New Columns

[admin]

Good morning. I slept over it, and while eTag™, xTag™, exTag™, xyTag™ etc look nice, I think this thing will be so great and easy it will sell itself just like that. I will stick with "Extra Tags", and call the columns generically "Extra 1" etc.

[admin]

Getting closer... holy moly, that was more work than I had expected... ... they might be a first beta tomorrow...

[admin]

Puuh, had terrible unexpected problems with compiling the thing under Win 8.1. Finally, after hours of voodoo and hundreds of dead chicken, I found the way. So, here it is, the first beta after more than a week in the code dungeon.

As also pointed out in the change log: Backup your configuration before running this BETA!

Please, this upload is just for playing around. Don't post ideas yet, because I still have a list of things here that I will implement in the next days. I will you tell when I have finished my part... then you can go hunting...

[admin]

PS: Whoops, first I need to install the installer software on my virgin Win 8...

[admin]

PS: Whoops, first I need to install a new FTP uploader on my virgin Win 8...

[binocular222]

Extra Column not shows file properties (i.e: Title, Author, Album...)?
Will it come?

[LittleBiG]

Extra Column not shows file properties (i.e: Title, Author, Album...)?
Will it come?

There is no such thing as Extra Column. Extra tags you have got now. Custom columns will come later.

[binocular222]

Uhm, what's the difference between Comment and Extra tag?
Any creative use of Extra tag?

[admin]

Uhm, I tried to explain it in the v13.70.0111 change log. At the moment I'm implementing it...

[kunkel321]

It might be a bit late to suggest this.... But it would be cool if we could rename the Extra columns.
EDIT: What I mean is that the end user could customize the name of each...

[TheQwerty]

It might be a bit late to suggest this.... But it would be cool if we could rename the Extra columns.

In the change log, Don said it would come in the future.

For now you can modify them by carefully editing tags.dat.

[totmad1]

LOVE the new columns/tags and wrote this simple script
to get the track number into one of the extra tags.

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"mp3TrackNo"
         $SelectedItems = get("SelectedItemsPathNames", "|");
   foreach($Item, $SelectedItems, "|") {
           extratag(1, "TrackNo.");
           $TrackNo = property("Track", "$Item");
           if($TrackNo <10){
              $TrackNo = 0$TrackNo;
             }
           tag "$TrackNo",$Item , 3;
          }

it also renames the column title.

[admin]

Cool!

You don't need

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extratag(1, "TrackNo.");

inside the loop. Call it just once.

[binocular222]

Link column should:
- Left click launch the 1st link (ctrl+left click maybe more common sense)
- allow relative to <curpath> instead of <xypath>

Edit:
Date Column:
When enter date like this: 2010-07-21 17:16:33
XY trim off the ms and display as: 2010-07-21 17:16
What if I want to display full ms or display only the yyyy-mm-dd? Can XY rely on systme's regional setting or we need format switch?

[Marco]

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      - Date (2): Date and time.
                Format: Displayed in the current Date column format.
                  Stored in tag.dat in format yyyy-mm-dd hh:nn:ss, local time (not
                  converted to UTC; reasons: performance and readability).
                  Kept in memory also in format yyyy-mm-dd hh:nn:ss (nicely sortable).
                Editable via right-click, single-line edit box, and options to
                set Current Date, and Created Date, Modified Date, Accessed Date
                of the right-clicked item.

      - Closed List (5): Closed set of string values (defined in tag.dat section Extra Tags).
                Editable via right-click, menu options.
      - Open List (6): Closed set of string values (defined in tag.dat section Extra Tags)
                Editable via right-click, menu options.
                Additionally supports free text.
                Editable via right-click, multi-line edit box.

      - Script (8): Script.
                On left-click XYplorer will run the script.
                Editable via right-click, multi-line edit box.
                NOT IMPLEMENTED. Might be too crazy.

Date and time should be contain the fractions of second too (at least in tag.dat, the GUI may hide those fractions if not visible in the List), for consistency with the rest of the date/time capabilities of XY.
What's the difference between closed and open list?
Scripts: sounds like a terrific idea!