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Toolbox Titles

David Bearss
Booster

I have just upgraded to v28. Coming from v18 the GUI is quite different. One thing I am trying to do is show the toolbox titles when the toolbox is floating or undocked. Can someone point me in the direction 

David Bearss
Archicad 28/Windows 11
Alienware 17 R5
i7 2.4 GHz / 16 GB ram
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CosminF
Expert

Hi,

You can just resize it and the titles will appear, even if it is undocked:

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Cosmin Furdui - architect @ Wincon
AC 27, running on Windows 11 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-14700K CPU64, 3.40GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX5060 32GB

The pallets show titles but none of the toolboxes show titles anymore. See the colorful AC18 view and the totally bland AC28 version.

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David Bearss
Archicad 28/Windows 11
Alienware 17 R5
i7 2.4 GHz / 16 GB ram

HI David,

 

This must be a Windows implementation issue.  It could be related to not having the display set to 100% (setting to 125% etc in the past would make displayed user interface elements funky).

Here's what I see on a Mac for the on screen options toolbar... when fully horizontal, and as I stretch it towards vertical.  As soon as there is enough vertical space I see the title...   But, obviously very different from yours as the title 'bar' is always on the left for me... and it's on the top for you... which would make it disappear if fully vertical I imagine...  Odd.

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AC 28 USA and earlier   •   macOS Sequoia 15.4, MacBook Pro M2 Max 12CPU/30GPU cores, 32GB

The image you show with the titles is a really old version (18) as it has coloured icons.

The newer versions (Windows at least) don't have titles for the toolbars - the palettes do have titles.

I don't know of any option to turn them on - I think it is just part of the newer interface.

 

Barry.

One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
i7-10700 @ 2.9Ghz, 32GB ram, GeForce RTX 2060 (6GB), Windows 10
Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11

Tried messing with the windows display settings from 100% up to 200% and then fiddled with display settings with no change.

Could be something with the Alienware I am on. 

David Bearss
Archicad 28/Windows 11
Alienware 17 R5
i7 2.4 GHz / 16 GB ram

I think it is just the 'new' (monochrome) interface that does not have toolbar titles in Windows OS.

Even when I stretch to vertical as Karl showed, I see no titles.

 

Barry.

One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
i7-10700 @ 2.9Ghz, 32GB ram, GeForce RTX 2060 (6GB), Windows 10
Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11