Navigation Palette - Multiple Instances

[patrickhubble]

Hi,

Using the navigation palette is very productive - an excellent organisational tool.

I use a dual screen, one widescreen dedicated to my drawing window, and the other screen dedicated to palettes (and other things). It would be great if you could allow multiple instances of the Navigation Palette - so that you could have columns going down the window of Classes, Layers and Saved Views (even sheet layers etc.).

This allows for us to see everything about a drawing when looking at the screen, and to turn layers, and classes off and on quickly.

[Jershaun]

This seems like it would be very helpfull.

[Chris D]

Multiple Resource Browsers would be good too.

Unless that is, NNA sort out the tree structure and allow me to have my symbols-inside-symbol-folders displayed, while also having my hatches displayed. Top level objects should always be displayed!

[Guest]

It sounds more like you want a tabbed extended interface - sort of how PPT and Word on Mac's works.

You have the tabs - classes, layers, sh layers, saved views, vps - and rather than a horizontal tabbed layout, you need a vertical layout. As you "expand" classes, you have a scroll window of classes. If you "expand" layers, you have a scroll window of layers. This would allow you to view classes and layers at the same time.

Does that make sense?

[Chris D]

Too much scrolling I reckon.

Better to allow us to tear off the existing tabs, or have multiple instances of the Nav Palette.

[Guest]

You have to scroll with the current system

With multiple instances, which one overrides which?

Or do you want one palette for classes, one for layers, etc. ?

[Chris D]

You have to scroll with the current system

not as much as with an opened vertical tree structure

With multiple instances, which one overrides which?

You can only make one change at a time, so why would you need priority. Each instance would update to reflect an edit in any other instance

Or do you want one palette for classes, one for layers, etc. ?

Well, i can't see a need to have two instances both showing classes (etc) at the same time, but no reason to prohibit it, if changes are reflected in each instance.

[patrickhubble]

Better to allow us to tear off the existing tabs, or have multiple instances of the Nav Palette.

Yes - or even follow the interface Adobe has in their products, with 'tabs that could tear off to form different palettes'. Have a look at their navigation palette in Photoshop - you can tear off the thumbnail 'tab' as a separate palette.