DO9 under Vista
Hi,
the right click context menu offers a list of my saved lister-layouts.
However, choosing one doesn't open the layout! Instead, nothing happens at all.
It worked perfectly with DO8 unter XP.
Any ideas?
Thanks Jens
You mean the menu when you right-click on the desktop? (There are quite a few different right-click menus. 
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If you're using Vista and had installed Opus 8 in the past, make sure dopus.exe is no longer set to use any compatibility settings and isn't set to run as administrator.
If it's the first time you've run Opus on the machine, could you try exiting and restarting Opus? If that curse it let me know here.
nudel, thanks for your quick reply.
I had completely uninstalled DO8 before installing DO9.
The properties of dopus.exe show no XP-compatibility (unchecked).
Anything I have overlooked?
Regards Jens
The only thing I can think of to try is exiting Opus and then running dopus.exe once as administrator (right-click, run as admnistrator), then exit Opus and run it again normally (non-administrator).
I doubt that will make any difference but let us know if it does. If not I'm out of ideas but hopefully Jon can help out when he wakes up.
Hi nudel,
funny: SOME layouts DO start, but most don't ...
No idea what THAT can mean!
Thanks again
Jens
EDIT:
By the way: They ALL work from the task tray icon ...
If you could export and send in your config (assuming there's nothing sensitive in it like FTP passwords) either to here or to GPSoft directly someone will take a look at it.
You might be able to fix the problem by deleting all your layours and recreating them but it'd be good to know why it's stopped working.
Edit: The whole config is probably overkill. Just the /dopusdata/Layouts folder is probably enough! You can also back-up that folder if you want to experiment with deleting/recreating layouts to see if that solves the problem.
... don't know if it's important, but on my machine there is no such folder.
What I got is:
C:\Users\All Users\GPSoftware\Directory Opus\Layouts
Anyway: Re-creating this folder (empty) and saving new layouts hasn't helped at all!
EDIT:
Found out something that might be helpful:
The one layout that works (from the context menu) is always the one created last!
UPDATE:
It's not the layout saved last, as I thought. There seems to be no system - or at least I can't see any ...
Slightly off the wall idea but worth a try:
Can you toggle Preferences - Misc - Windows Integration: Display layouts in a sub-menu and see if it changes the menu? That'll tell us that it's definitely the right version of the component that is building the desktop context menu.
About the settings location difference: It's because you're using shared config mode instead of personal config mode, so the layout prefs are stored in /dopusglobaldata instead of /dopusdata
Right the menu does change according to the settings.
When you recreated the Layouts folder, did you restart Opus? If not, could you try doing that? (Opus caches most of the configuration in memory.)
Yes I did. The whole operation (delete and recreate) took place when DOpus was "out".
Hi,
meanwhile, my system's running 9.0.0.7, and still my DO desktop context menu ain't working properly. The first two lister layouts in the (context menu) list will start alright, but then: just nothing!
No one else with this prob?
Regards
Jens
Not here...
Is it 64 bit Vista by any chance?
No, plain 32 bit Vista.
Hi,
I've detected a pattern:
It's about the names given to the single lister layouts. Only the two layouts first in alphabetical order will open from the context menu (right click).
Example:
You got four layouts named "alpha", "beta", "gamma", and "delta".
"alpha" and "beta" will open from the context menu - "gamma" and "delta" won't!
The specific properties of the actual layouts themselves don't matter at all, nor does the total number of saved layouts: You can exchange the names of the layouts (rename), and it will always remain the same.
Funny, isn't it?
Regards Jens