wishlist & some problems

[compie]

Hi,

Here is a list with some wishes and bugs/problems:

If renaming a file fails (because it's in use, or the new filename contains an illegal character) it would be nice to have a dialog that prompts for a new name. This would make it more easy to close the program that is using the file and then perform the rename. Or you could remove the illegal characters in the name and then perform the rename. That's a lot faster than having to retype the new nam again.

It would be nice to doubleclick on the tab bar for a new tab (just like in mozilla).

Total Commander hangs completely when a network drive is not availible (because of network problems). If the network drive acces was in a seperate thread the UI would not hang, which is better.

Bug: copy a file to a very slow network drive, immidiatly press cancel, select overwrite in the dialog box that appears. Now the old file (that already existed on the network drive) is deleted, but the new file isn't copied.

It would be nice to have a checkbox "append date" in the Pack Files dialog box. Checking it would insert the current date in the name of the archive file. The format can be like 20040522. I use this very often now (by hand of course).

In the "new ftp connection" dialog, it would be nice if the session name is automatically copied from the hostname field. This way you only have to fill in the hostname field, the session name is automaticly the same. This makes it easier to quickly save an ftp connection.

Bug?: totalcmd always asks to save a ftp connection if you click disconnect, even if a session to the same hostname with the same username already exists in the ftp connection list.

Search, feed to listbox, delete a file: the file doesn't disappear in the other side (if it's visible there). If i delete a file that is visible in totalcmd with another program (explorer) the file does disappear.

Go inside an archive, press Shift F4 to create a new file: the file is not created in the archive but a level higher. This happens without a notice. It would be nice to automatically place the file inside the archive, or to display a notice that it is created somewhere else.

That's all!
Johan.

[Sheepdog]

Hi,
Total Commander hangs completely when a network drive is not availible (because of network problems). If the network drive acces was in a seperate thread the UI would not hang, which is better.

read this thread.

Bug: copy a file to a very slow network drive, immidiatly press cancel, select overwrite in the dialog box that appears. Now the old file (that already existed on the network drive) is deleted, but the new file isn't copied.

There appears no dialoug box. There's the message 'user abort'.

It would be nice to have a checkbox "append date" in the Pack Files dialog box. Checking it would insert the current date in the name of the archive file. The format can be like 20040522. I use this very often now (by hand of course).

It's a little bit special I think, isn't it?

Bug?: totalcmd always asks to save a ftp connection if you click disconnect, even if a session to the same hostname with the same username already exists in the ftp connection list.

Only if you choose 'FTP new Connection'. And this no bug but a feature. So you can set up two and more connections to the same server either with different usernames or different directories.

Search, feed to listbox, delete a file: the file doesn't disappear in the other side (if it's visible there). If i delete a file that is visible in totalcmd with another program (explorer) the file does disappear.

The other pane isn't active, so it's not refreshed. If yo want to see the file disappear so all windows (tabs) in TC would have to be refreshed in background. What a waste of resources! If you want to refresh the window youcan select it with [tab] and refresh with [F2] or [Ctrl] + [Q].

thats alll

sheepdog

[Black Dog]

[face=courier]On 22-05-2004 15:58:49 +0000 compie wrote:

c> It would be nice to have a checkbox "append date" in the
c> Pack Files dialog box. Checking it would insert the current
c> date in the name of the archive file. The format can be
c> like 20040522. I use this very often now (by hand of
c> course).

If you use RAR that's easy as lowing - just place "-ag" in packer configuration after path, e.g.:

RAR:
RAR Packer:

drive\path\rar.exe -ag_DD_MMM_YYYY

or paste it before archive path/name in "Pack Files" if you need it only from time to time:

rar: -ag_DD_MMM_YYYY drive\path\archive.rar[/face]

[compie]

Thanks for the replies. And what about this question:

It would be nice to doubleclick on the tab bar for a new tab (just like in mozilla).

[Sheepdog]

Thanks for the replies. And what about this question:

It would be nice to doubleclick on the tab bar for a new tab (just like in mozilla).

I do not require this. Currently you close the Tab with doubleclick - if you check the Tickbox in Configuration ->Folder Tabs.

sheepdog

[Lefteous]

2compie

It would be nice to doubleclick on the tab bar for a new tab (just like in mozilla).

There are some technical difficulties. Mozilla uses it's own tab control which is capable of recognizing a (double-)click on the tab bar. Total Commanders tab control is based on the windows tab control, which doesn't provide this feature by default. This doesn't mean it's impossible to detect a (double-)click in this area, but some work is required.