Not Used TCMD Since V21 - Can't Get Tabbed Toolbar To Work

[Robin C]

I read this page Customizing Take Command's Tabbed Toolbar Tabs and Buttons so it seems simple:

1) Options | Tabbed Toolbar | Add Button
2) Enter names and command line
3) OK
4) Options | Tabbed Toolbar | Save to .INI (the help page doesn't mention the Save/Reload options but I assume they're supposed to work intuitively).

I do this, exit TCMD and at the end of TCMD.INI I have this:

[Toolbar1]
Title=Shell
B1=1536,32,"C:\Program Files\JPSoft\TCMD32\tcc.exe",TCC,,,,"C:\Program Files\JPSoft\TCMD32\tcc.exe" c:\util\boot\tcstart

Seems okay? However when I re-start TCMD the toolbar doesn't show. How do I get to show? I tried the "Reload from .INI" which didn't help.

Also, to the right of the startup buttons is a small gray tab used to open a new tab but I can't find any way to configure that and I don't want a plain TCC window I want one opened with a command line like that in my button above.

Anyone point me what I'm missing here?

 

[Robin C]

So I found COMSPEC is what I need for the new tab config .. the field label didn't exactly scream "NEW TAB SETUP HERE" to me. ;)

 

[Robin C]

Well COMSPEC doesn't work properly .. while I can add the command argument to it and it works for that session when I reload TCMD the argument is no longer at the end of COMSPEC.

This is in TCMD.INI after exiting the first time:

COMSPEC="C:\Program Files\JPSoft\TCMD32\tcc.exe" c:\util\boot\tcstart

Clearly when the .INI is loaded next time it's mis-parsed and the argument seems simply to be lost.

 

[vefatica]

It seems OK here (TCMD 32).

COMSPEC has nothing to do with it. COMSPEC is what's run in new tabs. If it's blank you get the default TCC.EXE. For a toolbar button, what's run is what you specify.

My test was simple. It works and still works after restarting TCMD.

[Toolbar1]
Title=MyTab1
B1=1536,32,,SinButton,SinTab,v:\,ToolTip,d:\tc32\tcc.exe v:\sin.btm

 

[Robin C]

No idea why COMSPEC is limited to only a pathname to a program and not a command line like the toolbar buttons, but hey, it is what is.

This is what I put into my .INI

[Toolbar1]
Title=Untitled
B1=1536,32,,TCC,Shell,c:\,Hello,"C:\Program Files\JPSoft\TCMD32\tcc.exe" c:\util\boot\tcstart

Looks pretty similar to yours but my bar isn't loaded .. I assume yours is reaload .. when I restart TCMD.

I just copy/pasted the lines from your post into my .INI and that bar isn't showing either when I load TCMD!

 

[vefatica]

Do you have View\TabbedToolBar checked?

I copied your INI entry to mine (with changes to only the command) and it worked, after restarting, too.

[Toolbar1]
Title=MyTab1
B1=1536,32,, TCC ,Shell,c:\,Hello,"d:\tc32\tcc.exe" v:\sin.btm

 

[Robin C]

Nope!

So I'll hold up my hands and admit I never looked for an option because when I created the bar using Tabbed Toolbar config menu it DOES SHOW the bar after adding the button even though that View potion you pointed me to isn't set so I simply assumed that if there were such a toggle it must be set 'on'.

I did look at the dialog Tab config dialog page to see if there was a setting there but it didn't occur to me to go menu diving,

Thanks, appreciate it.

 

[vefatica]

Yes, I see what you mean. Adding a button does show the toolbar. It also checks the box in the View menu; that's what's not remembered. It seems like reasonable behavior; you just might want to test the button right away. I don't know what was intended.