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Beginner Joined: 12 May 2007 Posts: 12

In the regular zMUD window, not the settings window that you use for editing aliases and so on, I've lost my toolbar! The EDITOR window has "toolbars" under View, but the regular window doesn't, and I can't find a way in the preferences to get the buttons back up there. I lost it in all of my MUDS, not just in one. Can someone please tell me what to do to get the buttons toolbar back at the top of my zMUD window?

While I'm at it ...in my settings window, the little edit box itself - with Name:, Style:, and Value: in it, has come undocked from the greater Settings window. This has been really inconvenient, and I haven't been able to find a way to get it to dock to the Settings window again. Any suggestions?

Thanks.

Wizard Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1265 Location: USA

For your first issue, click view -> general -> User Interface, Check the Main Toolbar box and click apply.

For the second issue, open your settings editor, press and hold the alt key, drag the bottom window to the bottom of the top window.
When the window jumps into place release the mouse and the alt key.

Beginner Joined: 12 May 2007 Posts: 12

Okay ... if it were all that simple, I wouldn't have bothered anyone.

Issue 1: the box is checked - has been checked all along. I still don't have my toolbar and buttons.

Issue 2: I know what this is going to sound like, and I can't help it. I've held the ALT button and dragged that little window all over creation and back, and it never ever jumps into place. I've tried it with the "Use the ALT for docking" selected, I've tried without it being selected, I've changed the individual window sizes in case the size might be an issue ... I've done just about everything I can think of.

I've just migrated over to cMUD so it's not as much of an issue as it was, but I would still like to be able to fall back on zMUD if I need to. cMUD still seems a little tweaky. The biggest issue for me is getting that toolbar back ...

Wizard Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1265 Location: USA

Well then... Sounds like something is bonked in your zMud installation. Zugg might know what to tweak to get it working but I don't.

Short of saving your settings elsewhere, uninstalling, deleting the zMud folder and reinstalling I don't know what to tell you.
The instructions I gave are the only things I know of short of the reinstall that should work.

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

The toolbar you're having trouble with is the one with the giant buttons for Character, Settings, Map, Database, and so on? You probably need to delete the zmud.ini or settings.dok file (I'm betting on the former). Both files are safe to delete and will be automatically recreated with default values, but keep in mind that any global settings you created will not be saved.

Beginner Joined: 12 May 2007 Posts: 12

I deleted the zmud.ini file, and it didn't help. I don't seem to have a settings.dok file ... so I can't delete it.

I was wondering - would it help if I reinstalled zmud?

Wizard Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1265 Location: USA

Probably, see my post above. It was my suggestion.

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

For the edit window, make sure that the Settings Window has it's Dockable setting turned on. If it's turned off, the Edit window won't be able to dock to it. I think it's in the ZMud icon menu in the upper left corner of the window.

Beginner Joined: 12 May 2007 Posts: 12

The docking problem has been resolved. When I rebooted my computer this morning, I loaded up zMUD, and saw that the edit window was docked to the bottom of the settings window. I wanted to move it to the right side, which was the way I'd had for all of the years I've used zMUD ... so I undocked it and played with it a bit.

This is what I've surmised on that particular subject: deleting the zmud.ini file, and rebooting solved the docking problem. Also to be noted, the edit window would not dock to the right edge of the settings window unless the settings window is wide enough to show its entire toolbar.

Later on today, I hope to have time to try Arminas' suggestion to reinstall. If it works, I'll be back to tell about it. Thank you all so much for your help up until now.