File Comments checkmark Bug in TC 6.01

[petermad]

If I use an old-style (Norton Commander) menu for TC with separate view settings for the left and right file panel (example can be downloaded at http://hjem.get2net.dk/petermad/download/tc322-uk.htm) - then clicking on the option "File Comments" (cm_LeftComments or cm_RightComments ) sure enough enables file comment viewing and puts a checkmark to the left of "File Comments", but clicking a second time on "File Comments" does NOT move the checkmark and put it next to "Full View" (cm_LeftLong or cm_RightLong) although it does shift into "Full View".

It should work the same way as in the Standard TC-menu where a click on "Show" - "Comments" (cm_SrcComments) puts the panel in file comment viewing mode and places a checkmark left of "Show" - "Comments" - and a second click (or a Ctrl-Shift-F2 press) switches to full mode viewing and places the checkmark at "Show" - "Full" (cm_SrcLong).

[Clo]

If I use an old-style (Norton Commander) menu for TC with separate view settings for the left and right file panel (example can be downloaded at http://hjem.get2net.dk/petermad/download/tc322-uk.htm) - then clicking on the option "File Comments" (cm_LeftComments or cm_RightComments ) sure enough enables file comment viewing and puts a checkmark to the left of "File Comments", but clicking a second time on "File Comments" does NOT move the checkmark and put it next to "Full View" (cm_LeftLong or cm_RightLong) although it does shift into "Full View".

It should work the same way as in the Standard TC-menu where a click on "Show" - "Comments" (cm_SrcComments) puts the panel in file comment viewing mode and places a checkmark left of "Show" - "Comments" - and a second click (or a Ctrl-Shift-F2 press) switches to full mode viewing and places the checkmark at "Show" - "Full" (cm_SrcLong).

hello!
Welcome on board!
I attempted to install this menu, and I got that follows:
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/charries/relais/old-menu-problem.png
I guess that this command is no longer supported or so... ?
Glad to hear more about this,
Friendly regards and
Merry X-Mas
Claude
Clo

[Lefteous]

2Clo

I attempted to install this menu, and I got that follows:
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/charries/relais/old-menu-problem.png
I guess that this command is no longer supported or so... ?

You definitely use an invalid Totalcmd.inc. The menu loads fine.

[Clo]

2Clo

I attempted to install this menu, and I got that follows:
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/charries/relais/old-menu-problem.png
I guess that this command is no longer supported or so... ?

You definitely use an invalid Totalcmd.inc. The menu loads fine.

Hi!
I use the last updated <totalcmd.inc> dated December, 20, 2003.
It's the French version, in which I added the new commands that Christian G. sent to translate...
Maybe he forgot one?
I'll compare with the English version in 6.01 (I received none message from Christian G. about 6.01, or anything else for a while...)
Then, I'll test again this menu.
Best regards,
Clo

[Clo]

Hi again!

>>> Lefteous
I found the cause: for that line, I'd
cm_SrcOpenDrives=231;Droite: ouvre liste lecteurs
instead
cm_SrcRightOpenDrives=231;Droite: ouvre liste lecteurs
Strange, because I never change the cm_xxx part of a command...? And I checked the total amount of commands as right before at translating...
I use that command rarely...
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* Hence, I installed the old-style Menu: that works fine at home, I can switch Display Comments >>> <<< Full view, either from "Right" or from "Left".
The same with Ctrl+Shift+F2, both sides. That works fine as a flip-flop command.
Test under Win 98SE (French)
I tested under XP-Pro too, that works the same: fine.
With the actual standard Menu:
¤ Win 98 SE, no problem (from menu and keys)
¤ XP-Pro, the same...
What kind of comments do you use? I use only descript.ion
Friendly regards,
Clo

[petermad]

* Hence, I installed the old-style Menu: that works fine at home, I can switch Display Comments >>> <<< Full view, either from "Right" or from "Left".
The same with Ctrl+Shift+F2, both sides. That works fine as a flip-flop command.

It WORKS fine for me too, but what about the checkmarks in the menu - do they shift as they are supposed to?

Test under Win 98SE (French)
I tested under XP-Pro too, that works the same: fine.
With the actual standard Menu:
¤ Win 98 SE, no problem (from menu and keys)
¤ XP-Pro, the same...
What kind of comments do you use? I use only descript.ion
Friendly regards,
Clo

I use Win98SE (Danish) too and I only use descript.ion comments

[Clo]

>>>petermad

It WORKS fine for me too, but what about the checkmarks in the menu - do the shift as they are supposed to?

- Yes, they do! With both menu-styles, and both OSs...
When I said "Work fine", I meant All works fine, including the tick-shifts.
Have you a large amount of free RAM always?
I noticed that some "covering" features like this no longer work under Win 98SE when the free available RAM ratio is too low...
Friendly regards,
Clo

[petermad]

- Yes, they do! With both menu-styles, and both OSs...
When I said "Work fine", I meant All works fine, including the tick-shifts.
Have you a large amount of free RAM always?

I have 133Mb free (80%), 97% G & 90% U resources.

I noticed that some "covering" features like this no longer work under Win 98SE when the free available RAM ratio is too low...

I have just tested it under a fresh Win98SE installation with almost no applications installed - still the same. I also see the same problem on my wife's Win ME (US/English) computer.

I have made a page with screenshots of all the supposedly impossible combinations of checkmarks with File Comments - it can be seen at:

http://hjem.get2net.dk/petermad/index-uk.htm?wincmd/comments.htm

Warning: 544 Kb of screenshots.

best regards

[Clo]

- Yes, they do! With both menu-styles, and both OSs...
When I said "Work fine", I meant All works fine, including the tick-shifts.
Have you a large amount of free RAM always?

I have 133Mb free (80%), 97% G & 90% U resources.

I noticed that some "covering" features like this no longer work under Win 98SE when the free available RAM ratio is too low...

I have just tested it under a fresh Win98SE installation with almost no applications installed - still the same. I also see the same problem on my wife's Win ME (US/English) computer.
I have made a page with screenshots of all the supposedly impossible combinations of checkmarks with File Comments - it can be seen at:
http://hjem.get2net.dk/petermad/index-uk.htm?wincmd/comments.htm
Warning: 544 Kb of screenshots.
best regards

Dear Colleague (since I'm the main French translator of TC...),
¤ I remake a quick test and captures (just the menus, it's light!!!).
¤ Please, watch them:
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/charries/relais/normal-ticks1.png
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/charries/relais/normal-ticks2.png
Beside the "New-style" *Show* menu, there is an extra-menu *Interface* (home-made)
Like you can see, all looks normal at home! It's with my "donkey-machine" which is only an old P II at 350 MHz - 96 MB of RAM (currently, ~45 MB free using a RAM optimizer / manager...)
Maybe your PC is bewitched??
More seriously, more I think, less I find a cause!
¤ You're right, that is displayed on your screen-shot is really impossible!
But yet, it's!
Even with my "ancestor" P I 166-MMX, that works as it does, the same with my newest PC (2-CPU AMD 2000+MP - RAM 1 GB - Good A..s mother-board), under XP-Pro, like I told you already...
¤The one difference is that I use a French version of Win98 SE (build 2222 A), which is usually much more bugged than the US/English one!
I think that you might send an E-mail to Christian G., since currently, the users arn't very numerous here (rather under their fir-trees!).
{Edit} I think now to a graphic-card /its driver problem... ????
Hoping that you'll discover the reason of this strange thing,
friendly regards,
Claude
Clo

[petermad]

Dear Colleague (since I'm the main French translator of TC...),
¤ I remake a quick test and captures (just the menus, it's light!!!).
¤ Please, watch them:
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/charries/relais/normal-ticks1.png

Oh - but I can get that too - just a matter of pressing Ctrl-F2 - then everything is back to normal.

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/charries/relais/normal-ticks2.png
Beside the "New-style" *Show* menu, there is an extra-menu *Interface* (home-made)
Like you can see, all looks normal at home! It's with my "donkey-machine" which is only an old P II at 350 MHz - 96 MB of RAM (currently, ~45 MB free using a RAM optimizer / manager...)
Maybe your PC is bewitched??

But then my wife's machine is bewithed too.

More seriously, more I think, less I find a cause!
¤ You're right, that is displayed on your screen-shot is really impossible!
But yet, it's!
Even with my "ancestor" P I 166-MMX, that works as it does, the same with my newest PC (2-CPU AMD 2000+MP - RAM 1 GB - Good A..s mother-board), under XP-Pro, like I told you already...
¤The one difference is that I use a French version of Win98 SE (build 2222 A), which is usually much more bugged than the US/English one!

But yet again - as I wrote previously - I see it on two different OS's in two different languages (Win98SE Danish and WinME English - the latter being a really baaaad OS).

I think that you might send an E-mail to Christian G., since currently, the users arn't very numerous here (rather under their fir-trees!).

That might be a good idea

{Edit} I think now to a graphic-card /its driver problem... ????

I don't believe it to be a graphic card problem - My wife and I have completely different graphic cards - and it is not just extra checkmarks "sticking" to the screen - then they would dissapear when the screen is redrawn - I can open and close the menu dropdowns and the extra checkmarks are still there

Hoping that you'll discover the reason of this strange thing,
friendly regards,
Claude
Clo

Thank you

Best regards

[Clo]

>>>Petermad
Hello!
¤ Thank you for this reply, and details about your OSs...
You're right, Win ME is really pretty bad! My next-door neighbour had a Spanish (!) one, and she had one crash a day at least...
* My French Win 98 SE has been patched, because an original install-bug which make that some *.ocx, *.vbx an so where not installed, though they are in the install CD (French versions only)
¤ I just tried using a button in a tool bar to display source-comments, that works quite normally...
Are both your PCs connected together? I mean as a mini-LAN (i.e. using a simple crossed-cable to connect network-cards)
- If yes, I thought to a worm or so (not too naughty) which could remained in Mrs. Madsen's PC ???
¤ These tick-marks displays are "exclusive OR" logic functions... With such a bug, something might hang normally (like an interface lock-up).
Have you some pluggin(s) for TC installed?
¤ I continue to test and search...
Best regards, friendly,
Clo

[Clo]

>>>Petermad
Last news!
Hello again!
I wrote:
"- If yes, I thought to a worm or so (not too naughty) which could remained in Mrs. Madsen's PC ???"
¤ I just contacted a friend who is a high-level technician at networks and PCs.
¤ He told me that he saw recently the same mark-shifts fault in IE...
¤ This is caused by a "nasty-file" -worm-like-, so-called <sys.reg>
¤ It causes mainly a false URL-display in the URL bar of IE, allowing hackers to display porn pages or so,
and causes too the same tick-shifts false display for some exclusive commands in menus.

can be found and destroyed in the Register in a ....\RUN key. Something like:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\(path)\sys.reg
- Could be located in another Reg. "hive" too, with the same path-style...
-Of course if existing, you ought to delete the file itself in the dir. (generally, <windows\system\> or around this).
Glad to hear you about this mystery,
Best regards,
Clo

[petermad]

>>>Petermad
Are both your PCs connected together? I mean as a mini-LAN (i.e. using a simple crossed-cable to connect network-cards)
- If yes, I thought to a worm or so (not too naughty) which could remained in Mrs. Madsen's PC ???

They are connected through a switch. But I don't think it is a worm, or a hardware nor an OS problem - I just tested it at work (I live 2 mins form where I work ) on an WinNT4 machine - still the same as shown on
http://hjem.get2net.dk/petermad/wincmd/comments.htm.

BTW - I have changed http://hjem.get2net.dk/petermad/wincmd/comments.htm - added some more "impossibilities" - and added description on what I do in each case to produce them - you might want to look at it again

¤ These tick-marks displays are "exclusive OR" logic functions... With such a bug, something might hang normally (like an interface lock-up).
Have you some pluggin(s) for TC installed?
¤ I continue to test and search...
Best regards, friendly,
Clo

No - the TC that I tested was without any plugins installed - just started from scratch with an empty wincmd.ini file - to exclude some odd configuration from my side.

I cannot understand why I seem to be the only one that is able to make this happen i TC?????

best regards

[petermad]

>>>Petermad

¤ This is caused by a "nasty-file" -worm-like-, so-called <sys.reg>
¤ It causes mainly a false URL-display in the URL bar of IE, allowing hackers to display porn pages or so,
and causes too the same tick-shifts false display for some exclusive commands in menus.

can be found and destroyed in the Register in a ....\RUN key. Something like:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\(path)\sys.reg
- Could be located in another Reg. "hive" too, with the same path-style...
-Of course if existing, you ought to delete the file itself in the dir. (generally, <windows\system\> or around this).
Glad to hear you about this mystery,
Best regards,
Clo

Just checked - I have no sys.reg occurrences in the registry nor any file with that name on my system.

Have you tried any of the procedures described in the new
http://hjem.get2net.dk/petermad/wincmd/comments.htm

[Clo]

>>>petermad

Hello again-again!
¤ I just watched your new captures, it's really quite incredible!
The most amazing are the false window-displays! This's more sérious than the false tick-shifts...
¤ I also tested many cases (less than you, however...), but I didn't get any false display following the ticked commands!
About the previously quoted worm-like file, please be very careful: this kind of file couln't be detected by usual AV softs, since it has no viral signature...
Whether you didn'make already, you could launch a search to find such a file in both PCs you have at home...
It could have also another name, info at:
www.f-prot.com which I use the free DOS version still, for years...
¤ I've a last test to do: If you agree, I think to translate your old-style menu in French (more comfortable for us...) and I'll ask for tests to friends and to my son...
{ EDIT } I found a minor error in your menu:
MENUITEM "&F&ile Comments\tShift+Ctrl+F2", cm_LeftComments
Further... exorcism!
Best regards,
friendly,
Clo