Alternative #5 is to leave the taskbar (its official name, BTW) unlocked
at at its normal bottom of the window position, but to grab its top
edge and "window-shade" it down to its minimum height (just a few
pixels--only big enough to allow you to grab the edge again when you
want to restore the taskbar) if you have dropped any FrameMaker
window with its title bar concealed behind the taskbar. Then when
you need the taskbar again, just grab its top edge and window-shade
it back to the desired height (1-row, 2-row, whatever). Takes almost
no time and minimal effort.
-Fred Ridder
From: Whites <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Dennis Davideit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [email protected]
Subject: RE: Special > Marker dialog box has disappeared
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:09:23 -0700
Hi Dennis -
I've followed this with interest because I am plagued with the same issue
(and so are others I work with). It's not a problem with FM, it's a
bug/flaw in the Windows desktop - at least in XP.
Let's assume you work with the Windows toolbar (or tray, or whatever you
call it) at the bottom of the screen and you have it set to "Always in
front".
If you grab a window/dialog/whatever by the strip above the title bar and
drag it to the very bottom of the screen, you still have control of it
even when the top of the window is behind the toolbar. When you drop it,
the window/dialog/whatever is hidden behind the toolbar and is
irretrievable except by the alt + space, m trick. This is a bug in the
Windows desktop design. Rather than fix it by not allowing you to drag
the top of a window completely behind the toolbar, MS offers a couple of
options - (1) Autohide tool bar - (extremely annoying, IMHO), (2) keep
toolbar in back (better, but then you hide the toolbar with your document
rather than the other way around), (3) move the toolbar to one of the
sides (not so good since I usually want to preserve as much screen width
as possible, or (4) put toolbar at top (I've just recently started doing
this). In the last case, you can still move the very top of your
document/window/dialog/whatever behind the toolbar, but it's obviously not
hidden when you drop it - just not grabbable. Time for alt + space, m.
If you have every used a Mac with OS-X, you'll note that the toolbar has a
transparency setting, so you can tell if anything is lurking behind the
toolbar. Moveover, MacOS will _not_ allow you to drag and drop the top of
your document behind the toolbar. As soon as you drop it, the OS-X
repositions the top of the doc just above the toolbar. Problem solved.
Now if we could just get Adobe to support FM on OS-X.
Don't know how this problem is dealt with on Vista - I'll check it out in
about 5 years.
Will White
(writing from home on a Mac)
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