Use Menu Configurations and Environments/Layouts (solved)

Use Menu Configurations and Environments/Layouts (solved)

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    Aug 03, 2012#1

    I want custom menu bars. Right click\Manage Menu Configurations and I see a look of names. Programmer, Advanced & Permit (My Own) appear on the top of menu before going into Manage Menu Configurations. Selecting one of these 3 does nothing different, Menus.

    1. Only 3 names appear for a choice.
    2. How do I get the rest as a selection, NotePad Replacement, Power User etc.
    3. If Permit appears on the upper part of menu and selected,arrow, If I add to menu it should change right?
    4. When in document & RightClick, content menu, I want to get ride of many items on this menu.
    a. Can I save menu before deleting (So i can return to default)
    b. What is this menu called. I need to find to change, if allowed to change.

    I'm using the most recent UltraEdit version, which I will purchase on Friday. That is if I can figure this thing out. That's no true! I will be buying on Friday!

    Whats first Chicken or Egg? I'm very serious. It seems there is a way to customize the menu with no clear way to select the menu. Try and find it in the HelpMenu. Not flaming, just confused!

    Bob

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      Aug 03, 2012#2

      Before you start customizing any menus or toolbars and therefore change the environment, you should save the current environment with a customized name. Open View - Environments (in UE v20.00 and later: View - Manage - Layouts) and use button Save Current State As. After doing that you should click on button Reset Built-In Environments (Reset Selected Layout) to restore them if you have already made modifications. Select your environment and close the dialog with button Select Environment (Select Layout).

      Note: On first start after an upgrade UltraEdit often asks the user for updating the menus and/or toolbars. You can accept those updates as the update is done only on built-in environments/layouts and never on custom environments/layouts. New features/commands must be added to a custom environment/layout always manually by the user.

      Now right click on the menu and left click in context menu on Customize Menu to customize the main menu. Right click on a toolbar and left click in context menu on Customize Toolbar to modify the toolbar of the active custom environment/layout.

      The context menu opened on right clicking into a document window has at bottom the command Customize Menu. After right clicking on tab of a file, there is again Customize Menu at bottom of the file tabs context menu to customize also this menu. These are the only 2 context menus which can be customized. All other context menus are built-in in resources of UltraEdit and can't be customized.

      The customization dialogs for the toolbar and the 3 menus (main menu, file tabs context menu, document window context menu) can be opened also in Advanced - Configuration - Toolbars / Menus - Customization.

      Edit: Environments became Layouts in UE v20.00. But everything else than the name did not change.

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        Aug 03, 2012#3

        Your response was better than I could expect. I'm up and running and loving it.

        Thanks again
        Bob