Total Commander

The 'Drive not found' condition of a drive should be constantly visible on its button. This would be very useful for drives with removable media.

TC would have to re-read the drive constantly (every few seconds), which would make it unusable...

I really don't like the look of the new Drive Buttons for CD/DVD Drives because it became harder to distinguish between CD Drives and usual Drives. The CD buttons in TC 6 had green color which made it fast and easy to identify them. It looked like real CDs reflecting the light.

Regards

2GammelBert

Hello !

• For a long while, one can use a small alternative DLL for the drive-buttons,
you have just to state it in the <wincmd.ini> i.e. as following :

[Configuration]
…
DriveLib=E:\Icones\Dll-étrangères\MG_DriveBmp.dll

- That is the one you can see on the Tutorial…
- Please, use the Search to find some others linked in threads (probably in the Plugins… section)

 Kind regards,
Claude
Clo

ghisler(Author) wrote:TC would have to re-read the drive constantly (every few seconds), which would make it unusable...

It would be sufficient if the status (statii) of the removable drives is read once when launching TotalCommander and then when Ctrl+R is pressed.

ghisler(Author) wrote:TC would have to re-read the drive constantly (every few seconds), which would make it unusable...

Maybe Shell API ::SHChangeNotifyRegister() can help here?

Or in worst case WM_DEVICECHANGE?

bjarke

Wolf Bartels wrote:It would be sufficient if the status (statii) of the removable drives is read once when launching TotalCommander and then when Ctrl+R is pressed.

Support!
Ctrl+R (cm_RereadSource) already does re-read all drives as I understand the description of "Reread source" in the Total Commander online help.

Furthermore I suggest to introduce an ini-file option to decide whether drives without media (that is, drives with 'Drive not found' condition) should be hidden or just be marked with a special icon.
See also "Request: New command cm_VisRemovableDrivesWithoutMedia".