Cosmetical bugs with fields content

[fenix_productions]

Because I think these bugs are cosmetically only I've decided to put them all into one post.

1. New line problem.
If you specify new fields content in the way:

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[=plugin.field]\n[plugin.field2]

then you can observe that new line is visible for Win32 tooltips but for "Custom columns" - not. It is pretty clear why does it happen.
The things I would like to discuss are pre- and suffixes. It is not possible to get to work properly something like this:

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[=plugin.field]["\n"plugin.field2]

In that case you will see "\n" (without quotes). It is not treated as "give new line if [plugin.field2] value exists" for tooltips, why?

If some fields are empty the current solutions give me over-sized rectangles:

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Planet.mp3


Black Sabbath

or messed ones:

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Planet.mp3
Planet Caravan\nParanoid\nBlack Sabbath

Wouldn't it be nicer to see "\n" converted into new lines for pre- and suffixes?

2. Missing quotes

Editing fields contents using TC built-in procedures gives you no possibility to have quotes. If you write " it will disappear from configuration file. You can always use two signs (trying to walkaround this problem):

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""[plugin.field]""

TC will cut one from each side but if you forget about it one day it will be cut again.

IMHO it might be pretty once again tho allow its usage. Single " sign might work as starting / ending character or between fields. For prefixes \" should work like a charm.

Just trying to make TC prettier

[ghisler(Author)]

1. The \n makes no sense in custom columns or comments view, so it's converted to a space - this is intentional.

Adding a conditional new line sounds like a good idea, although it might cause new problems: In thumbnails view, TC needs to know from the beginning how many lines it needs to reserve for comments.

2. This is unfortunately a misfeature of the Windows programming interface for ini files - entries surrounded by double quotes are returned without these double quotes when using one of the ini file functions...

[fenix_productions]

2ghisler(Author)

Ad.1. I don't think it is so important for thumbnails as for tooltips. For ThV you've got the same width/height for all items from the list (even if there are different files in one dir). Tips are little bit different because of dynamic change of content for hovered items. It simply cannot be predicted and that is why I've wanted to see it in tooltips only. For now I think that it should also be applied for "Overwrite" dialog (or maybe for that one too).

Ad.2. Then allow to use \" (or maybe other escape sequences like \t).