Disappearing Palettes

[Stuart Rogers]

On 23/04/2012 3:04 PM, Karen Robbins wrote:
> Hello Framers,
>
> I use Frame 9 (9.0p255) in Windows 7 via Parallels 6 on a Mac. I keep
> many palettes on-screen in one or two floating blocks.
>
> This morning I opened an existing Frame document and all palettes were
> missing. Multiple attempts at opening a palette with a menu item (such
> as Format>Character>Designer) or key combo (such as CTRL+D) also failed.
>
> After several tries and restarts (both Windows and Frame), clicking
> through the menus did begin to reveal some of the palettes. I am not
> sure if all are directly accessible from menus.
>
> What might cause this to happen? Is the best way (only way?) to restore
> disappearing palettes simply to call all of them from menus again?
>
> thanks,
> Karen

Karen,

FM keeps track of your open palettes etc. in Workspace files with the 
extension .fws or .cfws.  It sounds like something got fried in 
whichever .cfws file you last used.

The best way to restore your palettes is to set up the interface the way 
you like it and then save it as a custom workspace.  Then when things go 
haywire (or you've just managed to move everything around for various 
reasons), you can choose Reset from the workspace menu and everything 
will be restored.  (Assuming the .cfws file is OK.)

(The .fws and .cfws files are in the WorkSpaces folder within fminit; 
you may find more than one instance of the fminit folder; I'm not sure 
how Parallels, Macs, etc. work this out.)

HTH,

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Stuart Rogers
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