Customize

The Customize system is used to configure the toolbars, menus and hotkeys in Directory Opus. All the toolbars in Opus are configurable - you can edit the supplied ones or create your own. Toolbars can also be floated - opened as independent windows not tied to a Lister - for example, to be used as program launchers. Using Opus you can also configure hotkeys - combinations of keystrokes that can activate Opus commands or launch external programs.

One upshot of there being no "fixed" toolbars in Opus is that when this help file refers to accessing commands on such-and-such a toolbar or in such-and-such a menu, it refers only to the default toolbars and menus - if you've edited the defaults or turned those toolbars off then obviously those instructions will be less helpful.

Customize works as a "modal" system. When you enter Customize mode, all toolbars switch to "edit" mode and normal Lister operations are suspended. The idea is that you enter Customize mode, make your desired edits, then leave Customize mode and try out your changes.

There are a number of ways to enter Customize mode - the most common are:

• Select Customize Toolbars from the Settings menu in a Lister
• Right-click on an empty area on a toolbar and choose Customize from the context menu
• Click on the window icon (the top-left icon in the title bar) in a Lister and choose Customize from the menu. This is a handy thing to remember as it always lets you get to Customize even if you have turned off all your toolbars or accidentally deleted the Customize command from your menu.
• If the appropriate options are turned on in the Windows Integration Preferences page, you can access Customize mode from the Windows control panel or by right-clicking an empty area of the desktop

The Customize dialog appears when you enter Customize mode. It is divided into a number of tabbed pages.

• Commands: Displays a list of commands that you can easily add to toolbars by drag and drop.
• Toolbars: Displays a list of your toolbars, lets you turn them on or off, and create and edit new ones.
• Keys: Displays a list of all configured hotkeys and lets you edit them and create new ones.
• Context Menus: This is where various context menus can be edited. The context menus for files and folders are not edited through here - instead they are controlled through the File Types system. The context menus here are for user interface elements like the column header in a details mode file display, the taskbar icon and so on.

At the top of the Customize dialog, the File menu contains a number of commands:

• Import: The behavior of this command depends on the currently selected page in the Customize dialog.
• Export: Same for this; what is actually exported depends on the current page.
• Save Floating Toolbars: This command saves the state and position of any floating toolbars that are currently displayed. For example, if you want to set up a floating toolbar to act as a program launcher, you would float it, position it as desired, and then choose this command to make Opus remember this for the future. If you turn on the Save state of floating Toolbars automatically on exit option on the Toolbar Options Preferences page, your floating toolbars will be remembered automatically when Opus shuts down.
• Undo Changes: This command depends on the current selection in the current page. For example, on the Toolbars page it lets you restore the currently selected toolbar, undoing any changes to it since Customize mode was entered.
• Undo All Changes: This command will undo all changes to everything it is possible to undo since Customize mode was entered. Clicking the Cancel button on the Customize dialog has the same effect.

Opus comes with three pre-defined toolbars (the default toolbar set). These toolbars are treated slightly differently to others - you can still edit them and turn them off, but you can't delete them and you can't float them outside the Lister. If at any time you want to return to the default toolbars, there are a number of ways to do it:

• If one of the default toolbars are currently open and you just want to reset it to its defaults, you can right-click an empty area on the toolbar and choose Reset to Defaults from the context menu. Only the selected toolbar will be reset.
• If you want to reset all toolbars to the defaults, right-click an empty area on any toolbar, and from the Toolbars sub-menu in the context menu, choose Reset to Default Toolbars.
• You can also choose the Reset to Default Toolbars command from the Toolbars sub-menu of the default Settings menu (unless you've edited it!).
• Finally you can reset the individual default toolbars to their original settings from the Toolbars page of the Customize dialog.

When you reset the default toolbars, any changes you may have made to those toolbars will be lost, but any other toolbars you have created will be unaffected.