Way to get known current path if it's very long (by tooltip)

[SB]

My small suggestion: sometimes it's difficult to know very long current path, path bar shows the rest of it, and "last paths" list shows "..." in folder names.
Is it possible to add tooltip to show the entire path, despite of it length?
IMO, the unused area in path bar (I marked it with red rectangle) the good place to react on mouse, and show the tooltip.
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[StatusQuo]

I also miss the cut off information from path's beginning very much.
On a network share like \\10.1.2.3\public, the drive info just says "\" and "[public]" - no idea what server I am working on without editing the path line - as workaround.

A tooltip would be better than nothing, but not enough IMO.

How about leaving the first instance (drive or server name) visible?
Now

\\10.1.2.3\base\of\very\long\path\name\active\*.*

is shortened like

<| ase\of\very\long\path\name\active\*.*

IMO better would be

\\10.1.2.3\...\long\path\name\active\*.*

What do you think?

[Balderstrom]

Honestly, all we really need is for the CommandLine to be configurable. That would resolve so many problems.
What I mean by this, is to allow the end-User to determine how wide the CommandLine should be, and which side it should be on.

I can modify it with NirSoft's WinExplorer, thus it can likely be done with AHK, and would have to be done with a persistent AHK script, as TC redraws the commandline whenever the window is resized (restored/maximized).
TC Image: As you can see here

Of course it would be even better if DoubleClicking on the "status DirectoryArea" of the CommandLine would copy the current path to the actual commandLine as well. But I doubt we'll get either of these, so I might as well wish BIG.

If I could make that change persistent, I would leave the commandLine on screen.

Or the ultimate:
1) a setting to allow the CommandLine to appear at the bottom (where it does now) or at the top - in between the Tabs and the two panel's addressBars.
2) a setting to show the CommandLine left or right.
3) a grabber bar between the CommandLine and the Status area that allows on the fly resizing of the CommandLine by dragging. And if not this, then at least a setting to specify it's size(width) when TC is maximized, and it's size when it is not fullscreen (restored). But a grabber bar would be much nicer (and would save those 2 settings anyways).
4) a setting to allow the StatusArea to become an editbox.

With the status area an editbox, it now will always show the current directory, and you can click inside it to easily copy the path OR change the active panels' directory just like entering a path into its own addressbar does.

::OR::
If none of the above, TC should at least allow a ToolTip when hovering over the current active Tab. It will show you a tooltip for every inactive tab, but not the active one!

[MVV]

I suggested to show different parts of path in path bar and command-line bar here: http://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?p=181899#181899

You may tweak TC so it will show current path in tooltip for every file or folder. Go to Configuration - Display, User-defined [+], add file type (i.e. *) and add [=tc.path] in its tooltip line. BTW, such way will display full path even if it's very long (divided into some lines).

[Balderstrom]

Interesting, I noticed that "+ User-Defined" recently, but hadn't gotten around to figuring out what it does.

[MVV]

Interesting, I noticed that "+ User-Defined" recently, but hadn't gotten around to figuring out what it does.

This option is very useful) You may specify a lot of lines for different file types and search templates. I.e. I added for files number of hardlinks and NTFS file index, and for reparse points its type and target path=)

[fenix_productions]

[OT]
2Balderstrom

Interesting, I noticed that "+ User-Defined" recently, but hadn't gotten around to figuring out what it does.

I recommend you to take a look on "Files Overwrite" dialogue too (if you didn't spot it already)
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[SB]

You may tweak TC so it will show current path in tooltip for every file or folder. Go to Configuration - Display, User-defined [+], add file type (i.e. *) and add [=tc.path] in its tooltip line. BTW, such way will display full path even if it's very long (divided into some lines).

Thanks for nice solution! It works well I just added "\n" after [=tc.path], to make the path more apparent.

[MVV]

You may tweak TC so it will show current path in tooltip for every file or folder. Go to Configuration - Display, User-defined [+], add file type (i.e. *) and add [=tc.path] in its tooltip line. BTW, such way will display full path even if it's very long (divided into some lines).

Thanks for nice solution! It works well I just added "\n" after [=tc.path], to make the path more apparent.

It is your right!
Glad to help!

[Boofo]

2fenix_productions,

Where would the "Files Overwrite" dialogue be? I am missing it.

[Balderstrom]

When you get a pop-up notification that FileX is going to overwrite FileY, then the +user-defined is also there.

I'm not exactly sure what *for, but I'm thinking the dialog will have more info about the files, if you add more items via the +user-defined.

(*) All I've done with it thus far is add in tooltips for junctions et al, but will test some more

[Boofo]

2Balderstrom,

Ah, OK. I guess I should have known that. Thank you, sir.

[StatusQuo]

Found another place to display the active path: the window title bar.

I just wrote a script that adds the current path to TC's window title,
but keeps important information like instance number, RunAs-user and TC version:
AutoHotkey: Show the active path in the title bar (extended) (based on the one by SanskritFritz)

While the path bar shows the end of the path, the script shows (at least) the beginning in the window title.

[Boofo]

2StatusQuo,

How would you run it? And how to compile it? I don't use AHK.

[StatusQuo]

2Boofo
AHK basically runs without installation. It can be downloaded as zip or installer from here.
- You can compile the script to an EXE file using Ahk2Exe.exe.
Or:
- To run the script (without compiling) you only need the file AUTOHOTKEY.EXE, then you can run it like
AUTOHOTKEY.EXE script.ahk

After installing AHK or manually associating *.ahk to it,
you can run the scripts by just a double click.

A similar description is in the wiki, too.

P.S.: After running a script, it can be found as an icon in the system tray (normally a green "H"), the context menu can be used to "Exit" it.