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Jon Jones
03-20-2003, 07:37 AM
Okay, this isn't going to be as blatantly idiotic as most of you probably expected from the thread title.

I'm using Maya 4.5 on an AMD Athlon XP 2100+ 1.73ghz with 512mb SDRAM on Windows 2000, using dual monitors, primary monitor on a GeForce 4 MX 440 and secondary monitor on a GeForce 2 MX 200.

My problem is that two very key menu bars have disappeared. The first menu bar is the one on top of every viewport that has Shading, Panels, Layout, etc for individual viewport settings. I'm not sure where it went, and I don't know what I may have done to cause that.

Also gone is the entire menu bar in the UV Texture Editor Window, making the entire thing completely useless save for dragging UVs around. That happened when I dragged the window onto my second monitor and double-clicked the title bar to maximize it.

Since then I've gone through the Display menu checking and unchecking everything, clicking Show \ Hide \ Restore UI Elements repeatedly, restarted Maya several times, disabled my secondary monitor then rebooted with only the primary working and then relaunching Maya, and so far nothing obvious has worked.

Anyone know what I did? :\ I intend to reinstall Maya tomorrow night if I don't get a response here.. I'd like to avoid doing that and I'd like to know just what it is that I did that I can make sure not to do next time!

Thanks in advance, guys.
sp0rk3d
03-20-2003, 08:36 AM
hahahaha..... :)
i remmember th first time this happened to me.... hehe i am laughing with you :) i think that the defualt shortcut to bring the pane menus back is shift-m

hehe give that a shot after i got them back i was wondering how did i manage to hit shift-m .... hehe

hope that helps... :)
GrafOrlok
03-20-2003, 10:54 AM
If that won't solve it try putting your preferences (\My Documents\maya\4.5\prefs) in a new directory and restart Maya. Then you'll start on a fresh pane. It's probably only userPrefs.mel that you'll have to ditch.
Jon Jones
03-20-2003, 10:35 PM
Oh for chrissakes, all I did was hit shift-M?!?

GAHHHHH!!

I wish there was a some specialized "I just did something really stupid" FAQ included with the Maya documentation that detailed out stuff like this and had solutions. haha

Thanks guys. :)
sp0rk3d
03-21-2003, 12:39 AM
haha... that shift m gets people all the time...

yes that is a good idea....
"I just did something really stupid" FAQ ....

hmmm could be really big tho... :P
Peter Reynolds
03-21-2003, 12:52 AM
why waste screen space when spacebar is your friend?
AroundTheFur
03-21-2003, 02:35 AM
another wierd thing that happens, if i have lets say the outliner minimized, sometimes when i go to maximize it, it stays the same size as when its minimized, but it is essentially maximized and requires that i stretch it back out. its really annoying and seems to happen a good amount of the time, and not just with the ouliner(hypergraph, hypershade, graph editor etc). any way to fix this? thanks
GrafOrlok
03-21-2003, 07:38 AM
AroundTheFur:
That happens to me too. I haven't seen it in earlier versions of Maya though. A bug in 4.5?

SpOrk3d:
Shift+M... hm, that was easy... :rolleyes:
AroundTheFur
03-21-2003, 06:18 PM
happened in 4.0 for me =(. would be nice to not deal with it. and lately maya flat out crashes, i think its time to reformat.
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