Folder Layout

I read (or more accurately: scanned) the Folder Formats: Quick Guide and Folder Formats: Detailed Guide FAQ as well as the Folder Formats help text and something is still unclear to me.

I did define my own style (picture below) with the following folder formats (left/right pane are configured identically:

	<format1 autosize="yes"
       		compatfiles="default"
       		getsizes="off"
       		inherit_hidefilter="yes"
       		inherit_labels="yes"
       		inherit_showfilter="yes"
       		inherit_sorting="yes"
       		inherit_view="yes"
       		numericname="yes"
       		sort="dirsfirst"
       		threshhold="25"
       		v="2"
       		view_mode="details">
		<field fill_width="yes"
     			id="name"
     			sort="1" />
		<field auto_size="yes"
     			id="sizeauto" />
		<field auto_size="yes"
     			id="modified" />
		<field auto_size="yes"
     			id="attr" />
	</format1>

Only after manually changing the autosize="yes" entry to autosize="no", I get the desired layout (upper pane layout).
Otherwise I get the lower pane layout.
How/where do I change this in the GUI?




For good measure, my .osy lister style file:

<style hidden="no"
     	order="8"
     	toolbar="Menu">
	<layout display_size="65"
      		display_size_flt="0.657183"
      		flags="0x28306002d"
      		meta_size="250000"
      		meta_split="339200"
      		view_mode="details,details"
      		viewer_size="250000"
      		well_width="192,192"
      		well_width_dpi="150" />
	<format1 autosize="no"
       		compatfiles="default"
       		getsizes="off"
       		inherit_hidefilter="yes"
       		inherit_labels="yes"
       		inherit_showfilter="yes"
       		inherit_sorting="yes"
       		inherit_view="yes"
       		numericname="yes"
       		sort="dirsfirst"
       		threshhold="25"
       		v="2"
       		view_mode="details">
		<field fill_width="yes"
     			id="name"
     			sort="1" />
		<field auto_size="yes"
     			id="sizeauto" />
		<field auto_size="yes"
     			id="modified" />
		<field auto_size="yes"
     			id="attr" />
	</format1>
	<format2 autosize="no"
       		compatfiles="default"
       		getsizes="default"
       		inherit_hidefilter="yes"
       		inherit_labels="yes"
       		inherit_showfilter="yes"
       		inherit_sorting="yes"
       		inherit_view="yes"
       		numericname="yes"
       		sort="dirsfirst"
       		threshhold="25"
       		v="2"
       		view_mode="details">
		<field fill_width="yes"
     			id="name"
     			sort="1" />
		<field auto_size="yes"
     			id="sizeauto" />
		<field auto_size="yes"
     			id="modified" />
		<field auto_size="yes"
     			id="attr" />
	</format2>
	<folder1>
		<pathstring>C:\Users\me\AppData\Roaming\GPSoftware\Directory Opus\ListerStyles</pathstring>
	</folder1>
	<folder2>
		<pathstring>T:\scroll</pathstring>
	</folder2>
</style>

In the UI, the auto-size option is near the top of the Display tab when editing a Folder Format / Folder Options.

(We plan to move it to the Columns tab, since it fits with those settings better these days. Where it is at the moment made sense in the past but not as much now.)

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Found it. Thanks!!

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It seems friendlier to add some options to another context menu in the column header, use the following hotkey method, from AutoHotkey:
~RButton & LButton
or
~LButton & RButton
Just a suggestion.

I think the options you are talking about are behind the More ... context menu entry.
Here you can set the appearance of the current folder and also make that the standard in various ways.





I came from the other way: when configuring a lister style, you can also set the folder appearance for this style: