Moving the Mix Window

[Trouble_Clef]

Hello All,

Silly question here...

The title bar atop my mix window somehow got behind the menu list at the top of the ProTools interface. Consequently, the mouse is useless.

How can I get the mix window to move without using the mouse?

Thanks,

TC

[binty]

Originally Posted by Trouble_Clef

Hello All,

Silly question here...

The title bar atop my mix window somehow got behind the menu list at the top of the ProTools interface. Consequently, the mouse is useless.

How can I get the mix window to move without using the mouse?

Thanks,

TC

Control and Plus button on PC to toggle between edit and mix in windows.

[Trouble_Clef]

BbbzzZZzzzzTTTtttt... Nice try, but no dice...

It's not a question of toggling...

The mix window is stuck. I cant move it with the mouse.

The mix window's title bar (the top of the mix window) somehow got jammed way up underneath the top of the ProTools interface, so I cant grab ahold of it.

I need an alternate way of moving the mix window to get its title bar back down into the center of the screen. Then I can grab it with the mouse to move the mix window around the usual way.

[albee1952]

Hmmmm, usually, if an inner window(MIX or EDIT) gets dragged up to the top, there will be a little sliver of the title bar that could be grabbed(with the mouse). If there's really nothing to grab, you could try changing screen resolution in hopes that things will get shifted enough for you to see some of the top strip. Once you CAN drag the window, just park it lower, restore the screen rez and then re-position the windows.

[Trouble_Clef]

My screen was already maxed out, but I did try what you said by resizing the monitor to a lower resolution. It didn't change the positions of the windows relative to one another, so the mix window's taskbar still remained hidden from the mouse.

Arghhh...

Thank you anyway. If anyone has any more ideas, then please let me know.

TC

[JMS40]

Make sure you don't have a vertical scrollbar you can adjust on the offending window.

[Trouble_Clef]

For the record...

Two different reinstalls didn't work, but...

Originally Posted by JMS40

Make sure you don't have a vertical scrollbar you can adjust on the offending window.

I wasnt 100% on which one you meant by the offending window, but I messed around with it, and got it to work by the following.

I resized the mix window so the scrollbar disappeared, but this did nothing to really make the mix windows title bar accessible.

But MINIMIZING the entire ProTools interface did work. It didnt clear the ProTool's interface of its own scrollbar, but I was able to use the ProTools interface scrollbar to scroll up to the very top of the ProTools window. The mix window's task bar then became accessible, and I simply dragged it down into the center of the screen with the mouse, and then maximized the ProTools window back to it's full size.

It took a couple of hours to solve this one, but problem solved.

Thank you for all your help.



TC

[albee1952]

and there was much rejoicing........yay

If you close out the program with Alt-F4, it should re-open just as you left it.

[QuikDraw]

Originally Posted by Trouble_Clef

Hello All,

Silly question here...

The title bar atop my mix window somehow got behind the menu list at the top of the ProTools interface. Consequently, the mouse is useless.

How can I get the mix window to move without using the mouse?

Thanks,

TC

I have this same problem whenever I open an old PT5 session. Frustrated me for a while until I figured out that I can use the "Tile windows horizontally" menu selection to get my mix window to play nice. Tiling vertically probably works too.

Another interesting thing about opening old PT5 sessions from my Digi001 days is that PT8 always says that they are Mac sessions witout PC/Mac compatibility enforced. Then PT8 creates a new session and copies all the audio from the original session. I've never had a Mac, and I always used the enforce Mac compatibility setting just in case. Strange.