XYAHKLiveFilter - livefilter the filelist

[stanmarsh]

hello SammaySarkar

can i request an option to change the position of the filter bar? i would like the filter bar on the lower left side, just above the status bar. thank you!

[bdeshi]

tracking the statusbar position is not easy as long as I can't discover how.

Besides, the statusbar's left edge isn't always at the left edge of XY either.

Would you settle for the bottom-left corner of the whole XY window?

[stanmarsh]

Would you settle for the bottom-left corner of the whole XY window?

yes please, that is ok, thank you!

[bdeshi]

Would you settle for the bottom-left corner of the whole XY window?

yes please, that is ok, thank you!

Hey there stan. First off, I'm really really sorry for the embarrasingly long long delay. (busy busy busy...)
Anyways, here's the modified version.
This exe should popup the filter box at the very bottom-left corner of XYplorer window.

TO INSTALL, just replace the original XYAHKLiveFilter.exe file with the one in the attached ZIP archive.
That's it. you needn't touch the companion xys script at all.

[The ZIP also contains an ahk file. It's only the sourcecode of the exe, you don't need it to use the exe, ie, you can safely delete the ahk file, ie, skip extracting it from the zip.
Also note that in this version the startup arguments $ABPadding and $SyncToAB are hardcoded.
But nothing to worry, you still shouldn't have to modify the the xys]

[bdeshi]

A tiny update (v4.1) : Pressing ENTER will force a one-time update of filter when livemode is paused by checking "P".

btw, I discovered deleting attachments are effective even if the post isn't submitted. Does anyone have v4.0 of this? for completeness' sake.

[klownboy]

Hey Sammay, I have version 4. How do you want me to send it to you? PM, email?

[bdeshi]

Got it, thanks!

[Enternal]

Woohoo!! New version! Time to grab a drink and party!!

(I think I'm doing it wrong)

[bdeshi]

Not at all. Everyone can ENTER now!

[bdeshi]

v4.1.1 released.
+ Added a hardcoded Alt+P shortcut to toggle pause/livemode.
+ Also after toggling the pause checkbox, the filterbox is automatically and immediately refocused.

Also, yay!

[lian00]

Thanks for update.

[klownboy]

Nice update Sammay, integrates nicely with Address bar.

[bdeshi]

thank you, thank you!

[bdeshi]

suddenly discovered I have to double the ^ in hotkey definition to even start XYAHKLF correctly. That is, use $FocusHotkey = "^^`" ; in the starter xys.
Anybody else see this?

I found out ^ is a special cmd character and should be escaped, but then why did it work fine with a single caret earlier in the first place?
I think this may have something to with a recent OS update (or AHK update, heh).
(Also, sometimes a single caret works, and when this happens, double-caret does not.)
EDIT: eh, confusing. Sometimes ^-escaping doesn't seem to work either!
EDIT2: got it mostly stable and working after compiling with AHK v1.1.22.04. phew...
EDIT3: the dllcall to SetParent is failing. Getting there...

EDIT4: everything's okay after fixing the msg ID typo that stopped termination with parent.

ISSUE[closed]

[bdeshi]

released v 4.1.2

--highlights--
* CTB integration (well, suggestions) yay!
* [bugfix] Terminates itself if parent XYplorer is closed before stopping the filter. This was [almost] always coded in, just somehow used the wrong message ID heh heh.
--misc--
* reactivates parent after quitting. No tray icon. No annoying autofocus-on-hover