[BUG] Drag&Drop to a button transfers 8.3 filename...

[icfu]

...when parameters are added in field "Command".

Examples:

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Command: %comspec% /k echo
Command: pspad.exe X:\file1

Icfu

[petermad]

I hope it stays that way, otherwise I can't drag-and-drop to buttons with some of my old 16-bit programs.

Anyway - It is on purpose - Ghisler once wrote in the beta-test forum:

If you don't use parameters and drag something to a button, the short name is passed to the program (%p%n).

See also: http://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?p=99245 - es stimmt aber nichts! - at least I can't make it work for files on my local harddisk.

Since that posting is old, I tested it in TC 6.54 and TC 6.57 - and there it works to put %P%N in the Parameters field So we got a lost feature here

[icfu]

I hope it stays that way, otherwise I can't drag-and-drop to buttons with some of my old 16-bit programs.

Of course you can, just write %p%n in parameter field...

If you don't use parameters and drag something to a button, the short name is passed to the program (%p%n).

This is outdated information:

26.01.07 Added: Button bar: When dropping a file to a program on the button bar, pass the long name instead of the short DOS name 8...]

Icfu

[petermad]

This is outdated information:

You are right! - Sorry

But the whole quote is:

26.01.07 Added: Button bar: When dropping a file to a program on the button bar, pass the long name instead of the short DOS name to the program (in double quotes "" if needed) if the program isn't an old 16-bit program. If this causes problems, put %p%n in the parameters field of the button

So it seems that TC detects if the program in the Command field is 16-bit, which explains why d&d to my 16-bit programs still works without a %p%n parameter.

It must also mean that TC considers cmd.exe to be a 16-bit program !?

Is your pspad.exe 16-bit?

If I drag&drop to a button with plainedit.exe (32-bit, no parameters) I get the long file name in the title bar. If I drag to superpad.exe (16-bit, no parameters) I get the short 8.3 filename in the titlebar. I even get the short name when I do set the parameters to %P%N with superpad.exe.

[StatusQuo]

Confirmed.

Tested with this button:

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Command: %comspec% /k echo
Parameters: %P%S

Clicking on the button does echo the correct long name,
but dropping a file on it gives the short 8.3 name (only %p%s should do that).

[icfu]

But the whole quote is:

No idea what happened to my quote, something went wrong when copying & pasting, very strange.

It must also mean that TC considers cmd.exe to be a 16-bit program !? Is your pspad.exe 16-bit?

Nope, the problem with 8.3 filename is ONLY when in the COMMAND field there is a parameter behind program.exe!

So, when dragging and dropping to this button, the long filename is transfered:

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Command: pspad.exe

Icfu

[petermad]

the problem with 8.3 filename is ONLY when in the COMMAND field there is a parameter behind program.exe!

Right - I can confirm that with PlainEdit.exe

[ghisler(Author)]

Indeed in this case the Windows function do determine whether a program is 16- or 32-bit will fail...

[Clo]

2petermad

Hello Peter !

• I can confirm too here using xED tabbed text editor (Delphi-written programme…).
- I have …\xed.exe -fs (Full Screen), and I get the 8.3 names.
- But I'm bound to keep that parameter, or else its window is never maximized :
The [ × ] Run maximized option does nothing…

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Claude
Clo