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Support and Feedback / Re: Issue with file search

« on: November 30, 2024, 10:02:09 »

In the script i should be "path1;path2" but there is a parsing error. so it will be fix for next beta.

The UI issue might be reproducible for you. That why I think it is hardware/setup related becuse users how see it can often reproduce it. But I have not been able to, have tried on very many machines and setups.  But will add some dbg info for next beta that might give information on why it is happening. I got some theory but hard to test when I cannot reproduce it

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Support and Feedback / Re: Issue with file search

« on: November 29, 2024, 18:20:37 »

if you open the findfile dialog after command is run you see what it entered into it. i will check tomorrow. might be that it does not remove the " or something

The view error has nothing to do with search. some other had that issue in other situations. but I never been able to reproduce it. I think it is some timing issue.
But not sure. see if I can add some debug info for it for next beta

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Support and Feedback / Re: Issue with file search

« on: November 29, 2024, 14:44:10 »

SEARCHIN is wrong.. one quote for them all.. not for each
view issue I don't know. look like after some windows update on some system, some ppl have seen that issue.. Not been able to recreate that

104

Support and Feedback / Re: immediate searching with saved parameters (not using the F keys)

« on: November 29, 2024, 14:42:47 »

Thank you for your patient help, Jungle,

Unfortunately, with that syntax, MC will only search in the first stated path.


And the PANEL="LEFT" option of MC.FileSearch does not seem to work.

You need to have the complete paths inside the quotes.. not quotes around each, they are separated with ;

Code: [Select]

SEARCHIN="c:\temp\22;c:\temp\33"

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: coloring rules and selection colors

« on: November 29, 2024, 13:09:32 »

If you uncheck "Use file specified background colors" (and for folders) then the background color for each state is not used.

Selection color overwrite the color for rules. else you might not see if an item is selected or not.

106

Support and Feedback / Re: BUG: MultiCommander.xml gets corrupted

« on: November 29, 2024, 12:04:39 »

I'm not able to reproduce that. Did you do any other changes during that ?

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Support and Feedback / Re: Problems / Hick ups with file / folder coloring

« on: November 28, 2024, 08:14:36 »

I see no issues with coloring.
But might depend on what rule and what else is happening.

Coloring is happening in the background after the files has been show, So If you go lots of files it can take a little before they colors popup.
But it can also depends on the rules. if the rules depend on information that are slow to fetch.
Also if the files are modified externally (specially network attached storage ) the Windows notification that files are updated are not always received, and coloring might not be refreshed

108

Support and Feedback / Re: Context menu of the "Select File Coloring Profiles" toolbar button

« on: November 28, 2024, 08:07:22 »

It depends.. some buttons have an "action" on click and alternatives actions on right..
Color wheel do not have any default action on normal click. so that why all the option for colors are shown there.

(Been thinking to maybe change the so color popup is on right click. and disable/enable color on default click, BUT my self I do not enable/disable them so must, I often switch to different color profiles.. so then having the popup for them on default click is better.. Hmm so ... )

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Wish: Sorting column and order to be defined in custom column layouts

« on: November 28, 2024, 08:02:09 »

The heading pretty much says it all:

Hmm Subject is not a body. Reason there are two fields hehe

Sorting will probably not be added to column setup.
However a custom folder settings system is planed. where you can configure special settings for some folders. including sorting

110

Support and Feedback / Re: location of new tabs on the tab bar

« on: November 27, 2024, 10:46:09 »

Ahh no, It add new tabs last. I will check.. Maybe something I can add to todo list

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Support and Feedback / Re: location of new tabs on the tab bar

« on: November 27, 2024, 10:38:18 »

Not automatic I don't think.

But doing Ctrl+ Left/Right arrow you will open that folder in the panel of the arrow

Or you can create a new user defined command that take current focus path and open that folder in the target panel. and then assign that to a button/shortcut/...

112

Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: navigating away from a locked tab

« on: November 27, 2024, 10:31:20 »

Jungle, my new hero and world savior!
Yes, thank you!

Mathias, may I change the wish to getting a search / filter function for all the settings, some day in the future. That would be great. Some other file managers actually have that.

Its on the list, However it is not something that is fast to add. It actually very complex since MC settings is very generic and not hardcoded.

Just becuse some other have something does not make it easy to add it. 

113

Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Starting the Windows Store App mit Command Line Parameters

« on: November 27, 2024, 10:08:40 »

Nice. special "shell:" tag for the Windows App was needed.

However it did not work using .bat script? Powershell it way over powered for just starting something.

Startmc.bat

Code: [Select]

start shell:AppsFolder\48089MathiasSvensson.MultiCommander_9d7x1c4ybj2dr!MultiCommander -AutoRun=_UDC_runAt_MC_Startup
It will show a console window very briefly. But if you create a Lnk shortcut for it
startmc_shortcut.lnk

And in properties for it. Set it to start minimized. Then the command window is not shown while it starts MC store edition

114

Support and Feedback / Re: Are the Core and Explorer Panel Settings also included in ... ?

« on: November 26, 2024, 22:00:26 »

Yes

that export/import is if you only want to import/export individual settings

115

Announcements and News / MultiCommander 14.3

« on: November 25, 2024, 10:57:23 »

v14.3 ( Build 3042 ) - 2024-11-25
 
 70+ Changes

 ADDED - Major rewrite of MCPictureViewer extension to use WIC (Windows Imaging Component) and D2D, Support more image formats and faster rendering.
 ADDED - Dynamic Extended FileProp "FolderIsEmpty", "FolderHaveFiles", FolderHaveFiles (Inc Sub)"
 ADDED - After folder sizing you can enable columns that show number of sub files/folders items
 ADDED - During folder sizing on normal filesystem the UI will update during the process and you see the folder size increase.
 ADDED - Option to always show tab list button
 ADDED - Move operation work now for WPD:
 ADDED - More and better debug/log information for WPD:
 CHANGE- Changed so when symlink is created. The target does not need to exists. Symlink are allowed to point to non existing files/folders.
 FIXED - Avg Copy speed now works when copy to/from WPD:
 FIXED - Some extended file properties was not removed from cache if file was renamed
 FIXED - Hang issue during move if source file was removed during the beginning of the move process
 FIXED - Refreshing extended fileproperties for columns if file/folder is modified
 FIXED - File Coloring refresh is triggered for files/folders that are modified
 FIXED - A case where color rules did not always refresh
 ADDED - MultiScript function "FindFirstFileEx" that also support recursive search
 FIXED - When testing archive, The wrong colorprofile was used.
 FIXED - When testing archive the volume name is now also shown
 FIXED - When testing 7z archive and aborting. It said it was successful even if it was not.
 FIXED - When drag and dropping file on a .exe the option to start the exe with the dropped files as parameters that option was not always enabled
 FIXED - Alias Editor now support type search
 FIXED - GetFolder Size now follow settings for how to handle links (Symlinks/junctions)
 FIXED - 8 Stability issues

Internal Picture Viewer is now using WIC (Windows Imaging Component) , So all image formats support by Windows is supported. If you have installed support for more images formats you might need to add them to
FileType setup > View

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Starting the Windows Store App mit Command Line Parameters

« on: November 25, 2024, 10:29:01 »

Actually I'm not sure how the Windows Store App work.. MC is a full thrust .exe store app. But it does sandbox some folders (System and system registry, so MC store edition cannot modify them)
Since MC is a full .exe app and not a UWP app I think you can start the exe, But i'm not 100% sure.

There should be way to start them from command line using the app package names.. But I'n not sure exactly how that works.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Custom Icons For File Extensions Not Working !

« on: November 24, 2024, 22:41:50 »

if you go to
C:\Users\<username>
You see that a lot of folder has none default icon. This are from desktop.ini inside the folder that Windows pick up.

Also the folder must have the "+r" (readonly) attribute set. else Window will not look for the desktop.ini  (Atleast in windows 7.. Have not checked if that is still so in 10/11, But all the folders with icons in the C:\users\<username> folder has +r in Win10/11 for me )

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Support and Feedback / Re: Custom Icons For File Extensions Not Working !

« on: November 23, 2024, 13:15:09 »

MC get folder icon from Windows.. And Windows should return the icon from the desktop.ini file.. However Windows sometimes cache the icon and you might need to refresh the Windows icon cache.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Problems with configuring selection behavior

« on: November 23, 2024, 11:08:22 »

it depends.. selection does not have have to be done using mouse..

120

Support and Feedback / Re: How do I find the unique ID of internal or any other commands?

« on: November 23, 2024, 11:06:20 »

Keyboard customization, There you see all commands and also there id.. And you can even export a list to file from there (hold shift+ctrl when you click the export button to get the command ids)

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Support and Feedback / Re: Problems with configuring selection behavior

« on: November 23, 2024, 11:03:55 »

Toggle selection is something used for commander styled setup.  where you toggle selection on right mouse button.

It is possible to configure it to be similar to Windows Explorer. but not completely.. Since having it work in Commander Style setup is first priority.

For Windows Explorer like setup
Both Selection option under "Selection methods" should be on, and Muse option for toggle selection should NOT be used for click.

122

Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Tab Sessions drop down menu

« on: November 23, 2024, 10:55:16 »

No there is no command for that.
On my list I got an item. To show a session button that show a list of available session.. and button is only shown if you have more then 1 session defined

123

Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: "Click and hold" also triggers "Click" -> Please stop that

« on: November 23, 2024, 10:52:13 »

Maybe, but Im trying not to mess with how it works. Having it be a as configurable as it is, was a bad idea. There are so many situation where configurations mess with each and cause issues, and there are other things that are depending on mouse buttons like drag and drop, 'lasso' selection and more..
So if I do changes so one thing work better it will break it for how it works in another situation. There are too many combination to keep track off.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Is there a way to change the status bar?

« on: November 23, 2024, 10:06:57 »

Not currently..it is on the list.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Problems with Quick Search

« on: November 16, 2024, 10:17:32 »

By default in WIndows Exploer setup..  When you start typing a search box appere and the focus move to the first item matching what you typing. (You can move between matches using arrow up/down key)

You configure it in Explorer Panel settings > Display >
Go down to "Keyboard handling" section

There are a couple of settings for the quick search field.

(You if do not want the search box. you can disable it in the setting)