New Menu

[pissant]

Would be nice if TV3 supported the New menu offered in Explorer. By this I am referring to Right click > New > (whatever file type), which is used to create new files.

[Gandolf]

Have you tried Edit | New?? I think that will do what you want (and more).

[pissant]

Edit > New is the same as right click > New. It only offers to create a new folder or ASCII file, so it doesn't do what I want.

[Gandolf]

Sorry, I misunderstood. You want to create a file of a specific type (Word document, spreadsheet etc...). Something I never use. Donald will have to say if he can add that or not.

[pissant]

I use it mainly for WinRAR due to its asinine interface.

[legion1978]

i think ">new" feature is pretty useful,specially if it can create "generic" files additionally(ie a blank image file).

[admin]

I never liked the New menu: it does not explain what exactly it is about to do, where do the new file definitions come from, and who added them and how... (I know it works via registry...)

Maybe we can do better! What about this: a new subfolder under TV3's main dir, called "new files", and you can freely place any files here (let's say up to 24), and when the new menu is popped up, these files are listed in the menu, and when you click one of them a copy of the file is created in the current folder. Hey, isn't that cool!

[Gandolf]

... where do the new file definitions come from, and who added them and how...

This is how Microsoft explain how to remove the entries:

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Each template exists in the [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT] hive associated with a file extension. Whether it is visible or not in the New menu is controlled by whether the related entry has a sub-key called 'ShellNew'. 

For example on the New menu there is usually an entry for "Text Document". This is visible because of the key: [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.txt\ShellNew] If you were to rename the key so it no longer had a sub-key called 'ShellNew' by changing it to [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.txt\ShellNewOld] it would disappear from the New menu.

Hence my right click menu is empty (apart from New File & New Folder). As far as I know they are added by the application when it is installed. There are also programs that enable the user to add extensions to the context menu.

a new subfolder under TV3's main dir, called "new files", and you can freely place any files here (let's say up to 24), and when the new menu is popped up, these files are listed in the menu, and when you click one of them a copy of the file is created in the current folder.

I like the concept. Would the list be just a list of extensions, i.e file types, and TrackerV3 pre-fixes the extension with "New File" (or something similar)? I would prefer that to having the full filename & extension in the list. Having said that, I doubt if I would use it much since I normally open the application and create the new file, then save it.

[admin]

I like the concept. Would the list be just a list of extensions, i.e file types, and TrackerV3 pre-fixes the extension with "New File" (or something similar)? I would prefer that to having the full filename & extension in the list. Having said that, I doubt if I would use it much since I normally open the application and create the new file, then save it.

Full filename & extension. With automatically invoking rename mode.

The possibilities are exciting!
- You can place files you use again and again in the new files folder. For example as a web developer you use "shim.gif" everytime, or a basic skeleton of an index.htm, or your logo.jpg, etc etc....!
- You can also place folders inside the new files folder! With contents or an empty subfolder structure which you then can recreate with one click!

[admin]

Did it!

For me personally one of the best features since months!!

[admin]

Would be nice if TV3 supported the New menu offered in Explorer...

Thank you, too, pissant, for triggering this new items thing! I think for digital developers of all fields whose daily work consists in creating and modifying files, this feature alone is a reason to love (and buy! ) TrackerV3!