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Good afternoon, I understood that it was not possible when TC was only on win 9.x/xp/7/8/ce but now it is available on adroid. Android is linux. Mac osx is unix like (bsd/darwin..). It is not far away from linux platfom. On mac osx is not good file manager. Please make TC on OSX.
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Unfortunately it's not the same - Android is a huge Java-style framework on top of Linux with lots of classes.

Furthermore, the Android version is very simple, with much less functions than TZ for Windows. There are quite a few more advanced Commander-style programs for MacOS available:
- Midnight Commander (command line tool)
- muCommander: http://www.mucommander.com/
- Disk Order: http://www.likemac.ru/english/
- Fork Lift: http://www.binarynights.com/
- PathFinder: http://www.cocoatech.com/
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I know that actual version of TC is not easy port to osx, but what about taking old source code for example 16 bit earliest version of "windows commander", that is not written in delphi, but pascal ?

http://www.oldversion.com/windows/download/total-commander-1-12e

you mentioned some file managers for osx, but they are very bad with comparison to TC. I want only old school NC like 2 window file manager (volkov commander ..) with basic work with files - functions like f5,f6,f7 ...

delphi is still alive

http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/XE4/en/Mac_OS_X_Application_Development

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FireMonkey

did you realize that you are creator of world most famous delphi app ?

platform osx and iOS would not be ignored in the future if only from your business income view ..

http://www.freebyte.com/programming/delphi/
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Yes, I'm aware of Delphi XE versions with MacOS support. The problem is that I'm calling a LOT of Windows functions directly, some of which is just necessary to make TC behave as it does now. Just a small example: With normal Delphi programs, when you minimize the main form, all others are minimized too. So translated to TC , when you minimize the file manager, all Lister windows would be minimized too. This required a few hacks to the internals of the Delphi library (same problem with Lazarus). There are actually thousands of such hacks now - as you may know, the last 1% takes 99% of the time, but this last percent makes the difference between a mediocre and a good program.
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ok thanks for clear explanation, generally in real life pareto principle 80/20 works ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
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:arrow: trevor12
Thank you for the reference to the Pareto principle. I don't know it, but I understand and i like it, thank's !
Effectively, 20% of TC gives me 80% of my productivity (WinXp, Win7, Win8, Android)...
I can understand that misses under OSX...

:wink:

Sorry for my bad english :oops:
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OS X programmers now developing for App Store. This way is easier to earn money :) and software like TC would be impossible to submit to the Store. it's very sad
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Yes indeed - and you never know when Apple starts to block all non-store programs as on the iPhone.
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I'm a developer of the Mover - project that is very similar to Total Commander.
You're welcome to try it: themaninhat com/mover
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Now, there is:

FASTCOMMANDER.COM

Just download and install. You must allow non-appstore software. This will be fixed in future version with Apple developer certificate.

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CRAX

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Try CRAX which is available on EWAS.PL
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Hi,

I have just released new FastCommander 1.3.

There are UI improvements and bugfixes.

Download from:

http://fastcommander.com
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Post by *mastabog »

Crax is indeed cloning TC and is suceeding for the most part. It has plenty of TC features and looks. I hope the author will continue to add and complete it.

I'm still missing the "Brief" mode (multi-column) for file listing and the display of file details (date,time,attribs,perms) in the status bar. Currently it only displays file in one column, and the status bar shows only the path and free space.

Other than that, it's a primissing clone.
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