RE: FLASH: Multiple-monitor systems

[Pete Grant]

> I would like to know whether any of you regularly use more than

> one monitor when

> working with Flash, and, if so, how you organize your work environment.


On my PC I have a 19" and a 17". The 19 is what Windows recognizes as my

main monitor and the one I use for the application window. Fortunately, most

of the other windows are draggable to the other monitor without extending

the app window to the other monitor. Other programs, like Awfulware don't do

that. Even Director is fussy about making you extend the app window to both

monitors; then some of the screen is off somewhere you can't reach on your

smaller monitor. Eventually, I'll get two 21" monitors and that won't be a

problem.


The important thing to me is checking Edit->Preferences->Disable Timeline

Docking. If you allow it to automatically dock, it could drive you loony.

You drag it somewhere, and OOPS!, it's docked itself and your screen is

askew. I keep the Timeline on the 17 most of the time, sometimes on both,

and--if I'm doing a lot of ActionScript--in the 19, because the Frame

Properties box opens in whatever monitor your Timeline is in.


On my Mac, I have a 21" in between a 17"  and a 15". In Flash, there's not

that much advantage to the third monitor, but I usually keep the library and

the inspector window there. (It's great for Director. You keep the Stage in

the middle and the Cast and Score on either side.)



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