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Is it possible to think to implement in Tracker a second panel, like the main one, displaying files, as in the old winfile (for Win 3.11 !...), in order to facilitate copy/move of files using drag'n'drop ?
(perhaps it is a newbie question, so, sorry.)

steven wrote: Is it possible to think to implement in Tracker a second panel...

It is possible to think it, but that won't make me do it unless you have very strong brain waves. You know, I'm a single-pane-kind-of-guy, in 1995 I jumped from DOS directly to Win95 -- never touched Win31 and it never touched me.
Believe me, copy/move of files using drag'n'drop works great with single pane managers. It's all psychology: trust the machine. There's no choice anyway. The fate of mankind is the "hands" of machines since decades, and so is yours. And there's no way back.
Dual pane is for control freaks. Cool users do drag'n'drop'n'trust. Try it!

Thanks for your quick answer. Perhaps you're right, and I must change my mind, I'll try !..

I know this great software comes free for home license ... but dual pane would be a very great add!!
My reason is that I'm used to work mainly via keyboard: I tends to use the mouse as less as possible ...
Hope to see this feature added in the near future!

Anyway, keep up the good work -

What is it that you cannot do without mouse in TV3?

I'm not sure if it's possible or not ... maybe I'm missing some features ... in that case sorry.
Anyway I mean something like this: using 2 pane usually I use shortcuts (F5 to copy, F6 to move, something other to swap panes, compare and so on ...) and I do this taking a look at the two panes at the same time.

As I wrote, maybe this is just possible with TV3, in this case sorry for my fault.

Well, you have only one pane at a time in TV3. But you have all the standard shortcuts, like Ctrl+C for copy etc. You can cycle thru tabs by Ctrl+Tab. You can jump between here and the previous location by F7.

BTW: "F5 to copy" sounds weird to me. Is that a standard somewhere/somewhen?

admin wrote:[...]You can cycle thru tabs by Ctrl+Tab. You can jump between here and the previous location by F7.

That's where dual manager comes handy: you don't need to switch tabs since the windows are visible at the same time.

admin wrote:BTW: "F5 to copy" sounds weird to me. Is that a standard somewhere/somewhen?

I'm not sure if it's a standard ... I've seen it on: Total Commander, 2x Explorer, xplorer2, and something others around ...

I've grown up with F5 = Refresh in countless programs.

If you want dual pane, take a dual pane file manager.

hehe i like your style dude..
i was wondering about the dual pane too.. but then i realized that, in the end, you ALSO have to browse through the other pane to get to the location u want.. so it really doesnt matter if its visible or not, but if its open already..in another tab.

in fact thats why i mentioned the copy/backup/move to feature, cause since there is no other pane, i wanted to know where things would end up. but i finallly worked it out through favorites,.. so its ok insnt it

legion1978 wrote:so its ok insnt it

I think so