ShellDetails 1.26 (Content plug-in)

icfu · Post by *icfu » 2005-01-24, 17:41 UTC

About the date problem. I took Ghislers example plugin as another reference. It displays values which is different from shelldetails date values and tc.date values in many cases...

Well, I hope ghisler can explain what's wrong then...

Have you seen the above posting regarding NTFS? Just to make sure...

Icfu

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2005-01-24, 20:48 UTC

There are 3 date/time related fields:
ft_date: The date only as local date (day, month, year)
ft_time: The time only, as local time (hour,minute, second)
ft_datetime: Date+time as a timestamp, in universal time (GMT) - that's how file times are stored on Windows.

ft_datetime was added later by request from beta testers.

dembala · Post by *dembala » 2005-01-26, 13:55 UTC

Hi,

I want to use the plugin for Word DOC files. However if I include the "Company" field to display, it does not show the actual value of the field.
Does anybody have the same issue? Why don't I see the contents of the Company field.

Thanks
Balazs

icfu · Post by *icfu » 2005-01-26, 14:04 UTC

Please read what Lefteous told robinsiebler on page 3 regarding the "Copyright" column, it's exactly the same "problem".

If the Company of DOC files is not displayed in Windows Explorer columns it won't be displayed in ShellDetails plugin, too! The reason is that obviously the Company info displayed by the Explorer columns has nothing to do with DOC-files company info but with something else. In this case Company info is extracted from Exefiles and not DOC-files, something completely different.

Icfu

Lefteous · Post by *Lefteous » 2005-01-28, 16:04 UTC

2icfu

Write date isn't autoupdated in the columns using ShellDetails while the corresponding internal tc strings work and show the correct date.
F2 doesn't refresh it, only leaving the directory and reentering helps.

I need some more input on this:
1) How did you change the date values? Files/Change Attributes or another way?
2) Which columns are displayed and in which order?

Thank you in advance!

icfu · Post by *icfu » 2005-01-28, 16:53 UTC

Steps to reproduce:
1. Create a file c:\testfolder\test.txt, open it and set TC to display c:\testfolder\.
2. The displayed columns are:
[=tc.writedate.D/M/y h

s]
[=shelldetails.Geändert am.D/M/Y h

s]
Order doesn't matter.

Now when you modify the opened file and save it the shelldetails column doesn't update while the tc column does.

But:
As soon as a second file is added to the directory the update works!

Icfu

Lefteous · Post by *Lefteous » 2005-01-28, 17:07 UTC

2icfu

As soon as a second file is added to the directory the update works!

That sounds as if my previous obversation that only the last file in a directory is not updated would be right.

icfu · Post by *icfu » 2005-01-28, 17:35 UTC

That sounds as if my previous obversation that only the last file in a directory is not updated would be right.

Well, no. As soon as at least two files are in the directory it doesn't matter which file you change...

What do you mean with "last file"? By name?
Maybe a misunderstandhing here.

To sum it up for my box:
Update bug occurs when only one file is in directory, same behaviour on NTFS/FAT.
Date difference is two seconds on NTFS, on FAT it's correct.

Icfu

Lefteous · Post by *Lefteous » 2005-01-28, 17:49 UTC

2icfu

What do you mean with "last file"? By name?

I don't know thw order in which TC asks the plugin for the information. I guess it's the displayed order.

Update bug occurs when only one file is in directory

One file is always the last the first and something in between

icfu · Post by *icfu » 2005-01-28, 20:45 UTC

If you have any additional questions or need someone for testing, you can reach me by ICQ now, just created an account.

Icfu

Lefteous · Post by *Lefteous » 2005-01-28, 22:36 UTC

2icfu

If you have any additional questions or need someone for testing, you can reach me by ICQ now, just created an account.

Thank you! I will contact you when I have finished some investigations on the update problem.

About the incorrect date problem: I can say now that is definitely not an error in my plugin or in TC. The same error can be observed in Explorer! It's not so easy to find because the column Explorer does not display seconds. Example:
A file is displayed as
2004-03-17 20-27-00 (shelldetails.Geändert am)
2004-03-17 20-26-58 (tc.Aenderungsdatum)

You see the minute values are not the same.
Now I open Explorer. The file is displayed as:
17.03.2004 20:27

The reason for this is the data structure used by Microsoft to store the date which is not thought to store such detailed date information.
tc.Anderungsdatum is the better choice here. I could write a hardcoded fix for this problem but what about other date values were I don't know how to retrieve it (a date from a shellextension for example). I will document this as a known limitation. Thank you for finding it.

icfu · Post by *icfu » 2005-01-28, 22:56 UTC

Oops. Well, I am ashamed now.

On one hand I told dembala to check the column in Explorer and on the other hand I did not even think about doing exactly the same when reporting the bug.
Brain sometimes acts weird, very strange.

Icfu

Alya · Post by *Alya » 2005-01-30, 17:39 UTC

Is there an equivalent in Shell Details plugin to Explorer's "keywords" field?

Lefteous · Post by *Lefteous » 2005-01-30, 17:50 UTC

2Alya

Is there an equivalent in Shell Details plugin to Explorer's "keywords" field?

There should be an equally named field in ShellDetails. It's at the bottom of the list in most cases. If not please post your ShellDetails.ini.

Alya · Post by *Alya » 2005-01-30, 18:07 UTC

This is my ShellDetails.ini

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