XYplorer Beta Club

Hi

Since Don included the play next option i decided to leave him alone for a while .

I still have some problems for years to find fast the files i need and want at the time i need them. Xyplorer solved this for about 85%, it is very good at searching files, it's like you don't need the additional time to make a database of all the files on the drive and the need for updating the database, it slows down the system and you have more space needed for the database, also, a database it's not up to date all the time, since i have xyplorer i don't need such programs that keeps a database.

Now my wish:

I would love to see an Advanced visual filter, the most important thing for me at the moment: the possibility to only display the files that are more then xxx megabytes., so thesame options as the find files -> size options, but then for the visual filter.

Why would i want this? Because i want to display only files over 100MB for example, and after that, clicking on the modified or created column to see all latest big files, or the opposite (all latest small files).

I did find in the wiki that this is possible for the selection filter, but not in the visual filter, or is this possible? if it is, it would be great, if it isn't, hopefully Don will make it possible ;-).


Anyway, Don deserves to receive some gold medals or something like that (is that typed right? because i'm dutch :p). I mean, i'm busy in my spare time with testing software and stuff like that, and i don't kwon any other programmer that releases almost daily a new beta version and almost every month a new version of the software. The other thing... the updates he makes are really usefull, if you tell this to somebody then it is difficult to make them believe you :p. I remember last year i told a friend: xyplorer is great, the programmer who makes it releases new beta versions almost daily and almost every month a new version, and the best of it all, it's the best file manager i have seen in a long time. The reaction is... huh? file manager? i just use the windows explorer, don't need anything else.

hmm, i just use xyplorer, don't need anything else... yet :p


Greetings,

Steve

itsme28m wrote:I did find in the wiki that this is possible for the selection filter, but not in the visual filter, or is this possible?

No, this isn't possible for VF yet due to internal reason I beleive (and info such as dates, size, etc not available at the time the filter is processed)

I'm thinking it's somewhere on Don's list, but it's not for now, as I seem to remember him saying it would include lots of work behind the scene...

Anyway, maybe another solution would be: the possibility to sort multiple columns. So first sort all files on the size, so keeping all big sizes above, and the second sort to the created or modified column. But maybe that's also to difficult to program. hmm, maybe for me, but not for Don?

itsme28m wrote:

Anyway, maybe another solution would be: the possibility to sort multiple columns. So first sort all files on the size, so keeping all big sizes above, and the second sort to the created or modified column. But maybe that's also to difficult to program. hmm, maybe for me, but not for Don?

Which we talked about in this recent thread:
http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic.php?t=2099

I think we also have discussed the ability to add other fields to VF somewhere recently, but I've not searched for it. I'll update this if/when I find it.

itsme28m wrote:

Anyway, maybe another solution would be: the possibility to sort multiple columns. So first sort all files on the size, so keeping all big sizes above, and the second sort to the created or modified column. But maybe that's also to difficult to program. hmm, maybe for me, but not for Don?

It's not so difficult, but it would not work in your case. Secondary sorting works only on items where the primary sort criterion is identical. So in your case it would only make sense if your big files have all exactly the same size.

And why don't you use find files by size for it?

itsme28m wrote:Anyway, Don deserves to receive some gold medals or something like that (is that typed right? because i'm dutch :p). I mean, i'm busy in my spare time with testing software and stuff like that, and i don't kwon any other programmer that releases almost daily a new beta version and almost every month a new version of the software. The other thing... the updates he makes are really usefull, if you tell this to somebody then it is difficult to make them believe you :p. I remember last year i told a friend: xyplorer is great, the programmer who makes it releases new beta versions almost daily and almost every month a new version, and the best of it all, it's the best file manager i have seen in a long time. The reaction is... huh? file manager? i just use the windows explorer, don't need anything else.

Oh yeah... "need" is a very interesting concept. I think it's made of a substance that expands faster than the universe. But then you find these surprising creatures that "don't need anything else". That's brilliant! Leave your friend in peace. I want to live in a world where everybody has this attitude!