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I use dual panes with multiple tabs open in each, and make use of the visual filter toolbar in these panes on a regular basis.

I'm trying to train myself to be aware of the FILTER icon being present or not in the info bar, but things can still be hectic and I miss that sometimes. So I wonder if there's a way to turn off all visual filters applied to every open pane, either by macro or through a VBA script called by a user command?

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PJ in FL

you could do it with a macro, enumerate all tabs, select them one by one and send VIEW > SHOW ALL command in a loop. The manual has a sample macro that works with tabs ( remove duplicate tabs )

pj wrote: ↑2021 Apr 21, 18:01 I'm trying to train myself to be aware of the FILTER icon being present or not in the info bar...
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PJ in FL

To make it easier to be aware of a filtered pane, you could change the color for "Filtered panel background" in Advanced Options.

Thanks for the reminder!

Advanced Options isn't for the faint of heart, but finding that gem of a setting is worth all the mental anguish!

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PJ in FL

Agreed on the background change - I use it for all my filters now, and it makes life a LOT easier.

E.g. I have one for when I peek inside of .ZIP files (natively, without using 7-ZIP or another archive program) - it tuns the background reddish-maroon. And if I use the quickfilter up top to filter by characters, it turns the background orange.

Such a blessing when I figured out that feature that Nikos incorporated into X²

lnbrantley wrote: ↑2021 Apr 22, 13:44To make it easier to be aware of a filtered pane, you could change the color for "Filtered panel background" in Advanced Options.

There is a color in this setting, but I see no change in the panel background when I use the "filter" bar.

such colors only show when the pane is active

it's the case, the pane is active, I enter some letters in the "filter" bar, files and folders are filtered, but the background color don't change.

that's a little bug then. If you click on the other view and back again, it will show the filter background

I click on the window of another software, back to Xplorer, but no change.
I click on another tab of the same panel, back to the first tab : no change.
I click in the tree on another folder, back to the filterer folder : it is no more filtered, so no color change.

I try with the default layout, it works. What can be the setting in my layout which prevents to function?

actually I just tried it myself and there is no bug!
one way this filter color may not show is if you have color tagged files in a folder

EDIT: It is because in "advanced options" I didn't have selected my personnal layout. It works