Larger View Manager Window

[ShandRonnie]

Wildfire 2.0



How can I make the “View Manager” window larger by default in order to show all my simplified representations at once?
I do not like to have to drag the window every time I need to select a rep.



Is there a configuration option so that the View Manager window expands as the list of Simplified Representations increases? Am I asking too much?

If I were a software developer this would make sense to me.



I guess I could create a Mapkey for a fixed larger size and place it as an icon in the Commands Toolbar.



Thanks in advance,



Ronnie Shand

[dgschaefer]

"If I were a software developer this would make sense to me."

If you were a programmer that used the software, or at least watched
people use the software. I'm convinced very few developers at PTC have
actually used Pro|E in a real work environment or observed people doing
so. If they did, certainly a lot of things like this would be
different.

One of the first things I did was make a mapkey that drags that view
manager window larger and replaced my view manager button with a button
that called the mapkey. It does seem to behave a little wonky at time
because I think that the mapkey remembers the state of the VM when it
was recorded, so it's a bit inconsistent at times. Not enough to worry
about though. Here it is:

mapkey vm @MAPKEY_LABELView Manager;\
mapkey(continued) ~ Select `main_dlg_cur` `MenuBar1`1 `View`;\
mapkey(continued) ~ Close `main_dlg_cur` `MenuBar1`;\
mapkey(continued) ~ Activate `main_dlg_cur` `View.push_view_vistool`;\
mapkey(continued) ~ Resize `visual_dlg0` `visual_dlg0`4 32.927440
0.723937 4.250209 16.837364;

you may need to record your own to get it to do what you want.

Doug Schaefer