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Platform Designer UI
- 1 year ago
Thank you, Njoroge, for your valuable and constructive feedback.
We’ve taken your input into consideration, and it is planned to be incorporated into the next-generation Platform Designer.
While I don’t have visibility into the final implementation just yet, we look forward to seeing the improvements in 2026.
Hopefully, it will offer a significantly enhanced user experience.
Regards,
Richard Tan
I tried that and it worked only for the time when the project was open. When I returned to work in Platform Designer after closing it, the UI had reset itself. It feels like the tool is disconnected from the main Quartus software. In Quartus for example, customization actions like resizing the windows, closing or opening others, merging or seperating windows, stays as that even if I close Quartus and open it later. In Platform Designer however, any changes to the UI only work for that project at that time. Opening a new project, another existing project or going back to the same project at a later time in Platfrom Designer always resets to the default UI, so hence organizing the UI has to be done before setting to work on the actual design.
In the "IP Catalog" tab too for example, if I set that I want to "Show all IPs", and have them "organized by name rather than category", it will work at that time for that specific project. However, it will default to the "sort by category" and "show IP for current setting" if I open a new project, open an existing project or open the same project at a later time
I think that the issue is not caused by the screen resolution but rather the fact that Platform Designer doesn't seem to save the user layout customization actions.
What is the display resolution you are using for the external monitor? This method is used so that you can view the full list in the 'View' menu.
I agree that the PD GUI uses a default UI and does not currently support saving customized layouts. I have submit a feature request to engineering; however, depending on available resources and effort required, it may or may not be implemented.
Regards,
Richard Tan