Forums mIRC Help windows positions

hello

afaik, there are three modes to display windows:

"all windows maximized"
"tile all windows"
"cascade all windows"

I have set default positions for windows

how do I make all windows to take the default positions?

thanks

click the window menu and make sure none of the 'auto' settings are checked.

then left click in each windows titlebar, go to position/save.

hopefully they shulod all set their positions and not auto-tile etc.

btk

apparently it doesnt work...

besides, I already have nothing selected in windows menu
I have already set a default position
and third, I cannot do it for each window

any ideas?

Unless I am mistaken, default positions and settings are not individual for each window, but for each window type. So you can't just tell mIRC that #chan1 is here and #chan2 is there by default.

That said, you can use the /window command to resize and move a window around.



That's a basic example for when you join a channel. You'd want ones for anything you want to set a position for.

thanks

I know that I set defaults for each type and not for specific channels

but the problem is that I mirc has a button to switch from "tile mode" to "cascade mode" and to "maximized mode" but I cant find a way to switch to "default position mode"

I only want to switch from "maximized mode" to "default position mode" and backwards

is there a way?

You'll need to save your default positions into a variable or an ini file or somewhere else, using the same method I mentioned to get those positions, then put the windows where you want them using that. You could use it from a menu, or on connect, or on join, or whatever you want.

The default window positions are stored in the first four entries of the appropriate line in the [windows] section of $mircini - e.g.



gets the x y w h values (and the $replace formats them for use with /window, no less).

NB. Any channel that you give a saved position for will have its own entry in the [window] section (#chan_name instead of wchannel)

If I have the inclination later, I might eve write a "reset to default" menu option using this.