Total Commander 6.01 beta 2 available (public beta)

[ghisler(Author)]

2white
Thanks, I will check the tab key problem.

[graver]

I want to tell about very old bug (feature?) in option "Unpack and execute".
When I try to execute quake3 demo file (associated with demoplayer) from archive, I got an error message: "Error executing program".
Q3 demo file has several formats with different extensions.
TotalCmd works fine with 3 symbol extension (dm3), but not with 5 symbol extensions (dm_48/dm_66/dm_67/dm_68).

My english is bad, but i hope i explained the bug.

[dariaelias]

some reports:
1. options -> layout -> display -> "show old 8.3 names lowercase" -> activate it -> goto a file where you know the filename is all uppercase. -> shift+f6 -> copy filename -> it is copied like displayed (first letter uppercase rest lowercase)

2. open zip archive on one side and a folder on the other side -> packing to bat file (using makebat.wcx) -> temporary files not deleted.

3. open zip archive on one side and sftp connection (plugin_sftp.wfx) on the other side -> try to copy files out of the archive to the sftp directory -> gives message "function not supported". i dont know whether its a bug of the plugin or totalcmd as it works fine with ftp e.g.

4. will there be support for small overlay icons e.g. used by tortoisesvn/-cvs?

[ay222]

Total Commander 6.01 beta 2 new bug.

when moving the [Window separator] <Vertical mode> by the mouse
to the max left border or max right border while the options
(Show directory tabs) And (All tabs have same width)
are selected the error " TMyTabControl property out of range"
is appear.
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Tabs is a great feature but if you have a lot of them above the panel
it is difficult to find the tab you need. I suggest using
icons with tabs. that is when adding new tab it takes
the [shell icon] of that folder as a default icon and let
the user change this icon as he do with Button bar.
and let this is optional by adding new option to the
Folder tabs dialog option, like " Show tabs icon " option.

finally i hope you can understand my words
thanks.

[Lefteous]

2ay222

"TMyTabControl property out of range" bug confirmed.

[ay222]

Indeed the error "TMyTabControl property out of range"
will appear ONLY if the panel you try to hide it has less
than 6 tabs!!!!

[MxxCon]

check out this file compare issue
notice that some difference are highlited in red, and some have this wierd black "shadow"
Image: http://www.trvx.com/~mxxcon/file_compare_bug.png

[ghisler(Author)]

TotalCmd works fine with 3 symbol extension (dm3), but not with 5 symbol extensions (dm_48/dm_66/dm_67/dm_68).

I will check that, thanks.

1. options -> layout -> display -> "show old 8.3 names lowercase" -> activate it -> goto a file where you know the filename is all uppercase. -> shift+f6 -> copy filename -> it is copied like displayed (first letter uppercase rest lowercase)

Shift+F6 is rename, and it will use the name which you give it, so this isn't a bug.

open zip archive on one side and a folder on the other side -> packing to bat file (using makebat.wcx) -> temporary files not deleted.

This is a known limitation of the plugin interface, so there is no solution. Why? The plugin is instructed to move the files into the plugin archive. But since you can't really store files in a batch file, the batch plugin will not delete the files after adding them to its 'archive'. The same will happen with the diskdir plugin.

open zip archive on one side and sftp connection (plugin_sftp.wfx) on the other side -> try to copy files out of the archive to the sftp directory -> gives message "function not supported". i dont know whether its a bug of the plugin or totalcmd as it works fine with ftp e.g.

The message is right, this function isn't currently supported.

will there be support for small overlay icons e.g. used by tortoisesvn/-cvs?

No, unfortunately not. In the source of tortoise you can read that it is disabled for all programs other than Explorer, because of an implementation bug of overlay icons in Windows.

when moving the [Window separator] <Vertical mode> by the mouse
to the max left border or max right border while the options
(Show directory tabs) And (All tabs have same width)
are selected the error " TMyTabControl property out of range"
is appear.

Confirmed, I will correct it in TC 6.01 final. Thanks for finding it!

check out this file compare issue

Hmm, what font is that? The compare function only works well with correctly implemented fixed width fonts...

[ghisler(Author)]

2graver
I have tried the following:
1. created new text file test.dm_48
2. associated it with notepad
3. Zipped the file
4. Double clicked on the file in the zip

-> worked fine, notepad was started! So something must be wrong in your case. Please check in files - associate - edit type and make sure that the parameter is "%1" with double quotes, and not %1.

[MxxCon]

check out this file compare issue

Hmm, what font is that? The compare function only works well with correctly implemented fixed width fonts...

default..courier new, regular style, 8size, western code page.
OS is WinXP+SP1+hotfixes using classic theme
themes service is disabled..i don't know if that makes any difference
if you want to, i can provide you with both of these files you can try to reproduce this. 2 of them rared take up 874kb

[graver]

2graver
I have tried the following:
1. created new text file test.dm_48
2. associated it with notepad
3. Zipped the file
4. Double clicked on the file in the zip

-> worked fine, notepad was started! So something must be wrong in your case. Please check in files - associate - edit type and make sure that the parameter is "%1" with double quotes, and not %1.

I have repeated all your steps and still got "Error executing program".
Dunno why this happens, but i have experienced this bug on all wincmd versions on win9x and winXP.

I used different programs called "demoplayer", all of them worked with
.dm3, but not with dm_?? (Yes, I have checked: parameter "%1" has double quotes)

P.S. Also, i have tried to use external unpacker (pkunzip 2.50), it seems that it works properly (i found the file test.dm_48 in temp directory /TEMP/_tc/test.dm_48), but i have got another error "File not found".
Internal unpacker works fine too, the problem is in executing unpacked file from temp directory.

[petergus]

I have noticed problem displaying copyspeed and time when copy large files to a network drive, USB Stick and CD-RW drive.

- if I add it in "following drive letters are on
the same physical harddisk" in the same group as my local
drive it works.

- If I put it in "compatibility mode" it works.

- If I do a background copy and do a quick pause/resume, speed/time
is displayed.

- No problem with copying net > local, drive <> drive and
local <> local.

- I have no other problem when copying.

OS: Windows XP Pro with a Windows NT 4 server.
Testfile is 900 MB, 200 MB for USB/CDRW

// Peter

[Hakarien]

Kill Tab with "CTRL+W"

Does not work in my environment ; Anybody else ?

Version 6.0 and 6.01b2

[dariaelias]

1. options -> layout -> display -> "show old 8.3 names lowercase" -> activate it -> goto a file where you know the filename is all uppercase. -> shift+f6 -> copy filename -> it is copied like displayed (first letter uppercase rest lowercase)

Shift+F6 is rename, and it will use the name which you give it, so this isn't a bug.

hmm sure but shouldnt the default value of shift+f6 the _real_ filename with all letters uppercase? atm it uses the same as it is shown in the window.

e.g.:

i have a folder named "TEMP"
it is shown as: "Temp"
if i press shift+f6 it shows me "Temp" i would expect "TEMP" as value in the edit box.

[ghisler(Author)]

2petergus
Seems that buffered copying ("normal" mode) copies all data into the disk cache and writes it only when the file is closed. In this case, no progress is possible.