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How To Create Menu With Multiple Columns - jsaffer - 04-16-2005 Hi all, I'm pretty computer savvy, but I'm having a hard time figuring out how to create my main menu with more than one column. I can't figure out how to access the Customize Menu dialog. I can't find it anywhere. The help menu says to "open the menu to be customized" and then right-click on any item of that menu in order to customize the menu. After I installed True Launch Bar, it recognized all the programs I had listed in my Windows XP standard Quick Launch Bar. Is this the menu that I can now customize? Or do I have to create a different kind of menu in order to access the customization feature with the right-click method? Please help. Thanks very much. ....Jason - Dracula - 04-17-2005 Quote:After I installed True Launch Bar, it recognized all the programs I had listed in my Windows XP standard Quick Launch Bar. Is this the menu that I can now customize? Or do I have to create a different kind of menu in order to access the customization feature with the right-click method? No, this is not the menu, that's the toolbar itself. You can create your own menu's by right-clicking anywhere on this toolbar, and choose New --> Menu. You can then drag shortcuts into this new menu... In order to change the menu's appearance, open it and right-click on the title bar. There you can change the View (for example to 'Multicolumn text menu') or open the Customize menu... window. Multi-Columns - Texan - 04-17-2005 Right clicking on the menu, and selecting VIEW, doesn't give you a Mulit-column choice..............it merely gives you icon size and text...... Open a menu; then right click on a menu item......... Find CUSTOMIZE menu, (You may have to scroll down)..... Select Customize menu.............. THEN SELECT VIEW..............and one of the options is "multi-column" To the right of this selection is a box that allows you to select the Number of columns........ Cheers, Multi-Column BUG - Texan - 04-17-2005 Bye the way.........the current version 3.24 of TLB has a menu bug that Yuri is aware of ...................It may lose it's multi-column memory periodically............... Multi-Columns - jsaffer - 04-17-2005 Ah, I see. In other words, the original "menu" list that TLB creates from my original Windows XP Quick Launch menu is actually considered to be a toolbar and there is no way to create multiple columns on that list. I have to, instead, create a menu item -- which is kind of a "sub-menu" to my original list -- and on that new menu I can create multiple columns. I was able to do that. Then I told TLB to sort by name and the new menu icon shows up on my TaskBar at the bottom of the screen, which I like. Here's another question. Can I use any .jpg image as a overlay image background on this new menu list? I tried to browse to a .jpg image on my hard drive, but it seems to be looking for a PNG file. What is a PNG file and can I convert a .jpg into a png file? Thanks for the help. Much appreciated! Overlays must be PNGs - Texan - 04-17-2005 Yes......overlays must be png files.......there's a lot of programs out there that'll convert jpg to png.......I believe I used Paint shop Pro.... - Dracula - 04-17-2005 Quote:Ah, I see. In other words, the original "menu" list that TLB creates from my original Windows XP Quick Launch menu is actually considered to be a toolbar and there is no way to create multiple columns on that list. Are we talking about the same thing now? Let's just call the root-list the "toolbar" and all sub-lists a "menu", like this: And then I wonder, how do you imagine a multi-column toolbar looks like? Multi-Column Menu - Texan - 04-17-2005 I believe we are talking about a multi-column MENU.................. - jsaffer - 04-17-2005 Before I installed TLB, my Quick Launch menu looked like the #1 below. The background of the menu is white. I'm calling this a "menu," even though I think it's considered to be a toolbar. After I installed TLB, I saw a listings of programs (with a green background that I added, all in one column) as in #2 below. This was my first TLB menu or toolbar. I was *not* able to make this column into 3 columns UNTIL I added a menu item to this green list, and then had that menu item show up in the TaskBar at the bottom of the screen when I reordered the order of the listings by name. I changed the icon for this new TLB menu item into a multi-colored beach ball, which you can see in the picture below (#3). As you can see, I customized that menu into 3 columns. Does all this make sense, or is there some procedure I'm missing to make it all go easier? I now have my "beachball" menu with 3 columns, but I've also still got the green one-column menu that TLB created when first installed. ....Jason - Dracula - 04-17-2005 Aaah, that explains! The extender (of the toolbar ) that you see is actually provided by Windows, and I believe cannot be controlled by TLB... And anyway, you shouldn't even have to *use* that extender: the idea of TLB is to categorize shortcuts into their own menu's and get rid of the extender... Besides, these TLB menu's can be fine-tuned in appearance and behaviour, as you already found out |