Editing the Toolbar

The first step to editing the toolbar and making your own buttons (or modifying existing ones) is to go into Customize mode. The easiest way to do this is to select the Customize Toolbars command from the Settings menu.

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A useful tip to remember: if you ever find that you can't get to the Customize Toolbars command (because you have deleted it from the menu, or turned off that toolbar) you can always get to it from the Lister's window menu (click on the icon in the top-left corner).

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Another way to get to Customize mode, particularly if you want to edit a specific button, is to turn on the Alt-Click to edit Toolbar buttons option on the Toolbars / Options page in Preferences. With this option on, holding the Alt key and left-clicking a toolbar button will set Opus into Customize mode and display the command editor for the button you clicked on.

 

However you get into Customize mode, once you are there all toolbars become editable. Another useful tip to remember: you can still run a toolbar button from Customize mode, by Shift-clicking it.

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The above image shows the default toolbars in Customize mode. The only visible change you'll notice when you go into Customize mode is that the various fields have been replaced by place-holders. In the example above, the Search and Thumbnail Size fields are resizeable (indicated by the grip symbols on their right edges) - you can click and drag the right edge of these to resize them. The Location and Spacer fields do not have resizing grips, which indicates they are set to full width mode. See the Field Buttons page for more information about field buttons.

You'll also notice that, in Customize mode, the buttons on the bottom toolbar don't quite fit in the space available. This is because a previously hidden button - the Toolbar Marker button in this case - becomes visible in Customize mode. See the Dynamic Buttons page for more information about this type of button.

When buttons don't fit in the available space in Customize mode, two small arrows appear on the right edge of the toolbar. You can use these arrows to scroll the toolbar and access the items that are out-of-view.

 

Toolbar editing is largely mouse-based. A list of common toolbar-editing actions is below. Remember that you need to be in Customize mode to make any changes to toolbars.

 

 

 

All buttons (and the toolbars themselves) have a context menu that you can access by right-clicking when in Customize mode.