Lister BUG (or Feature Request?)

[Jqn]

Hi,
I've configured colors in INTERNAL LISTER, via Configuration Panel.
It works very nice.

But, if I'm using LISTER.EXE (external lister), it ignores color configurations, and it looks "black over white". It's very boring.

Mr. Ghisler: it is a BUG or a feature missing?.

Joaquin

[SanskritFritz]

For the external Lister there is a separate ini file, cant remember how it was called, maybe lister.ini?

[Jqn]

From "lister.txt" on TCMD folder:

Parameters:
...
/I=ini_file name Set different name of INI file, default is wincmd.ini

I've copied in "lister.ini" the groups "[Lister]" and "[ListerPlugins]" from wincmd.ini, and I've started :

Lister.exe /I=lister.ini myfile

Nothing new happens: black over white

Joaquin

[SanskritFritz]

It is still a different wincmd.ini if TC's ini if not in the c:\windows directory, external lister ignores the ini settings in the registry.
But the colors cannot be set in TC, so it is a bug. It should take over the windows default colors, as the internal lister does.

[Lefteous]

2Jqn
As far as I know the external lister is, as described on the ghisler.com download site, the same as the internal vesion 5.5. You cannot change colors here.

[Jqn]

Yes, external lister MUST BE the same as internal lister. But colors of internal CAN BE changed in TC panel "Configuration|Options|Color|Others".

It seems like external lister was not reading options in wincmd.ini (at least the COLOR option). But internal lister works fine and show selected colors.

Obviously, they (internal and external) are not equal.

BR
Joaquin

[franck8244]

2Jqn

For the moment they are different but Mr Ghisler told me once that it was planned to add plugin support fot the external lister too....

[SanskritFritz]

But colors of internal CAN BE changed in TC panel "Configuration|Options|Color|Others".

Oops I completely forgot this.

[Sheepdog]

I tried it. External Lister uses the wincmd.ini in %windir%.

But it simply ignores the settings you cannot configure from within Lister - Configuration menu.

sheepdog