Alternative Quick Search

[jaco]

Hello Everyone,

I was in the mood for a little programming recently, and I came up with a nice way to add some extra functionality to TC.

I called it 'Quick Search Plus' and you can find it here:
http://www.geocities.com/jacokwak/TCQSP.html

It shrinks the filelist while typeing, eliminating the need for extra keystrokes to search for the right file.

Please note: Enter quits the program, but leaves the filelist in the filtered state until the program is started again.

Any comments are welcome.

[Lefteous]

2jaco
Hi,

wow a really clever idea to use the ignore list for filtering the file list

It's a great proof of concept which demonstrates that it should be no problem to add a quick filter internally.

[m^2]

Great idea, but you should use %COMMANDER_INI% instead of %COMMANDER_PATH%

[jaco]

2Lefteous,

Lets hope Mr. Ghisler feels the same way

2m^2,

I tried to take ini-redirection in account, but I admit I didn't tst it very well, I'll look into it though

[StickyNomad]

2jaco

Very nice thingy, thanks!

[SanskritFritz]

Nice, thanks! How do you send all the files to the ignore list? Can we have the source? I might try this in AHK...

[jaco]

2SanskritFritz,

I uploaded the source too, feel free to use it as you wish.

[SanskritFritz]

2jaco
Thank you, I have my questions answered now! Really nice idea!

[Stitscher]

Very nice work. Thanks a lot.

2Lefteous,

Lets hope Mr. Ghisler feels the same way

2m^2,

I tried to take ini-redirection in account, but I admit I didn't tst it very well, I'll look into it though

Look at this Thread and you will read the answer.

Stitscher

[SanskritFritz]

2jaco
For the ignore list you enumerate the current folder. If you read the panel list from TC with the LB_GETTEXT message, the filtering could work also in branch view. Not sure, just a thought.

[m^2]

It should also work faster

[jaco]

ah, LB_GETTEXT , I never thought of that!
Then again you don't see the full path when you press ctrl-B, so for branch view it is probably useless.
I could scan all subdirs of course, but that might take a really long time, better to forget about branch view altogether.
That it is a bit slow is because of the refresh needed in TC, I switch the 'use ignorelist' off and on again to make TC update the filelist, so for every letter you type, tc reads the directory and updates the listbox twice.

[djk]

2jaco
Thanks for the nice tool.
I've put it to totalcmd.pl, I hope you don't mind it.

I only don't like one thing in it. I've a large ignore list and I often turn it on/off. When I have it turned off (I don't use it) and I try to use your tool - it turns it on. It's ok, it must work this way but when I want to stop using it - I do what you suggest: "To return to the normal situation, and see all the files again, run the program and hit enter without typing anything.".

It really removes TCQSP filters but it leaves IgnoreListFileEnabled=1
Is it possible TCQSP remembered the state of this parameter before it starts working and set it again when it finishes?

[jaco]

Hi djk,
Thanks for uploading it, and no I don't mind.
But since you uploaded it already I guess I have to bring out a new version soon, I already feel the pressure

I put the IgnoreListFileEnabled thing on top of the list.

2m^2
Do I understand this correctly the new ignore list should be: path(%COMMANDER_INI%) + "tcignore.txt"
Or were you actually referring to something else?

[m^2]

When I wrote it, I thought that it should be so. But after checking, you should read IgnoreListFile entry in wincmd.ini. And if there's no fully qualified path, do what you said, %COMANDER_INI%\..\[filename if present, otherwise "tcignore.txt"]