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- 2008 Mar 29, 11:09
- Forum: xplorer² Professional
- Topic: Regular expressions for filename searches & file sorting
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5383
Regular expressions for filename searches & file sorting
Hi Nikos, FG & everybody, If ever you have a lazy few weeks and are wondering what marvelous new feature might bring joy and happiness to at least one user, the following two items have been at the top of my wish list for years now. 1) Finding a list of files using a RE on the filename A checkb...
- 2007 Dec 31, 11:23
- Forum: xplorer² Professional
- Topic: blog: best of 2007 and a surprise!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8017
- 2007 Dec 23, 14:14
- Forum: xplorer² Professional
- Topic: Change Auto-Refresh Rate
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2288
Just a suggestion for Clay... the work that X2 goes through to keep an updated view of a folder with thousands of files should give you an idea of how much work your system is performing just to store them there. You might find that the effort of using a different directory layout brings you a real...
- 2007 Dec 23, 13:26
- Forum: xplorer² Professional
- Topic: reading folder contents
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1911
Delay reading folder contents (2nd problem)
I had a similar problem which had me tearing my hair out for the last two days until a solution appeared a few minutes ago while I was adding the last details to a cry for help here in the forum. I've been using 1.4.0.1 for quite awhile and I almost always use "List" view in the folder win...
- 2006 Apr 19, 11:37
- Forum: Especially Useful xplorer² Topics:
- Topic: Renaming files
- Replies: 49
- Views: 93044
Nikos's points are well taken. (Even the remark about getting headaches from using REs... they're not for the faint-of-heart! :spin: But they're a pretty compact syntax for doing fairly complicated text manipulations.) A few remarks: - Nikos is right in cautioning about giving RE examples which wo...
- 2006 Apr 19, 08:00
- Forum: Especially Useful xplorer² Topics:
- Topic: Renaming files
- Replies: 49
- Views: 93044
Some RE examples
Problem 1 (medic5608d's) : strip off the first 15 bytes of each filename A simple awxRename syntax could be the following: $file=~s/^.{15}//; Example: paramedic dave 01 Skybox 113.jpg -> 01 Skybox 113.jpg paramedic dave 01 Skybox 117.jpg -> 01 Skybox 117.jpg paramedic dave 02 Whatsitsbox 001.j...
- 2006 Apr 18, 17:53
- Forum: Especially Useful xplorer² Topics:
- Topic: Renaming files
- Replies: 49
- Views: 93044
Ok Narayan, but which renamer do you want to document?
Hi Narayan, I'll be glad to help out if you can tell me which bulk-renamer(s) you want to document for those three examples. Is it MRename1.7 or awxRenamer ? (I assume the last part of your posting, under the "****", refers to THERename and that you've got your examples for it worked out...
- 2006 Apr 17, 19:16
- Forum: xplorer² Professional
- Topic: A word of thanks
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1219
A word of thanks
Snakebyte's kind help setting up MenuHack.exe me leads me to share a few thoughts that I've been mulling over for awhile. Firstly, x2 is, as we all know, an excellent program. Working on a Windows machine without it is sheer, frustrating drudgery. I sometimes wish that the Microsoft people would w...
- 2006 Apr 17, 18:50
- Forum: Especially Useful xplorer² Topics:
- Topic: xplorer2 HACK : Convert any menu item to a toolbar button !!
- Replies: 98
- Views: 343342
Ooops
Thanks, Snakebyte, you were right... ah, the little embarrassments :oops:, I should have thought of that. :roll: I cleared my cache, downloaded the new version, and it works beautifully on whichever x2 window I want... scraps & main dual-pane windows. I couldn't be happier, thanks to you! :big...
- 2006 Apr 17, 12:05
- Forum: Especially Useful xplorer² Topics:
- Topic: xplorer2 HACK : Convert any menu item to a toolbar button !!
- Replies: 98
- Views: 343342
Link to wrong version of MenuHack.exe
Hi Snakebyte. Thanks for the update. You are wonderful! The link to the compiled program, however, points at the previous version, not the new one
- 2006 Apr 15, 15:35
- Forum: Especially Useful xplorer² Topics:
- Topic: xplorer2 HACK : Convert any menu item to a toolbar button !!
- Replies: 98
- Views: 343342
Great idea
Fine idea, incorporating the Snake Byte Patch into the manual. It'd also be nice if someone could find the time to figure out how, and then modify MenuHack.exe, so that it would work on the top-most xplorer2 window... that way I think it would work for panes too! (Would one ever want to issue a com...
- 2006 Apr 15, 14:38
- Forum: Especially Useful xplorer² Topics:
- Topic: Renaming files
- Replies: 49
- Views: 93044
- 2006 Apr 15, 11:20
- Forum: Especially Useful xplorer² Topics:
- Topic: xplorer2 HACK : Convert any menu item to a toolbar button !!
- Replies: 98
- Views: 343342
Convert menu items to toolbar icons... not for scrap windows
Well, nearly perfect. It doesn't work on scrap panes, which are actually where I most often do things like changing views. Resolving to be less of a wimp, here amongst the various Masters of the Universe, I thought I'd have a try at finding the solution myself ! Hah hah! So, imagining that there w...
- 2006 Apr 15, 10:23
- Forum: Especially Useful xplorer² Topics:
- Topic: Renaming files
- Replies: 49
- Views: 93044
UnStuddlyCapping
Oh that's easy, Narayan! :biggrin: If one's using perl REs, one needs to do a zero-length negative look-behind assertion to get past an initial upper-cased letter (to avoid putting a space at the start of the string), and then replace any cap with itself preceded by a space. The following: ...
- 2006 Apr 14, 17:18
- Forum: Especially Useful xplorer² Topics:
- Topic: xplorer2 HACK : Convert any menu item to a toolbar button !!
- Replies: 98
- Views: 343342
Quick switching between pane views & Hackmenu.exe
I've just gotten around to trying the 'Hackmenu.exe' solution and it's just perfect! I've gotten the little hammer icons for my new "List", "Detail" & "Thumbnail" view commands and have assigned sortcut keys to them... just what I wanted. Thanks so much to Snakebyt...