(Photo v2 Mac) Tools palette gone and won't come back

[Mike Swartzbeck]

My Tools palette has gone away and hasn't returned.

"Show Tools" doesn't work.

I've quit and restarted the app. Still no Tools palette.

This has happened before, but I've been able to bring it back by restarting the app.

Is anybody else seeing this?

[walt.farrell]

Do you perhaps sometimes use an additional monitor, that you have disconnected?

Does using Window > Zoom help?

[Mike Swartzbeck]

Actually, "dock tools" made the palette reappear — basically, dock and undock successively to force it to the top. Mystified, but happily back at work again.

V2 still gives me fits with that and other UI issues — the background that won't go away, the toolbar that won't detach from the background, the way palettes interfere with dialog box interaction... This isn't the first time I've had palettes somehow end up hidden or buried or somehow made inaccessible in V2.

Thanks for getting back so quickly.

[thomaso]

Also the option "Customise Tools…" might help since it adds a larger interface item next to "Tools".

12 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Do you perhaps sometimes use an additional monitor, that you have disconnected?

FWIW: in macOS the disconnection of an additional monitor automatically moves all open windows to the main screen.

[walt.farrell]

9 minutes ago, thomaso said:

FWIW: in macOS the disconnection of an additional monitor automatically moves all open windows to the main screen.

But there have been issues reported recently where the disconnection of a monitor has left the UI for an Afifnity application unusable.

[R C-R]

4 hours ago, thomaso said:

FWIW: in macOS the disconnection of an additional monitor automatically moves all open windows to the main screen.

It certainly is supposed to work like that but depending on the macOS version, the connection method, & perhaps some other factors (like maybe how Spaces is set up) it does not always do that.