Provide the ability to change column width in configurations

[Julie_7]

Configuration and Theme tables have fixed width columns. That means when the value is an expression and not just a simple number that the value is not visible. In the table below you can see that the column name for the second column is truncated. In the Theme table below the bin_height values are truncated. This is especially problematic when editing the fields as they are never large enough to see the entire content. (I realize that in my example that I do not need the named parameters as I can just put the values in the theme table. I was converting an existing design. Regardless, the values in the cells may be any expression and when long it will be difficult to edit.) When working with parameters I often resize the expression column to make it very wide so that entire expressions are visible.

Feature Requests:

  1. automatically size column widths to show their content, unless the user has manually set columns widths

  1. remember the column widths that the user has set for the table

  2. provide the ability to auto size a single column by double clicking the column name separator, which needs to be added. This is common in other applications such as Windows File Explorer (image below shows the vertical bar between column names)

[gautham_kattethota]

@Julie_7 

The table currently supports resizing of columns if the header or the cell content is too long for the default size.  Double-clicking on the column header resizes to fit the contents.  Right now, we are not remembering resized columns when the dialog is closed.  But we are working on remembering this so that when the Configuration dialog is re-opened, any columns that were resized will be presented the way they were before.

Regards

Gautham

[Julie_7]

Well that is nice to know. Sadly it is not obvious given decades of having a separator between column headers that allowed double clicking to auto-size.

Also, without the ability to drag the divider between headers, I can get in a situation where I double click to resize a column with a very long expression and have no way to shrink it after I am done looking at that text. Though, as you mentioned I can close and reopen the configuration table to go back to the original size.

Thanks!