Please support %Commander_Drive% for new View modes

[Hans.Müller]

Please support %Commander_Drive% for new View modes.

[ghisler(Author)]

OK, I will try to add environment variable support in general.

[Emalis.Reckah]

Works now in beta 2 ! Thank you.

Now if buttons would be saved with %Commander_Drive%
and %Commander_Path% instead of "real" path names that would be great

[ghisler(Author)]

What do you mean? If I use Configuration - Button bar and add a button, I can write %Commander_Path% in the command field and it will be saved like that.

[Emalis.Reckah]

What do you mean? If I use Configuration - Button bar and add a button, I can write %Commander_Path% in the command field and it will be saved like that.

for ths example TC is in the folder B:\tcmd.

Now I drag B:\tcmd\mytool.exe on the buttonbar and it becomes %commander_path%\mytool.exe.

Now I drag B:\tool\mytool2.exe on the buttonbar and it stays B:\tool\mytool2.exe

-> my wish would be to make it instead to %Commander_Drive%\tool\mytool2.exe

[ghisler(Author)]

Ah, I see - but with which variables? They could be ambigous, e.g. %commander_drive% is part of %commander_path%.

[Emalis.Reckah]

Well that should be easy to detect.
If variable path = %commander_path% + something -> use %commander_path%.
Else when variable path has the same drive as %commander_drive% replace the drive in path with %commander_drive%

Ofc these are only QoL changes so if they are to difficult I can wait

[Dalai]

2ghisler(Author)
There is an API function which resolves paths back to env variables: PathUnExpandEnvStrings. However, as I see it, this function only replaces a few system env variables, so I'm not sure it helps much.

But I don't think it's a good idea to do such replacement. I'd expect TC to do exactly as told: use absolute path, not env variables.

Regards
Dalai