Auto Switch Mode not triggering when "opentabs" is used to load a locked tab

[Stiltzkin]

Not sure if this is by design or not.

[tuska]

Hi,
how did you approach the issue?
Can you perhaps give a short description here?

For example, did you use an em_command in View mode -> "Auto-run commands:"-field for OPENTABS?

In case of problems with Auto Switch Mode, it is always advisable to specify relevant sections from the wincmd.ini,
so that with a clean.ini - after inserting these sections - one can better understand the situation:

• sections [ViewModes], [left], [right]
• section [ViewModeSwitch]

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Overview: View Mode | Auto Switch Mode | Custom columns view

[Stiltzkin]

Rule
Image: https://i.imgur.com/DCmPBtb.png

Buttonbar
opentabs default.tab

default.tab
;tab not locked -> view mode is correctly set

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[activetabs]
0_path=E:\Downloads\
0_options=1|0|0|0|0|0|0

; tab locked -> view mode is not changed

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[activetabs]
0_path=E:\Downloads\
0_options=1|0|0|0|0|1|0

[tuska]

Section [ViewModes] --> for "Downloads" is missing --- and TC-Version...
It is not clear from the picture what the View mode "Downloads" is supposed to do.

[tuska]

; tab locked -> view mode is not changed

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[activetabs]
0_path=E:\Downloads\
0_options=1|0|0|0|0|1|0

I have now done the following:

• TC_clean_x64.ini (please see code below...)
• View Mode "Downloads": sorted descending by name + Auto Switch Mode: +: Must match D:\Downloads\
• Tabs for D:\Downloads\ - left panel
  - Lock this tab | sorted descending by name
  - Unlocked tab | sorted descending by name
• Tab for D:\Downloads\ - right panel
  - Locked, but directory changes allowed | sorted descending by name
• Save tabs on both sides to file ->

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  SAVETABS2L %COMMANDER_PATH%\Tests\default.tab

• Files -> Quit Alt+F4
• Restart TC with TC_clean_x64.ini
• Checking the tabs for View Mode -> sorted descending by name
• Focus is in the right TC window with Tab: Locked, but directory changes allowed for D:\Downloads\
  and View mode "sorted descending by name"
• Button press with command...

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  OPENTABSL %COMMANDER_PATH%\Tests\default.tab

• Result: The View mode is retained!

default.tab

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[activetabs]
0_path=d:\Downloads\
0_options=1|0|0|0|0|1|0
;0_options=1|0|0|0|0|1|0      --> does NOT work for you and me!
;0_options=1|0|1|0|0|1|0|||1  --> works! Lock this tab
1_path=d:\Downloads\
1_options=1|0|1|0|0|0|0|||1
;1_options=1|0|1|0|0|0|0|||1   --> works! Unlocked tab
activetab=0
[inactivetabs]
0_path=d:\Downloads\
0_options=1|0|1|0|0|2|0|||1
;0_options=1|0|1|0|0|2|0|||1   --> works! Tab: Locked, but directory changes allowed
activetab=0

TC_clean_x64.ini

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[Configuration]
UseNewDefFont=1
SetEncoding=äö.do.not.remove
firstmnu=3130
FirstTimeIconLib=0
FirstTime=0
SeparateTree=0
PanelsVertical=0
TabDir=%COMMANDER_PATH%\Tests\
test=209
[ButtonbarCache]
IconDll_default.bar=
IconDll_vertical.bar=
[FileSystemPlugins64]
$checksum$=3014672
[left]
path=d:\Downloads\
ViewMode=1
activepanelcolor=-1
activepanelcolor2=-1
activepanelcolordark=-1
activepanelcolordark2=-1
ShowAllDetails=1
SpecialView=0
show=1
sortorder=0
negative Sortorder=1
[right]
path=d:\Downloads\
ViewMode=1
activepanelcolor=-1
activepanelcolor2=-1
activepanelcolordark=-1
activepanelcolordark2=-1
ShowAllDetails=1
SpecialView=0
show=1
sortorder=0
negative Sortorder=1
[ViewModeSwitch]
Enabled=1
0_rules=+D:\Downloads\
0_mode=1
[Buttonbar]
Buttonheight=29
Buttonheight120=29
FlatIcons=1
SmallIcons=1
SmallIconSize=16
SmallIconSize120=16
DefaultDpi=120
XPstyle=1
[ViewModes]
0_name=<default>
0_icon=
0_options=1|0|0||-1|-1|-1|-1|-1
1_name=Downloads
1_icon=
1_options=1|0|1||-1|-1|-1|-1|-1
[lefttabs]
0_path=d:\Downloads\
0_options=1|0|1|0|0|0|0|||1
activetab=0
activelocked=1
[righttabs]
activetab=0
activelocked=2

Thus, I can confirm that it does NOT work with this/your setting:

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0_options=1|0|0|0|0|1|0

I.e. it does not work only with setting "Lock this tab" and only in this case the descending sorting is changed
after pressing the button with command "OPENTABSL %COMMANDER_PATH%\Tests\default.tab" to ascending sorting.
With the settings "unlocked tab" and "Locked, but directory changes allowed" the View mode is preserved!

However, based on my successful tests, I cannot explain to myself, how it comes to this setting (-> see "default.tab").

Well, maybe you can at least specify the TC version that was used.

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Windows 10 Pro (x64) Version 20H2 (OS build 19042.746) | TC 9.51 x64

[Stiltzkin]

i'm using 9.51.
but the tab file was last changed in march 2019 (which would date it back to v9.22x).

so my
0_options=1|0|0|0|0|1|0 (tab locked) will load the default view mode and ignore the " [x]automatically switch mode" in the options

if i save the tabs again with a view mode already set, they will be saved as
0_options=1|0|1|0|0|1|0|||1
or
0_options=1|0|0|0|0|1|0||255|2|1 (second test-view mode)
and it will work

so the background color and the number of the view mode preset (current order) gets saved in the tab file, not the name of the view.
guess i can work with that.

thanks for the testing.



funny enough: in my default.tab are 2 more entries which get their icon in the tab without a view mode defined:

1 from the default.ini

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1_path=E:\Documents\
1_options=1|0|0|0|0|1|0|

and the second gets the default "windows libraries" icon:

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1_options=1|0|0|0|0|1|0
2_path=::{031E4825-7B94-4DC3-B131-E946B44C8DD5}

[petermad]

2Stiltzkin

n my default.tab are 2 more entries which get their icon in the tab without a view mode defined:

There are 6 different ways a tab can get its icon - see Menu: "Configuration" - "Options..." - > "Folder Tabs" -> click on the button [>>] to the right of "Show icons on tabs".

The option "User defined icons (view modes)" has the lowest priority, unless the box "Priority" is checked in the View Mode setting.