Jim
Thu Apr 29 16:31:46 CDT 2004
I keep looking for the tool that gets attached to my brain
whereby I think and the menu opens. I still haven't found it
yet, but the links you provide, Ken, are getting close!
I was trying to use the Spy program to capture the events
but I think I'm wasting my time with that. I can catch the
button_click event for the Start menu, but then by the time
I get back to the Spy window, the Start menu has dropped.
Therefore, the tool that connects to my brain would be
very useful... Just a thought, thats all... I can't seem to make
the connection telepathically. I'm not attuned to the electrical
charges.
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"Ken Halter" wrote:
Larry Serflaten wrote:
>
> Not quite right. The idea is to let the user traverse the menu structure
starting
> from a deeper level. The idea is to provide a quick means to get to those
> deeper levels without having the upper levels clutter the screen.
>
> Having one Start button to wind my way into everything on my system
> is just too limited. I've got like 30 gigs of stuff here, and the menu
levels
> have gotten quite deep. I want multiple paths for different tasks. Like,
> administration, development, help, music, artwork and so on...
>
> I have found out how to get about what I want, but its lacking some
> functionality. If you go to your Favorites/Links folder and start
creating
> new folders, under folders, and add shortcuts to files to the mix, you'll
> have created different menu trees starting from the Links folder. You
> can view those how I want by making the Links toolbar visible on your
> Taskbar. Clicking on a folder there brings a menu of the items you added,
> but, there is no way to change the icon for those folder items on the
toolbar,
> so they all look alike when shown small, without text.
>
> I was just looking for a way to put something on my toolbar that I can
> click on, that would give me a menu like that, for any folder that I put
> there. That would avoid me having to create the menu structure there
> in the Links folder. While it could work, I'd want to change the icon
> to something more representative to whats in the menu. You'll note
> that if you add a shortcut to one of those folders under the Links folder,
> you can change that shortcut's icon, but you don't get the menu.
>
> So now I am looking at creating a little toolbar for the desktop that
> would have buttons for a few popup menus that exactly match
> a few of the more often used, deeper menus from the Start tree....
>
> From what I've seen over the past few days, it looks like I would have
> to take on some of the same duties the system does, to display its menus.
> I don't want to have to cache my own image list after enumerating the
> menus I've found, I was kinda hoping to tap into letting the system
> display the menus once I gave it a root menu to start from....
>
> LFS
Makes sense. You know you can drag start menu 'groups' down to the quick
launch menu and change their icons (or create your own quick launch
that's dockable/autohide/etc) but when clicked on it just opens the
folder where the menu subitems are stored. Doesn't even come close to
looking like a real start menu. fwiw, I have several of these 'quick
launch' type menus setup in layout similar to what you describe (the
grouping anyway). Those menus can be used "stand alone" too (floating).
I figure you may need a nice component to re-create your menus. This
one's the coolest I've seen in a while so I'll repost the link in case
you missed it.
Command Bar Index
http://vbaccelerator.com/home/VB/Code/Controls/Command_Bar/index.asp
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