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How do you tear off menus?

December 5, 2002 5:09:32 PM from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums
On the ObjectBar site, it says you can hold down control and "tear" off menus. It doesn't work. How do you do it?
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Reply #1 December 5, 2002 5:22:04 PM
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You're going to hate me, but....you can hold down control and "tear" off menus.

It worked just now when I tried it.

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Reply #2 December 5, 2002 5:22:10 PM
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Press the control key and drag the menu with the mouse at the same time. However, I have no idea how to close a menu that's been torn off.
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Reply #3 December 5, 2002 5:29:25 PM
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Oh, OK. I thought it could pull menus off of any program. It works nicely when you pull stuff of off the ObjectBar stuff.
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JDavidHarper
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Reply #4 December 5, 2002 5:44:31 PM
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Chris: To get the torn off menu to go away, either right click on it and choose 'close' or pull up the start menu again and click on the orignal parent menu.

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Reply #5 December 5, 2002 6:14:05 PM
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EnsRegis: It is indeed possible to get tear off menus from most apps. If you set ObjectBar to show the menu from the active app in a bar you can then tear off menus/submenus from that bar.

See : http://pjpowell.dyndns.org/temp/OBTearOff.jpg for an example. Here I have torn off the menus from Wincustomize browser. You will also notice that the browser is minimised and I can still use the menu options. Not sure in what circumstances you would want to do that but I'm sure there must be some.

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Reply #6 December 5, 2002 9:23:49 PM
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Um... Where is that setting? Thanks!
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Reply #7 December 6, 2002 8:13:52 PM
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(*cough*) /\ pointing to previous question /\
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Reply #8 December 6, 2002 11:02:24 PM
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EnsRegis: There is no setting. Some bars are set to extract the menus from apps, and put them on the bar. Most of the bars that do these are OSX ports. And with ANY ObjectBar Theme, you can hold down ctrl, and drag the menu off of the bar. (!BUT! remeber the bar must be a part of OB, and not a windows menu)

Speak up is you need more helo, or if that didn't make any sense. (I'M not even sure if I made any sense)
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Reply #9 December 6, 2002 11:03:54 PM
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Err... remeber=remember
uh.. helo=help
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Reply #10 December 7, 2002 9:58:51 AM
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No, sorry, it didn't make sense. I just know that when I ctrl-drag on a menu (say, Internet Explorer or Notepad) nothing happens. It does work with stuff in OB; I can make my control panel an actual panel on the desktop now. It just doesn't with other programs.
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Reply #11 December 8, 2002 5:02:17 AM
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Apologies, been a bit busy and missed your reply. To add a menu section to the bar just open the properties by right clicking the bar and add a section. Then click the behaviour tab and tick the option to replace that section with the menu of the current app.

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Reply #12 December 8, 2002 8:29:23 AM
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oops. Of course I meant right click the bar and select properties.

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