Re: Darn Those Vanishing Windows!

["Thomas Michanek" <thomas.michanek@xxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Todd Sutherland" <TSutherland@DERIVION.com>
> FM doesn't save the positions of formatting windows or toolbars when
> you shut down, or even which ones you had open.

From: "Jim Drew / Ciao! Publications" <ciaopubs@earthlink.net>
> And Mac preserves dialog placement in its prefs, if not dialog
> open status; Windows should, too, but maybe it doesn't.

In Windows, take a look at the maker.ini file and read its
documentation by selecting Help > Online Manuals, Customizing
FrameMaker Products, Chapter 2: Changing Initialization Files.

You'll find the following:

[Preferences]
;--------------------------- Misc preferences
ShowQuickAccessBar=Off H
ShowFormattingBar=Off

"The ShowQuickAccessBar setting determines if the QuickAccess bar
appears when you start the FrameMaker product." ...
"The ShowFormattingBar setting determines if the formatting bar
appears when you start the FrameMaker product." ...

[DialogLayout]
;------------------------- Dialog & Window layout
MakerWin=1, -1, -1, -1, -1, 463, -4, 1103, 832
PCatalog=643, 190, 130, 247
CCatalog=500, 220, 130, 180
Tools=936, 295
PFormat=55, 371
CFormat=587, 215
Search=44, 545
Table=378, 235
etc.

"The [DialogLayout] settings in the initialization file specify a
default location on the screen for some windows and dialog boxes."
"If you open and move one of these windows or dialog boxes, the 
location is modified in the [DialogLayout] setting when you exit.
This becomes the default location the next time."

At least this does some of the things you want...

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