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CUSTOMISING OF ACCELMAN

Applicable to: All

In AccelMan implemented flexible user interface with thin adjustments and customizations. You can setup toolbars, context menus, status bar, keyboard shortcuts, structure of main window and style of any AccelMan frame. You can work with unlimited number of file managers, you can tile or dock it, at one moment you can work with more than two managers. The layout of the AccelMan may be saved and restored. There are some predefined schemes that allows you to make an interface and functionality of AccelMan like Windows Explorer or some other shells.

Toolbars

You can create new toolbars, delete existing (except some predefined), change buttons on the toolbar, change style, create sub menu and change some properties of toolbar

Main menu

Main menu is a usual toolbar with text sub menus. To change the main menu follow instructions for changing toolbars buttons

Manager quick navigation bar

Content of this bar is always equal to Drives & Quick bar predefined toolbar. Changing of the last causes changes of quick bar in all managers

Context menus

Contents and structure of predefined context menus may be changed

Keyboard shortcuts

You can assign new shortcuts to all commands of AccelMan. Each command can have more than one shortcut, furthermore, the same keys may be assigned to different commands (e.g. for File Manager and Viewer actions), if these actions are not available at a same time

Status line

Contents of status line and size of elements may be changed

To change some elements of AccelMan interface select Customize… from Tools menu, or from toolbars context menu.

Interface customization dialog

Dialog contains following tabs:

When you made all changes, press Close button to switch AccelMan into normal work mode.

NOTE that menus and toolbars are included into interface schemes. When you restore saved interface scheme current toolbars, main and context menus will be replaced by ones, stored in the interface scheme.

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