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Support and Feedback / Re: Quicklook - nearly works

« Last post by jfmoyen on February 12, 2024, 21:52:43 »

QuickLook does not know when the focus of a file in MC changes.

Indeed, so my question is probably, "is there a way to politely request MC to pass that info to QL" - after all, many file managers manage to do it (Windows, but also many of the *Commander and a slate of others - see https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook/wiki/File-Managers ). There may be profound technical reasons, of course, but at face value it does not sound implausible or unfeasible, I was wondering whether I had maybe overlooked an obvious setting.

MC got its own preview panel, and there you can preview images/pdf and more insida a tab.. That will update when focus changes. It might not be as extension av quicklook

I'm aware of that, but with due respect, QL is more versatile, deals with more file types (pdf, video...), etc. And as far as I'm concerned, it seems a bit pointless to reinvent the wheel...

(and yes, I know that"why don't you just..." is the most infuriating thing to say to a developer, don't get me wrong...  :-) )

Thanks, anyway ! And may I take the opportunity to congratulate you on a great piece of software - it was love at first sight.... :-) Effectively, it does intuitively (almost) everything a file manager should do, in my books at least...

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Support and Feedback / Re: Quicklook - nearly works

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on February 12, 2024, 18:57:53 »

QuickLook does not know when the focus of a file in MC changes.

MC got its own preview panel, and there you can preview images/pdf and more insida a tab.. That will update when focus changes. It might not be as extension av quicklook

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Support and Feedback / Quicklook - nearly works

« Last post by jfmoyen on February 12, 2024, 16:49:52 »

Good evening,

A couple of years ago an user reported a rather nice previewer app, called quicklook (https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook)
(this thread: https://forum.multicommander.com/forum/index.php?topic=4148.0 )

In the present situation, I'm frustratingly close from getting QL to work with multicommander.

In "filetype setup", I created a new viewer app with extension *.jpg (for time being), replacing therefore the regular MC Picture Viewer. Program path is "C:/path/to/QuickLook.exe", and Program parameters are "${filepath}"

When I select a jpg and press F1, QuickLook dutifully fires and displays the image, as it should. So far, so good.

Now the frustrating part. The nicest feature of QL is that, if you move through your files in windows explorer (with up/down arrow, or by selecting another file with the mouse), QL automatically updates to show the currently selected file.

In multicommander, if I move up/down (or select another file), QL keeps the originally selected file, unless I press F1 again. Now, this is a minor irritant admittedly, but it seems so close from perfection... Is there perhaps a way to tweak my settings so that changing the selected file will trigger the command again, thus forcing QL to "update" ?

Thanks!

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Support and Feedback / Re: Flashing

« Last post by jeycool on February 11, 2024, 01:54:01 »

Not just that, but pressing Win-E to open Windows explorer seems to be flashing MC as well, which is weird. Anyway just reporting it like I said in case other users have similar issue.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Flashing

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on February 10, 2024, 19:16:01 »

Here is a video demoing it. I am not sure either, I thought I would report it anyway, maybe some others users might have the same issue, they can follow up here.

It is really a minor issue. How often are your opening new tabs..  annoying yes. but does not really affect the functions.
Also, I cannot check why it is happening since I cannot reproduce it.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Flashing

« Last post by jeycool on February 10, 2024, 19:00:10 »

Here is a video demoing it. I am not sure either, I thought I would report it anyway, maybe some others users might have the same issue, they can follow up here.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Flashing

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on February 10, 2024, 10:07:34 »

I cannot recreate this.. And it is not the dubble buffer things, everything is drawn using that. That is standard.
The thing is that Windows do not really support darkmode of their old UI layer. and when a new window area is created. It is always white before it is redrawn. Normally there are no refresh of the UI between this. So you will not see it.
So not sure why it happening for you. Might be that you gfx card are too fast or something. I don't know. I cannot test it since I cannot recreate it

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Support and Feedback / Flashing

« Last post by jeycool on February 10, 2024, 03:31:55 »

I reported this flashing (openning a tab flashes the window to white and back to dark then opens the tab window) under this https://forum.multicommander.com/forum/index.php/topic,4050.msg11515.html#msg11515 since I cant open that topic anymore I am posting this. I still have this issue in Win 11 13.5 2983

I feel like I might have found a culprit. This seems to be a Win 11 issue and other users of other apps report similar issue.


Here some people complaint about flashing in Foobar.

https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,124874.0.html

After digging around I ended up in this forum, I am not a dev but this seems to be relative to the issue?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12073721/what-is-the-correct-way-to-suppress-wm-erasebkgnd

thanks

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Support and Feedback / Re: Saving of panel widths/split sizes not working.

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on February 08, 2024, 11:10:22 »

How do I save the panel/tab widths to always be the same size when I open MC? I tried clicking on header to 'Save current layout as defaults'. Not working.
Also, have the 'Save on exit' ticked.
Also have the 'Remember split size between restarts' ticked. Not working.
It always opens in the same way, and I have to make the columns bigger.
Thanks.

The split size is not save if you totally or almost hide one of the panels.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Saving of panel widths/split sizes not working.

« Last post by evertdejongh on February 08, 2024, 10:18:35 »

Looks like the Tab Sessions option under File is the place to look. I will test that.
Thanks for reply.