I've had this problem for some time now but it never interfered with my workflow 'til now. Under NT I can only see one shader at at time in the texture room, like wise in the render room I only see one image at a time and in the model room I only see one fire or cloud object at a time. Back when I was on W95 I didn't have this problem I could drag a channel from one shader and drop it in another. I don't remember if it ever worked on under NT, I think it did once but I don't remember. I did though have to reinstall once and I don't know if that did it, I can only vaguly remember how the install routine goes you get the option for some kind of cursor control and mayber open GL support, or was that Bryce?? I'm using a Dell Workstation 420 wtih an Evans and Sutherland AccelGalaxy 2100 video card which I've changed all the options for one at a time. I'm lost, I'd like to be able to see the shaders so I can drag and drop between them. Any ideas?

Thanks for your reply, I'll try to explain my sitution better. I am talking Carrara, the setup options only appear if you choose custome (if I remember correctly of course.) On W95 I was able to have 2 shaders open in the texture room at the same time and see them both and drop and drag between them. But now on my NT machine I only have access to one shader at a time in the texture room, although it looks indeed like I do have multiple shaders open for they appear in window menu. When I use the window menu the positions of the shaders I'm working on change as if I had invisible overlapping shaders open, I just can't see them at the same time. Am I making any sense, should I start over trying to explain? Thanks.

Since I'm having trouble explaining it I've decided to upload a screen shot. I just installed Carrara on my 98 machine, this is taken from the shader room with two shaders open you can see both of them. On my NT machine I can only see one at a time.

That's awfully generous of you, thanks! I'm hoping that the pending patch will clear things up though. If not I'm gonna un/reinstall, but I'd hate to have to dig through my HD to reload all my extensions and shaders! Later.

It's all solved, it wasn't a problem at it. Just my bleeding oversight! Under the winodw menu is an option... Single Window Mode Guess what it does.. :) Sigh, I hate when I miss something so simple, to think all this time... ahwell live and learn. Don't be too hard on me. Off to shader land!!! Later.

You will beaten and horse whipped.Assume the position!! Dont you just hate it when it's just so simple.