XYplorer Beta Club

I've got ten tabs permanently open - most of them are unlocked because I'm forever working with their sub-folders and if locked I'd spend all my day closing extra tabs.

The excellent catalog has the ability:

if a tab pointing to the clicked location exists already, this tab is selected instead of opening the location in the current tab

which means that if the target tab is away from home (which is set to that location), the current tab will be knocked away from home too.

So, to my wishes.
could there be an option to Go Home ALL Tabs
and/or
the catalog clicked location jump checks first to see if there is a matching HOME setting for a tab and goes there if one exists, or to a tab currently at that location, otherwise uses the current tab.

These are not at all important, but would make life just that little bit easier.

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kapok wrote:I've got ten tabs permanently open - most of them are unlocked because I'm forever working with their sub-folders and if locked I'd spend all my day closing extra tabs.

Oh, I know the problem! But your post inspired me to an idea for a new tab-wise option: "Lock Home Zone" (or so...) = If checked you can open any folder within the defined home branch inside the tab, but when you click a folder outside the branch a new tab is auto-opened! Kind of "smart locking" or "branch locking"... you get the idea. Goody?

Apart from this: Go Home All Tabs will be a pleasure to add.

kapok wrote:(Having been recruited by shady, astroturfing, underworld characters to infiltrate this group some months ago, I can now fulfil my purpose with the following subtle marketing message:
buy XYplorer - it's rather good!)

admin wrote:Kind of "smart locking" or "branch locking"... you get the idea. Goody?

Apart from this: Go Home All Tabs will be a pleasure to add.

"smart locking" sounds good. go for it.

So then how would this work if one tab is a child of another tab? I often will have a directory structure that looks something like:

c:\myproject
c:\myproject\data
c:\myproject\subproject_1
c:\myproject\subproject_1\data
c:\myproject\subproject_2
c:\myproject\subproject_2\data
c:\myproject\subproject_2\data2

etc.

I will typically have one tab for c:\myproject, one for c:\myproject\subproject_1, one for c:\myproject\subproject_2, and sometimes a tab for one or more of the data directories. In the event that I didn't have any tabs defined for the data directories, and then picked on, for example, data2 above, where would it open? Would it find the "closest relative" tab (in this case c:\myproject\subproject_2)?

Seems like a a neat idea, though I'm wondering if my typical folder structure might lead to some unexpected results...

Definitely interesting, though!

avsfan wrote:So then how would this work if one tab is a child of another tab?...

Work what? Are you thinking of selecting a location via Catalog? The "branch locking" I suggested rather addressed navigating to subfolders via tree (or catalog, for that matter) inside a locked tab. It's a looser form of locking. I can't see any problem with your data structures here... explain again, please.

"Smart/Branch Locking" sounds like a great idea. I'm looking forward to it.

Cheers
JohnM

admin wrote:Apart from this: Go Home All Tabs will be a pleasure to add.

EDIT: (the previous answer was partly rubbish, but the essence remains valid) Going home is just available for the currently active tab. The technical reasons for this are not worth describing here.

avsfan wrote:Seems like a a neat idea, though I'm wondering if my typical folder structure might lead to some unexpected results...

Definitely interesting, though!

So, avsfan, how do you like the locked home zone? I'm very pleased with it myself.

Definitely seems like an interesting idea! It wasn't clear to me if it's already been implemented, or is still just a great idea (I can't find it in my .45 release ). Though it's probably in the betas, and if I'm going to be posting in the beta club forums, does that mean that I have to be running the latest beta?

Sounds neat, though -- I'm definitely interested in trying it!

andy

avsfan wrote:... Though it's probably in the betas, and if I'm going to be posting in the beta club forums, does that mean that I have to be running the latest beta?

You bet!
EDIT: and read the history bits that come with each BETA release. The new stuff ain't in the help file.

avsfan wrote:Sounds neat, though -- I'm definitely interested in trying it!

Try it = love it. It's revolutionary, it's pioneering, it's the art of file management. You get it only here.

Gee, sounds like you're in favor of it!

Ok, so now I'm officially using the latest beta! Looks good! I'll have to play with it some more to get used to it...

(and the more I use XY, the more really cool features I find -- and I'm sure I'm hardly scratching the surface of what it can do!) The latest thing I discovered that I find myself using ALL the time is the "Visual Filter" -- I've got a request that I'll post in a new thread so it doesn't get lost here...

Thanks again!

andy