File Display Border

These options affect the File Display border - the toolbar or title bar that is displayed above the file displays in the Lister.

There are two main choices to make on this page - whether you want the file display border displayed as a toolbar, or displayed as a static header (to mimic versions of Opus prior to 11).

• Display as a toolbar: This option is on by default, and enables the use of one or more toolbars at the top of each file display. The factory toolbar used for this is File Display, but you can use the lists to select your own toolbars. The list on the left displays your available toolbars, and the list on the right shows those that have been selected for use in the file display border.
   
  • Click on destination's toolbar only changes state: If this is turned on, and you click on the toolbar of the destination file display, your click will set that file display to the source but won't actually activate the toolbar button that you clicked on.

   

• Display as a static header: This option disables the file display toolbar, and instead displays a static header that displays the current folder path and several small navigation and control buttons. While the displayed path has some functionality (e.g. you can click individual segments similar to the breadcrumbs location field), it is nowhere near as flexible as a toolbar.
   
  • Allow docking of Listers: When this is enabled, you can drag one single display Lister over the title bar of another to dock them together (the Lister you dragged is closed, the Lister you docked it with is changed to dual display mode, and the folder tabs it was showing are opened in the new display). You can also split a dual display Lister into two single displays by dragging from the file display border.
     
  • Enable hot paths in file display border: When this is turned on, you can click individual path segments in the border to browse to the current folder's parent locations.
     
    • Only when file display is the source and the Lister is active: Applies to the above option - path segments are only "hot" in the source display. This lets you click the destination display to switch source / destination without accidentally clicking a path segment.
      
      
  • File display border Up button does "Up Back": When turned on, clicking the Up button on the file display border behaves as if the Go UP BACK command was used (e.g. if the parent folder is in the path history, Opus goes "back" to it, preserving file selections and calculated folder sizes).
     
  • Show file display border in single display mode: The borders have to be displayed in dual mode (to indicate which side is the source and which is the destination), but you can turn it off in single display mode to save space.

The following options apply to both styles of file display border:

• Align other Lister element headers with the file display border: This is a cosmetic option most useful when a file display toolbar is enabled. Because a toolbar is usually slightly higher than the static header, this option causes other Lister elements that are "inline" with the file display borders (like the folder tree's header) to be resized to match the height of the toolbar. Note that this option is disabled if you select more than one toolbar for the file display border.
   
• Display close button: Displays a close button at the end of the border that allows the tab or file display to be closed.
   
  • Close button only closes active tab: If turned on, clicking the close button will close the current tab, but other tabs will be unaffected. The file display will only close when the last tab closes.
    
    
• Display icon: Displays a Directory Opus icon at the left of the border. This icon allows you to create a shortcut to the current folder by drag-and-drop, and you can right-click it to display the context menu for the folder.
   
• Enable file display Copy and Swap border buttons: Enables additional buttons in the border that let you copy one file display to another (puts the Lister into dual mode if it isn't already), or swap the position of the two file displays (when already in dual mode).
   
• Enable horizontal/vertical layout button: Displays a button that lets you toggle the layout of dual file displays between horizontal (one above the other) to vertical (side-by-side). This is disabled by default, as the buttons in the default Menu toolbar already provide access to this functionality.
   
• Set file display to source when Up/Back/Forwards buttons are used: If turned off, the source/destination state of the file display will be unaffected when these buttons are used to navigate.