xplorer2 v.5.50.11 beta

[nikos]

I have you covered

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# property control (options) scripting
# ------------------------------------
COMMAND 32974 # Options
WAITWND
# select tree category
FINDCLASS WTL_PropertyTree
SELECT General
POP 0
FINDCLASS listbox
# select option and use SETTEXT to change
SELECT 1 # save settings
SETTEXT "windows registry"
SELECT "plain menus"
SETTEXT No

[Kilmatead]

Ah, thank you. That would have been easier if your macro-recorder could have identified the culprits first - I got the gist though.

I suppose you're going to make me jump through a conditional hoop just to toggle hidden files... apparently yes means yes and no means no, not "XOR my arse"? (I'm new to macros - and I already dislike your debugger, but we'll complain about that later.)

[Gandolf]

... you just read his response wrong ...

Yes, I did read it as "save settings" now has a problem, rather than "save settings now" has a problem.

A little limerick for Nikos:

A handsome young man called Nikos.
Who lived near the city of Paphos.
Wrote a program called x².
Which he did expect too,
be the perfect file manager for all of us.

[nikos]

accessibility readers can use get_accState to "see" the existing item state, but you can't do that with any x2 macro commands

but for hidden files, don't bust yourself, search for HIDDEN in command finder, it's easy!

[Kilmatead]

...can use get_accState to "see" the existing item state, but you can't do that with any x2 macro commands

Should be a SETTEXT BRITTANYSPEARS "FlipMeBabyOneMoreTime" command or something for Version 7...

but for hidden files, don't bust yourself, search for HIDDEN in command finder, it's easy!

That's the per-pane option, methinks - I use the main options as it flips both panes at the same time, without faffing about with the status-bar icon, etc... grumble, grumble, grumble... I had a nice little autoit script that did that for 15[-5] years! and you went and broke it! Grrr.

[nikos]

no, hidden files goes for all views, what happens is that command 33163 only refreshes the active view (another oversight I suppose)
I will add GETTEXT support for the fancy property control ...

[nikos]

how's that for spaghetti?

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COMMAND 32974 # Options
WAITWND
FINDCLASS listbox
store $1
select beep
getitemtext 0 # this is 0 or 1
equal 1
jumpok untick
pop $1
settext 1
exit

label untick
pop $1
settext 0

[johngalt]

and who pray is the culprit for the proliferation of minute options? Not me!

That's right - blame the new guy.

Are you saying you're NOT @Kilmatead?

[Kilmatead]

Are you saying you're NOT @Kilmatead?

Curiously enough, after spending whole days in multiple embassies enduring the endlessly demeaning (and repetitive) paperwork/electronic-fingerprinting/anal-probing, and all the rest for what your ridiculous modern world would consider "legal" resurrection, I have concluded that identity is a most tremulously diaphanous thing, and not at all the "bio-metrically measured" substance that respective scientifically minded Western nationalities have been conditioned into believing it to be. I have also concluded that staff in said embassies are apparently hired for their lack of life-experience so that they are emotionally incapable-of and/or immune-to not only human empathy, but also that most religious of necessary antiquities, the Sense of Humour. In their case, I measure it to be the excess bile of the black humours, and not at all the tinctured colours of insightfulness, respect, and understanding which would actually commend my soul to be desirous of an identity in their meaningless tribal nomenclatures.

But I digress. What was the question? Kilmatead or !Kilmatead, 15[-5] == NaN (I'm having t-shirts printed with that equation as I type.)

[dunno]

I have also concluded that staff in said embassies are apparently hired for their lack of life-experience so that they are emotionally incapable-of and/or immune-to not only human empathy, but also that most religious of necessary antiquities, the Sense of Humour.

I have travelled extensively from Islands to so called first world countries and I can say with total certainty that ALL Customs, Immigration, IRS, civil servants worldwide go to the same finishing school in Switzerland, it must be the cold air and/or the lack of oxygen at the high altitude resort which imprints/programs the OS which deprives them of a sense of humour and embeds a innate sense of pleasure in being malicious to those whom they randomly decide to make a life a misery for. I've had interesting experiences with civil servants world wide and they're all carbon copies, without exception, well one exception..
Shout out to the nice female Alaskan Native American Immigration lieutenant who with a smile removed me from the clutches of a 6'3" ex marine immigration officer who took a instant dislike to me, that guy oozed tyranny.

[nikos]

people in "authority" positions have little or no intelligence and they try to make it up with being autocratic b@stards

[johngalt]

They follow their training.

[Gandolf]

people in "authority" positions have little or no intelligence and they try to make it up with being autocratic b@stards

Be careful what you write - "Walls have ears".

[Kilmatead]

Be careful what you write - "Walls have ears".

It's more their five eyes you need to worry about, not their ears so much.

Tactically speaking, Nikos' customary lack of punctuation and capitalisation is perfectly pitched to send all bureaucrats into a tizzy of undermining self-doubt and chain-smoking catatonia, so he's safe.