Customize menu > Customize User Interface > Quads panel > Advanced Options
The Advanced Quad Menu Options dialog lets you customize the size and colors of your quad menus. You can also customize other quad menu behaviors such as repositioning, type font, and cursor behavior.
Interface
Settings group
Load: Lets you load a quad options (.qmo) file.
Save: Saves your settings to a .qmo file.
Save as Startup: Saves your current settings as the startup settings.
Reset to Startup: Resets options to default settings (defaultui.qmo).
Colors group
The colors group allows you to customize the colors of your quad menus.
Starting Quadrant: Lets you select which quadrant your cursor starts in when you open the quad menu.
Color list: The customizable elements of the quad menu are listed and separated by quadrant. Click on the color swatch to open a color selection dialog.
If the colors for a quad menu element are locked (indicated by a pressed ôLö button), each of the separate quadrants will share the same color; when you change the color in one quadrant, it will change all of the quadrantsÆ colors.
You can customize each quadrant separately by turning off the lock button for the selected quad menu element.
Display group
Uniform Quad Width: When turned on, all displayed quadrants will be the same width. The width is determined by the widest quadrant.
Mirror Quads: When turned on, text in the quad menus is justified to the inside edge of the menu; the text in the right quadrants is left-justified, and text in the left-quadrants is right-justified.
When turned off, all text in the quad menu is left-justified.
Vertical Margins: Sets the vertical spacing between commands in the quad menu.
Opacity Amount: Sets the opacity of the quad menu.
Note: Opacity is not available in systems running on Windows NT.
Positioning group
Reposition Quad When Off Screen: Automatically repositions the quad menu when you open it with part of the menu off the edge of the screen. The menu is moved so that the entire menu is displayed on the screen.
Move Cursor When Repositioned: Moves your cursor to the new location of the quad menu when it is repositioned.
When this is turned off, you must hold down the mouse button when you right-click to display the quad menu. Once you move the cursor over the menu, you can release the mouse button.
Return Cursor After Repositioned: After you have selected an action from the quad menu, the cursor is returned to the location on the screen where the original right-click was made.
Fonts group
Title Font: Sets the font of the quadrant titles.
Size: Sets the font size of the quadrant titles.
Menu Font: Sets the font of the text inside the quadrants.
Size: Sets the font size of the text inside the quadrants.
Animation group
Type: Sets the animation type for the quad menu from the following options:
None: Quad menus display immediately upon right-clicking.
Stretch: Quad menus open by expanding one quadrant at a time, in a clockwise manner. They close similarly; contracting one quadrant at a time, in a counter-clockwise manner.
Fade: Quad menus open by fading in from transparent to opaque, and close by fading out from opaque to transparent.
Steps: The number of frames used to complete the animated display of the quad menu.
As this value becomes larger, the transition (small to large, transparent to opaque, etc.) becomes more gradual.
Pause: The time between frames during the animated display of the quad menu.
As this value becomes larger, the animated display of the quad menu slows down.