hide sidebar results in unwanted window resize

[Tyler Neill]

Does anyone else experience this issue?

I like being able to toggle the sidebar on and off, but whenever I hide it, the window resizes down, i.e., shrinks accordingly. I basically never want the window to resize unless I tell it to; I end up always having to re-stretch my window back across the screen every time I want to use the sidebar and then hide it again.

I know about and appreciate the "Automatically show" option in "Appearances" under "Preferences". However, this doesn't help with the above resize issue, and I can't find anything else that does. Any thoughts? Ideas for work-arounds?

Thanks!

-Tyler

Running: Version 11.6.5 (397066) (demo)

On: Mac OS X Sierra 10.12.4, Macbook Air 2014

[Barbara Snyder]

I think somebody else just brought this up recently as well, and I believe the answer was to contact support and request the behavior be changed.

--Barbara

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[Bruce Van Allen]

Hi Tyler,

On 4/19/17 at 7:47 AM, tyler....@gmail.com (Tyler Neill) wrote:
>I like being able to toggle the sidebar on and off, but
>whenever I hide it, the window resizes down, i.e., shrinks accordingly.

Save this Applescript to your BBEdit Scripts folder, and
remember that you can assign a keyboard shortcut to do it:


-- toggle file list of front window,
-- keeping overall window width constant
tell application "BBEdit"
set bnds to bounds of text window 1
set files visible of text window 1 to not the files visible
of text window 1
set bounds of text window 1 to bnds
end tell


HTH
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[Tom Mai]

Thanks, Bruce! Works fine :)

[Tyler Neill]

Very cool, thanks! It worked, and now I understand more for the next time I need something. Teach a man to fish...

[solak]

Thanks from me also for the AppleScript, though I still suggest that this should be the default behavior.

[@lbutlr]

On 17 May 2017, at 12:19, solak <sol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks from me also for the AppleScript, though I still suggest that this should be the default behavior.

I disagree. I want the width of my writing space to be maintained, no grow and shrink depending on other factors. I suspect I am in the majority.

However, this might be desirable on small screens, so maybe that is something BBEdit could check and model its behavior on that?

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[Tyler Neill]

Hi again, Tyler here.

Still enjoying BBEdit after years of productivity.

Just switched over to licensed while upgrading to 13.0.2. (Installer swiftly deleted my old version, and then I had to finish upgrading to MacOS before I could use BBEdit again...oops...)

Same old issue coming back up here. I basically just like to be able to switch the Currently Open Documents sidebar on and off at will, with a shortcut, without the overall window getting whacked out of shaped in the process. Now, though, after upgrading (NB: I also upgraded to MacOS Catalina), if I try my trusty old modified shortcut script (from Bruce above), I get an error dialogue saying "A scripting error has occurred: BBEdit got an error: Can't make visible into type visible." On top of that, the options in the Sidebar part of Preferences (i.e. Automatically show sidebar: As needed, Always, Never) don't seem to have any effect, and the View > Window Appearance > Hide Currently Open Documents menu command is greyed out — seemingly most similar to this old post on the TextWrangler forum (way back in 2012): https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/textwrangler/zyXubgVEgnw.

Sadly, my Applescript debugging attempts are not getting me anywhere. Any help?

Cheers

Tyler

[Rich Siegel]

On 11/15/19 at 11:16 AM, tyler....@gmail.com (Tyler Neill) wrote:

> Same old issue coming back up here. I basically just like to be able to
> switch the Currently Open Documents sidebar on and off at will, with a
> shortcut, without the overall window getting whacked out of shaped in the
> process.

Try this.

R.
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[Tyler Neill]

Hi Rich,

Thanks for the tip. The more pressing thing, however, is that I can't close the sidebar at all, in any way.

From above (emphasis added): "[T]he options in the Sidebar part of Preferences (i.e. Automatically show sidebar: As needed, Always, Never) don't seem to have any effect, and the View > Window Appearance > Hide Currently Open Documents menu command is greyed out — seemingly most similar to this old post on the TextWrangler forum (way back in 2012): https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/textwrangler/zyXubgVEgnw."

Screenshot:

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[Rich Siegel]

On 11/15/19 at 11:32 AM, tyler....@gmail.com (Tyler Neill) wrote:

>Thanks for the tip. The more pressing thing, however, is that I can't close
>the sidebar at all, in any way.

It looks as though you've hidden the Show/Hide Sidebar command.
You can turn it back on in the "Menus & Shortcuts" preferences.

[Tyler Neill]

Yes! Nailed it. Wow, I didn't even know that it was possible to have so much control over all the menu commands.

Re-enabled the menu command through Preferences > Menus & Shortcuts , gave it the preferred ⌘-0 keyboard shortcut, disabled the "Reshape window" option in Sidebar Preferences, and now I'm good to go.

Thanks for the super-fast help!

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