autohide bar? Thread last updated on 2004-04-16 18:43:48

Posted by member 146427 on 2004-04-14 21:38:30

I'm using the austerity theme but in the process of customizing it to my needs.

Is it possible to autohide the bar? If so, how?

Thanks :)

Posted by member 1 on 2004-04-14 22:38:08 link

it will take a good bit of work to handle the autohide stuff...however if you look into the documentation for ckHotSpots it should make a little sense. Be warned though that this is not a newbie area and can cause baldness.

Posted by member 146427 on 2004-04-14 22:51:10 link

gotcha, thanks. now, are there any modules out there that would take care of this for me?

Posted by member 35 on 2004-04-14 23:47:09 link

remember it's not a bar, it's a set of modules that's placed togather, so you'll have to hide each of the modules.

Posted by member 12025 on 2004-04-16 00:17:36 link

You could probably set them all to be on top when you over the hotspot, and immediately change that back. It should pop up, and then get hidden behind the apps until you go over the spot again. Still there and visible, but not overlapping applications.

That wouldn't be a great way, but it should work and not be too much of a headache.

Posted by member 1 on 2004-04-16 02:11:42 link

o...its a big headache...and instead of toggling Z-Order you want to hide them because you are never sure where in the Z-Order they fall because of focus.

Posted by member 12025 on 2004-04-16 05:04:38 link

Yeah, it's gonna somewhat of a headache--not much more than using auto-hide, though :)

Much, much easier to just have a small button do a toggle somewhere.

Posted by member 37809 on 2004-04-16 07:24:49 link

Alternatively for "hiding" you could try moving everything offscreen (and restoring their positions to "show"). That would be an option only if all modules used have a bang for moving themselves. I think doing this shouldn't affect z-order.

Posted by member 1316 on 2004-04-16 18:43:48 link

or, you can load everything into lsbox, and use ckhotspots to hide the bar when you leave the bar area, or click the "hide" button, or however you want to do it.