"Item Count" property for CCs?

[kunkel321]

Hi Don,
If possible, please consider adding an "Item Count" special property for CCs... I'm referring to this thing from the Tree and List settings.
I tried using "File Count" but that is apparently something different.
What I'd like to is make a Mixed Column that is
IF image >> Dimensions
ELSE IF folder >> Item Count
ELSE >> Size.
Thanks. (This is a low-priority item--just something for your todo list )

Also just an FYI, I noticed that when making a "Folder Only" CC, XYplorer automatically added the *.* to the filter section.

Should it be an /*/ instead (??)

[admin]

Count: too slow, man!

*.* : good point!

[kunkel321]

Even though counting the contents of folders could really slow things down with large directories... I still think it would be a worthy capability. What I would find really helpful is if number of subfolders and number of files could be shown. For example in this (bogus) shot:


Maybe some of our script gurus can suggest how to script this??

[SkyFrontier]

Cool idea!

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   $tst = "<cc_isfolder>";
   if("$tst" == "0") {   }
   elseif("$tst" == "1") {
   $files = trim(folderreport("files", "r", "<cc_item>", ""), "<crlf>");
   $dirs = trim(folderreport("dirs", "r", "<cc_item>", ""), "<crlf>");
   $files = gettoken("$files", count, "<crlf>");
   $dirs = gettoken("$dirs", count, "<crlf>");
   return "Files: $files, Dirs: $dirs";
                         }

edit: yes, it takes some time to get a huge system folder drawn by using this. But it's cool, anyway!

[kunkel321]

Thanks Sky!
It works like a charm.
As you say (and as Don warned) it is quite sluggish if there are a hundred folders... But if there are only 10 or so, it's nearly instantaneous!
Incidentally, I now need help integrating it into a Mixed CC... But I'll post that as a different thread.

[admin]

Two remarks on style:

Why not simply this?

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if (<cc_isfolder> == 1) {

No need to quote variables. This is fine:

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$files = gettoken($files, count, <crlf>);

[PeterH]

No need to quote variables. This is fine:

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$files = gettoken($files, count, <crlf>);

Just to verify: count is a string, isn't it? Even in Help examples show count quoted as "count".

So does use count unquoted just work, or is it really correct syntax?
(At least there seems to be no remark saying that it's allowed.)


By the way: in help:

- gettoken() shows all operands as quoted - in Syntay as well as in Examples, while
- gettokenindex() shows operands quoted in Examples, while in Syntax separator and flags are shown unquoted...
(Sometimes users use a strange way of quoting )

[admin]

Argh, of course you are right!

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$files = gettoken($files, "count", <crlf>);

[admin]

By the way: in help:

- gettoken() shows all operands as quoted - in Syntay as well as in Examples, while
- gettokenindex() shows operands quoted in Examples, while in Syntax separator and flags are shown unquoted...
(Sometimes users use a strange way of quoting )

Well, I think that's okay to show it unquoted in the syntax. Saves space, and ultimately the climate.

[SkyFrontier]

I've read somewhere that unquoted stuff could lead to unexpected results and quoting would make the scripts future-proof.
Can't say for sure if that was referring to attributing values to variables, though.
Thanks for the advices, guys.
(since it'll save me lots of typing, just hope I don't regret on this as I did with the commands deprecation cascade... )

[admin]

Don't worry. AFAIK no programming language in the world forces you to quote variables.

[PeterH]

I've read somewhere that unquoted stuff could lead to unexpected results ...

I'd think a small misunderstandig :-)
It's not "unquoted stuff" but "unquoted strings"!
Strings have to be quoted, variables not. But: variables *may* appear inside of quotes, so instead of

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 $d = "string = '" . $str . "'!";

you *may* also write

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 $d = "string = '$str'!";

I hope this explains it a bit?

[SkyFrontier]

Yes, it does!
Thanks much, Peter!

[PeterH]

Yes, it does!
Thanks much, Peter!

...fine!

[SkyFrontier]

...always wanted to see extensions each folder contains, right on list, without entering each one of them.
Now I can:

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   $files = trim(folderreport(files, r, <cc_item>, , , "<crlf>"), <crlf>);
   $exts = formatlist(regexreplace($files, ".+\.(.*)", $1), sde, <crlf>);
   $files = gettoken($files, count, <crlf>);
   return "$exts, F: $files";

(set FOLDERS as TYPE for this to work!)
It's just getting better, on and on...