I installed the MiniSidepane.js and it is exactly what I wanted, cool!

But it is missing the selection and hide buttons. How do I get these to show?

Hi Michael,
your suggestion worked.
When I switched to window mode it was very small.
So I expanded the window, expanded all the sections and set it to full screen.
Now when I open MoI the sections are expanded.

Thanks
Juraj

@Death,

> I installed the MiniSidepane.js and it is exactly what I wanted, cool!
>
> But it is missing the selection and hide buttons. How do I get these to show?

Do you possibly have a customized side pane UI?

Can you show what your side pane looks like?

- Michael

Hi Michael,

sorry for the late response, was out all day...

Here's the screen grab from the side panel,

thanks for taking the time!

Hi Death, since you have already customized the side pane you shouldn't use MiniSidepane.js - the way it works is it shuffles around some of the HTML content using script and it makes assumptions that the side pane contents are in their regular default setup.

It's meant to be used to rearrange the default side pane palettes, it doesn't really make sense to use it if you have customized and reordered it yourself already.

- Michael

The thing is that they are missing...

I didn't change anything with the sidebar except adding the script in the startup folder.

Even if I use the unmodified MOI, they are still missing, so it isn't the customization that made them disappear...

Unless it' a Beta 4 issue?

Hi Death, what you are showing there is a customized side pane, you probably got it from the dark UI customization.

re:
> I didn't change anything with the sidebar except adding the script in the startup folder.

You must have done so in order to get what you are showing.

If you didn't make a backup of the original UI before modifying it, you can get it by doing a reinstall.

- Michael

Yeah, but the ONLY script is MiniSidepane.js, your script (in the previous pic) with an clean install, the items are still missing...

Hi Death, I'm not sure how to describe it more clearly - the items are missing because you have installed a customized SidePane.htm . The particular version you installed had them removed I guess.

The default UI looks like this:



Note for example the default UI has Draw curve / Draw solid as separate tabs while yours is not like that and instead has Draw/Edit combined together into a single tab. That's due to the custom UI that you are using.

To get back to the default UI you would need to restore the original SidePane.htm and any other files you modified or reinstall.

- Michael

Hi Death, or probably to correct what I wrote above, it's not that your customized SidePane.htm has it missing - it's that MiniSidePane.js is not compatible with your customized SidePane.htm and won't work right, like I wrote above here:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=6507.385

If you want to use MiniSidePane.js you would need to have the default SidePane.htm , not a modified one.

So either remove MiniSidePane.js or keep MiniSidePane.js and restore the default SidePane.htm .

If don't have the original SidePane.htm then do a reinstall to get the default UI back again.

- Michael

Let me try again, because maybe I have been too muddy about this:

On a default installation I wanted the panes to be combined and open, the script to do that is MiniSidepane.js (to be installed into the startup folder), because the default installation doesn't have that.

However, when I do that, the aforementioned items are still missing. I guess Max Smirnov overlooked them? What I need to know is what to do to have them back in there.

Is there a version that has them?

(This is more a question directed a Max).

Suggestion: It would be great, if you (Michael) could implement that (combining/splitting up) of the panes as an checkbox option in the next beta under the Options Menu. I love MoI and think this is the way to go for modeling, but the constant switching between tabs is kind of annoying, especially if one has the screen real-estate to fit the open panes.

Anyway, thanks again for your time, sorry to steal so much of it...

Hi Death, oops sorry my problem was that I wasn't quite remembering properly what MiniSidepane.js does, I was thinking that it moved things in a different way (to split apart Construct / Transform tabs into individual tabs).

Sorry I was confused about that - there is additionally a problem with MiniSidepane.js that it should not be applied onto already customized UI.

So yeah it's just designed intentionally to remove those particular tabs. I don't think there is a version that keeps them.

But to modify it how you want, remove the 2 lines that have:

doc.getElementsByTagName("moi:PaletteHeader")[2].remove();
doc.getElementsByTagName("moi:PaletteBody")[2].remove();

That is the code that is removing the standard Edit / View / Select tabs.

If you then want to remove just the Edit tab on that row and leave View / Select put in this:

doc.getElementById("EditTab").remove();
doc.getElementById("EditTabContent").remove();

Hope I have that straightened out now, sorry for the confusion.

- Michael

Thanks!

And sorry for stealing your time, it is better spent on developing MoI than talking to dummies like me, I appreciate your time and thanks for the solution. I'll try it and let you know things fared...

Have a good night and keep up the good work!

Jack

No problem Jack, sorry I wasn't understanding it for a while there!

- Michael

You pointed me in the right direction, got it done the way I wanted now...

Here's what I tried to do and achieved thanks to your help.

Many thanks! (again)

Jack

Hi Death (weird thing to write)
You see all the icons now?
Can you share how and what you had to modify?

Thanks
Juraj

When you click on for instance the scale tool, can you show a screen grab of where the sub menu with this config pops up?

Hi Yuri,

I changed a bunch of things, don't all remember the details.

(I didn't include "Select All" and "Deselect All", since that's just CTRL-A and a "click in empty screen space")

Your screen resolution should be at least 1900x1200 to make it work well, font size (in MoI's OPTIONS) should be 9.5


Drop this file into your user's ApData/moi/startup directory and it should work automatically.
In my case that is:

C:\Users\Jack\AppData\Roaming\Moi\startup (just replace "Jack" with whatever your user name is)

If you don't have a "startup" (no quotes and all lower case) directory, just make one and drop it in there. Alternatively you can use the Moi program directory and drop it into there (again, into the startup directory, if it doesn't exist, just create one).

It should then look like you see in the picture attached.

This will even work with the default MoI installation (and should work with any custom UI's, the 2nd screenshot attached uses the grey custom UI).

If you want your normal MoI panes back, just delete the file from the startup directory and MoI works as if nothing ever happened...

Jack

Hi co3Darts,

where they usually do...

Thanks! Looks like a nice mini setup :)