware...:-) I guess I'll try to arrange the windows and palettes on my one monitor, perhaps I'll reserve a little space on the right hand side of my monitor for the palettes... Wolfgang Bobby Treat wrote: > Ah! Yes, that works. (I had already figured out how to edit the > palette in Notepad, however.) > > BUT -- I found a better solution for the underlying problem -- namely, > that I could never see the palette I wanted to use. They were always > hiding behind each other or behind the notebook I'm editing. Floating > isn't a good solution -- the palette takes up space even when I'm not > using it. > > I have two monitors side-by-side, and have taken to leaving > Mathematica's menu bar and palettes on one monitor, but putting the > notebook I'm working with on the other monitor (the LCD, where it is > much easier to read text). No more shuffling windows to find a > palette, and no need to make palettes Floating. I can keep six or > eight palettes open without cramping. > > This works best if the Windows "primary" monitor is the CRT, since > Mathematica always opens palettes there. It remembers where I last > put each palette, but only if it was on the primary monitor. (?) > > It took awhile to figure out how to change which monitor is primary, > but it was worth it. > > There's one more glitch, though. If I maximize a Mathematica window on the > monitor that isn't primary, it disappears except for its title bar. > Very strange. > > Bobby > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Park <djmp at earthlink.net> To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net > To: Dr. Wolfgang Hintze <weh at snafu.de>; mathgroup at smc.vnet.net > Cc: Bobby Treat <majort at cox-internet.com> > Sent: Sat, 17 May 2003 10:26:25 -0400 > Subject: [mg41413] RE: [mg41386] Re: Palettes always on top > > Wolfgang, > > You should be able to make a single palette floating. > > 1)Select the Palette > > 2) Make it editable by using the Option Inspector. > NotebookOptions\FileOptions\Editable -> True > > 3) Make it floating by using > WindowProperties\WindowFloating -> True > > and resave the palette. > > That worked for me on Windows98. The other palettes were not floating. > > David Park > djmp at earthlink.net > http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/ > > > > > From: Dr. Wolfgang Hintze [mailto:weh at snafu.de] To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net > > Thanks for the hint. I found out (1) that I need to set the option > globally, I can't select a specific notebook, as e.g. a palette. Hence > (2) all notebooks receive that option - call it notebook democracy - and > a palette still vanishes behind other notebooks (at least it stays on > top of windows of other applications). > > What I was looking for was a command like "always on top" especially for > palettes because just the palettes I'd like to have available all the > time on top. > > Regards, > Wolfgang > > Omega Consulting wrote: > >> At 02:48 AM 5/11/2003, Dr. Wolfgang Hintze wrote: >> >>> Can I tell Mathematica that I want a palette always on top of all >>> windows? If so, how? [else :-( ] >>> >>> I have checked all options of a palette.nb but couldn't find a >> > relevant > one. > >>> >>> Any hint welcome. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Wolfgang >>> >> >> WindowFloating->True >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------- >> Omega Consulting >> "The final answer to your Mathematica needs" >> http://omegaconsultinggroup.com >> >> >> >