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Of course!admin wrote:Click the "options" button in the Customize KS dialog. There you find "remove all shortcuts". Is that enough?
Well, you made me think. Now I think a new checkbox to temporarily disable all KS would be cooler than to irreversibly remove them. Could be in the "Safety Belts" section in Configuration / Extended.Jerry wrote:Of course!admin wrote:Click the "options" button in the Customize KS dialog. There you find "remove all shortcuts". Is that enough?
I guess that can be useful to some people. In the case of my friend, however, I really do want to start her on a totally clean slate and then only add bindings as needed. She has a tendency to generate a lot of entropy, if you know what I mean. That means I'll also be setting her up with locked home tabs, default tab, minimal toolbar, etc. The quick search feature you just added in version 11 is fantastic. This is just what she needs because Windows 7 search royally sucks. Can't even use it to find all empty or 0 size directories, which she has thousands upon thousands.admin wrote:Well, you made me think. Now I think a new checkbox to temporarily disable all KS would be cooler than to irreversibly remove them. Could be in the "Safety Belts" section in Configuration / Extended.
Actually I'm thinking about a way to customize the main menus (=show/hide items as you like).Jerry wrote:[edited:] I also wish it were possible to customize the main menus in a similar draconian way, but I guess I can keep her away from using them. Especially helpful are the right-click context menus available on the toolbar buttons. So that way, she can just focus on using the toolbar for nearly all additional functionality that's relevant to her needs.
Excellent! That will do just fine. And then I'll remove that keybinding!admin wrote:BTW + FYI, Alt+Up (with focus in Tree or List) will hide the main menu. (The command is here: Miscellaneous / General Functions / Show/Hide Main Menu -- you can customize the shortcut).
Once again, the ability to have and customize right-click menus for toolbar buttons is going to be a great feature that will facilitate her adoption. Minimizing complexity and especially distraction in the user interface she sees is the paramount objective.
Except to note one thing -- the current results from my Mini-Tree poll show that only 50% of the respondents use the Mini Tree regularly as an integral part of their work flow. The rest use it only for special purposes or mostly, not at all.Bingo. I will hire her as target user.Jerry wrote:Minimizing complexity and especially distraction in the user interface she sees is the paramount objective.
Just a note, Alt+Up has effect for the current session only. If you close and then start again XY, the menu bar will be on screen again.Jerry wrote:Excellent! That will do just fine. And then I'll remove that keybinding!admin wrote:BTW + FYI, Alt+Up (with focus in Tree or List) will hide the main menu. (The command is here: Miscellaneous / General Functions / Show/Hide Main Menu -- you can customize the shortcut).
Jerry
Oh, no! That won't do. It has to be a cross-session setting.Marco wrote:Just a note, Alt+Up has effect for the current session only. If you close and then start again XY, the menu bar will be on screen again.
There is a way to do it with the undocumented sendkeys command added to the XY shortcut's target field. Basically it will run this script when XY is started.Jerry wrote:Oh, no! That won't do. It has to be a cross-session setting.Marco wrote:Just a note, Alt+Up has effect for the current session only. If you close and then start again XY, the menu bar will be on screen again.
Don, could you consider adding a configuration option or tweak to keep the menu bar hidden between sessions?
Jerry
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/script="::focus; sendkeys '%{UP}';"
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C:\Program files\XYplorer\XYplorer.exe /script="::focus; sendkeys '%{UP}';" /ini="myini"
Yep, I will turn it to a normal remembered setting.Jerry wrote:Oh, no! That won't do. It has to be a cross-session setting.Marco wrote:Just a note, Alt+Up has effect for the current session only. If you close and then start again XY, the menu bar will be on screen again.
Don, could you consider adding a configuration option or tweak to keep the menu bar hidden between sessions?
Jerry
Since SendKeys is undocumented, the Alt+Up shortcut is customizable, and there is the chance, I believe, that XY does not catch the key presses it generates, or worse they trigger another program entirely; I'd recommend replacing that entire script with the command ID, #1061.serendipity wrote:There is a way to do it with the undocumented sendkeys command added to the XY shortcut's target field. Basically it will run this script when XY is started.
Add this to the target field if alt+up hides the main menu or adjust accordingly to whatever shortcut you have assigned.The complete text looks like this:Code: Select all
/script="::focus; sendkeys '%{UP}';"Code: Select all
C:\Program files\XYplorer\XYplorer.exe /script="::focus; sendkeys '%{UP}';" /ini="myini"
Thanks Don. I'll have the Configuration button on the toolbar. Or maybe assign it to a complex keybinding that is not easily pressed by accident.admin wrote:Yep, I will turn it to a normal remembered setting.
BUT note that when you turn off all KS and hide the main menu, the app is pretty locked. I guess that's what you want for your friend, but not for you.