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Tool Bar & Status Bar

Tool Bar

The TCI window has an optional Tool Bar that you can use to execute internal or external commands, aliases, or batch files with the click of a mouse. Toolbar buttons will display tool tips that are the command that will be executed if the button is pressed.

To create buttons for the Tool Bar, select Configure Tool Bar from the Options menu. This selection displays the tool bar dialog.

You can define up to 50 Tool Bar buttons; if there are more than will fit on a single line they will wrap to the next line.

To enable or disable the Tool Bar, use the ToolBarOn directive in TCI.INI, the Tool Bar Enable setting on the Windows tab in the configuration dialogs, or the Show Tool Bar command in the Options menu.

The configuration dialog and TCI.INI settings are modified when you enable and disable the tool bar from the Options menu. This preserves the tool bar state when you close TCI and restores it the next time you start a TCI session.

You can access tool bar buttons from the keyboard by defining an accelerator key in the button title. The key (A-Z) is specified by preceding it with a &. For example:

&Dir

will invoke the "Dir" button when you press Alt-D.

You can reorder buttons in the toolbar by holding the shift key and dragging the button with the mouse.

Double clicking on the toolbar brings up a toolbar customization dialog that allows you to add separators, and move or delete buttons.

Status Bar

The TCI window has an optional Status Bar that shows information about your system. To enable or disable the Status Bar, use the StatusBarOn directive in the TCI.INI file, the Status Bar Enable setting on the Windows tab in the configuration dialogs, or the Show Statusbar command in the Options menu.

The configuration dialog and TCI.INI settings are modified when you enable and disable the status bar from the Options menu. This preserves the status bar state when you close TCI, and restores it the next time you start a TCI session.

The status bar displays the following information:

• The current date.
• The current time.
• The state of the Caps Lock key on the keyboard.
• The state of the Num Lock key on the keyboard.
• The number of columns and rows in the window.
• The CPU usage percentage as reported by Windows.
• The percentage "memory load" as reported by Windows.

The status bar also includes a slider control on the left side which controls the transparency level of the TCI window.