Get two selected items

[klininger]

I am trying to build a toolbar button to launch a text comparer. I works by comparing two files. I see <curitem> but I need access to both items. I would love to use <items>, but it's only available for "Open with" for some reason.

Can anyone help me out?

Thanks in advance!

[bdeshi]

Welcome to the club!

You can use get('SelectedItemsPathNames', '|') or the <selitems> variable as <selitems '|'> both of which return a pipe-separated list of all selected items.


btw, I use this oddly indented script for launching BeyondCompare with currently selection in one or both panes (or current pane paths (or dropped items)).

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INCLUDE "inc\in.xyi"; //get the in() UDF from Script Exchange > User Functions Exchange
"BeyondCompare"
  //prio: drop > 2xSelxPane > 1xSelxPanes

  $app = """<xypath>\..\BeyondCompare\BCompare.exe""";
  $files = '""'; $cmd=''; $mode ='';
  $dr    = replace(<drop>, <crlf>, '|');
  $fa    = get('SelectedItemsPathNames', '|', 'a');
  $fi    = get('SelectedItemsPathNames', '|', 'i');
  if     (gettoken($dr, 'count', '|') == 2)  { $files = $dr; }
  elseif (gettoken($fa, 'count', '|') == 2)  { $files = $fa; }
  elseif (gettoken($fa, 'count', '|') == 1)&&
         (gettoken($fi, 'count', '|') == 1)  { $files = $fa.'|'.$fi; }
  else   {
           $da = get('path','a');
           $di = get('path','i');
           if   (strpos($da,'paper:') != 1)||
                (strpos($di,'paper:') != 1)  {
                $files = $da.'|'.$di;
                $mode  = "Folder";
            }
         }

  if ($mode == '') {
    $type1 = filetype(gettoken($files, 1, '|'));
    $type2 = filetype(gettoken($files, 2, '|'));
    $type  = $type1.'|'.$type2;
    if in($type,'Binary|Empty|Cannot|Nofile') { $mode = 'Hex'; }
    else {$mode = 'Text';}
  }
  $files = '"'.replace($files,'|','" "').'"';
  $cmd = "/fv=""$mode Compare""";
  run "$app $files $cmd";

[klininger]

Beauty. Thanks!