Active pane title bar colour

derailer · Post by **derailer** » 2004 Aug 07, 02:25

shit.. i just read about this yesterday and its already implemented. Real glad to see this back, i missed it. Im liking xplorer2 more and more everyday. thanks

cman · Post by **cman** » 2004 Aug 07, 02:49

sorry, having trouble working out how to activate this - i assume it's the DPF_HILITEACTIVEHEADER item in "registry.txt" - would really appreciate some "simple instruction" re adding this to registry - ie what type of registry entry and path - thanks for your help, and thanks for creating xplorer2

fgagnon · Post by **fgagnon** » 2004 Aug 07, 03:14

If you are familiar with editing the registry,
and after closing all instances of xplorer2 ...

Using regedit (Start | Run... | open: [regedit] )
(or you favorite registry editor)
navigate to the binDualPaneFlags key under MainFrame Settings
of your xplorer2 or xplorer2_UC key
(depends on whether you have the unicode version installed or not)
this will be found under
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ZabaraKatranemia Plc

now simply add 64 [hex 40] to the binDualPaneFlags key value
(that's the 2^6 bit, which is the switch for DPF_HILITEACTIVEHEADER)

close regedit and start x2 and you should see the header of the active folderpane now has the color of the active window titlebar.

[edit:corrected keyname 7-Aug]

derailer · Post by **derailer** » 2004 Aug 07, 03:21

edit: beaten

cman wrote:sorry, having trouble working out how to activate this - i assume it's the DPF_HILITEACTIVEHEADER item in "registry.txt" - would really appreciate some "simple instruction" re adding this to registry - ie what type of registry entry and path - thanks for your help, and thanks for creating xplorer2

look in registry.txt file in your xplorer folder.

here is the bit you would be interested in:

[MainFrame Settings] ////////////
binDualPaneFlags [default = 9]
DPF_SHOWHEADERS 8 /* show titlebar for each view pane */
DPF_HILITEACTIVEHEADER 64 /* simulate active window titlebar */
DPF_NOHEADERSUBPATHS 128 /* they exist but ain't clickable */

to activate this setting, goto the xplorer2 registry directory as explained at the top of the registry.txt file. Find the binDualPaneFlags variable in the MainFrame Settings folder under the xplorer2 folder in the registry. Double click the binDualPaneFlags entry to bring up an edit dialog, and make it show the value in decimal rather than hexadecimal where it says Base in the dialog. Now take the number it shows for the value, add 64 to that value, and set that sum to be the new value (in decimal) and click ok. Also make sure you exit xplorer2 before making the registry change.

cman · Post by **cman** » 2004 Aug 07, 03:40

thanks for your replies - i was close, but was making mistake of replacing default 9 value with 64 rather than adding - live and learn

thanks again, and as we say in oz - i owe you one !

jesperjensen · Post by **jesperjensen** » 2004 Aug 07, 06:29

Thanks! This is marvellous, I feel right at home again

Jesper.

devic · Post by **devic** » 2004 Aug 07, 10:47

one step closer

next step would be:

DPF_HLTACTHDRNOPATHS 256 /* simulate active window titlebar + they exist but ain't clickable*/

Post by **nikos** » 2004 Aug 07, 11:33

these options are "flags" so you can have both turned on at the same time. So adding 64+128=192 to the existing value will do the trick

devic · Post by **devic** » 2004 Aug 07, 12:05

thank you Niko!

my magic number is binDualPaneFlags=201
now with title bar I am very happy!

JRz · Post by **JRz** » 2004 Aug 07, 14:41

fgagnon wrote:If you are familiar with editing the registry,
and after closing all instances of xplorer2 ...

Using regedit (Start | Run... | open: [regedit] )
(or you favorite registry editor)
navigate to the binMiscOptions key under MainFrame Settings
of your xplorer2 or xplorer2_UC key
(depends on whether you have the unicode version installed or not)
this will be found under
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ZabaraKatranemia Plc

now simply add 64 [hex 40] to the binMiscOptions key value
(that's the 2^6 bit, which is the switch for DPF_HILITEACTIVEHEADER)

close regedit and start x2 and you should see the header of the active folderpane now has the color of the active window titlebar.

Close, but no sigar Fred

The regkey is named binDualPaneFlags, and not binMiscOptions!

The rest of the story is correct though

[Edit:add]I must be getting sleepy of the warm weather

Didn't see the replies after your post Fred. You stand corrected by them already. Sorry for that... going back to sleep now...

[/Edit]

fgagnon · Post by **fgagnon** » 2004 Aug 07, 15:59

You are right, Jan, (& the other responders, too) and I must have been sleepy from it beeing late last night when I composed it.

tirian · Post by **tirian** » 2004 Aug 18, 16:50

Add my thanks, Nikos, to the others for implementing this feature! The best just got better!

-tirian-

dft1 · Post by **dft1** » 2004 Aug 18, 18:12

I couldn't get this to work until I got the official 1.0.0.3 release off from Simtel. The registry tweaks aren't in the version Nikos posted as a preview.

Lokiman · Post by **Lokiman** » 2004 Aug 20, 16:43

Big thanks to all.
Dual pane had been bothering me a little in x2 but i didn't know why.
I bet people that never used 2x like the default bars.

purple-circle · Post by **purple-circle** » 2005 Apr 10, 16:57

As a new user, the active pane highlighing was cuasing me some confusion initially. I've since turned the active window highlighting off (or at least turned it to white so it maches the other pane) and turned on the old 2explorer title bar highlighting. It is so much easier to use this way as your eyes aren't distractred when the background changes colour.

As a thought, it may be worthwhile giving the user the option of selecting the colours for both the active and innactive panes and let them decide.

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Active pane title bar colour

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