I have added a 3rd party tool (in my case, ExamDiff) in Toolbar which takes two parameters on command line.
Currently, no matter how many files I have selected, when I drag them into this tool on the Toolbar, only the first one is used as the parameter and the second one is ignored.
How can I tell TC that I want both selected files to be used as command line parameter for the tool?
Specify two files as parameters to buttons
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Apparently Drag & Drop currently work only with the first selected file.
Neither a listfile nor moire than one files are passed. I did check this with Process Explorer.
sheepdog
Neither a listfile nor moire than one files are passed. I did check this with Process Explorer.
sheepdog
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AlexF
You can use lst2str program to convert the list of selected files (%L) into one command line. But in this case you should not drag&drop them but just select the files needed and press the toolbar button.
You can use lst2str program to convert the list of selected files (%L) into one command line. But in this case you should not drag&drop them but just select the files needed and press the toolbar button.
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Using TC 10.52 / Win10 x64
Using TC 10.52 / Win10 x64
AlexF
Oh sorry, I mixed you up. So I rather took this as bug-report that a request for advice.
To get ExamDiff to work you can use Parameter: %N %M
what will open the files under the Cursor in source and target panel. Although only by clicking the button but not with drag & drop.
In other cases there may be a command line option to open the files from a list. E.g. with TextPad you can specify @%L (instead of %L) and it loads all files from Listfile passed by TC.
sheepdog
Oh sorry, I mixed you up. So I rather took this as bug-report that a request for advice.
To get ExamDiff to work you can use Parameter: %N %M
what will open the files under the Cursor in source and target panel. Although only by clicking the button but not with drag & drop.
In other cases there may be a command line option to open the files from a list. E.g. with TextPad you can specify @%L (instead of %L) and it loads all files from Listfile passed by TC.
sheepdog
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Sheepdog, thanks for advice... If I use "%P%N %T%M" then this works. However, this seems limiting to me - what if my Toolbar program needed three or more parameters, then the Source/Target variables wouldn't work. Neither does this work at all of both of my files are in same (Source) windows.
I don't understand this silly limitation in TC, why not construct command-line with selected files as parameters?
I don't understand this silly limitation in TC, why not construct command-line with selected files as parameters?
I also think that the Button is not fully featured :
for drag and drop it's should create a list if a %lLdD is defined in the parameters.
Add all the file replacing %F by a sequence of dragged files even adding automatialy the editor box like for the ?parameter.
it is also missing a way to get file list from target, get a list for all seleted file source + target.
It could also be nice to have all selected file from all Left Tabs, all Right Tabs an All tabs at once.
for drag and drop it's should create a list if a %lLdD is defined in the parameters.
Add all the file replacing %F by a sequence of dragged files even adding automatialy the editor box like for the ?parameter.
it is also missing a way to get file list from target, get a list for all seleted file source + target.
It could also be nice to have all selected file from all Left Tabs, all Right Tabs an All tabs at once.
Support all!nsp wrote:I also think that the Button is not fully featured :
for drag and drop it's should create a list if a %lLdD is defined in the parameters.
Add all the file replacing %F by a sequence of dragged files even adding automatialy the editor box like for the ?parameter.
it is also missing a way to get file list from target, get a list for all seleted file source + target.
It could also be nice to have all selected file from all Left Tabs, all Right Tabs an All tabs at once.
