Rapid Access

[admin]

Fixed in next beta.

[admin]

PS: any chance you can add RAF (and hopefully BTB's) to DragStatusClasses?

Good point, coming.

[jupe]

Thanks for adding that!

Another thing I wanted to ask was, in fresh with the list in %rapidaccess% root, if you right click a folder, the top 2 ctx menu items, "Open in New Tab" etc. work fine on normal folders, but if I try and use their similar CIDs eg. #1043;/#1062; etc, I get a msg "Nothing focused and selected.", and that still happens even if I force focus with SC focus. I realize the cmds aren't the same, only similar, but do you think it possible to make those CID's work in that situation. I also know that I can just script it a different way to mitigate it, I was just curious, because the strange thing is, if I activate Pane2 then P1, then run 1043, it seems to work then, 1062 still doesn't though.

[admin]

Yep, those were holes in the system. Should work in next beta.

[jupe]

Looks fixed now, thanks.

Another thing though is that in fresh, if RAF is enabled and then middle clicked on in tree, the icon is missing off the BG tab until switched to, it's the same however its done, eg. tab("newb", "%rapidaccess%");

[admin]

Yep. Was fixable.

[eil]

After observing development of RAF and trying betas i still can't fully understand what's so different from Favourite's system or Catalog? I mean i already can add items to Favourites for fast access and can create Catalog items for various drop operations, plus recent Bookmarks feature added more ways for access/drop = so what's special about RAF that i'm missing?(apart from it's dwelling in Tree and not occupying space in toolbar and catalog)

[Filehero]

It's not yet finalized, I suppose.

Once there are abstract structural (RAF) nodes you can create a free / custom tree wich besides leafs is completely uncoupled from the OS view on things.

[admin]

Hmm, maybe I did not explain it well enough. It's a game changer. Maybe you should read the Help about it? Or look here: https://www.xyplorer.com/release_26.00.php

ADD: You know, even with the Mini Tree, if the locations you are currently interested in are deep down on different logical drives, your tree gets high (you have to scroll up/down) and your paths get long (you have to scroll left/right). With RAF, you can have all these locations in one place. Perfect.

This is my tree now. Awesome. 99% of the time this is all I need:

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[klownboy]

For info only, I started up XYplorer this morning and noticed my RapidAccess folders were all gone but one (XY Config). I suspect it was due to me rolling back my XYplorer for troubleshooting discussed in this thread viewtopic.php?t=27472. I did find them in an auto backup of XYplorer.ini and pasted them into to my latest XYplorer.ini file.

[admin]

The XY Config RAF is long gone. So you rolled back more than 2 weeks. What kind of trouble was that?

[klownboy]

The farthest I rolled back was v25.80.0000 - 2024-03-22. So this morning, I went to the Autobackup folder labeled "24" dated 2024-03-21 and got the contents of [RapidAccess] in XYplorer.ini. Easy peasy.

[eil]

Hmm, maybe I did not explain it well enough. It's a game changer. Maybe you should read the Help about it? Or look here: https://www.xyplorer.com/release_26.00.php

ADD: You know, even with the Mini Tree, if the locations you are currently interested in are deep down on different logical drives, your tree gets high (you have to scroll up/down) and your paths get long (you have to scroll left/right). With RAF, you can have all these locations in one place. Perfect.

I read that but still didn't find much use for me. As i'm using XY for more than 10 years, i already have every needed "fast access"/"drop locations" settled via a large armament XY possesses: Catalogue, Favorites, Drop Buttons, Paper Folders, Mini-Tree with its optimization abilities. Even recent Bookmarks feature found no use for me 'cause it serves same purposes.
RAF seem to cover pretty same area of use too, that's why i asked if maybe i'm missing something. For example your example with no need to scroll a lot when locations in Mini-Tree are deep nested in different places = i do that with "catalogue"ized locations, yet they let drop just like RAF.

BTW, while checking https://www.xyplorer.com/release_26.00.php once again(just to be sure) i noticed Path Column Drop description doesn't mention that the feature is connected to the Flat View - for some new users it may be not clear that it's not about usual Detailed view.

[admin]

Okay, many roads lead to Rome.

Thanks for the BV hint.

[jupe]

Don, I noticed that s mode of SC raf, seems to work the same as a mode and just add items, additionally it seems that r mode can wipe the whole list under certain conditions, repro:

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raf(<xydata>, a); raf(<xypath>, s); showintree "%rapidaccess%", 1; msg "Watch RAF be emptied when you close this dialog"; raf(<xypath>, r);