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Auto-hide toolbars in Opera

Monday, June 30, 2008 4:48:14 AM

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You can auto-hide any toolbar in Opera after enabling it via keyboard shortcut or mouse gesture or button.

Buttons

You can add buttons to any toolbar (main bar, tab bar, address bar, navigation bar, view bar, status bar, start bar or panels) except menu bar & personal bar simply by dragging button links to required place. Clicking on the button links without dragging will add the buttons to Tools > Appearance... > Buttons > My Buttons for later use.

When you try to add a button, a dialog box with following message will popup. Press OK to add button.

Adding new button with action

[Action]

Do you want to proceed?
To remove a button, right-click on it and select Remove From Toolbar.

You can find several custom buttons in Opera Wiki and TTT-Buttons.

Keyboard shortcuts / Mouse gestures

Create new keyboard shortcuts or mouse gestures in Application section with following action codes.

Toolbar Action code for keyboard shortcut or mouse gesture Button
Short Long name
Menu bar Enable menu bar & Delay, 12000 & Disable menu bar MB Menu Bar
Main bar View main bar, 6 & Delay, 10000 & View main bar, 0 Ma Main Bar
Personal bar View personal bar, 6 & Delay, 12000 & View personal bar, 0 PB Personal Bar
Tab bar View page bar, 6 & Delay, 10000 & View page bar, 0 TB Tab Bar
Address bar View address bar, 6 & Delay, 10000 & View address bar, 0 AB Address Bar
Navigation bar View navigation bar, 6 & Delay, 10000 & View navigation bar, 0 NB Navigation Bar
View bar Set alignment, "Document view toolbar", 6 & Delay, 8000 & Set alignment, "Document view toolbar", 0 VB View Bar
Status bar View status bar, 6 & Delay, 12000 & View status bar, 0 SB Status Bar

To modify auto-hide time, change Delay, X value (time in milliseconds) in above code. You have to edit Toolbar Configuration file to modify button name or delay value.

To hide/show a toolbar without auto-hide use the following.

Toolbar Action code for keyboard shortcut or mouse gesture Button
Short Long name
Menu bar Enable menu bar | Disable menu bar MB Menu Bar
Main bar View main bar, 6 | View main bar, 0 Ma Main Bar
Personal bar View personal bar, 6 | View personal bar, 0 PB Personal Bar
Tab bar View page bar, 6 | View page bar, 0 TB Tab Bar
Address bar View address bar, 6 | View address bar, 0 AB Address Bar
Navigation bar View navigation bar, 6 | View navigation bar, 0 NB Navigation Bar
View bar Set alignment, "Document view toolbar", 6 | Set alignment, "Document view toolbar", 0 VB View Bar
Status bar View status bar, 6 | View status bar, 0 SB Status Bar

If you drag & drop buttons with short name to a toolbar from Tools > Appearance... > Buttons > My Buttons, space will be added to button name.

Updates:
Jul 1, 2008
Mar 12, 2009

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Comments

z@h3kZAHEK Monday, June 30, 2008 5:00:10 AM

Really good.Thanks Tamil.Good job.

Dacotah Monday, June 30, 2008 5:15:54 AM

Tamil, I need your help. I want to clear out my address from the address bar. I went to tools, preferences, advanced, history and clicked clear. Nothing. Than I went to Tools, Delete Private Data, nothing. Than I went to Tools, History, checked the Today, Yesterday, so on and so on, nothing in there.
When I do the first one, and click clear, it changes color but never goes back.
How can I get my address to get off of the address bar, I type a w and a long list comes up. UGH!!!! Help. bigsmile Thank you.

Tamil Monday, June 30, 2008 5:25:20 AM

Originally posted by Dacotah:

How can I get my address to get off of the address bar, I type a w and a long list comes up.

See Opera FAQ #87.

Dacotah Monday, June 30, 2008 5:29:07 AM

Ok, I got to the Preferences Editor than what?
Sorry, new to computer stuff, I don't know nothing about computers.

Tamil Monday, June 30, 2008 5:31:53 AM

Just click that link, untick Auto Dropdown and save.

Dacotah Monday, June 30, 2008 5:35:02 AM

YAY, I figured it out and restarted my computer.
THANK YOU TAMIL. up bigsmile

Tamil Monday, June 30, 2008 5:45:31 AM

Originally posted by Dacotah:

I figured it out and restarted my computer.

Computer or Opera?

Dacotah Monday, June 30, 2008 5:50:05 AM

Both lol Told you, I'm slow at this computer stuff.

Tamil Monday, June 30, 2008 6:10:20 AM

Originally posted by Dacotah:

Both

No need to restart Computer.

zoquete Monday, June 30, 2008 8:21:07 AM

After clickin on some buttons (Main bar, Personal bar) to add them to "My buttons" the description, which appears is "Set alignment". Could you fix it please?

Thank you Tamil

Tamil Monday, June 30, 2008 9:02:33 AM

Originally posted by zoquete:

Could you fix it please?

Fixed & thanks.

Dacotah Monday, June 30, 2008 10:22:50 AM

Oh well, it didn't hurt. bigsmile

z@h3kZAHEK Monday, June 30, 2008 1:26:20 PM

Hello Tamil,

could you please help me about how can ı visible panel toolbar, for example 6 minutes later.
thanks for your help

Tamil Monday, June 30, 2008 2:38:56 PM

Action code for keyboard shortcut or mouse gesture: 
Delay, 360000 & Set alignment, "hotlist", 6

Button: Panels

z@h3kZAHEK Monday, June 30, 2008 3:25:21 PM

Thanks Tamil.

AnthonyA1 Monday, June 30, 2008 5:18:46 PM

I added a button to "autohide' the Address Bar. I click the button and the Address Bar disappears. What is the "autohide" feature? I thought that "autohide" meant that when I put the cursor at the top of the screen the bar would appear and than disappear if I moved the cursor away. That's what "autohide" means on other browsers.

Tamil Monday, June 30, 2008 5:22:05 PM

Toolbar will hide after certain period.

tinhoy Monday, June 30, 2008 6:37:52 PM

Thanks for buttons and showing the Delay, X action. I'm probably not using Opera the same way as you do, so I don't see the benefit of having a delay in the buttons. Can you provide some sample situations in which using the delayed button/shortcut would be preferable to an instant toggle?

edit:
Nevermind. I'm kind of slow today and finally get the point of these buttons. smile I only use two toolbars (tab & overloaded status) and have them up at all times, so will not be of much use to me sad

tinhoy Monday, June 30, 2008 9:57:04 PM

Tamil,

For your Address Bar Autohide button, is it possible to get focus on the address field automatically?

edit:

Figured it out after much trial and error:

Set alignment, "Document toolbar", 6 & Show Opera & Delay, 10 & Focus Address Field & Delay, 12000 & Set alignment, "Document toolbar", 0

For some reason Focus Address Field doesn't work by itself. Needed some kind of redrawing command plus a delay before focusing.

Anonymous Tuesday, July 1, 2008 6:26:07 AM

Peter writes: > You can auto-hide any toolbar in Opera Even the Start bar? Are you sure? You are also missing the instructions for the View and Navigation bars. Can you autohide them? For example, How do I turn the "eyeglass" button on the Address bar show an autohiding View bar? I really want to know because I always want it disappearing when I'm done picking one of the view options.

Tamil Tuesday, July 1, 2008 8:17:13 AM

Even the Start bar? Are you sure?

Why do you want auto-hide for start bar?

You are also missing the instructions for the View and Navigation bars. Can you autohide them?

yes & added.

How do I turn the "eyeglass" button on the Address bar show an autohiding View bar?

Remove your button & use View Bar button.

zoquete Tuesday, July 1, 2008 5:19:03 PM

Tamil,

why are there those differences? Is it a bug in 9.51 10081?

Differences

Thank you.

Tamil Tuesday, July 1, 2008 5:37:14 PM

Did you add the highlighted set of buttons from first set of buttons and the rest from second set?

zoquete Tuesday, July 1, 2008 6:13:10 PM

Tamil, no I have deleted all previous versions of your buttons and added them today 17:15 again.

Tamil Tuesday, July 1, 2008 6:18:41 PM

Did you add all buttons with auto-hide option?

zoquete Tuesday, July 1, 2008 7:03:44 PM

yes, all you see in the my-buttons-list, but I added them only in this list, not to any toolbar yet. I have only MB and PB with changed behavior. Pushed = highlighted, which seems pore logical for me.

zoquete Tuesday, July 1, 2008 7:07:17 PM

I see the problem now: there is %200 in the code instead of %20!!!

Tamil Wednesday, July 2, 2008 2:13:01 AM

I cannot find %200 in the code. confused

zoquete Wednesday, July 2, 2008 9:44:33 AM

%200

This is screenshot from my statusbar hovering some of the buttons.

Tamil Wednesday, July 2, 2008 10:06:18 AM

That is for 0 in the code.

View main bar, 6 | View main bar, 0

nizamx Friday, July 4, 2008 12:42:57 PM

Even short named buttons are as wide as long named buttons, please check them, thanks by the way very very useful buttons.

Tamil Friday, July 4, 2008 2:11:35 PM

Are you sure?

nizamx Friday, July 4, 2008 2:45:23 PM

Just checked and yes. I recreated it with button maker and it's now narrow.

Tamil Friday, July 4, 2008 2:49:14 PM

For me it works as shown in screenshot. confused

nizamx Friday, July 4, 2008 4:02:33 PM

My screenshot bottom bar left side of home yours and on the right mine (regenerated with button maker). Have you tested it with 9.51?

[img]http://i30.tinypic.com/2wghlyg.jpg

Tamil Friday, July 4, 2008 4:11:44 PM

I can't reproduce. sad

Anonymous Thursday, July 24, 2008 7:56:38 AM

Anonymous writes: Where can I see the destination link that I will click, also known as status bar in firefox or IE Thank you

Tamil Thursday, July 24, 2008 8:01:00 AM

SHIFT+F12 → Toolbars → Status bar

Anonymous Friday, July 25, 2008 12:37:58 PM

crisun writes: Tamil anyway to just get the typed in adressers to show in the adress filed ? like IE does and firefox 2.X does ( Firefox 3.0 has the same shitty adress filed that shows bookmarks and searches and history ,but in FF it was easy to find on google how to disable it so the 3.x adress filed works like in FF2.X) i don't want to turn off the Auto Dropdown completly, only stop bookmarks(favorites)and serches to show up only want "tih"(typed in histroy) to show like old operas did a way back (havent tested opera sens version 5 or 6)

Anonymous Friday, July 25, 2008 12:39:20 PM

crisun writes: hum funny couldn't post with opera here ? so i posted with FF2.x test this time again with opera 9.51

Tamil Friday, July 25, 2008 12:40:28 PM

Currently, it is not possible.

Anonymous Monday, October 27, 2008 2:09:06 AM

Anonymous writes: How to combine show/hide and auto hide togther, i.e., if a bar is on, it would hide the bar; otherwise, it shows the bar and then auto hides it with the designated delay? For the status bar, I tried the following but didn't work: View status bar, 6 & Delay, 12000 | View status bar, 0

Tamil Monday, October 27, 2008 10:23:07 AM

Drag & drop SB button to any toolbar. Click to auto hide & click and hold to show/hide status bar.

Anonymous Monday, October 27, 2008 11:55:15 AM

Anonymous writes: That worked nicely. Thanks. Another thing: how to merge the tab and address bars to save some real estate? Basically how to add the address field to the tab bar?

Tamil Monday, October 27, 2008 12:08:54 PM

See How to reset a toolbar in Opera?

Anonymous Monday, October 27, 2008 12:59:48 PM

Anonymous writes: You are quick! Great! Now how to control the width of the button boxes on a toolbar? For example, I have changed the "SB" to "B", but its button size remains the same. Also I moved the address box to the tab bar, but it is not large enough to show the address. Seems its size is fixed.

Tamil Monday, October 27, 2008 1:04:23 PM

You can't resize address box. Use keyboard shortcut F2 to enter or view long addresses.

Anonymous Monday, October 27, 2008 1:09:55 PM

Anonymous writes: But how to size the buttons you have created? I guess there should be a way to do that ...:confused: :confused:

Tamil Monday, October 27, 2008 2:05:50 PM

I have changed the "SB" to "B", but its button size remains the same.

I think it is the minimum size of a button.

Anonymous Monday, October 27, 2008 2:25:58 PM

Anonymous writes: Yes, I worked on the standard_toolbar too, and tried “Menu Bar" "Status Bar" and "Address Bar". The sizes of these boxes are indepenent of the text parts put inside them, rather I guess decided by the types of these boxes: menu bar, status toolbar and document toobar. The question is which file defines the size of these types. I guess the Opera should know. But I have almost finished configuring Opera the way I wanted to be and many thanks to you.:up: :up:

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