UH OH... 3DS Max windows off screen

Jesse Moody

On the road and my laptop is jacked up from not having 2 monitors so I need to find a way to get the windows (layers window and UVW window) back on my main screen.

Any suggestions???

whats_true

Right click on the task bar and hit the move botton, then middle click and it should pop onto the other screen~?

Surfa

There was a script for this sort of thing somewhere if I remeber correctly but I can't seem to find it.

Kovac

Alt + Space > press M > any arrow key and it will snap to the cursor

Mark Dygert

I think you can find the script Surfa is talking about is on scriptspot. Otherwise I think you can also nuke the 3dsmax.ini file which will also reset a bunch of other things. You might want to back it up in case that doesn't work.

I have UltraMon installed, it adds an option to the Alt + Space menu "move to other monitor command". Up arrow twice to pop it back to the other screen.

Alt + Space, UpArrow twice, Enter.

Jesse Moody

ini file did it.... thanks

Yozora

If you are using windows 7, Win+Shift+Left (or right) also moves windows to the other monitor (hit the uvw/layers hotkeys/buttons to open those 2 windows first of course)

Wahlgren

yozora, you don't need shift. Only the window button and left/right/up key

Yozora

Wahlgren wrote: »

yozora, you don't need shift. Only the window button and left/right/up key

shift is for the whole window to move to next monitor in 1 movement~
Win+Left/right does this silly half-monitor thingy (shrinks the current window to half-size, and then pushes it to the side of the monitor, you gotta press it again for it to change shape to a regular non-maximized window, and then push it again to make it half-size again on the other monitor - hard to describe, just try pressing win+left a few times and you'll see!)

Farfarer

http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/give-me-back-my-dialogs

elfinger1

Thanks for the info, I thought I was going mad seeing the viewport skate off to the left with no way to retrieve it (my 2nd monitor is on the right). The Alt>Space>M works beautifully!