I'm being lazy and have only looked at the online help...
Anyone know of a command to use for a button on a toolbar/menu to show I/E favorites or 'Links'? I know I can drag any of the URL's in the favorites\links folder to a sub-menu on a toolbar, but that won't be dynamic... and these links are changing on me pretty often, so I'd like to update in I/E and have that automatically reflected in any such Opus toolbar. I 'thought' there was already something for this...
You can import links/favourites from Explorer and/or Internet Explorer via Preferences, but I think it's a one-off import and thus won't stay in sync.
What you really want is to be able to put folders into toolbars (like you can with the Windows startmenu) since the Favourites directory for IE is just a directory on disk full of shortcuts.
Steje, I've actually though a bit about this recently, but my thoughts were of the Start Menu.
Nudel:
Yes, that's the problem, but since buttons are now XML text, a command line program, either a PHP script or C++ binary,
using a simple recursive search function, could quite possibly be able to write a new button.
I mean that the program would create a new XML text file.
I'm not certain what you mean here Nudel.
To put folders into toolbars, similar to Start Menu behaviour, I'd use DOpus Menus,
just as we did in another thread about the Toolbars Menu.
Porcupine
That'd work to a degree. I think Opus will only detect the change at startup (or maybe if you close and re-open the toolbar), but you could make the program run just before Opus starts each time so things are kept reasonably in sync.
If you drag a folder, say Directory Opus, to the start menu this happens:
...God dammit, my PrtScn key isn't working...
Anyway, try dragging a random folder onto the start menu (or start button) and you'll see an item is added for the folder. If you double-click the item it opens the folder in Opus or Explorer but if you hover over the item it expands to show all the files and folders below it. Note that this view of the folder is dynamic and updates as changes are made to the contents.
Got it now Nudel.
You were simply pointing out how the start menu dynamically updates itself.
Yes, it is a limited idea, but it could work.
Exactly my thoughts as well if it gets to that point.
I was only thinking of a button clipboard paste at the time, but a full toolbar is also possible.
Better yet, if progress could be made here, perhaps GPsoft would actually add some kind of dynamic functioning .
Damned Thing !
Hmmmm.... Hamlet:
To be or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; ....
Porcupine
[quote="steje"]I'm being lazy and have only looked at the online help...
Anyone know of a command to use for a button on a toolbar/menu to show I/E favorites or 'Links'? I know I can drag any of the URL's in the favorites\links folder to a sub-menu on a toolbar, but that won't be dynamic... and these links are changing on me pretty often, so I'd like to update in I/E and have that automatically reflected in any such Opus toolbar. I 'thought' there was already something for this...[/quote]
This would be a great feature request. I'd like to see any of the "system folder aliases" or paths to be made to act like the built in "Favorites SHOWICONS" command. IF there were sub folders it would display a standard menu tree...
Example:
FolderTree PATH /Favorites ShowIcons
or
FolderTree c:\myfolder ShowIcons
or to access a pseudo start menu:
FolderTree /Start ShowIcons
This would be great for floating docked bars, kind of like Stardock's ObjectBar. Right now, you can build them, but like you said, they are not dynamic.