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Status Bar
These options control the status bar, which appears at the bottom of the Lister or file display.
- Enable format lock padlock icon: The {fl} status bar code normally displays a
icon. Hovering over the icon shows information about where the current folder format came from, and you can click it to show a menu letting you change and reset the current folder format.If you turn this option on, the icon changes to a
icon. Clicking this icon lets you lock the folder format, to prevent it being changed automatically when you navigate to other folders. A brief animation is shown when the folder format is locked this way (just to let you know something has happened). In this mode, you need to right-click the icon to show the format menu.
- Scale images to match the font size: Certain images shown in the status bar (e.g. the format lock icon, icons representing files and folders, etc) are normally a fixed size irrespective of the font size setting. Turn this on to have those images scaled to match the font size.
- Keep status bars at the bottom of the Lister: In a dual-display Lister with two separate status bars, the status bars are normally displayed at the bottom of the file displays themselves. Often this means they are at the bottom of the physical window, but this isn't always the case - for example, a toolbar could be positioned between the status bars and the bottom of the window. This option lets you move them to the very bottom of the Lister. If the option to use two independent status bars is turned off then the single status bar is always displayed at the bottom of the Lister.
Dual-display behaviour
You can tell Opus exactly what information to display on the status bar. By default a count of files, folders (and how many are selected) is shown, but you can configure the display to include much more information, including total playing time for music files and bar graphs to represent things like the proportion of space selected files would take up on a DVD. The text that tells Opus what to display on the status bar is known as its definition.
Four separate definitions can be configured. Which definitions are used depends on whether the Lister is in single or dual display mode, and in dual display mode whether you have selected to share a single status bar for both displays or for each display to have its own bar.
You can choose either:
- A single status bar definition that's used everywhere.
- Two definitions - one that's used in single display mode, and one that's used in dual display mode.
- Two definitions - one that's used for the left file display and one that's used for the right file display.
The modes that govern which definitions are used are:
- Dual status bars, single definition: Uses definition 1 only. In a dual display Lister, there will be two separate status bars, each using the same definition.
- Dual status bars, separate definitions: In a single display Lister, uses definition 1. In a dual display Lister, uses definition 1 for the left/top file display, and definition 2 for the right/bottom file display.
- Single status bar, single definition: Uses definition 3 only. In a dual display Lister a single status bar is shared by both file displays.
- Single status bar, different definition in dual mode: In a single display Lister uses definition 3. In a dual display Lister, the shared status bar uses definition 4.
The definitions themselves are configured on the Definitions page.