Odd empty line in history lists

browny · Post by *browny » 2017-09-04, 09:02 UTC

TC 9.0a.

Let's say the active panel shows a directory on the drive C:.
Press Ctrl+F8 to display directory tree.
Press Alt+Right.

1. Select drive C: in the drive dropdown list.
Usually TC returns to the latest opened (current) directory for each drive, but in this case it would always be the root.

2. Press Alt+Down.
There would be an empty line in the history list above C:\.

3. That empty line also opens the root directory of the drive C:.

chandragor · Post by *chandragor » 2017-09-04, 09:44 UTC

Confirmed here (TC 9.0a - Windows 7 - 32 and 64 bits for both TC and Windows)

I don't know if it happens the same to you, but in the panel with the directory tree the drive combo box becomes blank and the label on its right becomes "-" (a single hyphen)

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2017-09-04, 13:25 UTC

Sorry, I don't understand. What should Alt+Right do? Do you perhaps mean Ctrl+Right?

chandragor · Post by *chandragor » 2017-09-08, 12:43 UTC

No, browny is right: you have to press Alt+Right to have the behavior he is telling about.

Ctrl+Right works correctly, but the sequence of

1) Ctrl+F8
2) select a drive from the drive dropdown list
3) Alt+Right

adds an empty line in the directory list which opens by pressing Alt+Down.

The more you repeat the above sequence, the more blank lines are added.

Post by *petermad » 2017-09-08, 13:54 UTC

I can confirm this, doing exactly as described.

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2017-09-11, 09:17 UTC

Sorry, I still don't understand. I'm probably doing something wrong.
1) Ctrl+F8
-> Tree is shown
2) select a drive from the drive dropdown list
-> Tree display disappears. TC switches to that drive, full view (or brief).
3) Alt+Right
-> Nothing happens.

Or if I do 2) in the other window, the tree shows the new drive and subdir. Alt+Right still doesn't do anything.

Gral · Post by *Gral » 2017-09-11, 14:01 UTC

I can confirm this behaviour too.
The easiest way:
1. Ctrl+F8
2. Alt+Right
3. Alt+F1, C
4. Alt+Down -> empty line on history list

Additional info: this empty line can be remembered between sessions and writes to INI file as something like:

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2=::|	#4,C:

(there is TAB = "\t" between pipe and number sign)

Also, after select this empty line from history list dropdown menu there is impossible to change directory by ENTER or doubleclick - once, on first try when you in directory on disk, at all - on "Drives" level (My Computer).

Dalai · Post by *Dalai » 2017-09-11, 14:21 UTC

Using Gral's steps I can confirm the bug in TC 9.0a and 9.0 beta4 (32 and 64 bit). TC 8.52a is unaffected, so it was introduced somewhere between 8.52a and 9.0 beta4.

And yes, Alt+Right doesn't do anything - except leading to this bug

.

Regards
Dalai

Gral · Post by *Gral » 2017-09-11, 14:27 UTC

It seems that this is related to saving the name under cursor and position in the directory.

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08.06.16 Release Total Commander 9.0 beta 1 (32/64)
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24.05.15 Added: Directory history: Remember name under cursor and position in list when entering a subdir via double click/Enter (32/64)

browny · Post by *browny » 2017-09-12, 12:17 UTC

Alt+Left and Alt+Right are used to move forward and backwards in history - be it directories in Explorer; or visited URLs in a browser.
Obviously it did not work that way here in TC.

Post by *petermad » 2017-09-12, 12:43 UTC

2ghisler(Author)

Sorry, I still don't understand. I'm probably doing something wrong.
1) Ctrl+F8
-> Tree is shown
2) select a drive from the drive dropdown list
-> Tree display disappears. TC switches to that drive, full view (or brief).
3) Alt+Right
-> Nothing happens.

It should be:
1) Ctrl+F8
-> Tree is shown
2) Alt+Right
3) Select a drive from the drive dropdown list
-> Tree display disappears. TC switches to that drive, full view (or brief).
Alt+Down
-> History list with empty line above the last (current) line is shown.

So 2 and 3 has to be switched in your description

Gral · Post by *Gral » 2017-09-12, 12:45 UTC

browny wrote:Alt+Left and Alt+Right are used to move forward and backwards in history - be it directories in Explorer; or visited URLs in a browser.
Obviously it did not work that way here in TC.

It works in regular file panels.

Dalai · Post by *Dalai » 2017-09-12, 12:57 UTC

browny wrote:Alt+Left and Alt+Right are used to move forward and backwards in history - be it directories in Explorer; or visited URLs in a browser.

You're right. I forgot about that because I rarely use the history and the corresponding hotkeys. But Gral is right, too: Alt+Left/Right normally work in file panels when there's something in the history; mine was emtpy, so that's why it didn't do anything for me

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Regards
Dalai

browny · Post by *browny » 2017-09-12, 14:11 UTC

Gral wrote:It works in regular file panels.

It also (kind of) works in a tree panel. Not always, though maybe it was not promised to work.

Post by *petermad » 2017-09-12, 18:33 UTC

BTW it also happens if after pressing Alt+Left when in Tree View.

The empty line does not appear until I am back in either Brief, Full, Comments, Thumbnail or Custom Columns View. If I then go back to Tree View the empty line is dissapears, but reappears when I againg go out of Treee View.

Here Alt+Left and Alt+Right works fine in Tree View unless "Configuration" -> "Display" -> "Tree" -> "Always load complete directory tree" is selected.