Hi Mark,

> I'll reinstall the Ash interface tomorrow and get you the files.

Actually you can skip that part - I'd say that the problem is that with 1050 vertical resolution you just don't have enough space available to show a whole bunch of palettes all once...

When you don't have enough space to fit all the open pallettes, it is normal that other ones will close - that helps keep everything displayed on the same screen so that you can activate a different palette with one click instead of potentially having it completely off screen and needing to use a scroll bar to access it.


> And here, I thought it was a pretty good monitor...8^(

Well, there's nothing really wrong with it - MoI's regular UI structure is set up to work well with things of that resolution. But with that amount of space there is not a whole lot of room to display a whole lot of stuff all at the same time...

That's why MoI's default UI is not set up in that way of trying to have a whole lot of stuff all simultaneously on the screen, because that only works well with higher resolution screens.


> Are there any alternate UI's that are based on v2?

A couple of people have posted that they were working on some, but I don't think that any complete final ones have been posted.

- Michael

So what vertical resolution do you recommend? I see monitors with ver. res. of 1080. Will that show that much more, or do you have to go to a ver. res. of 1200 which seems to be the next step up after 1080?

Hi Mark,

Michael is correct. I did this for V1 so it won't work correctly for V2.

I did start to change it for V2 but I couldn't keep up with the betas :-)


As for screen size:

I have dual 1600 x 1200 monitors, which is the size I designed to. These days I would go for at least a 24in 1900 x 1200 monitor.

Personally I really miss the extra vertical pixels. If I had the money I would probably go for a 30" 2560 x 1600 resolution.

Hi Mark,

> So what vertical resolution do you recommend?

Well, it is kind of a matter of taste - it's not necessarily true that the hugest possible monitor is automatically better. It depends on your desk size, distance you are sitting from the monitor, the dot pitch size of the monitor (how dense the pixels are), etc...

There is nothing really wrong with your current monitor...

But if you want to fit more stuff on the screen all at the same time you would want to have a higher vertical resolution.


> I see monitors with ver. res. of 1080. Will that show that much more,

Well, your current vertical resolution is 1050, right? So 1080 is only 30 more pixels higher, which is not very much, something like 2 more lines of text.


> or do you have to go to a ver. res. of 1200 which seems to be the
> next step up after 1080?

Yes, that would give you more vertical space.


But MoI is already designed to work well with your current monitor already...

- Michael