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"Arrange Icons By"
Friday, November 11, 2005 by sophiesboy | Discussion: RightClick
In the basic WinXP right click desktop menu, the is an option called "Arrange Icons By" which I tend to click on fairly frequently -
I would like to put this into my Stardock Right Click menu.
Does anyone know how to do this?
Also, is there a way to adjust the width of the menus? For some reason the "Taskbar" when added as a Popup menu truncates and the running programs show up as "Down..." or "Stard..." etc. I would like to expand the menu so that the full text is accomodated.
Thanks
I would like to put this into my Stardock Right Click menu.
Does anyone know how to do this?
Also, is there a way to adjust the width of the menus? For some reason the "Taskbar" when added as a Popup menu truncates and the running programs show up as "Down..." or "Stard..." etc. I would like to expand the menu so that the full text is accomodated.
Thanks
sophiesboy
Reply #2 Monday, November 14, 2005 6:50 PM
Reply #2 Monday, November 14, 2005 6:50 PM
As requested, here is a shot of the truncated menu.
http://putfile.com/pic.php?pic=11/31717484874.jpg&s=x2
http://putfile.com/pic.php?pic=11/31717484874.jpg&s=x2
Lantec
Reply #3 Monday, November 14, 2005 7:08 PM
Hankers gave me a link to this page Link which gives some javascript to do the "Tile Windows" commands from the context menu. What I did was create a shortcut with the cammand line being the javascript for that operation. If you could come up with a javascript to "arrange icons by...." it would work.
Here's a shot of mine
Reply #3 Monday, November 14, 2005 7:08 PM
| no method to give Right Click the Windows context menu functionality |
Hankers gave me a link to this page Link which gives some javascript to do the "Tile Windows" commands from the context menu. What I did was create a shortcut with the cammand line being the javascript for that operation. If you could come up with a javascript to "arrange icons by...." it would work.
Here's a shot of mine
MountainDragon
Reply #4 Monday, November 14, 2005 8:46 PM
Reply #4 Monday, November 14, 2005 8:46 PM
Here's a VBScript sub that when called, will handle the three windows arranging choices:
Sub ArrangeWindows(a)
Set sh=CreateObject("Shell.Application")
Select Case a
Case 2
sh.TileVertically
Case 3
sh.TileHorizontally
Case 4
sh.CascadeWindows
End Select
Set sh=nothing
End Sub
If you created a DX widget that used this in the script you could then use it in your Right-click menu.
Sub ArrangeWindows(a)
Set sh=CreateObject("Shell.Application")
Select Case a
Case 2
sh.TileVertically
Case 3
sh.TileHorizontally
Case 4
sh.CascadeWindows
End Select
Set sh=nothing
End Sub
If you created a DX widget that used this in the script you could then use it in your Right-click menu.
Lantec
Reply #5 Monday, November 14, 2005 9:51 PM
Reply #5 Monday, November 14, 2005 9:51 PM
Thanks MountainDragon. I'm going to copyclip that out and see what I can do with it. CerebroJD made that DX widget already. How about the "Arrange Desktop Icons" section? Any VBScript that you know of would that works on that?
milksama
Reply #6 Tuesday, November 15, 2005 9:35 AM
Reply #6 Tuesday, November 15, 2005 9:35 AM
sophiesboy:I've asked the RC development team to look into the desktop context menu feature and the truncation issue.
Thanks a lot guys. I hadn't thought of utilizing DX to enhance RC's functionality, although this might not be as friendly a solution for a "Newbie" 
but,
Lantec: Please let us know if you're able to pull that widget off. This should be of good use!
-Mike
[Stardock Support]
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Reply #1 Monday, November 14, 2005 11:55 AM
Unfortunately there is currently no method to give Right Click the Windows context menu functionality. However, if you hold the "Control" key down while right clicking, you can bypass the Right Click menu and gain access to the default Windows context menu.
As for the issue with the menu width, could you submit a screenshot of your issue? The menus should display more than four letters before truncating. You could upload an image to http://putfile.com.
-Mike
[Stardock Support]