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To do this, you need to save the screen layout you are using for all major powers under the same name. Example: first, you make things right for Germany and save the screen layout. Than comes Italy. Again, you put things the way you want to and save under the same name. Than Japan, than CW etc. etc. etc.

It takes some time to do, but that works...

Actually I've done that, and it has had some effect but, not the desired one. If I call the layout back up manually, it does come back up like I set it but, not from just one phase change to the next. The main effect was only where the MV window popped back up. It did stop coming back up at the default position but, now it keeps coming back up either high on the very right of the screen or low depending on the power and never in the same place twice. It seems to love to cover up the global map LOL.

A 72 inch screen? With that amount of real estate your biggest problem is neck pain, I assume?

ORIGINAL: GaPete

Actually I've done that, and it has had some effect but, not the desired one. If I call the layout back up manually, it does come back up like I set it but, not from just one phase change to the next. The main effect was only where the MV window popped back up. It did stop coming back up at the default position but, now it keeps coming back up either high on the very right of the screen or low depending on the power and never in the same place twice. It seems to love to cover up the global map LOL.

There are two steps: (1) move the Map Views List form and/or the Screen Layouts List form to where you would like them, and (2) right click on the Screen Layouts List and select Redefine from the menu list. The program will write the new definition for the screen layout (SLY file, which includes the positions of the two list forms) out to disk. It will also use that new definition every time the major power changes.

Now, the annoying part is that you need to do both steps for each of the major powers. That's my design, so feel free to mutter my name under your breath when going through this process. I wanted to enable players to place forms in different locations for different major powers - hence the SLY file stores the information on form placements separately for each major power. See sections 11.4.1 and 11.4.2 in Players Manual Volume 2 for the gory details.

Steve, thank you very very much! I shall only utter your name in praise! I understand why you would need to do it for each country. Makes sense and it's completely logical. Now that I know I can do something with those windows I'm very happy. I will start as soon as I pull the game back up!

Axel, yes no kidding it's a 72 inch screen. It's a hidef DPL rear projection TV. Along with the PS3 and the cable box, I have two of my PC's permanently connected to it, including the one I keep my games on. It's an interesting experience but does have one little drawback. It's kind of hard to read text in the upper left hand corner of the screen but, past that, it's awesome!

ORIGINAL: GaPete

Steve, thank you very very much! I shall only utter your name in praise! I understand why you would need to do it for each country. Makes sense and it's completely logical. Now that I know I can do something with those windows I'm very happy. I will start as soon as I pull the game back up!

Axel, yes no kidding it's a 72 inch screen. It's a hidef DPL rear projection TV. Along with the PS3 and the cable box, I have two of my PC's permanently connected to it, including the one I keep my games on. It's an interesting experience but does have one little drawback. It's kind of hard to read text in the upper left hand corner of the screen but, past that, it's awesome!

[X(]Wow - that will be nice for your eyes. Less fatigue in that respect I would imagine. Or do you have the map on zoom level 3, while we lesser mortals have it at 5? That gives a nice overview!

Believe it or not, the one thing it doesn't do and I wish it did, was give you more screen area but it doesn't. It only makes things bigger than they would be at a comparable screen resolution of a smaller monitor. So yes, I do actually keep the map screen zoomed at two and three, mostly. Sometimes I'll zoom out to one, if I'm doing naval stuff. Three is pretty standard for like say, handling a battle the size of the western front in 1940. Come to think of it, I kept Barbarossa at that too. Like I said in the other one though, it's sometimes harder to read stuff on the upper left hand corner of the screen, depending on where you are sitting in relation to the TV. It's like that with anything the computers put up. That was why I had moved the main menu and info screen to the bottom in one of my first setups, which led to that problem of freezing the game whenever the US Entry marker box's came up. I've got it placed towards the middle now, that solved the problem. It's either that or I move the couch LOL.

Zoom level 5 on my 24" 1920x1200 when doing land moves, smaller is not so nice for the eyes. Rest of the forms on a 19" on the right side.
The size of your monitor is indeed nice to get that helicopter overview in zoom level 3.

Any folks out there already using those new ultra HD monitors? (4 times HD I believe),