Display Options

This page contains various options relating to the appearance of Listers. For all items that include an "opacity" setting, this is used to specify the level of blending that is performed, from 1% (nearly transparent) to 99% (nearly opaque).

• Blend file background colors with background: Useful when you have defined a background image or color for the File display, this option causes the solid background colors of files and folders to be blended with the background of the display. Note that if visual styles are in use on Vista or Windows 7, this option will have no effect for selected items (as the visual style will override the item's selected background color).
• Blend file selection rectangle: When you click in an empty area of the file display and drag out the selection rectangle ("marquee") it will be drawn as a filled rectangle blended with the background, rather than just as an outline.
• Blend row and column background colors: In Details and Power mode, when you have defined colors for various fields, this option causes those colors to be mixed with the ordinary file and folder background colors rather than overriding them.
• Blend selected items with column colors: Blends sort-column and other custom field/column colors with each other and with the background colors (if any) of unselected files.
• Enable background images in virtual folders: With this option on, Opus will try to use your background image settings when it is displaying a virtual folder (e.g. Network Neighborhood). As these folders are provided by the operating system and Opus merely hosts them as a container, it won't necessarily work!
• Fade selected item colors when file display does not have focus: When the file display isn't the active window, the background colors of selected files and folders will be faded to indicate the non-active nature of the window. The opacity setting is only effective when not using visual styles - when styles are in use, this option is a simple on/off switch.
• Fade selected item colors when tree does not have focus: The same as the above option, except it applies to the Folder Tree rather than the file display.
• Show glass status bar: Except on XP (or when desktop composition is disabled), this option renders the Lister status bar as glass (translucent) to match the window caption. Turning this on will override the status bar background color option on the Colors and Fonts page.
• Use visual style to draw items: Except on XP (or when themes are disabled), this option renders files and folders in both the tree and the file display using the Windows Explorer theme. Turning this on will override settings for file background colors for selected items (as the selection indicator now comes from the theme rather than from Opus). See below for an example of the difference.
• Lister title bar: You can define what is displayed in the Lister title bar. By default this just shows the name of the current folder, but you can opt to display the full path name of the current folder, and/or the name of the layout that the Lister came from (if any).
• Custom title: This option lets you completely configure the string used in the Lister title bar. If you turn this option on, the text you provide in the Custom title field will be used to generate the Lister title string - you can even leave the field empty if you don't want a title!
  
  You can use several special "tokens" in the title string to insert various pieces of information:
  
          %P - full path of the current (source) folder
          %N - name of the current (source) folder
          %R - drive root of the current (source) folder
          %D - full path of the destination folder
          %M - name of the destination folder
          %L - name of the Layout the Lister came from (if any)
          %T - complete original title (useful for simply adding a prefix or suffix to the title)
          %% - insert a literal % character
  
• Drag image opacity: Specifies how transparent files and folders are when they are being dragged.

Use visual style to draw items on:

Use visual style to draw items off: