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Password dialog: Show filename on encrypted header

Posted: 2013-09-11, 17:28 UTC
by Biozynotiker
TC8.50 is able to list content from encrypted archives that has encrypted header.
TC8.01 shows a "press f5 to extract" notification instead.
So this is a big improvement, but not allow password manager to detect for what is the requester.

Current Password Dialogs, shows the archive filename in the top of dialog.
So, you can use a password manager to detect the archivename and enter
a password from this password manager.
(e.g. enter a archive and unpack 1 file, filename is shown in the dialog.)

Suggestion:
Show archive filename on all password dialogs, that is related to archives.

Posted: 2013-09-11, 18:58 UTC
by ghisler(Author)
I agree, this should be easy to add.

Posted: 2013-11-22, 17:20 UTC
by Biozynotiker
I played a bit around with some methods, to use a password manager
with the TC password dialogs.

It seems, to show the filename in the dialog, is not enough.
For any reason or intention, the text labels of TC dialogs, are
not readable by so many external programms, so that its very
difficult to detect for what/reason/file, is the dialog for.

Currently, for encrypted archives (with unencpyted header),
i read the filename, that is readable from the panel header
while entering such archive, as indicator/workaround.
But this doesn't work for archives with encrypted header.

New Suggestion:
The title of any TC password dialogs, is readable by any external programm.
So, the title should provide all nessesary information. This works, even,
when the password dialog is small in size or covered or truncated by
windows itself, the information is still readable by external programms
like password manager.

Example / idea:

Old/Current:
Title: "Master Password"
Title: "Password required!"

New/Idea:
Title: "Master Password - FTP Manager"
Title: "Password required! - Filename: X:\Arc\Testfile.rar"
etc...

It also seems, that the most password manager detects only a specific
process or window title, to detecting the right window/input dialog,
so this is very limited.