BUG#5129 Hide Titlebar on Panels added by Scripts

[nohitter151]

Yeah I'm voting up too. A right click feature would be convenient.

It might be convenient, but there would not be any way to right click to enable the titlebar in many scripts (MonkeyRok, lyrics&comments viewer, Minilyrics embedder) because the right click options are for another program. I just don't see how a right click option is possible.

[gege]

Hi, there. I'll continue here the discussion started in MonkeyFlow thread.

Gege has helpfully clarified it - although I'm not sure you see his point? I.e. the problem is that even if you get the script-writer to add the new 'hide titlebar' option, you might not have a way to get it back.
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I understand that some people want always to have titlebars because they are a very intuitive way to open and close panels. But for me I am happy (much prefer) to learn the necessary shortcuts to open and close the panels if it means we can get rid of the (to me) ugly and redundant titlebars.
I don't ever have a titlebar for my album art window and it's a breeze to open and close it with Ctrl+Alt+A.
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I could write more but this is already too long and this discussion will either take place in the thread I linked to above or in the individual scripts or in a new thread. Hopefully it will be a lively debate and we can get this sorted soonest. It really is clunky and nasty to have a bar above your panel stating the blatantly obvious. The titlebars' only purpose is the little cross to close the window. The bar itself and the text are worse than redundant.

MM3 monkey, you're right about the possibility to get titlebar back. That was my first concern when trying this new funcionality.

But you're wrong about "Close" being the only purpose of titlebars. We need it to MOVE a panel too. Without a titlebar, a panel is simply stuck. Album Art, just using your example, doesn't move with hidden toolbar. But, in this case, you simply right-click the Album Art itself and you have "Show Titlebar"; then you can move it to another position.

[gege]

It might be convenient, but there would not be any way to right click to enable the titlebar in many scripts (MonkeyRok, lyrics&comments viewer, Minilyrics embedder) because the right click options are for another program. I just don't see how a right click option is possible.

Right! In Lyrics Viewer I could add a new item in option sheet. Adding a right-click doesn't seem possible to me too.

[MM3 monkey]

Thanks for quoting my other post here, Gege. Saved me the trouble.

... you're wrong about "Close" being the only purpose of titlebars. We need it to MOVE a panel too.

D'oh! You're right, of course. I don't know the solution but hotkeys are my best idea for now.

I really really would like to get rid of titlebars (apart from when moving the panels).

[Fraxav]

So you cannot drag if you don't have the bar. What about dragging with the right button? Or with a combo of keys and lef or right button. This way, you never need a titlebar.

[nohitter151]

Right! In Lyrics Viewer I could add a new item in option sheet. Adding a right-click doesn't seem possible to me too.

I think this is an acceptable solution. Do you foresee problems doing it that way?

[Fraxav]

Right! In Lyrics Viewer I could add a new item in option sheet. Adding a right-click doesn't seem possible to me too.

is it like an option in the script UI that would let you hide and show the titlebar? This is more than acceptable. It doesn't have to be a right-click menu...

[gege]

I think this is an acceptable solution. Do you foresee problems doing it that way?

No problems at all. I'm already planning it!

is it like an option in the script UI that would let you hide and show the titlebar?

Not in script's UI itself, but in script's Option Sheet UI (I mean: "Tools > Options... > Lyrics Viewer")

[MM3 monkey]

Now we're talking!!

You're a genius.

[Fraxav]

Ok that sounds good anyway.

[DaledeSilva]

Problem is, there will be scripts that don't update and therefore don't take advantage of letting us hide the titlebars.
I would have thought this was a good solution for the devs to implement:

-right clicking on any titlebar gives the option "hide titlebar"
-include a "show / hide all panel titlebars" in the view menu.

however, they have not.
So... what I set out to do today was write a script which gets a list of all dockable panels and creates a menu item under view that will show / hide each of their titlebars. - also, an option to show / hide all at once.

This would be a really handy solution and quick and easy for me to write.

But... it seams I can't find a way to get a list of the dockable panels.
any ideas?

Dale.

[ZvezdanD]

I think that MM developers should add right-click pop-up menu for all dockable panels with Show Titlebar option, without a need for script developers to add such thing in their scripts. It should pop-up anywhere you click in the panel, same as we get with built-in MM panels.

[gege]

I think that MM developers should add right-click pop-up menu for all dockable panels with Show Titlebar option, without a need for script developers to add such thing in their scripts. It should pop-up anywhere you click in the panel, same as we get with built-in MM panels.

Yeah! But then we would have this problem nohitter mentioned:

It might be convenient, but there would not be any way to right click to enable the titlebar in many scripts (MonkeyRok, lyrics&comments viewer, Minilyrics embedder) because the right click options are for another program. I just don't see how a right click option is possible.

[ZvezdanD]

Yeah! But then we would have this problem nohitter mentioned

I don't know where is a problem. Please nohitter, could you elaborate this? What do you mean by "the right click options are for another program"?

[gege]

LV and MR, for example, are embedded IE instances. If you right-click inside them, you're in fact getting IE context menu.