[REQ] Include %COMMANDER_PATH% when installing plugins

[astrotzky]

When you manually install plugins and the plugin path is in a subdirectory of the install dir for Total Commander, replace the path to Total Commander with %COMMANDER_PATH%.

For example:
I have Total Commander installed under D:\Programs\System\TotalCmd.
When I install a plugin using the menu (Preferences -> Configuration -> Plugins), the plugin path being d:\Programs\System\TotalCmd\PLUGINS\WFX\Fast Search Engine\FSE.wfx, I get the following line in my wincmd.ini:

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FSE=d:\Programs\System\TotalCmd\PLUGINS\WFX\Fast Search Engine\FSE.wfx

What I would like is:

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FSE=%COMMANDER_PATH%\PLUGINS\WFX\Fast Search Engine\FSE.wfx

And please, no workarounds (I know about Plugin Manager and I know I can edit wincmd.ini manually).

[roentgen]

2astrotzky
You might want something like this is your wincmd.ini

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[Configuration]
PluginBaseDir=%COMMANDER_PATH%\plugins

[m^2]

2astrotzky
You might want something like this is your wincmd.ini

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[Configuration]
PluginBaseDir=%COMMANDER_PATH%\plugins

Reread astrotzky's post and try to do what he's talking about. When you install something that doesn't have pluginst.inf, you get a fixed path.

[roentgen]

you get a fixed path.

True, but in such cases you may install plugins that reside somewhere else, not necessarily TC dir.

As a more general idea, TC never adds variables by its own (%programfiles%, %systemroot%, etc).

[m^2]

2roentgen:
You're right. And changing this behaviour is what astrotzky requests. And I think it would be a nice thing to have a switch. I needed plugins outside TC only a few times. And I had to switch to %COMMANDER_PATH% many, many times.

Of course when the file is on another drive, it's imossible to get there with %COMMANDER_PATH%. But a warning should be enough.

[astrotzky]

Total Commander should propose %COMMANDER_PATH% when installing plugins only when the plugin to be installed is in a subdirectory of Total Commander install dir.
Something like the following is ugly, and I don't know if it's that usefull:

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%COMMANDER_PATH%\..\..\Program Files\Turbo Registry\blah_blah.wfx

So I want something like:

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if <plugin_install_dir> contains <totalcmd_install_dir> then
    use %commander_path% when saving in wincmd.ini
else
    use the absolute path (this is  the current behaviour)
endif

This should take about 5 minutes of programming time

[m^2]

Total Commander should propose %COMMANDER_PATH% when installing plugins only when the plugin to be installed is in a subdirectory of Total Commander install dir.
Something like the following is ugly, and I don't know if it's that usefull:

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%COMMANDER_PATH%\..\..\Program Files\Turbo Registry\blah_blah.wfx

Maybe it's ugly, but sometimes useful. My TC directory structure is:

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TC
--bin
----TOTALCMD.EXE
----...
--cfg
--plugins
--...
--TC.exe    // a starter

Unlike most I've seen with TC, this is clean, natural, not so overloaded. But I have to refer everywhere with %COMMANDER_PATH%\..\

[eugensyl]

Total Commander should propose %COMMANDER_PATH% when installing plugins only when the plugin to be installed is in a subdirectory of Total Commander install dir.
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if <plugin_install_dir> contains <totalcmd_install_dir> then

use %commander_path% when saving in wincmd.ini

else

use the absolute path (this is the current behaviour)

endif
[/code]
This should take about 5 minutes of programming time

Support 100%.
Most (more than 90%) of plugins are inside TC directory (normally).

What for to place they in other location?
Yes, I can. But for what reason?



Best wishes,

[m^2]

Total Commander should propose %COMMANDER_PATH% when installing plugins only when the plugin to be installed is in a subdirectory of Total Commander install dir.
code]
if <plugin_install_dir> contains <totalcmd_install_dir> then

use %commander_path% when saving in wincmd.ini

else

use the absolute path (this is the current behaviour)

endif
[/code]
This should take about 5 minutes of programming time

Support 100%.
Most (more than 90%) of plugins are inside TC directory (normally).

What for to place they in other location?
Yes, I can. But for what reason?



Best wishes,

The reason? Read my prevous post
Am I the only who doesn't like to have 100 miscellanous files cramped in one directory?
And it's just another 2 minutes

[eugensyl]

2m^2

The reason? Read my prevous post
Am I the only who doesn't like to have 100 miscellanous files cramped in one directory?

Sorry for misunderstanding.
I mean most of PLUGINS it's good to be inside of TC installed directory (%commander_path%).
It doesn't mean you can't have how many sub-directories as you wish.
You can organize how you feel like.

So, let's don't forget the first question: save relative or absolute path in wincmd.ini ?

I full support to save '%commander_path%', only for plugins Or a check box, like Plugin Manager for this option. No problem if somebody have other opinion.
But, is not a really a heavy problem.


Best wishes,

[m^2]

I agree, checkbox looks like the best option.