Options for Resource Browser

[M_Fedoruk]

Coming from Vectorworks 8, I feel that this is actually a step backwards - Previously the 'browser showed the full name of the symbol o object and the current object chosen for symbol insertion, now it shows only an abbreviated name and thumbnail - some of my symbol names start with the same word but end differently making it difficult to tell which is which (I know if I leave the mouse pointing to the symbol on the resource browser it will show me the full name after a few seconds but ???? if I'm looking at a number of symbols this is aggonizingly slow).

Switching to view as list (which now gives me the full name, provided I give lots of screen real estate to the resource browser - at its narrowist I find an icon telling me whether I've chosen a 2d or 3d symbol or a hatch and and enough space for two letters to actually tell me what the sybol or hatch really is and and a huge (13 spaces) area telling me again that I've chosen a symbol or hatch) is worse as I have no idea what symbol is currently chosen until I actually place it in my drawing.

I got a larger screen to actually see more of my working drawings, is there some way of making the resource browser act/look more like the one in version 8 or do I have to put this on the wish list?

[M_Fedoruk]

Okay...since there seems to be no reply to this, I'll post this to the wish list.

[mackerr]

I second that emotion. The Resource Browser has made me revert to VW9.5. My symbol library contains many symbols with similar names, and I like to view it as a list as the not to scale thunbnails are very distracting. Unless I make the browser window very wide the names are truncated and I can't tell them apart. I don't need to see the type, why can't I minimize it or just get rid of it.