how to hide all windows

sallam · Post by **sallam** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 4:56 am

Greetings

Is there a shortcut to hide all windows so that the drawing window fills the screen when we want to focus on drawing?

Post by **Víctor Paredes** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 10:42 am

I don't think so, but it really would be a great feature. I use Sai paint tool to, mmh, paint and i love that shortcut. Never had tought it would be useful for as too.

synthsin75 · Post by **synthsin75** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 2:40 pm

If you open up the "Strings" file, located in your AS installation folder, with a text editor (like Notepad), you can set all of the windows to share the same show/hide shortcut. I just tested this to make sure.

I changed these lines:

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3142	"Tools "
3143	"Layers "
3144	"Timeline["
3145	"Style]"

To this:

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3142	"Tools]"
3143	"Layers]"
3144	"Timeline]"
3145	"Style]"

Saving these changes and restarting AS will now show/hide the tools, layers, timeline, and style windows by pressing Ctrl+]. But it's all or nothing doing it this way.

For some reason AS loses focus after I show/hide a few times. Not too big of a problem, and it may only be on PC.