Incomplete display of information

Russell · Post by *Russell » 2004-05-25, 14:28 UTC

TC 603a does not show the same info in a file properties box as XP does
Missing are all the Winzip extension, Acrobat, Sent to extensions among others
Any ideas ?

SanskritFritz · Post by *SanskritFritz » 2004-05-25, 15:01 UTC

The Properties box is just an XP window, has nothing to do with TC, so it should be the same. Can you provide us with screenshots?

Russell · Post by *Russell » 2004-05-25, 15:19 UTC

Here you are
http://www.pournousdeux.com/files/xp.gif
http://www.pournousdeux.com/files/wc.gif
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pdavit · Post by *pdavit » 2004-05-25, 16:40 UTC

How do you actually call the context menu within TC? A delayed right-click or Shift+F10? Try both and tell us your findings. Try backing up as well your ini file and then start with the default one. Uninstall also any TC-related plug-ins.

Russell · Post by *Russell » 2004-05-25, 17:05 UTC

both the delayed right-click or Shift+F10 produce the same result
I've actually found that TC does not "refresh" its windows all the time.
Example, I use the GANT XP icons shell.
If I display a dir in TC it shows only 4 of X directories with the correct icon. The others show the std Windows yellow folder.
If I leave the dir and return later (without quiting TC), it will show more dir's with the GANT icons (but, not all!)
Got the same result with the properties box ??

Renamed the wincmd.ini and restarted TC, same result as above

Russell · Post by *Russell » 2004-05-25, 17:19 UTC

I've found the problem but, don't know why...
I have some toobar icons that are quick links to directories. for example
[cd c:\%homepath%\My Documents] - will produce improper icons and limited dialog box information. In a split windows ALT-F2 C will produce a right hand window that is also incorrect
If I physically click to c:\Documents and Settings\rmilling\My Documents,, the icons are OK and the properties box is correct ? ALT-F2 C is OK

Russell · Post by *Russell » 2004-05-25, 17:22 UTC

The problem is the variable %homepath% or the use of.
If I replace it with the long path all is OK

SanskritFritz · Post by *SanskritFritz » 2004-05-26, 07:41 UTC

The problem is here:
cd c:\%homepath%\My Documents
If you check the sceenshot you will see the path like this:
c:\\Documents and Settings ...
(two backslashes at the beginning)
use
cd c:%homepath%\My Documents
instead. This will be correct.
Interesting TC bug

norfie · Post by *norfie » 2004-05-26, 07:50 UTC

SanskritFritz · Post by *SanskritFritz » 2004-05-26, 07:52 UTC

Hehe, for some reason TC thinks it displays a fs plugin list. Maybe because fs plugins start with \\\ on the path.

Horst.Epp · Post by *Horst.Epp » 2004-05-26, 08:14 UTC

SanskritFritz wrote:The problem is here:
cd c:\%homepath%\My Documents
If you check the sceenshot you will see the path like this:
c:\\Documents and Settings ...
(two backslashes at the beginning)
use
cd c:%homepath%\My Documents
instead. This will be correct.
Interesting TC bug

No a TC bug.
Look up the definition of the variable %homepath% and you see that it already contains a "" at the beginning. So clearly using such a variable you should not add another "" in front of it.
The correct complete definition is:
cd %homedrive%%homepath%\My Documents

SanskritFritz · Post by *SanskritFritz » 2004-05-26, 08:16 UTC

The TC bug is that if you have two backshashes in the path, then the context menu becomes the default fs plugin context menu.

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2004-05-28, 17:13 UTC

The bug is actually in the Windows function to create a context menu via OLE2 - it fails with the two consecutive backslashes, while all other file functions seem to work just fine. Therfore TC shows its own (much simplified) context menu in this case...