Custom user columns (using plugin system)

[alexizeld]

It would be great if you do this ....thanks

[admin]

Hello and welcome,

a (one) custom user column is somewhere on my list. Don't expect much more for the next years...

Don

[alexizeld]

fair enough .....keep up the good work.

[j_c_hallgren]

FYI: Also, in the past, Don has said more than once that he doesn't like a plugin setup.

[admin]

I assume this plugin idea is inspired by TC which seems to rely a lot on plugins. XY has a different approach.

[alexizeld]

I don't Mean necessary plugins...
you may connect a custom column to a script (returns a text to be placed in the column for each item).

[admin]

I don't Mean necessary plugins...
you may connect a custom column to a script (returns a text to be placed in the column for each item).

Yes, exactly this is planned.

[alexizeld]

what about the reversed way ( column text >> Script ).... any plans ?

[admin]

what about the reversed way ( column text >> Script ).... any plans ?

Don't understand.

[Borut]

I am not a scripter (yet), so this is just a wild guess: Maybe it is about the means of getting the column's contents (string) via script command, so it could be used in script. (As I said - no idea if this is already possible.) So my understanding would be:

Wish 1: Script as a generator of a "virtual column content".
Wish 2: Script as a "user" of a "real column content".

[admin]

I am not a scripter (yet), so this is just a wild guess: Maybe it is about the means of getting the column's contents (string) via script command, so it could be used in script. (As I said - no idea if this is already possible.) So my understanding would be:

Wish 1: Script as a generator of a "virtual column content".
Wish 2: Script as a "user" of a "real column content".

Yes, probably. And it's already there: Scripting Command property() is doing this (even for shell columns, that are not displayed in XY's file list).

[Crash&Burn]

What about just supporting the columns that Explorer does natively?

They should be system available without any "plugin" system required.

The ability to utilize custom columns and custom column templates, and/or Specific Custom Column Template to be applied for a given Directory path --- would be most welcome.

[alexizeld]

guys... the original idea is the following :

I wanted to save folder's comments inside it as a text file and view it's content in an editable column
just for more flexible folders comments (in case the folders was renamed or moved by another process)
I wrote such program some time ago..but I'd like to see this feature in xyplorer

[Crash&Burn]

Sorry, alexizeld
Didn't mean to usurp the thread.

The various Commanders (and some non-commanders) support descript.ion files.
Wherein the comment is stored in a flatfile in the same directory as the file itself.
Format:
1) filename.ext Comment to display until a normal newline encountered.
2) "File name with spaces.ext" Comment\nthat\nhas\nnewlines\nas the comment\ncan be used for tooltip as well.[EOT]Â

XYPlorer doesn't appear to support descript.ion files. Unfortunate, as I have thousands of files that use that have been 'commented' in that manner.

[alexizeld]

Sorry, alexizeld
Didn't mean to usurp the thread.

The various Commanders (and some non-commanders) support descript.ion files.
Wherein the comment is stored in a flatfile in the same directory as the file itself.
Format:
1) filename.ext Comment to display until a normal newline encountered.
2) "File name with spaces.ext" Comment\nthat\nhas\nnewlines\nas the comment\ncan be used for tooltip as well.[EOT]Â

XYPlorer doesn't appear to support descript.ion files. Unfortunate, as I have thousands of files that use that have been 'commented' in that manner.

dude... no need to be sorry at all,we're just discussing an idea