Undocking and re-docking panels . .

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I hadn’t realised until today that Panels could be undocked . . . I was having a play trying to educate myself a little to try and reproduce another user’s experience and found some anomalies and somethings that raised further questions for me.

My usual Appearance panel layout looks something like this . . .

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ICONS on left and panel on right . . . but I can also get this . . .

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Appearance on left, ICONS middle and Selection filter on right

That’s easy to fix and have the Appearance and Selection filter in the same column. At one point this morning I also managed to have an ICON column about the same width as the standard Appearance panel. I haven’t been able to reproduce that though . . . Correction:

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Just took a little more random dragging and dropping.

One thing I can’t figure out is how to get the ICON column back to the left . . . anyone know how ?

Application: KiCad PCB Editor x64 on x64

Version: 9.0.0, release build

Libraries:
	wxWidgets 3.2.6
	FreeType 2.13.3
	HarfBuzz 10.2.0
	FontConfig 2.15.0
	libcurl/8.11.1-DEV Schannel zlib/1.3.1

Platform: Windows 11 (build 22631), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
OpenGL: Intel, Intel(R) UHD Graphics, 4.6.0 - Build 32.0.101.5768

Build Info:
	Date: Feb 19 2025 17:46:53
	wxWidgets: 3.2.6 (wchar_t,wx containers)
	Boost: 1.86.0
	OCC: 7.8.1
	Curl: 8.11.1-DEV
	ngspice: 44
	Compiler: Visual C++ 1942 without C++ ABI
	KICAD_IPC_API=ON

Locale: 
	Lang: en_GB
	Enc: UTF-8
	Num: 1,234.5
	Encoded кΩ丈: D0BACEA9E4B888 (sys), D0BACEA9E4B888 (utf8)
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It’s also an issue in the Schematic editor . . .

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Yes, the feature that enables these panels in wxWidgets is pretty basic and doesn’t make it possible for us to prevent this kind of thing. We had discussed disabling docking/undocking overall until this is improved, but decided that letting people do a thing that in some cases may be useful and in some cases can cause UI bugs is maybe better than not letting them do the thing at all.

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Ah OK, I’ll hold off on the Bug report as it’s a known issue/limitation.

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To answer my own question . . . close the editor and re-open it. :slight_smile:

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Yup, if this happens, the fix is to just close and re-open