Drag & Drop a file or directory name to the commandline

[Charly]

Hi,

i try TC v7.5b8 with the feature to drag & drop a fil or directory name to the command line and i see that there is no progress in the program.

In a few weeks Windows 7 would be delivered and this function always drop the names if they are longer than 8 characters in the very old DOS-SCHEME to the commandline.

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WHY THAT STILL TODAY ?
I dont understand this

I think normaly nobody needs such an archaic feature.
I hoped that i could change this behavior in the configuation , but i see nothing.

I know the posibility with <ctrl><enter> to copy the long name to the command line, but it is more intuitive to do this with the mouse.

My suggestion to change this, is to add a key (perhaps <ctrl>) with the mouse-movement to restore the old behavior and without any key you copy the long name to the commandline like <ctrl><enter>.

Regards,
Charly

[karlchen]

Hi, Charly.

I do agree that the default should be using the long filename.

As a workaround you might press strg-enter on the selected filename or strg-shift-enter and see what happens ...

Kind regards,
Karl

[Hacker]

2karlchen

As a workaround you might press strg-enter

I know the posibility with <ctrl><enter>

Roman

[ghisler(Author)]

I wanted to give the user both options, drag&drop for the short name, and Ctrl+Enter for the long name. But that was at a time where >50% of the programs couldn't handle names with spaces via command line (because they were DOS programs)...

[Balderstrom]

Wouldn't the key-combo that is used to convert drag&drop Copy to Move work in this context?

LeftClick+Drag to commandline, RightClick before Drop
results in "Long File Name"

A Config option would help as well, although the Config|Operation screen is getting pretty full. It might be worthwile to consider splitting the mouse related options to a Mouse config screen for future proofing:

[ ] Open Files and Directories with single click.
Mouse Selection Mode (NC options)
...
Mouse Command Line Drop Mode
[x] Long File Name (RightClick like Move)

Edit, just one checkbox, if unchecked it would drop LFN without rightclick

[fenix_productions]

Support for Balderstrom's suggestion but maybe long names for standard d'n'd would be better.

[Charly]

Hi.

it is right there was a time when more than 50% of the programs has problems with long names

I think the suggestion from Balderstrom goes in the right direction.

Left click+drag to the commandline --> long file name
left click + drag + right click before drop --> short file name

On this way both behavior was available for the user and the today prefered way would be a little bit easier to use.

Perhaps first for the comming Version 7.5 a direct entry in the wincmd.ini could switch the behavior and perhaps later in a futher version it is possible like Misc.->Redefine Hotkeys new configuration point like
Misc.->Redefine Mouse behavior to customise the mouse.

Kind regards to Switzerland,

Charly