Menu gone missing !!

[aurumdigitus]

Was trying to learn some shortcuts and did something wrong and discovered an hour later the Menu has DISAPPEARED. There doesn't seem to be a shortcut - or I can't find it - to restore it.

What to do?

[PeterH]

Try Ctrl-Shift-Alt-F12

[admin]

OK; enough! I will remove any shortcut for this.

[aurumdigitus]

OK; enough! I will remove any shortcut for this.

This is one of the very few XY features that is truly entitled to be called dangerous. Without the Menu the user is dead in the water. Given the relative size of Menu to the rest of the program, saving that handful of pixels is just not worth it.



(Am curious - at some point was this actually requested?)

[klownboy]

OK; enough! I will remove any shortcut for this.

No problem from me anyway, but please don't remove the cid #1061...too many scripts around using this.

[admin]

I meant to remove just any factory default shortuct.

[aurumdigitus]

@ klownboy - If screen real estate is that important to you maybe it's time to get a bigger monitor.

[bdeshi]

The menubar is a waste of space in any resolution, just look at all the empty area after "Help" ..... ....... ....... .. . . . . . . . Aaaahhhh! Can't look, help!

I usually keep the main menu hidden, and instead use these tiny "Run Script" UDC's as proxies of each toplvl menu :

Code: Select all

 caption : _Menu - File       | caption : _Menu - Edit        | ...
 script  : popupmainmenu file; | script  : popupmainmenu edit; | ...
 shortcut: Alt+F              | shortcut: Alt+E               | ...
 

Also the leftmost AND rightmost ctb has this as LClick script: "Main Menu" popupmainmenu;

Now, aside from having a slim amount of extra screen space, I also have the joy of having the menus show up wherever my mouse cursor is!

[klownboy]

@ klownboy - If screen real estate is that important to you maybe it's time to get a bigger monitor

What, 27" is not big enough? Seriously, the only time I remove all bars is in a thumbnail viewing mode giving XY as much real estate as possible all done automatically via scripting of course.

Don, I wish we could stack side-by-side the "Menu bar" and "Address bar" as you currently can the TB and AB, since neither Menu bar or Address Bar need the entire real estate of new wide screen monitors whereas the Toolbar typically does extend across the entire screen. Thanks.

[aurumdigitus]

One of XY's absolutely greatest assets is its virtually unlimited flexibility. Those of us with different works habits can bent it to our will.

Yeah, 27 inches it getting up there. Wonder what Don's baby would look like on a Sharp 90" 3D Aquos?

[klownboy]

Wonder what Don's baby would look like on a Sharp 90" 3D Aquos?

Wow, I've seen a 80" Sharp in a Sam's Club but I didn't know they had a 90". It would dwarf my little 60".

[Stef123]

Don, I wish we could stack side-by-side the "Menu bar" and "Address bar" as you currently can the TB and AB

I'd welcome any kind of side-stacking, or ideally, free placement of every bar anywhere, the TB next to the menu, or between the two panes. Essentially the same way MS Office once allowed their TB-positioning before the ribbon came around.

[aurumdigitus]

or ideally, free placement of every bar anywhere

Yes, in an ideal world all the elements would be made to Float and be Dockable. But maybe Visual Basic is incapable of doing that.

[admin]

Pfff, Visual Basic. VB has not much to do with XY (and you should know that). XY can do anything I want it to do.

[aurumdigitus]

VB has not much to do with XY (and you should know that).

Mea maxima culpa! WHAT is the source code you conjure the magic in?