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Auto-hide toolbars in Opera

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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.

ToolbarAction code for keyboard shortcut or mouse gestureButton
ShortLong name
Menu barEnable menu bar & Delay, 12000 & Disable menu barMBMenu Bar
Main barView main bar, 6 & Delay, 10000 & View main bar, 0MaMain Bar
Personal barView personal bar, 6 & Delay, 12000 & View personal bar, 0PBPersonal Bar
Tab barView page bar, 6 & Delay, 10000 & View page bar, 0TBTab Bar
Address barView address bar, 6 & Delay, 10000 & View address bar, 0ABAddress Bar
Navigation barView navigation bar, 6 & Delay, 10000 & View navigation bar, 0NBNavigation Bar
View barSet alignment, "Document view toolbar", 6 & Delay, 8000 & Set alignment, "Document view toolbar", 0VBView Bar
Status barView status bar, 6 & Delay, 12000 & View status bar, 0SBStatus 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.

ToolbarAction code for keyboard shortcut or mouse gestureButton
ShortLong name
Menu barEnable menu bar | Disable menu barMBMenu Bar
Main barView main bar, 6 | View main bar, 0MaMain Bar
Personal barView personal bar, 6 | View personal bar, 0PBPersonal Bar
Tab barView page bar, 6 | View page bar, 0TBTab Bar
Address barView address bar, 6 | View address bar, 0ABAddress Bar
Navigation barView navigation bar, 6 | View navigation bar, 0NBNavigation Bar
View barSet alignment, "Document view toolbar", 6 | Set alignment, "Document view toolbar", 0VBView Bar
Status barView status bar, 6 | View status bar, 0SBStatus Bar

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Comments

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Really good.Thanks Tamil.Good job.

By ZAHEK, # 30. June 2008, 05:00:10

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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. :D Thank you.

By Dacotah, # 30. June 2008, 05:15:54

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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.

By Tamil, # 30. June 2008, 05:25:20

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

By Dacotah, # 30. June 2008, 05:29:07

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Just click that link, untick Auto Dropdown and save.

By Tamil, # 30. June 2008, 05:31:53

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

By Dacotah, # 30. June 2008, 05:35:02

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Originally posted by Dacotah:

I figured it out and restarted my computer.
Computer or Opera?

By Tamil, # 30. June 2008, 05:45:31

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

By Dacotah, # 30. June 2008, 05:50:05

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Originally posted by Dacotah:

Both
No need to restart Computer.

By Tamil, # 30. June 2008, 06:10:20

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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

By zoquete, # 30. June 2008, 08:21:07

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Originally posted by zoquete:

Could you fix it please?
Fixed & thanks.

By Tamil, # 30. June 2008, 09:02:33

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Oh well, it didn't hurt. :D

By Dacotah, # 30. June 2008, 10:22:50

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Hello Tamil,

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

By ZAHEK, # 30. June 2008, 13:26:20

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

Button: Panels

By Tamil, # 30. June 2008, 14:38:56

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Thanks Tamil.

By ZAHEK, # 30. June 2008, 15:25:21

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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.

By Anthony A, # 30. June 2008, 17:18:46

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Toolbar will hide after certain period.

By Tamil, # 30. June 2008, 17:22:05

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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 :frown:

By tinhoy, # 30. June 2008, 18:37:52

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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.

By tinhoy, # 30. June 2008, 21:57:04

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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.

By anonymous user, # 1. July 2008, 06:26:07

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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.

By Tamil, # 1. July 2008, 08:17:13

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Tamil,

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

Differences

Thank you.

By zoquete, # 1. July 2008, 17:19:03

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

By Tamil, # 1. July 2008, 17:37:14

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

By zoquete, # 1. July 2008, 18:13:10

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Did you add all buttons with auto-hide option?

By Tamil, # 1. July 2008, 18:18:41

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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.

By zoquete, # 1. July 2008, 19:03:44

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

By zoquete, # 1. July 2008, 19:07:17

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I cannot find %200 in the code. :confused:

By Tamil, # 2. July 2008, 02:13:01

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%200

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

By zoquete, # 2. July 2008, 09:44:33

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That is for 0 in the code.
View main bar, 6 | View main bar, 0

By Tamil, # 2. July 2008, 10:06:18

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

By nizamx, # 4. July 2008, 12:42:57

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Are you sure?

By Tamil, # 4. July 2008, 14:11:35

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

By nizamx, # 4. July 2008, 14:45:23

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For me it works as shown in screenshot. :confused:

By Tamil, # 4. July 2008, 14:49:14

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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

By nizamx, # 4. July 2008, 16:02:33

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I can't reproduce. :frown:

By Tamil, # 4. July 2008, 16:11:44

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Anonymous writes:

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

Thank you

By anonymous user, # 24. July 2008, 07:56:38

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SHIFT+F12 Toolbars Status bar

By Tamil, # 24. July 2008, 08:01:00

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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)

By anonymous user, # 25. July 2008, 12:37:58

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crisun writes:

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

By anonymous user, # 25. July 2008, 12:39:20

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Currently, it is not possible.

By Tamil, # 25. July 2008, 12:40:28

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