XYplorer Beta Club

At the risk of turning this inot anther wish list post, I actually reckon .zip and .tar.gz *should* be included since both windows and OSX support them natively. It's an acceptable minimum level, so other archives can be dealt with by a dedicated archiver, but ZIP is everywhere, so supporting a minimum level of compression is a good thing IMO.

lukescammell wrote:At the risk of turning this inot anther wish list post, I actually reckon .zip and .tar.gz *should* be included since both windows and OSX support them natively.

I agree that this is not the place for wishes, but just wanted to say that, AFAIK, while windows XP may support .zip natively, MY windows (98SE & 2K) do NOT! They both look at a .zip with a until I install a zip handler, such as WinZip...

Here's two wish threads about zip...there likely are others:
http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic.php?t=544
http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic.php?t=675

Holy crap, I not only discovered some features I had not been using (kicking self in the backside), but having SHIFT+F6 to move the focused item into view is really helpful, since I spend a good deal of time scrolling during some projects.

CTRL+SHIFT+M (Select by Selected Type/s) and CTRL+ALT+J (Filter by Selected Extension/s) are two others I should have been using more often.

Bravo, Don!

zridling wrote:Holy crap, I not only discovered some features I had not been using (kicking self in the backside)

Don't kick yourself too hard , since most of what you've mentioned are quite new features! Some are virtually brand new...so you're on time to start using them just like we all are!

zridling wrote:... having SHIFT+F6 to move the focused item into view is really helpful, since I spend a good deal of time scrolling during some projects.

The one thing I do not like about it is that you need two hands for SHIFT+F6 unless you are King Kong. But there was no better idea in my head...

I can do it with one hand using the right shift key, and I'm not king kong, believe me

Thanks, this one is really cool IMHO. Don't necessary have to use it every day, but it's a nice thing to be able to do so when needed!

jacky wrote:

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    + List view: Now you can change the sort order/sorted column also in 
      an empty list

Thanks, this one is really cool IMHO. Don't necessary have to use it every day, but it's a nice thing to be able to do so when needed!

I tried to understand it and could not, but i am curious what one is trying to sort when a list is EMPTY. I am sure i am missing some trick here.

surrender wrote:I tried to understand it and could not, but i am curious what one is trying to sort when a list is EMPTY. I am sure i am missing some trick here.

Obviously not trying to sort anything, as list is empty indeed. But when at times I end up in some empty folder and I wanna change the sort order for later, I had to go to another folder just to do so, which bugged me...

lukescammell wrote:I can do it with one hand using the right shift key, and I'm not king kong, believe me

How? When I do it I feel like a contortionist. Photos!

Left hand: thumb on RSHIFT, little finger on F6

What's hard about that?

I can't even be tempted to use the LSHIFT as I use one of these.

lukescammell wrote:Left hand: thumb on RSHIFT, little finger on F6

What's hard about that?

Cool! Using RSHIFT with the left hand, it blows my mind! Jimi is not dead!

admin wrote:

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    * Experimentally, on network drives (UNC or mapped) freshly 
      displayed tree folders are not checked for any contained 
      subfolders anymore, but it is assumed that subfolders exist. In 
      other words: the "+" icon is set unconditionally. This strategy, 
      which is common among file managers, will speed up network 
      browsing considerably.

Now network browsing is instantaneous. Thanks.

Lovely job

Now I can do a quick and dirty search and then drill down into the results quite easily (this is because I'm too lazy to learn RegEx )

Although I don't use the toolbar at all in XYplorer, adding context menus to various buttons is something I would have never thought of in a thousand years. Just the changes to the Hotlist toolbar button alone is brilliant in its efficiency and creative thinking. Thanks man!