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Filename labels too short in file action windows

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Copy or moving shows the source and destination filenames very nicely, but most of the time, when working with long path names, you'll see the three dots (...) way too soon in those labels. Here's one of the numerous examples I can reproduce:
http://www.thany.org/screenshots/Screenshot196.png
In this example, the source filename should be "D:\Films\Films\Chronicles Of Riddick\Chronicles Of Riddick.avi", which would fit perfectly well. No need for those three dots.

You can also see the're not left-aligned correctly.
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:) Hello !

- It's true that the string-areas on that dialog are too narrow, and could be much wider, since there is free space to the right side.
- I reported this "at the good place" for the next version (soon…), maybe isn't too late ;)
You can also see they're not left-aligned correctly.
• The first character of each row is properly left-aligned. But, since "From" is longer than "To" by two characters, spaces are needed to suppress that shift to get the paths aligned too; a workaround is to use real Wcmd_eng.lng+Wcmd_eng.mnu files instead the embedded ones (in the EXE by default).
- You could get them here >>m-extra.zip. You can fix that spaces issue in this file, adding #160 characters at the row #663 in Wcmd_eng.lng, between the colon ":" and the right-quotes if needed.

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The first character of each row is properly left-aligned. But, since "From" is longer than "To" by two characters, spaces are needed to suppress that shift to get the paths aligned too; a workaround is to use real Wcmd_eng.lng+Wcmd_eng.mnu files instead the embedded ones (in the EXE by default).
In Windows, labels shouldn't be aligned by spaces, they should be aligned by pixels (iow, make "From" and "To" two separate labels, and make the source and dest filename two other separate labels).
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Limited character-number

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- These strings are two differents labels. If you use a #160 character, you must shift the other string-characters.

- Following the Author, the limit of the string-lenght is made by TC, counting the charaters.
- Unfortunately, Ch. Ghisler doesn't seem in favour to increase the number of allowed characters here, although each string area-size would permit to do that :(

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