Total Commander

Button-bar sub-bars can be opened as button bars or as pop-up menus.
This is fine but it would be great having a way to open the bar "the other" way (eg. as a bar even when "Open as menu" is checked for a button subbar) would help keeping a bar opened for drag and drop over buttons or for copy+paste for buttons (menu bars do no t allow copying and/or pasting buttons).

Click [Help]-Button or press F1-key or open the TOTALCMD.CHM from TC folder (or subfolder "e").

In CHM go > Operation > User interface > click on the "(Button bar)" > click "Dialog box to change" > use the Ctrl+F-search:

To find: Show as menu:
Only for .bar files: Show linked button bar file as a popup menu instead of switching to the new bar.
Use Shift to use the other option, e.g. show bar as menu if this option isn't checked.




That?

 

Thanks. That's it. No idea when was this implemented, but great to know even after deades using TC every sngle day.
Regards.

No idea when was this implemented

It was implementet in TC 7.50b1 - 16 years ago:

histoty.txt wrote:14.03.08 Added: Show button bar files (*.bar) as dropdown menus when the user holds down Shift while clicking on the menu button

Help for TC 7.50 and later versions wrote:Dialog box: Configuration - Change button bar
Show as menu: Only for .bar files: Show linked button bar file as a popup menu instead of switching to the new bar. Use Shift to use the other option, e.g. show bar as menu if this option isn't checked.

Thanks for pointing this. Even though I've been using TC since Win3.1, back in 1993 and my 1st license is dated 1996, it's not easy to keep track on minor improvements and additions and I confess not reading (at all) the changelogs for each version.. Maybe just skimming over them from time to time. Indeed my fault, but thanks again @Stefan2 and @petermad for the help and time to answer.

Helix751,

it's not easy to keep track on minor improvements and additions and I confess not reading (at all) the changelogs for each version. [...] Indeed my fault

Only a few hardcore fans do, even fewer do remember everything, and it's definitely not your "fault"

Roman

Hacker wrote: ↑2024-04-14, 14:32 UTC even fewer do remember everything

Why do you look at me?





OK, you're right