--- In [email protected], Alan Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Alan, > > Have you tried this with the option "Hide caption position bars..." > > checked? The bar remains hidden, well at least here! This is what I > > said below and what made me somehow confused. > > That makes sense if you describe Format Context caption list > as being a conditional Bar Hide command, not as a conditional > Bar Show command: > "the bar will be hidden if (the active window does not match > the caption list)" > is a more accurate description than: > "the bar will be shown if (the active window matches > the caption list)" Let me describe it in more detail: (with "Format Context =explorer" & the option "Hide ..." checked) Actually the bar blinked out, not just remain hidden, when I clicked the (Explorer's) desktop. So, what really happens is that the "Format Context =explorer" tries to show the bar, and then the option tries to make the bar hidden. I already noticed this funny behavior from the first test. So I regret: if I was not in a hurry to post I would have realized what was really going on ... > That's true. I think it is appropriate that "Hide caption > position bars if no active window" does not count the Desktop > window as being an active window, otherwise it would be useless > because its condition for hiding a bar would never be met. Surely! > I cannot agree that, to be consistent with the above, > Format Context should consider the Desktop window to > not match =explorer > It is only a single case (only one of the countless possible > caption lists) and it would have to be an illogical exception > to the usual rule for =exename. Actually it doesn't matter to me as I don't and won't use =explorer in Format Context. However, I am curious what difficulty PP will meet if PP excludes the Desktop from the active windows list, like PP's bar and Explorer's taskbar. As a matter of fact, I've never had any problem for using PP in my system where there is indeed no desktop as there is no (explorer) shell! OK, there might be a problem to use PP's hotkeys when there is no (other) active window, with the keyboard hook, I mean, if unchecked the option "Configure | Key/Mouse | Setup | Recognize keyboard hot keys ..." But then again, you can use the hotkeys with the keyboard hook without any problem on the PP's bar and/or the Explorer's taskbar, which are excluded from the active windows list. In conclusion, from my own (limited) experience, I can see no problem to exclude the desktop from the active windows list. Sean Attention: PowerPro's Web site has moved: http://www.ppro.org Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/power-pro/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
