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Beta Releases / Re: Multi Commander 6.9.1

« on: January 24, 2017, 14:13:24 »

Thanks for the replies guys.
I have been intermittently seeing column width changes since October/November last year.  I'm glad you have seen this column width issue Jungle - means it's not just me & my system!
I didn't think I should need to do tabs individually but this has been happening everytime I installed a new beta/new version & after MC has 'hung' whilst loading, so I have done it.

As to lag on MC opening causes -
I was thinking of a windows update or AV update not MC itself.

On both occasions this hang has happened MC wasn't the first thing I opened.  I had been using the browser for a bit, the PM is set to hi-perf so no drives should be asleep, no USB drives plugged in & empty opticals.

I wondered about corruption of the SSD but the drive software says says 100% green status & loads of life left...
 - Makes me think about a conflict caused by something blocking MC.

Have just rebooted & MC reloaded in less than 2 seconds - normal....  So the mystery continues!

177

Beta Releases / Re: Multi Commander 6.9.1

« on: January 24, 2017, 08:48:55 »

(w7x64, MC v6.9.1 b2306)

Twice out of 4 cold boots this week, when loading MC it has hung on 'reading MC config' for <90 seconds.   
It does complete loading & run but this stall is unusually long.  Splash screen is usually only visible for a second or 2.

The other thing I've noticed with the recent betas was that it randomly resets column width, I need to right click & restore.  I found a while ago I needed to save the setting as default for each tab & have done this many times.  It again resets width after this delay in loading.

MC is run as Admin & whitelisted but obviously something has changed since Saturday.

Any ideas on this & how to make default settings stick? Maybe something is corrupt & I need to edit the configs?

178

Support and Feedback / Re: select files from keyboard

« on: January 06, 2017, 14:08:44 »

Would using the Norton Commander keyboard hotkeys via the MC commander-style setup solve this for you?

179

Support and Feedback / Re: MC doesn't find phrases and sentences any more

« on: January 06, 2017, 14:00:49 »

Thanks for that info Mathias. 

Could MC be able to read pdf? (i.e if they have had OCR or input text contents.)
I'm curious to know if MC would see & use this http://www.pdflib.com/products/tet-pdf-ifilter/ if installed or is your search process totally discrete from Win search processes.
Thanks

180

Support and Feedback / Re: MC doesn't find phrases and sentences any more

« on: January 05, 2017, 13:46:27 »

Just tried on pdf & docx - & I did not find anything - This happens in both simple & advanced dialogs.
I normally use the content search for things like txt lua html xml etc so I hadn't noticed this behavior.

Do you remember in which build it stopped working for you?
Maybe there is some code for accessing these proprietary formats that is now unhooked?

(forgot to say I'm using admin rights & searching unprotected files.)

181

Support and Feedback / Re: MC doesn't find phrases and sentences any more

« on: January 03, 2017, 13:40:52 »

I got caught out by 'ignore case' (fall ignorien) not being checked by default (or being persistent if checked) in these newer builds, + setting dir depths to search.
Maybe that applies?

As I am so familiar with the old dialog, the new one has slapped me in the face 

182

Script / Re: Rename profiles accessed by MS?

« on: December 30, 2016, 13:23:22 »

Thanks Mathias! 
New Toys! It's like it's Xmas!  ...oh wait...

I will have some fun with these new commands.   

183

Script / Re: Rename profiles accessed by MS?

« on: December 28, 2016, 10:15:51 »

Sorry to ruin your Xmas break Mathias! 

Originally I wanted to call an existing rename profile (in the same way as a filter) with a MScript.  Couldn't see how to do that.  Filters have an ID to call but I have not found ID tags in the rename dialog & didn't dig deeper. 

Not all files contain all the same items I want to change.  Some have one character to change, others some or all.
I wasn't sure I could apply a single @var to this task.  I expected conflicts.
I concluded that with multiple possible case-sensitive rename actions, I needed to queue them discretely, so gave them different @vars.   
Would a Function concatenate multiple changes...?

As you know I like to cause headaches with MultiScript - I find it therapeutic.   

184

Beta Releases / Re: Multi Commander 6.5 BETA

« on: December 27, 2016, 18:36:57 »

Strange filter behavior

(Using b2303 w7x64)
I set up an advanced filter for folders >1mb made within the last 2 days, (In the file matching tab I have only the default entry of *).  See pic.
If folders have been size calculated the filter works but when I click 'show all' or enter *.* manually, I get nothing displayed in the pane.   
Using F5 or the 'refresh' icon does nothing.  I can only re-display the items in the pane by navigating away & then back.
Broken?

185

Script / Re: Rename profiles accessed by MS?

« on: December 25, 2016, 11:08:19 »

Thought I'd share my 'solution'.  I expect the MS wizards will know a better/optimal way, but this works for me on one or multiple files to clean up/replace  unwanted chars in filenames.

Code: [Select]

//Name cleanup

@var $arr1 = GetSourceSelectedPaths();
@var $items = arrayCount($arr1);
@var $CurrentNameFullPath;
@var $OrgName;
@var $NewName0;
@var $NewName1;
@var $NewName2;
@var $NewName3;
@var $NewName4;
@var $NewName5;
@var $n1;

for( $n1 = 0; $n1 < $items; $n1++ )
{
  $CurrentNameFullPath = $arr1[ $n1 ];
  $OrgName = PathGetNamePart( $CurrentNameFullPath );
  $NewName0 = StrReplace( $OrgName, "_ " , "-" );
  $NewName1 = StrReplace( $NewName0, " m" , " e " );
  $NewName2 = StrReplace( $NewName1, " r" , "R" );
  $NewName3 = StrReplace( $NewName2, " y" , " " );
  $NewName4 = StrReplace( $NewName3, " x" , "m" );
  $NewName5 = StrReplace( $NewName4, "a" , " s" );
 
  RenameFile( $CurrentNameFullPath, $NewName5, "SILENT" );
}



186

Script / Rename profiles accessed by MS?

« on: December 24, 2016, 16:27:43 »

I see that it is possible to use filters in MS now & maybe dreamed this also applied to rename profiles..?
So far I cannot find anything related to MS calling rename filters though.
Perhaps it is a 'to do'?
If not please point me in the right direction!

Meanwhile I will have to do it the old way,   

Merry Xmas

187

Beta Releases / Re: Multi Commander 6.5 BETA

« on: December 20, 2016, 16:45:59 »

The scripts are run in the same thread so the UI. so the control is not returned back to the UI until the script have finished.

Running the script in the background is possible. But it is not officially supported since you really need to understand threads and the issues with them and race condition.
For example If the script you have above was run in the background.  what would happen if you during the execution of the script moved focus to another tab or location ?
The GetTargetPath() would all of a sudden would to start to return a different path.

Ahaa.  That makes sense. Thanks for the info Mathias

188

Beta Releases / Re: Multi Commander 6.5 BETA

« on: December 19, 2016, 16:04:38 »

Thanks for the reply Mathias.

I only needed to Unhceck "Refresh tabs when application focus is returned to MC"  to match your suggestions. 
So far it has not randomly jumped again today. 
It started jumping about in folders containing mixed files & folders after I posted, the example I gave originally was files only in a nested folder.
This reminded me of something that had happened a few builds back that had been fixed.

This may be unrelated to the build but this is very noticeable also (it came & went a few builds back if you recall) - why would a script slow down folder navigation (hold focus) & can I do anything about it?
eg I have a script to rename & move a file.----

If I simply move the file I can immediately navigate away from the folder whilst the process occurs. 
Today I noticed that I must now wait until the copy/move op is completely finished before I can navigate away up the tree.

Is it the mix of MC custom command & script perhaps?
This is my button script:-

Code: [Select]

Log( 1, 10, "Renaming files to %%parent_folder_name%%[_N].*" );

@var $src_path = GetSourcePath();
@var $arr = PathGetParts( $src_path );
@var $name = $arr[0];
@var $prefix = StrReplace( PathGetPathPart( $src_path, 1 ), $name, "" );

@var $n = StrRFind( $prefix, "\\" );

if ( $n > 0 )
{
  $prefix = StrSub( $prefix, $n + 1, StrLen( $prefix ) - $n - 1 );

  @var $i;
  @var $s;
  @var $file;
  @var $files;

  $arr = GetSourceSelectedPaths();

  for ( $i = 0; $i < arrayCount( $arr ); $i++ )
  {
    $file = $arr[$i];
    $s = PathGetFileExtPart( $file );
    $name = $prefix + "*" + $s;

    $files = FindFiles( $src_path + $name );
    $n = arrayCount( $files );

    if ( $n == 0 )
    {
      $s = "";
    }
    else
    {
      if ( $n == 1 )
      {
        $s = $files[0]; 
        RenameFile( $s, StrReplace( $name, "*", "_0" ), "RENAME_RO" );
      }

      $s = "_" + numtostr( $n );
    }           

    RenameFile( $file, StrReplace( $name, "*", $s ), "RENAME_RO" );
  }
}
else
{
  Log( 1, 10, "It seems parent folder is root. Renaming impossible." );
}

// move

@var $arr1 = GetSourceSelectedPaths();
@var $items1 = arrayCount($arr1);
@var $MoveNameFullPath;
@var $targetPath;
@var $sourceFile;
@var $n1 = 0;

for( $n1 = 0; $n1 < $items1; $n1++ )
{
  $MoveNameFullPath = $arr1[ $n1 ];
  $targetPath = GetTargetPath();
  $sourceFile = $MoveNameFullPath;
 
  MoveFile( $targetPath, $sourceFile, "NODIALOG");
 
}

189

Beta Releases / Re: Multi Commander 6.5 BETA

« on: December 18, 2016, 15:02:08 »

Just updated to b2301 & my weird selection thing  (http://forum.multicommander.com/forum/index.php/topic,1877.0.html) has returned.

There is one other odd thing that seems to be happening - when clicking back - MC normally goes to the last selected file/folder, now it might decide to go up a level to the root above instead. 
Think this has happened 5 times out of 10 today from the same folder with <200 files to one above with >100 folders - not very clear as to why.  It is the same folder that is generating my selection problem though. 

190

Beta Releases / Re: Multi Commander 6.5 BETA

« on: December 12, 2016, 13:36:20 »

Thanks Mathias.  I will try defining an advanced filter.
I have a MS mouse & although I do not use the feature it has 'gesture' capability & I wondered if it somehow was being called when MC is active for some reason.  So I am going to mess with drivers for a bit

Im not sure how the gesture thing works.. I don't think so..

Realized that I should probably have posted these msgs in the other thread

I spent some time with the MS drivers & with this latest 2299 build & different intellipoint drivers the problem has gone away.  Hopefully it is *fixed* now!
I can now get back to causing trouble with the MC scripting 

191

Beta Releases / Re: Multi Commander 6.5 BETA

« on: December 10, 2016, 11:40:40 »

Thanks Mathias.  I will try defining an advanced filter.
I have a MS mouse & although I do not use the feature it has 'gesture' capability & I wondered if it somehow was being called when MC is active for some reason.  So I am going to mess with drivers for a bit

192

Beta Releases / Re: Multi Commander 6.5 BETA

« on: December 09, 2016, 23:08:03 »

Seems my random selection issue is back since installing b2294 re:-
http://forum.multicommander.com/forum/index.php/topic,1877.msg7080.html#msg7080
--tripped me up a quite few times today.   
Seems to follow the mouse some of the time.  I.e. if I sweep the mouse up & select, the selection will be rising in a block to the clicked item, & mouse moving down & clicking selects randomly above clicked item.  This is without using <shift> or <ctrl>.
Not always the case though as I had the selection of every file above the clicked item a few times.  I cannot pin down a pattern, but it happens...    maybe I need to delete the mouse driver & see what happens.

I wondered ref. the quick filter box (bottom right of pane), is there is a way to enter "-" as I can only use it as an exclude modifier?
I can always run a rename first & after but had sto ask

Thanks for the update Mathias

193

Script / Re: Extract text & save to file?

« on: November 29, 2016, 16:00:07 »

So far I have been using the GUI with the search & filter functions & using <ctrl+p> to get my paths when needed; I can use MDV to review the files themselves.

Thanks for the advice Mathias 
FindFiles will give me an array of files I can then run a regex on. 
I should be able to pass that result to the SaveStringToFile function.  That certainly has to be at least as quick as what I'm doing via the GUI. 
The trick will be to move it along a few steps to get the 'finished product'.  I will experiment & see if I can produce something that completes some of the steps more quickly than I can do it via the GUI.  Then I can start to look at the other aspects.

Quite a few possibilities are present but require a bit more code than powershell by the look of it


For those who want this kind of functionality *now!* I've found a nice freeware util that does it & more  -
http://prgrep.com/?lng=en  PRGrep

194

Script / Re: Extract text & save to file?

« on: November 28, 2016, 12:36:58 »

OK Thanks Mathias.
I will have to look at how to break up the operation - maybe that would be the best way to get the 'features' I want.
A few smaller scripts that I can run to get certain results could work.

In any case, I cannot live without <ctrl+p> now! 

I did find something which appears to do the job I want but is more complex/heavy than I need- it is an interesting bit of coding tho
https://www.binarymark.com/products/batchregex

Maybe I should try Powershell
This would appear to be the right basis for what I want

Code: [Select]

Param (
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
   [string] $FullyQualifiedPath
)

#Note: Make sure the following path is outside those being searched!
$OutputFile = "G:\Test\Results\BegEndResults.txt"  #Adjust as needed

$Pat1 = [regex] '(Begin)*(End)'  #Adjust tags between () as appropriate

Remove-Item "$OutputFile"

Get-ChildItem -Path "$FullyQualifiedPath" |

Get-Content  | Select-String -Pattern $Pat1 -AllMatches >> "$OutputFile"

195

Script / Extract text & save to file?

« on: November 27, 2016, 17:24:52 »

I wondered if I could make a script to search for files containing a string & output the found lines to a text file or clipboard.

I can see that the search & filter functions will find the file content but is it possible to grab the found lines & output them?

SaveStringToFile could be used to output the result but defining the str + parameters & deciding what to output is potentially a bit more complex. 
If I wanted to find any line that included a word or phrase, & output that whole line, can I do it or should I be looking at more complex tools?
e.g.
I want any line with 'cat'
I have a file with this content

Code: [Select]

the frog sat on the mat
the cat sat on the mat
the dog sat on the mat
the fox sat on the matthe result output should be :- the cat sat on the mat
I assume I can use LF or CRLF to define lines or punctuation such as a full-stop to flag 'whole' lines.

I also like these options:-

• save string(s) as list
• save string list including filename (or name & path)
• save string(s) from multiple files as list
• Output list to clipboard

Hope that makes sense.
This may be too much for a MC script, but I'd like to play around with writing it if it is possible 

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Beta Releases / Re: Multi Commander 6.5 BETA

« on: November 27, 2016, 17:05:11 »

TabSessions will be useful.  Quite a lot for me to play with. 
 Thanks Mathias

197

Beta Releases / Re: Multi Commander 6.5 BETA - other

« on: November 19, 2016, 11:39:24 »

Selection bug - I guess this would have started around 6.4.6 or .7, I know in .8 it had improved a lot & in this build it has happened only twice (with daily use).
When it first started I thought it might have been the mouse / overlay as it sometimes would appear to select from the mouse cursor position on screen.  But as it only occurs in MC when items are being block selected & moved I thought it may be something related to these  changes: -

Release v6.4.6 (Build 2246) ( 16-Aug-2016 )
FIXED - Start with a ExplorerPanel showing the root of REG: now works again
FIXED - Items sometimes got selected when activating application.
FIXED - Focus was sometimes lost if focus was changed during filesystem scan
FIXED - Crash that could happen if item was removed after filesystem scan, But before UI had refreshed.
FIXED - 1 stability issue

As I said it is very random but is now not occurring several times per day.

Thanks for looking into it 

198

Beta Releases / Re: Multi Commander 6.5 BETA - other

« on: November 16, 2016, 13:25:41 »

Thanks Mathias.  Sorry for posting in wrong place. As I am always using the latest build I lose track of which issues belong to normal or beta & just try to report them when I get opportunity 

It appears all my 'hangs' whilst processing copy/move instructions went away.
Win7 just did a bunch of updates incl. some dotNET package stuff - maybe MS was the real culprit!  [As if that was ever not the case    ]

199

Beta Releases / Multi Commander 6.5 BETA - other

« on: November 14, 2016, 13:16:31 »

Thanks for the reply Mathias.  I am using b2282 - that is the most recent isn't it?

The selection bug-this is difficult to explain, it had occurred a while back and then in a recent release what I believed it to be was listed in the list of fixes & the problem 99% went away. I now cannot find the update list which included this fixed description.   

Basically if you selected one or more files within a group and then moved/copied them to the opposite pane, selecting another block of files would often start from a random point in the collection of files.  This happened between dirs on the same physical disk+partition. (Maybe this is related to the delay in the 'grab focus thing?  All my disks say 100% okay & the FATs etc pass windows checkdisk tho...)

The focus of the last highlighted file would somehow randomly move so that a select+shift could start in a random location and a random selection of files would be highlighted for the next operation.  I suspected that the mouse cursor + overlay was involved. Difficult to explain it without videoing it.  It did occur once yesterday on a directory with a hundred files present.
E.g.
I select 10 files from a folder holding 100 files, I move these 10 files to the opposite pane;
I have highlighted another file as the copying operation occurs, I press shift and select the last file hi-lighting a new block;
the highlight grabs a random block which ends with my end selection click.
So the hi-lite selection grabs extra/different files

Code: [Select]

1
2-hi-lite
3-hi-lite
4-click
5-shift
6-shift
7-shift
8-shift
9-shift
10-shift+click - hi-lite
11
12
13
14
15
16
This could be really crazy sometimes adding dozens of extra files to the next operation.  Sometimes the selection would extend into off-screen area that could only be seen by using the scroll bar.  It wasn't really frequent & I couldn't decide how to describe it ....  then you seemed to fix it.
But maybe you meant something different & my PC is just trying to make my head explode...

Grab focus-normally whilst the copy or move operation occurs I can select something else and begin or queue another operation from another dir.  Moving out of the current dir, whilst the initial op commences, now delays.
I must wait and MC will enter a 'not responding' state if I click 'up' to move up the tree, whilst it begins the copy or move operation.
I had wondered if this was due to the USB drives that I copied some items to but these are USB 3.0 drives on the USB 3.0 socket & it also happens between SATA hard disks within the system.
So I mean it is grabbing focus as it starts a function and this is preventing me from clicking on/doing anything else.

I have been resetting column width and then setting as default. But I maybe hadn't clicked save as default since installing the last beta ...I thought I had! 
I have now it seems to be okay!

OK on the Find switch/functionalities, I can wait  & use regex etc so it's not life-threatening (yet!)

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Beta Releases / Re: Multi Commander 6.5 BETA

« on: November 13, 2016, 11:25:23 »

Using multi-commander 6.5 build 2282 x64 (w7 x64), I have noticed a couple of things that seem worth mentioning:-

I've noticed that the column settings often change widths within my open/saved tab selections & I need to use the restore columns right-click function after a system restart or MC restart.

The strange selection bug is very rare now but will still occasionally manifest if I have a folder of more than 400 files and complete some operations like move delete copy rename etc between selections.

I find the move copy function seems to grab focus more than previously.
E.g. if I set a file to copy to a USB stick I could previously click to return back up the hierarchy of folders and initiate further move/copy operations which then would be queued from different folders.
If I try that now I find MC will to some extent 'hang', & although it will always recovers it takes time to make the transition between folders & to queuing further commands.
Previously MC would change dirs & queue as fast as i clicked through them. (I am using a no dialog command in a button for the move/copy ops.  Don't know if that may be relevant.)

I notice on the Find dialogue that the old setting for search within results is no longer present. I'm guessing that it can in most instances be replaced with a Regex, but is there any likelihood that that switch will be returning?

I haven't looked too closely at the script/internal commands relating to the new Find Filters yet.    But  I wondered if I could assign a MC command or script a button to use a find preset & then use that as a selection to be assigned to a following operation.
E.g.  Find <filter selection preset> & move selection to opposite pane.

Thanks your continued efforts on this Mathias - always lots of great things in MC!