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4026

Beta Releases / Re: 2.1 Beta - Changes

« on: March 28, 2012, 19:19:40 »

Beta Build 1015 - 22-March-2012

  FIXED - Some large icons was missing and has been added.
  FIXED - Suggested source folder when unpacking a tar.gz file was wrong. So instead of unpacking into a folder it would unpack into a new .tar instead
  FIXED - Problem with adding files to a tar archive if the file name was very long.
  FIXED - Problem going to ".." when located in a server share ( "\\server\share\" )
  FIXED - Problem restoring Multi Commander from tray if it was maximized before it was minimized to tray.
  FIXED - Even if the option for remember selection was disabled. It remembered them in some situation.
  FIXED - Better error handling on FTP when uploading a file that already exists.
  FIXED - tar.bz2 files can now be aborted and/or paused when being unpacked.
  ADDED - Quick search now support substring matching.

4027

Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: midfilenamequick search

« on: March 24, 2012, 12:12:10 »

I don't know whether it is a bug or by design: with 'Search for text parts anywhere' enabled first symbol in search field can not be deleted.

It is a bug.. I will fix that.

4028

Support and Feedback / Re: mouse file select / activate

« on: March 22, 2012, 12:06:26 »

Just to be clear.

You want to be able to have

LMB - Open file / Open Folder
RMB - Context Menu
LMB + Ctrl - File Selection

Will check if that can be added without interfere with other setups.

4029

Support and Feedback / Re: selection reset on folder change?

« on: March 19, 2012, 11:24:16 »

There is a bug with the reset filter, In some situation it does not reset.. but this will be fix in the next beta.

quick search using substring matching will also be in next beta.. Multicolumn ( list mode ) will not.  But it is being worked but will not be ready until v2.2

4030

Beta Releases / Re: 2.1.0 bugs/wrong behaviour

« on: March 19, 2012, 07:43:04 »

1. Disabled option 'Remember selected files/folders' works only for same level folders. Example.

Code: [Select]

..
[folder1]
[folder2]
file1.ext1
file2.ext2If you select some items, then go to folder1 or folder2 and then come back, selection is cleared. But if you go to parent folder or other folder via command (address) line and then return, selection remains.

Okey. Will take a look at that

2. Changing keys for 'Go to top'/'Go to bottom' has side effect. I set Shift+Alt+T, Shift+Alt+B respectively and when i press them i not only go to top/bottom but also get files/folders selected. (I have Commander Look'n'Feel enabled)

If the settings "Auto check files and folder when multiselecting" is on it will do a "Range selection" when navigating if shift key is press down. Try pressing Shift+Arrow up or shift+pageup.
Recommended key for move to first/last is the left and right arrow keys. I was thinking on maybe making it default. but for now they need to be configured if they should be used.

3. It seems that Option 'Icon size' has no translation string.

Will Fix

4. It is impossible to go to parent folder of a remote share via 'Enter' key or DoubleClick. Example.
I go to '\\Computer'. There are 2 shared folders: [Folder1] and [Folder2]. If i go to e.g. [Folder1], then i can't go back by pressing 'Enter' or Double clicking on [..]. I can return only by pressing 'Backspace' key

Will look into this

5. Language export. I've just noticed that language files for extensions are placed in Config subfolder of each Extension folder inside exported archive. So simple unpacking probably is not the right thing to do. Why not keep original structure?

The layout is how it is stored for me internally to match the build process (and source control). I just unpack it into the project folder and all files are where they should be.
---

Btw, why do color settings for Folder tree differs from ones for File List?

Normally it should. . But it can also depend on the color setup. FolderTree does not suppot every color setup that the list part has.
So without a example I can not tell if it is a restriction in the folder tree or a bug.

4031

Support and Feedback / Re: selection reset on folder change?

« on: March 17, 2012, 16:35:50 »

In the beta for 2.1 this is now possible to disable so it does not remember selections

4032

Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Left & Right arrows navigation

« on: March 17, 2012, 16:30:22 »

In Beta build 1011 it is now possible to configure Go to top / Go to bottom commands.

* Keyboard customization
* under Module select Explorer Panel and under category select "module specific command"
* At the bottom you find two commands that you can configure and assign the left/right arrow key to

4033

Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: the left mouse button context menu

« on: March 17, 2012, 16:22:28 »

You can configure the right mouse button to show that menu

Menu > File > Configuration > Explorer Panel Settings > Mouse Configurations (Tab)

a Bit down there is a category named "Extended Mouse Configuration"
If you change the "Drag files using right mouse button"  then you will receive a popup menu when you drop item where you can select copy/move

Icon/Tile view is not support and will not be for a while. However List mode is is being worked on

4034

Beta Releases / Re: 2.1 Beta - Changes

« on: March 17, 2012, 16:18:44 »

Build 1011 - 17-March-2012

  ADDED - Can now customize what keys to use for moving focus to first and last item in the explorer panel.
  ADDED - Can now customize what key to use to move input focus to the commandline field.
  ADDED - Added support for showing Large icons. (Large icons in the FolderTree not yet supported)
  ADDED - If Viewing an picture and pressing Ctrl+C the picture will be copied to the clipboard.
  ADDED - If needed, It will ask the user if it should enabled linked connections.
  ADDED - NEW Language support : Dutch - Created by Hans Niesten
  ADDED - NEW Language support : Czech - Created by PetRip
  FIXED - When running with only allow a single instance, did not work as expected if it was minimized.
  FIXED - Operator += now works with arrays in MultiScripts. ( eg "$res = $arr[$d] + "Append" )
  FIXED - MultiScript function CopyFile now works better.
  FIXED - Fixed problem when unpacking tar.gz files that had a path that started with ".\"
  FIXED - Problem when showing the button editor and then other dialog was shown under that window.
  FIXED - 3 more rare crash situations that was reported by crash reports.

4035

Beta Releases / 2.1 Beta - Changes

« on: March 17, 2012, 16:18:13 »

Build 1005

  ADDED - Settings to turn off the feature that remember selected files/folders when returning to previous path.
  ADDED - Can now choose to not separate files and folder when sorting.
  ADDED - Multi Commander can now be configured to only start a single instance.
  ADDED - Multi Commander can now be minimized to a tray icon.
  ADDED - Create Link tool can now create shortcut files (.lnk)
  ADDED - Shared folder overlay icon is now shown even if you are not running on XP
  ADDED - View Filter can now be configured to reset itself when going to a new path.
  ADDED - View Filter can now be configured to restore the view filter you had before leaving the path.
  FIXED - Problem with error handling with MultiRename.
  FIXED - Problem when openening the CheckSum Extension from the context menu on the tabarea.
  FIXED - Quick search field now accept keypad number keys.
  FIXED - Problem with natural sorting.
  FIXED - Shortcut files (.lnk) will now show the icon of the target of the link.
  FIXED - PackFiles will now use the autoclose settings.
  FIXED - Problem when showing some child dialogs from Button editor.
  FIXED - Dragging files/folder to the folder tree will now show the correct drag/drop action. (Copy/Move)
  FIXED - A couple of rare situation that could cause a crash.
  FIXED - A couple of minor memory leaks
  FIXED - 4 Crash situations reported by crash reports.

4036

Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Aliases for Opening Pairs of tabs, List View and Single Click

« on: March 07, 2012, 20:07:36 »

However, I'll wait till Listview and single click command are implemented for starting out giving a serious try to your program and spreading the word about this great free product.

Kind regards.

Single click is also there since v1.1.1

4037

Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Aliases for Opening Pairs of tabs, List View and Single Click

« on: March 07, 2012, 16:27:37 »

Okey. I get it now.

Able to set the path of both the left and right panel from one command.
I see how that can be useful.

I will be there in the NEXT RELEASE.

- Mathias

Hi, buddy.

My heartfelt thank you for your dev efforts.

I know you sure have other priorities, but next is never coming next, even after so long... Is that so difficult or troublesome to implement? This suggested feature implementation, together with Listview for folders/files, is a real must, IMHO, and also maybe for other users as well. A real pity indeed you haven't done this yet. As a free product, I would highly recommend your file manager to users who can't spend some bucks on shareware if it had these functionalities and perhaps contribute with some volunteer translation.

Regards.

Changing both left and right panel with one command has been there since v1.1.1 (25-july-11)

Create a user defined command of "Custom Command" type

MC.Explorer.Goto LEFT="C:\" RIGHT="D:\"

And then assign it to a menu/hotkey or alias

However Listview is not easy to fix. actually it is very hard since everything right now is assuming that you only got one file item per row.
But it is high up on my list and some prototyping to test some ideas with it has started.

4038

Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: not opening all selected

« on: March 07, 2012, 13:39:07 »

If you have multiple files selected and selecting to execute them (pressing return) or some other option that will make windows open them or do something with them. What should happen?

And that is not an easy question to answer. It actually depends on the situation and user.

If you got pictures select and you press enter.. (And you do not have any special opened action is defined for picture files inside MC) then the execute action will be sent to windows and depending on what you got installed different things will happen.. You might get one instance of a picture viewer that will toggle between all the selected files or you might get multiple instances for every selected file.

If i select 200 mp3 files.. and press enter I will not get 200 instances on WinAmp.. I get one instances but all the selected files are queued in WinAmp.

I tried to keep the same for the rules for launching multiple selected files that Windows Explorer has.

However I can see how it can be a problem in some situation.

I do not think executing multiple items should be disabled, since it is used a lot. and even Windows Explorer support it is users expect it to work.
But maybe there needs to be an option to disable it. and/or an option to ask user what to do if more then X files are selected.
or some other option.

I will put it in my list of issues to find solution for.

4039

Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: replace all & auto rename all

« on: March 07, 2012, 13:16:23 »

1) a quick shortcut to replace all files. Example: i just downsampled a lot of images and now I want to overwrite them. I do F6, Enter, and then I get the overwrite question. Would be great if every one of those buttons would have a little hotkey. For example I'd do "F6, Enter, (alt?)l" sequence very fast knowing that would quickly select replace-all. Since this is done often I think this would speed up the workflow in MC.

There should be accelerator shotcuts already .. but after looking now it looks like they are gone.
Accelerator shotcut are when you see "Replace" and the character that is underlined is the shortcut for the button. You often see this shortcuts in menus and dialog.
I will put them back..

2) one button that I think is missing there is Auto-rename and Auto Rename All. In cases like this with tens of files in case you know they just all happened to have been numbered in a generic way like 1, 2, 3, 4, .... by the camera it would be nice to have the option to autorename them with one click. For example then if there are two 1 images the new one would become 1a or something like that

The entire "Overwrite" dialog is on my list of thinks that need a complete redesign. Because if I add all the options one can have there you end up with 15-20 buttons. and that is UI hell. That dialog need to be smarter some way. However there are some auto rename think in MC. But right now I do not remember when it is triggered. Will have to look it up.

Oh, and that reminds me, maybe it's changed since then, but would also be nice to have an all as administrator in case it's needed. I haven't needed this recently so maybe the issue is gone but I remember a while ago I was deleting stuff from a mobile hdd and for every single file it would ask me if I want to do it as administrator and go into that authorization mode.

Under Core Settings there is a "Run as Administror Mode" category
Make sure "Auto retry as admin" is on. Then it should not ask to retry as admin, it just do that automaticcly . (Well depend on in what situation it is and what it is doing)
If it still asks to many times. give me a situation where it fails and I will see if I can fix it.

4040

Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: double click on Whitespace

« on: March 06, 2012, 17:10:58 »

= Can't find the tree view though screenshots suggest it exists - perhaps mention it in the documentation?

To show the FolderTree view you press then first icon to the right of where free space is shown.
Also ALT+Num* will toggle the FolderTree

= What I really would love is that double-clicking in white space in explorer view would navigate up one level in the path.

I will see if it is possible to add an configuration option for that.

4041

Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: filtering + folders

« on: March 06, 2012, 14:36:29 »

Yes.. "/" Used to be for folder specific filter. And for exclude it still works "-/FolderToExclude"
"!" is used for Date filtering  !today , -!today , !YYYY-MM-DD , -!YYYY-MM-DD

But /folderfilter has some problem. and are disabled. I will see if I can get it fixed.

4042

Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: current file: marking and size

« on: March 06, 2012, 12:08:26 »

hey, thank you. I couldn't find there to set a focused color background change, am I missing something? Would still be nice to have a bolded stroke around the currently focused file. Another idea would be how about having a black rectangle near it on the (center or both) panel border to make it clear that's where you're focused now. Also the ability to maybe have a focused font would be nice, like say when you have it selected it goes a little bit bold. For an even more dynamic visual effect the current file could have a 20% fade of color say into white and back, all very slowly, say looping in 5 seconds. Just some humble proposals to make the focused file more obvious.

Nice ideas, However I don't understand The black rectangle idea.
I might put some of the on my list of things to add.

However..

Adding style options is not an irrelevant task because some option might work in some situation on in some not.
A already had to remove some option because it was to easy to set option that was in conflict of each other and you got a weird behavior.

A lot of settings can be nice. But It can quickly become to much and it can easily become to hard to configure it.

In the beginning there was the possibility to almost configure everything, but the configuration look crazy.
You had  Normal, Focus, Checked , Selected , Checked and Selected, Checked and in Focus, Selected and in Focus , Checked and Selected and in focus
for both files and folders.
And then we got Text color, Background colors, Font, Font Style, font size.

5 settings per 8 state for both files and folder. Thats 80 settings options. And then I'm not counting all the other options there was like border settings, different colors if panel is in focus or not. and so on..

It was to much, There need to be a balance and also a lot of testing for all the style new options that are added so all conflicting situations are tested.

4043

Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: current file: marking and size

« on: March 06, 2012, 11:45:18 »

Explorer Panel Settings -> Color tab.

Make sure "Use file specified background colors" and "Use folder specified background colors" are checked.

Then for the "Focus" item under files and folders you can change the background for that item.

4044

Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: filtering + folders

« on: March 06, 2012, 11:42:38 »

/ Used to work. But had to be disabled because of some weird conflicts in some situations

4045

Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Left & Right arrows navigation

« on: March 06, 2012, 11:18:45 »

So you want to be able to go to top/end of the list with Left/Right arrow keys.

Sound like something that should be easy to add as an option to the keyboard configuration.. I will put it on the list.

4046

Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: filtering + folders

« on: March 06, 2012, 11:14:51 »

In the latest beta (Build 1005) there are a settings that will make it reset the filtering to *.* when you change path.
and one that will restore the filter when you return to a folder you previously had set a filter on.

4047

Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: midfilenamequick search

« on: March 06, 2012, 11:12:00 »

Good idea. I will see if this can be added


The view filter (CTRL+F) does already support substring matching. So you can use that until quicksearch can support it.

4048

Support and Feedback / Re: MUITICOMMANDER support relative path?

« on: March 05, 2012, 13:50:24 »

Yes.

Just make sure the path to program you enter is a correct relative path. relative to the installation folder of Multi Commander.

Eg
MultiCommander is installed in E:\MCPortable\
You got Notepad++ in E:\Bin\Notepad++\Notepad++.exe

Then call notepad++.exe using a relative path like
"..\Bin\Notepad++\Notepad++.exe"

For example if using "custom commands" for the button and you want the program to get the file in focus as a parameter

Code: [Select]

MC.Run CMD="..\Bin\Notepad++\notepad++.exe" ARG="${focusfilepath}"

4049

Support and Feedback / Re: dragging to folder tree

« on: February 28, 2012, 21:47:56 »

You are correct.

I will try to have that fixed until next release.

4050

Support and Feedback / Re: Not connected networkshares do not show in Multicommander

« on: February 26, 2012, 16:41:37 »

Ahh I see..

That is because of how Windows work. and because of the security in Windows.

If you logon with as a standard user but are member of local administrator group. Then you will have two (2) access tokens for your account.
And connected networks share are associated with the access token for your standard login account so when a program starts as administrator the second 'admin' access token is used. So a program running as administrator will not have the same access to the network connection.

It work like that because of security reasons in Windows.

Read more at Microsoft KB 937624

You can however enable Linked Connections so that program that runs as administrator will have the same access as program run as normal user.

• Click Start, type regedit in the Start Search box, and then press Enter.
• Locate and then right-click the following registry subkey:
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
• Point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
• Type EnableLinkedConnections, and then press Enter.
• Right-click EnableLinkedConnections, and then click Modify.
• In the Value data box, type 1, and then click OK.
• Exit Registry Editor, and then restart the computer.