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- On the first run of vTB the script will automatically create a "vToolbar" folder (if not present) off <xydata> and present you with a list of all XY built-in toolbar buttons as well as all your Customized Toolbar Buttons (CTBs) whether you're using them or not. Those buttons, of both types, which you are actually using on the current "normal" XY toolbar will be marked with a •.
- Important: this script will never write to your "normal" XY toolbar buttons or to XYplorer.ini file in any way. It's totally independent other than reading what you have assigned as toolbar buttons...so no worries there.
- As personal preference, I keep the number of vTB buttons to a number of 20 or less of course that depends on your monitor's resolution. You don't have as much screen space vertically as horizontally.
- After the first run and your vTB is completed, you can use that exclusively or continue to generate additional vTBs. This can be accomplished from the main menu. You can also switch to a different vTB (i.e., load any of your saved vTBs) from the menu as well as Delete them. Note: the delete menu will inform you of your current vTB.
- Since v1.07 there's an option to modify existing toolbars. After selecting the vTB to modify, the complete list of toolbar buttons will display. The existing buttons on the selected vTB will be pre-checked at the top of the listing with the previous order maintained.
- You can assign the Vertical Toobar script to the Right Click on White Space in the List (or since v1.08 the Tree as well). The really nice thing about this option is: if you have multiple vTBs you can load them via the menu and whatever vTB is current will be the one loaded on right click on white space. So it ends up being quite easy to change menus displayed via right click on white.
- You can assign an "alternate" script to Right Click on White Space in the List or Tree. So if you have another script you use regularly you can assign that script via that menu. This will allow you to easily switch between the Vertical Toolbars script and another script of your choice.
- Keep in mind you may have as many as 64 CTBs and you probably don't use them all on your "normal" XY toolbar. So you can make a number of CTBs which you might only use to support the Vertical Toolbars. Why: all your CTBs whether they are being used or not, will be presented on the Generate vTB inputselect box and as I said previously, the currently used buttons will be flagged in the listing. You can make multiple vTBs each with different purposes and very quickly change between them.
- Since v1.08, you can toggle the extended or addon menu on and off. Most of the time we really don't need to see the extended menu. This can be accomplished through the menu (when it's displayed) or by holding down control & shift while left clicking on any menu item (not the extended menu). L-click of the mouse is still same as hitting the left click of the CTB . Control left click is the same as right click of the toolbar button. Shift left btton is now the Customized Toolbar dialog or Edit User button as applicable.
- You can set this up to run off a CTB or maybe a better idea is to assign a user command to run the script such that you only have to hit a key or key combination to bring up the VTB. I have vTB triggered by hitting alt-space.
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1) You can now load a specific vTB directly by using a load line like this:
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Global $vTB="Daffys_vTB"; load "<xyscripts>\vTB_v1.04.xys";You can use any previously saved vTB text file saved in the vToolbar folder of XYplorer and obviously you can still generate new vertical toolbars as you'd like.
if you'd rather keep using it in a manner similar to the old version 1.03, you can still do so by simply using load "<xyscripts>\vTB_v1.04.xys"; in the left or right click CTB menu or elsewhere. If you also use the LayCatTools script here, you could also use those toolbars (located in the Toolbars folder off XYplorer folder). However, some of those may be a bit long since they're horizontal toolbars for XY's toolbar versus vertical toolbars.
2) I've added an option also which allows you to either show or not show the AddOnMenu which has the Generate/Load/Delete addon menu on the end of the vTB menu. If you're all set and don't mess with the vTB menu items frequently or the menu is too long, set the variable $ShowMenuAddon to "0" in the "_Initialize" section. If you want to see the AddOnMenu, keep the variable set as the default of "1".
3) Under certain circumstances, SC replacelist was not working as I expected when there were repetitious words like 'copy'. This resulted in "Copy path" not being pre-checked as a current user buttons list when generating a new vTB as well as some other odd results. Per Sammay's suggestion, I ended having to use gettoken/gettokenindex as a replacement.
Version 1.05 of vTB.xys:
1) This update takes advantage of XYplorer's new capability to detect the modifier key pressed when you click on a menu item. This script is very well suited to use this feature in that now you'll be able to execute both the Left and Right actions of the user CTB's or XY built-in Toolbar buttons. So, that means in this version of the script:
- If you left click on a menu item with no modifier, the script brings up whatever you have assigned for the normal Left-click action of the CTB or in the case of an XY built toolbar button it will execute that button's function.
- If you left click a menu item with a modifier held down, either Shift or Control, the CTB's or XY TB button right click action will be performed.
- If you hold down both the control and shift while you left click on a menu item, the "Edit User Button" dialog opens for that CTB or if it's a standard XY button the Customize Toolbar dialog opens.
It's very helpful in using this vTB script, just as it is on the normal TB, if you clearly define in the CTB's caption the actions of both the Left and Right click of the mouse. For example [L] Layout Manager [R] Session Manager - see the picture above. You can even have the actions for caption/tooltip on separate lines if you edit the XYplorer.ini and put a "¶ " between the two.
Version 1.06 of vTB.xys:
It's been nearly 5 years since I last updated this script. V1.06 includes:
- Update for new built-in XYplorer user buttons
- Delete vToolbars menu item did not work for multiple vTBs - fixed
- Fixed errors encountered with XY's syntax checker on. Hopefully I got them all.
- I mentioned this on a previous version notes but remember after selecting your vTB menu items, you can drag and drop them to reorder items on the menu.
- Once you've made multiple vertical toolbars you can load them separately via a TB button or User Defined Command, etc using the one liner example shown in the details for version vTB_1.04 above
There are 2 versions of the script included in the compressed file..
- 1st verion (the standard verison), vTB_v106.xys executes the Toolbar menu item standard left click entry with the left click and the button's right click function is executed with a Control down left mouse button
- 2nd version, vTB_v106_L&R.xys executes the toolbar menu item standard left click entry with the left click and the button's right click function is executed with the right click mouse button. To use this version you need to incorporate right click in a menu detection using AHK. It's quite easy to do especially if you already use AHK for anything. See the link here viewtopic.php?f=7&t=18062 for easy setup. Once done you can use it in any XY script menu. It's ideally suited for this particular script since we are essentially using all XY built-in TB buttons and all your customized user buttons to make vertical toolbars. So the left and right click actions of your normal Toolbar buttons will be the same in your new vertical toolbar buttons and accomplished the same way with left and right clicks of the mouse.
Version 1.07 of vTB.xys
I wasn't originally thinking of making this update at least not this soon since the previous, but I'm glad I did. V1.07 includes:
- Provided an option to modify existing toolbars. The existing TBs will be pre-checked with the previous order maintained and will be located at the top of the listing.
- Added option to assign the Vertical Toolbar script to the Right Click on White Space in the List. The really nice thing about that with this type of script is: if you have multiple vTBs you can load them via the menu and whatever vTB is current will be the one loaded on right click on white space. So it ends up being quite easy to change menus displayed via right click on white.
- Added an additional option when you hold a modifier key like control or shift down when you click on the above new Right Click menu item. This option allows you to assign an alternate script to Right Click on White Space in the List. So if you have another script you use regularly you can assign that script via that menu. This will allow you to easily switch between the Vertical Toolbars script and another script of your choice.
- Cleaned up the button name in the inputselect dialog used for selecting buttons to only show description and not include the icon name in brackets. Recommended by highend.
Once again there are 2 versions of the script included in the compressed file.
vTB v1.08
This version allows the user to toggle the extended or addon menu on and off. Most of the time we really don't need to see the extended menu. This can be accomplished through the menu (when visible) or by holding down control & shift while left clicking on any menu item (not the extended menu). L-click of the mouse is still same as hitting the left click of the CTB . Control left click is the same as right click of the toolbar button. Shift left btton is now the Customized Toolbar dialog or Edit User button as applicable.
Hopefully I made the assignment of the vTB script or another script of your choice easier and more straight forward to accomplish for Right Click on White Space. You can now also make those choices for the tree as well as the list. Extended menu status (ON or OFF) and alternate right click on white space scripts are saved to a ini section of the script itself. Thanks to FluxTorpedoe for that idea.
I hope you enjoy it. Please let me know if you experience any problems. Thank you TheQwerty, highend, Sammay, and kodyman for all the help and suggestions you provided.
Note: Version 1.05 and later requires version 15.80.0002 or later of XYplorer.
Thanks,
Ken
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