Progress Indicators
These options control the progress indicators that Opus displays when copying
or moving files, or for other file operations.
- Count files in folders before copying: The way file
systems work is that you can only find out how many files a folder (and its
sub-folders) contain by reading the folder contents and counting the files.
Unfortunately we need to do this if we want to provide an accurate progress
indication when copying folders. You might select a single folder that
contains 10,000 files but unless Opus had counted its contents it would only
see it as a single item. This option lets you control whether Opus counts
files in folders before copying or not. Counting files can slow down the
copy operation slightly, depending on the number of files involved and what
drives you are copying from. You can choose to enable counting for only
some drive types, all drives or none.
- Count files in folders before deleting: Similar to the
option above, this controls whether Opus counts files in folders before
deleting them. This only applies when not deleting to the recycle bin, as
Windows displays its own progress dialog for recycle bin deletes.
- Delayed progress indicators: This option is used to stop
Opus displayed progress indicators for very quick operations. The indicator
for a function won't open at all if the function finishes within the specified
time (in milliseconds).
- Display the jobs bar automatically when starting a new
job: If this is enabled, the jobs bar will open automatically when an
operation that displays a progress indicator opens. If you don't have the jobs
bar opening automatically you can still show it manually using the Set JOBSBAR command.
- Prevent progress indicators from showing on the
taskbar: This option is available if the jobs bar is set to open
automatically. If turned on, progress indicators will no longer show a
"footprint" on the taskbar, and won't appear in the Alt+Tab
window list. This means that when progress indicators are minimized they
will only be accessible from the jobs bar. If the jobs bar is
closed and there are hidden progress indicators they will automatically be
displayed on the taskbar again, so there is no risk of "losing" a job.
- Minimize progress indicators: If this option is turned on
then progress indicator dialogs will be automatically minimized when they
open. Depending on the state of the previous two options, this might mean that
the only indication of a new job is a new button appearing on the jobs bar,
and so Opus will display a small arrow animation pointing to the newly created
jobs bar button to provide feedback that the operation was successfully
started.
- Only when the jobs bar is visible: Progress indicators
will only be minimized if the jobs bar is displayed - if not, they will open
in front of the Lister as normal.
- Resize Lister to display the jobs bar: If this is turned
on then the Lister will be resized vertically to accomodate the jobs bar when
it's displayed (and its original size restored when the jobs bar closes). This
is only possible if the new size fits on screen - for example, if the Lister
window is maximized it can't be resized and in that case the jobs bar will
take space out of the from the existing window.
- Same size buttons on the jobs bar: Turn this option on to
make all buttons on the task bar the same width - if turned off, they will
automatically size to fit their contents. You can also specify a Fixed
size in pixels.
- Show percent complete in progress bar titles: Opus will
display the overall percent complete for a function in the title bar (on XP /
Vista this means you can minimize the progress indicator and still keep an eye
on the progress in the taskbar - on Windows 7 the progress is displayed
directly in the taskbar icon and so this option isn't as useful).