Custom Menus? Thread last updated on 2007-08-13 21:24:53

Posted by member 379072 on 2007-08-12 05:11:57

I saw some pictures of some people with Litestep with custom menus on the menu where you right click the desktop.

Like, Menus like Games, Pictures, etc.

How do you get these?

Posted by member 1 on 2007-08-12 05:16:21 link

Edit $PersonalDir$popup.rc to include whatever you want.

Posted by member 379072 on 2007-08-12 05:44:29 link

Um, I'm COMPLETELY new to Litestep, so uh, what exactly IS $PersonalDir?

Posted by member 1 on 2007-08-12 07:10:20 link

Depends on the settings you chose during install. But an example would be LiteStep\profiles\username\personal\popup.rc.

Posted by member 379072 on 2007-08-12 15:19:08 link

Okay thanks, but it says access is denied when I double click it?

Posted by member 1 on 2007-08-12 15:39:01 link

Right click on it and do an Open With... with Notepad and associate the ext. with it.

Posted by member 379072 on 2007-08-12 23:30:28 link

Has anyone got any DETAILED tutorials for this cause I just tried to edit it and when I restarted all the menus had gone.

Posted by member 212670 on 2007-08-13 04:22:49 link

Hmm I don't think there really is a good popup tutorial with details? Even the newest xpopup docs don't explain it...

Here's a brief explanation.

You'll notice that the popup.rc in your personal folder looks something like...

*Popup !New !Popup

Content

*Popup ~New

You must edit between those. The first line starts a new popup, and the last line ends the new popup. You'll also see lines like...

*Popup "some text" Folder

Content

*Popup ~Folder

...within the new popup entries. That creates a sub folder for more content.

Each *Popup "some text" Folder line must also have a corresponding *Popup ~Folder line to end that folder. Folders can be nested.

Content will generally be *Popup "some text" !bangcommand.

There are some popups !bangs that do not have to be within a new popup to be executed. Like if you want a popup to be shown with a folder's contents by clicking on a label, for example.

Have a look in the \litestep\modules\docs\(popup module used by theme) folder.

Posted by member 1 on 2007-08-13 09:17:53 link

Popup configs really haven't changed all that much.

http://lsdocs.shellfront.org/popup.php

Posted by member 379072 on 2007-08-13 21:24:53 link

Thanks for the help, guys. It worked.