Hello Bill,

thanks for your reply.

> This is a new one on me... my knowledge of dual-monitor systems is
> just about zilch. But when you minimize Guide (or any app) to the
> taskbar and then _restore_ it, it ought to go back where it was.
> Just to be clear: you're simply clicking with the left mouse button
> on the icon in the taskbar, and it maximizes to both screens
> instead of just being restored to where it was when you minimized it?

Yes that's right. And I did some more testing and the things went more
strange: This behaviour occurs only after the first minimizing/restoring to/from
the taskbar. After I adjusted the size manually to one monitor the next
minimizing/restoring cycles are ok, Guide restores to the one monitor I
adjusted it before.

> I'd not be surprised if clicking on right-clicking on the icon in
> the taskbar and then on "maximize" led to the behavior you mention.

Just this happens.

> That's _supposed_ to happen. But when you restore a program, it
> should "remember" where it was.
>
> There are no settings in Guide that would affect this. When you
> shut Guide down, it does write out data as to where it was on-screen
> to a file called 'maximum.dat'; when you start it up again, it reads
> that data so that it appears where you left off. But it doesn't sound
> as if that's an issue here; for some weird reason, Guide is maximizing
> when it ought to be restoring.
>
> Only thing I can suggest trying is deleting 'maximum.dat'. Guide
> will rebuild it (though certain settings, such as the fonts you're
> using and where dialog boxes were placed, will get lost.) Perhaps
> somehow, something got corrupted in there that's causing this effect.

That's also good to know. I had the following case: I took my desktop
computer (not the monitor) to a conference and had to use a foreign monitor
with a lower resolution. Before I went there I set the monitor resolution down to
1024x768 (at home I use 1280x1024) and had no problems with the resolution
when booting it (besides all icons on the desktop changed their position). But
one thing I forgot: My animation tool box for Guide normally is at the lower
right corner. And this was unaccessible at the lower monitor resolution!

But all these are minor inconveniences for a great program I can live with. For
example without Guide I surely couldn't have managed to shoot pictures of 30
comets in one night.

Clear skies
Bernd


Bernd Brinkmann

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