Expanding Location and Search Toolbars

I'd like to see the location bar be expanded or maybe make it an optional expansion for those of us that would like it to go across the Folder Tree and the File List. Maybe add a wrap too for extra long bread crumb displays.

I'd also like to see it relocatable so I can move it to the top or the bottom and since I've already suggested that all or part of the location bar should be able to be seperated maybe part of it horizontal and other parts vertical let's keep that in mind too.

At the bottom the same with the Tab Bar and the Search Bar. Extend it over into the Folder Tree column and then the two horizontal sliders for the Folder Tree and the File List can be at the same height with the Search Bar below. It too should be relcoatable to top/bottom and I guess even left and right side of the Folder Tree and File Lister. You never know how someone may want to set it up in a better way than maybe I've thought of
and you've already started this capability by allowing some toolbars to be vertical and others horizontal.

Expanding the Search will make features that are currently getting truncated visible in dual vertical mode.

Finally the tab bar. Yes, of course expand it as if it was part of the Search bar but also I'd prefer a static tab location rather than the current circulating shift. In other words add a |<< << at the left side and >> >>| at the right side to move through the tabs similar to MS Office.

You can put the location bar on a normal toolbar if you want.

I'm not sure how you do that?

You have a special section in preferences to setup the Location Bar which is a grouping of other toolbars at least how I understand it. This setup gives it the implied left right focus.

Edit the toolbars and drag the field to where you want it.

You can also add args to a fields if you want it to always apply to the left or right side: Path Field Configuration [Directory Opus Manual]

You're saying to create a new toolbar and drag individual elements from the Location Bar to the new toolbar. That's very different from putting the Location Bar into another toolbar.

I know there are ways to add modifiers or whatever you're calling them. That's why the button edit walk-through is out here as a request. But I thought you were suggesting a way of doing this that was going to make it simpler.

I'm not even sure I can create a toolbar that would go from the Folder Tree into the File list. Toolbars seem to be predefined lengths based on where you drag them too. Some you can drag vertically but they always go between the same two places and you can only drop them at certain places.

Not sure why that would be a problem. But you can also remove the Location Bar toolbar from file display border and turn it on as a regular toolbar, if you want.

All the default toolbars cover the entire width of the window, so you can definitely do that.

So it won't let me create a toolbar that goes from the left of the Folder Tree to the right of the File Lister as I thought.

I think the part your not understanding is this is for a dual vertical layout. Creating a toolbar that goes across the entire lister is not want I'm looking to do. I really want to have the lcoation bar, search bar, folder tab bar extended into the Folder Tree on the left and right sides of the lister. If you can make it so that any toolbar can go anywhere I want and I can associate it with the left or right filelist or folder tree that would work as well.

You can put more than one location bar on the same toolbar that spans the whole width of the window.

Here's the best I can do.

The top tool bar is a conventional one that fills the window from left to right, by way of example.

The second one has the location bar, the tab switcher to see all tabs at once even if not visible on the tab folder bar, and the search bar. The folder tab bar can not be placed on a toolbar.

You've gone to a single Folder Tree. My whole reason for staying away from the source/destination type functionality is I always end up deleting something because my focus is wrong. I don't know if the focus ia getting changed when I come back to DO from another app or what but it's left me nervous. I'm sure your comeback is turn on confirmtion. I just click on past it. But regardless I've used the left/right style setup for years now. Not something I really want to change/re-learn.

When you say the top toolbar you're talking about the menu toolbar? Let me show you where I'm currently at because it's changed a bit because of the limited width of the location bar.

The drives and the arrows, favs, etc all out of the File Display into the Drive Button Display which runs vertical now and is very thin. The File Operations are also vertical but on the other side of the file list so they are beside what they're going to affect. I'm in the process of walking through the buttons setting the focus. Then I have to do the right side.

I'm gonna move the View and Lister layout to the file operations toolbars so those will no longer be across the top. I already have them in the vertical bar but I like the default icons better. I may try to squeeze a little width from the 2 folder trees and operations toolbars.

The biggest problem I have is the truncated filter bar which isn't a true trucation. I mean it's shorter but it's like all the fields squeeze toegher. Sometimes I can't access the one with the various filetypes. It's just been skinnied off the toolbar. Maybe there's a way that they could wrap-around or have an up/down arrow like there is on the display of the default operatioins toolbar rather than squeezing them?

I'd also like to know how you were able to add buttons to your title bar. I have no such option.

Your location bar has >>. I don't get those that I've ever seen except when I had my drive buttons in there I would get a drop down at the end for any undisplayed drives.

I'm not sure exactly what a tab switcher is? Are those the tabs that are the bottom of my file list? I'm not a fan of the single anything button, search, breadcrumbs that have to serve both sides as I've said above it goofs me up.

I'm also not sure what some of those menu items do like Folders, Panes, Columns, Tabs, etc but I'd like to see you walk me through what they do.

@cityguy

Please refer to thread #2 in Full Menu (for Directory Opus 13)