Toolbar

Hide toolbar title

By default, all Windows toolbars have a title.

There are two ways to hide this title:

1. Right-click on the title and then select the “Show Title” item on the menu that appears (toolbar must be unlocked under Windows XP.)
2. Enable the “Hide toolbar title” option. From now on, the toolbar will always appear with no title.

Lock toolbar

This option is useful for toolbars positioned on the taskbar. By default, all Windows toolbars can be dragged with the mouse – just grab a toolbar at its blank area. Sometimes that may create problems, since a toolbar can be moved by accident. To prevent that, enable the “Lock toolbar” option.

Same width for all buttons with text

If buttons have text labels, the width of all standard buttons with text will be the same and will depend on the length of the longest text. True Launch Bar will show the buttons the same way when the “Same width for all buttons with text” option is enabled:

If this option is disabled, the width of each button will depend on the length of its text only:

This will let you save the toolbar space significantly.

Default alignment

This option allows managing the position of buttons on the toolbar in case the height (width for the vertical toolbars) is greater than what is necessary for placing the buttons. The following values may be set in this option:

Top/Left:

Center:

Bottom/Right:

Minimum size

With this option, you can set the minimum number of buttons to appear on the toolbar. If you want to see all the buttons on the toolbar at all times, set a greater value. This is especially useful if the toolbar contains plugins that may vary their sizes along the course of their performance.

Sizing step

This is for how many pixels the toolbar height (width for the vertical toolbars) will change. It is normally enough to set this parameter to 0 (zero) in order to have True Launch Bar set the best value automatically. However, if you are using the non-standard themes under Windows XP, you may face difficulties creating multiple-line toolbars. In this case, set this parameter to a non-zero value; for instance, 1, 2, etc. and find the best setting value for your system.

Overlay image

Path to overlay image file. You can type the path by hand or click on the “Browse…” button and select the file in the explorer window that appears. True Launch Bar supports the most common image types: BMP, PNG, JPEG, and GIF.

You can enable the “Save image with toolbar” setting to save the image in the toolbar folder.

Draw method

This preference defines how the overlay image is to be drawn. The following three methods are available.

Draw at position: the image will be drawn with no changes at the position set by the “Image position” value.

Stretch: the image will be stretched to the toolbar boundaries.

Tile: the toolbar will be filled with the image.

Image position

These options define the overlay image position on the toolbar when the “Draw Method” is set to “Draw at position”. “Image position” may accept one of these values: Center, Left (top), or Right (bottom). The values in the parentheses are given for the vertical toolbars.