Source Menu for Directory Opus 13

[jinsight]

This is my effort to create a set of toolbars with many of the most common buttons for what Opus can do. There are over a 1,100 buttons across 7 toolbars.

I hope it allows a user to find functions more easily. Also, I hope it is useful as a source or primary toolbar to give one ideas about the breadth of options of Opus that one might want to add to their toolbars. My hope is you will review these toolbars and take buttons from it for your own toolbars. Take the ones that are useful to you and leave the rest.

It is my version of how such a set of toolbars should be structured. As such, it is not based on, nor does it look like, the default Directory Opus configuration which mimics File Explorer by initial default Directory Opus settings.

My design philosophy is:

1. maximum file list
2. maximum access to functions used often
3. minimum space used by toolbars
4. toolbars only at the top horizontally with a single vertical toolbar between dual file displays

I have two toolbars displayed at all times:
-Menu JEG is displayed horizontally at the top which is the source or primary toolbar for many of the features of Opus.
-Operations JEG is displayed vertically between dual listers which is tuned to my work flow and might not be of use to many other users. A screen shot is included of my standard lister.

The most screen efficient horizontal toolbar is using only labels. The most screen efficient vertical toolbar is using only icons. My philosophy is to optimize accessing and working with files without the distraction of lots of variation in colors and the sizes of toolbar elements.

I also have a number special purpose toolbars called up and displayed when needed. I have included five of them.

The first three provide the common activities all in one place for these features in Opus:
-Flat View, Columns, Group and Sort JEG
-Collections JEG.dop
-Favorite Formats JEG

The next two bars make up my Location Bar setup found under Preferences - Location Bar - Toolbars - Display as a toolbar.
-FD JEG.dop, a modified location bar
-FD Locations JEG.dop which displays my most often visited drives and folders. Substitute your own. This toolbar can hold all the drives, folders and files you access all in a compact space and specific for each file display in a dual lister. The drive buttons are three button buttons which let you go to or drag and drop to the path or list all subfolders in the path in order to go to one, or copy, or move a selected item to any subfolder in the path. This cuts down on button proliferation and tab proliferation.

I also extensively use Everything partial searches with filters to, eg., find a file. Everything is configured so that clicking on the path in Everything opens it in Opus. For this reason, I don't use tags or extensive item color coding. I can quickly find files or folders without the extra work of maintaining these features.

If you want to get the most out of this with the least time, look at two toolbars, -Menu JEG.dop with 741 buttons and -FD Locations JEG.dop with 184 buttons.

I use a number of scripts so I have included a text file with their names and URLs to them, should you wish to use them.

I have included screen shots of my context menus.

I have also included an image of the icon sets I use. All are available in Opus except one, JEG Icons, attached below.

I have also included context menus and rename presets.

Comments, questions or suggestions willingly accepted.

Version April 22, 2025 Requires Opus 13.14.4 or higher
Silent updates also occur periodically.
Check this date for the most recent version.

Source Menu for Directory Opus JEG.zip (160.8 KB)

List of Active Scripts.txt (9.7 KB)

JEG Icons (32px & 24px).dis (1.1 MB)

Second level menus of the standard lister

Context Menus

[xavierarmand]

WOW!

i thought my toolbars where getting fancy.haha

youve a lot of awesome functions across these i would have thought of.

well done!

thanks for sharing will use some of your buttons as inspration

[jinsight]

New version as of 9/10/2024. Silent updates also occur periodically.

[ciscoa0017]

i might of missed it, but where can i get those icons you used? i don't seem to see them on my sets.

[jinsight]

@ciscoa0017

I added an image of the icon sets I use. All are available in Opus except for my custom .dis file icon set, JEG Icons. I added that file.

[jinsight]

New version as of January 1, 2025. Silent updates also occur periodically.

[lxp]

@jinsight

over a 1,100 buttons across 7 toolbars

How do you memorize the functionality and location of so many buttons?

[jinsight]

This is a source for many feature options. I don't use all the features but in order to learn what features I could take advantage of, I learned about many of the options. For example, I rarely use collections, ftp, select or styles but I know they exist and a little about them so if and when I do want to use their features, I have a menu button that contains many of their options as a refresher course. I could then move them up more to the surface of Opus rather than being several clicks down.

The features I use often in my work flow I try to keep one or two clicks away in the two toolbars that are visible at all times. Someone else could do the same with their workflow moving through this source menu as a learning tool.

I'm surprised folks don't take advantage of this resource.

Apropos of "many buttons" I "only" use 27 scripts. For me they are set and forget. How many scripts do you have, and do you load and unload them? Maybe there is something I could learn here!

[Leo]

Don't the manual's command/arguments pages provide the same information (and a lot more, since these menus will still be missing a huge number of possible commands)?

[jinsight]

Reading how chess works is not the same thing as playing chess.

[khalidhosain]

WOW
absolutely brilliant Job. Thanks for share with us