I have buttuns for direct access to my most used folders. Better than that would be a list of sub folders when I hit the button. I want the same behavior which you have when you click on the arrows in the breadcrumb path in the file display toolbar. Even better it would be that also the subfolders open their subfolders when I hoover the cursor over it, like a cascading menu structure. Is that possible? I tried a little bit with the FOLDERCONTENTS command with no solution for me. Any suggestions?
The Go FOLDERCONTENTS command is the way to do it if you want those things on your toolbars/menus.
Which arguments did you try, and what do you want to change about the result you got with it?
Dear Leo, thank you very much for your reply. First of all: The FOLDERCONTENTS command seem to be a booster for productivity and for saving a lot of clicks. I should invest much more time in studying the manual. After you said, that I´m on the right way I experimented with the options. Curiosly when I add the "nomenusel" argument the behaviour is exactly what I want. I wondered about it because the manual said "Hovering over a sub-folder will no longer expand it". It does the oposite in my opinion.
The only thing what I need now is to prevent, that all the subfolders of the folder I want to see as a menu button are visible in my menu bar as menu buttons . I only want to see the folder which I have indicated in the command editor. My entry is now: "Go X:\Modelle FOLDERCONTENT=nomenusel". When I´m in the custumize mode of corse only the intended folder is shown. After I close it I see the subfolders in the menu bar. How to prevent this? Additional: When I hover the list of folders and files can open the files by clicking on it. How can I open the folder in that list to show it in the lister? When I click on an folder in the dropdown list nothing happens. https://3d-labor.de/Leo.jpg
I do the same thing very often. I use either Flat View Grouped, or Flat View Mixed. I use those views so much I copied the buttons to the toolbar so I don't have to open the menu.
Then I created a button 'Hide Files' so that only folders are visible.
We'll fix the manual. Looks like it's wrong or out of date.
Make a sub-menu and move the command into that.
Clicking folders opens them here, except at the very top-level (where the command is placed on the toolbar), since those have to be clicked to open the menus.
If you want to open the top-level and get a list of its subfolders, use the following menu button as a template using your own path, see Show the Parent Folder and Subfolders with FOLDERCONTENT
You both are awesome. With your help I have now exactly what I wanted. Indeed I had the problem with the absent parent folder (see image https://3d-labor.de/parentfolder.jpg). There is one question left. I thought I could made a user defined command in the command editor with jinsights script, but then I became the warning similar to "From WEB copied XML-command buttons should not be inserted in the command editor". So I took the way to paste the script into a toolbar. Now I searched a while where I can edit that sript afterwards inside of Dopus, but found nothing. Do I have to edit the schript outside of Dopus and paste it once again into the toolbar? Where do I find the script inside Dopus?
This should be a separate thread, but you can edit the button in Customize mode, the same as any other toolbar button.
Hey, did you find out how to edit the button? I am trying to use and edit the same button but when I click edit in the customize mode there is no option to edit the script.
I edit the *.dop file with a text editor. All toolbars have a *.dop file under C:\Users...\AppData\Roaming\GPSoftware\Directory Opus\Buttons
The "script" part, which is a line with DOPUS commands can be edited in the part.
For example: Go X:\Pflanzen-2d FOLDERCONTENT=dblclickmenu NEWTAB
This button is actually a menu with two items which you can/need to edit individually. The first item provides access to the parent folder, the second one to the folders below it.
When in Customize mode, click on the button so the menu opens:
Then Alt-Click (or right click) on one of the two items to edit their respective commands.
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Please don’t edit those directly unless you really need to.
You can edit all toolbar buttons in Customize mode.
I often edit *.dop manually with UltraEdit . I have projact wise toolbars with the same folder structure, so I have only to replace the paths and rename the *.dop according to the new project. I never had problems with it. But in case of some other buttons, where I want a menu structure to easily go to my needed files I also edit this in the *.dop files because some of the button properties are not accsessable in that case. I worked sometimes ago with the tip of jinsight (Show the Parent Folder and Subfolders with FOLDERCONTENT) which meets my needs. But when I create a button this way I can not edit all the properties of the button.
Picture 1: this is what I want - you can see the toolbaes for the projects here (PAL, WAL) and buttons which produce menus where I can open the subfolders by hoover over it
Picture 2: Normal buttons - I can edit the behaviour of that button
Picture 3: Buttons created with the method of jinsight (see link, method is decribed there) I can only edit the appearance of the button.
That´s why I edit the behaviour in the editor.
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Not true - please see my post above...
Thanks Marto, I did not know that i could expand the main button in Customize mode. That's what I was missing. I was getting the same editor as in 3dlabors 3rd screenshot.
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Thanks for the reply 3dlabor!
It seems like I even have the exact same usecase as you do. I wanted to organize my material and model library for architecture and archviz stuff and wanted to achieve what you got in the 1st picture. Doing what MartO suggested solved it for me!
Thanks a lot, MartO! I didnt´t notice that the button opens the menu in customize mode. Great advice. Sorry for spreading of "dangerous half knowledge" as we say in Germany.
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Welcome to the club! As architect I´m a freelancer in the archviz field since 2006. Before that visualisation was a also big part of my work as employee in an architectural office since 1991.
Since about 2009 I work with Dopus an can not imagine to live without it. I recomend it to everyone who works with PCs in a professianal way.
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