How do I show the timeline on the monitor it belongs to?

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May 26, 2020
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I'm using Animate 2020, in Windows 10. I have two 27" monitors.

I have 2 projects open in Animate CC - one on each monitor.

The thing is - the timeline, and all other panels, like the Properties panel, only show up on one of the monitors. Whenever I change focus to the project on my other monitor, the context of what the timeline panel, and properties panel show changes to reflect my other project, but it's still on the other monitor.

This is clearly meant as a "feature", though I'm not sure who would want something so insanely annoying and confusing. Is there a way to turn this off, so that each of my monitors has their own set of panels, that reflects that project?

Thanks

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_tal_Author

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Had to use Sandboxie to make it work. Now I have 2 instances of Animate running - one on each monitor. Ridiculous that it was necessary, but at least it works.

n. tilcheff

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Just for the fun of it: In Flash 8 when you dock the timeline under the stage you can open multiple files or multiple views of the same document and have multiple timelines visible. This proves that the concept existed earlier on, but was changed, I believe, in CS3.

Nick - Character Designer and Animator, Flash user since 1998 | Member of the Flanimate Power Tools team - extensions for character animation

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ClayUUID

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I think I finally figured out what this guy is doing. I think he's opening multiple FLAs, undocking the stage from the master window, and dragging one of the stage windows onto his second monitor. Then, somehow, he thinks doing this will automagically cause Animate to maintain different panel positions for each FLA. Which of course doesn't happen, because the panels are global to the app, not local to the FLAs. That would be bonkers if Animate worked that way. Imagine having all the panels jump around every time you loaded a different FLA.

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ClayUUID

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I suspect most people would find it infinitely more annoying if Animate maintained workspace layout preferences on a per-document basis, which seems to be what you want. The way Animate works is normal for programs that have multiple windows.

Why are you even trying to work this way?

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_tal_Author

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I have 2 giant monitors.

I'm looking at my workspace on one monitor, and every few seconds, have to move my head 45 degrees to find the timeline, or properties on the other monitor. It breaks workflow like crazy.

It's also insane to be looking at a monitor where a project is open, and a timeline is open, but the timeline is for a completely different project, just because the other monitor's window happens to be in focus.

Are you saying this can't be changed?

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ClayUUID

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It almost certainly cannot be changed. Just keep your Animate main windows on the same monitor like 99.999% of everyone else does.

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