Auto-hide toolbars in Opera
Monday, 30. June 2008, 04:48:14
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 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 actionTo remove a button, right-click on it and select Remove From Toolbar.
[Action]
Do you want to proceed?
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 |
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ZAHEK # 30. June 2008, 05:00
Dacotah # 30. June 2008, 05:15
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.
Tamil # 30. June 2008, 05:25
Originally posted by Dacotah:
See Opera FAQ #87.Dacotah # 30. June 2008, 05:29
Sorry, new to computer stuff, I don't know nothing about computers.
Tamil # 30. June 2008, 05:31
Dacotah # 30. June 2008, 05:35
THANK YOU TAMIL.
Tamil # 30. June 2008, 05:45
Originally posted by Dacotah:
Computer or Opera?Dacotah # 30. June 2008, 05:50
Tamil # 30. June 2008, 06:10
Originally posted by Dacotah:
No need to restart Computer.zoquete # 30. June 2008, 08:21
Thank you Tamil
Tamil # 30. June 2008, 09:02
Originally posted by zoquete:
Fixed & thanks.Dacotah # 30. June 2008, 10:22
ZAHEK # 30. June 2008, 13:26
could you please help me about how can ı visible panel toolbar, for example 6 minutes later.
thanks for your help
Tamil # 30. June 2008, 14:38
Button: Panels
ZAHEK # 30. June 2008, 15:25
AnthonyA1 # 30. June 2008, 17:18
Tamil # 30. June 2008, 17:22
tinhoy # 30. June 2008, 18:37
edit:
Nevermind. I'm kind of slow today and finally get the point of these buttons.
tinhoy # 30. June 2008, 21:57
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 # 1. July 2008, 06:26
> 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 # 1. July 2008, 08:17
Remove your button & use View Bar button.
zoquete # 1. July 2008, 17:19
why are there those differences? Is it a bug in 9.51 10081?
Thank you.
Tamil # 1. July 2008, 17:37
zoquete # 1. July 2008, 18:13
Tamil # 1. July 2008, 18:18
zoquete # 1. July 2008, 19:03
zoquete # 1. July 2008, 19:07
Tamil # 2. July 2008, 02:13
zoquete # 2. July 2008, 09:44
This is screenshot from my statusbar hovering some of the buttons.
Tamil # 2. July 2008, 10:06
nizamx # 4. July 2008, 12:42
Tamil # 4. July 2008, 14:11
nizamx # 4. July 2008, 14:45
Tamil # 4. July 2008, 14:49
nizamx # 4. July 2008, 16:02
[img]http://i30.tinypic.com/2wghlyg.jpg
Tamil # 4. July 2008, 16:11
Anonymous # 24. July 2008, 07:56
Where can I see the destination link that I will click, also known as status bar in firefox or IE
Thank you
Tamil # 24. July 2008, 08:01
Anonymous # 25. July 2008, 12:37
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 # 25. July 2008, 12:39
hum funny couldn't post with opera here ?
so i posted with FF2.x test this time again with opera 9.51
Tamil # 25. July 2008, 12:40
Anonymous # 27. October 2008, 02:09
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 # 27. October 2008, 10:23
Anonymous # 27. October 2008, 11:55
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 # 27. October 2008, 12:08
Anonymous # 27. October 2008, 12:59
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 # 27. October 2008, 13:04
Anonymous # 27. October 2008, 13:09
But how to size the buttons you have created? I guess there should be a way to do that ...:confused: :confused:
Tamil # 27. October 2008, 14:05
Anonymous # 27. October 2008, 14:25
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: