ShellDetails 1.26 (Content plug-in)

[zhixing]

Will you think about the support on Windows 7?

On Windows 7, I cannot get the duration of videos and music. It is a little tedious to open the program.

[Lefteous]

2zhixing
This should work fine. For this field you need to set a configuration manually. There is an example on how to setup the length field in the documentation.

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;Displays the length of video and audio files as time value.
[{64440490-4C8B-11D1-8B70-080036B11A03}3]
UseDefault=0
Cast=5
Operator=47
Operand=10000000

[DrShark]

It seems plugin doesn't show the values for field preview in "Choose plugin property" dialog (MRT->Plugin).
Just tried with "file version" field:

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[{0CEF7D53-FA64-11D1-A203-0000F81FEDEE}4]
Caption=Версия файла
UseDefault=1
State=131745

on font files (*.otf, *.ttf). In the "New name" column of MRT, or in a custom column of file panel, value is shown properly.

[Lefteous]

2DrShark
Thanks for report. I can confirm the problem and will investigate.

[DrShark]

I can confirm the problem and will investigate.

TC 9.20 final will be released soon, so it would be nice to know whether it's a plugin issue or a Total Commander bug.

[nn1k3]

When I delete shelldetails,ini, it is somehow recreated by TC using information from Windows. I would like to examine the Windows information directly.

Does TC get the information for shelldetails.ini from a Windows system file?

[teeceeuser]

2zhixing
This should work fine. For this field you need to set a configuration manually. There is an example on how to setup the length field in the documentation.

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;Displays the length of video and audio files as time value.
[{64440490-4C8B-11D1-8B70-080036B11A03}3]
UseDefault=0
Cast=5
Operator=47
Operand=10000000

I cannot get it show the length of time in a custom column in Windows 10, although the tooltip does show the proper length for each file.

[Lefteous]

Hi all, sorry for the late reply.

2DrShark
I'm currently switching my development system. It should be ready at the end of the week. I hope can investigate the issue in more detail then.

2nn1k3
I'm not really sure what you are trying to achieve. ShellDetails uses a Windows API to get the information.

2teeceeuser
In my tests your configuration worked fine. Did you perform a restart of TC? It's required to reread the settings of the plugin.
The tooltip doesn't use ShellDetails by default so I guess you are currently see the standard Windows tooltip. So the problem could be an Explorer extension which only works in tooltips which adds support for a certain filetype.
So I have to ask the standard question? Do you see the information in a column in Windows Explorer?

[teeceeuser]

Thank you for coming back on my query. I see the time in Windows Explorer. Also, I did restart TC after I set the setting.

Instead of showing, say, 31 minutes, TC shows 18.604.400.000. I don't know how this number could be converted to a time format.

[nn1k3]

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2nn1k3
I'm not really sure what you are trying to achieve. ShellDetails uses a Windows API to get the information.
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I'm all set now - thanks. I had not realized that the "caption" items listed in shelldetails.ini match exactly the headers of the optional-detail columns available in Windows' File Explorer.

I was curious why caption=Duration did not provide metadata for any of my files. Only by googling its formatID did I learn that it apparently applies only to CALENDAR items. Not important.

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Shelldetails "Duration" = System.Calendar.Duration
Shelldetails "Length" = System.Media.Duration

[Lefteous]

2teeceeuser
Thanks for being so patiently. What you observed just means that nothing is converted. It could be a similar issues as nn1k3 reported - maybe you are not using the correct field?

2nn1k3
All your observations are correct. It would be great if TC would provide some way to include field descriptions in tooltip or similar.

[teeceeuser]

I went through all the fields, but with no luck. Anyway, it's not a big problem...

[Lefteous]

2teeceeuser
Try this. Open the column config, (or wherver you are usign the field) and copy the name of the field to the clipboard. Then open your shelldetails.ini and then paste the name into the search field or your editor. Then check if this is the field where you have changed the configuration.

[teeceeuser]

The field that I think is the correct one to use is named "Length".

In the ShellDetails.ini file there are these entries that may be relevant:

[{64440490-4C8B-11D1-8B70-080036B11A03}3]
Caption=Length
UseDefault=1
State=131810

and

[{668CDFA5-7A1B-4323-AE4B-E527393A1D81}100]
Caption=Source
UseDefault=1
State=131809
;Displays the length of video and audio files as time value.

The Column Configuration dialog names the column as "Length".

I'm still puzzled...

EDIT: I may have misquoted the second instance which should be:

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[{64440490-4C8B-11D1-8B70-080036B11A03}3]
UseDefault=1
Cast=5
Operator=47
Operand=10000000
UseDefault=1
State=131809

The first one appears starting from line 109 and the second one from line in line 1210 of ShellDetails.ini.

[Lefteous]

What do you mean by second instance? Each section should only be there once. Did you just append the section from the documentation? You have to edit the original section or replace it with the one in the documentation.