Creating your own buttons
One of the unique features of Opus is that the toolbars are completely
configurable. All toolbar (and menu) buttons are built up from one or more
commands, consisting of either:
- The internal
commands, which give access to the internal features of Opus. All the
internal commands have a set of arguments that can be used to modify
their behaviour to produce different results (e.g. to move a file instead of
copy it).
- External commands, which let you run third-party programs from within
Opus. Using special codes you can pass
information like the names of selected files to external programs, integrating
them more fully into your Opus configuration.
A few points which may not be immediately apparent:
- Toolbar buttons and drop-down menus are the same thing. A drop-down menu
is really just vertical toolbar.
- All the toolbar buttons and menus that come with Opus can be changed. You
can edit the supplied buttons (move them around, delete them, modify their
function, etc), and add your own buttons (either to the standard toolbars, or
to toolbars that you create). You can even turn off the standard toolbars
altogether.
- If you ever want to return to the default toolbars, just right-click any
toolbar and choose the Reset to Defaults command.
And the most important thing to remember about Opus is:
If
you don't like something, you can probably change it!