hide the drop-down menu bar from the main screen

[László52]

Can I hide the drop-down menu bar, followed by a key combination called up again when needed? A drop-down menu rarely used and only occupy the screen from the file list view.

[sqa_wizard]

Can I hide the drop-down menu bar

Which bar are you talking about?

The vertical menu bar, introduced with TC 9?
Show/hide vertical button bar with command "cm_VisButtonbar2"
You may assign your own key combination using "Configuration - Options - Misc"

[petermad]

2László52

Can I hide the drop-down menu bar,

If you mean the Drive combobox, you can disable it by Configuration -> Options -> Layout -> Show drive combobox

You can still open the combobox by pressing Alt+F1 or Alt+F2 (left or right box).

[László52]

Can I hide the drop-down menu bar

Which bar are you talking about?

The vertical menu bar, introduced with TC 9?
Show/hide vertical button bar with command "cm_VisButtonbar2"
You may assign your own key combination using "Configuration - Options - Misc"

About this: "Files Mark Commands Net Show Configuration Start"

[ts4242]

Can I hide the drop-down menu bar

Yes you can, read this http://ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=20245

BTW: it is called Main menu bar

[Lefteous]

Firefox main window style
http://lefteous.totalcmd.net/tc/ideas/firefox_style_main_window.png

[László52]

Thank you ts4242 and all of you!

Answer for ts4242(Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2016 9:36 pm)

Almost good. It seems you can not recover quickly. It would be nice if there could be a hot-key to restore Main menu bar. First hotkeys = yes Main bar <==> second hotkeys = no Main bar. Vice versa.

[Ovg]

2László52
You can make button for this task - something like this

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TOTALCMD#BAR#DATA
"TCFS2.exe"
/ef tcm(65539)
WCMICONS.DLL,86
Hide/Show Main menu

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Change paths for your needs.

[László52]

2László52
You can make button for this task - something like this

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TOTALCMD#BAR#DATA
"TCFS2.exe"
/ef tcm(65539)
WCMICONS.DLL,86
Hide/Show Main menu

1
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Change paths for your needs.

Thank you!

[László52]

2László52
You can make button for this task - something like this

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TOTALCMD#BAR#DATA
"TCFS2.exe"
/ef tcm(65539)
WCMICONS.DLL,86
Hide/Show Main menu

1
-1

Change paths for your needs.

Sorry, does not work.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/e5ljnixjd10v2nu/Snap86.png?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ilpy62q41jjddfn/Snap87.png?dl=0

[Ovg]

2László52

http://ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=29700

You must install and configure TCFS2Tools (autostart TCFS2Tools with TC)

From readme:

"...register TCFS2Tools.dll as WDX plugin and to define special 'color by file type' preset (Configuration, Color, by file type, Add, Define, Plugins tab, "TCFSTools.Autorun > 0", save with any name, select any color, apply all changes) to cause TC to load TCFS2Tools automatically....."

[petermad]

2László52
You can do it without external programs like TCFS2Tools.

1. First put this line in your wincmd.ini under the [Configuration] section:
RestrictInterface=1
This is to suppress the "Start" menu item, which is otherwise shown as the only menu item.

2. Then make an empty textfile in TC's language directory and name it nomenu.mnu

3. Copy these two buttons to your button bar:

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TOTALCMD#BAR#DATA
OPENLANGUAGEFILE nomenu.mnu

%COMMANDER_EXE%,3
Hide Main Menu


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TOTALCMD#BAR#DATA
OPENLANGUAGEFILE wcmd_dan.mnu

%COMMANDER_EXE%,3
Show Main Menu


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Change wcmd_dan.mnu to the menu used for you language - if you just use internal English use .mnu

If you don't want buttons you can make two userdefined commands in you usercmd.ini file:

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[em_hidemainmenu]
button=
cmd=OPENLANGUAGEFILE nomenu.mnu
menu=Hide Main Menu

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[em_showmainmenu]
button=
cmd=OPENLANGUAGEFILE wcmd_dan.mnu
menu=Show Main Menu

Then you can assign these two command to keyboard shortcuts via Configuration -> Options -> Misc. -> Redefine hotkeys (keyboard remapping).

You can for example assign Ctrl+0 to hiding the menu and Ctrl+1 to showing the menu by adding these to the [Shortcuts] section of your wincmd.ini file:
C+0=em_hidemainmenu
C+1=em_showmainmenu

[vort3]

Then you can assign these two command to keyboard shortcuts

If you fiddle a little bit with a .bat script, you can even use one hotkey to toggle between the two.

Make a file in your c:\totalcmd\LANGUAGE\, call it swapmenu.bat, then paste this script:

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@echo off
move "custom_menu.mnu" "tmp"
move "custom_nomenu.mnu" "custom_menu.mnu"
move "tmp" "custom_nomenu.mnu"

Note that I use names custom_menu.mnu and custom_nomenu.mnu for my real and empty menu files, you'll need to change either your file names or lines in swapmenu.bat file.

Then you can create your user defined command in usercmd.ini (for example, em_SwapMenuFiles) that will launch this script, and use it as part of any other command/button/hotkey.