button bar and menu items

[adacom]

i only use about 3 buttons from the button bar - everything else i need i use the drop downs from the menu items

is there any way to have the button bar and menu items on the same line - would just look neater

[karlchen]

Hello, adacom.

is there any way to have the button bar and menu items on the same line - would just look neater

The answer is twice: no. No, there is no way. And no, it would not look better.

Karl

[adacom]

thank Karl - beauty is in the eye of the beholder - so they say - to me it would look better - but i accept not to you maybe!!!

[karlchen]

Hi, adacom.

The button bar here holds 33 buttons. So there is not much space left on this line for any menu items.

Yet, mixing the menu line and the buttonbar is not feasible anyway, at least not currently.

Karl

[adacom]

my button bar has 5 buttons - thats all i use - the rest i deleted - so i do have room on the menu bar - but thats a mute point if it cannot be done

[karlchen]

You definitely need more buttons and Petermad's Extended Menus in order to fill the empty spaces.

[adacom]

interesting - i will say that

[louwin]

I have two button bars almost complete

One under the other and the only reason I am not using any more is fear of loss of the screen.

I don't think you can have more than two bars anyway?

[Lefteous]

You can display drop downs on buttons by inserting a bar onto a button. So in consequence you'll have no menu bar at all (when you hide it) - just the buttons you need.

[nsp]

As said by Lefteous, you can mimic almost all the menu using bars and you can have exactly what you want (But you will have to spend a bunch of time to build it).
You can also have a butons that show and hide the menu using TCFS2 and TCFS2Tools.

[adacom]

thanks for that - i have been playing and can see more use to the buttons than i thought - so a question or two about them

some have a shortcut key press assigned others do not - is it possible to assign shortcuts to them - that would give the best of both worlds then - mouse click or keyboard shortcut

and a specific question about one button

copy - if i copy a file or files from one window to the other by drag and drop it simply happens - no extra windows to confirm it

if i have a copy button and highlight a file and press the copy button i get a confirmation window - i have checked options and cannot find anything to turn that window off and just make copy like drag and drop

[MVV]

adacom, you may add your buttons as a menu buttons at the right window side, they won't have icons but will have text, just add some lines to your MNU file, e.g.:

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MENUITEM " || ", em_SepMove
MENUITEM " F ", em_SwitchFullscreen
MENUITEM " T ", em_SwitchTitle
MENUITEM " M ", em_MoveWindow
MENUITEM " @ ", em_MyWindowPos

In my case I have 5 extra "buttons" on the menu bar after Help submenu.

[adacom]

thanks - will look at that

[petermad]

2adacom

some have a shortcut key press assigned others do not - is it possible to assign shortcuts to them - that would give the best of both worlds then - mouse click or keyboard shortcut

You cannot assign a keyboard shortcut directly to a button - those huttons of yours that have shortcuts most likely have internal commands (cm_comand) in their Command field.

If you want to make shortcuts for external programs, you should make a user command (em_command) for the program - Run cm_CommandBrowser from the commandline and then scroll down to usercmd.ini - here you can make your own commands.

Once you have done that, you can use your em_command in the Command field of a button, and you can assign a shortcut to the em_command by Configuration -> Options... > Misc. -> Redifine hotkeys.

Apart form the Button bar and Keyboard shortcuts, you can also use em_commands in the Start menu, the Main menu, in Alias'es and in the Directory hotlist (Ctrl+D) - so em_commands are very versatile.

If you choose to make your own Main Menu, a special usercmd.ini file is provided for that menu - it has the same name as the menu file - there will also be such a file if you are using TC with another language/menu file than the default English.

This whole system can be quite powerfull - to get inspired as to what you can do, you could try out one of my Extended menus as suggested by karlchen - see more on http://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=33740 and http://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=21844

[adacom]

thanks - i have always known TC is powerful - i have never got into it - i use it ever day and have done since i first purchased it and with a license number of 13821 that will tell you how long ago that was - but i was showing it to someone else and their questions started to tell me i was missing a lot - i have sorted out many of my questions but not all - hence the questions

the help here is excellent - thanks to all who have taken the time to reply