Adding Multiple Paths to Find Files

[Trasd]

I don't know if the problem is just here but with this new feature if you just open the Find Files(with Ctrl+F3 or any other way),if the Location field is empty=>right click on the browse button=>select Edit Location=>Here if the list is empty and you click on the browse button,an error appear

This error is confirmed on my system too. If the "Edit Location..." buffer in the new dialog box is empty, then you hit browse, that error will occur (I manually emptied it to test, but if multiple directories are selected - see below - it shows up empty on its own).

Also isn't the "Selected Locations" also supposed to add the selected locations to the Location field or to the Edit Locations list?

I thought so too, but I haven't tried this feature yet, so don't know if it was working like this before or not.



Sorry Don, my health is still not doing too well, so I haven't had a lot of motivation with testing. I have actually done enough for another entry in my review topic, but just need to write it (after I test the new Find File feature, still haven't done this either).

[admin]

The Autosync option doesn't auto sync the location if the option is already enabled when you start xyp and press Ctrl+F3(or rise the panel and go to Find Files)thus the current location it's not auto added to the Location field and not in the Edit Location dialog

Also isn't the "Selected Locations" also supposed to add the selected locations to the Location field or to the Edit Locations list?

1. Don't understand.

2. Yes, but only if you run the search.

[vsub]

1.If the option Autosync is already enabled(enabled and saved before closing xyp)when I start xyp,the location if Find Files don't autosync with the current location(the location field is empty in Find Files).You have to either enter in some folder or click on the current folder in the tree to auto add the current path to the location in Find Files.
You can still just click on the Find Now button and xyp will search the current directory even if the location text is missing but if that text is missing,the problem with Edit Locations appear(meaning I have to do something to add some location there,otherwise xyp will crash if I click on the browse button in the Edit Locations window.

2.Yes,selecting multiple folders in the current tab will search them but they are not be added to the Edit Locations list(probably because no such feature is added)

[Trasd]

Yes, but only if you run the search.

Ah - a little counterintuitive, but I don't want to say anything officially yet.... (That means my message is sort of a wasted post, don't you think?) LOL

I'm still floored by this program Don, it's great - I learn so much nearly each time I use it. I'm forgetting as fast as I'm learning, though.

[PeterH]

I'm still floored by this program Don, it's great - I learn so much nearly each time I use it. I'm forgetting as fast as I'm learning, though.

I'm afraid there's much truth in what you say...
...at least regarding features you don't need/use in the moment!

That's why I think a program can help you when giving you kind of "reminders" about things you can do - like links from using MRUs to editing them, as said in another thread.

[gtm]

I see two other possibilities:

1. Drag + drop a path into the location field to add it.

2. A new (optional) command in the context menu of folders: "Add this path to the Location box" (or so).

Opinions?

I don't see anything in the latest version ?!

[admin]

I see two other possibilities:

1. Drag + drop a path into the location field to add it.

2. A new (optional) command in the context menu of folders: "Add this path to the Location box" (or so).

Opinions?

I don't see anything in the latest version ?!

I implemented none of the two because I went for a third way: A multi-line edit box reached from right-clicking the browse button at the Location field.

[admin]

Yes, but only if you run the search.

Ah - a little counterintuitive...

I don't see another way. Real-time updating the Location field in synch with selecting folders in the list cannot be a good thing, or?

[Trasd]

I don't see another way. Real-time updating the Location field in synch with selecting folders in the list cannot be a good thing, or?

Don, no, I was not talking about keeping them in sync, but about having the ability to send any folder (path) from the Tree or List Panel to the "Location:" buffer. Once they are in the buffer, we could edit that list through the new option you added (this part is already in place, the changes you did). This could be accomplish by using a hot key combination or a context-menu method.

The passage you quoted, I was just commenting, not suggesting any type of change.

I agree, trying to keep these items in sync would be a bad mistake and a logistical nightmare.

[tiago]

Really useful addition by the way.
Just to say "thanks" for the proposition and implementation.