file panel autorefreshing?

[poiuytr]

Nice to hear, thank you!

[Alessandro Del Prete]

I will make some experiments with the function, maybe I can find a solution which is acceptable...

Christian, congratulations for the nice implementation of the WatchDirs functionality...it works great (I personally use WatchDirs=7).

Have you found tricky problems with the API implementation? Just curious to know because I read about option 8 of WatchDirs (don't react to updates while TC isn't in the foreground) and I thought that if you decided to implement that option you probably found out that the WatchDirs functionality could be cpu-hungry in some cases...

Anyway...keep up the good job...

[ghisler(Author)]

Yes, writing to an USB stick and watching it at the same time can be quite slow, especially when copying e.g. an EXE file where the icon needs to be extracted. That's the main reason why I added the drive exclusion option, and the new internal command cm_SwitchWatchDirs command to temporarily turn off watching of directory changes.

Please also note that WatchDirs does not work with Windows 9x/ME peers, because they don't seem to support the necessary function calls.

[Alessandro Del Prete]

Christian,

1. Will you put the WatchDirs configuration options in TC's configuration window? I'd put it under Layout->Display window, I think a cool function like this doesn't deserve being a hidden setting. I know probably the author of TweakTC will include it, but it's nicer having it in TC's configuration menu.

2. Regarding the USB sticks speed problem with WatchDirs functionality: would it be possible to autodetect the drive type and autodisable the Watchdirs function on-the-fly? Like the "USB Sticks" option for compatibility mode during copy, I noticed this new option so I think you already autodetect USB sticks and when detected you could both enable compatibility mode and disable watchdirs for them.

Regarding W9x/ME peers...it was documented in the API that this function requires an NT kernel, anyway I don't think the peers will protest about a feature they can't use...it's time to upgrade guys...

[Hacker]

Alessandro Del Prete,
1. Yes, in 7.0. It wasn't included in 6.52 because it would need a translation and that might mean several weeks of delay just because of one string.

Hacker

[Raymond]

The WatchDirs feature of TC 6.52 is cool!
But I found 'free space on drive' on drive combobox bar doesn't autorefresh as file panels do.
Is it possible to make it autorefresh as well in the furture?

[Clo]

2Hacker
Hi Roman !
- Besides the translation issue, I guess there is not room enough, neither on the “Display” nor on the “Operation” page…
¤ It should need a radio-button box and its string, plus a field to type the value of that variable, plus -possibly- strings as a recall of the basic values…
- There is some room on the “Misc.” page, though. Moreover, the actual last section there could be shifted to up a little, in order to get more free room.

- IMHO, I guess that soon or later, Ch. Ghisler'll be bound either to increase the size of the Options boxes, or to add a new page, for instance as “Special features”…

 Kind regards,
Claude
Clo

[Tyr Antilles]

Hmm, personally I see no use in autorefresh panels. Especially when I have hundreds or thousands of files on a dir I think will be annoyng to wait for refresh. Besides is really that hard to move your finger and hit F2 every time you want a refresh??? Well, I am against autorefresh. And about expansion of options menu in T.C. I think this will only complicate the program interface and will make it harder to set up since you have to swim within lots of options. I think it must be a ballance between useful options and simplity and easy to use.

[SanskritFritz]

Well, I am against autorefresh.

Just until you need it. And then you will search the forum and the help for the option, unless you already have it on the menu.

[ghisler(Author)]

2Alessandro Del Prete

1. Yes, there will be a configuration option.
2. Sorry, currently not planned

But I found 'free space on drive' on drive combobox bar doesn't autorefresh as file panels do.
Is it possible to make it autorefresh as well in the furture?

No, this isn't planned either, because it costs too much performance, sorry.