Total Commander

Show sub menu in lister 4 Image/Multimedia (4) like the new define lister plugin by file type selecting menu:
https://i.postimg.cc/FK5C545R/2019-12-02-005619.jpg

Instead of the current cycle through the list of plugins, let user choose a specific plugin to reload the the current file. Cycling has some unexpected outcome like hang, or even crash for some plugin handling some file type... and it's not smart if user know what plugin they need.

Perhaps the current routine is open file in defaut plugin, when Key4 is pressed, ask plugins on the lister plugins list one by one, "Can you handle this file?", if the answer is "Yes", then load the file with this plugin, in other words, TC maybe not have a "list" of which plugins can handle current file, in this case, I suggest the sub menu can be made as click-expanded, so TC won't need to ask all plugins whether they can handle the current file everytime lister open a file.

Support++

That sounds like a very useful feature! It would be even better if the submenu (list of Lister plugins) could be opened via some keyboard shortcut (perhaps Alt+4?).

Regards
Dalai

Support++ preferably accompagnied by a cm_command (then you can assign your own shortcut)

You cannot have a menu item on which you can click AND open a submenu at the same time.

ghisler(Author) wrote: ↑2019-12-02, 09:47 UTC You cannot have a menu item on which you can click AND open a submenu at the same time.

ui implement can be changed. how about a sub menu with all plugin, then disabled the non-activable plugin, or vice versa, disable all then enable those supported current file plugin

2ghisler(Author)
Well, that should be solveable, don't you think? Either add a new item in Lister's main menu, or add a submenu in Lister's Options menu directly below or above the "4 Image/Multimedia" item.

Regards
Dalai

2ghisler(Author)
Jumping easily in 2 clicks from default viewer to any dedicated lister plugin is the feature we miss. Implementation details is your part !

In old TCUP Ultimate viewer you have a dedicated menu for all the registered wlx plugins, plus an entry "other plugins..." . This open a new dialog box with all the available lister. you choose what you want you get what you want and if it fails to load, you get empty view !

In another alternate Lister (from a TC clone) we had at menu bar level a drop-down list with all the wlx without any fancy file format detection !

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This thread remind me this suggestion, and I still think it's very useful, we have quite some different plugin to deal with image file, because there is so many formats out there and no single image lister plugin can do all the job, and shift from one to another lister should have a more precise way instead of dumb cycling

I have already added it internally, and there are far too many plugins which the user can choose which cannot actually load the file.

The problem is that the detect string of most plugins is too broad, most plugins only decide when you actually try to display the file with it.

ghisler(Author) wrote: ↑2021-11-05, 08:57 UTC I have already added it internally, and there are far too many plugins which the user can choose which cannot actually load the file.

The problem is that the detect string of most plugins is too broad, most plugins only decide when you actually try to display the file with it.

OK,i am not fimiliar with the actual communication between plugin to TC.
Do you mean, most of the time, when we press "4" key to change plugin from A to B, it in fact goes through some other plugin X Y Z in the background, because they detect string match the file, which turn out can't handle the file?

So if TC decide to show a menu display all the candicates, it will probably show quite some no-sense plugins, and that is not quite the result you want, right?

Personaly, I still want it. It's the only way to avoid some error without changing the lister plugin order. Maybe as an advanced option user can turn it on/off

So if TC decide to show a menu display all the candicates, it will probably show quite some no-sense plugins, and that is not quite the result you want, right?

Correct. I will keep it in for now.