Swap Between Panel Tabs with a Command?

Hi all,
When working on a laptop I often find myself with limited screen space, and end up constantly switching between tabs in the side panel. For instance when making drawings I often switch between: Layers, Layouts and Properties. On a larger screen I can make individual panels, but I was thinking for laptop work it would be great to be able to toggle between tabs with a command.


Running the command _Properties launches a floating window instead of switching to the tab in the docked window:


Is it possible to do this with command arguments or could the functionality be made possible in the future?

Cheers,
T

Hi Tristan -

That’s the idea behind the window layouts feature in Rhino 8.
When you run the WindowLayout command, you can switch between 3 layouts that are shipped with Rhino. You can also save your modified layouts when you need access to specific panels in specific situations.

Using the dashed version of the command lets you create a macro to switch to a different layout without having to pick one from this panel.
-wim

@wim Thanks, I set up some test macros:
Prop: _-WindowLayout T_Properties
Lay: _-WindowLayout T_Layers

However I seem to get about two seconds of lag and spinning beach ball when running the commands, which is a lot slower than going over and clicking on the tab.

Is this a bug or something that might get faster in the future?
Video attached below.
Cheers,
T

dear @tristanryerparke1

i totally agree - it s mess.
similar issues reported here:

and here

did not get much attention / reaction.