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• Send my own path via 'Reopen Current Folder..'

  kunkel321 > 2023-05-12 17:35

  Hi Jean, 
  I find that I often have a particular folder open, and need to "Save As..." items to it.  Your "Reopen Current Folder in Dialog Box" is perfect for this - except that - I use QAPconnect (XYplorer).  
  
  I'm sure that I could use AHK to detect XYplorer and capture the dir from it.  It would be excellent if I could send that to QAP, and then QAP would apply it to the Save As location.
  
  I'm not totally sure how the information (a string variable, I guess), would get "handed" from my app to yours though...  Maybe a Windows environmental variable could be used for that(??)  IDK.   Another option might be if my app writes the var to an ini file, then QAP reads it.  That might be slow, though. 
  
  I'm still using AHK v1.1.3 by the way.
  
  EDIT:  As I think more about it, QAP would also have to "reach out to" (run) my script, to prompt it to get the file path from my file manager.  This might not be something you'd want to bother with.
  
  Alternatively, maybe QAPconnect could have a switch that tell it to send the folder path to the Open/Save As dialog, rather than sending it to the QAP as a new favorite.

• RE: Send my own path via 'Reopen Current Folder..'

  Jean Lalonde > 2023-05-14 10:36

  Hi Steve,
  
  Your suggestion is very specific to your situation. There are already many items on the wishlist that would benefit to a larger number of users. Since you know how to code AHK, I think you should try to write a standalone script that could be called from QAP menu.
  
  Jean

• RE: Send my own path via 'Reopen Current Folder..'

  kunkel321 > 2023-05-15 13:24

  It did occur to me to just write my own script for the whole thing. Your navigation of the Save As and Open dialogs is pretty flawless, though... And I'm guessing that trying to recreate that would be well beyond my abilities.
  
  I agree with you, though... You should spend your QAP coding time in a way that benefits the most users.

• RE: Send my own path via 'Reopen Current Folder..'

  Jean Lalonde > 2023-05-15 13:58

  > Your navigation of the Save As and Open dialogs is pretty flawless, though... And I'm guessing that trying to recreate that would be well beyond my abilities.
  
  If you want to learn how it is donw, you can take a look at this discussion on AHK forum:
  https://www.autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=526
  
  And at the section of QAP source code changing folder:
  https://github.com/JnLlnd/QuickAccessPop...ahk#L34113

• RE: Send my own path via 'Reopen Current Folder..'

  kunkel321 > 2023-05-16 11:58

  The github link doesn't seem to work, but I'm checking out your code from the autohotkey forum. It's quite impressive! I'm surprised you're able to make the script do so many things with only 175 lines, LOL.
  
  I'll have to spend some time reading the entire thread.
  
  EDIT: I did find your 'PopFolders-Master' on git

• RE: Send my own path via 'Reopen Current Folder..'

  Horst > 2023-05-17 05:32

  There is the AHK script Quick Switch which supports Open/Save dialogs
  with many File managers including XYplorer.
  https://www.voidtools.com/forum/viewtopi...f=2&t=9881
  I use it with Total Commander and XYplorer.

• RE: Send my own path via 'Reopen Current Folder..'

  kunkel321 > 2023-05-17 08:49

  Thanks Horst -- That's exactly what I had in mind!
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