Dual monitors and screwy dialog boxes

[Aberrant]

I'm setting up painter 9 and I can see corel really fucked up when it comes to dual monitor support. Photoshop for years has let you put all your pallettes on a seperate monitor but for some reason painter won't let you do this. I know you can expand the painter window across both screens to do it but that's very cludgy and due to my monitor placement with different resolutions it cuts off the menu bar. I'm assuming this is the only way to do it, theres nothing else...? Right now I have my intuos 3 touchpad set up for a tab+ctrl+M which hides/shows all the pallettes and scrollbars, so I just hit this button when I need anything and again to hide it. It works pretty good.

Anyway, this is my long winded way of seeing if theres anyone out there taking advantage of dual monitors in painter.

Also, every dialog box keeps opening up on either the second screen or half off the bottom of the first screen. Is there any way to control where they open? I can't believe they just ignored dual monitors.

[Jin]

Hi,

I can't help you with your dual monitor problem, but the default keyboard shortcut to Show/Hide Palettes, the Property Bar and Brush Selector Bar is Tab for both Windows and Mac.

Seems like that would be simpler than the keyboard shortcut you've set up (unless you have some other reason for using three keys when one is enough).

Good luck,


Jinny

[Aberrant]

tab hides pallettes, ctrl+M hides scrollbars, I just one button doing both at the same time because I don't use scrollbars.

[Jin]

I gotcha now! Sorry.

Ctrl/Command+M is Screen Mode Toggle.

I was thinking of something else... or not thinking. ;)


Jinny

[Aberrant]

No problem. I actually might like having a button hide/show all the pallettes more than putting them on another monitor, except that when I'm working with a large image and large brush theres a bit of a pause when I hide them. Oh well.

The real annoying thing is every dialog box is opening up off the screen. Stupid painter.