Usual Right Click Menu as a Submenu

[SkyFrontier]

When right clicking on blank spaces, WE gives a menu with "Properties", "New" and few other stuff. Can XYplorer have this very menu when right clicking on a blank space in files list, at least as a submenu...?
-I regularly need to create .rtf files and have to do it using WE, once XY does not gives me the option.
Errr... what happened to Control Panel inside XY? Can't find it anymore!
Thanks!

[zer0]

Errr... what happened to Control Panel inside XY? Can't find it anymore!

Was never a part of XYplorer (for as long as I've been using it ), but I hope it will be once Don implements GUID (once he gets Win 7).

[j_c_hallgren]

Can XYplorer have this very menu when right clicking on a blank space in files list, at least as a submenu...?
-I regularly need to create .rtf files and have to do it using WE, once XY does not gives me the option.

You're not seeing this context menu when on the list in blank area?

Because that gives all the normal options plus XY extras...If you want Properties, you need to right-click on a non-blank area for the other context menu.

[jacky]

In XY, the List context menu (on blank area) in XY's own, which has the delightful advantage of showing up instantly (since no 3rd party are involved).

However, if you want to get the folder's context menu (from Shell, as in explorer I believe) there's a tweak for it:

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[Settings]
; Tweak: 0=Edit menu, 1=Folder's shell menu, 2=Favorites
CEA_ListRightClickOnWhite=0

[j_c_hallgren]

The tweak that jacky mentioned is something that I've not used but it's documented as part of http://xyplorer.blogspot.com/2009/08/v8 ... -1717.html as follows:

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+ Custom Event Actions (CEA): Added another option to the "right-click on the list's white space" event (currently only as a tweak).
  [Settings]
  CEA_ListRightClickOnWhite=0
You can currently choose between the following actions:
  0 = Popup the Edit menu (factory default)
  1 = Popup the Shell menu for the current folder
  2 = Popup the Favorite Folders menu (as in Tree right-click)
  (any other value) = Do nothing

This other thread mantions it also: http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic. ... 332#p41332

[SkyFrontier]

The tweak works fine, but I also like the XY menu. So I thought on being possible to combine those two great feats on a single menu.

CEA_ListRightClickOnWhite=4

[admin]

The tweak works fine, but I also like the XY menu. So I thought on being possible to combine those two great feats on a single menu.

CEA_ListRightClickOnWhite=4

No, not possible. But you always got the shell menu at the address bar icon.

[j_c_hallgren]

Can XYplorer have this very menu when right clicking on a blank space in files list, at least as a submenu...?

As done for Shell Context menu in the Custom D&D menu like http://88.191.26.34/XYwiki/index.php/Ex ... rag.26Drop? As Don said, that may not be possible.

-I regularly need to create .rtf files and have to do it using WE, once XY does not gives me the option.

Have you checked out New Items as in http://88.191.26.34/XYwiki/index.php/New_Items? This gives the same options and more than WE does...

So the only thing I think may really be missing is Properties which as stated is avail by other means...but you may have a diff setup and/or needs.

[Stefan]

[...] New Items as in http://88.191.26.34/XYwiki/index.php/New_Items?
This gives the same options and more than WE does...

But it still miss the original "New" entry from WE context menu.

Putting all possible new-file-templates in the "NewItems"-folder isn't an good way to solve this,
above all you have to keep them up-to-date yourself
and there are no sub-menu/folders allowed for "NewItems" to manage all this items.

And for us portable travelers this is also no good solution, because you may want to create an new file
on an foreign pc whose templates are new for you, till you have to create it on this other pc.

I solve this on my own with an work around
by opening WinExplorer from "the shell menu at the address bar icon" to quickly create the new file.

[j_c_hallgren]

But it still miss the original "New" entry from WE context menu.

Agreed...I was just wanting to make sure our newer user was aware of other ways that may help deal with this issue.

[Stefan]

Since i am still on the search what is the best setup
and to make it clear for myself, for tomorrow too,
i have create this picture to show the possibilities:

XY-WhiteSpaceContextMenu-16c.png

+ Custom Event Actions (CEA):
Added another option to the "right-click on the list's white space" event (currently only as a tweak).
[Settings]
CEA_ListRightClickOnWhite=0
You can currently choose between the following actions:
0 = Popup the Edit menu (factory default)
1 = Popup the Shell menu for the current folder
2 = Popup the Favorite Folders menu (as in Tree right-click)
(any other value) = Do nothing

[arirish]

The tweak works fine, but I also like the XY menu. So I thought on being possible to combine those two great feats on a single menu.

CEA_ListRightClickOnWhite=4

No, not possible. But you always got the shell menu at the address bar icon.

I've seen this mentioned a couple places in the forum now, but I can't seem to access it. Neither a left nor a right click on the icon in the address bar does anything for me. Am I misreading this, or is there an option in configuration I've missed?

[jacky]

I've seen this mentioned a couple places in the forum now, but I can't seem to access it. Neither a left nor a right click on the icon in the address bar does anything for me. Am I misreading this, or is there an option in configuration I've missed?

Do you have the latest beta? This was introduced in v8.80.0003, so it won't work (yet) on the latest official release (8.80.0000).

[arirish]

I've seen this mentioned a couple places in the forum now, but I can't seem to access it. Neither a left nor a right click on the icon in the address bar does anything for me. Am I misreading this, or is there an option in configuration I've missed?

Do you have the latest beta? This was introduced in v8.80.0003, so it won't work (yet) on the latest official release (8.80.0000).

Right! Thanks for that - I'm using the official release. It's not a big enough problem that I can't wait for the next official release, I just wanted to make sure I hadn't stumbled on a bug or something

[SkyFrontier]

Right now I'm combining "New Items" as suggested by Hallgren with POM. Created a little script which simply does a copy of a file and opens it using Wordpad, once Notepad shows a lot of strange symbols and completely screws the formatting of history.txt.

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goto .\; writefile ("history_v8.txt", readfile("history.txt", t), o, ta); openwith wordpad, m, "<curpath>\history_v8.txt"; copytext "usual"; status "..."; #520

-anyone able to clean this code, please? Or is it fine? I do not like the "goto .\" / "#520" part - I'd like to simply press a button and have this newly (copy) created file opened with Wordpad, without in fact having to see the go-to-back-to dumb part of it.

As I am reading, POM may give a more comfortable solution - I'm just not familiar to it yet... (home lesson of the day)