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Panels - I don't want "drop zones" or stucked zones or nothing (CS4)

Feb 17, 2009 12:09 AM

Morning all,
All I want is to move a panel without it auto stuck auto drop to any existing panel or group.
I am so exhausted from it.
I searched and searched for a solution, could not find any.

I tried to move them with command pressed but they still go to the drop zone.
(I have drop zone)

can't i cancel drop zones?
I just want to move them without paying attention to that all the time.

Help :(
OSX 10.5.6
CS4

732 Views 22 Replies Latest reply: Shlomit Heymann, May 20, 2009 6:26 AM

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1. MichaelKazlow,

Feb 17, 2009 8:34 AM in reply to Shlomit Heymann

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Please repost your question in the forum area that corresponds to the
product you are using. We have no idea what product that is. This forum
is for the most part reserved for suite-wide issues---mostly
installation issues.

Mike

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2. Lojambo,

Mar 9, 2009 7:29 PM in reply to Shlomit Heymann

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Mike, this is a suite question. Panels work the same way in all suite products.

I, for one, would like to know the answer to Shlomit's question.

Does anyone have an answer?

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3. Buko.,

Mar 9, 2009 7:35 PM in reply to Shlomit Heymann

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I have all of my panels on a second monitor they are all separate I guess I don't understand.

You can place the panels any where you want.

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4. Lojambo,

Mar 9, 2009 7:54 PM in reply to Shlomit Heymann

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It used to be possible to position panels next to or under other panels and have them tidily click into place without merging together.

Now my panels keep melting together when I park them next to each other. to avoid this I can park them about 30 pixels apart, but that wastes space.

I can either have them independent and messy or tidy and agglomerated into a single mega-panel. I want them independent and tidy, but this seems impossible to achieve.

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5. Shlomit Heymann,

Mar 9, 2009 9:02 PM in reply to Shlomit Heymann

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exactly my point.
I suffer so much from it.

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6. Shlomit Heymann,

Mar 9, 2009 9:11 PM in reply to Shlomit Heymann

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Mike,,
Sorry, but I truely don't understand why you wrote this to me.
this is a general problem regarding all applications in CS4,
and a very annoying one.
To my understanding, this is "Adobe Creative Suit Macintosh Forum" and not Installation issues forum, right?
As you can see today, others share the same frustration than I.

best day,
shlomit

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7. (Dave_Saunders),

Mar 10, 2009 6:34 AM in reply to Shlomit Heymann

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After you start moving a panel, hold down the Control key. You can now put it anywhere without fear of it attaching itself to something else.

Dave

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8. Buko.,

Mar 10, 2009 7:15 AM in reply to Shlomit Heymann

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>It used to be possible to position panels next to or under other panels and have them tidily click into place without merging together.

I still do that not sure why you can't

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9. Lojambo,

Mar 10, 2009 2:05 PM in reply to Shlomit Heymann

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Thanks Dave, that helps a lot.

We've still lost the automagic snap-in-to-place-under-the-other-palette, but the control trick relieves a lot of the annoyance.

Please tell us Buko, how you get your panel to snap neatly into place under another panel without welding itself to the other panel.

Thanks.

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10. Buko.,

Mar 11, 2009 8:02 AM in reply to Shlomit Heymann

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watch the highlight color when you touch the other panel.

if its just along the bottom it will snap to the bottom.

if the highlight color is all the way around it will snap in and be tabbed.

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11. Lojambo,

Mar 11, 2009 11:01 AM in reply to Shlomit Heymann

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Buko, when the highlight colour is along the bottom of the other panel, the two panels fuse together into one.

ie, it is not possible to close or move one without the other, without first separating them.

That's the problem here.

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12. Buko.,

Mar 11, 2009 11:12 AM in reply to Shlomit Heymann

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>when the highlight colour is along the bottom of the other panel, the two panels fuse together into one.

then don't have the panels touch, although its easy enough to tear off a panel.

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13. Lojambo,

Mar 11, 2009 11:29 AM in reply to Shlomit Heymann

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I like a tidy workspace, with the panels I want opening and closing at the tap of an f-key.

All the solutions you're describing are in fact the problem, not the answer, but thanks for chiming in*

* I mean this sincerely, zero sarcasm.

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14. Buko.,

Mar 11, 2009 11:49 AM in reply to Shlomit Heymann

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if you want to collapse a panel just click in the top bar were the name is. it doesn't matter if it is connected or not.

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15. (Dave_Saunders),

Mar 11, 2009 12:07 PM in reply to Shlomit Heymann

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I've taken quite a liking to collapsing panels to icons and using the preference: Auto-Collapse Icon Panels (in Interface Preferences).

Gets them out of the way very quickly and activates them fairly easily with the mouse (which I need in that vicinity anyway to operate the panel).

I have found one bug with this: if you try to delete a run of pages from the Pages Panel by selecting them and then choosing Delete Spreads from the drop-down menu, it only deletes the last page. You have to temporarily unhook the panel to delete a run of pages.

Dave

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16. Lojambo,

Mar 11, 2009 12:50 PM in reply to Shlomit Heymann

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I don't want to collapse a panel my clicking on it, I want to completely close it without clicking on it.

I use panels not to change settings, but also to inspect the state of my document and the properties of my objects, so auto-collapsing panels make no sense to me.

I've tried to love the CS4 interface, I've really tried. I'm glad it works for you guys, but no matter what I do it just gets in my way.

I'm seriously close to upgrading to CS2.

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17. (Dave_Saunders),

Mar 11, 2009 1:25 PM in reply to Shlomit Heymann

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If you iconize the panel, it closes automatically (assuming you choose the preference). You don't have to click on it.

Dave

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18. Buko.,

Mar 11, 2009 1:36 PM in reply to Shlomit Heymann

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sounds like you need a panel monitor. Then you can leave them all open all the time.

That's what I do.

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19. (Dave_Saunders),

Mar 11, 2009 2:33 PM in reply to Shlomit Heymann

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Buko,

I thought that was the way to go but I found it to be slower. I'd rather use the second monitor for another document, for ESTK, or for Acrobat.

Dave

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20. Lojambo,

Mar 11, 2009 2:38 PM in reply to Shlomit Heymann

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Dave, that's exactly what I don't like about them. I want my panels at my fingertips, coming and going at the press of an f-key, neatly arrayed at the edges of my screens.

Buko, I have a second monitor so I can see the photo I am retouching at print size, so I can see how the paragraph style options I am changing affect the density of the page and the legibility of the paragraph, not so I can turn it over to interface clutter.

Thanks for trying guys :)
Dave, your control-drag tip wins the thread.

I continue to be frustrated.
One of the worst things an interface can do is take control away from the user by attempting to guess what the user intends and getting it wrong. Panels used to work great, but now, to me, they're badly broken.

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21. Shlomit Heymann,

Mar 15, 2009 9:00 AM in reply to Shlomit Heymann

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Bit Monkey, I completely agree with you.
Adobe has taken my freedom to control my pannels.

Dave your solution is the best of course, only i still think it should be the opposite, that holding down the ctrl will cause them to melt to while moving them around will let me put them anywhere i want without get worried.
I'm a shortcuts person,
this slowing down my workflow....

thanks to you all,
just glad to know i'm not the only frustrated one....
:)

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22. Shlomit Heymann,

May 20, 2009 6:26 AM in reply to Shlomit Heymann

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I'm even more frustrated.
I don't understand why wehn i press an underneath pannel on it's center, it will not bring it to front. only if i press it's name but than it close it.
I hate these pannels. hate them!

Adobe,
Please give me back the control

Shlomit

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