[WFX] VirtualPanel: Temporary panel for TC

[Hurdet]

Inside VirtualPanel, if you use %L %UL %WF you get real file names nothing else to do !
Main issue is that VPanel is not aware of selected item and you cannot indicate process with all selected files

My problem is not that it does not recognize the selected files but that it does not correctly report the names and therefore fails to create the list.

if you want virtual names, you have to use %v or %V but you will not get a list file just the file under the cursor
%S will give you list of virtual file name and is the most useful parameter to get selected names.

I do not want virtual names

using vpbatch ^convert command needs 3 parameters:
List, exported text file, VP folder (can be .)

From readme, 3° parameter is optional:
convert <source_filelist_path> <filelist_path> [<virtual_path>]

%F %L are not the useful parameter as by default VP is looking for Unicode and Virtual Names ! (%WF can work if you have exact same names as real file name)

as I have already written I have tried all the variants

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documentation of VP and TC are not 100% complete/exact
do use ^ instead of redirection is good practice
<convert command stop at first error

Current VPpath is exposed in ${}Path env variable if you have more than one VP you can insert VP name inside the {VPname} !

What you can do is to convert %S parameters as a single file utf-8 or utf-16 with BOM and then process it with convert !

Finally, you tried a button with a string useful for compacting a selection of files from the virtual panel?!?

Converts list of virtual names or paths (that may be got via TC parameters like %F, %L, %WF etc.) into list of physical paths to files.

This not work for me.

[nsp]

My problem is not that it does not recognize the selected files but that it does not correctly report the names and therefore fails to create the list.

This is a misunderstanding, TC generates %parameters and if you just want a list of selected file (with physical target) you just have to use %L %UL %WL <convert is not needed.

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command: %comspec% /c
parameter copy %L c:\out\list.txt

This is the way i use VP with TCBL everyday..

[Hurdet]

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command: %comspec% /c
parameter copy %L c:\out\list.txt

This is the way i use VP with TCBL everyday..

this has nothing to do with my problem with VirtualPanel.

[Hurdet]

Reproduce bug example:

• I create empty Virtual Panel.
  Copy from %SystemRoot%\system32:
  • notepad.exe
    nshwfp.dll
    ntlanman.dll

• from a button:
  echo %WF & type %WF & pause
  I get:
  K:\TEMP\CMD6E1B.tmp
  notepad.exe
  • notepad.exe
    systemnshwfp.dll
    systemntlanman.dll

VPBatch.exe convert... cannot find "systemnshwfp.dll" and systemntlanman.dll, non work and create only a empty unicode list.

[nsp]

VPBatch.exe convert... cannot find "systemnshwfp.dll" and systemntlanman.dll and non work.

As said if you want a list as <convert is supposed to produce just save %WL as a list file from a virtual folder. <convert is useless in this case !

if you want to use convert, the only way is to produce the file in correct format from %S and then use VPBatch ^convert <produced file> <output list> .
and use 3 parameters. Readme for <convert is wrong about %L %F ...!

if VPBatch call returns before end of process, TC can delete file before VPBatch read all the files...
Also, <convert stop at first error !

[Hurdet]

As said if you want a list as <convert is supposed to produce just save %WL as a list file from a virtual folder. <convert is useless in this case !

save %WL as a list file from a virtual folder not produce a list of physical paths to files in virtual panel folder and also the filenames are all wrongs with the exception of the first, as I have already exemplified (systemnshwfp.dll, systemntlanman.dll instead of nshwfp.dll, ntlanman.dll).
So <convert would be very useful in this case, and that's exactly why it exists.

if you want to use convert, the only way is to produce the file in correct format from %S and then use VPBatch ^convert <produced file> <output list> .
and use 3 parameters. Readme for <convert is wrong about %L %F ...!

This method only works because it manually reproduces what ^convert should do automatically.

if VPBatch call returns before end of process, TC can delete file before VPBatch read all the files...
Also, <convert stop at first error !

<convert stop at first error because I suppose VirtualPanel.wfx64 not return correct list %WL.
repeat:

Converts list of virtual names or paths (that may be got via TC parameters like %F, %L, %WF etc.) into list of physical paths to files. Parameter virtual_path sets base virtual path for relative paths in a list (e.g. it should be path to folder with files whose names are listed by %F or %WF);

the readme.txt mention the parameters %F, %L, %WF and never %S because its function is to convert a "list file in the TEMP directory, with the names of the selected files and directories" in Virtual Panel folder, generated by% WF into list of physical paths to files usable by an external command such as a packer.
Example directly from author:

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Command: VPBatch.exe
Parameters: ^convert %F %F.lst .

I hope MVV can take a look at this post.

[nsp]

Erratum: this seems to be a bug TC/VP

TC before 9.20 was generating in %L... %F with virtual names and this can be used by <convert
Starting in 9.20 %L %F seems to not work anymore even if after 9.21 %C1 C2 .....C9 gives you full real names.

%L %F ... seems to be ok with first file only but completelly wrong with the next... (use a 20c buffer for path and add real file name for other files, this lead to stange error with name...

[Hurdet]

Finally agree with me that that there is a bug.
So do you think it depends more on TC than on VP?
Should we report it to Ghisler?

[MVV]

Well, I've tested <convert myself with some files from System32 and confirm that it only converts first filelist item, that's sad.

But it looks like a TC bug, not a VP bug!

When I execute a command for VirtualPanel with %F, I get invalid filelist (notice extra prefixes in all lines except first one):

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activeds.tlb
activeds.actxprxy.dll
activeds.adal.dll
activeds.AdapterTroubleshooter.exe

When I execute a command for VirtualPanel with %WL, I get invalid paths too:

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activeds.tlb
System32actxprxy.dll
System32adal.dll
System32AdapterTroubleshooter.exe

But as you can see in VirtualPanel.log, FsGetLocalName returns valid physical paths:

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09:33:16   4080	FsGetLocalName:	"\0\actxprxy.dll" is "C:\Windows\System32\actxprxy.dll"

And it works OK with TC 8.52, TC 9.12, but fails in TC 9.20 and further versions. And there were no WFX API changes so all TC versions should work in the same way. So yes, we should report this as a bug, and test which %-parameters are affected.

Anyway, please keep in mind that %F in this example is for the case when your virtual names are the same as real ones, in such case <convert may help to get real paths. The main problem is that %F, %L and others are controlled by TC only, VP can't do anything with it.

[Hurdet]

I opened un TC bug.

[MVV]

Thank you!

As a workaround, you can currently use SAVESELECTION command for TC, it saves list with virtual names. If you want to batch it, create em_SaveSelection command with SAVESELECTIONW command and %A parameter and call it from batch with e.g. TCFS2:

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TCFS2.exe /ef tem(`em_SaveSelection "D:\temp.lst"`)

This will produce a Unicode filelist that may then be passed to VPBatch ^convert (note that you have to double ^ characters in batch files or cmd.exe command line - I didn't know that when selected ^ as a default replacer for <):

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VPBatch.exe ^^silent ^^convert D:\temp.lst D:\temp-real.lst .

[Hurdet]

When i use em_SaveSelection I get a list f.e.:
test\
file1.cmd
file2.cmd

when I convert I get only:
c:\path\file1.cmd
c:\path\file2.cmd

and not get files in test folder.
I have to manually modify list to:
test\*.*
file1.cmd
file2.cmd

to get also files in test folder.
Perhaps convert would work fine with a list generated with %F which is currently not working due to a bug.
But is it still possible to code VPBatch.exe to treat names with a ending trailing slash as a folder and automatically add *.* to process the folder inside files?

[Hurdet]

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TCFS2.exe /ef tem(`em_SaveSelection "D:\temp.lst"`)

or

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TCFS2.exe /ef tem(`cm_SaveSelection "D:\temp.lst"`)

save only in tc memory.

cm_SaveSelectionToFile
instead prompt filename.

[MVV]

In my example em_SaveSelection is a new em-command that just executes SAVESELECTION command, it is not related to cm_SaveSelection that just saves selection to memory.

%F doesn't enumerate nested items also.

[Hurdet]

In my example em_SaveSelection is a new em-command that just executes SAVESELECTION command, it is not related to cm_SaveSelection that just saves selection to memory.

Ok, but where I find em_SaveSelection custom definition?
Without it your example would be useless.

%F doesn't enumerate nested items also.

ok, %F doesn't enumerate nested items, but save folder path as "path\".
it would be enough to program VPBatch.exe to deal "path\" as it deal "path\*.*"