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whamalamaboom
whamalamaboom
Inspiring
February 8, 2020
Question

How to stop panels from changing height?

  • February 8, 2020
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I'm used to the way things work in PS so I don't know if this is a bug or if this is just how AI works. The height of the panels I have docked on the right, they don't stay that height. Whenever I click on another tab in the same "row", the panels above resize and it's infuriating.

 

In PS, the height of panels don't change unless I collapse the ones around it. Then it'll spread to fit the space. AI changes the height of panels whenever I click on another tab regardless. Anyone know how to lock the panels in place? I'm in AI 2019.

 

Not wasting time making videos/gifs to explain since my last post in this forum where I bothered to include media got marked as spam so I couldn't reply or get an answer anyway.

 

Thanks!

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    rcraighead
    rcraighead
    Legend
    February 8, 2020

    My experience is if the panel groups are docked to the side of the Application Frame:

    • Illustrator resizes the panel above the clicked tab
    • While Photoshop resizes the panel below the clicked tab

    If I undock the panel groups (so they float above the Application Frame panels don't fluctuate in size as much but may expand past bottom of screen.

      whamalamaboom
      whamalamaboomAuthor
      Inspiring
      February 8, 2020

      So there's no way to have panels docked in AI and not have this behavior? In PS, the panels below don't resize for me unless I collapse a panel above it. Simply clicking on the tabs of panels doesn't change anything. Everything stays the height I made it and nothing auto collapses when I click away from it.

       

      As a workaround in AI, I set up my panels so the ones that change to the same size when clicked are all on the same row if that makes sense. So it gives the illusion of the heights not changing, which is better than nothing I guess lol 

        rcraighead
        rcraighead
        Legend
        February 9, 2020

        It sounds like your grouped panels are not docked to the side of the Application Frame, but float separately. That is the only way PS or AI panel tabs will not auto-scale.

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