[Wish] Option to use toolbar background for divider

[JohnFredC]

Currently an empty button displays as a divider in the toolbar. I wish for an option to simply display an empty button-width "space", instead.

Here are two views, the first with dividers, the second employing empty button "spaces".

Many of us have big/wide monitors and since TC now allows two (or more) toolbar rows, it makes good GUI/mousing sense to allow us to loosen the toolbar button spacing somewhat.

I currently use "dummy" buttons mapped to cm_Rereadsource and an icon matching the toolbar background to simulate spaces, but a TC option to automatically create spaces in the toolbar would be very convenient.

I'd also employ "double-wide" buttons (with "double-wide" icons), if TC made that possible.

[petermad]

Here are two views, the first with dividers, the second employing empty button "spaces".

It only works when you have chosen "Flat icons" - otherwise the space will just look like - an icon!

I would rather suggest that you can set the with of the space (in pixels) in the Parameters field.

[Boofo]

I would rather suggest that you can set the with of the space (in pixels) in the Parameters field.

How would you go about doing that? I'm not sure I understand.

[Clo]

2JohnFredC

Hello John !

…I'd also employ "double-wide" buttons (with "double-wide" icons), if TC made that possible. …

• IIUC, you would like a support for rectangular icons in the ratio H=1 - W=2 ?

- Well, that's possible in the tool-bars of some softs like XnView or Universal Viewer (among those I've to deal with…)
since the patterns come in fact from bitmaps…
- AFAIK, TC supports only square icons *.ICO (alas…)
- A (crappy) workaround could be to set 2 adjoining buttons as “½ icons” with the same command¦parameters,
but the spacing (and the button effect when hovering) can't be removed currently, except if I mistake, that's hard-coded…

 KR
Claude
Clo

[JohnFredC]

Hey Clo!

that's possible in the tool-bars of some softs like XnView

XnView will resize the buttons to fit a rectangular icon? Hmmm. Have you tried that? I doubt it would work considering how XnView extracts each button image from the bitmap (as an offset from the left).

- A (crappy) workaround could be to set 2 adjoining “½ icons” with the same command¦parameters,

That's an approach I've considered. Also, now that the TC toolbar can be on two rows, I've considered a "quad" concept, too...

[Clo]

2JohnFredC

Again…

• In XnView and others, the patterns ARE already rectangular on the bitmap you state as the current skin…
- The programme does not resize¦ fiddle with the shape…
- Any ratio is supported under that condition.
- Same for extra icons *.ICO (in XnView only), i.e. , in my own skins I offer always a bunch of such icons
for supplemental commands, they are indeed *.ICO drawn as rectangular, and that works fine !

KR
Claude
Clo
Note : Please, F5, I've fixed my post above

[petermad]

How would you go about doing that? I'm not sure I understand.

Like this to make a 75 pixels wide space:

http://madsenworld.dk/tcmd/buttonwidth.png

[Boofo]

2petermad,

Too bad that doesn't work with flat icons. It would be nice to have that available. Thanks for the pic. It makes sense seeing it like that.

[JohnFredC]

2Clo

I have responded off-list.

[Balderstrom]

I'll refer to an "empty icon" as spacers, for clarity.
With [x] Flat Icons. and 2 spacers, you will get 2 line-divides. Each additional spacer, will add emptyspace between the two line-divides.
With 4 spacers, the empty space in between the 2 line-divides is equivalent to an icons width.

I actually like having line-divides, though I could see adding commands for empty buttons:

Command: #SPACER
Parameters: <percentage_of_current_menu_icon_size>

Command: #SEPARATOR

If the <width> is not specified, it would default to: 50

Thus, if your Menu Icon Size was 24, a value of 50 = 12 pixels.
And if you changed your Menu Icon Size, you would not need to adjust all of the spacers.