Some time ago I found a tutorial about customizing drive buttons, in particular I used it to set up my drive buttons to include the drive letters. I am in the process of
a) recovering from a system corruption - which involved the reinstallation of all, or most, of my applications.
b) considering the purchase of a new PC.
In case a, all my data for Dopus was on a partition which still exists, but I don't know where there might be some data to allow me to get the modified drive buttons back. The problem is, I can't find the tutorial any more. Clicking on the new button icon merely opens a folder of .dop files, which doesn't help too much. Until the reconstruction is complete I have twice as many partitions as I normally have, and it's hard work waiting for the tooltip to be sure that I'm clicking the right one.
It was probably in the Toolbars1 video tutorial (if you were modifying the automatically-generated drive buttons to include labels) or in the Triple Drive Buttons (How to lose the tree) (step-by-step) text tutorial (if you were manually creating buttons for each drive letter).
On your old partition you can find the buttons files under
X:\Documents and Settings<USERNAME>\Application Data\GPSoftware\Directory Opus\Buttons
if you were using per-user configuration, and under
I have a toolbar which at the moment has tiny icons for 12 fixed partitions, plus a floppy and two optical (CD/DVD burners) devices, all without labels.
If I hit customize on the tool bar, the toolbar changes to a red-bordered triangle with an exclamation mark, two rather prettier icons, one for fixed, one for removable devices, and the new button icon. Now, if I right-click the fixed dvice icon and choose edit, I get a command editor with Go DRIVEBUTTONS=fixed, and labels are specified as right - so what am I supposed to do to get the labels to actually show when I close customization?
In the Customize dialog, if you select the toolbar that you're editing, what's the label setting on the right side of the dialog? That setting will override the one for individual buttons, which can be confusing until you know it's there.
Ah, that was an interesting question. It's 'off'. However, I'm sure I had labels on the toolbar before, without the whole toolbar being three times as wide as the Dopus lister frame. and without.
Well, I seem to have solved that one now. It seems that I was trying to edit ALL my toolbars to set labels on - not a Good Thing - instead of restricting myself to a Drives toolbar, and then moving it. All that remains now is to reboot, which I must do for another reason, and see if everything's still there.