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Multiple Panels

Window > Extensions lists four panels: Code Runner, Code Runner 2, Code Runner 3 and Code Runner 4. They are copies of the same panel. Open as many as you want, and dock them wherever you like.

All four share one library. A button you add, edit, rename or rearrange in one shows up in the others right away, and so does a restored backup.

What each panel keeps to itself: its active collection, its view and button size, its grid options, which folders are open, and buttons-only mode. So Code Runner 2 can sit narrow on a grid of icons while Code Runner shows a list.

Settings under Menu > Settings > Preferences are shared by all four, and a change in one reaches the others immediately.

From Window > Extensions, or from a panel’s flyout menu (the hamburger on the panel tab) with Open Code Runner 2. Every panel lists the other three.

After Effects restores docked panels with the workspace, so a panel you dock is there next time.

The extra panels appear only after After Effects has been restarted following the install. Picking Open Code Runner 2 before that raises a notice saying so. See Troubleshooting.