Strange Suggestion: Allow to set the Window Title

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schittli
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Strange Suggestion: Allow to set the Window Title

Post by *schittli »

Good evening

this is probably a strange suggestion:
Please allow us to set the TCMD Window Title, e.g. by a Prefix or a Suffix so that an instance will look like this:
  • Customer #1, Integration - Total Commander (x64) 9.21a - Licence
  • Customer #2, Production - Total Commander (x64) 9.21a - Licence
It would be great if we could define the Title prefix or suffix by using the commandline or by defining a value in the inifile.


The background is that we've lost the overview with one TCMD instance, we often have more than 100 tabs, 3/4 of them represents open task which have to be done, 1/4 are locked Tabs to separate Projects.

Therefore, we started to build project based ini-files.
Now, we have big problems because all TCMD instances look identical:
  • Errors happen because Users are in the wrong instance by accident
  • Users need a lot of time to find the right instance
Therefore, it would very useful if Total Commander would allow defining a Window Title.

On the one hand it is very easy to program,
on the other hand it can be used in many ways.

Thanks a lot,
kind regards,
Thomas
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Re: Strange Suggestion: Allow to set the Window Title

Post by *tuska »

HISTORY.TXT wrote:28.08.17 Release Total Commander 9.10 beta 1 pre 1 (private beta) (32/64)
06.01.17 Added: Show extra text in the title bar in front of or behind the normal title:
wincmd.ini [Configuration] TitleExtraText= *text in front, -text same but without instance number, $text behind (32/64)
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Re: Strange Suggestion: Allow to set the Window Title

Post by *schittli »

Thank you very much for your help!, tuska,
the History.txt description is annoying (because it is not clear),
but the examples in you added URLs are great and works fine.

I never thought anyone else would have this kind of requirement :-)
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