Toggle File Extensions from Toolbar

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ovalseven
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Toggle File Extensions from Toolbar

Post by ovalseven »

I'm new to XYplorer and would like to set this up similar to my OpenShell layout. All I'm missing is a toolbar button to enable/disable displaying file extensions. I can't find a button for that. I see an option for custom buttons but I don't know how to set that up.

highend
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Re: Toggle File Extensions from Toolbar

Post by highend »

Add a "User Button #..." to the toolbar and use this script

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$layoutFile = "<xydata>\Columns\Toggle extension column.txt";
    $layoutText = columnlayout(, "get");

    // No ext column
    if (!regexmatches($layoutText, "(^|,)\+Ext\.")) {
        $layoutText = regexreplace($layoutText, "Ext\.", "+Ext.", 1)
    // Ext column
    } else {
        $layoutText = regexreplace($layoutText, "\+Ext\.", "Ext.", 1)
    }
    writefile($layoutFile, $layoutText, , "utf8");
    columnlayout($layoutFile);
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Horst
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Re: Toggle File Extensions from Toolbar

Post by Horst »

And why do you want to hide extensions ?
From the security aspect this should never be hidden.
It was a very bad design idea from Microsoft to have such an option in Explorer.
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ovalseven
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Re: Toggle File Extensions from Toolbar

Post by ovalseven »

highend wrote: 14 Jun 2021 18:51 Add a "User Button #..." to the toolbar and use this script
I pasted that into the script box, but nothing happens when I click the user button.

highend
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Re: Toggle File Extensions from Toolbar

Post by highend »

Execute this from the address bar and show the complete output of it:
text columnlayout(, "get");
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ovalseven
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Re: Toggle File Extensions from Toolbar

Post by ovalseven »

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Index.56,Path.150,+Name.300,+Ext.43,+Size.62,+Type.120,+Modified.115,+Created.115,Accessed.115,Attr.80,Len.47,Label.56,Tags.53,Comment.82,Extra 1.64,Extra 2.64,Extra 3.64,Extra 4.64,Extra 5.64,Custom 1.79,Custom 2.79,Custom 3.79,Custom 4.79,Custom 5.79,Extra 6.64,Extra 7.64,Extra 8.64,Extra 9.64,Extra 10.64,Extra 11.64,Extra 12.64,Extra 13.64,Extra 14.64,Extra 15.64,Extra 16.64

highend
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Re: Toggle File Extensions from Toolbar

Post by highend »

On hitting the button it should hide your Ext column (in the state you're posted it) and that works fine in a test setup here...

So your button setup looks like this?
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ovalseven
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Re: Toggle File Extensions from Toolbar

Post by ovalseven »

This is what I've got.
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highend
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Re: Toggle File Extensions from Toolbar

Post by highend »

Execute the button once,

Menu - Go - Go to Application Data Folder
Navigate into the "Columns" subfolder, open the "Toggle extension column.txt" with a text editor, show the content.

Close that file, press the button again, open the file, show the content a second time...
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ovalseven
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Re: Toggle File Extensions from Toolbar

Post by ovalseven »

The contents in the file change each time but the button still has no affect on the file extensions.

jupe
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Re: Toggle File Extensions from Toolbar

Post by jupe »

If you just want to toggle showing the file extension from the end of the filename, NOT toggle the actual Ext column all you would need in the on left click field of the custom toolbar button is this by itself: #412;

ovalseven
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Re: Toggle File Extensions from Toolbar

Post by ovalseven »

jupe wrote: 15 Jun 2021 03:01 If you just want to toggle showing the file extension from the end of the filename, NOT toggle the actual Ext column all you would need in the on left click field of the custom toolbar button is this by itself: #412;
This does what I was trying to accomplish. Thank you.

Sorry if my initial question wasn't clear.

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