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Beta Releases / Re: 2.6.0 b1159 - Questions

« on: August 13, 2012, 11:29:51 »

1. Is it possible to disable the behaviour of switching tabs on dragging files? Or maybe include modifier (ctrl/alt/shift).

When i drag files to the quicklaunch and mouse is over other tab, that tab becomes active.

No it can not be disabled. Is that really a big issue?.. can't you just drag the files around the tab area. ?

2. Will it be possible to pass multiple files to quicklaunch buttons?

Depends on what you mean. Dropping multiple files as a parameter to an existing button, Yes
Dropping multiple files to be added as buttons.  No..

3. Space key selects files/folders and calculates folder size. Is it possible to make it move cursor down like Insert does?

Their are plans to make them customizable.. But the problem is that the space and insert commands are a bit special and it is not easy to make to them user customizable in a good way.

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Beta Releases / Re: 2.6.0 b1159 - Questions

« on: August 10, 2012, 21:37:28 »

Yes. That is because they are not toolbar icons but normal buttons.

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Beta Releases / Re: 2.6 Beta - Change Log

« on: August 10, 2012, 17:21:28 »

 Changes since v2.5.1 :  160+ Changes

-- Build 1159
ADDED - Skydrive and Dropbox folder are added to the device dropdown list.
ADDED - Added Windows 8/Windows Server 2012 as supported OS.
ADDED - ScriptDebugger can now show content of arrays.
ADDED - Command line commands ":desk" and ":dl" to go to desktop and download folder.
ADDED - "Copy path to clipboard" as a toolbar button
FIXED - Updated a couple of the icons so they now looks better when showing the toolbar in 24/32/48 size
FIXED - Picture viewer did sometimes not show the picture at the first request to show it.
FIXED - Improved the performance a little when getting icons.
FIXED - Special folder that has special icon will now be shown with that icon.
FIXED - Selection checkboxes are now drawn in thumbnail mode.
FIXED - Some dialogs did not show when selected (Alias editor and Extension manager)
FIXED - Vertical gridline was drawn incorrect in List and Thumbnail mode.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Multi files rename tool

« on: August 09, 2012, 10:11:22 »

Menu > Extensions > Multi-Rename

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Beta Releases / Re: 2.6 Beta - Change Log

« on: August 07, 2012, 17:52:05 »

 Changes since v2.5.1 : 140+ Changes

-- Build 1153
ADDED - Thumbnail support now starting to work. (Not supported on Windows XP yet)
FIXED - Problem when unpacking zip using ALT+F6 (File > Menu > Unpack ) and target folder was a UNC path ( \\server\share )
FIXED - User Defined command on the QuickLauchbar will now recieve dropped files as parameter.
FIXED - Some icons was loaded incorrectly and was scaled even if they did not have to be.
FIXED - Many internal changes and fixes.

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Blog post comments / Multi Commander 2.6 BETA - Build 1153

« on: August 07, 2012, 17:50:56 »

Multi Commander v2.6 [BETA] Build 1153

Comments and feedback for the blog post should be posted here in this forum topic.
No bug reports here. post then in the Beta Release forum topic

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Quick Search Exit

« on: August 02, 2012, 17:36:30 »

Pressing ESC should break quick search and close the quick search window.

But maybe the quick search settings you have make it fail.. So how is quick search configured for you ?

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Icon sizes different for each panel?

« on: July 31, 2012, 14:38:15 »

Not sure if that is possible to add in a good way.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Copy with administrative priviliges

« on: July 31, 2012, 14:16:30 »

Retry as admin does not work for RAR. since rar is handling read/write to and from disk by it self.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Open New Panels With Tree Visible (internals)

« on: July 30, 2012, 09:24:08 »

Well, i don't try to change your mind I like the possibility to perform several simultaneous searches. You're right, everything should be easy. And efficient.

Even if I wanted to change It would be to late now. But there is a lot of caching and memory sharing, ref counting and things in MC that makes sure that it does not waste memory and that performance is not slow.

[irony] It just makes me sad when i see an application with single empty form that does nothing and has size ~1Mb. And i can't understand how the hell 2GHz CPU + 1Gb RAM + 128Mb video can not be enough for playing Tetris or 8-bit style game! [/irony]

Yes that is just bad programming.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Open New Panels With Tree Visible (internals)

« on: July 30, 2012, 08:08:15 »

I can say nothing about smartphones since i've never had one, but i definitely prefer to have one phone for all my contact list rather than lots - phone per contact   

More like many contact applications inside the phone can use the same contact list. But the point with the phone thing was the app model that phones are using.
MC is kind of similar with its plugin API. MC is build around a app model where the Explorer Panel and search, checksum, (and more) are Apps that is build using the core API layer. This make it easy to add new features and extend MC. It makes everything modular and easier to maintain and update.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Open New Panels With Tree Visible (internals)

« on: July 30, 2012, 07:46:14 »

Yes of course performance is important. That is one of the reason it is done this way. Sharing GUI you had to remember the state and content of everything manually.  There also would have been a delay when saving/restoring the state was soon as you changed tab. But it probably would not be that noticeable since a computer are really fast.
And the code would be horrible and not modular.

Now all instance of an "apps" (like the Explorer Panel) are self contained like they are own programs running inside a program witch make then easier to extend. And the app module also make it easier to add new features.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Open New Panels With Tree Visible (internals)

« on: July 29, 2012, 10:30:50 »

(And if it is never shown then it is never fully created, and does not take up any resources)

If i want to always see a tree, it means that it will be created for every tab. And for 10 tabs on each side there will be 100 trees? But since there is always one visible active tab on each panel, it means that actually only 2 trees needed.

100..?? no you have only 2 sides not 10..  so of 10 tabs on the left and 10 to the right,  20 instances of the explorer panel is created.

You could technically use the same Tree/List elements for all tabs and only show the content for the active tabs. But that would be messy. And is not good coding.

Every instance of a Explorer Panel\Search\LanEditor\CheckSum  is like an "app" (Like the one you have in smartphones.).  but instances of showing them in own windows they are shown in tabs.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Open New Panels With Tree Visible (internals)

« on: July 29, 2012, 09:56:04 »

Press the tree button or Alt+Num* to toggle it.  by default it is always off.

So each tab has its own tree? Or just some attribute? I think each explorer panel should have only one tree and it should be either always visible for all tabs or always hidden.

A tab is a new instance of a Explorer Panel. and the Tree is located inside the tab. so every tab has its own tree.  It is just not shown by default. (And if it is never shown then it is never fully created, and does not take up any resources)

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Support and Feedback / Re: Open New Panels With Tree Visible

« on: July 28, 2012, 23:16:18 »

Press the tree button or Alt+Num* to toggle it.  by default it is always off.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Unable to Rename Folder in Tree

« on: July 28, 2012, 23:15:32 »

You can not rename in the tree part. Go to parent folder and rename in list part.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Problem with copying directories.

« on: July 27, 2012, 11:19:30 »

Not sure I understand what you are doing.

If you do a copy, then the folder should still be their. it is a copy.. or you mean that you did a move ?
and if so.. How did you move the folder?

Does a refresh/reload ( F2 or F5 depending on key setup ) fix it ?

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Support and Feedback / Re: Split Size Always Reverts to 50/50

« on: July 27, 2012, 09:22:31 »

Yes that settings is not saved between restarts.

It was doing that before but got lots of requests from user that they wanted it to be reset at restart.

Maybe I will add a settings about it in the future.

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Blog post comments / MOVED: Multi Commander 2.6 BETA - Build 1142 - Bugs

« on: July 27, 2012, 09:19:05 »

This topic has been moved to Beta Releases.

http://forum.multicommander.com/forum/index.php?topic=551.0

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Beta Releases / Re: Multi Commander 2.6 BETA - Build 1142 - Bugs

« on: July 27, 2012, 09:17:57 »

1. When 24x24 icons selected for explorer panel, icons overlap each other and filenames overlap icons.

The bug is that you can select 24x24. I forgot to remove that settings for the Explorer Panel. It does not support that at all yet. I was checking to see how much work it would take to fix support for it. And it require a bit more rewrite and I have time for right now so Explorer Panel will not support 24x24 icons at this time.

2. If Quicklaunch bar (standalone) was hidden via menu View->Toolbars, it is shown after MC restart.

I know and it is a bit messy to fix. Not sure it will be fixed. Maybe.

3. If Drives toolbar was hidden via menu View->Toolbars, it is shown again after Language change and MC restart.

The settings survives normal MC restarts, But not language change. hmm that was strange. I will investigate that.
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Request. If "Forward keys to commandline" option enabled and Commandline bar is hidden, automaticaly show it when user types text and hide it again after command execution.

You are right, I was planing that but forgot about it. I will put it on the list right away so I do not forget that again.

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Tips and Tricks / Correct Folder date

« on: July 26, 2012, 14:27:37 »

This is another of the lesser know feature of Multi Commander.

One thing that is a bit annoying with how the file system works in Windows is how the file system changes the date of a folder if a file in that folder is removed/added. If you add (or remove) a file in a folder, then the date of the folder that this files was added to is also changed.

And Sometimes you do not want. Because you are for example sorting the folders by date. and now the sorting is messed up.

For example

Say you got folders with pictures you have taken on different vacations you been on and the date of the folder are matching the date of the files inside the folder. The picture files inside the folders have the date and time of when the picture was taken so the folder have the date and time of the latest picture.
(Btw, The tool 'Adjust EXIF date information' can also set the file date to match the date of the EXIF date from the picture )

So when sorting the picture folder by date you will get the folder in the correct order.

Folder          Date
Sidney        2011-04-16
New York      2010-11-12
Pairs         2009-12-12


But then you remove some of your bad picture from the Paris folder. The problem is that the date of the Paris folder will now change.

Folder          Date
Pairs         2012-07-26
Sidney        2011-04-16
New York      2010-11-12


To correct it you can modify the date you self. But if you have many folders with incorrect date that is a pain.

It is now the "Correct Folder Date/Time" tool that you find under the tools menu in Multi Commander come to use.

This tool will scan the files inside the folder and its subfolder and then change the date/time of the folder and subfolders to the time of the latest date/time of a file inside that folder.
So the folder will now receive the date and time of the latest file in that folder.

You will have the option to exclude files from the scan. For example if you added a text file to you pictures with description and other information about the picture you might not what the scan to include the date of that file into the scan, You then enter "*.txt" in the Ignore field.
Or you could also add *.jpg in the Include Only field.

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Support and Feedback / Re: quick launch program parameters and multi tags

« on: July 26, 2012, 10:19:23 »

User Defined Commands (UDC) can not have "parameters" to them at all. And UDC that are on the QuickLaunchBar does not support dropped files. (Dropped files are only support when the command is on the button panel) But it is on my list to add support for it. So it will be supported.

So for now you have to select the files instead and make the script use selected files.

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Blog post comments / Re: Multi Commander 2.6 BETA - Build 1142

« on: July 25, 2012, 17:10:17 »

Yes some of them only exists as 16x16.. Will have to see If I can find some replacement for them..

Think it is the Refresh, Back, Forward and History button.

And the icons would also look a lot better in Medium size (24x24) if the icons supported that size.  right now only 16 and 32 are support in most of the icons. So when choosing 24 or 48 icon size the icons are scaled. And the on XP the Medium size look worse then on Vista/Win7 since XP will scale up the 16 icon to 24, on Vista/Win7 the 32 sizes icon will be scaled down to 24, that looks better.
Best would be the have icons that are 24 from the beginning and not scale at all. But that is not an option at the moment since I can not draw icons my self. (Well I can. but they will look very very ugly)

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Blog post comments / Multi Commander 2.6 BETA - Build 1142

« on: July 25, 2012, 16:06:02 »

Multi Commander v2.6 [BETA] Build 1142

Comments for the blog post should be posted here in the forum topic

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Beta Releases / Re: 2.6 Beta - Change Log

« on: July 25, 2012, 15:40:55 »

Changes since v2.5.1 : 100+ Changes

-- Build 1142
FIXED - The entire row QuickLaunch Toolbar can now be disabled from the menu on XP.
FIXED - Multi-Script Debugger works better. And have now support for hotkeys.
FIXED - A lot of internal changes to prepare for future additons.
ADDED - Command line commands ":box" and ":sky" to go to Dropbox/Skydrive folder. (If working well more support is comming)
ADDED - When loading an icon of a invalid size. A bigger icons size is choosen and icon is scaled down. (Not WinXP)
ADDED - Added support for more icon sizes for the main toolbar and QuickLaunchbar, Main toolbars can now be shown in 16/24/32/48