Permanent Startup Path

[arirish]

Under the Startup & Exit 'tab' in the configuration, I have the permanent startup path set to 'My Computer'. I believe this is meant to work so that whenever I start XYplorer, it always starts on that tab, am I correct?

That's what it seems to do, anyway. I have my first tab locked and iconised and set to My Computer, and on startup, XY always starts on this tab. Great.

The problem comes when I'm using dual pane mode. If I'm working on the second pane when I close down, then when I start up again the program creates a new My Computer tab on the second pane.

I follow the logic, but I'd really like it if I could set a permanent startup PANE as well, this way no matter where I was working when I closed, I'd always restart back on pane 1, tab 1, My Computer.

Oh, and by the way, LOVING the new Catalog features. It's making working with XY on PC and laptop much more efficient and prettier, being able to switch between what I refer to as my 'start menus'.

[arirish]

I guess nobody else has this issue/is bothered about this, huh?

[serendipity]

I guess nobody else has this issue/is bothered about this, huh?

You can create a script and place it in the XY shortcut. So whenever XY starts it will start with your defined parameters.

Copy/paste below script to a file and name it MyStart.xys

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//focus pane 1
   focus p1;
//Goto my computer
    goto %computer%;

Right-click your XY shortcut on the desktop and it will look something like this:

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"C:\Program files\XYplorer.exe" /ini="XYplorer"

Add your script MyStart in between path and /ini:

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"C:\Program files\XYplorer.exe" /script=MyStart /ini="XYplorer"

Done. Everytime you start it will be Pane1 and My computer.

[arirish]

I guess nobody else has this issue/is bothered about this, huh?

You can create a script and place it in the XY shortcut. So whenever XY starts it will start with your defined parameters.

Copy/paste below script to a file and name it MyStart.xys

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//focus pane 1
   focus p1;
//Goto my computer
    goto %computer%;

Right-click your XY shortcut on the desktop and it will look something like this:

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"C:\Program files\XYplorer.exe" /ini="XYplorer"

Add your script MyStart in between path and /ini:

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"C:\Program files\XYplorer.exe" /script=MyStart /ini="XYplorer"

Done. Everytime you start it will be Pane1 and My computer.

Hmm! Well, I did it (I think, correctly). Now to see if it works. Thanks

Still and all, it'd be nice to be able to set the start pane, considering we can already set the start tab.

[admin]

It's not that easy to keep the UI in sync when changing one of the many factors... anyway I tried something. In the next BETA look for an INI key StartPanePerm and choose one of these settings:

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StartPanePerm=0    (start with last pane)
StartPanePerm=1    (start with 1st pane)
StartPanePerm=2    (start with 2nd pane)

If it works ok I'll raise it to GUI level.

[admin]

It's not that easy to keep the UI in sync when changing one of the many factors... anyway I tried something. In the next BETA look for an INI key StartPanePerm and choose one of these settings:

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StartPanePerm=0    (start with last pane)
StartPanePerm=1    (start with 1st pane)
StartPanePerm=2    (start with 2nd pane)

If it works ok I'll raise it to GUI level.

So, did anybody try it with v9.70.0006?

[SkyFrontier]

Out of a few restartings, so far so good, Don.

[arirish]

Same here, it's working well. Thanks, Don.

[ghost zero]

shouldn't there be a permanent startup path option for EACH pane? not just the first pane? for users that start XY in dual pane mode.