Customizing buttons appearance

To customize the appearance of a button or group of buttons on a menu or on the toolbar, right-click on the button to be customized, then point to the “Appearance” item on the context menu, and then select “Button Properties”:

The left part of the dialog window displays the list of buttons available on the toolbar or on the menu. You can select several buttons at once by holding the CTRL key down and clicking on the buttons on the list. The button properties that have been edited appear in bold.

The following properties can be edited:

• Button text – sets description text for the button. If this field is blank, True Launch Bar will use the button name for description. You can enter any text in this field, no restrictions apply to it.
• Right aligned text – text to appear on the right of the main text. This place normally contains keyboard shortcut set for the item.
• Icon Size – sets size for the icon on the button. Enter zero to set the default icon size.
• Default view – sets the default view for the button; the default view is defined in the menu settings.
• Show text label – enables showing text label for the button.
• Show icon – enables showing icon for the button.
• Align – sets alignment for the text label. “Left” will align the text by the left edge of the button, “Right” will align the text label by the right edge of the button, and “Center” will align the text by the center of the button.
• Bold – displays the label text in bold.
• Italic – displays the label text in italic.
• Text color – sets the label text color.
• Default command – sets the shell command to be executed when the button is clicked on. This property allows you to customize the default behavior of the button. For instance, you can set playing all the music in the folder in your favorite media player for folders with music. Another example – you can set the Empty action for the Recycle Bin shortcut and empty Recycle Bin when the Recycle Bin button is clicked on. Please note: shell commands only can be entered in this field. To see the list of all shell commands, click on the “…” button on the left of the field.
• Context menu – sets the context menu for the button.
• Hidden – hides the button.