Save current layout

megosu · September 19, 2007, 12:31pm

Hi,

I'm interested in a way to force Dopus to save the current listers as a default layout, in the same way it's done when you close Dopus process.

Maybe by a button, but I don't want to create a new layout, just save it as the default layout.

Sometimes, when there is a system crash Dopus doesn't remember the last listers, and it opens the previous last lister.

A good thing would be to save the current layout each time a new tab is opened or closed, instead of doing it once the program is ended.

thx

kenalcock · September 19, 2007, 1:34pm

This button will do what you want, after you change the Layout name to the one you use by default.

<?xml version="1.0"?> <button display="both"> <label>Save All Listers as Default Layout</label> <tip>Save all open Listers as the default Lister Layout (change name accordingly)</tip> <icon1>199</icon1> <function type="normal"> <instruction>Prefs LAYOUTSAVE LAYOUTNAME="Default"</instruction> </function> </button>

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megosu · September 19, 2007, 1:56pm

Thx for that, but it's not exactly what I'm searching for.

What I would like to do, is to make Dopus remembers my listers and always keep in memory the last opened listers.

So, I set Dopus to "Open the Listers that were open when the program was last closed" and that's almost perfect.

The problem only occurs when I open Dopus after a system crash (we have some PB with electricity in this place...), it doesn't remember the last listers because Dopus wasn't closed properly, so it didn't save it.

So I only see two ways of resolving this :

change Dopus to make it save the current listers each time you open/close one, instead of just saving them when you close the whole program.
make a button wich I can press to save the listers in the current layout scheme, in order to recover them after a power failure. (without manually loading a specific layout)

What do you think about it ?

kenalcock · September 19, 2007, 2:11pm

That is exactly what the button I posted above does. The button doesn't load anything. You click the button and it saves every lister you currently have open as a Lister Layout. You then configure Opus Preferences to open the same Lister Layout each time Opus starts up.

Currently the button I posted saves everything to a Lister Layout named Default. So as you see in the screen grab below, that is the Lister Layout used to open Opus the next time. If you are using a different name, change the name in both places (the button and the Preferences setting below).

megosu · September 19, 2007, 2:18pm

Ok, i get this, but if you close Dopus without using your button first, you can't get back your last opened listers.

That's the bad part of the solution.

kenalcock · September 19, 2007, 2:51pm

We can get around that too, provided you are closing Opus yourself. Every place in your Opus configuration, where you have a button or menu item to close or exit Opus, edit the command as displayed below (again, changing Default to the Lister Layout name that you are using).

Prefs LAYOUTSAVE LAYOUTNAME="Default" Close PROGRAM

Then when you click on these buttons/menu items to exit Opus, your Layout will automatically be saved. The next time you Open Opus, it will be restored.

Opus has a Default Lister, but it doesn't really have a Default Lister Layout. But by using everything I've posted in this thread, you pretty much get the same thing as a Default Lister Layout.