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Bug report - menu bar still active in hidden state (Announce)

posted by Japheth Homepage, Germany (South), 11.08.2010, 09:57

> The Alt-key was used to activate the menus before but this was not a good
> idea if used in Windows (using Alt-Tab/..), so I removed this option.

But VC and its Alt- mechanism works ok in Windows :confused:

> If
> implemented as VC you also need to overlay the panels with a new menu bar
> and a separate event handler for this case. Since the option of hiding the
> menu bar/status line/command line is added recently, the code to handle
> this will be rather extensive. Well, something should be done to handle
> this, but I?m currently out of ideas on how.

FAR commander and MC use F9 to reveal the menu bar. That would also be ok.

> It is possible to limit the number of files in the panel by typing mx*.* in
> the panel filter dialog, but Ctrl+Alt+m+x will be the fastest way to do
> this.

Thanks, I didn't know about the Ctrl+Alt+ thing! The functionality is a bit unhandy, however, because both control keys have to be kept pressed until the find-string has been fully entered. Perhaps it's possible to keep this special mode once Ctrl+Alt+any_key has been entered and leave it after ENTER or ESC has been pressed?

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