Hi, I literally just joined and learning the very basics.
I tried adjusting the tab section width by dragging the scroll bar sideways, so I can see the rest of the text. it showed the message shown in the screenshot and crushed on me. I updated the software and my OS (Arch Linux) and it keeps crushing. I will avoid adjusting it for now so I can get beyond the starting point.
Thank you
Welcome @GrainLine,
I just looked at the database form and I have no idea why the tree widget and diagrams are placed in a splitter widget. There should be no need to resize the left side bar - it should be set to adjust automatically to the contents, but it’s not. 
I will look at simplifying the form which will probably fix your issue.
BTW… are you using the Appimage or Flatpak? Currently I can test the AppImage, but not the Flatpak.
I am using aur/seamly2d 2026.4.4.1651-1 (+4 0.00) installed by yay
Package details here:
Thanks Douglas
Hmmm I was unaware that there’s even a seperate Arch build for Seamly. I doubt I’ll be installing ArchLinux, so I’ll make some changes to the form and you’ll have to see if the issue is fixed as the update propagates to Arch. Keep me informed. 
Ok… I made a few changes to the dialog. I put the treewidget and diagrams in seperate frames at about a 40% / 60% in width respectively.
The smallest width on the dailog results in this, where a few items are too wide:
But you can now drag the width of the dialog wider and both frames expand:
The app will remember the last size of the dialog.
Thank you very much Douglas. I tried re-installing using freshly pulled develop branch from github and the behaviour is the same. Did you update another branch? Thanks.
I haven’t pushed any PR yet… I only built a local branch. I’ll probably push the changes later today after I get some sleep. If by chance someone is there to approve a review it may make the next release later this evening.
I’ll keep checking for the PR so it can make it into tonight’s build
After awakening from my slumber… there’s a PR.
The PR has been merged… change should be in tonight’s weekly release.
Thank you so much! I will report back when I test it.
Hooray, it works! I can see the text and stretch it sideways and it doesn’t crash. Thank you very much. TI really enjoy learning the software. Today in work I needed to go back to paper pattern cutting and it feels so slow and medieval now. I cannot wait to move to digital world. Thank you for all the hard work you do.
Good to hear. The way I changed the dialog you can now resize the dialog to where you can see everything and it will remember the dialog size. With the splitter you needed to resize it everytime you opened the dialog.
It takes a bit longer to draft a pattern in Seamly, but it’s an investment. Once you have a pattern in Seamly, the next time you can resize it to custom measurements in seconds rather than spending time redrafting or grading a paper pattern - that’s where you then start to save time. I spent the better part of 40 years grading patterns on paper at my costume shop, and wish there was a Seamly app way back when.
