XYplorer Beta Club

I like how it looks in macOS Finder:
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").

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.

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

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

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

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

Make it a bit field tweak: 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?

Next beta has 4 tweaks (too lazy to document it further): No, it does not break sorting, it's only visual.

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

admin wrote: ↑03 Feb 2023 15:15 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

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!

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

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 : these are the current settings of the tweaks : new folder created, the -- displays correctly; however, : 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.

? 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 "--"

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