Filer, from OpenAmiga.org

@orgin

Good hlidays!
Oly one thing...
Why if I switch on the "Persistent select" switch I can select more than one file (like on dopus) ???
Was normal I 've to push some other button ?

@Tuxedo

To save orgin interupting his holiday ....

The standard listerbroswer behaviour requires you to press shift to multi select. With persistant select you can multi select by repeatedly clicking on different entries (as in DOpus4).

@orgin

I noticed a slight oddity in the prefs whilst checking this.

If you change the persiatant select option, then press test, try it out, then press cancel. The change persists, with test (as opposed to use) I would expect it to revert to the previous state on cancel. A very minor issue, though.

@broadblues

excusme but here I cant multiselect...
Whithout or with "Persistent select" checked i cant multiselect neither wirh shift pressed neither without...
Cant multiselect also if press(and leave pressed) the left mouse button and than move mouse...

Any idea?

@Tuxedo

Oh. I misunderstood your question then.

That should be working, it certainly is here, and alway has been.

@Tuxedo

Sounds like you might have keyboard mode activated. Use [space] to activate/deactivate it.

And if it still doesn't work then there's something seriously wrong in your system.

@orgin

yes that's the problem...
But why deactivate that function with keyboard control?

Minor update on my use of ContextMenus commodity. I have now also added the following line to it's prefs file:

Disk,Open in Filer,CLI,Programs:Workbench/Filer/Filer %f

This allows me to open a Filer window for a disk icon.

@orgin

Is it possible to built in a window-titlebar refresh function on every directory change? I used a partly transparent window-titlebar. When I open a dir with a long name and then a dir with a shorter name it looks like here:



I can refresh it by moving the filer-window or open an other window over this titlebar and close it. But it would be nice when filer can do it automatically.

Heiko

@gurus2000

Okey I've changed the code slightly. Please test with this binary:

http://orgin.biz/~orgin/filer/Filer

or

http://orgin.biz/~orgin/filer/Filer.debug

If it still doesn't work I guess it's an OS problem and intuition needs a little fix.

@orgin

Thanks, but both files are not executable
I tried it from shell or from wb with icon.

@gurus2000

You need to set the execute flag when downloading from there. Mark the files in the filer, select "Set protect" in the menu. Mark "Execute" and click "Update All".

@orgin

Thanks your fast help. I can execute both files now, but the same result: both doesn't work fine when I change a dir! But Filer is a great program! Respect!

Heiko

@gurus2000

Okey, must be an intuition problem then, not much I can do but report it.

@orgin
I noticed another problem caused by launching Filer from ContextMenus: It's Current Directory is not the PROGDIR, and this causes two problems. (1) Images of user buttons are not shown if relative paths were used. (2) Lister/Preferences menu option does not work.

Because of this I am now using the following script to run Filer from ContextMenus:
Quote:

I had also put a Stack fix in the script, but it seems this is no-longer needed? Does Filer have a Stack Cookie now?

@ChrisH

The files mentioned above have a cookie set.

@orgin

In order to see if the problem is in Filer, or an underlying problem, is to generate a small example program using the same techniques that exhibit the same behaviour. The Filer sources are far too big and convoluted to trawl through looking for a possible bug in the OS.

If you can supply a small example that screws up the window title, I can look into it.

Simon

@gurus2000

If you can show me an easy way to get a similar window title as yours without screwing up my own theme too much and if I then can get the same error as you then I might write an example program for Rigo. Otherwise I'm going to turn this problem over to you to get solved.

@orgin

I guess a very quick (and esay) way to install gurus2000's titlebar would be to use its gui.prefs file...

@orgin and abalaban

To get the narrow window title bar:
1) Open up the GUI prefs, go to "Styles" under "Subsystem", and find what Bitmap set is being used.
2) Go to that directory and open the "Config" file in NotePad.
3) Find the line that begins with "BarNarrow" and change "No" to "Yes"

@PEB

Thanks. My config file was empty. But I tested changing the config file in another default theme and it worked.

@gurus2000

Unfortunately your problem doesn't happen on my system. Perhaps it's something to do with your setup? Try different refresh settings in GUI prefs and see if it goes away.