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Paint Shop Pro X
Customizing the context menus
Basically the context menu appears when you right-click over specific areas of the program, such as a palette, a toolbar or over the canvas, and it offers some specific commands.
Paint Shop Pro has a list of 14 context menus.
It is always a good idea to have a saved version of your current workspace before customizing the program.
In order to access (and customize) them, go to View » Customize and click on the Menu tab.
Click on the Select context menu drop-down list and click on the menu you want to modify (the menu will open over the workspace). For this example, I’ll be modifying the Image Context Menu.
At this point, this is what the menu looks like:
I don’t care much for most of the commands in it, specially those that I use shortcuts for, so I’m going to remove them.
To remove an item, simply click on it and drag it out of the menu, until a X appears close to the mouse pointer.
If there are sub-items available, clicking over the parent command will open them, allowing you to add or delete items.
!images/284.png(sub-items)
As you might have noticed, the process is quite similar to the one for Customizing the menus.
An important thing to notice – and the difference between customizing the context menus and the menus – is that once you remove all items, the context menu practically dispappears.
What’s worse is that once the context menu is in this state you can’t add items to it.
In order to get the context menu back to an editable state, click on the Reset button under the drop-down list. This button will only reset the active context menu, so you don’t need to worry about other changes you’ve made in other menus, plus it gives a warning indicating what it is about to do where you can either confirm or cancel the action.
Since I don’t want any of the items available in the Image Context Menu, I’m going to add what I want before removing all the others.
The available items are listed under the Commands tab.
Now that I have all that I want, I can delete the rest.
Note that the context menu’s width changes according to the items’ width, and the shorter the item, the shorter the context menu area (it evens cuts part of the title). This is the reason why the context menu practically disappears when its empty.
And that’s all there is to it.
Tools, Menus and Palettes · Jul 27, 2007 ·