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Support and Feedback / Re: Milliseconds & Autosize Columns Problems

« on: December 07, 2013, 10:15:09 »

1. Can not add symbol for milliseconds to custom time format since this is using built in time formating in Windows and it does not support milliseconds.

2. Resize the column to fit you size and select to "Set current layout as default" then you new sizes and layout will be used as default.
  Or go into customize and change it there.

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Support and Feedback / Re: mouse pointer

« on: December 03, 2013, 07:31:02 »

I'm not able to recreate that and I do not know why that would happen.

2978

Support and Feedback / Re: CreateLink in Button Editor

« on: December 02, 2013, 08:03:13 »

Code: [Select]

MC.Utils.CreateLink LNKTRG="<existing file>" LNKSRC="d:\mylink.lnk" LNKTYPE=4

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Support and Feedback / Re: Toolbar view messed up after upgrade

« on: November 21, 2013, 10:35:10 »

Issue can not be reproduced.

Maybe you got some corrupt settings or some other installed software that hook it self into Windows is interfering with MC. 

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Support and Feedback / Re: Bad directory name delete error

« on: November 18, 2013, 09:52:06 »

I do not know what wise does to name files and folder to "....", since that is not a valid file/folder name. But I guess it installs something in the computer and it hook it self into Windows and override something in windows.

You probably need to use the wise to unhide it.

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Using the cursor location in inactive explorer panels

« on: November 17, 2013, 13:25:34 »

Let me see if I can explain what is going on.

With the two panels of MC, one is always active and the other is not. Obviously this is good because any commands you start are only going to apply to the active panel, since that is where your attention should be.
However, when you select a tab on the opposite panel the position of the cursor is where it was when you left it. Clearly there is some internal memory of the position, either via the Windows operating system or code within MC.

Guess you do not mean the cursor (mouse) but the item that is in focus.. Well it never goes away it is just colored different when the item panel has input focus or not. And it depending on what colors settings is used.

My question is this:
Is it possible to use that inactive panel file/folder selection in a command? Possibly sending both files in either panels to an external program?
Since the file/folder under the cursor, in the inactive panel, is still referenced somehow.

You can access selected/focused items from both the source and target panel

http://multicommander.com/docs/multitags
http://multicommander.com/docs/multiscript/functions/getfilefromview

Related but not important is, are the cursor positions of inactive TABS inside the same panel treated the same way as the panel on the other side?
Or to put it another way. How does the program keep track of the cursor positions on ALL the inactive TABS for either panel? Is it useful for file manipulation?

Every Explorer Panel is a own instance. Think of every tab as its own started program that are just placed inside a tab.
(kind of.. but not really.)

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Support and Feedback / Re: Multiple item type search

« on: November 15, 2013, 12:46:19 »

Maybe this tool might be useful

Menu > Tools > Picture Tools > Adjust EXIF Date Information

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Support and Feedback / Re: Copy files without directory structure

« on: November 15, 2013, 11:00:40 »

So you want to keep the main folder but not the subfolders?
Well that is such a unique senario so I dont think you can do that automatic.

I think you need to do the search thing for every folder. Maybe you can use script to automate it a bit.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Copy files without directory structure

« on: November 15, 2013, 09:54:43 »

Do a search for * at the location you want to copy from. But in the find files dialog enable attributes matching and uncheck "Directory" (Since you do not want folders in the search rersult)

And select all and copy them to target location

2985

Support and Feedback / Re: Quick file launch

« on: November 14, 2013, 19:10:37 »

Drag WinWord.exe to the QuickLaunhBar and you get a Word icon there. and then you can drag and drop Word document on that icon and WinWord will start and show that document.

Or you can in FileType Setup add so that file with extension *.docx *.doc  should be opened by WinWord.exe, Then you do not even have to drag/drop the file. then just double click it.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Multiple item type search

« on: November 11, 2013, 15:21:46 »

Fake folder ?
You get items that are shown in search result but the files/folders do not exists on disk ?

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Support and Feedback / Re: Readability

« on: November 11, 2013, 06:50:42 »

I"ll try again - I tried both of these yesterday and they had no effect, even after a restart.

That is very strange.. It should work. And no restart is required.. the settings panel may need to be closed and reopened to use the new font. But all explorer panels should change directly.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Multiple item type search

« on: November 10, 2013, 19:28:22 »

No the size parts can not be set from script yet.

No, quotes are not need.  I can type "aaa.* *.ddd *.sss" in the look for field. and that should work.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Getting preset directories on a button

« on: November 10, 2013, 18:52:29 »

Not without using script..

But it is a pretty easy script. Create a script and assign that to a button/menu/hotkey

Create a command of MultiScript type and do

Code: [Select]

MC.Explorer.Goto PATH="C:\MyPath"
MC.Explorer.Sort COL=1 ORDER=ASC

See Doc for more parameters to the command that can be usefull
MC.Explorer.Sort
MC.Explorer.Goto

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Support and Feedback / Re: Multiple item type search

« on: November 10, 2013, 18:48:37 »

Not sure I understand that the problem is.
You can type "*.aaa *.bbb dd.*" in the "Look for" field in search.
and it will be a match if any of them matches.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Readability

« on: November 10, 2013, 18:45:03 »

MC support high DPI settings in windows so if the DPI in windows are change the fonts are increased in MC.

you can also change the font under Menu > Configuration > Explorer Panel
And the "Filelist" font is also used for the settings panels and Search is also using this font.

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Different progress bars' color during pause

« on: November 10, 2013, 18:41:59 »

I see what I can do.. maybe..

2993

Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Filter activate/disable button

« on: November 10, 2013, 18:40:13 »

Hi,

Thanks for this useful piece of software, I've been waiting a long time for something like this. Before, I had to use several file manager programs.
I miss one thing though (from my previous 'arsenal') :
    - could it be possible to place a disable/enable toggle button right next to the view filter at low right corner of the panels ?. There are occasions when it is very useful to handle the activation/deactivation of the current filter very quickly. I know, it can be done with the keyboard by deleting the filter, but with the mouse would be much more fast.  Right now, this missing feature is preventing me to drop all other file managers.
I'm also attaching an image, which would illustrate what I'm thinking of.
Thanks!

Regards,
Zoltan

Something similar to that is planed and is coming.

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Support and Feedback / Re: lay-out2

« on: October 30, 2013, 22:09:13 »

You need to reset the columns in all open tabs..

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Support and Feedback / Re: lay-out

« on: October 30, 2013, 22:06:42 »

It might be confusing if you never used it. But it is also very effective when you learn to use it.

(Actually the original Directory Opus (on Amiga,  many many year ago) also used dual panel setup, So it is not a new idea)

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Support and Feedback / Re: lay-out2

« on: October 30, 2013, 22:01:50 »

Maps ?
Maybe you resize the column and save it ? right click on columns select select "use column set" select [Default] and it will resize them

If file selections is toggled using right button is used on a file item, then you probably selecte "commander styled" setup at first start. You probably want the Windows Explorer styled mouse/key setup . To change that go to Menu > configuration > Quick Look'n'Feel setup  then select "Windows Explorer Compatibility look'n'feel'

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Support and Feedback / Re: lay-out

« on: October 30, 2013, 21:54:24 »

MC is designed to be used in a dual panel setup. where the focus panel is the default target location and the opposite panel is the default target location.
MC is not designed to be used in single panel mode. Running with only a single panel a lot of features will unusable, and minimizing one panel to zero size only hides it. It is still there and can be used without you seeing what you are doing and that can be very dangerous..  because of that MC never saves panel size that are zero between restarts.

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Support and Feedback / Re: File search on-fly + "busy" cursor problem

« on: October 28, 2013, 09:04:15 »

2. Looks like the Subsystem in Windows when converting to lowercase does not convert russian M = m correct, Not sure why.. So the search becomes case sensitive.

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Support and Feedback / Re: File search on-fly + "busy" cursor problem

« on: October 28, 2013, 08:28:00 »

• Nothing special: open folders and files, creating and closing tabs. Couldn't reproduce it. Is there some kind of log to know what happens?
• I use QSearch with popup box. But why are uppercase Russian letters so special? This problem exists in many programs . MC just doesn't want to understand that М=м.

1. There is no logging that are that detailed. Maybe the filesystem is updated all the time so MC is refreshing it self ?
2. Russian M is not the same a Latin M. They look the same but have totally different character values.

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Support and Feedback / Re: File search on-fly + "busy" cursor problem

« on: October 28, 2013, 07:41:07 »

Hello.
I continue using MC, I like it. Now I see 2 more problems:

• Sometimes my cursor begins to change to "busy" state and back. It changes ~2 times per second and stops only after restart MC. It only changes when mouse is above MC window. It doesn't зкумуте MC to work correctly, but it's very annoying.
• When I want to focus some file in a forlder with a paticular name in russian, I type it letter by letter. When it's lowercase - all works OK. But when the first letter is uppercase, the search doesn't work. I have to press Shift+1st letter first, more above, I have to do it twice for some reason. E.g.: to search Мопед.xls I need to press Shift+М, +М, о, п... It seems to me that this is not the right way of action.

Thank you.
MC v 3.5.1.1530 64bit, Win7x64

1. Strange. I never seen that and I have no idea on why that is happening. Maybe something you do in MC make it happen. Question is want that is.

2. Kind of depending on what settings for quick search you have..
   But Quick Search without a search field (popup input window) will not work 100% for all special characters. Fixing it for some situation will break it for some other.
   Enabling so that quick search show the popup search field works better, since the search field can accept special characters.