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Beta Releases / Re: MC V17 Early Access PREVIEW 2

« Last post by total_annihilation00 on Yesterday at 16:08:04 »

#2 Nothing with this was "fix" so dont know why you got this before. might be because you resize panel size in startup them

#5 Can't replicate this. Never seen that happen.

File Header Column and Color Rules Editor Bugs

The File Header Column bug remains a significant issue, and the Color Rules Editor bug is still unresolved. I suspect the root cause may be related to panel sizing behavior upon startup—specifically, that panels initialize at a 50/50 split and then resize to 100/0. Could you please investigate and address this ?

I rely heavily on the File Column Headers. Even if I need to revert to the [Default] layout, I want to avoid having to manually reconfigure the File Column Header layouts for each of my dozens of tabs every time I launch MC. As you mentioned earlier, this may be due to the layout states not being properly synchronized or persisted asynchronously.

Please look into these two issues.

Additionally, I can now finally assign Ctrl+Page Up/Page Down to navigate between tabs (after removing these keys from Next Sibling Folder / Previous Sibling Folder bindings). Thanks !

Additional Feature Request and Observations

P.S. Would it be possible to add an MC command that refreshes the File Column Header layout and automatically resizes the columns accordingly? This would be useful to run after resizing the Left Panel to 100/0, allowing me to quickly restore the correct column sizes. Ideally, this command could also apply the current Column Layout to all open tabs, streamlining the workflow.

P.P.S. I suspect the issue with the File Column Header Layout was related to spaces in the layout name. For example, changing "My Advanced Tweaks" to "AdvancedTweak" appears to have mitigated the problem, as only the focused tab at startup is now abnormally squashed. However, I’ve noticed that neither the first tab nor the current startup tab are correctly applying the designated Column Layout, requiring me to manually adjust two tabs each time.

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Beta Releases / Re: MC V17 Early Access PREVIEW 2

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on Yesterday at 15:42:31 »

3 bugs are fixed:
(Fixed #1) The Sorted Column is remembered properly (the little triangle) (doesn't get unsorted or reset to Name Column like before when there is a new defined custom Layout "My Advanced Tweaks" in my case) !

(Fixed #2) The Date Created Column is visible now !

(Fixed #3) In "Windows Explorer" Colors mode you can now right-click the File Header Column !

2 Bugs remain:
(Issue #4) Color Rules are still broken though (a new Color Rule is actually the parent Color Rule, it's not selectable or editable as a new item.)

(Issue #5) File Header Column is still squashed together on Startup, have to manually select the Layout for it to re-display correctly auto-resized (tested with my script to auto-resize left-panel to 100% ("-autorun" command-line User-Defined COmmand script)). It also still works better when there's only a single "[Default]" layout (together with the "Pictures" and "Music" standard layouts.)

#2 Nothing with this was "fix" so dont know why you got this before. might be because you resize panel size in startup them

#5 Can't replicate this. Never seen that happen.

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Beta Releases / Re: MC V17 Early Access PREVIEW 2

« Last post by total_annihilation00 on Yesterday at 15:31:25 »

5 bugs are fixed:
(Fixed #1) The Sorted Column is remembered properly (the little triangle) (doesn't get unsorted or reset to Name Column like before when there is a new defined custom Layout "My Advanced Tweaks" in my case) !

(Fixed #2) The Date Created Column is visible now !

(Fixed #3) In "Windows Explorer" Colors mode you can now right-click the File Header Column !

(Fixed #4) Ctrl+Page Up and Ctrl+Page Down (Page Up/ Page Down keys essentially) are assignable now and the text is not hidden in the Keyboard Customization dialog !

(Fixed #5) Both Keyboard Customization dialog and Folder Settings dialog fit on screen (on 1366x768) so they're resized perfectly !

2 Bugs remain:
(Issue #6) Color Rules are still broken though (a new Color Rule is actually the parent Color Rule, it's not selectable or editable as a new item.)

(Issue #7) File Header Column is still squashed together on Startup, have to manually select the Layout for it to re-display correctly auto-resized (tested with my script to auto-resize left-panel to 100% ("-autorun" command-line User-Defined Command script)). It also still works better when there's only a single "[Default]" layout (together with the "Pictures" and "Music" standard layouts.)

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Beta Releases / Re: MC V17 Early Access PREVIEW

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on Yesterday at 12:07:30 »

Preview #2 is out.   Download and test
https://forum.multicommander.com/forum/index.php/topic,5240.0.html

(Locking this forum. use new forum topic for Preview #2 stuff

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Beta Releases / MC V17 Early Access PREVIEW 2

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on Yesterday at 12:05:54 »

Preview #2

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Version 17 is not ready for stable release anytime soon, But it already has a lot of new things that need testing

Not everything added to v17 might be included in the final release.
v17 contain many MAJOR rewrites and new addition.

• File Tags/Labels and comments system
• Folder Specific settings
• New Keyboard customization system
• Total rewrite of List/Grid UI component used for File List view, FolderTree view, Most List/Grid UI componets. Without this rewrite all the 3 items above would not be possible
• MultiFileViewer can now show CSV/Parquet files as data in a grid. and if it is CSV it can be edited and modified and saved backed
• Some extension in MC can now be developed using .Net/C#
• Checksum extension now support Blake3 checksum algorithm

This is a early preview. Since it is a early preview it is time locked. and will stop to work after sep-30. (but a new updated version will be out.. )
However it will not be possible to auto update this version until in reached beta. there might be more 16.x releases with fixes before this is officially out

Since this is early preview. NOW is the time to come with feedback you want something to change. How a features with file tags or folder specific settings works or something like that.

Since this preview is developed separately from v16.x, When a new preview is released, it might not have all the fixes or addition that 16.x has. Right not V17 Preview has everything 16.2 build 3205 has. (I think)

Read more and see images here
https://multicommander.com/Articles/multicommander-v17-preview-1

Download portable version here (64bit only) (Preview 2)
https://multicommander.com/files/updates/preview/MultiCommander_x64_Portable_(17.0.0.3411).zip

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Support and Feedback / Re: WebView problem

« Last post by nietrupek on September 13, 2026, 00:25:28 »

I dno't know.. WebView is a Microsoft component to show HTML in an application.. And used by lots and lots of apps..

In my system these "lots of apps" is exactly 1 app (besides MC).

Error 0x80080005 means "access denied". so something is blocking it.

Yes! I am the one to blame. About 3 years ago Microsoft tried aggressively to force me to use Edge browser so I searched for remedy. Found it here: https://www.sordum.org/9312/edge-blocker-v2-0/
As you see, it not only blocks Edge but WEbView as well.

Problem solved, thank you.

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Beta Releases / Re: MC V17 Early Access PREVIEW

« Last post by total_annihilation00 on September 12, 2026, 10:55:27 »

lets wait until next preview and see what stills applies..  lots around this are already changed so some of it is probably not valid anymore. See if I can put out a updated preview tonight

Sounds good !

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Beta Releases / Re: MC V17 Early Access PREVIEW

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on September 12, 2026, 09:55:22 »

lets wait until next preview and see what stills applies..  lots around this are already changed so some of it is probably not valid anymore. See if I can put out a updated preview tonight

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Beta Releases / Re: MC V17 Early Access PREVIEW

« Last post by total_annihilation00 on September 12, 2026, 05:03:07 »

Thought I might also bring these to your attention:

• V16 shows a Color Picker popup (in Core Settings > Colors) but V17 goes straight to the Color dialog, if this is a design choice then ignore.
• I found some other hotkeys using Page Up and Page Down to also be invisible/ hidden in the "Keyboard Customization" dialog !
• Like the "Keyboard Customization" dialog that you resized, the "Folder Settings" dialog is also slightly lying out of the screen (might want to fix that as well.)
• My File Header Column is buggy again, could be because I made a "User-Defined Script" to autorun (command-line parameter) to make the Left Panel 100% long, or could be because I manually edited the ColumnSets.xml and made some changes (renamed it to Default I don't know. But fixing the File Column Header (and Layouts) would be a big step up !

There was another minor coloring glitch but I omitted it for now: in V16 for instance I have (in Core Settings > Colors tab) Settings Panel > Tab > textcolor as "Button Text" ("Windows Standard Colors" option) which is black (correctly) but on V17 it shows "Button Text" text color as Gray/ White.

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Beta Releases / Re: MC V17 Early Access PREVIEW

« Last post by total_annihilation00 on September 11, 2026, 15:11:28 »

I just noticed this now, in V17, the "Date Created" File Column displays nothing ! It's an empty field throughout —it works fine in V16.2 ! Is this a known bug ?!

Column "Extended - Date Created" ?
Works for me. Strange..

You path say thumbstick. is that is usb stick mounted into a path ?  does it happens only under that path or everywhere ?

Yes, "Extended - Date Created" And no it's a local harddrive folder, not a USB Drive (I use it to store temporarily for transferring files to my USB Drive.) It happens everywhere. Even in a fresh copy of MC V17. (updated the screenshots)