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How to put UI panels back to their original order
I'm not sure what forum to ask this in, but hopefully somebody can help.
I've been using SweetHome3D for well over a year on Arch Linux. Recently, I started up the application and all the panels on the UI were swapped: The furniture selector and furniture list are now on the right, with the furniture list on top and furniture selector on bottom. The 2d drawing and 3d rendering on the left, with the 3d rendering on top and the 2d drawing on the bottom.
Everything I can find online says that, while the sizes of the panels can be changed, their ordering cannot be. But for some reason they /have/ been changed on my installation.
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Re: How to put UI panels back to their original order
That's a new one, never heard of this problem before. I suspect it has something to do with either your java version or your desktop/window/display manager. As you already found out you can't change the panel positions (unless you do it in the source code). Since you already removed the eteks directory you also removed the settings/preferences file. When you start Sweet Home 3D this directory should be recreated again.
Start clean by removing your Sweet Home 3D install and a possibly recreated eteks directory. Use the 7.5 download from sourceforge Extract it in a directory of your choice, for example in your home directory. Start Sweet Home 3D with the SweetHome3D-Java3D-1_5_2 script. This uses the java version that is included in the download and should work fine. If the same problem persists it is not Sweet Home 3D. See if a different desktop or display manager has a different result.
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Re: How to put UI panels back to their original order
OpenJDK version 26.0.1
You're using a distro packaged version of SweetHome3D, yes?
Packagers like to remove redundant executables and libraries. In this case you appear to be using the systems Java runtime instead of the one bundled with SweetHome3D.
Very likely this is the issue and that following Keet's recommendation will fix it for you.
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Re: How to put UI panels back to their original order
Running directly from the SourceForge release puts everything back where it should be! (I didn't bother clearing the .eteks directory - I'll wait and see if I have any trouble there as I work.)
