Folder shortcuts on toolbar

[jkirk]

Hi.. Is there any way to put folder shortcuts on the toolbar or driver bar?

[Kilmatead]

Just create bookmarks (single or dual) of each folder you wish to add, using Bookmarks -> Add Current. Once done, right-click the toolbar you wish to add them to and select "Customize...", then find the bookmarks you just made in the left column of the window that opened, and add them to the right column. That's it.

You can't add items to the "Ribbon", or the drive-bar since that's for drives-only, and automatically populated by x2 - but you may fill as many toolbars as you like with as many bookmarks as you want. Within reason, of course...

As a gauche alternative, you may also just drag any folders you want into the mini-scrap (View -> Mini-Scrap), and access them that way, but... well... horses for courses...

[jkirk]

Thanks a lot.. that worked just fine.

[FrizzleFry]

...but you may fill as many toolbars as you like with as many bookmarks as you want. Within reason, of course...

Well, up to 99 bookmarks

[Kilmatead]

Organisationally-Challenged Power Users excluded, of course. (And that's after upping the default 20 "Custom Menu Items" limit in the first place...)

Maybe the mini-scrap method is best for that kind of thing? Unwieldy either way, as scaling goes, really. (Though didn't Nikos say he's supposed to be working on some kind of search-box for custom items? Maybe he'll up-the-ceiling while he's at it.) At the very least, the Quick-Filter box does also apply to the mini-scrap pane, so it's at least a practical alternative for quasi-unlimited bookmarking.

[FrizzleFry]

Another way to do bookmarks is snakebyte's Menu++.

You can create a toolbar button that provides a menu of bookmarks.

I have been using your toolbar customization tool for so long that I had forgotten that the built-in one did not have a search box

What I would like to see in the customize toolbar dialog is a category drop-down similar the the customize keyboard dialog that would let you filter built-in commands and the different types of custom items... specially if Nikos ups the limit on custom items...

[Kilmatead]

You can create a toolbar button that provides a menu of bookmarks.

Yeah, an alternate concept there would be quite simple - just inject a selected-path into the addressbar and away you go. It would be easy enough to create a bespoke/dedicated 3rd-party thing for that... re-inventing the wheel, so to speak, but doing it in such a way that the UI is wholly based around a separate DB of bookmarks (so size would not be an issue), and the popup-menus could be customisably sub-branching (does Menu++ do sub-menus?), replete with icons, etc.

Ironically, the reason I've not delved into that myself is because the UI necessary to make the customisation painless (who edits INI's anymore?) would in itself be so painful that I hate to think about it - to do it right, that is.

I have been using your toolbar customization tool for so long that I had forgotten that the built-in one did not have a search box

Funny that, isn't it? I know the feeling. For anyone interested, this is the thing Frizzle's referring to.

...a category drop-down similar to the customize keyboard dialog...

Since the modal that's used for toolbars now is the generic one that's built into Windows itself (and shows its age), it's not programmer-customisable (what I did was simply a neat "hack"). Nikos would have to create a whole new dialog for it himself, and history has shown him loath to undertake such things as whimsically as the rest of us would.

There's always prayer-beads, séances, and demonic possession to try first...