Screen too small?

[Mattheng]

I use several Macs to work on and one is a white MacBook.

I had been working on an external monitor with a higher resolution than the screen on the MacBook.

I had to unhitch the MacBook and work on the small screen.

When I tried to put a wall into a model I noticed that I couldn't see the ok button at the bottom of the preferences panel (see below)

I checked the screen resolution and it was at its max (1280 x 800) and the dock was hidden for maximum screen space (see below).

I finished the work on a different Mac but is there no way you can see the bottom of the Wall preferences panel on a MacBook or am I missing something...?!?

Matt

[Jonathan Pickup]

no, that's the way it is. using the enter or return key close the dialog box

Edited November 11, 2011 by Jonathan Pickup

[Mattheng]

Is there a minimum screen resolution recommended to actually see all the controls?

[Jeffrey W Ouellette]

I'd say a minimum height of 960px or 1024px is best. Many of the dialogs have gotten large (800px height), but with the menus, the dialog won't fit on a 800px screen, without clipping the bottom.

[Mattheng]

So, just to be pedantically clear, this will never work on a MacBook.

That's disappointing...

Apart from pressing return as mentioned above is there any setting you can tweak or other workaround that can get me out of this?

[Kevin McAllister]

There's an amazing amount of wasted space in that dialog box (yes, I know the second pane is actually the longer one). Generally there is a lot of wasted space in the Vectorworks interface. When you see what can fit into the Cinema 4D interface as an example, its clear Vectorworks needs an overhaul.

Kevin