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Title: Perspectives Window and others
Post by: rfallatt on December 14, 2015, 03:45:06 PM

I started using the Perspectives function and switched between some produced perspectives and saved moved some windows around. during one switch, I lost a few windows now I cant find them. I tried relaunching, I tried to "View""Perspectives" "Edit/Load" and the Perspective window is not presented.
Help! without some of these, I cant use xlights to its full extend (like, Effect Assist, Timing, etc)

If I reinstall xlights, what are the items I will mess up?

Title: Re: Perspectives Window and others
Post by: rrowan on December 14, 2015, 05:00:44 PM

Does the menu

View - Windows

allow you to open up the missing items?

Rick R.

Title: Re: Perspectives Window and others
Post by: flyinverted on December 14, 2015, 05:10:59 PM

Perspectives usually get messed up when you switch from a dual monitor to single monitor configuration.
To get it back to square one:

Note where your show directory is defined.
Press F10 for a configuration backup
Close xlights
Browse to the show directory and open the xlights_rgbeffects.xml file with a text editor, preferrably notepad++.
Delete the contents between the <perspectives> and </perspectives> tags.
Save the xml file
Open xlights
Recreate your perspectives

Title: Re: Perspectives Window and others
Post by: rfallatt on December 14, 2015, 08:50:03 PM

Figured it out... It was hidden on another screen


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Title: Re: Perspectives Window and others
Post by: rfallatt on December 14, 2015, 08:50:50 PM

Thanks....flyinverted


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