The settings window holds your panels, your bars, a few settings, and the default look for every button.
Panels
The Panels section manages multiple AEbar windows:
- Add Panel creates a new panel slot (up to 4).
- Each panel card shows a bar selector dropdown and controls to open or remove the panel.
- Assign different bars to different panels for parallel access.
Bars Management
The Bars section provides full bar management:
- New Bar creates an empty bar.
- Import opens a file picker for
.aebar,.kbar,.zip, or.jsonfiles. - Restore stock bars brings back the five built-in preset bars.
- Each bar card shows the bar name, button count, and actions for export and delete.
- Click a bar name to rename it.
Bar
| Setting | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Show Bar Controls | Off | Keeps small add, switch bar and settings buttons on the edge of every AEbar. When it’s off, the bar is all buttons. Add buttons from edit mode, and right-click an empty spot for bars and Settings. |
Default Style
Default Style sets how every button looks unless a bar or button changes it. Click the paintbrush on a bar card to change the same things for just that bar. Reset all bar styles and Reset all button styles clear those changes.
| Setting | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Surface | Theme color | The button’s fill color and opacity. |
| Icon | Theme color | The icon’s color and opacity. |
| Stroke color | Theme color | The button’s border color and opacity. |
| Stroke width | 1 px | The border’s width, 1 to 10 px. |
| Max icon | 64 px | The largest an icon gets on a big button, 8 to 128 px. |
| Radius | 12 px | How round the button corners are, 0 to 64 px. |
Buttons grow to fill the panel. When there isn’t room for every button at 32 px, the bar scrolls instead. In Motion Dock, the space between buttons follows the dock’s Spacing setting.
Safety
| Setting | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Confirm Script Execution | On | Shows a confirmation dialog before running scripts and shell commands. Applies to Run JSX File, Run Scriptlet, and Run Shell Command action types. |
When enabled, clicking a button with an unsafe action type shows a system confirmation dialog. This prevents accidental execution of imported or unfamiliar scripts. Turn it off if you trust all buttons in your bars and want one-click execution.
Limits
| Resource | Limit |
|---|---|
| Bars | 100 |
| Buttons per bar | 200 |
| Panels | 4 |
| Button label length | 64 characters |
| Tooltip length | 160 characters |
| Embedded script size | 512 KB |
| Custom icon size | 128 KB |
| Import file size | 2 MB |