Details View: To show -- (a dash or two dashes) for empty fields

[John_C]

I like how it looks in macOS Finder:

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If the field is blank (e.g., no extension in case of a folder), Finder displays -- instead of leaving the field blank. This can be a good option for XYplorer as well (except for fields that are filled manually, e.g. "Comment").

[Horst]

The size field for a folder is not blank.
It can be filled with the size of all files in the folder and its sub-folders.
Personaly I don't see any benefit of this suggestion.

[admin]

Neither do I, but just as a note: it would be easy to add.

[WirlyWirly]

If this were a tweak, I'd enable it just so that my extension column had some uniformity between directories and files.

Not something I'm crying over though, might be a nice little feature if you feel like fluffing-up a bug fixes update

[highend]

Same here, I'd like to see a "--" for folders as well (like the way it's looking on the Mac)

[admin]

What are we talking about? Ext, Size, or all blank fields?

[highend]

Make it a bit field tweak:

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0 = Normal (old) behavior
1 = Size
2 = Ext
...
<x> = All

Everybody could then choose what he wants to display. For me Size would be enough (I'll never show the ext column for example)...

This wouldn't break sorting (-- is treated as 0), would it?

[admin]

Next beta has 4 tweaks (too lazy to document it further):

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ListEmptyCellExtDir=<DIR>
ListEmptyCellExtFile=--
ListEmptyCellSize=--
ListEmptyCellOther=Ø

No, it does not break sorting, it's only visual.

[admin]

I made my dirs show a "BLACK DIAMOND" and yes, it's an improvement.

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ListEmptyCellExtDir=◆

[WirlyWirly]

Next beta has 4 tweaks (too lazy to document it further):

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ListEmptyCellExtDir=<DIR>
ListEmptyCellExtFile=--
ListEmptyCellSize=--
ListEmptyCellOther=Ø

No, it does not break sorting, it's only visual.

Works great, to anyone reading this, paste those lines into the [Settings] section of your xyplorer.ini file, otherwise they won't work

[RalphM]

If your current version supports these tweaks then these lines are already there, you just need to adapt the parts after the "=".
If the lines are missing then you need to upgrade to the appropriate beta or above when the tweak was introduced.

Never add lines to the ini yourself!

[WirlyWirly]

Correct, but in this case even on updating to the latest beta they weren't generated in my .ini.

I thought it might have been an exception since they weren't mentioned at all in the beta log, but it must have just been on my end

[GreetingsFromPoland]

hi! can you tell me what setting i am missing to get this to display properly ?

this is what i see. the PDFs folder doesn't contain any subfolders, all the files are in the root of the folder :

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these are the current settings of the tweaks :

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new folder created, the -- displays correctly; however, :

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shouldn't the black diamond only be showing when the folder is empty (since the tweak says "...Empty") ? and no black diamond when there is a size ?
maybe i'm not understanding this correctly.

[highend]

? The diamond is used for the ext column.

You've calculated folder sizes, hence it displays the real value for the PDFs entry, not the "--"

[RalphM]

Just how I understand this tweak, if the value for ext is Null = a directory, it shows the black diamond instead.