Flash MX compatibility with VWM? Thread last updated on 2003-05-10 03:37:33

Posted by member 29799 on 2003-05-06 11:35:30

I dig Litestep - it rocks! however I've encountered one strange quirk that only seems to happen in Flash MX so far: When Flash MX is active app & I use hotkeys to jump to next desktop & then come back to Flash desktop, my tool palette & my properties palette (the two most frequently used palettes in Flash MX) are gone & I have to re-open them from menu. It seems that sometimes (but not always) when I remember to click litestep dock first (deactivating Flash as active app) before switching desktops & then come back, the problem doesn't happen.

any tips, fellow Flash'ers?

Posted by member 1783 on 2003-05-06 11:40:15 link

haven't done flash for quite a while but i'd guess your hotkeys combination is used by flash too and for hiding menus to be exact ;)

Posted by member 29799 on 2003-05-06 11:59:13 link

thanks for the tip, but i don't think it helps.

To the best of my knowledge, Flash doesn't have hotkeys activated by Win-RightArrow or Win-LeftArrow (or win-anything for that matter - it's all ctrl and/or f## combos

Posted by member 1 on 2003-05-06 12:07:28 link

sounds like they got lost in negotive space. Try !gather or !vwmgather based on your vwm module. To get around the problem try using Flash MX on your primary display...things tend not to get lost from there.

Posted by member 1783 on 2003-05-06 12:14:58 link

right :), you're using winxp with styles. if that's the case then don't use those new styles or don't maximize your windows. that's the workarond for now. same thing happens in photoshop, but there the palettes stay where they should and the main screen gets lost.

Posted by member 29799 on 2003-05-07 12:06:40 link

egonz - Thanks for playing, please try again :) i'm actually on win2KPro. Yeah I noticed it happen to Photoshop tabs once or twice too but not as consistently (and when it did, the tabs had mysteriously moved to another desktop - soemthing that doesn't happen with Flash). I also noticed that this happens with the contact list in Trillian (even though chat windows are still there).

devilboi - thanks for !vwmgather tip! - it seems to be a good way to bring back trillian list when it goes AWOL (better than quitting & restarting trillian). As for flash, it's less steps for me to just try to deselect the app before swapping desktops since !vwmgather slogs everything into one desktop. And if it's gone when I get back, there's simple flash menu options to restore them that always work. Unfortunately the flash display>tools don't have a hotkey :(

Posted by member 99 on 2003-05-07 21:25:50 link

Have you tried *VWMFix?

Posted by member 29799 on 2003-05-08 18:41:26 link

rabidcow - nope, what's that do and/or where's it documented?

Posted by member 99 on 2003-05-09 00:28:19 link

Ah... I'm not sure I can explain it well. It's supposed to fix misbehaving tool windows, like in old versions of Photoshop.

You need some way of getting the window class for the parent of the tool windows... If you use RabidVWM, try making a hotkey for !alert "^@wc^" then activate it when Flash MX is in the foreground. Otherwise you'll need WinSpy or something.

Anyway, you put *VWMFix ClassName in your personal.rc, where ClassName is the class name you just got. For Photoshop it happens to be "Photoshop", so you'd add *VWMFix Photoshop

I hope that makes some kind of sense.

Posted by member 5669 on 2003-05-09 13:23:43 link

*VWMFix Photoshop is in the personal.rc by default from the installer AFAIK

Posted by member 99 on 2003-05-10 03:37:33 link

Ok, but that was only an example, so it doesn't matter. ;)