Equal panes

pzuiker · Post by **pzuiker** » 2004 Mar 24, 01:45

I am trying to learn how to adjust the panes to equal size. In 2xExploer the command was ctrl-e. That doesn't seem to work for xplorer2. Suggestions?

Thanks

fgagnon · Post by **fgagnon** » 2004 Mar 24, 02:41

not sure if there is a "make panes exactly equal" key combo like 2x.

But you should be able to use cursor to position(drag) the separator bars between panes to where you want them. x² will maintain the proportional spacing as you resize the overall x² window.

Starsurfer · Post by **Starsurfer** » 2004 Mar 24, 04:49

pzuiker wrote..

I am trying to learn how to adjust the panes to equal size.

its a toggle..
press ctrl+O & then ctrl+O again ....

Starsurfer

narayan · Post by **narayan** » 2004 Mar 24, 05:06

Move your mouse over the dividing border between the panes. It will change to a double-arrow. Doubclick. The divider will move to the center of the available width.

But if you have activated folder tree and/or quickviewer, first of all you have to drag its divider to a desitred position: you cannot doubleclick on that divider, otherwise that divider will jump to the middle of the available width!

kevinli · Post by **kevinli** » 2004 Jun 17, 00:57

Sorry to revive an old thread, but is there a remote chance to bring back the old keyboard shortcut (CTRL-E) to equal the panes like the old 2x used to do?

I know you could mouse your mouse to the splitter bar and double-click it to achieve the same thing, but I found it quite a pain in the neck to move my hand away from the keyboard and look for the mouse and then locate the 1-2 pixels splitter bar

One may argue that you need to use the mouse to resize the panes in the first place...but personally I think hitting a keyboard shortcut to equalize the panes still could improve efficiency a whole lot.

Please give it a consideration and thanks for the great product Nikos.

fgagnon · Post by **fgagnon** » 2004 Jun 17, 01:22

I'm curious about how, if you started with equal panes, they got to be unequal, if not by mouse click-n-drag

& the correllary philosophical question is ... "If that wasn't a pain in the neck, why should a d-click on splitter be such?"

... But I suppose you already answered: "habit"

... I'm not trying to put the suggestion down ... just making an observation.

... & I recognize that often "habit" implies an innate useability, which is mostly desireable.

btw, nikos, I checked through all the 'used' Ctrl+key combo's & it looks like ctrl+E is currently unassigned.

Post by **nikos** » 2004 Jun 17, 07:15

i find this amazing! i thought all keys were used up already
ok then, i'll assign ctrl+E to equal size panes, but no menu command since View is already chock-a-block

kevinli · Post by **kevinli** » 2004 Jun 17, 08:04

OMG!! Thanks!!!! *bow*

$25 extremely well spent!!!!!!

fgagnon · Post by **fgagnon** » 2004 Jun 22, 22:28

And in case you haven't noticed, kevinli, nikos has slipped your Ctrl+E functionality request into the newly released version this week [1.0.0.1] {both for Pro & Lite editions}
Even tho' there is no mention of it in the docs (yet)

Post by **nikos** » 2004 Jun 23, 05:54

it is mentioned in tip #75!

kevinli · Post by **kevinli** » 2004 Jun 23, 07:00

Indeed that was the very first thing I noticed, thanks again for putting this in and the great support.