Script to open new tab and select some folders

[plorerer]

hi
i want to open new tab and select some folders
my code is as follows:

tab("new","E:\path\dir1\");
sel "[folder2]";
sel "[folder3]";

but when i run this a popup comes up showing this code and does nothing !:


please help me .
what should i do ? what is the correct code?

thanks in advance

[Filehero]

You have to indent the non-first lines for plain script code, just like

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tab("new","E:\path\dir1\");
  sel "[folder2]";
  sel "[folder3]";

instead of

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tab("new","E:\path\dir1\");
sel "[folder2]";
sel "[folder3]";

Unintended (and uncommented) lines are interpreted as menu entries.


You'll find more information in the help section Advanced topics/Scripting.


Cheers,
Filehero

[admin]

To put it in other words:

(a) In a multi-line script all lines apart from the first line have to be indented by at least one space.

(b) Each non-indented line is interpreted as the first line of a separate script, and if there are more than one scripts in a loaded script resource then a menu is popped where you can select the script to run.

[Filehero]

(b) Each non-indented line is interpreted as the first line of a separate script, and if there are more than one scripts in a loaded script resource then a menu is popped where you can select the script to run.

The description I failed to find. One coffee seems to be insufficient on a cloudy sunday morning ....

[plorerer]

thank you all.
i learned the indent thing today from you.

and found out that i must use
selectitems

instead of sel.

[admin]

thank you all.
i learned the indent thing today from you.

and found out that i must use
selectitems

instead of sel.

Correct.

I wonder what your script intends to do. Select some folders? And then? What's your plan?

[plorerer]

select some folders
then i want to drag drop them to other program

i am stuck in the drag drop phase
(i have 80 tabs in XYP and there are selected folders in each tab)
do you have any suggestion ?

i thought maybe if i catalog the selected folders then i can do something...
but it seems that it is not possible to drag drop folders from a catalog to other program.

any advice would be appreciated.
thanks.

[highend]

And the target program is...?

[admin]

If you want to open those folders with another program you can do so directly using e.g. scripting command openwith. No need to go there and select them first.

(Sorry, I have to go now.)

[plorerer]

well i used some engineering skills

i tag the needed folders
then i search the root directory for tagged folders
then all the wanted folders are shown altogether
and i can easily select all and drag drop

[admin]

Dem Ingeniör ist nichts zu schwör.

[pqalmz]

This is some of the easiest job, which can be done by .bat file with content

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"<path to program folder>\<program>.exe" "<folder1 path>" "<folder2 path>"