how can i open a file in a built-in lister?

[poiuytr]

Is there the way to open file in a built-in LISTER in TCMD from command line or smth?
I don't want to use stand alone lister.

[Black Dog]

[face=courier]On 15-03-2003 23:04:00 +0000 poiuytr wrote:

p> Is there the way to open file in a built-in LISTER in TCMD
p> from command line or smth?

No way.[/face]

[Valentino]

Is there the way to open file in a built-in LISTER in TCMD from command line or smth?

About command line - see prev post, about smth - you can create a button or Start Menu entry with the following command:
cm_List C:\Poiuytr\MyGirls.txt
and optionally assign hotkey to Start Menu entry.

I don't want to use stand alone lister.

Why?

[Black Dog]

[face=courier]On 17-03-2003 02:07:15 +0000 Valentino wrote:

V> Why?

It doesn't support plugins (?)...[/face]

[Valentino]

2Black Dog
Supports, just copy your wincmd.ini to Windows dir (only [ListerPlugins] and [Lister] sections are needed). So currently I have two INIs: main (in TC dir) and small in Win dir (just for stand-alone lister).

I already asked Christian why stand-alone Lister takes ini from there but didn't get answer...

[Black Dog]

[face=courier]On 23-02-2003 22:09:42 +0000 Valentino wrote:

V> Supports, just copy your wincmd.ini to Windows dir

Yep, I had an old version. It's my turn to ask "why" then... [/face]

[poiuytr]

I don't want to use stand alone lister.

Why?

It's rather strange to have one program "installed" twice (tc alredy have lister) for exactly the same purposes.

Menu entry with the following command:
cm_List C:\Poiuytr\MyGirls.txt

The point is that i want to open file in lister when i press <enter> on it, but not just another button/menu command.

So is there a way?

thanx for the answers!

[Valentino]

It's rather strange to have one program "installed" twice (tc alredy have lister) for exactly the same purposes.

"Installation" is only copying about 400k file. What is 400k nowadays?

The point is that i want to open file in lister when i press <enter> on it, but not just another button/menu command. So is there a way?

Enter launches associated program. If you make Enter to launch Lister, you'll get difficulties with launching EXE's for example, and other file types (doc in Word, etc). Why don't you want to use F3?
If you mean opening txt files then launching stand-alone lister is much faster than rising TC (if it was possible).

[Black Dog]

[face=courier]On 17-03-2003 18:39:44 +0000 Valentino wrote:

V> "Installation" is only copying about 400k file.

Or about 160k ASPack-compressed...
Actually I see the big advantage of using stand-alone Lister, it won't close if you have to close Commander.[/face]

[ben hub]

The point is that i want to open file in lister when i press <enter> on it

If you are able to press <enter>, maybe you are able to press <F3> instead ?

[poiuytr]

It's rather strange to have one program "installed" twice (tc alredy have lister) for exactly the same purposes.

"Installation" is only copying about 400k file. What is 400k nowadays?

The key word is not "installation", the key word is twice.
Not 400kb nor 160k do not bothering me.

Enter launches associated program.

Association! I'm talking exactly about file association with builtin lister. As i can see it is impossible. Sad but true.

Actually I see the big advantage of using stand-alone Lister, it won't close if you have to close Commander

I never close it

[Gregory]

Maybe someone could write small exe file, that invokes cm_list command
in TC with SendMessage. Then all you have to do is to associate that program with files you need.

[Aezay]

You can send this message to TC to open the lister:

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wm_InvokeMenuCommand=WM_USER+51;
cm_List=903;
hTotalCmd=FindWindow("TTOTAL_CMD",NULL);
SendMessage(hTotalCmd,wm_InvokeMenuCommand,cm_List,0);

Then I thought, what if I set the lParam to a pointer that pointed to a string, which contained a valid filename. But no I didn't work It would still open lister, and load the file under the cursor. All this you ask for could be done if this was possible.

[ghisler(Author)]

No it couldn't, because you cannot pass the DATA to which the pointer points to! It would be in a different address space (that of your program), except if you write a plugin...

[wOxxOm]

all one needs do to pass a pointer is to copy it into TC process heap using VirtualAllocEx and WriteProcessMemory, for example an AHK script:

WinGet, pid, PID, A
hProc:=DllCall("OpenProcess", "uint", 0x38, "int", 0, "uint", pid) ;PROCESS_VM_READ | PROCESS_VM_WRITE | PROCESS_VM_OPERATION
pRB:=DllCall("VirtualAllocEx", "uint", hProc, "uint", 0, "uint", 300, "uint", 0x1000, "uint", 0x4) ;MEM_COMMIT, PAGE_READWRITE
DllCall("WriteProcessMemory", "uint", hProc, "uint", pRB, "str", CurFile, "uint", strlen(CurFile)+1, "uint", 0)
SendMessage, 0x433, 903, pRB,,A ; TC=active window currently
DllCall("VirtualFreeEx", "uint", hProc, "uint", pRB, "uint", 0, "uint", 0x8000)
DllCall("CloseHandle" , "uint", hProc)

Yet TC does not check currently for the parameter being passed... so no luck's here