Scrollable list of drives to select from

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I am trying out Opus 9 (9.5.6.0). I would like to know whether it is possible to show a scrollable list of drive letters, ie using a key to display list of drives, and then use the cursor keys to scroll up and down and select the highlighted drive by pressing the Enter/Return key.

I having been using Total Commander, and pressing the Alt F1 keys produces the following

I can then use the up and down cursor keys to highlight the drive needed and then the Enter/Return key.

In Opus I am aware that there is a toolbar called "drives" which can be displayed on and off with an assigned function or other key. But in order to select a drive it is necessary to use the mouse to select it. Unless I am missing something. I prefer not to use the mouse for this.

Help with this would be greatly appreciated.

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Paste the following on to your toolbar (as explained in How to add buttons from this forum to your toolbars):

<?xml version="1.0"?> <button backcol="none" display="both" label_pos="right" popout="bottom" textcol="none" type="menu"> <label>&amp;Drives</label> <icon1>#drivebuttons</icon1> <button display="both" label_pos="right"> <label>Drive Buttons</label> <icon1>116</icon1> <function type="normal"> <instruction>Go DRIVEBUTTONS=labels,lettersbeforelabels,hideempty</instruction> </function> </button> </button>

You should then be able to open the menu by pushing Alt-D and scroll through it using the cursor keys.

If you want to use something other than Alt-D, edit the menu item in Customize mode and look at its label, which will be &Drives. The &D part means that Alt-D is the hotkey for it, but if you put the & before another character then you can change the hotkey to something else (although not F1 in this case; you can bind commands to Alt-F1 but not menus).

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Leo,

Thank you for the information. Just what I wanted.

Althoough surprised that this is not built in...

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But you CAN :slight_smile:! Also sorting is possible (e.g. hd's first, external second,...).

BTW drivebuttons are more effizient esp. on dual mode.

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Shift-Enter- is enough for me. I have the drives toolbar only for aesthetical reasons & to remind me, which drives
i have anyway. :smiley:

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Shift+Enter, I didn't know that. Useful! Thanks.