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by Jibz
24 Aug 2012 14:06
Forum: Wishes
Topic: Is there a firm ETA on 64 bit?
Replies: 33
Views: 9091

Re: Is there a firm ETA on 64 bit?

As I understood it, it is because shell extensions are dll files which are loaded into the process space of your application, which means they have to be compiled to run in the same mode. The CPU can switch between 32- and 64-bit mode, but not within the same process.
by Jibz
23 Aug 2012 09:57
Forum: Wishes
Topic: Is there a firm ETA on 64 bit?
Replies: 33
Views: 9091

Re: Is there a firm ETA on 64 bit?

I think you are probably right it will be slower, but as the average amount of ram in a new system increases it will naturally happen. Nobody wants to buy a computer with 16 GB ram and only be able to use 3 of them :D. And as you say, that doesn't mean that running 32-bit programs on them won't stil...
by Jibz
22 Aug 2012 12:29
Forum: Wishes
Topic: Is there a firm ETA on 64 bit?
Replies: 33
Views: 9091

Re: Is there a firm ETA on 64 bit?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/jj133828.aspx I doubt there will ever be an update to VB6. Microsoft will continue to support the runtime in future Windows versions, simply because they have to in order to not break a bunch of software. XYplorer would have to be converted to a current progr...
by Jibz
30 Mar 2012 13:07
Forum: Wishes
Topic: ZIP Support (so I can finally retire "PowerDersk Pro")
Replies: 207
Views: 28622

Re: ZIP Support (so I can finally retire "PowerDersk Pro")

I don't understand. There are so many smart softwares to compress and extract... Why should there be find files in XY when there are so many file search tools? Why should there be image preview in XY when there are so many nice image viewers? Why should the info panel contain file properties or raw...
by Jibz
20 Mar 2012 08:20
Forum: Reviews
Topic: Vote for your favorite file manager
Replies: 14
Views: 42012

Re: Vote for your favorite file manager

For the record: XYplorer is currently No. 1 of all alternatives to Explorer here: http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=309071 (OK, 91 voters is a joke, but at least...) :) While I can understand you are happy, being number one with a total of 10 votes perhaps more reflects the fact that ...
by Jibz
20 Feb 2012 19:59
Forum: Other Software
Topic: Text Editors
Replies: 105
Views: 42074

Re: Text Editors

Admittedly, it's been a few years since I compared editors but last time the most interesting candidate was HippoEdit . However lately Sublime Text has been drawing my attention more. Same here :). I use Notepad2 for quick edits, and have been using Notepad++ for larger jobs until recently, where I...
by Jibz
24 Jan 2012 13:51
Forum: Other Software
Topic: Folder sync
Replies: 20
Views: 11453

Re: Folder sync

+1 for Beyond Compare as a file/folder compare tool that can do simple sync jobs as well. I use it for merging changes in source code mostly, and sometimes to sync the files I have backed up on my USB drive. I've also used the free SyncToy from MS to keep folders with images in sync on multiple mach...
by Jibz
04 Jan 2012 19:40
Forum: Other Software
Topic: PDF printers and other PDF related tools
Replies: 15
Views: 8657

Re: PDF printers and other PDF related tools

I am currently using Bullzip PDF Printer, which is free and manages to create relatively small PDF files. There are quite a few decent ones out there though. As a viewer I quite like Sumatra PDF, which is simple and fast.
by Jibz
04 Jan 2012 19:33
Forum: Other Software
Topic: Screenshots
Replies: 62
Views: 34180

Re: Screenshots

+1 for Screenshot Captor for more heavy-duty screenshot taking. As a quick tool I have been using Greenshot receltly -- it may be .net, but it does what it does well.
by Jibz
29 Nov 2011 22:03
Forum: Tips & Tricks, Questions & Answers
Topic: Flat View must not be called "Flat View"
Replies: 73
Views: 15746

Re: Flat View must not be called "Flat View"

Microsoft Office Word => Registered Trademark word => Not a Trademark It appears you are right, they do not have 'Word' trademarked. I guess I should have done a trademark search before speculating out loud. They do however have Access (3238869), Excel (2942050), and a bunch of other English words.
by Jibz
29 Nov 2011 17:44
Forum: Tips & Tricks, Questions & Answers
Topic: Flat View must not be called "Flat View"
Replies: 73
Views: 15746

Re: Flat View must not be called "Flat View"

It is a shame you have to use the word flat, because otherwise branch view would have been good. That is used in a number of other file managers, and dates at least back to XTree 20 years ago. It is also why you cannot successfully receive a trademark on a word, symbol, name, or phrase, that is alre...
by Jibz
10 Oct 2011 11:41
Forum: Wishes
Topic: increase general performance on scripting please!
Replies: 55
Views: 9624

Re: increase general performance on scripting please!

I tend to agree that a factor 4 in the loop logic is probably not worth the investment, unless it is something really easy to do. For munching text it would be far better to let the script call an external tool that specializes in that. My remaining worry is, like stated above; are there situations ...
by Jibz
09 Oct 2011 17:35
Forum: Wishes
Topic: increase general performance on scripting please!
Replies: 55
Views: 9624

Re: increase general performance on scripting please!

Apart from the complexity of driving XYplorer quickly(!) from an external process, that would be a huge amount of work. I'm not hopeful, especially because as I understand it, regexreplace seems to solve the performance problems with text crunching. The question is if this issue couldn't appear in ...
by Jibz
09 Oct 2011 12:10
Forum: Wishes
Topic: increase general performance on scripting please!
Replies: 55
Views: 9624

Re: increase general performance on scripting please!

You could, if there was an efficient way to add to the end of a string in XY. But if you use an expression like

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$exp = "$exp" . "$tk"
i.e. you use the string concatenation operator to append to the end of a string, the script also takes forever.
by Jibz
09 Oct 2011 11:26
Forum: Wishes
Topic: increase general performance on scripting please!
Replies: 55
Views: 9624

Re: increase general performance on scripting please!

Just for reference, looping over all strings in the file takes ~3 seconds in perl and ~1 second in C. I did a little more testing, and what really kills off the loop code I posted earlier is the call to writefile. The problem is the file gets opened, seeked, closed, every time through the loop which...