Button to select first folder starting with a certain letter?

[beb]

Working TC button for testing.

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TOTALCMD#BAR#DATA
em_test_tc_command

WCMICON2.DLL,11


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[em_test_tc_command]
cmd=Powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass;
param=& $env:commander_exe /O /P /S "$((Get-ChildItem $pwd -Directory -recurse | Where-Object -Property Name -match '^p' | Select-Object -First 1).FullName)"

What it does: searches for the P-folder recursively, finds the first P-folder wherever it is (if any), and sets the cursor on it, highlighting it (in case of a huge folder list it will be scrolled to bring the folder in question in front of the eyes of the beholder).

[Fla$her]

2beb
Powershell is the last tool that can be seriously considered for navigation, especially frequent. I hope you understand that?
In addition, as far as I understand, the current sorting should be taken into account here, and not exclusively alphabetical in the forward direction.

"highlighting it" > "selecting it" in this case.

[petermad]

2petermad
Placing the cursor on a folder is a folder selection.

I disagree (I would call that highlighting the folder), and without a genuine selection, the user cannot select for example BOTH the first folder starting with an A AND the first folder starting with a B by clicking the A followed by the B button. That is what I wanted to accomplish and why I wrote that the buttons has to be clicked in alphabetical order.

With your suggestion you can only select/highlight one folder, because you do a cm_GoToFirstEntry,cm_GoToPrev every time. a button is clicked and you clear all folder selections with cm_ClearAllFolders .

Also the cm_GoToPrevSelected in

cmd=cm_GoToFirstEntry,cm_GoToPrev,cm_GoToNextSelected,cm_GoToPrevSelected,cm_ClearAllFolders

has no effect, beside giving an error sound, because there is no previous selected folder, when you are on the first selected folder.

And perform with the preliminary removal of the selection: cm_ClearAllFolders,em_selectA,em_GoToFirstSelectedFolder

Again - that defies the ability to select more than one folder.

[petermad]

I have improved the em_unmarkNextSelected command (see: viewtopic.php?p=446577#p446577) so that it also works when the initial sorting is NOT by name.

so I changed if from:

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[em_unmarkNextSelected]
cmd=cm_GoToNextSelected,cm_GoToNext,cm_Unselect 50,cm_GoToPrevSelected

to:

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[em_unmarkNextSelected]
cmd=cm_SrcByName 8,cm_SrcByName 1,cm_GoToNextSelected,cm_GoToNext,cm_Unselect 50,cm_GoToPrevSelected,cm_SrcByName 9

[Fla$her]

I disagree (I would call that highlighting the folder), and without a genuine selection

No, this is a misconception. It's exactly the opposite. >>

highlighting is optional for selection:

The file under the cursor is treated as selected when nothing else is selected.

Selection, roughly speaking, is equal to choice, аnd the highlight is equivalent to a mark.

the user cannot select for example BOTH the first folder starting with an A AND the first folder starting with a B by clicking the A followed by the B button.

I didn't understand why he needed to press A when going to the folder with B?

That is what I wanted to accomplish and why I wrote that the buttons has to be clicked in alphabetical order.

What do you mean by buttons? Isn't it about binding to the keys?
I just didn't download the library, so I didn't see what was there. Buttons with letters?

With your suggestion you can only select/highlight one folder, because you do a cm_GoToFirstEntry,cm_GoToPrev every time. a button is clicked and you clear all folder selections with cm_ClearAllFolders .
Again - that defies the ability to select more than one folder.

Absolutely right. Selecting the first (i.e. one) folder is the essence of the request, right in the header and beyond.
There was no conversation about selecting multiple folders.

Also the cm_GoToPrevSelected in has no effect, beside giving an error sound, because there is no previous selected folder, when you are on the first selected folder.

Wrong. Since I have been in the subject of navigation codes for quite a long time, I know exactly why this is necessary.
I wouldn't put anything in just like that. This is necessary when setting ShowParentDirInRoot=0 for the drive root.

[petermad]

the user cannot select for example BOTH the first folder starting with an A AND the first folder starting with a B by clicking the A followed by the B button.

I didn't understand why he needed to press A when going to the folder with B?

He did not indicate whether he wanted to be able to select more than one folder by first letter - I am providing the choice of selecting several.

That is what I wanted to accomplish and why I wrote that the buttons has to be clicked in alphabetical order.

What do you mean by buttons? Isn't it about binding to the keys?
I just didn't download the library, so I didn't see what was there. Buttons with letters?

Yes - buttons with letters! and the title of this topic is "Button to select first folder starting with a certain letter"

There was no conversation about selecting multiple folders.

There wasn't any conversation about NOT selecting multiple folders either.

Also the cm_GoToPrevSelected in has no effect, beside giving an error sound, because there is no previous selected folder, when you are on the first selected folder.

Wrong. Since I have been in the subject of navigation codes for quite a long time, I know exactly why this is necessary.
I wouldn't put anything in just like that. This is necessary when setting ShowParentDirInRoot=0 for the drive root.

You are right, I didn't consider the root. Just annoying with that error ding when the command is used in folders.

[Fla$her]

He did not indicate whether he wanted to be able to select more than one folder by first letter - I am providing the choice of selecting several.

Are you talking about the em_select[A|B|etc] commands? But this doesn't contradict my proposal in any way. I didn't touch these commands, only marking the letter A in green to indicate the variability:

cm_ClearAllFolders,em_selectA,em_GoToFirstSelectedFolder

Yes - buttons with letters! and the title of this topic is "Button to select first folder starting with a certain letter"

Understood. It's just that some people refer to the keys as buttons, so I didn't pay attention to it because of the reference to the letter.

That is what I wanted to accomplish and why I wrote that the buttons has to be clicked in alphabetical order.

If I execute cm_ClearAllFolders,em_selectB,em_GoToFirstSelectedFolder after cm_ClearAllFolders,em_selectA,em_GoToFirstSelectedFolder, then there will be no problems. Or did you write about something else?

There wasn't any conversation about NOT selecting multiple folders either.

First — one. No?

Just annoying with that error ding when the command is used in folders.

My sounds are turned off, so I wouldn't have noticed it without your prompting. On TCFS2, this can be fixed like this:

TOTALCMD#BAR#DATA
%COMMANDER_PATH%\Addons\TCFS2\TCFS2.exe /ef sendmsg(msg(1074,3),$0B,0) tcm(3305) tem(em_selectA) tcm(2049) tcm(2056) tcm(2053) if(!msg(1074,1008+msg(1074,1000)),tcm(2054)) tcm(3305) tcm(2918) sendmsg(msg(1074,3),$0B,1)

wciconex.dll,222
Jump to folder name starting with A

[petermad]

I have now come up with a more robust approach:

usercmd.ini:

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[em_selectItem0]
cmd=SELECTFILESD
param=%N

[em_selectItem]
cmd=cm_GoToFirstEntry,cd "*",cm_RestoreSelection,em_selectItem0

[em_selectA]
cmd=cd a*\

[em_selectB]
cmd=cd b*\

etc.

Button commands:

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cm_SaveSelection,em_selectA,em_selectItem

cm_SaveSelection,em_selectB,em_selectItem

etc.

These command also work even if the cursor is not at the top before start. Multiple folders with different start letter can be marked, and the sequence of which the letter buttons are clicked is of no importance. You will get an error message if no folder starts with the selected letter. No error sounds for every selection. Only backside is that if there is no matching folder, the cursor will be placed on the first file if any.


If the goal is only to place the cursor over the matching folder, without marking the folder this approach can be used:

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[em_selectItem]
cmd=cm_GoToFirstEntry,cd "*"

[em_selectA]
cmd=cd a*\|*

[em_selectB]
cmd=cd b*\|*

etc.

Button commands:

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em_selectA,em_selectItem

em_selectB,em_selectItem

etc.

With this approach the cursor is placed at the first item (i.e [..] in directories, and at the first folder in the root) if there is no matching folder.

[Dazzer]

Hi guys,

You're going deep!

I kinda abandoned my original idea and am just using the home + search function.

Quick question: is there a hotkey that will take you to a certain location in a certain file panel?

So, for example, i'm in the right file panel in c:\workspace

And i want a hotkey that'll bring up v:\workspace\audio

And is there a way to have a hotkey like home + search that will search in a specific folder, even if you're not in the folder (in the file panel)?

[petermad]

Quick question: is there a hotkey that will take you to a certain location in a certain file panel?
So, for example, i'm in the right file panel in c:\workspace
And i want a hotkey that'll bring up v:\workspace\audio ?

Ther is no such hotkey, but you can make them.

You make the command for the hotkey by running: cm_CommandBrowser from TC's command line and then click un usercmd.ini in the bottom of the left panel of that dialog.

You can assign a hotkey (called keyboard remapping) to the command you made by running cm_Confirmation from TC's command line.

the command you need to to make for going to v:\workspace\audio is : cd v:\workspace\audio

If you don't have TC's command line visible near the bottom of the TC window, you can open it temporarily by pressing the Right-arrow key on your keyboard.

And is there a way to have a hotkey like home + search that will search in a specific folder, even if you're not in the folder (in the file panel)

You cannot search for a file name this way, if you are not in the folder you want to search in. You can use TC's "Find Files" (Alt+F7) for that.

[Fla$her]

I kinda abandoned my original idea and am just using the home + search function.

The expected choice. I wouldn't bother with buttons either.

Quick question: is there a hotkey that will take you to a certain location in a certain file panel?

These are the basics and an obvious offtop. The question is not quick if you go into details with the speed of navigating to the folder (cd/TCFS2/TCMC vs %COMMANDER_EXE% /O), activating the target panel, creating a tab and placing the cursor on the folder (%COMMANDER_EXE% /O /P).

And is there a way to have a hotkey like home + search that will search in a specific folder, even if you're not in the folder (in the file panel)?

There are no such technologies in TC. If you need to search for a file in the depth of the working folder, then before using the quick search, you can press Ctrl+B to display all the files in the folder structure. Otherwise, it makes sense to use Everything, which will instantly find what you need in the generated database. But it will be more like a quick filter.

by pressing the Right-arrow key

Shift+Left/Right actually.

[petermad]

Shift+Left/Right actually.

Sure - Shift is necessary only in Brief mode though.

[Fla$her]

Shift is necessary only in Brief mode though.

In the case of SpecialCursorMovement > 0 and ≠ 4 — in any mode.