File Menu width

[Neil Grantham 0]

Is anyone else 'irritated' by the width of the File menu, which seems to be goverened by the length of the path to your recently used Projects.

 

Is there a way to customise this that I am failing to see?

 

I miss the File>Maintenance sub menus so often as I try to guide my mouse in a near perfect line to hit the > arrow!

 

It seems to be almost twice as wide as the same menu in V6.

 

Just a small irritation really!

[Virginia Blakelock 0]

Neil -

 

I agree. That menu - with the default project locations - can take up half the screen. It would be helpful if the paths were abbreviated.

 

Some workarounds:

 

- Keep projects in a folder off the C drive with a short path, eg c:\projects\Smith.

 

- Use the keyboard shortcuts: alt-f-m-r (reindex); alt-f-m-o (optimize); alt-f-m-down arrow 3 times (VFI).

 

- Best solution: put buttons for the maintenance routines on your custom toolbar. Actually, with the custom toolbar, I rarely use any of the menus and none of the other toolbars.

 

Virginia

[Neil Grantham 0]

I get your drift Virginia, though I've never been a big fan of Custom menus!

 

All too often I've seen such menus disappear with software upgrades/patches and have to be recreated. (not pointing a finger at TMG here)

I've also seen some of the examples shown here of huge custom menus that seem to take up 1/4 of the TMG working area, and to me that's pointless waste of the space.

However, I do see the merits of one or two highly used buttons.

I'd sooner have smaller menus though!

[Virginia Blakelock 0]

Smaller menus would be helpful, and many other programs truncate long paths in menus. This would be a good topic to bring up in the next online chat with Wholly Genes - May 31.

 

Custom toolbars are convenient - and you can have as few or many buttons as you wish. Mine has over 40 buttons - every tool and report I need - but by using abbreviations and color squares (w/tooltips) instead of busy icons, it's not distracting and takes up less layout space than multiple default toolbars. Located in the lower right corner, the custom toolbar is also a short reach - if right-handed - for the pointing device. The 3 purple blocks at the bottom are my maintenance options.

 

Virginia