How to Avoid Delays in Popup Menus with External Drive Paths for Asleep Drives?

[Jerry]

Cool. I decided to go for this in all those menus. They also open much faster now.

Thank you!

[admin]

Just saw that I forgot two of them (Recent File Ops and History). Next beta...

[jupe]

@Don: I have noticed another side effect of the recent icon changes, previously it was possible to use an asterisk as the icon source when using fields in inputselect and it would use the generic/CFI folder icon for the item, now just a plain page icon is shown.

eg. inputselect(, regexreplace(quicksearch("/dna", <xydata>), "^(.+?)$", "$1||*"), <crlf>, 1025);

should I just script around this, or do you think you'll bring that behavior back.

[Jerry]

Starting with v23.70.0353, the use of generic icons in the menus is now optionable with a tweak:
PopupMenusGenericIcons=1
So if you set that to 0, you should get the other icons back.

[admin]

@Don: I have noticed another side effect of the recent icon changes, previously it was possible to use an asterisk as the icon source when using fields in inputselect and it would use the generic/CFI folder icon for the item, now just a plain page icon is shown.

eg. inputselect(, regexreplace(quicksearch("/dna", <xydata>), "^(.+?)$", "$1||*"), <crlf>, 1025);

should I just script around this, or do you think you'll bring that behavior back.

This is a side effect of the bug fix indirectly mentioned here (viewtopic.php?p=205043#p205043). It will be fixed in the next beta. There might be other instances of generic icons in such lists where there were specific ones before. Let me know.

[highend]

What about CFA entries?

All mine that e.g. load scripts (and these entries are working fine when called) have now a question mark icon

E.g.: |"Extract icon(s)" exe>::load "Extract icons.xys";

[admin]

Before, they had the blue script icon?

[highend]

Yeah, they had. But I didn't update for a few beta versions (on my own portable one) so I missed the version when they lost that icon

[highend]

Just to make that clear: It's not about their appearance in the context menu itself (those icons are fine), the configuration dialog for CFA shows them with the question mark icon

[admin]

Fixed in next beta.

[highend]

Fixed for CEAs in v23.80.0014

[Jerry]

This problem seems to have returned. Not sure when. I'm currently using 26.50.
Excruciating.

[admin]

Instead of emotional details, it would help to get some usage context.

[Jerry]

Instead of emotional details, it would help to get some usage context.

Sorry for the emotion. I haven't checked all the menus, but the main problem occurrence is with the Favorite Folders menu which I use most. I have also seen it with the Recent File Operations menu.

[admin]

I don't think anything changed here. Maybe your drive just didn't sleep before.