Problem occurs when clicking toolbar app launcher icons. Opus opens one file in multiple apps without permission.
Is it possible to fix?
Those buttons just send the file to the application that you are clicking on.
What happens after that is entirely up to the application.
If you send a .docx file to Chrome, it looks like it will act as if the file is being downloaded. That is up to Chrome though.
If you send a Photoshop file (as indicated by it starting with "8BPS") to Notepad or Microsoft Word, you'll see a lot of random-looking characters because neither of those programs knows how to handle Photoshop files.
None of that is a problem in Opus. You are sending files to programs which don't know how to handle them.
That's unlogical IMHO - normally when you add "quicklaunch buttons" to somewhere they don't send files to somewhere.
Or at least there should be option to choose "send files / do not send files" in the customize toolbar, so that you can control them and be aware what these buttons do. But they might be handy, never encountered quicklaunch icons like these.
How do you add a toolbar in Opus which just launches an app or software - and doesn't send any files anywhere?
Oh, and thank you for taking time renaming my lazy topics on my posts.
I'll try to post stuff immediately when there's question about opus.
Just upgraded to pro - keep up the good work.
How do you add a toolbar in Opus which just launches an app or software - and doesn't send any files anywhere?
Assuming you are using the Pro version of Opus, if you have no files selected, the application will launch without opening anything. Alternatively delete the {filepath} argument from your existing button code as shown in the image below which will then launch the application regardless of having files selected or not.
To create a new toolbar go to Settings / Customise Toolbars and select the "New Toolbar" button (Alt+N) from the "Toolbar" tab.
If you just want buttons that run programs and do not pass files to them, edit the toolbar buttons and remove the {filepath} from the end of them, as Blueroly shows above.
If you are making those buttons by dragging programs to the toolbar, the {filepath} is added to the end by default, but you can stop it happening by holding Ctrl when you drop the button. See Editing the Toolbar, at the Add a button that runs an external program part.
You can also use @filesfromdroponly to make buttons which include {filepath} but ignore the file selection when running other programs, but still let you drag files on to the buttons to launch the program with them.
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Thank you blueroly and Leo, that +ctrl & dragging did the trick, awesome!
Maybe there could be more info in the tooltip?
Now its:
"Add to toolbar"
Could it be:
"Add to toolbar (Hold ctrl while drag&drop to not to pass files to program)" ?