No Boxed/Highlight options on right-click menu?

Post by **j_c_hallgren** » 09 Sep 2006 06:02

Is it me or XY? I was looking thru Wiki and doing a few minor tweaks to make some Tree Style options hopefully a bit more clear (IMVHO)...and noticed the comments about being able to switch Boxed Branch and Highlighted via right-click...I don't see either of these in my context menu

...so thus this posting.

jacky · Post by **jacky** » 09 Sep 2006 06:33

hmm.. I'd say it's you

I mean they're here: right-click on an item on the Tree, menu Mark (above Move/Copy/Backup To), it's there!

Note that as stated, they are Tree features so the Mark menu is only available from the Tree's ctxt menus of items, not from the List. I don't think there's any other options that needs to be turned on or anything....

BTW thanks for your work on the wiki

Post by **j_c_hallgren** » 09 Sep 2006 06:48

I'm on 5.10.26 on W2K and when I right-click on any folder in the tree, I don't see any Mark or Move/Copy/Backup either! It's the standard Explorer context menu as far as I can tell...

I hope my wiki edits make sense to the rest of the gang! I've had quite a few years of experience writing technical documentation as part of my previous career as a mainframe systems analyst/programmer...we had to explain our stuff to totally clueless users!

Gandolf · Post by **Gandolf** » 09 Sep 2006 07:05

I see them in Windows XP.
Turning off "Tools | Configuration | Advanced - Custom items in shell context menu" removed them, but I assume that you have that option turned on.

Post by **j_c_hallgren** » 09 Sep 2006 07:19

Well...

I used to have that option on! But somewhere it got disabled...and looking thru XY Help, I didn't spot that option...and it had been SO long since I've used the right-click (given that on my laptop with touchpad, I try to avoid right-clicks), that I obviously didn't remember there was a config setting related to it...so I'll give myself a

, ok? Make it a double

!!

However, now that I've realized that I actually DO have a context menu key on this keyboard (thanks to the keyboard thread), which is SO misplaced that I had totally forgotten it was there, I can use it instead of right-click.

Also, given that I missed it, I've just updated a couple of items in the wiki to hopefully make this config setting more visible and relate it to usage.

Post by **admin** » 09 Sep 2006 08:16

It is in the help file under "Custom items in shell context menu". But thanks for wiki-ing it anyway!

Post by **j_c_hallgren** » 09 Sep 2006 08:32

I didn't say that it wasn't in XY's Help...just that I didn't find/see it because it's one of those things that if one doesn't know more exactly what it's named/called, you might never find it...

And jacky's post implies he didn't recall the config option either...

jacky · Post by **jacky** » 09 Sep 2006 21:45

j_c_hallgren wrote:And jacky's post implies he didn't recall the config option either...

Yes, I'm so used to all thoose great XY features and they feel so natural to me now that I admit, I totally forgot one could turn them off!