[BUG]: cm_CopyNamesToClip lowercase drive.

[wanderer]

Prior to TC7, when cm_CopyNamesToClip and other relevant commands are used, the copied filename had and uppercase drive letter (i.e. "C:\filename"). in TC7, the drive letter has become lowercase (i.e. "c:\filename"). I think this change was a sideeffect of something else that had been discussed here before (upper/lower-case drive letters on tabs). I'd appreciate it if it could be changed to work as in TC6.5.

Thanks.

[Sir_SiLvA]

Soz in Linix u could call this bug but since
under windows it doesnt matter if C:\ or c:\
its not a bug...

PS: Nice new avatar but a bit blury...

[wanderer]

Soz in Linix u could call this bug but since
under windows it doesnt matter if C:\ or c:\
its not a bug...

I know but i consider this a bug since it seems it's an unintentional side-effect (and after all, it irritates me! ).

PS: Nice new avatar but a bit blury...

I know, i've edited an image i found somewhere but it didn't come out 100% ok... Well, when i have the time to re-edit it.....

[Clo]

2wanderer

Hello !

• Personally, I prefer also uppercase for the drives letters, it's easier to spot and more aesthetic…

 KR
Claude
Clo

[wanderer]

2Clo

I thought so too but to be honest, after seeing it in TC v7.0pb2 it didn't look that good. I guess i'm used to lowercase. It would certainly be more clear though to see letters like I, J, L than i, j, l.

[ghisler(Author)]

I got complaints that TC uses lowercase drive letters almost everywhere, just not in cm_CopyNamesToClip, so I changed it.

Here is the relevant line from the history.txt:

16.01.07 Fixed: cm_CopyFullNamesToClip copied drive letters in uppercase

[wanderer]

I got complaints that TC uses lowercase drive letters almost everywhere, just not in cm_CopyNamesToClip, so I changed it.

Here is the relevant line from the history.txt:

16.01.07 Fixed: cm_CopyFullNamesToClip copied drive letters in uppercase

I thought it was unintentional, i hadn't realized you did this on purpose.

I suppose since you made that change you expected that someone would complain about it being lowercase and you can't make all users happy (what else is new) but this is how it worked up to now (uppercase) and this is how explorer and most other programs are using it so my vote would be to keep it uppercase.

You may think this might be a silly reason for which to create new parameter(s) in wincmd.ini but please do so in order to let the user decide how to have it (upper or lowercase). I don't mind seeing lowercase drive letters in tabs but since i use cm_CopyNamesToClip a lot to copy/paste pathnames, i find it irritating that i have to manually go and make the drive letter uppercase afterwards. Someone may think i'm nuts but i am doing this with TC7.

[Hacker]

wanderer,
Hier ein kleines AHK Skript, dass die Arbeit fur dich erledigt:
[EDIT] Oops, should've read here a small AHK script that does the work for you:

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Clipboard := RegExReplace(Clipboard, "[a-z]:\\", "$u0")

HTH
Roman

[wanderer]

Sorry i speak only English...


From the "code" part, i understand that you are prompting me to use AHK Script. Thanks for the tip but so far i have refused to follow this logic so i don't think i will start now.

The reason i'm using TC is because it contains many built-in tools in one program which is working very conveniently most of the time. There are few things that are missing, but with a few standard plugins i'm using, it's not a big problem anymore. If i wanted (and had the time) to write code in order to adjust all the programs i use to my needs, i wouldn't be using them, i would be rewriting them myself! Ok, just joking but i hope i made my point.

Anyway, many thanks for your tip but at this time i prefer to express my opinion in order to influence TC's behavior (if i can) than writing 100 pages of scripts in order to adjust it to work the way i like.

[Hacker]

It's up to you. You can complain and keep doing things the difficult way, or you can complain and do things the easy way.

Roman

[wanderer]

It's up to you. You can complain and keep doing things the difficult way, or you can complain and do things the easy way.

Roman

Well, i'm afraid if i do things "the easy way", i'll stop complaining! If we all did that, it wouldn't be so good for TC...

[Clo]

2wanderer

Hello !

…You may think this might be a silly reason for which to create new parameter(s) in wincmd.ini
but please do so in order to let the user decide how to have it (upper or lowercase). …

• I agree and support ! Not a big deal to add, I guess…
- And one entry more or less…

…I find it irritating that I have to manually go and make the drive letter uppercase afterwards.
Someone may think I'm nuts but I am doing this with TC7. …

• So, we are two to do so !

 KR
Claude
Clo

[wanderer]

here a small AHK script that does the work for you:

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Clipboard := RegExReplace(Clipboard, "[a-z]:\", "$u0")

Hi Hacker

Since i can't stand this irritating behavior any more and since i don't see it changing in the near future, i reluctantly decided to follow your suggestion and use AHK. After playing with it for a while and understood how it works, i successfully utilized your script (again, thanks for it). However, i found out that it supports only filenames with English characters. If non-English characters exist in the filename, it ruins them. Any ideas on why this is happening (TC or AHK's fault?) and how it could be resolved?

TIA

[Hacker]

Sorry, I do not know. I haven't experimented that much with non-english characters (as this is something I am always trying to avoid). However, I found two threads on the AHK forum that might be helpful if someone decides to pick up.

HTH
Roman

[wanderer]

However, I found two threads on the AHK forum that might be helpful if someone decides to pick up.

Yes, they were very helpful. Problem solved! It seems to work fine, though i'm not 100% sure it will work correctly in all cases. Anyway, thanks for all the help.

Here is the final script:

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;Converts the drive letter of paths contained in the clipboard to uppercase (i.e. c:\test to C:\test)

;#NoTrayIcon
#Persistent
#SingleInstance force
return

OnClipboardChange:
  if (A_EventInfo=1) {
    transform, ca_Clip, unicode ; get clipboard text in UTF-8
    ca_Clip := RegExReplace(ca_Clip, "[a-z]:\", "$u0")
    transform, Clipboard, unicode, %ca_Clip%
  }
  return