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Tips and Tricks / Go to Sibling Folder Faster

« on: July 24, 2012, 11:50:55 »

For example say that you got the following folders at a location.

FolderA
FolderB
FolderC

You enter FolderB, And then you want to go to FolderC, Now you first need to go up to the parent folder and then select FolderC and enter it.
But with the Go to sibling folder commands you can go the the previous or next sibling folder directly.

So when you are in FolderB and if you instead choose to press Ctrl+PageDown it will take you directly to FolderC.
If you have pressed Ctrl+PageUp it would have taken you to FolderA

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Hot Paths by Tab.

« on: July 23, 2012, 16:44:14 »

No it is not possible.

I'm not sure how that would work. As soon as you close a tab then it will be lost. I think that will be a bit annoying to loose them if the tab is closed.

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Add a "stop service" button in "Find opened/locked Handle/File/dll" if revelent

« on: July 23, 2012, 16:41:10 »

nice idea.

If it is possible to find what service a given process id is, Then it is possible.
And I think it should be possible. Question just how...  I probably need to do some research.

Interesting idea. Will add it to my list

3804

Beta Releases / Re: 2.6 Beta - Change Log

« on: July 23, 2012, 11:08:54 »

Changes since v2.5.1 : 75+ Changes

-- Build 1135
FIXED - Crash bug in MultiScript if StrSub() was called with index that was out of range.
FIXED - Crash bug if Device dropdown was disabled.
FIXED - Various MultiLanguge issues.
FIXED - Restoring language in Language editor, and pressing cancel will no longer say that language files was restored
FIXED - Picture viewer Zoom function 'Stretch to fit' now works better
ADDED - Copy Path/Name/PathName to clipboard will now work if ".." item is in focus.
ADDED - Multi-Script debugger (Beta)

3805

Support and Feedback / Re: Theme question

« on: July 22, 2012, 18:06:45 »

Depends on what you mean with theme. But a lot of the colors can be change.
The colors and fonts can be change under Menu > Configuration > Explorer Panel Settings > Colors (tab)

There are a couple of pre-configured set under Quick Look'n'Feel Setup. Then press Customize
and for colors you have 4 different color themes.

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Tips and Tricks / Pasting clipboard data into Multi Commander

« on: July 21, 2012, 14:01:44 »

One of the lesser known features of Multi Commander is the extra handling of clipboard data when pasting it into Multi Commander.

Multi Commander can save text and image data from the clipboard to a file.

If the data in your clipboard is text that you copied from another program and you press Ctrl+V (Or Menu > Edit > Paste ) while the
focus in Multi Commander is in a Explorer Panel. Then you will be shown a windows where you can save the text content from the clipboard to a file.

The same will happen if the clipboard data is a image. (For example if you pressed print screen to take a screenshot)
And for images you will have the option to select what image format you want to save it as. jpg, png or bmp

Their is also some special handling done for text data. If the text data in your clipboard look like file path.
Then instead of just asking you to saving the text to a file it will change the current location to that path you have in your clipboard data.
If the path in the clipboard has a file specified then that file will also be set to focus.

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Support and Feedback / Re: current folder to clipboard

« on: July 20, 2012, 13:15:48 »

To Clipboard commands failed on ".." because it is kind of a fake folder. I will see if a special workaround for it can be added.
[...]

2. Do not really understand that.. Can you give an example ?

2. I was asking what you said in your message. For valid commands, consider that item to be ".", so current folder. That will allow To Clipboard to work (File path will return c:\windows\. , which is syntactically correct, even if it adds a small redundancy, Path will return c:\windows).

Ahh okey.. Well as I said.. I will see If it can be added so it will works. Because how the internal virtual filesystem works it might not be possible without a major rewrite. But I will check.

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Support and Feedback / Re: current folder to clipboard

« on: July 20, 2012, 12:50:01 »

To Clipboard commands failed on ".." because it is kind of a fake folder. I will see if a special workaround for it can be added.

1. You can create user defined command for it
Create a command of Multi-Script type and then add

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SetClipboardText(GetSourcePath());And then save it and then assign a hotkey for that command.

2. Do not really understand that.. Can you give an example ?

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Beta Releases / Re: 2.6.1125 Bugs

« on: July 18, 2012, 14:09:30 »

4. Language editor / Resore / Select a file to load.
If Cancel pressed in File open dialog, MC shows message that language was successfully restored. Don't know if it is actually restored.

Whops.  Will fix that.

If cancel is pressed nothing is restored. Just wrong error code sent back so the wrong result text is shown.

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Beta Releases / Re: 2.6.1125 Bugs

« on: July 18, 2012, 14:07:02 »

1. Picture viewer stretch does not always work correctly (see pics)

I take a look

2. Localization.
a. Explorer panel s.435 "Selection status area" is translatable, but always displayed in english.
b. List elements "Show free space", "Show used space" for free space area are untranslatable
c. "View filter", "Network" and "Network browse method" are also untranslatable.

"Network"/""Network browse method" parts is temporary there. Not sure if it will be there or be removed.  but the other I will fix

3. It is not always possible to open folders in the list by double click

You have to first enable the new option in the mouse configuration page.

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Also with drive dropdown list disabled it is inconvenient to go to ftp, net or reg. One have to type "net:", "reg:", "ftp:" in the path field. Maybe add these buttons to drive buttons panel?

Yes I know. Thats why I really did not like removing it. And one of the reason I'm not sure If I will keep the option there so it can be removed. It will require a bit of work the be able to add net/reg/ftp/... to the device toolbar.

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Beta Releases / 2.6 Beta - Change Log

« on: July 17, 2012, 11:42:08 »

Changes since v2.5.1 : 55+ Changes

Build 1125
ADDED - Option for mouse configuration to go to parent folder if double clicking on empty area.
ADDED - Main layout can now be change to show the layout as Top/Down, instead of Left/Right
ADDED - Quick zoom option to picture viewer.
ADDED - Device dropdown can now be disabled
ADDED - Can now show used space instead of free space.
ADDED - Free space field can now be disabled
ADDED - Selection status field can now show the size in other sizes then KB.
ADDED - Buttons that are shown after the free space field can now be disabled.
ADDED - Added option to disable the active frame highlightning.
ADDED - Language editor can now restore an language export package.
ADDED - Possible to show hidden/system files and folders with special color.
ADDED - Support for new language : Polish - Created by Lukasz Seweryn
CHANGE- The 7-Zip support is updated to a newer version.
FIXED - Problem with minimized to tray.
FIXED - Header in Explorer panel is now using the same font as the list part.
FIXED - Fixed problem after restart when 'lock tab but allow path change' was on.
FIXED - Fixed some drag and drop issue when dragging from some application.
FIXED - Fixed problem when trying to copying a file that are already opened.
FIXED - 10 rare crashes that was reported by the crash report system.

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Support and Feedback / Re: how to refer to a file path without focus?

« on: July 15, 2012, 14:51:26 »

Yes
the ! forces the program or path to be launched instead of letting MC go to that path.

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Support and Feedback / Re: how to refer to a file path without focus?

« on: July 15, 2012, 14:44:16 »

But I do not think you even need to create a custom command at all..

You can also just create an alias.

eg
Alias     Expand to
n          !"C:\Users\Master\notepad2.exe"

then you can write "n myfile.txt" in the commandline field. and "n" is expanded to the full path to notepad2, and programs that are directly launch from the commandline field get the working folder for the current active path.

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Support and Feedback / Re: how to refer to a file path without focus?

« on: July 15, 2012, 14:30:20 »

Yes, I get that base.txt is just an example.. was try to understand what you want to do. but if you do not want to use  ${focusfilepath}  or ${sourcepath}, how will notepad2 know where to create the file ? If you want the file to be created under the current path then the current path must be included some places.

So you do not what a button /menu option for notepad2, But you want to run "notepad2" from the commandline field inside MC ?
So you want to type (for example) "notepad2.exe myfile.txt" and notepad2 should open with myfile.txt as parameters ? And notepad2 will then create the file "myfile.txt" in current path that is shown ? (or should it be a fixed path ?? since you do not want to use any ${xxx tags ?? )

if it should be under the current shown path then some of the ${xxx tags must be used. else notepad2 will create the file it its working folder that will be the folder that notepad2 is located in, and I do not think you want that..
You can add the STARTIN= parameter to change the working folder for the command that is run.

maybe ?

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MC.Run CMD="C:\Users\Master\Notepad2.exe" ARG=" ${sourcepath}${param:0}"or maybe

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MC.Run CMD="C:\Users\Master\Notepad2.exe" STARTIN="${sourcepath}" ARG="${param:0}"
You can also add the path to notepad2.exe to you PATH environment variable. Then you will not need a command to launch it.

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Support and Feedback / Re: how to refer to a file path without focus?

« on: July 15, 2012, 11:37:22 »

I have kind of a hard time to understand what problem you trying to solve.

You want to open "base.txt" from a command. And you can not use ${focusfilepath} because the file you want to edit is not in focus ?

May this.

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MC.Run CMD="C:\Users\Master\Notepad2.exe" ARG="${sourcepath}base.txt"
It will open base.txt located in the folder of the panel that is in focus. But base.txt does not need to be in focus.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Date Created Column Time Zone

« on: July 14, 2012, 12:25:27 »

All date and time are stored in UTC on the NTFS file system.

Think there is a bug with the dates in the extended properties. When displaying the time it should be converted to local time. but that seams to fail.
Will fix that for next version.

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: ** Summary of Requests and Suggestions *

« on: July 10, 2012, 16:11:32 »

2. it is clear if you try it in win explorer
you scroll down in a list with the arrow key, stop on a file so this file is selected (highlighted), press CTRL key (and keep it pressed), scroll further down, stop on another file and press spacebar. then this file is also selected. (You can also deselect a selected file with the spacebar)
It is all similar to CTRL + left mouse click


3. I mean  it should resize and save the image to disk (with a different filename or an option to replace the old one). It could be very well combined with the "picture format conversion" in "picture tools"

2. Didn't even know you could do that with Windows Explorer.  I will see it is possible to add it.

3. Ahh Like a "Save As.." option that also allows for resizing.. Had "save as" on my list. but also doing resize while you add it might be useful, Will update my list with that.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Problem with files appearing in MC 2.5 when I use copy, paste

« on: July 10, 2012, 16:06:02 »

Very strange

The views are not updated using a timer. It asked Windows to notify when the folder is changed. So then a file is change,create,delete,modify MC receives a message that says 'a files was added in folder x' (kind of)
So why it does not update I don't know. It should.

Im not able to recreate it here. So it might be some timing issue between threads. I will take a look and see If I can find something that can interfere/block the refresh request.

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Support and Feedback / Re: network browse method

« on: July 09, 2012, 21:02:55 »

The network browse API in Windows are a mess. And there are multiple ways of doing the same things. And documentation is very incomplete.
So the different methods are using the different APIs.

Some of the methods should works better for when connected to a domains, and some better for workgroups.
Not sure yet witch is better for what,

I get see no difference whatever method I select on my network.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Old 7za.dll

« on: July 09, 2012, 12:09:04 »

Nice.  Good to know.
I suspected that it would work. But I did not have time to verify and test it before release so I skipped updating it in this release.
I will have it fixed for the next minor update.

I'm also planning to update the 7Zip SDK so more of the 7Zip features can be supported..

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Support and Feedback / Re: Google Drive

« on: July 08, 2012, 13:10:14 »

The Google drive folder has by default the system attribute flags set. And by default system and hidden files are not shown in MC.

Go to Explorer Panel settings and turn on "Show System files and folders"

or

type ":showhidden" on the commandline field. (if running build 1114 or higher)
(do not forget the : at the beginning)

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Configurable Explorer Panes

« on: July 07, 2012, 22:49:24 »

It is not supported yet

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Support and Feedback / Re: 2.5.1 bugs

« on: July 05, 2012, 17:50:36 »

1. Will check

2. That is because they was added in the last minute before the release and it might change.
But if the settings are kept for the next release it will be changed so it can be translated.

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Support and Feedback / Re: MultiCommander 2.5. "Not Responding after 30 seconds open"

« on: July 05, 2012, 17:21:59 »

The only think that is run after the program starts is a check for new version. And maybe it gets a weird result back because of some firewall software that does something.

Also after a folder is browsed there is a background task for getting icons. And 3d party shell extension can also lockup the program if they do something bad.

The first thing you can try to turn off new version check. Since you can not change that settings from inside MultiCommander before its lockups
you can try to edit the file manually. Edit the MultiCommander.xml file located in
Full version : C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\MultiCommander\Config\
Portable version  <MC EXE path>\config\

Then search for <checkfornewversion value="1"/> and change the value to 0 ( value="0" )

If that do not work you can create a dumpfile of MultiCommander.exe after it hangs using the TaskManager (right click on process and select 'Create Dump File') Then pack the dump file and upload the dumpfile to http://multicommander.com/upload/ and I might be able to see why it hangs.

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: ** Summary of Requests and Suggestions *

« on: July 04, 2012, 18:27:07 »

Flatview Showing all files and folders and subfolders together

  Not sure if it is possible. But do you not get that behavior if you open search, and search for everything in one folder.
  Then all files and folders and subfiles and subfolder are shown in the search result.
  Maybe the search need to support for more file system functions so the thing you want to do with files/folder when presented like this can be done here?

Either way is fine. FreeCommander has this feature, if you want to check.
use case for me is selecting files across trees to copy/move/delete.

I know how it works. What I meant with "not possible" is that I'm not sure it is possible to add this because on how the internal architecture of the Explorer Panels. A lot of the functions in that depends on that the file items listed is located in the specified path. I might require a lot of internal redesign to make it possible. And I'm not sure I want to do that.

But since the search panel shows show files like that. It might be possible to use the search panel for this. But to be able to use the search panel for this, then some file operation features might need to be added to the search. and/or some other improvement might need to be added to the Search panel to be able to use the search panel for this.