Palette Docking 3.0 Wishes

[Kevin McAllister]

I would be interested in some of the following wishes for Palette Docking 3.0 -

- the ability to dock the Resource Manager as a tab like tabbed documents (tabbed documents is one of my favourite additions to VW2017)

- the ability to dock palettes next to each other above the mode bar/drawing window so the palettes can have a user controlled width. Right now anything you dock there automatically stretches to full width

- the ability to hide/show a dock area by clicking on the 3 dot divider (much like you can hide interface items in C4D)

- more control over what the Snapping Palette does when you dock it so you can maintain its layout and orientation (why isn't the Snapping Palette a regular tool palette?)

- a fix so a docking column can be sized to the width of the Snapping Palette (there's either a gap or it reflows into a single column of icons).

- the ability to dock script palettes

- the ability to open a worksheet as a tab like tabbed document and to have it open along with a document each time its opened.

Kevin

 

Edited September 24, 2016 by Kevin McAllister

[zoomer]

I'm with you ...

[Thomas Wagensommerer]

If you stretch a palette until it is much wider than tall, it should have its title bar on the left side. ClarisCAD had this feature in the eighties.

[Matt Overton]

Yes please...

Also an alternative horizontal Attributes palette is clearly needed to work well in the new system. 

[Kevin McAllister]

A well formed version of horizontal docking is desperately needed please.

 

Here's what it does now -

Not great.

 

This is my current workaround - a floating horizontal palette -

 

But you can see it doesn't play well with the new Multiple View Panes in VW2018.

 

It needs to be something more like this, where it respects how I set the icon layout but fits in at the top and relates to the document window, not the full width across the side palettes -

 

 

The Attributes Palette and the Snapping Palette also need some attention. They do the basics of docking but not in any intelligent way.

 

Thanks,

 

Kevin

Edited September 13, 2017 by Kevin McAllister

[zoomer]

Same here .... at the bottom ....

 

 

 

 

[Kevin McAllister]

11 minutes ago, zoomer said:

Same here .... at the bottom ....

 

 

 

 

I used to have mine across the bottom years ago. I ended up moving them to the top so most of my mouse moves were up - both for tools and for menus.

KM

[zoomer]

Gravity forces me to see the upper part of the monitor as a place more tedious to reach,

like things hidden in Text Menus. So this is reserved for things I don't use that often.

 

But nice to see that you do the same effort in sorting icons and division of manipulation vs creation

tools as I do.

[Kevin McAllister]

Bump

 

[Kevin McAllister]

Bumping this again. Still can't dock my horizontal palette across the top and have it hold its layout.

 

This is how I currently use it floating in the drawing -

 

 

Because this is what I get when I try and dock it -

 

 

Kevin