Hi Alex,

You can use my sidepane mod as example. In my opinion it's a better way than editing sidepane.htm directly.
Copy it to appdata/startup directory

Thanks Max,

A great help!

And thanks for all of your scripts.

Regards,

James E

Thank you very much Max!

Very interesting approach as usual.

One of the things I much like of your programming style is that first of all you give to your business logic a solid foundation (classes, workflow, data structures), where later it's easy to put the hands on.

Thanks a lot.

Hi Max,
very helpful - thank you
-moritz

Hi Max, it's a good idea but one pretty big downside is that it will be easy for this script to break things if the default UI changes in structure, either in the ordering of palettes or for any new things added to Draw curve or Construct.

And with it running automatically it will be pretty easy for someone to forget they installed it and they will get confused why some new version's UI is missing things.

The content and ordering of the side pane palettes has not changed for a long time, but at some point it will when new areas like dimensioning are added.

- Michael

Hi Michael,

yes, you're right. I wrote this script for myself, so I didn't think about this.
I updated the script. Now it checks a length of SidePane.htm body tag.

Hi max.

Hmmm...Michael as pointed out the right thing...as usual.
I didn't realize that issue. But for me your setup is a good starting point.
I really like "all things in less panel" :)

@You : "...I updated the script..."

Where's the updated version ? Thanks.


@You : "...Now it checks a length of SidePane.htm body tag..."

Could you please be more precise ? What's the thing you are checking ?

Thanks a lot.

Hi Marco,

>>Where's the updated version ?
download the script again.
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=8064.8

>>What's the thing you are checking ?
I added a line:

if (doc.getElementsByTagName("body")[0].innerHTML.length === 19454) ... 

Thanks Max, that will prevent some future confusion I'm sure.

When that does change it shouldn't be difficult to update this script as well at that point.

Thanks, - Michael

Thanks a lot Max!

@You : "...I added a line:..."

A neat trick :)

Hi Max,

Many thanks in advance - unfortunately I have copied into this location and I cant get it to work.

C:\Users\lapkad\AppData\Roaming\Moi\startup

using win10 and MOI FEB release.

Hi Alex.

@You : "...C:\Users\lapkad\AppData\Roaming\Moi\startup..."

Very strange...for me works flawlessly.

Ciao.

Hi Alex, are you launching MoI by double clicking on a file or just launching it all by itself?

@Max - when MoI is launched and given a file to open, the file will be opened before startup scripts run and the pieces of the sidepane that holds the current filename will be different and so will yield a different length. So maybe get the length of the id="MiddleBody" element that won't include the current filename, or look at the SidePane.htm file directly instead of the dynamic HTML content...

- Michael

Hi Michael
it's the same for me on Mac

On Windows 7, using taskbar icon to start MoI4betaFeb2018, or double clicking on a .3dm file, the Feb 27_2018 version does not work, although the initial version did work, and the newer version works with the if line commented out.

On regular monitor, the two menus overlap, and must be alternately selected. Both or either can be minimized.

On my 4K monitor, both Draw/Edit and Construct/Transform menus show up in full, one above the other.
(I have Scene browser placed "adjacent")
There could be room for more icons on the 4K monitor...

- Brian

Hi Michael,

As bemfarmer reported starting new doc using startup icon or opening existing file same outcome.

Thanks
Alex.

Hi Alex, try editing the MiniSidepane.js file and removing that line that starts with "if" (the 2nd line in the file).

That should then work for the moment until an update can be done.

- Michael

Hi Michael,

Thanks for response between you and Max - make MOI the golden arrow in CAD. Have to say that layout mode is much more inline with modern screen resolutions and having the need to switch between pallets. The ol'mouse finger aint what it used be..

Awesome

Hello all, I'm coming to this conversation a little late, so could someone tell me what I should do to have those panels separated with the latest beta (Jan-22-2020). I'm on Mac OS 10.15.3 Catalina, I am not familiar with scripting at all, and when trying to edit de SidePane.htm file with text edit, all I see is blank with no text at all…
Any help will be appreciated :)

Hi marc, the easiest way for v4 is here:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=9439.3

> I'm on Mac OS 10.15.3 Catalina, I am not familiar with scripting at all, and
> when trying to edit de SidePane.htm file with text edit, all I see is blank
> with no text at all…

Some info on why this happens here:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=8330.3

- Michael