I appreciate the notes and patience. Just to be clear are you talking about the ability to do this?
My request to the dev team is to make this the new layout scheme which I think will get you there:
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i agree,
i hated when explorer, properties & output closes themselves
toolbox constantly expands itself & terrain editor keeps on opening
when will the fix be released?
Have you tried changing these settings? Does it change or improve the behavior?
Our engineers have been spread thin working on higher priority stuff so I donāt have an ETA but we do have a backlog of improvements and fixes we want to make sooner than later.
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This did fix my layout being messed up between sessions. Thanks for making this solution visible!
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Hey Paul,
Thank you for your continued efforts on this issue.
Can you clarify what steps we should take today to get consistent layouts in test mode (where I spawn a new server and add players)? I am unable to get a consistent layout, and it is a killer in my DX.
I have tried a combination of having the āLoad all Built-In plugins in Test Modeā and āLoad User Plugins in Test modeā both enabled and both disabled, restarting studio by spawning a new test server and making my changes (then hitting ācleanupā, and closing studio), and just repeating my changes many times. No matter what I do, studio seems to reset my layout every time I create a new test server.
Is there plans for an option alike making studio copy my normal layout over to Test Mode instances of studio (both the server and player views)?
Today, when I start a new Test Server, it takes me a minute or two to change the layout of Test Mode instances to the same layout that I have when I edit in studio. I want the layout to remain the same ā just as it does when I close one game and open another.
even with both enabled, it just resets every time
Yes the intended behavior is we save your layouts per mode. Unfortunately weāve just not the had the time or people to get back on this since we came out of Beta. But itās something Iām tracking and weāll get someone looking back into it soon (I hope!)
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We have not updated to add those āSouthwestā and āSoutheastā regions yet. This is what Iāve asked for because I believe it will solve the most common issues weāve heard about with the new layout schemes.
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i know, but adding those would benefit developers who have their layouts like that
i hope Northwest and Northeast main window docking region & the left region for floating windows gets added in the future!
in total, there will be 13 docking regions to choose from in this concept, 4 more than what we have now at least in the main window.
on the floating window, there will be a new left region. It still exists, but attempting to dock to it crashes Studio
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to this day, the fix for the constantly resetting layouts on launch is not released.
when will it come out?? IāM TIRED OF HAVING TO CONSTANTLY RECONFIGURE EVERYTHING TO MY LIKING!!
edit 8/16/2024: it now just gets worse as it now resets every time i open a new session.
i hope it does not keep getting any worser and worser and worser as time passes.
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We are no longer explicitly resetting layouts to avoid corruption (and havenāt for a couple months). So as soon as you observe what looks like a layout reset, if you can get logs to me we can take a look to see what might be happening.
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thanks, i noticed way less of the dreaded layout reset, but i have enabled flags where the improved place opening is enabled at all times
but this created a new bug, where rarely, all widgets would close but not reset
this also affects the command bar (extremely rarely)
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Place Open is now at 100% so you can get rid of those flag overrides. It will be hard to troubleshoot for us if youāve got a bunch of local flags set.
Fixed my layout, but i had to move the explorer to the toolbox then take it back to the properties window.