Various Things

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Various Things

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So I haven't been very active around here lately, I'm too busy using XY ;)

Anyways, here's a few things I noticed and remember :

:arrow: Create some UDC. Assign a KS to it. Remove the UDC. Now you are in a weird spot, where pressing the KS still triggers the (removed) KS, as well as being "locked".

On CKS trying to assign it reference to the removed UDC, so obviously it can't be removed or re-assigned. I haven't tried with saving & restarting at that point (I'm too scared to loose a KS ;)) so I just recreated the UDC, went to CKS which didn't list the KS but showed it on the list once clicked, to I could removed it & then removed the UDC.

Not that I'm not sure it's linked to the new "Assign KS" button, which I used, but... that's it. I'm out of words on that one, sorry.


:arrow: I think it might be good to have File Associations to support Environement Variables as well. In fact the icons does support it, so that makes it even weired they're not actually supported. I guess.


:arrow: There's a weird thing going on with parameters. When I use parameters on Open or Open With, either on UDC or Catalog, they're not sent. Not unless there's a < somewhere on the command line.

So when I don't use <variables> it never works :?

:arrow: I do not have a clear pattern to reproduce it, but twice already when adding an UDC XY crashed. Yes, I had added/removed some during the current session I believe, but I do not know what triggers it.

All I know is, first time I pressed Ins, heard a bad beeping noise (like some XY tried to popup some error message, maybe more than once whic resulted in the big crash, not sure. Anywas,) and then 100% CPU use and XY not responding.
I had to kill it.

Right now, I had pressed the New button and it just beeped again and crashed, disappeared.

Not much to help you I know, but it was always when adding a new UDC, that's for sure.
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Re: Various Things

Post by admin »

Welcome back, jacky, and as always, thanks for spotting the nonsense!

KS not freed: Uaaah, what a stupid bug. Fixed.

File Associations to support Environement Variables: but they are supported since 20071116... :?

UDC parameters were not passed when no variable was contained: arrrrrrrrghhhhhh! :shock: :x :evil: ... couldn't you have reported this 12 hours earlier? :wink: (before the official release.... :roll: ) Never stay away that long again, jacky, please! :) Fixed.

UDC crash: could not yet reproduce.

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Re: Various Things

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admin wrote:Never stay away that long again, jacky, please! :)
Yes, what would we do without jacky (and j_c_hallgren and Gandolf and serendipity and ...) and all the other great guys who spot bugs and produce so many ideas to make a wonderful product even better! Thank you all! :P

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admin wrote:UDC parameters were not passed when no variable was contained: arrrrrrrrghhhhhh! :shock: :x :evil: ... couldn't you have reported this 12 hours earlier? :wink: (before the official release.... :roll: ) Never stay away that long again, jacky, please! :) Fixed.
oops, sorry, I'll try to be faster in the future ;) :)
admin wrote:File Associations to support Environement Variables: but they are supported since 20071116... :?
Well, I just installed 6.60.0010 and I have this:
ext>%WINDIR%\NOTEPAD.EXE

Now dbl-click on file.ext should open it in notepad, right? I do get its icon on LM, and %WINDIR%\NOTEPAD.EXE does go to or start the notepad otherwise, but dbl-click on file.ext I get this:
XY wrote:Associated application not found:
D:\Program Files\XYplorer 4.50\%WINDIR%\NOTEPAD.EXE

Open the file with the application associated with it in the registry?
:roll:
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jacky wrote:
admin wrote:UDC parameters were not passed when no variable was contained: arrrrrrrrghhhhhh! :shock: :x :evil: ... couldn't you have reported this 12 hours earlier? :wink: (before the official release.... :roll: ) Never stay away that long again, jacky, please! :) Fixed.
oops, sorry, I'll try to be faster in the future ;) :)
admin wrote:File Associations to support Environement Variables: but they are supported since 20071116... :?
Well, I just installed 6.60.0010 and I have this:
ext>%WINDIR%\NOTEPAD.EXE

Now dbl-click on file.ext should open it in notepad, right? I do get its icon on LM, and %WINDIR%\NOTEPAD.EXE does go to or start the notepad otherwise, but dbl-click on file.ext I get this:
XY wrote:Associated application not found:
D:\Program Files\XYplorer 4.50\%WINDIR%\NOTEPAD.EXE

Open the file with the application associated with it in the registry?
:roll:
yes :oops: ... I should test before I talk... :wink: Fixed. Actually I saw it was never documented, so it's not a fix but a new feature! :)

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