switching back & forth between panes with mouse hover

[hondoe]

I am used to programs that switch panes immediately when the mouse hovers over a pane

I searched the forum, but couldn't find a way to configure xyplorer to do this.

It seems like a very basic thing. Am I missing something?

Please let me know how to quickly switch panes by moving my mouse over a pane.

Thanks!

[highend]

That feature doesn't exist...

[bdeshi]

well, you can run this script.

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::while (1){ wait 1000; if (controlatpos() == 'L 1') {focus 'P1';} elseif (controlatpos() == 'L 2') {focus 'P2';} } ;

(Just paste this code into the addressbar and press ENTER).

It will keep running in the "background", polling mouse position every second (you can customize this by increasing or decreasing the `1000` after `wait` in the script.)
This only cares for either pane, but can be extended to auto-focus other gui elements.

• Any stray ESCAPE keypress might disable this script. Also you'll have to rerun this every time you start XYplorer.
• Due to the "long" waiting period, It's quite light on resources. you can even run other scripts while this is running. [in-joke] (There it is: multi-threading!)

• Interferes with inline rename. Before/Immediately after invoking the rename box, sling the mouse cursor from any pane, to anywhere else.
• May interfere with everything else.

[davidp]

so, how to make it remembered between sessions ??

[highend]

/script= command line options. It's in the help file as well

[bdeshi]

ehmm, this "one amazing trick" interferes with inline renames. [edited my original post above.]

[hondoe]

Thank you all of your responses.

It seems like such a basic feature.

I will add it to the wish listing.

[kunkel321]

As long as it's only an option.... Hover-selecting things always drives me nuts. I guess because I "think with my mouse." I can't look at anything without my mouse helping me....

[RalphM]

...I will add it to the wish listing.

No need to double post, Don reads all the posts & if it's in the wrong forum one of the moderators will move it eventually.

[bdeshi]

[moved to wishes]