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basic palette action [Answered]

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#1

I may be in the minority here but I like having all my docked palettes open and scrooooollling up and down - I kinda get used to where certain functions are in the scroll.

My ‘problem’ is that if I accidentally click on the palette title it closes that palette. No problem, just click to open again - the problem is it then closes all my other palettes leaving me just one open. I can’t work out how to open all of them again.

I remembered something about pressing shift to open all - that doesn’t work. The auto collapse or ‘one open’ preferences aren’t checked either.

Any help?

thanks

#2

preferences.interface.palette.open one sub palette
preferences.interface.palette.auto collapse

turn those both off.

If you say they are both off I call shenanigans.
Pics/vids or it didn’t happen.

#3

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#4

Did you save your config after changes were made with Shift+Ctrl+i?

#5

depress “right tray” in palettes

#6

Config has always been saved with those options unselected Doug.

That’s got it beta. Thanks :slight_smile: - those buttons really make sense don’t they :rolleyes:

#7

There is a reasonable explanation if you hold ‘Ctrl’ while hovering your cursor over the ‘Right Tray’ and ‘Left Tray’ buttons. :wink:

#8

After a while you’ll have your UI to your liking. There’s a bunch readily available in the upper right. Screenshot of mine after over a year with the software here. http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?172590-Updated-UI

#9

wow that’s pretty far out doug - if the purple thang is yours (!!) I stick to grey default =|
I’ve been using zbrush for a while now - I just never got round to getting to the bottom of the palette collapsing, I just lived with it. One thing I have noticed, is that saving the config often means you end up with options you’ve not specified - i.e. whilst trying to sort this earlier I ‘re-stored’ the config , only to find it’d added the sub-palette auto close…then the lightbox was back on ‘open at startup’ (pixo seem really keen to keep this one) - in the end I just leave it as is and live with things.

yeah the context help menus are good zber I agree - but I still think some buttons are a bit whacky - like the enormous square ‘PRO’ button in the document palette! Or the massive ‘claypolish’ with it’s tiny accompanying sliders :smiley: I still love it though; like a slightly eccentric friend - a far cry from Maya, which is just snooty and awkward to a point =\

#10

Yeah, that’s what it looks like. There’s a zip in that thread with some customizations you may like, or maybe of no use to you. It must have some merit as it’s 3 out of 5 stars…