Filer 53.30 testing

Uploaded 53.30e, which is a developer release and not a final release.

http://openamiga.org/attachment/project/20/filer_53.30e.lha

Don't use 53.29 locale files or you might get string corruptions.

Note to translators: Please don't upload translations for the development releases to OS4Depot. When the new version is final and uploaded to os4depot you can upload new ones.

53.30 changes:

- Add icon image cache for current directory
- Add icon image cache for devices
- Never scale images up, just down
- Add thumbnail support
- Add internal UB command for thumbnail functions
- Add menu entries for thumbnail commands
- Add menu entries for icon commands
- Make thumbnails load asynchronously independently of real icons
- Add progress bar when adding and deleting thumbnails
- Show progress pointer while asynch loading is running
- Stop asynch icon loading from updating main listbrowser while user is scrolling
- Add thumbnail size setting
- Add thumbnail directory setting
- Add show thumbnails setting
- Add really ugly fallback progress pointer
- Prefs: Add icon acceleration and thumbnail settings
- Reduce listbrowser refresh while loading icons and thumbnails
- On some systems IIcon->PutDiskObject() didn't work as intended. Replaced with IIcon->PutIconTags()
- Add workaround for env-handler file system notification bug
- Change Accellerate to Accelerate
- Add F2 as shortcut for rename
- Prefs: Add a "remove all" button on the user button page
- Add ability to show free space in Mb/Gb etc instead of % in usage bar
- Give usage bar a minimum width
- Add ID's to locale files
- Add background task "Thumber" for automatic thumbnail generation
- Add settings for ignored devices for thumbnails
- Add setting for activating automatic thumbnail creation
- Fix rapid parent lockup
- Prefs: Update about body locale string
- Add menu entry for turning on/off auto thumbnail generating
- Add user buttons for turning on/off auto thumbnail generating
- Add HUGE thumbnail setting
- Fix a bug where a thumbnail wasn't removed from the cache
- Increase maximum thumbnail size to 128 in HUGE mode

@orgin
Does this version fix the "system crash on rapid click of Parent/Root button"?

@ChrisH

No I haven't figured out what causes that yet. I don't get any grim or serial output. I suspect it might be something like intuition locking layers while it's trying to update so there's a race condition but no actual crash. The Filer is single tasking when it happens though so there's no secondary process or something trying to update that causes it. Perhaps a simple IDOS delay would cure it, but that is not a desirable solution.

I'm checking it from time to time though and I promise to write in the update history when I've found a fix.

@orgin

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Wouldn't it be better to either raise the catalog version (so that catalogs for v53.29 would not be accepted) or either add ID in the .cd in order not to modify the catalog id->string map each time ? That would prevent you from such problems (you know there will always be one guy that no matter how many warning you put at the top of the readme (which he did not read anyway) that will bother you for a strange crash that will in fact be caused by his old incompatible catalog...)

I also ask because my French translation just got into proof reading this night and this morning I discover I just need to redo it :-/

@abalaban

> Wouldn't it be better to either raise the catalog version

I have no idea, would it? :) Care to show how?

> I also ask because my French translation just got into proof reading this night and this morning I discover I just need to redo it :-/

Why do you need to redo it? This is not a public release.

As the first post mentions, this is a Dev release. Meaning that it's for people who can live with any quirks (including not using locale files since things are likely to change) and help me find bugs. Translating at this point may or may not be hazardous, but probably is. Always focus on the real public versions for translations.

@ChrisH

Hmm, been stress testing this since after adding the icon accelerator and thumbnails but can't seem to make it freeze any more. Perhaps it's something in my settings that prevents it. If you can still make it happen with 53.30a could you post a snapshot of the 3 sub tabs of general prefs?

@orgin

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Yea sure :
From SDK:Documentation/Tools/Locale/CatComp.doc :
Also from SDK:Documentation/Autodocs/locale.doc:

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yes of course but chances are high that that will also be the case with the public release (as it was for previous public releases)

@abalaban

What about revision? I don't want to bump version all the time.

> yes of course but chances are high that that will also be the case with the public release (as it was for previous public releases)

Yeah, blame the users who want new stuff all the time ;)

@orgin

Can't get the thumbnails to display. I've read the readme and gemerated some thumbnails for a directory, I can see the tumbs in T: but they do not show in the lister, if allow them to 40 pixels square (rather than the default of 20) then additional space is made for the thumbs but the space remains blank.

Also check PM for a further question....

@broadblues

Hmm which version of icon.library and bitmap class do you have?

DH0:classes/images/bitmap.image

@orgin
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6.AmigaOS4:> version sys:Classes/Images/bitmap.image
bitmap.image 53.6
6.AmigaOS4:> version icon.library
icon.library 53.7
6.AmigaOS4:>

@broadblues

Hmm same as me then, hmm. Could you email me one of the images so I can test? (sent email in pm)

@broadblues

Ohh and also, mail the generated thumbnail icon from the thumbnail directory.

If you have "show real icons" activated, does the icon in the thumbnail dir display in the filer? (Ie browse to t:_thumnail/blah/ as see if the icon renders)

@orgin

Sent images and icon. The icons do display in the thumbnial dir, just as any other icon, ie ghosted, there beong no "real file" associated with them in the icon directory.

@orgin

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Revisions are not supported. Then why not use ID's in the .cd ? Thus preventing incompatibilities.

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Yea you are right, damn users

@orgin
I've PMed the snapshots to you. For what it's worth, the best way to get the crash is either:
1. Fast click on the Root button,
2. Fast click on the Parent button when in a deep folder. This is more likely to crash.

If you fast click on the Parent button when you are in the Root view (volumes listed), then it is very hard to get it to crash. This (again) suggests to me that it is related to trying to update the Filer's lister view when it is in the middle of being updated.

@ChrisH

Okey, unfortunately you've tested it in an old version, I'd need it confirmed in 53.30a to be sure.

@orgin
No, no. I *did* test it on v53.30a. I just took the screen shots with the "old" version.

@orgin

I'm working on an italian translation but it's a BIG work, lately i'm quite lazy ...

@anyone

http://openamiga.org/attachment/project/20/filer_53.30b.lha

New dev version uploaded. Fixes some issues that surfaced when you didn't have a previous filer.prefs in envarc, and some problems with icon library on some systems.