XYplorer Beta Club

I'd like a way to enter a path for MCB (Move/Copy/Backup to) operations via the context menu.

I always forget that you can't access the main MCB dialogs (Edit -> MCB...) from here, and that's the only way to be able to type in the destination without using scripting. This discontinuity could also be confusing to new users.


Possible Solutions:
A) Update SHBrowseForFolder so it displays an edit field. (BIF_EDITBOX or BIF_USENEWUI flags)
B) Replace Browse For ... Destination with an item to the MCB dialogs.
C) Add an item for the MCB dialogs.


A would solve the problem but it means no access to XY variables, and I don't believe it will create the typed path if it doesn't exist.

I personally prefer B, but I'm sure someone won't like the extra step to get to the folder selection dialog, so C might be best.

Yup, good. I went for C.

More of a TTQA item than a wish - but related to these posts:

Not yet completely recovered from a double harddisk melt-down (working disk and backup at the same time - horror vacui puterwise - prologued by a monitor breakdown) i find so much to explore here since the captain's holiday - that i hardly know where to begin.

Thing that made my day anyday through reconstruction was XY's new wonderful listbox Move/Copy/Backup to ...!
Before i got addicted to it i went a few times for the good ole used to "Browse for Destination ..." just to find out that it don't do nothing anymore (at least here on my w2kpro SP5).

My point: no bug - but isn't it obsolete anyway? Or did you keep it as a placeholder for something in your sleeve?

Linkaday wrote:More of a TTQA item than a wish - but related to these posts:

Not yet completely recovered from a double harddisk melt-down (working disk and backup at the same time - horror vacui puterwise - prologued by a monitor breakdown) i find so much to explore here since the captain's holiday - that i hardly know where to begin.

Thing that made my day anyday through reconstruction was XY's new wonderful listbox Move/Copy/Backup to ...!
Before i got addicted to it i went a few times for the good ole used to "Browse for Destination ..." just to find out that it don't do nothing anymore (at least here on my w2kpro SP5).

My point: no bug - but isn't it obsolete anyway? Or did you keep it as a placeholder for something in your sleeve?

Bug! Thanks, and sorry for your unlikely double-mishap. Guess you go triple now...