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Hey Filehero,

I hope you had a nice weekend.

You might want to check out this XY forum discussion. The tail end of it touches apon a similar issue concerning the greying out of icons.

OBS: when i put all of them in a single script the menu has to be scrolled and, for some reason, the icons use negative colors (or smth like that).

these only worked on CTBs:

see: http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic.php?p=39363

By the way just for info, my laptop and 2 desktops are all running Windows 7 Home Premium x64. So I suppose it's not a x32 vs x64 issue.

Take care,
Ken

Hi,

it needed quite some time, but here it is: LayoutManager V1.0.

I hope all major glitches are gone now.

Very special thanks to klownboy for his continuous and helpful support, very appreciated!


Cheers,
Filehero

Thanks Filehero, being retired now, it's always nice to hear you're doing some good...very glad to help.
Take care, klownboy

Filehero wrote:LayoutManager V1.0

Mindblowing! Scripting is more powerful than I thought.

Hi Don,

thanks for the kind words. I do share your conclusion on SC.


Cheers,
Filehero

Hi Filehero,
How's it going? Back in your original Layout Manager post, you mentioned the get("#functionID"); and listed the commands that were currently supported and also provided Don with a wish list of a few additional ones. One that you didn't mentioned though was #1061 which shows and hides the menu bar. The menu bar can also be turned off and on by using the alt+up keys. It sure would be nice if we could get("#functionID") support for #1061. It would make your "Minimalistic" Layout in Layout Manager even more minimalistic.

I've set up some quick and dirty scripts in the toolbar sub-menus which will turn everything off including the menu bar for viewing specific folders with thumbnails of pictures and PDF's such that they take advantage of the entire XY window, but it would be much improved it we could detect the currrent status of the menu bar as you can with the tool bar and status bar, etc. Until that happens, do you, Don or anyone know of any way to detect whether the menu bar is showing or not using XY scripting - short of resorting to an external scripting like AHK?

Thanks so much,
Ken

Hi Ken,

I'm doing fine, preparing for winter. How are you?

Not mentioning #1061 was on purpose. I never hide menu bars, since I assign them to the core/heart/shell of the program. But I surely could add it once there's support for retrieving the status. Hopefully Don will expand the functions support for the get command some day.

You have started scripting? Nice!

What is AHK?

Cheers,
Filehero

Hi Filehero,

All is well here. Glad to hear you're doing fine. Yes, we're starting to get some chilly nights.

I like the idea of hiding everything under certain conditions such as viewing the thumbnails which allows them to take up the entire real estate of the window as long as I can return to the full blown condition with the toolbar, menubar, status bar, and tab bar with the stroke of a key. It would be nice to get the get("#functionID") support for this command. As a matter of fact it would be nice to have one command that disabled all the bars and have get("#functionID") for it.

Now I have to resort to doing something like this: and something like this to get me back with all the bars: I assign a user defined command to each of them. It can get messed up though if you are not going directly back and forth with the commands (i.e., you adjust or change the menu bar condition since we can't detect it current condition).
AHK or AutoHotkey http://www.autohotkey.com/is a great scripting language which you can do almost anything to control whats happening on your PC. It's forum http://www.autohotkey.com/community/and updates are extremely active. Every few minutes there are posts being made. I'm still a noob, but I'm learning or trying anyway.
Take care,
Ken

Hi,

new release: It now supports also Running the script requires XY version 11.60.0104 onwards (a corresponding version check has been added).

I hope I didn't introduce any new flaws...


Cheers,
Filehero

Hey Filehero, version 1.1 is looking good. I haven't encountered any flaws. Thanks for incorporating #1061 to show/hide the main menu.
Take care,
Ken

Hi Ken,

klownboy wrote:Hey Filehero, version 1.1 is looking good. I haven't encountered any flaws.

Nice, thanks for your instant testing and feedback.

klownboy wrote:Thanks for incorporating #1061 to show/hide the main menu.

Yep, now "Minimalistic" really deserves its name.


Cheers,
Filehero

Terrific! & working perfectly here...
Thank you for this useful addon.

Have a nice day,
Flux

Hi Flux,

thanks for the kind words.


Cheers,
Filehero