Alternative to file display border buttons

Help & Support
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Whenever I'm in a dual display mode I find the border display buttons really handy as opposed to my back, forward and up buttons in my toolbar right above it. Because the up,forward,back buttons work for the lister with focus and the buttons in the lister border work even without focus.

But two thing annoy me of the lister border buttons

  • buttons are tiny. If you're a bit clumsy with the mouse like me it's hard to get real fast on the buttons

-buttons are on the right hand side..It would be very nice to have them on the left hand side.

So I was thinking of an alternative to the lister border buttons. Can I somehow create bigger buttons with the same functions in a (floating) toolbar.
However I have a criterium: the buttons should always be above (left-aligned) from the listers even if I drag the separator beween the two lister. So if I resize a lister the buttons should move as well..

If this is somehow managed I'b be a happy camper :slight_smile:

2

There isn't currently any way to align buttons or toolbars to the dividing line between the two file displays.

3

bummer

4

Aligning buttons/toolbars aside. How do I set the up- back- and forward buttons to affect only left or right lister?

5

I got this for example :
Set Focus [Right]
Go UP

Does not work.

6

For the parent buttons:

Go {leftpath|..} OPENINLEFT
Go {rightpath|..} OPENINRIGHT
7

For the back/forward buttons I think you have to use this type of kludge:

Set FOCUS=left dopusrt /cmd Go Back

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[quote="leo"]For the parent buttons:

Go {leftpath|..} OPENINLEFT
Go {rightpath|..} OPENINRIGHT

Thanks leo, But I can't go farther up than parent dir. How can I dod that?

9

Use .... instead of .. to go up two levels instead of one.

Use ...... to go up three levels.

etc.

10

Oh, unless you mean that you cannot go up from, say, C:\ to My Computer... That won't work using that method, but would work if you used the kludge:

Set FOCUS=left dopusrt /cmd Go Up

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[quote="leo"]Oh, unless you mean that you cannot go up from, say, C:\ to My Computer... That won't work using that method, but would work if you used the kludge:

Set FOCUS=left dopusrt /cmd Go Up[/quote]

Yes that did the job..thanks leo. I sense some irritation when you use the word kludge, but seriously something like this is really enhances my opus user experience and productivity.

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Main drawback of the kludge is that it changes the active file display, which you might not want. If you don't mind that then there's nothing wrong with it.

(Well, there could be a problem on a heavily loaded system where the dopusrt command takes a long time to start. In that case you might have clicked on another window by the time it runs and go up/back/forward in the wrong window. Pretty unlikely to cause a problem in reality, though.)

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I dont mind actually if the active file display is changed. And I haven´t noticed any miliseconds of a lag so far and system is pretty heavy loaded currently. So this works fine for me. thanks again.