I Cant specify the width of regions or columns with pixels or percentage with text, i can only drag and drop.

The drag and drop concept is seriously flawed because you cant get the right number of pixels, particularly when it doesn't allow for the full width of the page because the panels menu takes up about 150 pixels itself.

Also if i wanted the full width of the page not only would i need the panels menu hidden, I would also have to disable the sidebar when editing the panel.

The percentages dont work either all i want is 4 columns of 25% but the best i can do is 4 columns as follows 25.10%, 25.05%, 24.78% and 25.08%, now all my columns are different sizes.

This is really ridiculous because it must have taken quite some time to program the drag and drop functionality yet it simply doesn't work and has rendered the Flexible layout useless.

This problem did not exist in the much simpler panels 2 which i cant use because its no longer supported, i thought the idea of bringing out new versions was to remove problems not create them.

Is anyone else having the same problems as me?

Is there a way around this by specifying the widths manually?

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peter panes’s picture

peter panes commented

Id also like to mention that this in theory makes it impossible to have four columns of the same size (that fit the page properly) using panels 3.... without messing around with panels within panels.

merlinofchaos’s picture

merlinofchaos commented
Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

Temper your language, please. Somehow I fail to be motivated by annoyed sounding complaints about free software. There is already at least one issue open about the maximum width issue.

If you need to specify precise pixel widths, I recommend building your own layouts. They are not hard to do and you'll probably like the result more in the end, anyway.

peter panes’s picture

peter panes commented

Sorry, didn't realize there was already an issue about this, and didn't realize i could build my own layouts.

And thanks for the awesome free module, sorry about the harsh language.... i was confused and stressed at the time!