Make "name" column automaticall use all space unused by other columns

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Re: Make "name" column automaticall use all space unused by other columns

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I believe I did this correctly. When I open the INI while XY is not running, the tweak is set to 1.

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Re: Make "name" column automaticall use all space unused by other columns

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XY still seems to use its previously remembered column widths. Can I clear them somehow?

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Re: Make "name" column automaticall use all space unused by other columns

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OK, so SOMETHING is happening.

When I initially start XY, the first folder that the program is opened with seems to to have autosized columns.

But after that, no more effect. Other folders, nothing. Even if I leave the first folder and then go back to it again, no autosizing.

SIDE NOTE: The autosizing should leave space at the right end for the scroll bar. Or does this happen automatically as soon as a scrollbar becomes necessary?

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Re: Make "name" column automaticall use all space unused by other columns

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OH, okay. :D

I had to swith off "adaptive name column width". Problem solved.

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Re: Make "name" column automaticall use all space unused by other columns

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Feature looks very nice so far, thank you very much. Will observe in pratical use from now on.

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I'm very happy with this new feature, and I'm quite sure I will replace "Adaptive name column width" with it in 22.20.

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rhoelzl wrote: 02 Aug 2021 09:34 OH, okay. :D

I had to swith off "adaptive name column width". Problem solved.
Interesting. I cannot reproduce any issues here when "adaptive name column width" is ON. Well, that's just a side note. It doesn't matter as one will replace the other.

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One thing I noticed is that the "Type" column does not take its mimimum possible width always.

When I have a folder that contains nothing but subfolders, the Type column is ~60% wider than it needs to be to display the word "Dateiordner". Is this by design?

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Oh, I guess you have given a fixed width to Ext, Size and Type.

Which makes sense I guess.

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The width of any of the other columns is not touched by this function. To achieve this you have to enable "Autosize Columns".

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Thanks! I just tried that. These two options seem like two features that would work go together very nicely (to get the behaviour I described in my first post).

But unfortunately, the option "Autosize columns" does not work nicely with the new tweak at the moment.
When I enable it, it shrinks the Name column to the minimum (instead of just all other columns and maximizing Name).
And as soon I change the folder, the checkmark on "Autosize columns" disappears again.

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Well, it works very nicely here. Let's wait until the feature is available in the GUI. Then we can discuss the details.

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Strange... OK, let's wait and see what happens!

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Re: Make "name" column automaticall use all space unused by other columns

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rhoelzl wrote: 02 Aug 2021 20:23 But unfortunately, the option "Autosize columns" does not work nicely with the new tweak at the moment.
When I enable it, it shrinks the Name column to the minimum (instead of just all other columns and maximizing Name).
And as soon I change the folder, the checkmark on "Autosize columns" disappears again.
It is still showing that behaviour in the release version.

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Cannot reproduce. :|

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