3 columns

hoegge · Post by *hoegge » 2012-01-26, 09:23 UTC

TC is great! Cannot work on a PC without it.

I have often felt ONE limitation, that might be a big thing to implement, but it would be great if you could have 3 COLUMS instead of only two. I often find myself opening two instances to work on three folders. So if you could add more columns with a keyboard shortcut e.g. up to 3 or 4 in total, that would be really great.

MVV · Post by *MVV » 2012-01-26, 09:27 UTC

Do you mean PANELS and not the COLUMNS? It was discussed many times (use the board search), TC won't have more than 2 panels, there are a lot of problems with such design (one of them is which inactive panel should be treated as target one).

Valentino · Post by *Valentino » 2012-01-26, 10:31 UTC

2hoegge
You can create several tabs in each panel. It's quite convenient when you get used to using them.

Octagon · Post by *Octagon » 2012-01-26, 20:48 UTC

MVV wrote:there are a lot of problems with such design (one of them is which inactive panel should be treated as target one).

I am not advocating the idea of having more than 2 panels in any way, in fact I have a 50/50 command in the button bar and often move the border between panels to the edge to get a single panel, but there IS a problem free design.

Let us assume the main panels are placed side by side. Imagine that above or below the source and target panels there is a row of additional panels. For a HD monitor, from one to at least 4 panels may fit there.

These additional panels can be neither source not target panels, so only actions that do not involve a target panel (search, navigation, mass rename, deletion, viewing, editing, executing... lots of things) can be done in them.

The last missing piece is the ability to swap the target or source panel with an additional one. This can be done with drag and drop or with Left/Right Shift + Tab, or maybe there is an even better way.

Rekrul · Post by *Rekrul » 2012-06-18, 07:53 UTC

MVV wrote:Do you mean PANELS and not the COLUMNS? It was discussed many times (use the board search), TC won't have more than 2 panels, there are a lot of problems with such design (one of them is which inactive panel should be treated as target one).

I've seen that question before (how to determine the target panel) and it always amazes me that nobody seems to be able to figure it out.

When you click in a pane, it becomes the source, then when you click a second pane, that one becomes the source and the first one becomes the destination. Or you could lock a pane as the destination, so that you could easily copy file from multiple sources.

Take a look at the later versions of Diskmaster on the Amiga. The configuration file was a script and you could have as many windows/panes as you wanted on the screen. It worked just as I've described.

Really, why would it be any different than using tabs? You can have multiple tabs on each side, but only two can be active at any one time. Multiple panes would be exactly the same, except that you would be able to see the contents rather than having them hidden.