How can I start a floating TLB from existing TLB?
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t.s.lim
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09-16-2005, 01:27 AM -
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Yuri Kobets Wrote:Using the "Tear Off Menu" feature of 3.2.9 you can implement floating toolbars. This is not a toolbars but you can setup menu with icons only and set "Tear off" - this is like a floating toolbar.

I am using 3.2.9 now and I know about the Tear off thing.
I hope you can read and think about my probelm:

1) My initial request is an easy way to show/hide additional bar (while the master bar set stay in the Windows taskbar)
2) Alternatively, I am now requesting for an easy way to switch among bars. (Since your answer for 1) is NO)

Without either 1) or 2) or any other easy mechanism you can think of, user is forced to have all the bars appear on the Desktop all the time and this forfeits the purpose of creating multiple bars (instead of 1 single huge bar set). The only advantage I can imagine is, some one might enjoy having bars every where on the Desktop...

The below are steps to switch from bar to bar:
a) Move mouse pointer to a TLB
b) Right click to bring up the menu
c) Look for and move mouse pointer to "Switch toolbar" sub menu
d) Look for the a bar of interest on that sub menu and move mouse pointer there
e) Left click to select

I find c) and d) not easy tasks, am I back to ordinary Windows Start menu thing?

Couldn't the above be simplified into a single keystroke?
What about assigning a diff hotkey to each bar, hitting its hotkey will bring it in?

From user ponit of view:

I do not find it interesting to remember the TLB on the Windows taskbar is for general use, the TLB on the top edge of Desktop is for internet appl and the one on the left is for XXXX (i.e. remember by position)

Auto-hide bars has a limit, we have only 4 edges to hide. Right edge and top edge are not suitable to hide bars because too many time one can accidently bring them out when one actually does not intend to...

I don't mind a TLB float on the Desktop when I need to launch various programs or shortcuts from it. But I find it a block of view when I am done with it. Closing them is easy, but if you need it again... you will be like me.

All I am requesting is just an easy way to get a certain bar up or away... am I too much?
t.s.lim


Messages In This Thread
[No subject] - by Dracula - 07-28-2005, 03:53 AM
[No subject] - by Doug Smith - 07-28-2005, 06:21 AM
[No subject] - by t.s.lim - 07-28-2005, 06:55 AM
[No subject] - by Yuri Kobets - 07-30-2005, 12:44 PM
[No subject] - by t.s.lim - 09-15-2005, 12:45 PM
[No subject] - by Yuri Kobets - 09-15-2005, 12:51 PM
[No subject] - by t.s.lim - 09-16-2005, 01:27 AM
[No subject] - by Dracula - 09-16-2005, 01:48 AM
[No subject] - by t.s.lim - 09-16-2005, 02:54 AM

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