Layer Control Width

[neilyj666]

I like to have the Layers I and II toolbars visible as shown above but can't figure out how to make the Layer control box wider to see more of the (cumbersome?) BS1192 Layer names.

I have put the Layer control in the Quick Access toolbar and can widen it out quite bit but for some unknown reason if I access my PC from home via remote desktop the Quick access toolbar resets to defaults (which is annoying in itself)

Anyone know if - 

1. It is possible to change the width of this control and
2. Why the QAT resets itself?

Thanks

Neil

[wfberry]

Neil:

Interesting you showing that dropdown in your pic, I have used the LPM "Button" just to the left for so long I forgot about that.  I just use that window to see what layer I am on.

Bill

Not much help, am I?

[neilyj666]

LOL....it is also useful to move geometry to the correct layer as my default is Layer 0 - not that I EVER draw anything on the wrong layer

[Anonymous]

I, too, put my layer box on my QAT. However, the location shown in your image is not the location of my QAT. You may have moved yours, or maybe it's a different version of C3D (I'm on 2015, but location remains true through 2018).

First I type "CUI" at the command line to open the customize user interface dialog, then I navigate to the Quick Access Toolbar drop-down menu. I think you have to add this Layer List Combo Box to the QAT through this dialog as well. Once that's done, you can adjust the min./max. width as shown on the right on my image.

[neilyj666]

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@Anonymous wrote:

I, too, put my layer box on my QAT. However, the location shown in your image is not the location of my QAT. You may have moved yours, or maybe it's a different version of C3D (I'm on 2015, but location remains true through 2018).

First I type "CUI" at the command line to open the customize user interface dialog, then I navigate to the Quick Access Toolbar drop-down menu. I think you have to add this Layer List Combo Box to the QAT through this dialog as well. Once that's done, you can adjust the min./max. width as shown on the right on my image.

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This is not the location of my QAT either - it is the Layers and Layers II toolbar docked below the drawing tabs with the Explode and Measure Distance tools added.

As I said in my original post, the Layer Control gets removed (as do all the other tools I added) from the QAT when accessed via remote desktop and the Control in the Layers toolbar isn't wide enough. The version I had in the QAT was set to a width of 500

[AllenJessup]

QuikPik from Manusoft will do it. Still cost the same as I paid in 1999 and I still get updates. You can't beat that.

[neilyj666]

Thanks for this Allen - it certainly solves the width issue although I had hoped the Layer control could be resized without 3rd party add ons - seems a little odd if it can't be.

[AllenJessup]

Neil,

It probably can be. If you know as much as the person who wrote the add-on. There's probably a DLL or registry entry that affects this. But if I've spent more that a half hour on trying to figure it out. I've spent more on my time than the program costs.

[neilyj666]

Yes very frustrating that the setting is not immediatley apparent.

I'm going to try setting the QAT below the ribbon and to see if it behaves