Opera Style Fly-out, Nested Catalog tree, Selectable Drives

[akovia]

I can't believe I could actually ask for more after getting so much, but I guess I've gotten spoiled.

1. I find that the space on the toolbar is a bit limiting after I customized it for all the icons I wanted. I also thought it would be nice if you could assign custom icons to your favorite scripts or other commonly used functions. This would probably be quite gaudy for many keyboard only users, or others that want to keep the interface as streamlined as possible to have a bunch of icons spattered about and I agree. That's why I just love the fly-out menu that's built into the opera browser I use. It gives plenty of room for all the icons you need and neatly stores away when not needed. I keep mine on the left side, but it could be put on either side and could be accessed via hot-key, hover for xxms, or a tiny arrow like it is on my browser. In any case I think it's a great solution to add some real estate for those that need it and is out of sight and mind for those that don't.

2. I started to mess about with the catalog feature and decided to make some folder sets. I then realized that you can't nest a set of folder under a label of any sort. Maybe I'm overlooking some other way of doing it but it's a feature I would use.

For Instance if I wanted to make a folder set of all the video folders I have. Since I have 4 internal Disks and 5 external disks I have them scattered everywhere. It would be nice to make a Catalog heading of video files and have the folders nested by drive under the heading.

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†Video
    |
    | - C:
    |    |
    |     - Video
    |     - Anime
    |     - My Videos
    |     - uTorrent
    |
      - D:

3. I wondered if there was a way to not show flash-mem drives unless there is media loaded. I have 21 drives listed on my tree, but 8 of them are empty and another is a virtual cd drive. It would be great if it could parse the drives and not show those that have no media loaded. Even if you had to have a refresh button for us that don't use auto insert notifications. It would prune my tree to be much more manageable. Something as simple as a context menu option to "Hide Drive" would even get the job done.

Lastly, if I didn't overlook a way to make more than one "Favorite Folders", I think it could be very useful. I realize you can tag items but it's just not the same. Being able to create a folder set from a tagged set would just be awesome. That way you wouldn't have to have all your folder sets clogging up your Catalog window and when you you want to work with a certain set of tagged folders, you can just create a Catalog item of those tagged folders and delete it from your catalog when finished. (With the option to nest by drive )

Well the the heading did say "Wish", so I did.
Thanks for all the hard work and outstanding product.

Akovia

[fishgod]

I also thought it would be nice if you could assign custom icons to your favorite scripts or other commonly used functions.

This feature is called "Customizable Toolbar Buttons (CTB)". Its planned but not yet implemented. Takle a look at the roadmap: http://xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=830

For Instance if I wanted to make a folder set of all the video folders I have. Since I have 4 internal Disks and 5 external disks I have them scattered everywhere. It would be nice to make a Catalog heading of video files and have the folders nested by drive under the heading.

Do You allready know MiniTree? (http://xyplorer.com/tour/index.php?page=minitree)
You can store a MiniTree to Catalog and then rebuild, thats what I did for several months. But my Catalog is grown to big now and I created a small single-line-script to set my MiniTree the way I need it:

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::LoadTree "C:\DATEN|C:\DATEN\!Eigene Dateien|C:\DATEN\Hochschule|C:\DATEN\TEMP\DOWN|C:\DATEN\htdocs|C:\SPIELE|C:\Programme|D:\STUFF\AUDIO|D:\STUFF\APPS|D:\STUFF\MOVIES|D:\STUFF\DOWNLOAD|M:\STUFF\MOVIES";
//as you see the LoadTree-Command takes a "|"-seperated list of pathes, and then build the MiniTree out of them
//this is simply stored in catalog as "Reset MiniTree"

Of cause you can create more from this entries if you need several diffent MiniTrees

3. I wondered if there was a way to not show flash-mem drives unless there is media loaded.

Also a task for the MiniTree. Normaly I allways have MiniTree enabled and there are only a few entries in my Tree. When I now plug in my USB-memorystick it's automatically apear in the MiniTree. (maybe there is some autorefresh setted i don't really know)

Something as simple as a context menu option to "Hide Drive" would even get the job done.

Using MiniTree you can just rightclick a TreeItem -> Expansion -> Hide Folder from MiniTree (works also for Drives )

[j_c_hallgren]

Akovia: Hi and welcome to the XY forums! I looked at your post earlier but didn't have a good answer for parts of it...and yes, CTB is on the "roadmap" as he said...

Fishgod: Thanks for handling that reply! You did a MUCH better job than I would have...