Menu Module

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Introduction

The Menu module places a menu button on your SharpBar?. This acts like the Windows Start Menu. This menu can be set to either display the start menu, or a Drive menu.

Settings

Show Caption Select this if you would like the button to display a cation. You can then Type in what ever you would like the button to display in the field below that.

Show Icon Select this if would like the button to display an icon. To change the icon, you can press the "..." button. This brings up another menu.

• SharpE Icon lets you select an icon from the icon set that is associated with the theme you are using.
  
• Custom Icon lets you select an icon of your choice from your computer.

Button Size Use the slider to adjust the width of the button on your SharpeBar? from 20 to 200 pixels.

Menu Use the dropdown menu to choose if you would like the menu to display a start menu or a drive menu.

Making Custom Menus

In order to make your own menus you need to create an xml file in the Settings Directory. This can be reached by right clicking on the desktop, then under SharpE selecting User Directory. Create the xml file in the SharpMenu? directory. The name of the file is the name of the menu when you add the menu to your SharpBar?.

The xml file should start and end with the SharpMenuFile? tag.

<SharpMenuFile>
...
</SharpMenuFile>

Some of the item types there are:

<item>
  <type>label</type>
  <caption>SharpE Menu</caption>
</item>

<item>
  <type>link</type>
  <icon>icon.mycomputer</icon>
  <target>shell:drivefolder</target>
  <caption>Computer</caption>
</item>

<item>
  <type>separator</type>
</item>

<item>
  <type>submenu</type>
  <icon>icon.folder</icon>
  <caption>Startmenu</caption>
  <items>
   <item>
     <type>dynamicdirectory</type>
     <target>{#StartMenuDir#}</target>
   </item>
   <item>
     <type>dynamicdirectory</type>
     <target>{#CommonStartMenuDir#}</target>
   </item>
  </items>
</item>

<item>
  <type>dynamicdirectory</type>
  <target>C:\Program Files\</target>
</item>

Note that for dynamicdirectory the folder path needs to end in a "\"

dynamicdirectory loads that folder into the menu. So that last example would make the menu contain the contents of the directory, with submenus for any folders in that directory.

Frequently Asked Questions

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