Hello. I am on Opus 12.6 x64 on Windows 7. I use Keyboard Express to create and run keyboard macros. I have a keyboard macro that creates a window with 3 tabs. It works fine. It uses View mode of List. Now I am trying to modify the first tab created to use View mode of Details. What it displays is Details+Thumbnails. I have unable to solve this. Please help.
For the first tab, the macro sends to Opus the following:
GO "C:\Users\Carl\Favorites\Favorites Bar\Bookmark" NEW=0,100,300,950,notree VIEW=details
Details+Thumbnails isn't strictly a separate display mode, it is just Details mode with the Thumbnails column included in the list of displayed columns.
You probably have the Thumbnails column turned on for whichever folder format is being used when you open a new lister for that folder.
Hover the mouse over the format lock icon on the status bar and it will tell you where the current folder format comes from. That will be the thing you need to remove the Thumbnails column from.
I did as you suggested. Result:
The current Folder Format comes from:
Default Format
When I look at Settings > Preferences > Folders > Folder Formats > Default Format > [edit] User Default
the only "Displayed fields" checked is Filename.
I have looked at every other one of the checked Folder Formats, and they all have the only "Displayed fields" checked is Filename.
So I still do not know why am getting thumbnails displayed
That looks like it has a lot more than just the Name column, judging by the scrollbar at the bottom of the window. So it's not just the Thumbnails column being unexpected but several others, if the Default Format only has Name.
Are those the same columns you get when you open a new window normally, without the special command?
The Bookmarks tab Format Icon lock says:
Edited by User.
The other two tabs say:
Default Format.
When the macro invokes Opus and creates this lister, it is only for the first tab created, the Bookmarks tab, that I include the parameter VIEW=details. For the other two tabs, there is not VIEW parameter.
The complete macro that is run by Keyboard Express is:
<LAUNCH PROGRAM AND ACTIVATE WINDOW Title="Opus" Exact_Match="FALSE" Wildcards="FALSE" Path="C:\Program Files\GPSoftware\Directory Opus\dopusrt.exe" Mode="\x00" Parameters="/cmd GO "C:\Users\Carl\Favorites\Favorites Bar\Bookmarks" NEW=0,100,300,950,notree VIEW=details" Default_Path="TRUE" Wait="0" Wait_For_Program="2"/>
The parts just relevant to Opus are:
dopusrt.exe /cmd GO "C:\Users\Carl\Favorites\Favorites Bar\Bookmark" NEW=0,100,300,950,notree VIEW=details
dopusrt.exe /acmd GO "C:\Users\Carl\Desktop\Shortcuts"
dopusrt.exe /acmd GO "C:\Users\Carl\Desktop\Manuals"
Please try removing Keyboard Express from the equation to simplify things. You can create system-wide hotkeys in Opus without using another program or having to run things via dopusrt.exe
(Multi-line commands run one-line-at-a-time via dopusrt.exe will not be reliable in general. If you need to trigger one from outside of Opus, it's best to create a user or script command and then trigger that via a single use of dopusrt.exe. But if you just want a hotkey, you can do all of that in Opus, without using dopusrt.exe at all.)
Go to Settings > Customize Toolbars > Keys, then add a new System Wide Hotkey, and set the command to this:
GO "C:\Users\Carl\Favorites\Favorites Bar\Bookmark" NEW=0,100,300,950,notree VIEW=details
[
GO "C:\Users\Carl\Desktop\Shortcuts" NEWTAB=nofocus
GO "C:\Users\Carl\Desktop\Manuals" NEWTAB=nofocus
]
That also ensures that the 2nd and 3rd tabs are opened properly.
Note that you could also use a Layout to do all of this in an easier way, by setting up a window, saving it as a layout, and then using this command to open the layout when you want it:
Interesting approach. Makes sense.
I did as you suggested, creating a global hotkey with the embedded commands.
And it produced exactly the same result as when I used Keyboard Express: ie, the first tab format was details and thumbnails!!!
So we are still unsolved.
