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Hi,

Recently i found myself using the properties tab and the To Clipboard menu a lot.
I found that it was quite long when you select an object to launch the contextual menu, go to To Clipboard then choose the one you want.

Then i thought it would be very practical to have buttons in the properties tab(In which i have i have a lot of free space most of the time) to complete some tasks like the To Clipboard or things like that.

I also discovered that when you select multiple items the properties tab show infos about the last one. DOnt you think it would be more useful to have infos about the group of selected items?

I even dream of creating my own Open With buttons in the properties tab depending on what extension is selected.
For mouse users it s very practical.

What do you think?

Martin

I don't have a lot of time right now, but quickly: are you checked out the Toolbar? I'm pretty sure there's a button to copy the item's path or something, and right-click will popup the To Clipboard menu I believe.

As for your own Open With menu, have a look into POM (Portable Open With menu (which also has a TB button), see PFA: Portable File Association) it allows pretty much exactly what you seem to be looking for...

carmenm wrote:I also discovered that when you select multiple items the properties tab show infos about the last one. DOnt you think it would be more useful to have infos about the group of selected items?

I know this has been mentioned here a few times at least, and as best I can recall, it's likely something that Don doesn't have full control over..but i could be totally wrong also.

j_c_hallgren wrote:

carmenm wrote:I also discovered that when you select multiple items the properties tab show infos about the last one. DOnt you think it would be more useful to have infos about the group of selected items?

I know this has been mentioned here a few times at least, and as best I can recall, it's likely something that Don doesn't have full control over..but i could be totally wrong also.

I would imagine Don has control over everything. However, what are we talking of here? If 108 items are selected, you want 108 Modified dates, 108 Created dates, 108 Attributes sets, etc ??
Sure, size can be made into a total, and that's on statusbar already. But dates or attributes, no way to "sum it all up" is there? Of course though, modifying it will have it applied to all selected items. I'm not sure what could be different there?

WE could have kind of a different layout with different infos like
size
nb of files total
nb of dir
nb of lines (for code)


and the chckboxes could be used for all files like if you do properties in the explorer on a multiple selection.

And as i said we could imagine some more things like buttons for easy access to To Clipboard or OpenWith.

There are actually a lot of useful possibilities

Rather not. The IP is full enough.