Hotkey to open buttonbar icon on right or left

tcebob · Post by *tcebob » 2017-07-02, 15:03 UTC

Is there such a thing? Now I have duplicate buttons for some items to open right or left. But that strategy eats up space.

Horst.Epp · Post by *Horst.Epp » 2017-07-02, 15:18 UTC

What do you mean with Open left or right ?
You can make buttons to pull-down a menu
so you only need the space for one button to select your diffrent entries.

Stefan2 · Post by *Stefan2 » 2017-07-02, 15:30 UTC

On default, most command work on current active panel, no matter if that is the left or the right one.
At least as long as you don't use explicit a cm_LeftXXX or cm_RightXXX command, or have the "Start in" non-empty.

Right click your button, chose Copy and paste here, so someone can help you pointing you in the right direction.
Everything other is wild guessing only.

tcebob · Post by *tcebob » 2017-07-02, 15:34 UTC

I have shortcut buttons to several frequently used directories. Some have been modified to open in the right or left panel. It would be convenient to open them in the opposite panel to the active one, but failing that, a choice of which panel to use would be nice.

If there is a method to open a button in the opposite panel to the active one that would simplify things.

Horst.Epp · Post by *Horst.Epp » 2017-07-02, 15:52 UTC

tcebob wrote:I have shortcut buttons to several frequently used directories. Some have been modified to open in the right or left panel. It would be convenient to open them in the opposite panel to the active one, but failing that, a choice of which panel to use would be nice.

If there is a method to open a button in the opposite panel to the active one that would simplify things.

For such jobs the Directory Hotlist is the right way and not buttons.

Post by *Hacker » 2017-07-02, 20:51 UTC

tcebob,

If there is a method to open a button in the opposite panel to the active one that would simplify things.

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%COMMANDER_EXE% /O /S "/R=C:\Program Files\"

HTH
Roman

tcebob · Post by *tcebob » 2017-07-02, 21:19 UTC

Exactly what I wanted! Thank you.

ts4242 · Post by *ts4242 » 2017-07-03, 00:02 UTC

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%COMMANDER_EXE% /O "

Sometimes causes lag to execute, an alternate could be the following button.

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TOTALCMD#BAR#DATA
cd ""

C:\Totalcmd\TOTALCMD64.EXE,1
cd C:\Program Files
C:\Program Files

-1

tcebob · Post by *tcebob » 2017-07-03, 00:24 UTC

I'll save that but right now the /o is working fine.

ts4242 · Post by *ts4242 » 2017-07-03, 21:19 UTC

tcebob wrote:I'll save that but right now the /o is working fine.

Yes, %COMMANDER_EXE% /O works but with lag (no matter your are notice or not, usually it is noticeable when the CPU usage is too high)
The method i have provided is documented in TC's help at the page titled "Dialog box: Configuration - Change button bar"

Start path: Determines the path to be set before the program is started. If no path is given, then the path of the source window is set.
Important: If the command (given in the command box) is cd drive:\directory, then the path given in this edit box is set in the other window! This allows to set both paths (source and target) at the same time.

Post by *Hacker » 2017-07-03, 22:13 UTC

ts4242,
If I create a button in the Button Bar as follows:

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Command: cd .
Start path: c:\Program Files\

and click it, then
1. the cursor disappears
2. pressing Down makes the cursor visible on the first dir in Program Files
3. pressing Alt-Left goes one dir back in the history but in the opposite panel (not Program Files but the one that was originally active).

Can anyone confirm?

EDIT: Can't reproduce with clean INI.
EDIT2: Can't even reproduce with usual INI now.

Roman

ts4242 · Post by *ts4242 » 2017-07-03, 23:02 UTC

Hacker wrote:ts4242,
If I create a button in the Button Bar as follows:
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Command: cd .
Start path: c:\Program Files\
and click it, then
1. the cursor disappears
2. pressing Down makes the cursor visible on the first dir in Program Files
3. pressing Alt-Left goes one dir back in the history but in the opposite panel (not Program Files but the one that was originally active).

Can anyone confirm?

EDIT: Can't reproduce with clean INI.
EDIT2: Can't even reproduce with usual INI now.

Roman

Not confirmed! but another strange thing happen, cd . always show parent dir [..] and put the cursor on it, even if the option "Sow parent dir [..] also in root of drive" unchecked

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Back to the original question, i didn't specified any path in command field, just empty ""

Horst.Epp · Post by *Horst.Epp » 2017-07-04, 07:56 UTC

Hacker wrote:ts4242,
If I create a button in the Button Bar as follows:
Code: Select all
Command: cd .
Start path: c:\Program Files\
and click it, then
1. the cursor disappears
2. pressing Down makes the cursor visible on the first dir in Program Files
3. pressing Alt-Left goes one dir back in the history but in the opposite panel (not Program Files but the one that was originally active).

Can anyone confirm?

EDIT: Can't reproduce with clean INI.
EDIT2: Can't even reproduce with usual INI now.

Roman

Not confirmed

Post by *petermad » 2017-07-04, 18:43 UTC

but another strange thing happen, cd . always show parent dir [..] and put the cursor on it, even if the option "Sow parent dir [..] also in root of drive" unchecked

This seems to only happen the FIRST time you do it on a given drive - if you go into a subdir and back to the root again, then cd. doesn't add [..] to the file panel.

ts4242 · Post by *ts4242 » 2017-07-04, 19:56 UTC

petermad wrote:This seems to only happen the FIRST time you do it on a given drive - if you go into a subdir and back to the root again, then cd. doesn't add [..] to the file panel.

Yes, if you go into a subdir and back to the root again, [..] disappear but if cd. executed again, it is ALWAYS show [..]

BTW: [..] disappear if the file panel refreshed by any means e.g. pressing F2 or minimize/restore TC window