Hi Ed,

re:
> The one thing that would make it perfect is to have the side pane automatically scroll to the top
> whenever an input box appears (example: "Select objects to Fillet"). Otherwise it is likely hidden.

The way the regular one is set up it tries to avoid having the scroll bar appear. That's why it compacts palettes if there is not enough room.

That's based on the idea that It's better to have palettes collapse so that you can see all the palette titles on screen at a glance without having to scroll.

Having big giant palettes doesn't really fit with this strategy anymore.

But one thing you could try though for the effect you are talking about here is to move the side pane context area (that's where command UI gets displayed), out of the scroll bar area and into the top area where the title bar and current open file name is displayed.

To try that, go to SidePane.htm, and move <moi:SidePaneContextArea> outside of the middle body and place it after <moi:SidepaneFilename>.

Then command UI like prompts and command options should always be visible above the palette scrollable area instead of being inside the scrollable area.

- Michael