Feature: FTP connection window

[robby]

Hi all !
I am a veteran TC user (licence shipped with WC version 2.11... eight years ago !). Here I suggest a new feature which could be useful during FTP sessions. The connection window, recording the dialog between the PC and the FTP server, is shrunk to a small fixed window (with scroll-down bar) as soon as the connection is established. I understand that this may be the only way to "hide" it, but sometimes I would like to browse the whole session (e.g. to check for mistakes)... scrolling the small window is not the best of comfort !
Suggestions:

1) a button to expand or pull down the whole window when needed, and/or
2) an option to log the whole FTP session in a default file.log.

Is this possible ?
And best compliments (again and again) to Christian for this unique program !

[Hacker]

1) a button to expand or pull down the whole window when needed,

Since v2.11, never tried double-clicking that window?

an option to log the whole FTP session in a default file.log.

As in Configuration - FTP - Create a log file? ...

HTH
Roman

[JohnFredC]

I use FTP in TC quite a lot and would prefer that the FTP window be at the bottom of the panel the session is active in, with a splitter bar to expose more of the session log (and less of the files, naturally) and vice versa.

SpeedCommander does this quite nicely.

I dislike how the TC file panels shift down when the FTP bar appears. I hate "squirmy" software that won't "stay put"...

Surrely it couldn't be too difficult to implement my request. If a user didn't like the FTP panel occupying the file space, then he/she could slide the splitter down to the one line display it currently has... with the position saved in the ini file.

[petermad]

FTP sessions. The connection window, recording the dialog between the PC and the FTP server, is shrunk to a small fixed window (with scroll-down bar) as soon as the connection is established. I understand that this may be the only way to "hide" it, but sometimes I would like to browse the whole session (e.g. to check for mistakes)... scrolling the small window is not the best of comfort !
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It is already there - just double-click on the little window, and a full, resizable window pops up

[ThurahT]

Since v2.11, never tried double-clicking that window?

Whats the point of using the mouse in TC? Is there away to get to that log window with out using the lame mouse?

I use FTP in TC quite a lot and would prefer that the FTP window be at the bottom of the panel the session is active in, with a splitter bar to expose more of the session log (and less of the files, naturally) and vice versa.

Agree! Or having it in the local panel window splitted where u set it to split. Dragable with the mosue.. ( Yeah! Thats the only time u use the mouse in TC, to assign tabstops! : ). Or option to have it as a floating window with copy function as in the lister.

I dislike how the TC file panels shift down when the FTP bar appears. I hate "squirmy" software that won't "stay put"...

Agree on that aslo. It could be solved better than popping that extra bar above the window. And if I want to change transmition method I use the keys for that. Or from the main options row thats already there.

These are IMO really good feature requests.

Regards,
ThurahT.

[robby]

Since v2.11, never tried double-clicking that window?

ARGH !! You are right.... it might be obvious, but is not referenced in the Help file..... Of course I can save the Lister contents at any time, but the following is better:

As in Configuration - FTP - Create a log file? ...

Has it ALWAYS been there ???

OK, OK.... I've been lazy for eight years. Thanks for hints.

[robby]

It is already there - just double-click on the little window, and a full, resizable window pops up

Yes, but this is not the SAME window ! Simply, when you double-click, the contents of the FTP window is dumped to a temporary file which is in turn opened in Lister. Of course, the Lister contents is not updated in real time: if you want to see subsequent parts of the FTP session you have to double-click again, and each time a new Lister windows is opened... Not exactly what I meant, but better than nothing...

[Hacker]

Has it ALWAYS been there ???

Nope, it was a switch in wcx_ftp.ini for some time that made into the main config dialog recently.

HTH
Roman