Directory Opus Manual

Advanced

leo (leo@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-09-22T12:07:12+00:00

Advanced This page contains a list of what are considered "advanced" options. They're generally esoteric settings most users don't need to know about let alone change. Each option has a name and a value. The values can be Boolean (true/false), numeric, a string, or a choice from a drop-down list. To edit an option's value, double-click the existing value, or select the option and press

Status Bar Popup Menus and Commands

jon (jon@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-09-10T01:42:31+00:00

Status Bar Popup Menus and Commands You can use HTML links in the status bar definition to add clickable links to run commands or show popup menus. Run a command Use the attribute to specify a command to run. For example, // Add about link About

Info Tip

jon (jon@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-09-10T01:41:01+00:00

Info Tip The Info Tip page in the file type editor lets you define what is shown on the info tip (the popup tooltip) that's displayed when the mouse hovers over files of this type. When Opus looks for an info tip to display for a file, it checks file types in the following order:

jon (jon@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-09-10T01:38:56+00:00

* Wildcards and RegEx * Pattern Matching Syntax * Regular Expression Syntax * Commands * Argument Types * Internal Commands * CLI * Clipboard * Close * ContextMenu * Copy * CreateFolder * Delete * Favorites * FileType * Find * GetSizes * Go * Help * Image * Join * Marker * Play * Prefs * Print * Properties * Recent * Rename * Select * Set * SetAttr * Show * Split * Toolbar * Undo * External …

Scripting Objects

jon (jon@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-09-10T01:38:30+00:00

Scripting Objects Scripts can interact with Opus using a number of different objects. For example, the Lister object represents a physical Lister window, providing information about that Lister to the script and letting the script modify or control that Lister.

Point

jon (jon@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-09-10T01:37:45+00:00

Point The Point object represents a two-dimensional point. intint Argumentsnone

Func

jon (jon@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-09-10T01:36:15+00:00

Func Func The Func object is passed to a script when it is invoked via a command. In a script function, it is passed to the OnClick method as the ClickData.func property, and in a script add-in that adds an internal command, via the ScriptCommandData.func property. The Func object provides information about the default source and destination of the command, as well as details about how it was invoked.

QuickFilter

jon (jon@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-09-10T01:33:48+00:00

QuickFilter The QuickFilter object provides access to information about the quick filter state in a tab. It’s returned by the Tab.quickfilter property. Property NameReturn TypeDescription stringboolTrue boolTrue boolTrueboolTrue

ButtonData

jon (jon@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-09-10T01:31:05+00:00

ButtonData The ButtonData object is used to initialise a dynamic toolbar button. It's obtained from the various methods of the AddButtonHelper object. The properties of this object are used to configure the button. Common to all types stringstringstringImagestringstring

ScriptColumn

jon (jon@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-09-10T01:30:25+00:00

ScriptColumn In a script's OnInit method it can call the ScriptInitData.AddColumn method to add custom columns to Opus. These columns can be displayed in file displays and infotips, and can be searched on using the Advanced Find function. Each call to AddColumn returns a ScriptColumn object that the script needs to initialize.

Control

jon (jon@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-09-10T01:29:28+00:00

Control The Control object represents a control on a script dialog; it lets you read and modify a control's value (and contents). Use the Dialog.Control method to obtain a Control object. string#RRGGBBRRR,GGG,BBBstatic textmarkup textbuttonlist viewstringeditupper

Msg

jon (jon@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-09-10T01:23:19+00:00

Msg The Msg object represents a script dialog input event message. It’s returned by the Dialog.GetMsg method which you call when running the message loop for a detached dialog. boolTrueFalsestringleftrightmiddleintcheckednewexisting 0unchecked1checked2indeterminate

FSUtil

jon (jon@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-09-10T01:19:49+00:00

FSUtil The FSUtil object provides several utility methods for dealing with the file system. It is obtained using the DOpus.FSUtil method. ArgumentsnoneWatchChangesid boolTrueFalseflags cMakes the path comparison case sensitive.pReturns True if path2

FolderEnum

jon (jon@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-09-10T01:16:36+00:00

FolderEnum The FolderEnum object is returned from the FSUtil.ReadDir method. It lets you enumerate (optionally, recursively) the contents of a folder. stringstringboolTrueFalseintstring ArgumentsnonenonecompleteTrue Vectorobject:Itemobject:VectorItemVectorItem-1VectorVector

cell_highlights_dark.png

leo (leo@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-06-10T20:08:56+00:00

cell_highlights.png

leo (leo@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-06-10T20:08:50+00:00

filter_-_subclause_dark.png

leo (leo@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-05-26T09:20:45+00:00

filter_-_subclause.png

leo (leo@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-05-26T09:20:22+00:00

cli_evaluator_dark.png

leo (leo@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-07-07T16:57:25+00:00

cli_evaluator.png

leo (leo@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-07-07T16:57:25+00:00