Shapes menu - persistent panel resize

[ARSoderberg]

To go with the new persistent Shapes panel feature (TinkerCAD style). It would be great if the Shapes window were resizable as well to accommodate very large (or smaller than average) monitors. If the menu is set narrow the shapes should lose their name text (also like TinkerCAD).

Also, When the Shapes menu is set persistent, the workspace X axis should recognize that the panel is there and adjust its center for proper right mouse buttons camera movements.

[prmod3d]

Me too, yes please, to a resizable Shapes panel!

[henmedia]

Thanks, and thanks @prmod3d for adding your voice. Both of the first two are built and will be in the next release:

• The edges and corners of the Shapes panel now pull its width and height, as large or as small as your screen needs. The size is remembered like its position, and a double-click on an edge sets it back.
• When you pull it narrower than about 300 px, the names go and only the pictures stay. The name shows in the tooltip when you point at a shape.

The centre for moving the camera is a bigger step, so I have not touched it yet. Right now it is the middle of the whole drawing area, so any panel on the right (Properties as well, not only Shapes) makes it look shifted to the left. It touches every way the view moves, so I'd like to look at it on its own. If I got your meaning wrong, please tell me what you see.

[prmod3d]

Excellent! Also, would it be possible to make the Pin in the upper right corner of the Shapes panel a little larger? As you can see in my recent screen capture regarding the Shapes Panel moving Bug (EDIT: #509), when using layerling at higher screen resolutions that tiny pin becomes a challenging target!

[henmedia]

@prmod3d the pin is bigger now: its button is 36 px wide instead of 28, and the symbol is 20 px instead of 16. It will come with the next release.

[prmod3d]

Thanks!

[henmedia]

@ARSoderberg, it is out in 1.87.0: the Shapes panel can be pulled to any size at its edges and corners (the size is remembered), it shows only the pictures when it is narrow, and its pin is larger. The centre of the camera movement is still open, I want to look at it on its own. Reload the page to get it; the installed app needs a restart.

[henmedia]

@prmod3d thank you for the pictures, they made it clear. The panel remembers its place, but it held that place inside the window using its usual, much wider size, because the size you had pulled it to was only read afterwards. So a narrow panel at the right edge opened about 600 pixels too far to the left each time. The size is read first now, and the panel opens where you left it. I measured it with the same sizes: before, it opened at the wrong place; now it opens at the same place every time. It will come with the next release.

[henmedia]

@ARSoderberg, @prmod3d the shape library opens where you left it, also at a size of its own, in 1.88.0. The remembered position was held inside the window with the old, wider size; the size is read first now. Reload the page to get it; the installed app needs a restart.

[prmod3d]

Tested, and works great now. Thanks!

I did notice that if you pin the panel, and then close the app, the panel won't be pinned again on the next start -- so not retaining visibility between session. However, once the Shapes panel is activated again, it opens and returns to the proper position and the pin is active. So there's a bit of a disconnect with retaining the panel's pinned status but not active (visible) status.

[henmedia]

@prmod3d thank you for testing, and good that the position is right now. You are right about the pin: it was remembered, but the panel itself always started closed. A pinned panel now opens by itself when the editor starts, where you left it. It comes with the next release.

[henmedia]

@prmod3d it is out in 1.89.0: a pinned shape library opens again by itself when the editor starts, where you left it, so the pin and the panel stay together. Reload the page to get it; the installed app needs a restart.