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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: problem with text speed in manager

« on: May 16, 2012, 09:08:41 »

I found a problem with text appearing in text box which you can find above the "Name" column in both panels. It is in grey or blue colour depends on which panel is currently focused. When I change a directory (this happens very quickly) I expected that text will change very quickly as well but sometimes it takes one or one and half second. It is very strange and I don't know why it happens. Thanks for your answer.

The "Current Path Field" ?

It is kind of by design. It is only updated if the new location is browsed and updated successfully an if the file system is slow or computer very busy/slow it can be a minor lag.

Might be possible to optimized it a bit and make the lag a bit smaller.

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Blog post comments / Re: [Blog Post] - An Early Look - Quick Launch Bar

« on: May 16, 2012, 08:59:22 »

How about passing the selected files from both panels so that 'Comparison' programs like "WinMerge" can be called with both files as parameters.

That would be a weird UI behavior. If it even would be possible to implement in a good way. But I agree with Jungle, That would work better as a script.

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Context menu on drive buttons

« on: May 16, 2012, 08:50:46 »

The background for the standard windows control will use the windows defined colors.. So if you change that color in windows
(win7) Personalization -> WIndows Color and Apperance > Advanced apperance settings..

It will change. It will also change in ALL the programs you run.

I do plan to include option to customize and override the default color. But that might not be in next version. More important things to fix first.


But the color for the panel focus can be change

Menu > Configuration > Core Settings
  Frame color of active panel

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Support and Feedback / Re: Problem with connection to SFTP server

« on: May 16, 2012, 08:44:40 »

Sorry
There is no plugin like that available yet. And plugins for other file managers be used in MC.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Customization

« on: May 16, 2012, 07:03:12 »

1/2/3 - The toolbars can be customized.
4 - You mean the right click menu that you see in Windows Explorer  ? that is configured in Explorer Panel Settings > mouse configuration. Change right button to shell context menu
5 - Strange That is not any of the default color option. Hm munless you have strange color options defined in windows it self.
anywhy colors is configured in  Explorer Panel Settings > Colors
6 - Menu > Configuration > Keyboard customization > Export to file
7 - Not possible. why, what problem does it give

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Support and Feedback / Re: Right-click "New" menu options

« on: May 16, 2012, 06:56:00 »

It does not work.

But only in the folder tree, The normal view works.

But it will be fixed in next version.

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Blog post comments / Re: [Blog Post] - An Early Look - Quick Launch Bar

« on: May 15, 2012, 18:38:07 »

I have not decided how that should be handled yet.

There are three way to handle that. Open an instance of the program for every dropped file or send all files as parameters to the program or only accept the first of the dropped files.

Most program does not support opening multiple files. For example try dragging two files and dropping on Notepad then notepad will not open any of them.

I thinking that there need to be an option on the launch item where it can be configured how that item should handle multiple dropped files.

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Blog post comments / [Blog Post] - An Early Look - Quick Launch Bar

« on: May 15, 2012, 18:02:28 »

An Early Look - Quick Launch Bar

Comments for the blog post should be posted here in the forum topic

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Support and Feedback / Re: Right-click "New" menu options - New Folder not working

« on: May 15, 2012, 14:16:06 »

Using V2.1.1 64bit Build 1045

Problem- When I right click on an existing folder New Folder not working - refer to attached image

Ahh I see now. There a problem with new folder when it is selected from the folder tree. If you do it in the list pane it works.

I will put it on the list to fix for next version.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Problem with connection to SFTP server

« on: May 15, 2012, 14:09:44 »

SFTP is not support (yet).

SFTP is SSH File Transfer Protocol. And Actually does not have much do to with regular FTP.

FTP-SSL/TLS is something completely different. it is normal FTP that are using SSL/TLS

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Hide the splash screen.

« on: May 15, 2012, 14:05:56 »

Maybe.. Is there a problem with it ?

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Context menu on drive buttons

« on: May 15, 2012, 14:03:44 »

There is no configuration for that.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Customisation

« on: May 14, 2012, 15:57:33 »

The default size of the column is stored in the [Default] ColumnSet.

Add all columns and modify the size to fit your need then right click on the column header and select "Customize Column Set..."

Select "[Default]" and under the list of columns you have a "Copy columns from " a dropdown list. Select "[Current Column Setup]" , Press OK..
and then press Save Changes.

Your current column layout and sizes have now been copied to the [Default] column set

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Script / Re: _FindFirstFile strange behaviour

« on: May 14, 2012, 15:49:52 »

I have not tried yet, but i wonder wheter it is possible to use do...while loop.

No Do-While is not supported. And I kind of skipped that because it is not necessary, You can do most thing with the for and while loops. But it would be nice to have. But adding new core function like Do-While to the script engine is time consuming because it is so easy to break the code and it also require so must testing.
I do have a lot of automated tests for the script engine but even so cost of time is to great at the moment There are a lot of other features that are more importent.

However adding library functions (like _FindFirstFile, and other function that are not part of the core language) to the script language is cheap.

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Script / Re: _FindFirstFile strange behaviour

« on: May 14, 2012, 14:50:07 »

_findfirstfile match by using a wildcard filter. So when using exact name it fails so it is a bug.

Anohter The "Problem" with _FindFirstFile is that it only support local file system. I was planing to add so that used the virtual filesystem layer in MC. So that all file systems that is supported in MC could be used.. Like Ftp, Zip, and so on. But I never got the time.

Thats wait it also is missing from the online doc. But I will add it to the documentation. and fix the pattern matching issue.

I have a couple of script issue Im planing on fixing soon, So if there is any script functions you are missing let me know.

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Script / Re: Create emty text file

« on: May 14, 2012, 12:51:38 »

Unfortunately I do not think there is a way I set the file into rename mode after that.

Calling one of the internal commands from script would solve that. I been planing to add something like that. I will see if I can add that in the next version.

If you just want to create an empty file you can also write "cf <filename>" in the commandline field. Then an empty file with the given name is created in the current location.

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Context menu on drive buttons

« on: May 14, 2012, 12:46:10 »

Showing the shell context menu when right clicking on drive button is something that I have on my list.

If I get the time I will included it into the next version.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Bug? in "Store script in external script file" option

« on: May 14, 2012, 12:44:36 »

That have worked before, I will check and fix that.

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Delete Files - Thoroughly

« on: May 11, 2012, 23:04:03 »

I don't know exactly what problem DelInvFile fixes.

Multi Commander do support extra long path in most places.  up to around 4096 characters in most places and up to 32000+ in some other.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Customisation

« on: May 11, 2012, 20:01:44 »

By the way, tooltips for these items look strange.

Yes the tooltip are strange. They are referring to text item in the language files that does not exists.

I will fix that

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Support and Feedback / Re: Customisation

« on: May 11, 2012, 19:58:54 »

Why did I not just attach a working config definition file to my post.. hehe

Sure.. here it is.. replace this file with the one that is installed and it should work

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Support and Feedback / Re: Customisation

« on: May 11, 2012, 19:55:13 »

Yes it is the settings panel that has a bug. There is a way to fix it manually-

Edit "<mc install location>\Config\ZFileManager_def.xml"

At around line 145 you see


      <item type="chk" key="layout/customdatetimeformat" attribute="value" default="0" text="#s382">
        <item type="edit" key="layout/customdateformat" attribute="value" default="yyyy-MM-dd" tooltip="#s383" />
        <item type="edit" key="layout/customtimeformat" attribute="value" default="HH:mm" tooltip="#s384"  />
      </item>


Change that into

      <item type="chk" key="layout/customdatetimeformat" attribute="value" default="0" text="#s382">
        <item type="edit2" key="layout/customdateformat" attribute="value" default="yyyy-MM-dd" tooltip="#s383" />
        <item type="edit2" key="layout/customtimeformat" attribute="value" default="HH:mm" tooltip="#s384"  />
      </item>

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Support and Feedback / Re: Customisation

« on: May 11, 2012, 19:33:55 »

Indeed, custom datetime format is not applied.

1. No changes are made to ZFileManager.xml file when saving settings.
2. If values are changed manually by some editor, then they are loaded and displayed in settings page, but have no effect in Explorer panel.

So the only visible effect is when you enable/disable "Use custom date and time format" option. But most probably only default hardcoded custom format is used.

There are no hardcoded format. by default is uses the same format that is defined by Windows, and that is depended on your regional settings in Windows.

But there is some issue here.. I think it is the settings panel that does not trigger that the edit field has changed.

But If you edit (zfilemanger.xml) it manually it works (xml tag "customdateformat" and "customtimeformat".)  just make sure that the option "use custom date and time format" ("customdatetimeformat") is also active. else it will not try to load it

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Support and Feedback / Re: Customisation

« on: May 11, 2012, 16:42:42 »

Sir, I went to Use Custom date and time format option. It showed checked and has only two sub-options. yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm which are fixed. There is no option to add or replace or delete them. Tell me how do I change to d/M/yy H:mm.

Double Click in the "yyyy-MM-dd" field and it will enters edit mode, and you can modify it

Check following link on how the date and time format should be written

Date Format
Time Format

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Support and Feedback / Re: What's Recommended HotKey method

« on: May 11, 2012, 13:51:36 »

I don't think it is possible to change in windows what program should be opened when you press WIN+E

You need some hotkey program that override the default behavior of Windows.

I never used it myself but I think you should be able to do it with AutoHotKey