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Subject: Resetting the material UI (or fixing it) - Help!

Zoxesyr opened this issue on Feb 20, 2012 · 9 posts
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Zoxesyr ( ) posted Mon, 20 February 2012 at 12:27 PM · edited Tue, 04 February 2025 at 4:52 PM

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Somehow I have mananged to mess up my Materials editor UI and I can't find any reference on how to restore it to Initial state or fix it so I can see the windows I want to see.

Right now the preview window won't float or doc at all into the materials tab. 

I tried clicking on the UI dots, but they don't seem to do anything.

The manual and "help" text is not useful.

Edit - I attached a screenshot of my current materials ui

Rance01 ( ) posted Mon, 20 February 2012 at 12:44 PM

Two suggestions:

For Poser 7 on Windows 7 the INI and UI Prefs files are located at:

C:UsersUSER NAMEAppDataRoamingPoser 7

If you delete these files Poser will re-create them on launch. 

Also, again using Poser 7, Edit menu, General Preferences select Launch to factory state.  That should fix your problem without deleting the AppData files.

Best Wishes,
Rªnce

bagginsbill ( ) posted Mon, 20 February 2012 at 1:21 PM

I think if you use menu Window/Document Window Size, you may be presented with a dialog saying that no sizing can be done while the window is docked and an option to float the preview window. Do that.

Once you have it floating you should be able to dock it back in a sensible way.

 

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bagginsbill ( ) posted Mon, 20 February 2012 at 1:23 PM

You may also find that the docking slider is just all the way to the left or to the right and if you grab over there you can put things back to normal.

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Zoxesyr ( ) posted Mon, 20 February 2012 at 1:37 PM

Rance01 - Thanks!  that was what i was looking for

baginsbill - The problem is that the auto docking is screwing up my UI.  it won't accept anything other than horizontal docking, and the Preview window won't dock at all.

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vilters ( ) posted Mon, 20 February 2012 at 1:41 PM

Open Poser
Goto => Edit (top menu) => General Preferences
In the second tab "Interface"
Set Launch to factory state.

Close and restart Poser.

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willyb53 ( ) posted Mon, 20 February 2012 at 2:22 PM

In addition to what was suggested, after you have it the way you want it, save it to one of the UI dots so you can restore it easily

 

Bill

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Zoxesyr ( ) posted Mon, 20 February 2012 at 2:31 PM

Quote - In addition to what was suggested, after you have it the way you want it, save it to one of the UI dots so you can restore it easily

 

Bill

Thank you, yes I have done that now.  I feel like such a noob

Rance01 ( ) posted Mon, 20 February 2012 at 2:35 PM

The other thing is if you can locate the INI files, you can back them up as well.  Better safe that WTF?

Glad you worked things out.
Rªnce

PS: the pose dots information is stored in system files as well (languagedots ?).  I back everything up ...

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