XYplorer Beta Club

Posted: **06 Mar 2015 08:54**

This one is the little brother of FluxTorpedoe's Power Launcher (http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=9300)

It's (imho) a little bit easier to setup but it also supports "only" left-, right-, and doubleclickactivation (and can be invoked by scripting with it's left- and rightclick label).

Additionally it supports chaining of categories so that you only need to setup an application once and assign it to multiple categories in one line...

I mainly use it with a portable file association like this:

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*>::load "Executor.xys";

But it can be called e.g. with:

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load "Executor", "_LeftClick";
load "Executor", "_RightClick";

from scripts | UDCs or buttons...

There is no "_DoubleClick" label. If called without any label, double click is assumed automatically.

Directories aren't supported for actions (although I could implement this for left- & rightclick if there is a strong need for that).

It needs an .ini file for configuration. Download "Executor_Sample.zip", extract it and rename it into "Executor.ini" (and put it in the same folder as the "Executor.xys" script!)

You can define more than one application for a category. The first one that is found (means: exists) is used.

Regarding chained categories:

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[Categories]
ahk=ahk
au3=au3
cod=cfg|cs|css|dat|ini|js|lua|nsh|nsi|nsis|php|py|sql|uew|xml|xys
pb=pb|pbi
st=sublime-build|sublime-commands|sublime-completions|sublime-keymap|sublime-menu|sublime-mousemap|sublime-project|sublime-settings|sublime-snippet|sublime-workspace|tmLanguage|tmPreferences|md
txt=nfo|txt

[DoubleClick]
ahk;au3;cod;pb;st;txt=<xydrive>\Tools\Sublime Text\sublime_text.exe

Sublime Text is used for all of these category entries (and therefore all of their defined extensions)...

Current version: v1.6

Executor_v1.6.xys: (7.11 KiB) Downloaded 230 times

Sample config:

Executor_Sample.zip: (880 Bytes) Downloaded 399 times

Old versions:

Executor_v1.5.zip: (2.4 KiB) Downloaded 229 times

Executor_v1.2.zip: (1.72 KiB) Downloaded 340 times

Executor_v1.1.zip: (1.7 KiB) Downloaded 335 times

Executor_v1.0.zip: (1.57 KiB) Downloaded 389 times

Posted: **06 Mar 2015 21:20**

Hi highend, great idea. I'm having problems getting it to work though the way I "think" it's suppose to work. I'm using v14.80.0240. My modified line in the executor.ini looks like this...

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vid=avi|wmv|mkv|mp4|mpg|mpeg|vob|img|mov|divx|flv|asf|ts

which is as in your sample. And, under [RightClick]: Note I put a semi-colon in front of vid under DoubleClick and LeftClick.

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[RightClick]
vid=D:\DVD\VLC\vlc.exe

The instruction in the sample about [un]comments was confusing.

; Uncommenting an entry in any section requires a leading semicolon

Do you mean " Uncommenting an entry in any section requires a removing the leading semicolon" (i.e., I assume we have to remove ";" to 'un'comment the line as opposed to adding one.

By the way, VLC is not by system association for videos.

Anyway when I double click the filename, the video runs in VLC but nothing happens when I right click. My PFa line looks like this, but I've tried this without the "RightClick" label as well with the same result. I also had "<pfaitem>;" at the end of the pfa as well with the same result.

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"ExecutorRight|D:\Graphics\Icons\video_08.ico" *>::load "<xyscripts>\Executor.xys", "_RightClick";

Any idea on what may be wrong? Is the video suppose to run with a single right click or did I overlook something above? Will the right click mouse action work only if invoked from a script or CTB?
Thanks,
Ken

Posted: **08 Mar 2015 16:08**

; Uncommenting an entry in any section requires a leading semicolon

I'll rewrite it to make it clearer. A line with a leading ";" is a comment (by default in any .ini file).

Any idea on what may be wrong? Is the video suppose to run with a single right click or did I overlook something above? Will the right click mouse action work only if invoked from a script or CTB?

Your PFA is something that only reacts on double click. Until there is no real custom event action system (I guess). The double click on the video file leads to executing my script with the _RightClick label for that file. That's why VLC plays it on double click. Right clicking the video does nothing (the PFA isn't triggered at all) so:

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Will the right click mouse action work only if invoked from a script or CTB?

Exactly!

Posted: **08 Mar 2015 16:59**

Thanks highend,

highend wrote:A line with a leading ";" is a comment (by default in any .ini file).

I did know that. That's why I thought the wording was a bit odd or backwards

Thanks,
Ken

Posted: **08 Mar 2015 17:41**

Sorry: non-native english here, but as I'd think:

comment is a line that's commented: with ;
uncomment is make it active, i.e. remove ;

Isn't it this way?

Posted: **08 Mar 2015 17:51**

Yes exactly, to comment a line ensure a ";" is added or placed in front of it as we would place "//" use in XY.
To uncomment a line, which obviously is already commented, to make it active you'd have to remove the existing ";".

Posted: **11 May 2016 16:40**

I released a small update (v1.1) because of the recent change in XY:

v16.60.0306 - 2016-04-28 12:45
* Portable File Associations: LNKs are now passed unresolved, i.e. as *.lnk,
to the associated applications or scripts.

Now .lnk files are resolved first so that everything should work fine again...

I've replaced the sample config with a better definition of what a semicolon in the config means (finally)

Posted: **17 Nov 2016 21:42**

Small update (v1.2)

The script choked on files for which you don't have something defined in the ini and Windows has no open= entry in the registry defined.
Now the windows default dialog to select an application is displayed whenever that happens instead of a script failure...

Posted: **13 Dec 2021 11:42**

If anyone is (still) using it (it's my default CFA launcher so I do it on every (double-) click on a file...

v1.3
+ Better handling of file(s) without an extension

v1.4
* Changed multi (with labels) to single script type
+ Handling of invocation via Everything by a perm variable

v1.5
* Changed handling of .lnk files (that point to a file, not a folder)
Now they are opened by Windows to retain their full functionality

I'm adding v1.5 to the first post...

Posted: **10 Mar 2022 16:08**

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v1.6
  * Open .lnk files with the shell
!!! The wrong category for an app could have been chosen because the
    belonging regex wasn't explicit enough. E.g.: Two categories
    "doc" and "docs" are defined:
    doc=doc|docx|odt|ott|rft
    docs=adoc|md

    Now if there are two applications where the first one should open "docs"
    it would automatically open all files from the category "doc" as well

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