Well this is how it ended today, there are a few things i would like to tweak but here is 2 am. One of those things is in the properties area were the object name and style are, it is very tight, the style is over the object measures. Any advice appreciated.

Hi ed - the problem if your remove them is that if you ever resize the window to make it smaller than your full screen (like if you unmaximize the window), some palettes will collapse down and leave only the header displaying. Normally you would then be able to click on the header after that to expand it again, but if you totally remove them then you will not be able to do that you could get in the situation where the palettes have collapsed and you don't have any way to expand it again.

So because of that I don't recommend that you remove them completely, it's probably best to leave at least a little bit of header at the top even if it doesn't have any text in it. You can remove the text from inside those by removing all the contents inside of the <moi:TabButton>...</moi:TabButton> elements, like the attached version.

There is some script code in the file SidePaneTabs.js that handles the collapsing and expanding of these palettes, and if you try to remove the tabs completely you would also need to alter some of the logic in that script code or else for example all your palettes would start out hidden because they would not initialize correctly since the initialization script code expects to set tab buttons to be active and tab buttons activating is what makes palettes to be shown or hidden.

If you do actually want them to be gone completely and you don't mind that the UI can then get broken if you resize the window to be smaller, you can set the TabContainers to have display:none by adding one line that says that to the css rule that controls the moi:TabContainer styling, see the attached SidePane2.htm that does that, the line added is marked with /* changed here */

- Michael

You're right! Well if I cannot hide them, how can I make it as wide as the square were the tools are?

Hi ed - you mean you don't want the little indentation on the left and right sides?

That indentation comes from padding set on the moi:PaletteHeader elements that are the containers of those tabs.

You can remove that by going to moi.css, go to the rule for:

moi\:PaletteHeader {
<....>
}


Inside of that there is an property set for:
padding:0 0.35em;

That's setting the bit of left/right padding on the header so that any child content inside of it (the tab controls) is effectively indented on the sides.

Change that to say:
padding:0;

and then there will not be any indent.

- Michael

Thanks a lot again Michael, here is what i got:

I finally decided to leave it this way:

hi

can you share your last one and tell me how to apply it please ?

thanks
Laurent

Sure, for installing just put the "commands" and "ui" folders in the moi folder inside the application, for that right clic the MoI 2.5 app then go /drive_c/moi. If you want the styles, put the "LineTypes.3dm" in that folder too. Then well Michael explained above were the moi.ini file goes. I must warn you that a lot of icons have been removed and replaced with shortcuts. Enjoy!

thank you

Here is the last version with new icons:

hi

i don't find the informations you mentioned about moi.ini. Michael talked about moi.css but i don't see for moi.ini.
can you point me where please ?

Laurent

Sorry it was in other post, here it is:

/Users/ [your user name] /Library/Application Support/Moi/moi.ini

Thanks

hi

when i want to look at your sidepane.htm for example, it is empty. In fact all htm files i want to look at are empty. is it normal ? is there a specific software that i have to use to see them ?
also if you have time can you point me where i should look to put back the icons you removed. i want to keep your ui but just have back all icons (because i'm learning).

thanks
Laurent

Hi Laurent, if you just double click on the .htm file the OS thinks that it is a regular web page that should be displayed in the browser and then fires up the web browser to load it.

But it's not quite a totally regular web page - it requires various controls and stuff that is set up by MoI, so a regular web browser won't be able to display it properly.

You can view it in a text editor app though, like open up TextEdit.app and then open it up in there to just view the text file content directly.

- Michael

got it.
i had to modify the preferences of textedit.
any pointer to restore the tab content (transform, construct ...) but keeping the custom ui ?

this is in the side panel file ?

thanks
Laurent

I took off the names for maintaining a clean ui but if you don't mind having them you can just replace the sidepane.htm of the new ui with the original. Other problem is I reduced the tab names to almost nothing, for having a full size name just replace the moi.css with this new one.

Here are the files for the final UI with the old lay out:

The instructions for installing:

Right clic the MoI 2.5 app, then go to the "drive_c" folder and then to "moi", put there the "commands" and "ui" folders. If you want the custom styles, put the "LineTypes.3dm" in that folder too. Then the moi.ini file goes in here: /Users/ [your user name] /Library/Application Support/Moi If you are using OSX Lion in the finder press shift+cmd+G and there write the direction I wrote above changing this part [your user name].

You may miss the Split/3D/Top buttons, you can use the shortcut i set "<" or the arrow keys or change that in the options/shortcuts panel.

very kind of you :)

thanks
Laurent