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This is a quote from a request made FIVE years ago. Since that date, no change. Layer Manager still looks and works like a DOS 3 utility program.

"Would it be possible to make the column widths in Layer Manager adjustable (or auto-fit something like like Excel columns)? Then, make the adjusted column widths persistent so that when a particular project is re-opened the column widths are the same?

An alternate could be to make the Layer Color, Line Style, Line Weight, and Display Priority columns "auto fit" and the Layer Name and Group Layer adjustable.

I notice also that the "Protect" Column heading is truncated because the column is too narrow by default to show the full word."

My request still stands.

I agree.  Although we can now adjust column widths, they are not persistent and they are tedious to get changed since adjusting one changes the others to the left.  It's also really silly and maddening that when you click on a layer name, the whole row for the layer gets highlighted in blue, and then also the text of the layer's name gets highlighted in the exact same color blue so you can't tell that it is highlighted, then when you start typing something to go at the end of the layer name rather than adding to the name it deletes it since it was highlighted, unbeknownst to the user.

I'm also pretty sure I remember Trimble posting a couple years ago that they are no longer monitoring this site for bugs and feature requests.  They said those should go through your Trimble dealer now. lmao  Maybe one of them will chime in here if that is not the case anymore.

This is a quote from a request made FIVE years ago. Since that date, no change. Layer Manager still looks and works like a DOS 3 utility program.

"Would it be possible to make the column widths in Layer Manager adjustable (or auto-fit something like like Excel columns)? Then, make the adjusted column widths persistent so that when a particular project is re-opened the column widths are the same?

An alternate could be to make the Layer Color, Line Style, Line Weight, and Display Priority columns "auto fit" and the Layer Name and Group Layer adjustable.

I notice also that the "Protect" Column heading is truncated because the column is too narrow by default to show the full word."

My request still stands.

I agree.  Although we can now adjust column widths, they are not persistent and they are tedious to get changed since adjusting one changes the others to the left.  It's also really silly and maddening that when you click on a layer name, the whole row for the layer gets highlighted in blue, and then also the text of the layer's name gets highlighted in the exact same color blue so you can't tell that it is highlighted, then when you start typing something to go at the end of the layer name rather than adding to the name it deletes it since it was highlighted, unbeknownst to the user.

I'm also pretty sure I remember Trimble posting a couple years ago that they are no longer monitoring this site for bugs and feature requests.  They said those should go through your Trimble dealer now. lmao  Maybe one of them will chime in here if that is not the case anymore.

This is a quote from a request made FIVE years ago. Since that date, no change. Layer Manager still looks and works like a DOS 3 utility program.

"Would it be possible to make the column widths in Layer Manager adjustable (or auto-fit something like like Excel columns)? Then, make the adjusted column widths persistent so that when a particular project is re-opened the column widths are the same?

An alternate could be to make the Layer Color, Line Style, Line Weight, and Display Priority columns "auto fit" and the Layer Name and Group Layer adjustable.

I notice also that the "Protect" Column heading is truncated because the column is too narrow by default to show the full word."

My request still stands.

Wayne: In fact, the more I work with this the more I realize what a complete POS it is. It won't minimize so you either dock it and use up screen space (TBC is already the most cramped space of anything I work with) or buy another monitor. Utterly pathetic. Worse when you realize that a few lines of readily available, pre-written code would fix it.

I agree.  Although we can now adjust column widths, they are not persistent and they are tedious to get changed since adjusting one changes the others to the left.  It's also really silly and maddening that when you click on a layer name, the whole row for the layer gets highlighted in blue, and then also the text of the layer's name gets highlighted in the exact same color blue so you can't tell that it is highlighted, then when you start typing something to go at the end of the layer name rather than adding to the name it deletes it since it was highlighted, unbeknownst to the user.

I'm also pretty sure I remember Trimble posting a couple years ago that they are no longer monitoring this site for bugs and feature requests.  They said those should go through your Trimble dealer now. lmao  Maybe one of them will chime in here if that is not the case anymore.

This is a quote from a request made FIVE years ago. Since that date, no change. Layer Manager still looks and works like a DOS 3 utility program.

"Would it be possible to make the column widths in Layer Manager adjustable (or auto-fit something like like Excel columns)? Then, make the adjusted column widths persistent so that when a particular project is re-opened the column widths are the same?

An alternate could be to make the Layer Color, Line Style, Line Weight, and Display Priority columns "auto fit" and the Layer Name and Group Layer adjustable.

I notice also that the "Protect" Column heading is truncated because the column is too narrow by default to show the full word."

My request still stands.