Hello, I've made an xPopup which is in two columns, but I am having difficulties with the overlap position that they are placed in in either column. On the left column they appear 20 or so pixels to the right, wheras on the left column they are only 4 pixels to the right. This image explains more clearly.

http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/4008/issue1dy8.jpg

Can anybody lead me towards a solution on this one? Thanks



Also, I am having strange troubles with the xPopup tasklist. Basically, it never updates unless I manually refresh it with F5 or recycle litestep. If a window is opened it is ignored on the tasklist and if one is closed it remains = although they lose the icon. I set xPopupTasksUpdateInterval 1000 which I believe should update it every second (or even if I set it to 1), but that is to no avail.

Also is there a setting which will disable any little black writing which says loading that may appear (small niggle)?

The first solution is the most important.


Thanks for reading.

Ok, small explanations:
If !popuptasks is visible it only updates when it is pinned to the desktop (xPopupTasksUpdateInterval).
Otherwise it is updated during the time it is invisible, therefore hiding and showing it again updates the content.

The Overlapx space is calculated in MenuBreak Popups simply different to normal Popups. If a Folder on the left side is opened the middle between the two menus is used as start point of xPopupOverlaypx.

Everything is working as expected :P

Hmm, a little more testing of the refreshing issue shows that if I call !PopupTasks directly, in lsxcommand it functions perfectly. However, if I tie a hotkey to call !PopupTasks, it will never refresh unless manually told to do so. Closing and recalling the popup does not refresh it (maybe it isn't closing properly so can't update?)...


About overlap, that being the case, could someone please direct me torward a solution - to create the sub popups at the same distance on either side? Maybe somehow adding an invisible non-functional popup as another column?


Thanks for helping me through this...

You can add a "Invisible" RightBorder to achieve the same spacing. Simply play with xPopupRightBorder, xPopupxSpacing and xPopupOverlapx.
I cannot give you the exact values :P

Don't know what's wrong with !PopupTasks, just make sure you use xPopup-1.3.1 or the upcoming xPopup-2.0 (with xPaintCLass, see ls-universe.info)

Thanks again ls-universe.

Hmm, I've edited the right borders size so that now the distance at which the subfolders overlap is identical, however the xpopupOverlapX function does nothing,while xpopupOverlapY still functions perfectly - could this be something to do with the columns?

I'm using xPopup 1.3.1


Also, (slap me if I'm asking too many questions :) ) using different settings for subfolders:

xpopupCustomSubFolder subpopup - this should make subfolders use the subpopup's settings instead? It doesn't for me - I'm sure I made a mistake somewhere... Also, setting it as *Popup "Drives" Folder subpopup simply breaks the folder - not using supopups settings.

I'm sure this is me just not understanding the docs properly, as usual any help is much appreciated!

If xPopupOverlapx doesn't work, then there is the same setting twice in your theme! Only the first is used -> Search your Config or try !alert $xpopupoverlapx$ and compare the values.

From the Docs:


That means you must use:
*Popup "Drives" Folder %%subpopup%%

Okay thanks for helping :).

Got all of that done, and it's kicking ass.

There are however still a few small issues:

@ The aforementioned troubles with !PopupTasks not refreshing properly - can anybody be of help on this matter?

@ I would REALLY like to get rid of that little black "loading" text when a dynamic folder is being opened - can this be done?

@ Sometimes after creating the xPopup, clicking away from it does not close it and to do so an item of the popup MUST be selected - is this a common problem with a solution?

@ Getting a bit harder - at least for me - does anyone know of an example or theme in which a system tray is hooked into a popup, I find the matter of hooking quite difficult.


Thanks for your continued support!

A little more time and I think xPopup will basically be my entire shell haha.

Thanks for your time.