Packer plugins combobox is too short and can be widened

[Valentino]

Pack Files dialog -> Packer group box -> Packer plugins combobox is too short for some plugin names. There is a place to make it wider to the right. Moreover it can be moved to the left a little.

[petermad]

But the names in that combobox are file extensions - do you have any names there that are larger than 3 characters?

[Valentino]

Yes, that's why I wrote this suggestion: e.g. CatMaker, TreeCopy, TreeCopyPlus.

[icfu]

*WDXInfopacker is the longest extension here. So, of course I support that wish.

But, still I would prefer to see a dialog like that in the future (shameless self-promotion, sorry) with just one extension box for all extensions, internal and external, with ability to sort the entries as the user prefers them:
http://icfu.totalcmd.net/TC/Images/packer_dialog_redesign.png

This is the corresponding thread in which this stuff has been discussed:
http://ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=11366

Icfu

[Stitscher]

Nice screenshot, Icfu.

Support++

[Valentino]

2icfu
Looks very nice. I will support it if Christian will implement Alt+Z (for Zip) and Alt+R (for Rar) mnemonics. I do not use others

[icfu]

You don't need Christian for that, AHK is more than enough for basic stuff like that. SCNR!

Code: Select all

#IfWinActive, ahk_class TDLGZIP
!z::
SendInput, {Tab}z
Return

!r::
SendInput, {Tab}r
Return

Icfu

[XPEHOPE3KA]

*WDXInfopacker is the longest extension here.

Just FYI: TC from 6.55 supports the plugin-extensions with length up to 15 symbols. After some functions don't work properly.
You can try that with graphicsconverter plugin =)

[ghisler(Author)]

It's really not a good idea to put long plugin names in there - tat's really quite an abuse of the PACKER interface...

[XPEHOPE3KA]

2ghisler(Author)
Please, when you release updated API-help, don't forget about this issue =)

[wanderer]

It's really not a good idea to put long plugin names in there - tat's really quite an abuse of the PACKER interface...

There are windows API functions with which you can change the horizontal size of the expanded section of a combo box or add a horizontal scrollbar to it. Maybe this could help in this situation and perhaps even in the drive (ALT+F1/F2) combo-boxes...

SendMessage and SendMessageByNum functions using the folowing numbers:

CB_GETDROPPEDWIDTH = &H15F
CB_SETDROPPEDWIDTH = &H160
LB_SETHORIZONTALEXTENT = &H194

[Valentino]

Why so many complexities - there's enough room to increase this combo!

[wanderer]

Why so many complexities - there's enough room to increase this combo!

As Christian said:

tat's really quite an abuse of the PACKER interface...

That probably means the following (which IMHO has a point): this combo was designed to contain file extensions (which most of the times are 3 letters long). After the packer plugins was introduced, the plugins developers thought it was a good idea to create a plugin name 20 chars long. There is no point of increasing the combo-width because the same request will be asked again when in a couple of months some developer decides to have a 100-chars plugin name! Certain rules must exist on things. Probably, one of these rules is that the plugins descriptive names should be short (around 8 chars max).

P.S. Personally, i think icfu's idea is interesting, although the window is a little big in height.

[Hacker]

[mod]Moved to TC 7 beta discussion forum.

Hacker (Moderator)[/mod]

[Valentino]

this combo was designed to contain file extensions (which most of the times are 3 letters long). After the packer plugins was introduced, the plugins developers thought it was a good idea to create a plugin name 20 chars long.

Even Christian wrote a couple of plugins with long names - DiskDir, MakeBAT

There is no point of increasing the combo-width

There is: it's too short now and can be widened easily without affecting anyone.

because the same request will be asked again when in a couple of months some developer decides to have a 100-chars plugin name!

We will blame him hard!

plugins descriptive names should be short (around 8 chars max).

TrCpyPls isn't very descriptive.