BUG 7.50a: Filelist not properly refreshed

[wanderer]

Let's say a file is being downloaded in firefox (i.e. "firefox setup.exe"). I have set TC to display all EXEs with a different color than the default (in this example the default is gray and the EXE color is red). While the download is in progress, firefox adds a ".part" extension to the file being downloaded and also creates a "firefox setup.exe" file with 0 bytes size.

Image 1

When the download finishes, the "firefox setup.exe" is probably deleted, and the "firefox setup.exe.part" is renamed to "firefox setup.exe". When this happens, the list is refreshed (i have checked the "refresh when files are created, deleted and renamed" in options). There are some issues though.

1. The file being downloaded is shown as "firefox setup.exe" in the list but it's color is the default (gray) and not the EXEs one (red).

2. I have set the filelist to be displayed in Brief mode. When the file is renamed from "firefox setup.exe.part" to "firefox setup.exe", the new filename ("firefox setup.exe") may no longer be the longest one displayed in the filelist, however the width of the "name" column is not updated in order to reflect the "new longest filename".

3. The filelist is not properly sorted but that may be a normal behavior.

See Image 2 for an example of all the issues i mention above.

The filelist must be manually refreshed in order for the color and the column width to be properly displayed and for the filelist to be sorted, as shown in Image 3. Also, if TC looses focus (by clicking on the desktop), when it regains it the filelist is fully refreshed and properly shown (as shown in Image 3).

[ghisler(Author)]

1. TC doesn't update colors when file system update events occur. Why? Updating colors especially via some plugins can take a LONG time. since TC handles system update events once per second, they could bring TC to a halt.

2. This is also intentional to avoid heavy flickering every second, it would make TC unusable.

3. Indeed the file position isn't changed when a system update event occurs once it has been added to the list. This is also intentional to keep TC usable.

[wanderer]

Thanks for explaining Christian. I believed 1 and 2 would be easy to solve but i guess it wasn't true. F2 (refresh) does the job anyway, so...