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1. Re: Restrict Full Screen Mode With Menu Bar to a single document
[scott] Dec 5, 2010 6:15 AM (in response to golgothaspace)CS5 changed... or was it CS4. Now the Mode is application wide and no longer document specific. I'm not a fan of it either, but I don't believe there's anything you can do about it.
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2. Re: Restrict Full Screen Mode With Menu Bar to a single document
Paul Riggott Dec 5, 2010 7:10 AM (in response to golgothaspace)What you can do is create an action using "Insert Menu Item" and select View - Screen Mode - Standard Screen Mode, then set up File - Scripts - Script Events Manager to use this action on Open Document.
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3. Re: Restrict Full Screen Mode With Menu Bar to a single document
golgothaspace Dec 5, 2010 7:33 AM (in response to Paul Riggott)H Paul,
Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it, but when you've got the first document in a Full Screen mode, the script opens subsequent documents in windowed mode ok, but it also takes the first document out of full screen, since the screen mode seems to be application-wide.
Is the a way to be more discriminating about the effects?
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4. Re: Restrict Full Screen Mode With Menu Bar to a single document
Paul Riggott Dec 5, 2010 7:39 AM (in response to golgothaspace)Yes it is application-wide, so the only other thing I can think of is to use a script that will only change the screen mode if there aren't any other documents open.
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5. Re: Restrict Full Screen Mode With Menu Bar to a single document
golgothaspace Dec 5, 2010 7:45 AM (in response to Paul Riggott)Ahh, and I just noticed it doesn't work with the new view for current document function, which overlays the new view full screen on top of the existing one.
Given Dreamweaver's inability to span a document across two screens I have to wonder if there's anyone at Adobe actually using CS on dual screen systems, or indeed using it at all - this seems like a really stupid change to impose without a preference to revert to the old behaviour, for no real benefit...
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6. Re: Restrict Full Screen Mode With Menu Bar to a single document
[scott] Dec 5, 2010 7:51 AM (in response to golgothaspace)Agreed.. it was a silly change that really hinders a great deal of valuable workflows with various screen modes.
I think it's more a UI issue than specifically a Photoshop issue. The UIs in most, if not all, Adobe apps were unified at CS4 to some degree with the new Application Frames.
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7. Re: Restrict Full Screen Mode With Menu Bar to a single document
golgothaspace Feb 3, 2011 9:17 PM (in response to [scott])There are even more problems with this new CS5 window behaviour.
If you have two windows overlaying each other in Full Screen mode (having opened a second window as per above), and you choose Window/Arrange/ "float in window", NOT "float All in windows" menu item, the behaviour still floats all documents in windows.
Why do both menu items have the same behaviour, and why isn't the obvious "float in window" only confined to the one document selected?
*headdesk*


