Handling The H-Menu-bars


General Information

Moving or copying among the H-Menu-bars

Copying from Windows Explorer to a H-Menu-bar

Copying from Windows Explorer to an open Change Menu Item Window

Moving a complete H-Menu-bar



General Information
     An H-Menu-bar can be displayed in different ways:
     By touching or left-clicking a Hot Spot, or with the use of the Shift Key.

     See
description Operation of H-Menu.

However, if you Right-click an H-Menu Hot Spot, then a PopUp Menu
of the bar will be displayed  instead of the regular toolbar.

Please Hide the Desktop when using this feature.
Otherwise the Desktop Properties Dialog will be displayed at the same time'.

See Tray-icon - Program Options - Hide Desktop
or
Press Shift + Ctrl + Alt + (d)  -  Hide / Show Desktop


You can even display
Both, toolbar and popup menu.
First activate an H-Menu-bar, then right-click the bar (Not a button)
or right-click the H-Menu hot spot again.

     H-Menu supports Drag & Drop.

     This allows you to
Drag program links by holding down the left mouse button
     and
Drop them, by releasing the button at a different location as a copy.

     In general ,
any Windows Shortcut or Link can be dragged onto an H-Menu-bar, including
     Internet Links in your browser, E-mail addresses from your client, Shortcuts in Explorer, etc.

     A
red line indicates the place on the bar where your dropped item will appear.


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Moving or copying among the H-Menu-bars
     You can Move an item on an H-Menu-bar by dragging it to a different position
     on the same bar or to
another H-Menu-bar.The following Dialogue will appear.

     If the destination bar is empty, a portion of it will be displayed by H-Menu when the cursor
     touches the Hot Spot, in order that you can drop the item.

     If you want to Copy the item, hold down the CTRL key while dragging it.

     While you are dragging an item (whether copying or moving), the cursor is a crossed circle.
     When the cursor causes the target H-Menu-bar to display,


     a RED LINE will indicate the new location of the item after it is dropped.

     When the crossed circle cursor changes to    you are ready to drop a document.

    You can now safely 'drop' the item onto the bar.


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Copying from Windows Explorer to a H-Menu-bar
     You can also drag items from a program such as the Windows Explorer to any of the
     H-Menu-bars.
     It is even
possible to drag from Windows Explorer to an Empty bar, but you have to hold
     down the
CTRL key while you do this.

    
Note that the mouse cursor turns into a crossed circle as you 'drag' the item from Explorer.

     When the cursor causes the target H-Menu-bar to display,

     a RED LINE will indicate the new location of the item after it is dropped.

     The cursor will now alter again, this time it will become a double arrow
        
(the Explorer Link + pointed arrow symbols).

     You can now safely 'drop' the item(s) onto the bar.

Copying from Windows Explorer to an open Change Menu Item Window
     By using Drag and Drop you can copy items from Windows Explorer
    
to the Change Menu Item window

     See the
Change Menu Item Window for details.


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Moving a complete H-Menu-bar
      To move a complete H-Menu-bar to a new location in the same group.

      You
have to do the following:

      Put your mousepointer on the H-Menu-bar, but
NOT on a button.
          A separator or the space
between buttons would be a good place.

      Press the left mousebutton and start dragging the bar toward the desired location; the
           mousepointer will change into a little
toolbar.

       and you will see        

           After the target H-Menu-bar is displayed by dragging your mouse over to it, the
           H-Menu-bar that is being
moved can be dropped .

      The
moved bar has now switched position with the target bar.

      
Moving to an empty bar is also possible, a small target area will display automatically
           when the bar that is being
moved reaches the desired location.


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