Button bar as menu is ignoring icon sizes

[ado]

no sure if this is bug or intention. I added into one button bar another and I want to display it as menu. It works nice. The problem is that, since it is possible to specify the size of icons for the button bar, I would expect TC will respect it also for that bar displayed as menu, but apparently it does not.
..so bug or feature?

ado

[Clo]

2ado

Hello !

• Here, I stated 24² icons for the bars, and I get also 24² in the menu of a bar…

 KR
Claude
Clo

[ts4242]

2ado
Maybe you have set PopupIconSize, it has high priority than the size of icons for the button bar

[Postkutscher]

"Small Icons" checked with a size 16 setted could also limit resulting size.

[ado]

2ado

Hello !

• Here, I stated 24² icons for the bars, and I get also 24² in the menu of a bar…

 KR
Claude
Clo

Clo,
maybe I didn't wrote clear - I want to have regular button bar with let's say 24, but "nested" button bar displayed as menu with icons 16x16 or 12x12... you can specify that size in each button bar; but as I see in .bar file that size is shared in all button bars.
So now i see it is not bug, it is feature
There is TCMenu "plug-in" that i am using now and it has an option to display "regular" or "small" icons. That's want I wanted...

ado

[ts4242]

2ado

To use different icon size for button dropdown menu add PopupIconSize=desired_size under Buttonbar section in your Wincmd.ini

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[Buttonbar]
PopupIconSize=16

[ado]

nice. It is just one size for all popups, but I like it. Originally I though I have to add it into my popup menu .bar file - what would be exactly what I wanted

thank you

ado

[Clo]

2ado

Hello !

Help and Tuto wrote :

PopupIconSize=Value
Size of icons in dropdown menu when showing a .bar file as a menu.
Default: Same as icon size in the currently shown button bar.

 KR
Claude
Clo

[ts4242]

Originally I though I have to add it into my popup menu .bar file - what would be exactly what I wanted

Actually while some TC 7.50 private beta versions, PopupIconSize was written in .bar file but a tester reported that if the .bar file edited via TC 7 or older version, PopupIconSize will lost, so for compatibility with TC 7 and older this setting moved to Wincmd.ini file.

[ado]

Do I understand correctly? Nice new feature killed only because someone may decide to go to previous version? Or actually use older and 7.5 in the same time using the same .ini file?
It does not sounds right for me

ado

[fenix_productions]

2ado
You're right and it's so called "backward compatibility"

[Hacker]

fenix_productions,
Actually, "forward compatibility".
I wonder if one couldn't have values both in the ini and the bar files, what would happen in old TC versions.

Roman

[ado]

yep - it is "forward compatibility" and not backward. It is useful only when you decide go back and forth between old and new version. If you stick to one, everything is fine, if you simply upgrade everything is fine too. Only problem is that you would loose one setting when you are going back to previous version.
I'd say Christian should "undo" he fix

ado

[theosdikaios]

I'd say Christian should "undo" he fix

Full ACK. The problem is important only if somebody uses two versions at the same time (or uses in sequence new - old - new). If somebody change from new to old version only all is fine because the old version has no need for this option.

[Sir_SiLvA]

2ado

To use different icon size for button dropdown menu add PopupIconSize=desired_size under Buttonbar section in your Wincmd.ini

Code: Select all

[Buttonbar]
PopupIconSize=16

Thanks - I for one was expecting to find such Parameter in the Bar-File.

PS: Am I the only one missing a section in the help file under 4. b) with telling all .bar-Parameters?