I use Macro Express hotkeys to switch between my most-used apps. ME does this by giving focus to the title bar of each app. The title bar in DOpus, in the default setting, shows the current path of the lister window and changes each time one goes to a new file or folder. I cannot find anything in Preferences to change this. Is there such an option, to have it just show the name of the program? Having the path in the title bar is completely unnecessary, as it can be viewed in multiple other ways w/in the program.
Presumably you only ever have one Opus window open at a time, or don't mind if Macro Express activates a random window and/or reacts to all windows?
There's no way to remove the path from the titlebar at the moment. The only options are to display the full path or just the last part of the path. You could ask GPSoft for an extra option to just have "Directory Opus" in the title or, even better, to be able to use the status-bar codes in the title.
In my opinion, a better solution for this particular problem is to ask the Macro Express team to add the ability to recognise windows by window class, which can be found using a tool like Spy++ (e.g. "dopus.lister"), and/or by the name of the executable that created them (e.g. "dopus.exe"). I know that several other macro tools can use window class instead of (or as well as) window title and if Macro Express supported this then the problem would be solved for many other programs, not just Opus. Of course, this is assuming that the ME folks will add a feature in similar time to the Opus guys. Getting a window's class is a very easy operation so it shouldn't be complicated for them to do.
I disagree. If you have multiple Opus windows open (which I do all the time) then it makes it possible to find the one you want via the taskbar, or alt-tab, without having to search through each one individually.
Thanks for the response. I doubt DOpus will change the title bar just for moi, and I doubt ME will add "window class recognition", again, just for little ole me, however I will ask.
Window class recognition makes a lot of sense for a macro tool (and other similar tools support it) so hopefully the ME team will agree that it's a good idea.
Equally, being able to configure the titlebar in Opus (e.g. using the same codes that can be used in the status bar) would be great for lots of people, not just you, so I doubt the idea would be ignored, though I don't know how difficult it is to change that part of Opus or if there's any time to do it in the near future.
I would really love to be able to set the title bar to something more meaningful than the current path. For instance, as I often have multiple listers open, each for a separate project, i would like to define the titlebar based on the name of the saved lister. For instance, if i open a new lister for a specific project usingGo NEW=source
Toolbar NAME=DIS_local LOCAL STATE=center TOGGLE
GO TABGROUPLOAD=DIS OPENINLEFT
GO TABGROUPLOAD=DISData OPENINRIGHT
it would be really helpful to be able to set the name of that lister, say "DIS," so that when switching with ALT-tab I could easily tell which lister to open based on this name.
You might be able to build a button which invokes an Autoit script to change the window title,, but it's probably not worth it unless you already have and use Autoit.