Custom status bar info

[admin]

1) Confirmed and fixed.

2) Works here. It might depend on the template. What is yours? (Maybe I misunderstood, but if there is no template then no effect can be seen, of course.)

[jupe]

1) Thanks, that was nice to have tracked down.

2) If you load fresh; there is a default template right?, if you run that command I mentioned (or even statusbartemplate(, 1)) before opening the config dialog, nothing happens. If you then subsequently open config and close it with no changes, not even switching config pages, then the template kicks in, anyway its no big issue, I was just mentioning it as an observation.

[admin]

Ah, the default template -- facepalm. Yeah, confirmed. Guess I will fix it now...

[Evolve]

There seem to be a bug with this option:

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Configuration | General | Tree and List | List | Select last used subfolder

1. Open This PC
2. Select a Disk, Status Bar shows it's name letter
3. Open the disk and then go back to This PC
4. The disk gets auto selected but status bar ignores special rules for This PC and runs the template

PS. Here is my template BTW:

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|s|<get CountSelected>  |  <get 'BytesSelected' '' 1><get LengthsSelected a 6 '  |  *  '>

The status bar shows me this when I manually select disk C:\

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When it gets auto selected the status bar shows this

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PPS. Actually... I remember you agreed that This PC should obey template, so the manual selection is bugged, not the auto one.
Either way it should work one way or another, not both. If you end up deciding to go back and show just a Disk name letter overriding template, can you add Used Space to it cause it's nowhere shown, only Free Space and Total Size.

[Evolve]

Seem to be even more bugged...

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[admin]

Will work better in next beta.

For used space you can use <get UsedSpace '' 1 ' | * '>.
In the next beta it supports thousand separators like this: <get UsedSpace '' 2 ' | * '> (flag 2).

[Evolve]

Thank you for another quick fix, now it works as expected. Unfortunately, I just realized that I definitely was wrong. There should be special rules for selected disks in This PC. I was just unsatisfied that it only showed a disk letter, but the reality is that 1) template made for files doesn't make sense for disks and 2) disks don't have much to show anyway. So a better way would be to ignore template and just show all the possible missing info directly.

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[admin]

I agree it should not use the template that's meant for files.

But there might be different opinions about what it should do instead. Maybe it should just do the same it does in a normal folder when nothing is selected.

[Evolve]

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PS: "none selected" is already OK, it shows all the info and Free Space even twice, why btw?

PPS. How about moving free % to the left one and getting rid of the duplicate?

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Same inside disks

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My concern here is not even status bar space it takes but unnecessary confusion it causes.

[admin]

Recently I have noticed my first 2 statusbar sections returning no info when switching tabs sometimes, example pic below, so far has only happened on external drives, FYI I don't have Custom SB enabled.

I think I found that bug. It happened when switching tabs that had the same number of items. Fixed now.

[Evolve]

My another subjective opinion is that the inconsistency of the format in the status bar is also confusing:
bar2 format is free: <number>, capacity: <number>
whereas for bar3 it's the opposite: <number> used, <number> free
Why don't just pick one and follow it?
And the density of the data doesn't help much. "<TAB>" would be a better separator here than ", "

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[admin]

There is some consistency in the sequence:

used - free - capacity
          free - capacity
used - free

I agree about the layout. I might replace the commas by some amount of space later.

[Evolve]

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v22.60.0105
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    + SC get got a new named argument "FileSystem". Returns the file system 
      (NTFS, FAT32 ...) for the current or the specified path.
      Syntax: get("FileSystem", [path])
      Examples:
        echo <get FileSystem>;
        echo <get FileSystem J:>;
        echo <get FileSystem "J:\rocky 3.jpg">;
        echo <get FileSystem "J:\non-existing-path-or-file.foo">; //works anyway
...
    * Custom Status Bar Info: Now the drives support for CSBI is limited to the 
      presense of a new switch: Everything right of |d| is used for drives, 
      everything left of it for other items. If |d| is missing then the template 
      is not used for drives at all.
      Examples:
        |s|<get BytesSelected '' 3>|d|<get FileSystem>
        |s|<get BytesSelected '' 3>|d|* - <get FileSystem>
        |d|* (<get FileSystem>) |s|<get BytesSelected '' 3>
    ! Status Bar: It was not always updated when switching tabs that had the 
      same number of items in the file list. Fixed.
...

Separate templates for disks and files, Wow! This is for sure the best way to do it. Can’t believe all I wanted to see is already available, even a file system! BTW, I’ve finally figured out why there are two "Free Spaces", they are actually different...

One sudden thing. The bug you fixed yesterday has risen from the dead. The one where I selected two disks, then unselected one and the status bar thought nothing was selected.

[admin]

Not sure what you mean. I fixed so many little things yesterday...

[Evolve]

It's actually a little bit different

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