Hints and Tips (Main Menu Editor)

Tip The toolbar Save button has additional three commands not included in the File menu, enable you to save the commands in the menu file in three modes.

Save button dropdown menu

  • Save Command As Text
    e.g. MENUITEM "Select &All\tCtrl Gray +",cm_selectall
  • Save Command As Decimal
    e.g. MENUITEM "Select &All\tCtrl Gray +",523
  • Save Command As Hexadecimal
    e.g. MENUITEM "Select &All\tCtrl Gray +",$20B

When you select one from this list, it will be the default mode for Save button and you don't have to dropdown this list again. The save button will marked (optionally) with the save mode as follow:

  • Red character T for text mode.
  • Red character D for decimal mode.
  • Red character H for hexadecimal mode.

Tip This program cannot edit Total Commander Start Menu or delete it from the main menu bar, it is only can set the position of it.

To delete (hide) the Start menu from the Total Commander main menu bar do the following:

  1. Run Configuration Editor.
  2. On the File menu, click Open Data File... and choose tc config data english.cedf file. (skip this step if tc config data english.cedf is the current data file)
  3. On the Search menu, click Find....
  4. In the Find dialog box, type RestrictInterface, select Key Name option and click Find Next button.
  5. Double click RestrictInterface key and set its value to 1
  6. On the File menu, click Save and Restart Total Commander.

Tip To start a new file using your won predefined menus

  1. Run any text editor program (e.g. Notepad) and open the program INI file "ultra tc editors.ini"
  2. Create the key NewFileTemplate under [MainMenuEditor] section.
  3. Set the key NewFileTemplate value to your desired menus you want to start with.

Example:

NewFileTemplate = "&Files |&Edit |&Mark |&View |&Commands |&Net |&Options |STARTMENU |HELP_BREAK |&Help"

Note:

You must separate each menu name using this character |

Tip Press <Shift> while adding a command to add its name instead of description.

Tip For easy adding/removing a command Press CTRL+ Space this will add/remove the current selected command and switch to the next one.

Tip For easy definition press ALT+Up, ALT+Down or ALT+ Mouse left button

Tip If you want one click to start inplace rename a tree menu item:

  1. Run any text editor program (e.g. Notepad) and open the program INI file "ultra tc editors.ini"
  2. Create the key OneClickToRenameItem under [Common] section.
  3. Set the key OneClickToRenameItem value to 1

Tip By default the program will append the command Default hotkey, User-defined hotkey and Alias when adding it to the menu, to change how this feature work:

  1. Run any text editor program (e.g. Notepad) and open the program INI file "ultra tc editors.ini"
  2. Create the key AutoAppendHotkeys under [MainMenuEditor] section.
  3. Set the key AutoAppendHotkeys to sum of the following values:
  • 0= Disable
  • 1= Append default hotkey.
  • 2= Append user-defined hotkey.
  • 4= Append alias.

Notes

  • The data file "tc default hotkeys.hky" must be exist on its default path to append the default hotkey.
  • User-defined hotkeys and Aliases are refreshed only when starting the program, opening a menu file or creating a new file.

TipDrag and Drop tips:


  • If you drag a menu item (command, menu or separator) to an empty menu (folder icon) it will be added into this menu directly. To move it out drag it again to the same menu.
  • If you drag a menu to none empty menu (folder icon) it will be added just above this menu.
  • To add a menu item into none empty menu when it is collapsed, wait about second and half until the menu expand.