XYplorer Beta Club

hello !

I'm not sure what the new features are ...


"Now you can drag-drop items onto shortcuts in List and Catalog."
or
"Targets of shortcuts are shown in File Info Tips on mouse hover."
or
"Now you can one-click jump to the target of a shortcut."

Can you give more informations please ?

Thanks in advance.

chris.

Hey,

chrisge wrote:"Now you can drag-drop items onto shortcuts in List and Catalog."

Means you can drop items on a shortcurt (*.lnk file). For example, if you have a shortcut to a folder on List or on your Catalog, dropping files on that shortcut will allow you to move/copy files into the destination folder.

chrisge wrote:"Targets of shortcuts are shown in File Info Tips on mouse hover."

If enabled (check Configuration|File Info Tips), on your file info tips you'll have, for shortcuts (*.lnk), their destination target shown along with all the other info (name, dates, attributes, etc)
So if you've renamed the shortcut or forgot where it points to, you can always easily find out

chrisge wrote:"Now you can one-click jump to the target of a shortcut."

Means that if you right-click on a shortcut, you'll find a "Go to Shortcut Target" command on the context menu that will allow you to jump to its target. For example, if you have a shortcut to some application (*.exe file) you'll be able to quickly go to the actual file easily using the context menu, or through the Misc command on CKS

Hope that helps a bit.

ok thanks !

in fact I didn't saw it because the fonction "show only for icon" was enabled !

Suggestion: In many cases, when a new feature is added, there is a thread somewhere that relates to it, and I believe that was true here, so you might want to check these forums to see, as by reading those threads, one can better see how the feature came about and what it does.

I was wondering why a shortcut doesn't open up the file/application as a matter of course in the way explorer does? It's what I expected so was suprised that it doesn't work in that way.

Nick Ray wrote:I was wondering why a shortcut doesn't open up the file/application as a matter of course in the way explorer does? It's what I expected so was suprised that it doesn't work in that way.

Should work. What's happening in your case and what should happen?

Hi.
It's very odd. I have created two shortcuts on my desktop. Both point to Excel files on my network. Within XY clicking one opens the application but clicking the other only opens the folder where the target file is. They both work fine from the desktop. I have checked some other situations and some lnk's work and some just go to the folder. Weird.....

Nick Ray wrote:Hi.
It's very odd. I have created two shortcuts on my desktop. Both point to Excel files on my network. Within XY clicking one opens the application but clicking the other only opens the folder where the target file is. They both work fine from the desktop. I have checked some other situations and some lnk's work and some just go to the folder. Weird.....

Which version do you use?

The version is 6.40.0000

Nick Ray wrote:The version is 6.40.0000

Try the latest BETA version, it might be fixed!

Thanks for the suggestion. v6.80 fixed the issue, thanks. Was this just a lucky guess or did you know it had already been fixed or did you put the fix in after my posting? I'm just curious how things get done at your end....
Many thanks for the prompt responses anyway. Impressive!

Nick Ray wrote:Thanks for the suggestion. v6.80 fixed the issue, thanks. Was this just a lucky guess or did you know it had already been fixed or did you put the fix in after my posting? I'm just curious how things get done at your end....
Many thanks for the prompt responses anyway. Impressive!

It was a coincidence. I had fixed it a few days before you asked.