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Script / Re: Create emty text file
« on: May 14, 2012, 12:51:38 »
Unfortunately I do not think there is a way I set the file into rename mode after that.

Calling one of the internal commands from script would solve that. I been planing to add something like that. I will see if I can add that in the next version.

If you just want to create an empty file you can also write "cf <filename>" in the commandline field. Then an empty file with the given name is created in the current location.



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Showing the shell context menu when right clicking on drive button is something that I have on my list.

If I get the time I will included it into the next version.

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That have worked before, I will check and fix that.


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I don't know exactly what problem DelInvFile fixes.

Multi Commander do support extra long path in most places.  up to around 4096 characters in most places and up to 32000+ in some other.





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Support and Feedback / Re: Customisation
« on: May 11, 2012, 20:01:44 »
By the way, tooltips for these items look strange.

Yes the tooltip are strange. They are referring to text item in the language files that does not exists.

I will fix that

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Support and Feedback / Re: Customisation
« on: May 11, 2012, 19:58:54 »
Why did I not just attach a working config definition file to my post.. hehe

Sure.. here it is.. replace this file with the one that is installed and it should work

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Support and Feedback / Re: Customisation
« on: May 11, 2012, 19:55:13 »
Yes it is the settings panel that has a bug. There is a way to fix it manually-

Edit "<mc install location>\Config\ZFileManager_def.xml"

At around line 145 you see


      <item type="chk" key="layout/customdatetimeformat" attribute="value" default="0" text="#s382">
        <item type="edit" key="layout/customdateformat" attribute="value" default="yyyy-MM-dd" tooltip="#s383" />
        <item type="edit" key="layout/customtimeformat" attribute="value" default="HH:mm" tooltip="#s384"  />
      </item>


Change that into

      <item type="chk" key="layout/customdatetimeformat" attribute="value" default="0" text="#s382">
        <item type="edit2" key="layout/customdateformat" attribute="value" default="yyyy-MM-dd" tooltip="#s383" />
        <item type="edit2" key="layout/customtimeformat" attribute="value" default="HH:mm" tooltip="#s384"  />
      </item>


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Support and Feedback / Re: Customisation
« on: May 11, 2012, 19:33:55 »
Indeed, custom datetime format is not applied.

1. No changes are made to ZFileManager.xml file when saving settings.
2. If values are changed manually by some editor, then they are loaded and displayed in settings page, but have no effect in Explorer panel.

So the only visible effect is when you enable/disable "Use custom date and time format" option. But most probably only default hardcoded custom format is used.

There are no hardcoded format. by default is uses the same format that is defined by Windows, and that is depended on your regional settings in Windows.

But there is some issue here.. I think it is the settings panel that does not trigger that the edit field has changed.

But If you edit (zfilemanger.xml) it manually it works (xml tag "customdateformat" and "customtimeformat".)  just make sure that the option "use custom date and time format" ("customdatetimeformat") is also active. else it will not try to load it




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Support and Feedback / Re: Customisation
« on: May 11, 2012, 16:42:42 »
Sir, I went to Use Custom date and time format option. It showed checked and has only two sub-options. yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm which are fixed. There is no option to add or replace or delete them. Tell me how do I change to d/M/yy H:mm.
Double Click in the "yyyy-MM-dd" field and it will enters edit mode, and you can modify it

Check following link on how the date and time format should be written

Date Format
Time Format

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Support and Feedback / Re: What's Recommended HotKey method
« on: May 11, 2012, 13:51:36 »
I don't think it is possible to change in windows what program should be opened when you press WIN+E

You need some hotkey program that override the default behavior of Windows.

I never used it myself but I think you should be able to do it with AutoHotKey


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Support and Feedback / Re: Customisation
« on: May 11, 2012, 12:14:35 »
How to customize panel columns (Name with Extension, Size in bytes,  Date in H:mm, Time in m:ss) and delete Attrib column.  How to save this permanently.
Sir, my Windows Xp default date settings are d/M/yy and time settings are H:mm. How can this format be set and saved ?

By default it is using the date and time format defined in Windows. But you can override that in

Menu > Configuration > Explorer Panel Settings > Layout (Tab)

Scroll down to Date / Time format

There you can check "Use custom date and time format" and then change the format there below.

How to create Hotkeys to Compare files between left and right panel by Name or Size or Time). How to save this permanently.
Sir, when I go to menu > configuration > Keyboard customization > Explorer Panel and select Edit - Compare Folders Select Newest/Missing and remove Existing key then enter new hotkey then assign and save, it is not saved permanently. When I close and restart Multi Commander, This option does not show new assigned hotkey.
When you makes change in keyboard customization the configuration file : CustomKeymappings.xml  is created/change.
Look in your configuration folder if that file exists. and if it is changes when you do a change.

To find the config folder goto
Menu > Help > Goto > Config Folder

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Support and Feedback / Re: Customisation
« on: May 11, 2012, 07:47:21 »
1. How to customize panel columns (Name with Extension, Size in bytes,  Date in H:mm, Time in m:ss) and delete Attrib column.  How to save this permanently.
Right click on the column header and select "Customize Column Sets..." and then select the "[Default]" column set.
Then click on the change button under the list of column to modify what columns to show, When you done then press "Save Changes" How this column setup will be used as default.

2. How to prefix folders at time of start (Left : C:\Program Files\MultiCommander, Right : D:\Data Files0. How to save this permanently.
Normally it will remember last folder you was in and keep that. But if you want the same path always to be shown you can send then as parameters to the program.
You edit the shortcut for MultiCommander.exe and add to the -L="path left" -R="path right"
for more command line option check the online doc here

3. How to create Hotkeys to Compare files between left and right panel by Name or Size or Time). How to save this permanently.
menu > configuration > Keyboard customization

Under module select "Explorer Panel" and under commands you need to scroll down and you see "Edit - Compare Folder, Select ....." commands and you can there assign hotkeys for the commands.


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I wish [some] toolbars would be rearrangeable and dockable not only horizontally but also vertically. Monitors become wider but not higher. So a toolbar buttons may take only half (or even less) of useful horizontal space, but a whole vertical position.
That will not be support.  It is not possible the way everything is built.  But Toolbars will be able to be shown/hidden but it will not be possible to rearrange them in different order.

E.g. Button panel. I think it's redundant. 32 buttons, 4 states = 128 buttons. And it also can't be located vertically. I tried to move it outside MC's window and resize it: i thought buttons will be rearranged from 4x8 to e.g. 1x32, but they just became narrow and high - not what i expected.
So here is what i think:
If the button panel was dynamic in rearranging the buttons the behavior when showing them would be very strange, I tried that.. Did not work good. But some changes for it are coming. It will be easier to change how many rows to show. (Today you have to manually change it in the config file) and it will also be possible to disable the alternative buttons stats for the buttons.

If you want it vertical you can edit the MultiButtons.xml file manually and change cols="8" to cols="1". But you need to move buttons around if you want to keep them because they are fixed to row,col position.

1. File filters may be moved to the ones in the explorer panels as dropdown items with ability to edit them.
2. Drive buttons (in the button panel) are useless since they may be shown in explorer panels
3. Hotpaths may be also expanded in a way to store more paths: e.g. paths with assigned hotkeys Ctrl+<digit> would be "hot paths" and first in the list, others would be "quick paths"
1. Moved ? you mean changed from an edit field into a dropdown with history of previous filter ? Something like that is/was planned. But it did not work so good. I might give it another go later on.
2. There are a lot of thinks that are double. Some user prefer them there and some prefer the drive toolbar. and some user change just change the buttons to what they want there instead.
3. The idea with the hotpath is that they are assigned to hotkey Ctrl+<num> and since there only are 10 digits on the keyboard I do not think it would be good to have more there. But a whole new path/file favorite system is under design. It might replace the hotpath completely. not sure yet.

So button panel may become just one of the toolbars. And toolbars would need some additional options like "Only text", "Only icon", "Text and icon". So user would be able to create own toolbars: some might look like present button panel, some like ordinary toolbar.
I was testing that but it did not workout so good since the toolbars will be very long and even on large monitors you will run out of screen space.

Optionally, custom user toolbars may be additionally represented by menus (or/and menus may be represented as toolbars).
There will be a way to add own commands to a toolbar. More info about this is coming soon.


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have you considered using some open-source icons that already exist. There literally are thousands to choose from.
On a slightly more detailed point if you code it to use icons from an external set then you might be able to incorporate themes to suit each user's taste. These theme set icons could be easily modified and shared by everyone and you could end up with some really high class icons as standard.

Good points..

I actually already uses a couple of free icons (not many 3-4 ). But there are a problem with a lot of the free icons and it is there license. Since Multi Commander is not open source not all free icons can be used. It depends on there license.

Using "Icon Packs" is something I have been thinking about. But because of the generic and plugin architecture in Multi Commander the icons are loaded from many different places. So it is not something that is easy fixed. I do however have an idea about a solution for it. But it need some more work before it can be added.

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If I can put forward my thoughts?
The 'Heading Bar' at the top of the list display with the options for "Name","Ext","Size" and "Date" is counter-intuitive to the format of display we are expecting in a list display.
That is to say if I select 'List' and my files are then arranged in columns displaying my files by "Name"(like your screenshot) then the 'Heading Bar' should not look like it is Heading columns for undisplayed information such as "Size" or "Date". Rather the 'Heading Bar' should be removed and the options to change the style of sorting the files should come from a small dropdown box, like the Drive box or maybe an option in the right-click menu, personally I prefer the right-click option.

I know it looks strange. But it is there for two reason. For sorting as you said, And changing it to a dropdown is not really possible. There is no good place to place that. The header is also used to change the width of the filename column. dragging and making it small and you will be able to see more column but some files might get "..." at the ends.

I might change the draw style of the headers that are not shown a bit. So it is more clear that they are not used for display

I might also add an option so it is possible to hide the header, because it is possible to change sorting with shortcuts

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An Early Look - New Toolbar system

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

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Something like this


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Support and Feedback / Re: Saving Settings
« on: May 06, 2012, 12:05:57 »
No, there is no automatic way of reverting back settings.

You can export  and import settings using the export/import buttons in the settings panel. It will allow you do export and import just some specific settings.
Then there is also a backup and restore option under the help menu. It will backup all configuration files.
But most of the configuration files that are changed then customizing the UI is MultiCommander.xml and ZFileManager.xml so it might be easier to just create copies of them your self.

Go get to the folder where the configuration files are stored select
Menu > Help > Goto > Config Folder


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Support and Feedback / Re: Search listing/box in same Panel?
« on: May 05, 2012, 14:28:55 »
In v2.1.2 (1045) You can now with custom command start the search in the same panel that you have focus in.

Create a new user command of "custom command" type

and insert
Code: [Select]
MC.FileSearch.Search PANEL=ACTIVE SEARCHIN="${sourcepath}"Then save that command.

Then to setup the hotkey. You first need to remove the hotkey for the current search and then assign it to this command.

Click on "hotkey" to assign hotkey for this command.

You first need to go to "Explorer Panel" under "module" and remove hotkey for search there.
after that go back to "User Defined Commands" under module, and select you new start search command and assign alt+F7 to that.

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Blog post comments / Re: [Blog Post] - An Early Look - List Mode
« on: April 29, 2012, 11:39:32 »
Good point Jungle about having the extension be right aligned in the same column.

I will keep your suggestion in mind when going forward with this.


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Support and Feedback / Re: filecount with shift-PGDN select
« on: April 28, 2012, 13:47:28 »
PS: is multi column listing by any chance on the horizon? :D

Check this

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Blog post comments / [Blog Post] - An Early Look - List Mode
« on: April 28, 2012, 13:45:22 »
Blog Post - An Early Look - List Mode

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

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Support and Feedback / Re: Search listing/box in same Panel?
« on: April 28, 2012, 12:23:18 »
This issues have been logged and have tracking id #177 , #178

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Support and Feedback / Re: Search listing/box in same Panel?
« on: April 28, 2012, 12:12:43 »
search box ? you mean the search panel  ( Ctrl+f7 ? )

It is always opened in the opposite panel because it should not block the view of there you focus is. But I can understand that you might want that.

Thanks for reporting this. Looks like there are a couple of minor issues with this.

1) There was a way to do this before, But it looks like that does not work anymore. I will fix that.

2) You can also start the search with custom command scripting. BUT there is a bug here so it is always created on the right side.  To start it is also need the searchfor and seachin parametrs or it is not created. but they can be empty
( "MC.FileSearch.Search SEARCHFOR= SEARCHIN= ")
This will also be fixed.


All this will be fixed in the next version.
Until then you have to drag the tab over to the other side.


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Support and Feedback / Re: filecount with shift-PGDN select
« on: April 28, 2012, 11:47:56 »
thanks for reporting this bug. I will fix this for the next release.

This issue have been logged and have tracking id #176

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