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• Better support for dialog boxes and for XYplorer

  tmp > 2021-02-08 05:47

  Hi Jean,
  Hi all,
  
  First off, thank you, Jean, for your good work throughout all these years.
  The world needs a product like this (also as an alternative to a certain Chinese product).
  
  What I mainly (basically only, so far) use it for, though, is the quick switching of folders inside a save/open dialog box, aka "Reopen Current Folder in Dialog Box".
  Unfortunately, this is one part of QAP, that could still need some improvement:
  
  1) It does not always switch the folder in the save/open dialog boxes successfully, even when there is a "current" folder in QAP's memory and it can be seen that QAP is interacting with the dialg box's edit field. - This happens sometimes. It is not a big issue. One can press the hotkey again and often it works on the 2nd try, I think.
  
  2) As far as I remember, this function does not work with folder picking only dialog boxes (when there are no files displayed, but only folders). - Would be nice, but since these dialog boxes appear not so often, I can still be happy with using QAP.
  
  3) Now, MOST important:
  Unfortunately, this functionality ("Reopen Current Folder in Dialog Box") does *not* work with XYplorer (out of the box).
  It is not complicated for a coder to make it work with XYplorer. I customized the ahk-code of an older 10 version, recompiled it, and there it works now. But, besides that it would be a mess to always customize the code on each new version, now from version 11 onward, it seems, that the code is no longer made publicly available. Therefore, it would be really nice if the XYplorer support could be improved. Thank you. (I am also pretty sure, that a lot of XYplorer users would then become happy new customers of QAP.) :-)
  
  Thank you for reading.
  Regards, S.

• RE: Better support for dialog boxes and for XYplorer

  Jean Lalonde > 2021-02-08 13:51

  > 1) It does not always switch the folder in the save/open dialog boxes successfully, even when there is a "current" folder in QAP's memory and it can be seen that QAP is interacting with the dialg box's edit field. - This happens sometimes. It is not a big issue. One can press the hotkey again and often it works on the 2nd try, I think.
  
  I also notice that the "Reopen Current Folder in Dialog Box" sometimes need to be presses twice. This is something I will take a look at.
  
  > 2) As far as I remember, this function does not work with folder picking only dialog boxes (when there are no files displayed, but only folders). - Would be nice, but since these dialog boxes appear not so often, I can still be happy with using QAP.
  
  These dialog boxes cannot be controlled because there is not text field that would allow to change the folder. There has been many attempts (by me and other AHK developers) to control this dialog box but none has been reliable enough to be made part of QAP. 
  
  > 3) Now, MOST important:
  > Unfortunately, this functionality ("Reopen Current Folder in Dialog Box") does *not* work with XYplorer (out of the box).
  
  If there was only XYplorer, it would be easier to accept. But users of the 15 other file managers would also want their app to be supported. At this time, the "Reopen Folder" features are only supported when using Windows Explorer, Directory Opus and, with some exceptions, Total Commander.
  
  Jean

• RE: Better support for dialog boxes and for XYplorer

  tmp > 2021-02-09 06:47

  Thank you for your replies.
  
  I understand all your points.
  
  Regarding point 3, it would be nice, in this case, if there was some kind of "Plug-In" support, where an ahk file with some function could be supplied that would return a folder path. Then this could be configured in the ini for each file browser seperately and everyone would be happy and it would be fair. I am not sure if I got all the details right, but I am sure that it could be done, without it being too difficult when comparing it to the code that is there already. But if you don't want to do it, I can live with my current solution and keep using my own customized version 10. No problem. Wishing you continuous success and happiness with your little tool.
  
  Regards, S.

• RE: Better support for dialog boxes and for XYplorer

  Jean Lalonde > 2021-02-09 11:41

  This is a good idea. See the proposed solution described in the wishlist:
  https://forum.quickaccesspopup.com/showt...p?tid=1464
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