Control Panel Popup Thread last updated on 2003-10-26 18:12:21

Posted by member 22968 on 2003-10-20 07:38:12

Hi!

I'm just trying to write a theme, and I need a Button to open a popup with all Control-Panel-Items. I don't want to include this Popup into my main-popup. It should look like this

*Shortcut "" 100 -60 controlpanel.bmp .none controlpanel_down.bmp #100 !PopupControlPanel

I know, the !PopupControlPanel doesn't work here, so I have to create a new popup with the ControlPanel Items inside. I don't want the Control-Panel-Popup to be a Subfolder of any other popup.
How can I do this??

Posted by member 7223 on 2003-10-20 08:00:38 link

I guess there's no way. Sorry.

Posted by member 1 on 2003-10-20 08:13:17 link

you will need to link to them directly in a popup. this has its advantages and disadvantages but would do what you need. You can find the Control Panel files by searching your hard drive for .cpl files.

Posted by member 45783 on 2003-10-23 03:59:09 link

Does this mean that the !PopupControlPanel really is broken and it isn't just me?

For example trying to access the network interfaces pops up an explorer window of the appropriate control panel location and also many other items come up short of actually opening anything.

Posted by member 7 on 2003-10-23 08:28:21 link

It's not broken at all. !PopupControlPanel just isn't a regular !bang. It never was. !DynamicFolder used to have the same limitation. I'll see what I can do to make !PopupControlPanel a "global" !bang.
The network interfaces item works fine here.

Posted by member 37809 on 2003-10-23 08:46:57 link

!PopupControlPanel isn't a standalone bang, it was meant to be used in a *Popup line only, much like !PopupFolder:"x:\sum\foldr"

(beaten by ilmcuts by a long shot; this is what i get for opening everything at the beginning of my session :P)

Posted by member 22968 on 2003-10-25 14:42:40 link

Thanks a lot for trying to help me guys!
It's not such a big deal, but it would've been a cool thing to have an own Control-Panel-Popup.

Posted by member 5669 on 2003-10-26 18:12:21 link

i would do individual calls of the cpl files... that way you can only include the ones you want... lord knows there are a lot of them no one uses.