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Multi Commander => Beta Releases => Topic started by: Mathias (Author) on May 26, 2022, 16:41:21

Title: Version 12 * RC *
Post by: Mathias (Author) on May 26, 2022, 16:41:21
Beta - Release Candidate

V 12.0  (Build 2899) (31-Jul-2022 )

 335+ Yes lots of changes.

-- 2899 - ( 31-Jul-2022 )
  FIXED - Better handling when accessing network resources and need to ask for login.
  FIXED - Crash issue with turkish translation
  FIXED - When unpacking a single file from a zip archive. The date of the file was not set correct.

-- 2898 - ( 30-Jul-2022 )
  FIXED - Some fixes for "MC.FileSystem.Delete" was not merged into release of previous version
  FIXED - MultiLanguage text string fixes
  FIXED - Changing Hotkey was not saved if changed from the User defined command dialog
 
-- 2897 - ( 29-Jul-2022 )
  ADDED - Custom command "MC.FileSystem.Delete" now works again
  FIXED - Data Previews templates loaded / saved correct parameters for thumbnails.
  FIXED - Backup / Restore dialog now works again
  FIXED - Major code cleanup
  FIXED - 2 Stability issues

-- 2894 - ( 22-Jul-2022 )
  ADDED - Preview customization can now restore to default.
  CHANGE- Default DataPreviewTemplates.xml is not called DataPreviewTemplates_tpl.xml but without _tpl when save to users own config location.
  FIXED - Progress dialog will no longer show +1 item when done.
  FIXED - Progress dialog elapsed calculation is now done correct
  ADDED - FSZip will by default use UTF8 encoding of filenames
  ADDED - FSZip profile can now configure encoding (Like UTF8 or other)
  ADDED - Fixed DPI Aware issue with error dialog in file operations.
  ADDED - What Preview profiles to use by default is now configurable
  FIXED - 2 Stability issues

-- 2888 -  ( 7-Jul-2022 )
  ADDED - Start with Preview Customization dialog. (Not working yet)
  FIXED - Size formatter will now always show TB with 1 decimal.
  FIXED - Issue when pressing cancel in 7z password dialog
  FIXED - Issue when viewing embedded file inside 7z archive
  FIXED - Crash issue when pressing abort in copy/move dialog just when file operation finish.
  FIXED - Better detection if CPU support various special instructions.
  FIXED - 3 Stability issues

-- 2885 -  ( 2-Jul-2022 )
  ADDED - Device dropdown can now show free space on device.
  ADDED - Option for Device Dropdown if it should show free space and if free space should be update when shown or not.
  ADDED - When executing file from within a archive. User now get ask if all files in archive should be unpack or just the selected file
  ADDED - Added some logging to app log if some uncommon error happens
  FIXED - Fixed option "Only auto close on short processes" for Copy/Move file operations
  FIXED - FileProperties (Columns) that should be fetched in the background was not always fetched in the background.
  FIXED - Fixed some text that was not using MultiLanguge system
  FIXED - Hover Preview did not use SqureImage option. it always used the standard thumbnail option for this not what was specified in template.

-- 2882 -  ( 23-Jun-2022 )
  ADDED - Zip now support LZMA/LZMA2 compression method for zip and unzip
  ADDED - Autodetect if AVX2 CPU instruction are available. if not zip/unzip is configured not to use AVX2 instructions.
  FIXED - Thread memory leak. Changed the parallel startup to use anohter thread method.
  FIXED - UTC date issue for extended date columns
  CHANGE- Default hotkey for Hover Preview change to Alt+Q

-- 2880 -  ( 17-Jun-2022 )
 
  ADDED - Default DataPreviewTemplates have been tweaked a bit
  ADDED - Data Preview templates can now define a default margin for columns or rows
  CHANGE- UI rendering of Data Preview that showing folder content changed
  FIXED - Improved error logging if WindowsPreview handler fails to show anything.
  FIXED - "NOPROGRESS" parameter for MultiScript function CopyFile/MoveFile now works again
  FIXED - Some places did not just multi langauge texts.
  FIXED - MultiText for a text for FSZip extension used duplicated text id

-- 2879 -  ( 10-Jun-2022 )
  UPDATE-  Hover Data Preview templates tweaked a bit
  ADDED -  Added Extended FileProp for Documents (ms office docs) using the Windows Property Service
  ADDED -  HoverDataPreview can now show horizontal line and program icon.
  FIXED -  Some extended date columns did not convert UTF date to local
  FIXED -  Unpacking multiple files from zip the filedate was not set correctly

-- 2877 -  ( 6-Jun-2022 )
  Added  - HoverDataPreview now support WindowsPreviewHandler so now PDF, docx, xlsx can be reviewed (office files require office installed)
  Fixed  - Overwrite option issue when unpacking multiple zip files.
  Fixed  - In some rare situation the default icons was not loaded during startup.
  Fixed  - Moving files via Symlink on other volume that points back to source volume
  Fixed  - If custom tab color is used but inactive color is not set. It will now used the same color for both active / inactive
  Fixed  - Various stability fixes

-- 2875 -  ( 26-Mar-2022 )
  Update - Zlib 3rd party library
  Update - Zip source updated and rewrites in MC Zip extension because of major zip api changes.
  Update - 7-Zip code to v21.07
  Update - Updated unrar source to v6.10.3
  Update - Updated 3rd party xml code library
  Added  - Hover data preview (beta) that can be toggled on/off with Ctrl+H or click on Talk-Bubble button on toolbar
  Added  - Menubar now support darkmode.
  Added  - Added support for creating zip archive with encryption PKCrypt or AES-256
  Added  - Added support for AES-256 encryption for zip
  Added  - Custom tab color can now be configured with a color for when the tab is both active and inactive.
  Fixed  - CopyUnpack copy pluging now detects first rar volume of RAR5 files correct.
  Fixed  - Filter button below filelist sometimes lost dark mode style
  Change - Massive code restructuring of core parts.


Hover Data Preview (Beta)
===================================
This is the new major feature to MultiCommander in this release.

This is a new type over hover tips (tooltip) when hovering over files. This hover tooltip can show lots more information.
But it can also be annoying if you do not need it. But when you need it you do not want to dig down in settings to enable it.
So Hover Data Preview tips are enabled/disabled using Ctrl+H, or press the new talk-bubble icon on the toolbar
(the talk bubble icon will turn green when enabled).

When enabled and when you hover over files you will get more information.
If you hover over an images and videos it will show the thumbnail. For text files it will show the first couple of line in the file.
For .exe file it will show version and other information. and so on.

Any file property that MultiCommander support can be shown in the Hover Data Preview tips.

What the Hover Data Preview tips are showing are customizable. However right now there is no UI for it.
But if you are brave you can try to edit the DataPreviewsTemplates.xml in config (copy it to your user config folder first) else you loose your changes when multicommander is updated.

Features missing from Hover Data Preview tips that are planned are
* Able to Zoom thumbnail that are show with mouse wheel ( probably need to hold shift and scroll to zoom )
* Able to show zip information for zip files. And what some of the zip inside the zip is
* When hovering over folder show the first folders/files in the folders
* Show Windows Preview in the Hover Data Preview tip. This will hook into the Preview Handler in Windows 10/11 and depending on what you have installed, you get more information on special files.

In the future some more extended features for the Hover Data preview is planed.

Please let me know if you fell that some information is missing from the Hover data preview tips.
Like when hovering for file type X it should show Y.

Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: Ulfhednar on May 26, 2022, 22:58:20
Thanks for the new features Matthias. ;)

The enhanced hover tooltip looks good.  Shows a lot of blank space for my pdf's (see attached) but nice preview on jpgs.

See attached - I'm running in Dark mode & I noticed that the tabs - with custom colours now get blacked out randomly.... bug or not?
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: Mathias (Author) on May 27, 2022, 12:51:48
Thanks for the new features Matthias. ;)

The enhanced hover tooltip looks good.  Shows a lot of blank space for my pdf's (see attached) but nice preview on jpgs.

See attached - I'm running in Dark mode & I noticed that the tabs - with custom colours now get blacked out randomly.... bug or not?
Yes pdf not supported yet.  It been prepared, it will be supported by Windows Preview handler api so if a preview handler for pdf is installed. (I think windows 10+ have that as default, not sure) it will be able to show pdf.

I forgot to disable the PDF preparation I done in the DataPreviewTemplates.xml file, before pushing a beta release
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: Mathias (Author) on May 27, 2022, 13:38:42
& I noticed that the tabs - with custom colours now get blacked out randomly.... bug or not?

Hmm not see anything with that. what does it look like?
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: Ulfhednar on May 27, 2022, 22:49:14
Thanks for the reply Mathias.

In the screen shot you can see some tabs that are coloured & some are black, they should all be coloured.
They do show colour when the mouse is hovering & on click but return to black one mouse moves away.

PDFs - I'm using W10, & I guessed there should be a preview but the tooltip is pretty big for all that blank space so I thought I better mention it. :)
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: Matthias515566 on May 28, 2022, 13:06:33
The Program starting now extremely faster. Thanks for the nice Update.
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: User_99 on May 28, 2022, 22:09:00
The program starts really faster. Thanks for the Update.

New Hover Data Preview-feature is really nice.
PDFs - I'm using W10, but there is no preview. Only blank window.
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: Mathias (Author) on May 29, 2022, 17:33:21
The program starts really faster. Thanks for the Update.

New Hover Data Preview-feature is really nice.
PDFs - I'm using W10, but there is no preview. Only blank window.
Say mention above.. PDF support is not fully there yet, It will probably be added in the next beta unless the Windows Preview API cause issues
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: Lukasz S. on May 30, 2022, 17:05:23
Hi Mathias,

I'm sending some points which I found in new release (probably issues regarding favourite window was also in previous version):
1. I think icon for show/hide hidden files was good, better then new one - in my opinion (Please see Screen1.jpg).
2. If you plan to keep new icon, is it possibility to standardize it, I mean the same folder icon in the background, like one showed with green underline? (Please see Screen2.jpg)
3. Favourite window – there is issue with font colour, as you can see font should be yellow, but unfortunately is in grey like full row marking. Hover colour is also not working correctly. (Please see Screen3.jpg)
4. No possible to translate Inactive option, I think this is added function, but honestly speaking I was not able to test it during work with MC - could you give more details about it? (Please see Screen4.jpg)
5. No possible to translate sentences marked in orange. (Please see Screen5.jpg)
6. I think shortcut for Hover data preview CTRL+H should not be set as a default; I’m using this shortcut to show/hide hidden & system files and after update I had a conflict. So maybe there is a chance that MC after update will check if there are shortcut conflicts.
7. Pack and unpack command from menu and shortcut  (Alt+F5) doesn’t work.
8. There are still some windows not showed in dark mode like Multirename and others.

BR
Lukasz
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: User_99 on May 30, 2022, 19:33:24
Say mention above.. PDF support is not fully there yet, It will probably be added in the next beta unless the Windows Preview API cause issues
Only want to report, that per default no preview handler for pdf is installed on Windows 10.
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: Mathias (Author) on May 30, 2022, 22:13:52
Say mention above.. PDF support is not fully there yet, It will probably be added in the next beta unless the Windows Preview API cause issues
Only want to report, that per default no preview handler for pdf is installed on Windows 10.

Sure ? I have very little installed on one test setup and there I get previews for pdf in explorer. no pdf software installed.
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: Mathias (Author) on May 30, 2022, 22:28:29
1. Im not happy with the new icon either, it will change, but Im also not happy with the old. the icon don't really say what it does.
  Hide/Show things are often shown with an "eye" kind of icon. Will see if I can fix a better one, the current are really bad, maybe the eye should not be transparent, but white..
 Not sure.

3. Hmm Is it not kind of overkill to be able to customize all the colors in the favorites windows? been thinings about maybe removing that. fells like to much, Maybe should just follow the colors setup for file list instead. Anyway, until that it should work so will take a look
4. Hmm Strange that should be translatable, I will check.
5. I will check
6. It will be possible to remap it.  Not sure what to use as default. It will always conflict with some users personal setup
7.  Yes it does. Works for me,  strange, sure you have not clear the mapping ?
8. Yes I know, many windows are not fixed. It require lots of work for each windows, So many windows that are not shown so often have low prio.. However MultiRename windows is high on the list


Hi Mathias,

I'm sending some points which I found in new release (probably issues regarding favourite window was also in previous version):
1. I think icon for show/hide hidden files was good, better then new one - in my opinion (Please see Screen1.jpg).
2. If you plan to keep new icon, is it possibility to standardize it, I mean the same folder icon in the background, like one showed with green underline? (Please see Screen2.jpg)
3. Favourite window – there is issue with font colour, as you can see font should be yellow, but unfortunately is in grey like full row marking. Hover colour is also not working correctly. (Please see Screen3.jpg)
4. No possible to translate Inactive option, I think this is added function, but honestly speaking I was not able to test it during work with MC - could you give more details about it? (Please see Screen4.jpg)
5. No possible to translate sentences marked in orange. (Please see Screen5.jpg)
6. I think shortcut for Hover data preview CTRL+H should not be set as a default; I’m using this shortcut to show/hide hidden & system files and after update I had a conflict. So maybe there is a chance that MC after update will check if there are shortcut conflicts.
7. Pack and unpack command from menu and shortcut  (Alt+F5) doesn’t work.
8. There are still some windows not showed in dark mode like Multirename and others.

BR
Lukasz
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: Mathias (Author) on May 31, 2022, 11:54:37
A Better Hide / Show icon,, better then the temporary that was in the beta

Grey and half closed when hidden files are hidden and so no. full color and open when all files are shown
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: User_99 on May 31, 2022, 19:34:22
Nice new icons
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: Lukasz S. on May 31, 2022, 21:19:21
Hi

The icon you proposed above is much better then in beta version :-)

Anyway, there is some issue with keyboard shortcuts.
Since years I have F2 for rename, and F7 for new folder. In newest beta something has changed, please see attached screen. Even if shortcut is wrong, F2 and F7 is working correctly, there is only visualization issue in button panel.

BR
Lukasz
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: Mathias (Author) on May 31, 2022, 22:35:21
Hi

The icon you proposed above is much better then in beta version :-)

Anyway, there is some issue with keyboard shortcuts.
Since years I have F2 for rename, and F7 for new folder. In newest beta something has changed, please see attached screen. Even if shortcut is wrong, F2 and F7 is working correctly, there is only visualization issue in button panel.

BR
Lukasz

F7 for new folder is default..
Not been able to reproduce that,, strange. will see how that can happend.
How does your CustomKeymappings.xml file look like.
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: Lukasz S. on June 01, 2022, 00:25:09
Hi, this is copy of mentioned xml file.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<keymap>
  <map extid="" ctrl="0" udc="324f810d4b4d4d4d80661a6c47c3018e" key="Z" keymod="C"/>
  <map extid="" ctrl="0" udc="782b3cb27e6a45cbaabcc7026ad916cf" key="F12" keymod=""/>
  <map extid="" ctrl="0" udc="78c42211c9514886bcf4d3ebe7d56b08" key="Q" keymod="C"/>
  <map extid="" ctrl="0" udc="c22e5f9cbf2b40e6a9f71c24ecdc4395" key="F11" keymod=""/>
  <map extid="" ctrl="0" cmd="1058" key="UP" keymod="A"/>
  <map extid="" ctrl="0" cmd="1351" key="F9" keymod="S"/>
  <map extid="" ctrl="0" cmd="1361" key="" keymod=""/>
  <map extid="" ctrl="0" cmd="1300" key="R" keymod="C"/>
  <map extid="a4c2985d9c7e4035a3221cfd600171d0" ctrl="0" cmd="31000" key="N" keymod="C"/>
  <map extid="a4c2985d9c7e4035a3221cfd600171d0" ctrl="0" cmd="41090" key="" keymod=""/>
  <map extid="a4c2985d9c7e4035a3221cfd600171d0" ctrl="0" cmd="41080" key="H" keymod="C"/>
  <map extid="a4c2985d9c7e4035a3221cfd600171d0" ctrl="0" cmd="51002" key="F2" keymod=""/>
  <map extid="3f93229334d648ab8dcc1eb4f62b8ef7" ctrl="0" cmd="30002" key="K" keymod="C"/>
  <map extid="3f93229334d648ab8dcc1eb4f62b8ef7" ctrl="0" cmd="30102" key="" keymod=""/>
  <map extid="a4c2985d9c7e4035a3221cfd600171d0" ctrl="0" cmd="41010" key="F3" keymod="A"/>
  <map extid="a4c2985d9c7e4035a3221cfd600171d0" ctrl="0" cmd="41060" key="F5" keymod="S"/>
</keymap>
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: User_99 on June 03, 2022, 15:42:15
Hi

The icon you proposed above is much better then in beta version :-)

Anyway, there is some issue with keyboard shortcuts.
Since years I have F2 for rename, and F7 for new folder. In newest beta something has changed, please see attached screen. Even if shortcut is wrong, F2 and F7 is working correctly, there is only visualization issue in button panel.

BR
Lukasz
Confirmed.
After MC start same visual behaviour -  shortcut for F2 and F7  is wrong shown, but are working correctly. When I use CTRL + B twice all is shown correctly again...
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: Ulfhednar on June 04, 2022, 22:24:24
& I noticed that the tabs - with custom colours now get blacked out randomly.... bug or not?

Hmm not see anything with that. what does it look like?

Hi Mathias,
did you find anything on the tabs issue I have? 
Here are some more examples, 3 screens of the same section of tab bar:-
Mouse cursor position determines color for some tabs, as you can see mousing away reverts others to black & in some cases color changes if selected (red to blue in the attached).
Tabs still showing colors are persistent between MC starts/reboots, the black tabs seem to always be the same & will call color on mouse contact.
I've tried reassigning colors to 'faulty' tabs but the new settings don't have any effect.
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: Mathias (Author) on June 05, 2022, 15:36:37
Say mention above.. PDF support is not fully there yet, It will probably be added in the next beta unless the Windows Preview API cause issues
Only want to report, that per default no preview handler for pdf is installed on Windows 10.

Actually Edge installs a preview handler for pdf by default.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\102.0.1245.33\PdfPreview\PdfPreviewHandler.dll

Not sure if you install something else will remove the connections for that, I guess that if you install another pdf reader that reader might install its own Pdf preview handler.

Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: User_99 on June 05, 2022, 15:43:05
Hover Data Preview-feature is really nice.
How about these icon set for this feature?
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: Mathias (Author) on June 05, 2022, 15:47:31
& I noticed that the tabs - with custom colours now get blacked out randomly.... bug or not?

Hmm not see anything with that. what does it look like?

Hi Mathias,
did you find anything on the tabs issue I have? 
Here are some more examples, 3 screens of the same section of tab bar:-
Mouse cursor position determines color for some tabs, as you can see mousing away reverts others to black & in some cases color changes if selected (red to blue in the attached).
Tabs still showing colors are persistent between MC starts/reboots, the black tabs seem to always be the same & will call color on mouse contact.
I've tried reassigning colors to 'faulty' tabs but the new settings don't have any effect.

No able to recreate that  yet,
Hm wait I think there are a change, If you go in to tab properties you can now define different colors for when tab is active and inactive.
Might be that if that is not configure if does not fallback to the correct color ? So test if it helps to define an color for when tab is inactive
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: Mathias (Author) on June 05, 2022, 15:49:19
Hover Data Preview-feature is really nice.
How about these icon set for this feature?

A bit more square, I like it. I will try it out. Thanks a lot.
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: User_99 on June 05, 2022, 22:31:00
This was my idea for these symbols ;)
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: Ulfhednar on June 07, 2022, 22:45:34
& I noticed that the tabs - with custom colours now get blacked out randomly.... bug or not?

Hmm not see anything with that. what does it look like?

Hi Mathias,
did you find anything on the tabs issue I have? 
Here are some more examples, 3 screens of the same section of tab bar:-
Mouse cursor position determines color for some tabs, as you can see mousing away reverts others to black & in some cases color changes if selected (red to blue in the attached).
Tabs still showing colors are persistent between MC starts/reboots, the black tabs seem to always be the same & will call color on mouse contact.
I've tried reassigning colors to 'faulty' tabs but the new settings don't have any effect.

No able to recreate that  yet,
Hm wait I think there are a change, If you go in to tab properties you can now define different colors for when tab is active and inactive.
Might be that if that is not configure if does not fallback to the correct color ? So test if it helps to define an color for when tab is inactive

Thanks Mathias.

With b2877 I am able to: - reset to default>apply; change color>apply & it works now.
I can also set active/inactive color options & the settings are retained & persist after restarts.
It may be worth noting that this switch between active & inactive color assignments only works for 'Solid' color.
I believe that the active/inactive drop-down was previously only accessible when 'solid color' was selected, now it is accessible for both schemes.

......But I will now be able to sleep again!   ;D
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: Pawel on June 08, 2022, 10:13:59
Mathias,
Could you please improve displaying Multi Commander window on first run?
On my monitor (2k, 2560x1440) main window is NOT centered.

The window is moved to top and left.
Also, would be nice if window has some proportinal size (now, it is much wider). Take a look at screenshot.

Best regards,
-Pawel
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: Pawel on June 08, 2022, 10:41:03
Mathias,
Hover Data Functionality.

It looks promising... However, did you think about implementing such feature, like Total Commander Lister?
User select element in one panel and all related information is displayed in second panel (different information for different file type/content). Something what you did in "Hover Data".
"Lister" is better, as it can be shown imediately and can show much more info (Panel window is bigger)...

How do you think?
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: Mathias (Author) on June 08, 2022, 17:36:31
Mathias,
Hover Data Functionality.

It looks promising... However, did you think about implementing such feature, like Total Commander Lister?
User select element in one panel and all related information is displayed in second panel (different information for different file type/content). Something what you did in "Hover Data".
"Lister" is better, as it can be shown imediately and can show much more info (Panel window is bigger)...

How do you think?
No idea what "lister" is. Is "lister" not just the fielist ? or Is it something like a preview panel ?
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: Pawel on June 08, 2022, 19:19:31
It is something like "Preview Panel". In Total Commander it is displayed in external window, but can be also displayed in Panel (like on my screenshots).
In TC it can be extended by plugins...

Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: Mathias (Author) on June 08, 2022, 20:09:08
It is something like "Preview Panel". In Total Commander it is displayed in external window, but can be also displayed in Panel (like on my screenshots).
In TC it can be extended by plugins...
So Review panel, yes that is coming.. Hover Preview is like 90% of it but it is shown in a hover window instead of own panel.   It comes as hover window first since that is what I find more useful.
Showing it in a preview panel comes later.
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: User_99 on June 11, 2022, 18:47:38
Nice update.
Can we get more space for all text in hover window?
Sometimes the text is cut off. See attachments please.
Update: FIXED, Thx

For me PDF files are shown in an empty preview window...
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: Mathias (Author) on June 17, 2022, 12:50:17
Nice update.
Can we get more space for all text in hover window?
Sometimes the text is cut off. See attachments please.

For me PDF files are shown in an empty preview window...

It should use defined default margin in the templates now. so there should be some more space

Strange that PDF is not working for you. Do you have 3rd party PDF reader installed ? maybe they installs therir own preview handler..
Thing is that MC have almost no control at all over the Windows Preview Handler, the API for that is very basic.

Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: AlanJB on June 17, 2022, 15:47:45
Win7 Pro x64.  MC Portable.

I just installed build 2879 and all "Last Modified Date" columns are completely empty: all tabs, including new tabs.

See attached.

Neither restarting MC nor refreshing the view makes any difference.
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: Mathias (Author) on June 17, 2022, 15:52:22
Win7 Pro x64.  MC Portable.

I just installed build 2879 and all "Last Modified Date" columns are completely empty: all tabs, including new tabs.

See attached.

Neither restarting MC nor refreshing the view makes any difference.
Strange.. I'm not able to reproduce that. try 2880 just released.. but I don't think there is any change around that there,
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: Mathias (Author) on June 17, 2022, 16:00:17
Win7 Pro x64.  MC Portable.

I just installed build 2879 and all "Last Modified Date" columns are completely empty: all tabs, including new tabs.

See attached.

Neither restarting MC nor refreshing the view makes any difference.

The columns used saved in columnsets.xml . That is the "id" for the "Last Modified" column you have..
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: AlanJB on June 17, 2022, 16:06:16
From columnsets.xml, the relevant row is:

Quote
<column id="0CC970781498A4EF9AA7139DA448F5744.datemodify" name="Last Modified " options="197632" width="94" paddingleft="0" paddingright="2" align="2" flags="0"/>

Edit to add:  this row is identical to my "live" config
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: Mathias (Author) on June 17, 2022, 16:27:07
From columnsets.xml, the relevant row is:

Quote
<column id="0CC970781498A4EF9AA7139DA448F5744.datemodify" name="Last Modified " options="197632" width="94" paddingleft="0" paddingright="2" align="2" flags="0"/>

Edit to add:  this row is identical to my "live" config
Looks correct, Strange..
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: AlanJB on June 17, 2022, 16:32:06
No change with build 2880.  Installed through MultiUpdate.

I even copied my "live" columnsets.xml to my "test" installation and still no-go :(
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: Mathias (Author) on June 17, 2022, 16:43:45
No change with build 2880.  Installed through MultiUpdate.

I even copied my "live" columnsets.xml to my "test" installation and still no-go :(
I can't make it fail. strange. will check more about it tomorrow.
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: AlanJB on June 17, 2022, 16:49:10
No change with build 2880.  Installed through MultiUpdate.

I even copied my "live" columnsets.xml to my "test" installation and still no-go :(
I can't make it fail. strange. will check more about it tomorrow.

OK.  Thanks Mathias.
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: Jean on June 17, 2022, 19:51:21
Hi Mathias,

I reverted to the non beta. Everytime mc got focus, from alt-tab and back for instance, it created a new tab on C: on the right side. After a while, i had several extra c: tabs.
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: Mathias (Author) on June 17, 2022, 19:53:39
Hi Mathias,

I reverted to the non beta. Everytime mc got focus, from alt-tab and back for instance, it created a new tab on C: on the right side. After a while, i had several extra c: tabs.
Strange, nothing about tabs has changed. I'm not able to reproduce that.
Probably some settings or combo of settings you have around tabs or something are causing that.. Problem is that I cant find what that can be.?
Have you changed customized any settings around tabs?
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: Jean on June 17, 2022, 20:09:28
I tried the beta again, it works ok now, if it doesn't anymore, i'll come screaming. :)
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: AlanJB on June 18, 2022, 17:16:36
I can't make it fail. strange. will check more about it tomorrow.

Follow-up to this problem:

I deleted my test environment completely
Copied my (working) complete live environment to a separate physical drive
Launched the new test environment and checked for updates
It updated to build 2880 and...

No modified Dates  :(
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: Mathias (Author) on June 19, 2022, 11:18:46
I can't make it fail. strange. will check more about it tomorrow.

Follow-up to this problem:

I deleted my test environment completely
Copied my (working) complete live environment to a separate physical drive
Launched the new test environment and checked for updates
It updated to build 2880 and...

No modified Dates  :(
Strange, I cannot reproduce that, I tried to change to different date/time settings that are in MC.. But it works.
Most be some conflicting settings or something. But can't reproduce it.. very strange

Also normal 'date' column is Last Modified date.. they should match on normal NTFS filesystems.
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: AlanJB on June 19, 2022, 13:41:48
Also normal 'date' column is Last Modified date.. they should match on normal NTFS filesystems.

Well, on a whim, I replaced column "Extended - Date Modified" with "Standard - Date" and it worked!  All dates populated.

Go figure :o
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: User_99 on July 03, 2022, 10:24:03
Thx for the new Beta :)

When I interrupt the unpacking process - eg. click on "Cancel" for a password protected archiv, I get the following message. Click on "OK" shows this message again. Sometimes three times.
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: Timur Born on July 07, 2022, 10:19:25
For me PDF files are shown in an empty preview window...
Strange that PDF is not working for you. Do you have 3rd party PDF reader installed ? maybe they installs therir own preview handler..
Thing is that MC have almost no control at all over the Windows Preview Handler, the API for that is very basic.
MC shows an empty preview window when a third party reader is installed as preview handler. I tried Acrobat and Xchange Editor. The default handler (on W11) is Edge, but that one is both slow and unstable.
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: User_99 on July 08, 2022, 14:08:45
Thx for the new Beta :)
When I interrupt the unpacking process - eg. click on "Cancel" for a password protected archiv, I get the following message. Click on "OK" shows this message again. Sometimes three times.
Tested with latest beta and bug is already there.

Update: It works for first time. When I cancel the operation again, the message pop up three times.
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: Lukasz S. on July 08, 2022, 14:40:43
Hi, there is some issue with refresh of folders view on MC start in newest beta 2888.

When I start MC there are no folder icons, see picture 1. After for example refresh or go in and out to any folder, folder icons are refreshed picture 2.

There is still some bug with showing correct keyboard shortcut for rename F2 and make folder F7 command - picture 3. Anyway shortcuts are working OK, only visualisation is wrong.
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: Matthias515566 on July 11, 2022, 12:56:57
Multi Rename by using the Date mdified use  maybe the GMT..This mean it use the absolute Date and sould use the relative date for my time zone..
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: Mathias (Author) on July 12, 2022, 07:41:52
Hi, there is some issue with refresh of folders view on MC start in newest beta 2888.

When I start MC there are no folder icons, see picture 1. After for example refresh or go in and out to any folder, folder icons are refreshed picture 2.

There is still some bug with showing correct keyboard shortcut for rename F2 and make folder F7 command - picture 3. Anyway shortcuts are working OK, only visualisation is wrong.

Yes the icon things is a race condtion that can happen if things are fast and there are multiple icons requests at the same time.. I got it on my list of bugs for this release

Button Panel. Yes it is a refresh issue I think. If you have modifiers for button panel active so they change when pressing ctrl / alt then they are after that redrawn correct. 
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: Mathias (Author) on July 12, 2022, 07:43:23
Multi Rename by using the Date mdified use  maybe the GMT..This mean it use the absolute Date and sould use the relative date for my time zone..
Not GMT but UTC,  All file times are UTC from the Filesystem.  So some UTC to Local conversion that are missing. I will look into that..
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: User_99 on July 17, 2022, 10:13:45
Counter is sometimes - not always! - wrong ;)
Moved 4 files...

Also sometimes a problem with encrypted rar archives. Could this be a behaviour of an older unrar.dll?
After enter the password - the password dialog is back again or got an empty window.
Open with Winrar all is fine.
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: Mathias (Author) on July 17, 2022, 10:26:28
Counter is sometimes - not always! - wrong ;)
Moved 4 files...

Also sometimes a problem with encrypted rar archives. Could this be a behaviour of an older unrar.dll?
After enter the password - the password dialog is back again or got an empty window.
Open with Winrar all is fine.
I know.. it adds one extra when it finish up.

rar problem. Not able to recreate any problems with that.  external unrar.dll not used.. but using same code.  might be issues with the code or not.. I don't know, since I can't reproduce it.

Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: Lukasz S. on July 24, 2022, 00:52:27
Hi,

Backup / Restore doesn't work, after pressing this option in menu nothing happens.

BR
Lukasz
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: AlanJB on July 24, 2022, 13:37:43
Hi,

Backup / Restore doesn't work, after pressing this option in menu nothing happens.

BR
Lukasz

I can confirm this in build 2894.
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: Mathias (Author) on July 25, 2022, 15:11:22
Hi,

Backup / Restore doesn't work, after pressing this option in menu nothing happens.

BR
Lukasz
I will check that
Title: Re: Version 12 * RC *
Post by: Ulfhednar on August 05, 2022, 16:36:49
Ref 12.0 b2901 x64 (Win10)

Had couple of incidents today after updating to this build
1 - right clicked on a file, dialog opened & MC locked completely, rest of system continued normally - killed via TM
2 - inserting a USB stick I have been using this week w/out issue, locked MC up for several minutes, killed/restarted MC & removed/reinserted the stick got round it.  Stick checked out Ok on Win10 diagnostics/repair.

Unusual behaviour for MC so thought I'd mention it.
Title: Re: Version 12 * RC *
Post by: User_99 on August 06, 2022, 08:48:10
How many times did that happen?
Title: Re: Version 12 * RC *
Post by: Mathias (Author) on August 06, 2022, 10:38:51
Ref 12.0 b2901 x64 (Win10)

Had couple of incidents today after updating to this build
1 - right clicked on a file, dialog opened & MC locked completely, rest of system continued normally - killed via TM
2 - inserting a USB stick I have been using this week w/out issue, locked MC up for several minutes, killed/restarted MC & removed/reinserted the stick got round it.  Stick checked out Ok on Win10 diagnostics/repair.

Unusual behaviour for MC so thought I'd mention it.

1. What dialog opens ? Shell Context Menu ?
2. Look in the look Ctrl+L if there are any info, also security software can blocks calls from MC to resources it protects.

But if it locks up you can create a dump from taskmanger.  and then send that to me at http://multicommander.com/upload
make sure you zip / 7z it first. Then I can tell you what it is waiting for.. often it is some external issue, like Network or somethings
Title: Re: Version 12 * RC *
Post by: User_99 on August 06, 2022, 21:12:20
Ref 12.0 b2901 x64 (Win10)

Had couple of incidents today after updating to this build
1 - right clicked on a file, dialog opened & MC locked completely, rest of system continued normally - killed via TM
2 - inserting a USB stick I have been using this week w/out issue, locked MC up for several minutes, killed/restarted MC & removed/reinserted the stick got round it.  Stick checked out Ok on Win10 diagnostics/repair.
So far all fine here. Finger crossed ;)
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: Pawel on August 09, 2022, 17:21:25
Mathias,
Could you please improve displaying Multi Commander window on first run?
On my monitor (2k, 2560x1440) main window is NOT centered.

Mathias,
Have you try to improve displaying Multi Commander main window?
I would like to remind you, that the window is still not centered. Window is not proportional.
Take a look how it looks on 2K resolution after installation (on first run). See attachement image.
As you can see - MC window is not centered.

Left edge distance (163px) is different then Right Edge distance (491px). Top edge distance (156px) is different then Bottom Edge distance (212px)
How about making it proportional for each resolution?

-Pawel
Title: Re: Version 12 * BETA *
Post by: Mathias (Author) on August 09, 2022, 23:47:48
Mathias,
Could you please improve displaying Multi Commander window on first run?
On my monitor (2k, 2560x1440) main window is NOT centered.

Mathias,
Have you try to improve displaying Multi Commander main window?
I would like to remind you, that the window is still not centered. Window is not proportional.
Take a look how it looks on 2K resolution after installation (on first run). See attachement image.
As you can see - MC window is not centered.

Left edge distance (163px) is different then Right Edge distance (491px). Top edge distance (156px) is different then Bottom Edge distance (212px)
How about making it proportional for each resolution?

-Pawel

Well This is only on first startup. MC is actually not trying to center it nor place it, Size and placement is actually handle by Windows it self, all calculations are handled by windows so the initial windows will fit on screen.
But after first run. The window pos use is stored and used for next run.
Title: Re: Version 12 * RC *
Post by: Pawel on August 10, 2022, 11:08:36
Yes, it always fit. But how about get current screen resolution and set window width and height proportionally and place window centered?
Title: Re: Version 12 * RC *
Post by: Mathias (Author) on August 10, 2022, 11:45:36
Yes, it always fit. But how about get current screen resolution and set window width and height proportionally and place window centered?

I don't see how it matters.  as soon as you restart you get the size and location you had before..

And there is an idea to how windows is handling it. Because if you open a second instance you will not get the exact same position, it will be be moved a bit more down and to the right, of each new instance you open.. so you will se all windows of all instances. on top of each other but every windows is offset a bit so you see parts of all. seeing that you opened x instances and not one.


But you can do it with script..

MC.CmdLineRun CMD=":setpos 200 200 1400 1000"

Then from your MultiCommander shortcut you can tell it to auto run a command.. with multicommander.exe -AutoRun=<Name of Command to run>
 
Title: Re: Version 12 * RC *
Post by: Pawel on August 10, 2022, 16:14:05
Mathias,
Thank you for your point of view.

I will check your idea with script. Sounds interesting!
-Pawel