GUI Request - Longer Object Layer Name Display Window

It would be great if the layer name display field at the bottom of the interface (which shows either the active layer name or the name of a selected object’s layer) was adjustable or quite a bit longer. It’s usual in my projects for the currently limited size to show only the prefixes of a layer’s name (including the parent layer in the - frequent for me - case of nested layers) which isn’t enough to identify them. It’s great that hovering over the field shows the full name, but it would be a lot better for the display to be sized (or sizable) so that a much longer layer name can show. There’s a lot of space - at least at my working resolution - to the right of the CPU / Minutes from last save / Memory Use / etc display field so maybe the entire row could afford to slide right quite a bit.

Hello- you can make it longer via Options > Advanced >

Rhino.Options.Appearance.StatusBarLayerPaneWidth

Default is 2, 3 0r 4 may work for you.
Close and restart Rhino to see the effect.

-Pascal

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That looks great, but it must only be in Rhino 8. I’m still on 7 and I can’t find this item.

Hi David -

That’s correct, yes.
-wim