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switching back & forth between panes with mouse hover

Posted: 08 Feb 2016 08:11
by hondoe
I am used to programs that switch panes immediately when the mouse hovers over a pane

I searched the forum, but couldn't find a way to configure xyplorer to do this.

It seems like a very basic thing. Am I missing something?

Please let me know how to quickly switch panes by moving my mouse over a pane.

Thanks!

Re: switching back & forth between panes with mouse hover

Posted: 08 Feb 2016 08:49
by highend
That feature doesn't exist...

Re: switching back & forth between panes with mouse hover

Posted: 08 Feb 2016 08:59
by bdeshi
well, you can run this script. :ugeek:

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::while (1){ wait 1000; if (controlatpos() == 'L 1') {focus 'P1';} elseif (controlatpos() == 'L 2') {focus 'P2';} } ;
(Just paste this code into the addressbar and press ENTER).

It will keep running in the "background", polling mouse position every second (you can customize this by increasing or decreasing the `1000` after `wait` in the script.)
This only cares for either pane, but can be extended to auto-focus other gui elements.

• Any stray ESCAPE keypress might disable this script. Also you'll have to rerun this every time you start XYplorer.
• Due to the "long" waiting period, It's quite light on resources. you can even run other scripts while this is running. [in-joke] (There it is: multi-threading!)

• Interferes with inline rename. Before/Immediately after invoking the rename box, sling the mouse cursor from any pane, to anywhere else.
• May interfere with everything else.

Re: switching back & forth between panes with mouse hover

Posted: 08 Feb 2016 11:17
by davidp
so, how to make it remembered between sessions ??

Re: switching back & forth between panes with mouse hover

Posted: 08 Feb 2016 11:45
by highend
/script= command line options. It's in the help file as well

Re: switching back & forth between panes with mouse hover

Posted: 08 Feb 2016 14:36
by bdeshi
:) ehmm, this "one amazing trick" interferes with inline renames. [edited my original post above.]

Re: switching back & forth between panes with mouse hover

Posted: 08 Feb 2016 18:21
by hondoe
Thank you all of your responses.

It seems like such a basic feature.

I will add it to the wish listing.

Re: switching back & forth between panes with mouse hover

Posted: 08 Feb 2016 22:53
by kunkel321
As long as it's only an option.... Hover-selecting things always drives me nuts. I guess because I "think with my mouse." I can't look at anything without my mouse helping me....

Re: switching back & forth between panes with mouse hover

Posted: 09 Feb 2016 04:19
by RalphM
hondoe wrote:...I will add it to the wish listing.
No need to double post, Don reads all the posts & if it's in the wrong forum one of the moderators will move it eventually.

Re: switching back & forth between panes with mouse hover

Posted: 09 Feb 2016 07:09
by bdeshi
[moved to wishes]