Finally updated to V4 of this beautiful piece of software and was wondering if it is possible to keep all of the command palettes on the right side expanded forever?

It's a very superfluous, not very important, definitely not critical thing considering I've created shortcuts for most commands so it's more of an aesthetic, slash OCD thing for me. :)

Related to this desire, there exists, or at least since I first acquired version 3, has always been that bit of empty white space above the command palettes that always made me wonder why the palettes auto-collapse... rather than be able to scoot them up and use up the empty UI real-estate, thus allowing for all the command palettes to remain expanded by default even when on a smaller laptop display?

Well, as stated not a big deal at all just a small desire that maybe can be resolved via the .ini or some other scipting magic that is beyond this 3D dude's skillset?

Thank you for any guidance and for creating the lovely CAD software that is MoI!

Hi zero-13, someone had a similar question not too long ago, check out here for some discussion:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=9953.1

It is possible to disable palette collapsing, however when they collapse it's because they're taking up more space than is available in the window and the alternative to collapsing is that you'll have a vertical scroll bar and you'll need to scroll up and down to get at some of them.

So the collapsing is handled in a script file SidePaneTabs.js which is in the UI sub-folder inside of the app install folder. There's a function in there named CompactPaletteHeaders(), if you edit it to place a return; statment as the first thing in it, that will effectively disable the auto collapsing. So you want it to look like this:

function CompactPaletteHeaders( HeaderToIgnore )
{
         return;

          <.... you can leave other stuff below it ...>

But then you'll need to do vertical scrolling instead. The collapsing exists to keep tabs on screen so that you can go to them without needing to scroll around.

- Michael

Hi Michael,

I definitely understand the reasoning for the collapsing behavior, and it is indeed superior to scrolling, I’ll leave it be and subdue the old OCD monster with the facts. :)

Thank you for your reply and solution!