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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: not opening all selected
« on: March 07, 2012, 13:39:07 »
If you have multiple files selected and selecting to execute them (pressing return) or some other option that will make windows open them or do something with them. What should happen?
And that is not an easy question to answer. It actually depends on the situation and user.
If you got pictures select and you press enter.. (And you do not have any special opened action is defined for picture files inside MC) then the execute action will be sent to windows and depending on what you got installed different things will happen.. You might get one instance of a picture viewer that will toggle between all the selected files or you might get multiple instances for every selected file.
If i select 200 mp3 files.. and press enter I will not get 200 instances on WinAmp.. I get one instances but all the selected files are queued in WinAmp.
I tried to keep the same for the rules for launching multiple selected files that Windows Explorer has.
However I can see how it can be a problem in some situation.
I do not think executing multiple items should be disabled, since it is used a lot. and even Windows Explorer support it is users expect it to work.
But maybe there needs to be an option to disable it. and/or an option to ask user what to do if more then X files are selected.
or some other option.
I will put it in my list of issues to find solution for.
And that is not an easy question to answer. It actually depends on the situation and user.
If you got pictures select and you press enter.. (And you do not have any special opened action is defined for picture files inside MC) then the execute action will be sent to windows and depending on what you got installed different things will happen.. You might get one instance of a picture viewer that will toggle between all the selected files or you might get multiple instances for every selected file.
If i select 200 mp3 files.. and press enter I will not get 200 instances on WinAmp.. I get one instances but all the selected files are queued in WinAmp.
I tried to keep the same for the rules for launching multiple selected files that Windows Explorer has.
However I can see how it can be a problem in some situation.
I do not think executing multiple items should be disabled, since it is used a lot. and even Windows Explorer support it is users expect it to work.
But maybe there needs to be an option to disable it. and/or an option to ask user what to do if more then X files are selected.
or some other option.
I will put it in my list of issues to find solution for.