What happens when I run out of vertical estate on a feature script UI, do I get a scroll bar?

darren_13

My UI expands as I add different options such as ribs stringers and spars, with these options comes many more options for each one, what if my UI extends down further than I have screen? I tried just shrinking my browser but I just lost half my UI with no way of accessing the bottom half.

kevin_o_toole_1

Scrolling is definitely something we want to add to feature dialogs. We may be addressing this in the near future.

In the mean time, there is a somewhat ugly workaround: Hidden parameters in a feature dialog are stored in the definition just like everything else, so, with some amount of abuse of the conditional visibility system, you can create a UI that has a pseudo-tabbed behavior like so:



Here's a document that you can copy and play around with:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/699de6f7a31d0384f932c73f/w/d3867ccf46ebb33a158315b9/e/8065c5b7607c298e83499987

To be clear, I really don't think this is a style we want to encourage. The enum UI really represents exclusive options, (and does so elsewhere in Onshape, e.g. new/add/remove/intersect). I think it's confusing and inconsistent for the end user to have a bunch of invisible options affecting their feature output. Hence, our desire to work on better solutions

darren_13

Thanks @kevin_o_toole_1 , I'll implement this for now... This might actually make more sense to the user since the number of variables is getting very large.

Kind regards,
Darren

darren_13

as a follow up:



Looks very cool, cheers!
Darren