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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Internal Viewer - WordWrap

« on: September 05, 2012, 21:49:56 »

Actually, if I want to select a text longer than the window, and word-wrap is off, the window do not scroll and I can't select this text.
The issue is for horizontal & vertical scrolling.
This is not the behavior I am used to, from notepad, word, notpead++, etc. Is this an expected & wanted behavior ?

That has not really anything to do with wordwrap.
But will add it to the list anyway.

3702

Support and Feedback / Re: Startup logo

« on: September 05, 2012, 11:35:07 »

Add a registry key under 
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\MultiCommander\
Reg Key/Value  : "HideSplash"  REG_DWORD - value "1"

If you are running the portable version
then edit the file <mc install location>\SessionConfig\Misc\MultiCommander.ini

And add "HideSplash=1" to it

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Support and Feedback / Re: Refreshing Units

« on: September 04, 2012, 19:08:01 »

very strange.

Because when F5 (Refresh) is issues, The file system will be rescanned, And it will show the information that is provided by Windows, Why Window is providing invalid content I do not know. Might be because it still has some reference to it so it does not flush it.

I don't know what can cause it to happen and I do not have SD card reader here so I can not test my self.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Setting "Standard" Date display format has no effect

« on: September 03, 2012, 21:17:09 »

Ah yes, I can see the difficulty.
(Yes, "Default Date Format For New Tabs" makes it clear, but it would still be more intuitive to find the two settings one beside the other in the tree)

Probably some people will want their individual tab-specific settings to be persistent across app restarts too.

Maybe a new option or two would do it:
 - Apply this setting to:
     o  this tab (yes/no)
     o  other current tabs (yes/no)
     o  future tabs (yes/no)
     Default could be: this tab = yes, other current tabs = no, future tabs = yes

Do not think so.. I would require way to much code changes to make that possible. No, the date format option will probably change in the future to be same for all tabs

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Support and Feedback / Re: Setting "Standard" Date display format has no effect

« on: September 03, 2012, 19:15:35 »

Difference between Apply and Save is that Save also close the Settings Page while Apply does not. Allowing you to continue to change settings
 
Date format is probably the only setting that is not applied directly on already opened tab. There is a note about it on the settings page
"Date Display Format (Will not change already open tabs)"

Maybe should say "Default Date Format For New Tabs" ?

And I'm not quite happy my self how it works. So a while a got that setting was change to change all tabs. But a lot of users complained and want the ability to have different format for different tabs and they did not like the new behavior,  So I changed it back.. But I'm considering to change it again to always sync that settings to all tabs.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Setting "Standard" Date display format has no effect

« on: September 03, 2012, 13:06:15 »

Sure you change the correct date settings ?

Change date format for current panel
Menu > View > Explorer Panel > Date Format

Change default date format for new tabs
Menu > Configuration > Explorer Panel > Display[tab] > Date /Time Format (Title)
(*) Standard - Full date and time

3707

Support and Feedback / Re: Ultra slow file copy

« on: September 03, 2012, 11:06:10 »

What profiles gets autoselected ? change that to same settings as normal.

Try enable all the Cache checkboxes in that profile.

it should match correct. But some remote and USB devices get matched wrong. what are you using.

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: A couple of suggestions from a new user

« on: September 03, 2012, 10:37:12 »

I got some plans for something better then a just a long list (with or without submenus ) but do not know if I implement it because it would require a lot of time to create. Might just add a boring long list like browsers. Time will tell.

Interesting if there are new concepts on this. But I suspect that if they are really useful we would have seen them in browsers already.

Not really new concepts, but do not think of bookmarks in a File Manager is the same as a WebBrowser.. There are used in completely different ways.

If I were you I'd consider implementing the boring alternative first while thinking about the advanced stuff for later on. For some things boring solutions are, perhaps sadly, the ones that work best for most users.

Maybe.. But it is also what is more interesting for me to implement. Since there is not so much time I can spent on adding new features. I prefer to code something that is interesting.

But since a Menu with items can be created now. maybe just improve that so that can be created easier.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Reopening tabs issue in portable mode

« on: September 03, 2012, 10:23:47 »

Config/  Has the settings config fles
SessionConfig/ store configuration that are normally stored in the registry. And that are not vital for the program, Information that are session based.
Like history information for dropdown list and stuff like that, Last windows position, and stuff like that, that are not settings but information that need to be saved between restarts


I will see if I can reproduce the issue with your config files.

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Support and Feedback / Re: refresh on c:\ tab will open a new tab,and occasionally crash mc

« on: September 03, 2012, 09:09:46 »

I think the crash part will happen if X was done before the refresh is pressed. The problem is to figure out what X is.

It might be that some sub-folder was also browsed before doing refresh to make it crash. Or some folder need to created/remove, or the filesystem got changed from outside of MC. or something else. I tried a lot of different combination my self. But I'm not able to recreate it either.

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Beta Releases / Re: Multi Commander 2.7.1 BETA - Build 1178 - Bugs

« on: September 03, 2012, 07:36:23 »

Web List with language change are now updated

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Beta Releases / Re: Multi Commander 2.7.1 BETA - Build 1178 - Bugs

« on: September 03, 2012, 06:44:34 »

Where do s.493-499 lines in Application.MultiCommander Core used?

Used in Menu Customization. Context menu for the tree list where you build up a user menu.

Btw, why are Shortcuts again included in text? I thought they are now added automatically.

Only for the Menu Editor. They are not customizable.

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: A couple of suggestions from a new user

« on: September 01, 2012, 21:11:31 »

In the meanwhile there is Hotpaths, Buttons in the Button Panel, QuickLaunchBar

The UI functionality should be easy to decide just by looking at any popular web browser. Most of them handle bookmarks in very similar ways, and they ended up that way because it's what works out best for most people. Same thing here. But I guess you mean implementation decisions.

Good to know it's in the works though, and those alternatives are probably good enough in the meantime.

If you want a long list if bookmarks you can create that easy with user commands that you add to the menu.
I got some plans for something better then a just a long list (with or without submenus ) but do not know if I implement it because it would require a lot of time to create. Might just add a boring long list like browsers. Time will tell.

Yes some translation are missing for the Swedish language files. So when running with Swedish you still get a lot of English.

Actually, I am running the program in English. By "Swenglish" I meant poorly translated English.

It is not magic , Report bugs about the places that are wrong and it will be fixed. Nobody says anything it will not be fixed.

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User Contributed Content / Credits - Icons

« on: September 01, 2012, 16:21:23 »

Application Icon for MultiCommander.exe, MultiUpdate.exe, MultiCrashReport.exe are created by Martin Reslow

Some of the toolbar icons from http://www.fatcow.com/free-icons

3715

SDK / Multi Commander - Extension / Plugin System

« on: September 01, 2012, 16:17:08 »

Multi Commander is build around extension and plug-ins, almost all tools major features  in Multi Commander comes from an extension.

There are a couple of different types of extension and plugins.

Tools / Utilities Extension
These are extension that can interact with the core system in Multi Commander. They can show a GUI in it's own window or inside a tab.
Extended the script system with more commands, add own command that will be shown in the menu.

Eg. PictureViewer is a extension that shows it's own gui, MultiRename is an extension that is mixing internal gui element inside it's own window and The File Checksum verifier shows it's GUI inside a tab in Multi Commander. FSFTPScript extends the script language with FTP support.

File System Plugins
These are used to allow Multi Commander to browse archives, FTP, Registry and other resources that has a file system like structure.

File Properties Plugins
These are plugin that are used to retrieve file properties on file. For example the Picture Properties plugin allow you to get file properties of picture files so you can show column with picture properties like Image size, EXIF date and a lot more.

File Operations Plugins
These are plugin that are used during copy/move and delete operations. They can modify the target location of the file, Change the data that is read/written or do something after a file operation is completed.

For example the built in plugin "Auto Sort" will change the target location so that if a file called "MyFile.txt" is copied, it will place it under a 'M' subfolder under the selected target location.  And the AutoUnpack plugin will notice if the user are copying a .zip file and will then tell the system to copy the content of that file instead, So that the zip file is automatically unpacked.

SDK

Requirements
You will need to have knowledge of C++ to use the SDK. The included samples needs at least Visual Studio 2015  (vs2017 also works, But plugin will not work on XP then)
(VS2015 Express Desktop Edition should work.)

SDK Download
Lastest version of the SDK is available on GitHub at https://github.com/MultiCommander/MultiCommander-SDK
Git Hub ( v1.84 )

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Translations And Language Packs / Credits - Translators

« on: September 01, 2012, 16:13:41 »

Following user have contributed to Multi Commander by creating translations

Chinese (CN) - Yinyuecheng, (Previously maintained by Tyler)
Chinese (TW) - Alan
Czech - R3gi (Previously maintained by PetRip)
Dutch - Hans Niesten
English - Mathias Svensson, Corrections by Russ Williams
French - Stéphane Pierre
German - H. Laudor, and Hajo
Hungarian - Zityisoft - http://szoftverforditasok.hu
Italian - Aldo
Japanese - Tilt http://tiltstr.seesaa.net
Lithuanian - Raimondas Duzinskas
Polish - Lukasz Seweryn
Portuguese - Pedro Albuquerque
Romanian - Gabriel
Russian - Jangir I. Ganeev
Spanish - Mauro72
Swedish - Mathias Svensson (*1)

*1) Swedish - Mathias Svensson
This Language pack is created by me. But there is a lot of missing translations since I have not had the time to keep it up to date.
Also I'm not used to type computer related sentences in Swedish so the translation is not very good.
So feel free to send in updates or take over the translations Swedish.

3717

Support and Feedback / Re: The program does not start

« on: September 01, 2012, 15:41:52 »

Latest Beta works on SP2 again..


How to get beta

3718

Beta Releases / 2.7.1 Beta - Change Log

« on: September 01, 2012, 15:36:50 »

Changes since v2.7.1 : 35+ Changes

ADDED - Now possible to assign hotkeys to the different View Modes.
ADDED - Can now change view mode with custom commands. "MC.Explorer.SetViewMode"
ADDED - Can now change sorting with custom commands "MC.Explorer Sort"
ADDED - Can now drop link from browser.
ADDED - Support for 7Zip archives that are password protected.
ADDED - Can now auto run a User defined command at startup using "Multicommander.exe -AutoRun=<CommandName>"
ADDED - Support for new language : Spanish - Created by Mauro72
ADDED - (Experimental) Force the zip filesystem to use a custom codepage. Set Codepage using ":zipcp <cp num>" in the command line field. ( -1 for current system codepage )
ADDED - (Experimental) Force the zip filesystem to use the extended zip support for UTF8 when created Zip archive. Use commandline command ":ziputf8 1" to enable
FIXED - Path and FreeSpace field did not update if Device Dropdown was disabled, when browsing network paths.
FIXED - Virtual Filesystem for 7-Zip had problem when files inside a .7z archive had invalid attributes.
FIXED - Crash when adding separator to menu
FIXED - MultiCommander Now works on Windows XP with SP2 again.
FIXED - 4 Crash problems reported by crash report system.

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Blog post comments / Multi Commander 2.7.1 BETA - Build 1178

« on: September 01, 2012, 15:34:10 »

Multi Commander v2.7.1 [BETA] Build 1178

Comments and feedback for the blog post should be posted here in this forum topic.
No bug reports here. post then in the Beta Release forum topic

ChangeLog

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: A couple of suggestions from a new user

« on: September 01, 2012, 15:01:09 »

1. The Favorites/Bookmarking function. I see this is already in the list of suggested improvements. Very good to see it as number one on the list. I'd just like to stress that it's very important to fix this, it's the most glaring gap in the tool at the moment imho. The existing "Hot Paths" feature is useful, but with only 10 paths, non-editable and a flat structure it is too limited (apologies if I am missing something). For a bookmarking system worth its salt it's essential to have editable bookmarks in a tree structure, with similar functions to any browser out there. I don't think it's essential that each and every one of them be accessible from an individual keyboard hotkey, sticking to this philosophy is just going to put unnecessary limitations on your design.

Yes a better favorite system is under design. But there are many ways to do that and the decision on exactly how it should work has not been completed yet. But it is one of the top new things to add next.
In the meanwhile there is Hotpaths, Buttons in the Button Panel, QuickLaunchBar, User command in Menu, user command for hotkeys, and Alias for the commandline field. That can be used for creating favorites.

2. I see some "Swenglish" here and there, and some language inconsistencies that should be fixed eg. selecting "Vertical Layout" in fact selects something that many people, myself included, would call Horizontal. Maybe some people see it the other way around. I'm not sure which camp is in the majority. In fact, this difficulty could be neatly avoided by having a toggle function instead: "Toggle Vertical/Horizontal layout". That would always be correct whichever way you look at it.

Yes some translation are missing for the Swedish language files. So when running with Swedish you still get a lot of English. Specially in features that been added in the latest couple of releases. That is because it is me that fixes the Swedish files and I been too busy fixing bugs and adding features. But If you want you can fix some by using the built in language editor and then just press Export and send be an update of the language files.

It is called Vertical because it is what it is. It says 'layout' afterwards. And the when active the UI is placed in vertical order. (Top -> Bottom).
It should also have been named "Horizontal Splitting" or something. And also some of the biggest file manager competitor also calls it vertical.
If you really prefer another name you can change it using the language editor, But I do not think I will change the default name. 

3. This is a function I would use once in a blue moon (though we did in fact have a blue moon the other day ha ha), thus low priority and not a big issue: The animation that happens when changing View->Split size to another setting can be a little annoying. It was very slow and clunky-looking on one computer, but quicker and OK on another. I'd prefer to turn this animation off. (apologies if it is already possible to turn off, I haven't checked through everything yet)

Might remove it if I get some time over.
In the meanwhile doing Ctrl+F11 to toggle 100%/50% and you will skip the animation.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Reopening tabs issue in portable mode

« on: August 31, 2012, 19:02:20 »

Works for me..  Strange.

Check in the about menu that you really are in portable mode. So their is no mix up with the configuration files.

You can also send me your MultiCommaner.xml and ZFileManager.xml config file and I can try with them.. Might be some other setting that conflict with the "Save only path to local harddrive" setting , so that it fails.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Ultra slow file copy

« on: August 31, 2012, 13:39:04 »

Expand the Copy To dialog fully and click the "..." button that is to the right of the "Read/Write Strategy" dropdown

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Support and Feedback / Re: Ultra slow file copy

« on: August 31, 2012, 11:54:29 »

Exact what is best for you is hard to tell without the hardware and test. I only had real issue with USB Memory strick. never drives.
But since Normal work and Power does not.. enable all cache for power (or that ever profile it autoselects )

or set the same settings that you have under normal for the profile that is autoselected that drive.
A Normal Profile with the same settings as Power Profile will make the Power Profile act the the Normal profile

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Support and Feedback / Re: Backup/Restore Does not work after upgrade

« on: August 31, 2012, 11:49:51 »

Strange their should not be any problem upgrading. Only the default settings files are overwritten when upgrading but not if you are running in portable mode.

Verify if it really runs in portable mode. check the about box.  under  Menu > Help > About

In the Information box, does it says "Running in portable mode : Yes" 

If it does then the settings that are loaded are the one stored in the config/ in the folder that MultiCommander.exe is started from. Then copy the backup files here.

If is says "No" then the config file under "C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\MultiCommander\Config\" ( type ":goconfig" to go there ) is loaded.

If the backup settings file are configured for portable mode then you will have "<config global="1"> in the beginning of MultiCommander.xml
then even if it says "No" in the about box you can copy the backup file over to the config/ folder where MultiCommander.exe is, and then when you start it should say "Yes"

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Support and Feedback / Re: Slow mouse response

« on: August 31, 2012, 11:35:56 »

(I spitted the post into a new topic)

Rename is a bit weird in the mouse configuration. It does not fully work perfect when it is moving around among the buttons. It depends a bit on what action is on other buttons.

rename works best in "click and wait"
And in 'Click and wait' it will enter rename mode for an item after 0.5s. But only if then item was already selected and the mouse did not moved away from the file during that time.