DragStrip® Tips and Tricks

Control clicking any part of a strip brings up a contextual menu that lets you do all sorts of things to strips, pages and the items on them.
The contextual menu for page tabs lets you reorder the tabs by shifting the current page tab to the left or to the right. This is the only way you can reorder them.
Command clicking a file item reveals that item in the Finder.
Shift clicking a button selected it. Most operations that can be performed on a single button, can also be performed on a selection of buttons.
Hitting the delete key will ask you if you want to delete the currently selected item. If you say OK, the item will be deleted. If its an item on the Processes strip, the application will quit. Note: removing items from strips does not delete the item in the Finder.
Hitting option-delete will delete the item or selection without asking. If its an item on the Processes strip, the application will quit immediately.
Dragging an item from a strip to the Finder trash can will delete the item from the strip, or quit an application if you dragged it from the processes strip.
Dragging an item to a Finder window will create an alias to it there.
Option clicking an item in the processes strip will hide that application's windows. If it is already hidden, option clicking it will show the application's windows.
Shift-option clicking an item in the processes strip will hide all applications except the application you clicked on and DragStrip.
Holding the option key when selecting an item from one of the folder or document list popup menus will change the cursor to a document icon. If you click on a folder, it will copy the selected item to the folder. If you click on an application, it will launch the application with the selected item. If you click on an empty button on a strip, you will add the item to the strip.
Typing option-tab will switch to the next page on the frontmost strip. If the current page is the last page, it will go to the first page. Typing option-shift-tab will go to the previous page.
Typing the first few letters of an item's name will select that item.
Typing tab will select the next item in the strip alphabetically. Shift tab does in the opposite direction.
The arrow keys also work for navigating around the buttons on strips.
Hitting the enter key opens the current selection.
Command-Control clicking anywhere in a window lets you drag the window around. This should work in any window in DragStrip, except for the about box.
Holding down the command key while dragging a window's title bar moves the window without bringing it to the front. This is actually true of most Macintosh applications, but most people don't know this.
Holding down the option key while applying a style to a strip will not only apply the colors, but also all of the other strip information too. This includes button and icon styles as well as page tab and status bar positions.
Option clicking an empty button will bring up the standard file chooser to let you select a file or folder to add to that empty location.
Double clicking a page tab lets you change its name.
Option double clicking a page tab lets you change its color.
Double clicking a color in the DragStrip Color Picker tool lets you change the colors in the palette.
Holding down the delete key while selecting an item from the popup document list menu will delete that item from the document list for that application. The same thing works for the Grouped Items and File Router additions.
Clicking and holding the mouse down on an item in the Processes strip pops up the same document list for that application as you get in a 'regular' strip.
Enabling "Show name when cursor hovers over item (ToolTips)" pops up a little window over items when the cursor sits there for a little while. This is a great way of finding out which folder you are over if the status bar is hidden, since folders often look alike.
Tool tips work when you are dragging too.
When you drag over a folder, if you hold the mouse still for a little bit, the folder will pop up and you can drag into the hierarchical popup menu. Dropping on an application launches that application, dropping in other places will copy the whatever you were dragging to the appropriate folder.
DragStrip can store text and pictures (and sounds, and URLS...) You can drop a phone number on a strip and it will keep it handy for you. You could even create an entire page of phone numbers, or addresses, or urls, or pictures of your children, or your car, or your house, or... well, you get the picture.
You can drop ControlStrip modules on a strip and they will function just like DragStrip Additions do. It works best if ControlStrip is NOT running on your Macintosh, since ControlStrip assumes that its modules will only pop up menus wherever the Control Strip bar is.
If you really like the way a strip that you have created looks, create a new strip style based on it and name it "Default" (without the quotes). Then whenever you create a new strip, it will have the same properties and colors.
In the Strip Options panel of the Strip Options dialog, holding down the option key while clicking pops up a menu of widths when you can configure the width or height of a button.
The document list window supports dragging files into the list from the Finder.
When a file is set as the "Default" in the document list window, launching that application from DragStrip will always open that document automatically.
You can rearrange the items on your strip easily by choosing one of the four "Clean Up" options from under the Options menu.
You can make DragStrip always start up when you start up your Macintosh by selecting "Install..." from the File menu.
You can drag on to an iconized strip and it will expand to accept the drag. When you finish your drag, it will iconize again.
If you click an iconized strip, it will zoom to full size until you switch out of DragStrip, then it will iconize again.
Registering DragStrip 3.6 gives you a tremendous feeling of well-being.