blog: xplorer2 v6.3 (final) released

[nikos]

here's the comment area for today's blog post found at:
www.zabkat.com/blog/xplorer2-v63-gonzalez.htm

the chinese (taiwan) translation isn't there, let's hope the guy will reply soon

[BRX]

Thanks. The ES integration is something that will improve working with x2 for me immensely.

[nikos]

please let me know if you find any glitches

[pj]

Since you asked:

SETFOLDERCOLOR still opens the folder while still installing or modifying the desktop.ini file, at the end of the day the folder color is changed, and a simple BACKSPACE returns to the parent folder. It's just behaves different that the 5.x version.

Clicks open files (e.g. single clicking a PDF opens the PDF editor). I had to turn off all click enhancements in options to get this to stop. Still just a difference from 5.x, not a show stopper.

Maybe by next year I'll have time to play with EVERYTHING integration.

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PJ in (OK most people don't think 50 degrees is cold but this is) FL

[nikos]

are you charging me for paddy's bugs now?

[Kilmatead]

Yes, he is. I sent him a PM with an updated version back on the 5th of December, and he only responded now. No wonder NASA was defunded!

SETFOLDERCOLOR still opens the folder

I'm pretty sure I'm safe in simply denying that this is even possible, so the only thing left is demonic possession. To paraphrase Tom Waits, the keyboard has been drinking again, not me.

I even built in some funky handling to distinguish between the old Addressbar and the new Fancybar (for lack of a better name), and handle them accordingly. If you have either of these turned off, try turning them on as one or the other is expected.

I still repudiate any form of culpability (and, for once, I can say that Nikos isn't guilty [of this] either), though his recent fascination with pyroflatulence is a bit worrying, it too is unrelated. Boys will be boys.

[pj]

Yes, he is. I sent him a PM with an updated version back on the 5th of December, and he only responded now. No wonder NASA was defunded!

SETFOLDERCOLOR still opens the folder

I'm pretty sure I'm safe in simply denying that this is even possible, so the only thing left is demonic possession. To paraphrase Tom Waits, the keyboard has been drinking again, not me.

I even built in some funky handling to distinguish between the old Addressbar and the new Fancybar (for lack of a better name), and handle them accordingly. If you have either of these turned off, try turning them on as one or the other is expected.

I still repudiate any form of culpability (and, for once, I can say that Nikos isn't guilty [of this] either), though his recent fascination with pyroflatulence is a bit worrying, it too is unrelated. Boys will be boys.

ADDRESSBAR is there, shoved up above the toolbars where it belongs, along side the filter bar (Fancybar?).

Tried shutting down WIZMOUSE. No change.

Swapped the new version of SFC for the old version:
- folder doesn't change <good>
- folder color is set, or removed <good>
- AUTOHOTKEY doesn't work <very bad>

Swapped the versions back to restore original:
- folder changes <not good but workable>
- folder color is set, or removed <good>
- AUTOHOTKEY works again <very good>

Sorry, but no dice on the "new and improved" SFC. Can't work without all my AHK substitutions...

Oh, and single-click folder opening sometimes comes back when clicking on folders. Sometimes not. Eighteen hours until I leave this computer for another extended period of time (so no more testing). I'll probably keep 6.x installed, but leaning strongly toward reinstalling 5.x again and staying in my "safe space".

So, Nikos, not all the issues are "paddy's bugs".

No big deal. It's all just ASMOP.

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PJ in (40's again!!!! WT?) FL

[Kilmatead]

As SFC is written in AutoIt, it's possible it interferes with AHK (two brothers, Abel and Cain, never going to agree on anything), though SFC is not a TSR (as they used to be called, "Terminate and Stay Resident"), while AHK does have TSR tendencies (scripts intended to be background-running).

As they say, mixing spirits and wine never really works.

Modern x2's reluctance to play nicely with external scripts annoys me no end (still), but that's the pact you sign with the Scripting Devil, maintenance at your own expense.

WizMouse - wow... haven't heard of that in a long time - I think Win10 adopted that functionality in its settings somewhere, so it became redundant?

The "Fancybar" is what the addressbar turned into cometh v6 (the path parsed into droppable segments, etc), which initially I spurned as a loss of functionality, but was proven wrong about that, so now I embrace it fully.

That's twice now in a month now that someone has left out rather pertinent information in an initial complaint. No wonder Nikos' ulcer kept him out of the Olympics - support puzzles are worse than an innocent Sudoku obsession. Jean-Paul Sartre was right!