A3: favourites: rename impossible + no sub-fodlers
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A3: favourites: rename impossible + no sub-fodlers
Hej, with 1.9alpha 2 (download told me it's 3) I can create favorites but 1) cannot rename them (they offer me to enter new text but don't save it) and 2) they do not expand when clicked, thus subfolders of my favourite "family pics" cannot be accessed unless I activate displaying dirs in browser thumbnail pane -- what forces me to scroll some way to see the first image
/Georg
/Georg
Re: favourites: rename impossible + no sub-fodlers
RightGeorgD wrote:Hej, with 1.9alpha 2 (download told me it's 3) I can create favorites but 1) cannot rename them (they offer me to enter new text but don't save it)
But it's normal, it's only a favorite, if you want to see subfolder, you must go to folder tree...and 2) they do not expand when clicked, thus subfolders of my favourite "family pics" cannot be accessed unless I activate displaying dirs in browser thumbnail pane -- what forces me to scroll some way to see the first image
Pierre.
Re: favourites: rename impossible + no sub-fodlers
It's the 2nd message asking for this... and I think it makes a lot of sense too, plus I see no drawback from a user point of view (ie: always enabled).xnview wrote:But it's normal, it's only a favorite, if you want to see subfolder, you must go to folder tree...and 2) they do not expand when clicked, thus subfolders of my favourite "family pics" cannot be accessed unless I activate displaying dirs in browser thumbnail pane -- what forces me to scroll some way to see the first image
Olivier
OK here
— Georg
Hello !
- You might try to set all setting-files in the XnView folder, then the <bookmark.ini> is correctly updated and used…
KR
Claude
Clo
Hello !
• This works perfectly here, the new name is saved alright !…with 1.9alpha 2 (download told me it's 3) I can create favorites but 1) cannot rename them (they offer me to enter new text but don't save it)…
- You might try to set all setting-files in the XnView folder, then the <bookmark.ini> is correctly updated and used…
KR
Claude
Clo
Old user ON SELECTIVE STRIKE till further notice •
@Pierre
>But it's normal, it's only a favorite, if you want to see subfolder, you must go to folder tree...
So the intended workflow is like this? Switch to favourites, click the one you want, switch to folders to see the subfolders. I just wanna know as I expected it to be a favourite folder including folder behaviour (=collapse/contract subfolders) and it has the lines (left of icons) that the tree view usually has.
@Clo & @Pierre
>This works perfectly here, the new name is saved alright !
I just discovered: The name is saved, but only displayed after closing the browse view and opening it again. A refresh problem?
@Clo
>You might try to set all setting-files in the XnView folder, then the <bookmark> is correctly updated and used…
Sorry, I don't understand that - could you please put it to other words? Thanks
>But it's normal, it's only a favorite, if you want to see subfolder, you must go to folder tree...
So the intended workflow is like this? Switch to favourites, click the one you want, switch to folders to see the subfolders. I just wanna know as I expected it to be a favourite folder including folder behaviour (=collapse/contract subfolders) and it has the lines (left of icons) that the tree view usually has.
@Clo & @Pierre
>This works perfectly here, the new name is saved alright !
I just discovered: The name is saved, but only displayed after closing the browse view and opening it again. A refresh problem?
@Clo
>You might try to set all setting-files in the XnView folder, then the <bookmark> is correctly updated and used…
Sorry, I don't understand that - could you please put it to other words? Thanks
Not a menu !
Hi Georg !
• The "Favourite (folders)" is not a real menu, its content is saved in an INI file - <bookmark.ini> - and shown as menu-like.
{Aside : It's thus impossible to set hotkeys there, they don't work… }
• So, like you suppose, a refresh delay can occur for that file according to its location…
…and whatever else, maybe Pierre is the only able to say.
- Now, we can set all configuration files in the own dir of XnView : Options >> System Integration.
- IMHO, this shortens the (endless) paths we had before, and perhaps speeds up the changes…
KR
Claude
Clo
• The "Favourite (folders)" is not a real menu, its content is saved in an INI file - <bookmark.ini> - and shown as menu-like.
{Aside : It's thus impossible to set hotkeys there, they don't work… }
• So, like you suppose, a refresh delay can occur for that file according to its location…
…and whatever else, maybe Pierre is the only able to say.
- Now, we can set all configuration files in the own dir of XnView : Options >> System Integration.
- IMHO, this shortens the (endless) paths we had before, and perhaps speeds up the changes…
KR
Claude
Clo
Old user ON SELECTIVE STRIKE till further notice •
Re: Not a menu !
I don't see the storage form as a reason not to read the subfolders (XnView reads the contained files, so why not the dirs also?) or not to assign hotkeys (store them in the bookmark.ini as 3rd field)?! Maybe I'm blind or too naive, but I really don't see any hard constraint...Clo wrote:The "Favourite (folders)" is not a real menu, its content is saved in an INI file - <bookmark> - and shown as menu-like.
{Aside : It's thus impossible to set hotkeys there, they don't work… }
Explain to…
—> Georg
Hello !
- I even proposed to change this list into a real menu, *peanuts* again…
- Please, explain to Pierre which syntax you would use, maybe he could use it ?
KR
Claude
Clo
Hello !
- I requested hot-keys in the "Favourite…" pseudo-menu years ago, and got *peanuts*…or not to assign hotkeys (store them in the bookmark.ini as 3rd field)?!
- I even proposed to change this list into a real menu, *peanuts* again…
- Please, explain to Pierre which syntax you would use, maybe he could use it ?
KR
Claude
Clo
Old user ON SELECTIVE STRIKE till further notice •
Re: Explain to…
currently bookmark.ini is structured likeClo wrote:Please, explain to Pierre which syntax you would use, maybe he could use it ?
"name"*"V:\location"
and it could be
"name"*"V:\location"*"hotkey-combi"*"true/false: show subfolders"
so the file format is not restricting (BTW, it is no INI standard format anyway, but that doesn't matter).
Sidenote @ Clo's post of Oct 13 2:17pm: My bookmark.ini is in the XnView folder (not "...\application data\xnview")and does not get updated, just as described above.
And I still do not know how the intended workflow looks like
/Georg
Re: A3: favourites: rename impossible + no sub-fodlers
Both is working in 1.90b2 as expected. Move to "closed", pleaseGeorgD wrote:Hej, with 1.9alpha 2 (download told me it's 3) I can create favorites but 1) cannot rename them (they offer me to enter new text but don't save it) and 2) they do not expand when clicked, thus subfolders of my favourite "family pics" cannot be accessed unless I activate displaying dirs in browser thumbnail pane -- what forces me to scroll some way to see the first image