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For people with only one monitor, I suggest that you make your screen look like the one I have been using for testing for two years now:



Using this screen layout has the advantages that:

The main form (center left) is always visible;
The selectable units form appears in the upper left side of the screen (it pops up now and than and it shouldn't cover the main form if it does).
The screen layouts and map views (the latter, I haven't used at all in two years of testing - and Steve loves them... [:D]) are available when you need them.
The global map can easily be used to navigate the detailed map (if you move the mouse over that small portion of the map which is visible, it appears in total on screen. You can click on any part of the global map and the detailed map moves accordingly to that area of the world).
And finally, it maximises the detailed map on the rest of your screen.

I've never wanted all those big screens... I'm a lazy man, wanting to lay on my couch, have the lap top on an old hospital table I inherited from my late uncle, get me a beer and pretzels next to me and well... I think you are getting the picture... [:D]

Thank you for posting the above. My single screeen setup and reading about all the windows to wade through has been a big hangup for my buying this. I looked at the AARs to see the screens I'd have to cope with. I was hoping to see a Windows minimize icon on the screens thinking that I could line them up on the taskbar to be ready when I wanted to use them. Unless I missed it, I don't see anything like the Windows minimize icon so I guess that minimizing a screen can't be done. Is a minimize icon a possibility in the future?
Thanks.

ORIGINAL: stormbringer3

Thank you for posting the above. My single screeen setup and reading about all the windows to wade through has been a big hangup for my buying this. I looked at the AARs to see the screens I'd have to cope with. I was hoping to see a Windows minimize icon on the screens thinking that I could line them up on the taskbar to be ready when I wanted to use them. Unless I missed it, I don't see anything like the Windows minimize icon so I guess that minimizing a screen can't be done. Is a minimize icon a possibility in the future?
Thanks.

Minimizing individual forms isn't available.

Some of the forms have to be responded to before the sequence of play can advance (e.g., do you want to intercept the naval units moving through the North Sea?). Most of the ones that you will want to reference frequently are gathered together in the Players Manual appendices. The main form panels act as buttons for bringing up some forms: terrain effects, sequence of play, weather report, activity limits. Others can be brought up with keystroke shortcuts - see below.

You can 'roll up' forms by clicking on an icon in the upper left corner of the form. Clicking on the icon a second time rolls the form down. This is a lot like minimizing a form - it is reduced to the size of the top border. The advantage over minimizing is that the form stays where it is on the screen so you do not have to search for where the minimized icon was placed on the screen.