Branch View is not a regular file list ?

[rnan]

I asked here

superuser.com/questions/917172/total-commander-branch-view-weird-behaviour



with print screens so it is more clearer

[Stefan2]

I have the Total Commander 8.51 64 bit version

I have also installed "Context menu resizer for windows" (https://imageresizer.codeplex.com/)

After selecting multiple siblings images
- I still can resize them by context menu item "Resize pictures":
enter image (http://superuser.com/questions/917172/total-commander-branch-view-weird-behaviour)



If I search using Total commander (alt+f7) and then "feed to listbox"
- I can do this also for non-siblings images :
enter image



The problem is with CTRL+B ( branch view). which flatten all files including subfiles

It doesn't show me the feature of "Resize pictures":
enter image

Question
Is there any solution so that Total commander will treat ctrl+b list as a regular list like in my first 2 examples ?

Since the TCs "Branch View" is a different kind of view,
where that tool doesn't have added a context menu handler for,
me think that is not that easy to solve for you. (others may correct me here)

Perhaps you could extract that option from that tool from the registry
and add it again at the matching place for "Branch View" too.
But I can't tell you how right now.

The easiest way would be to add that tool to TCs button bar and use it from there,
instead of utilizing the context menu (which may take some time to open anyway?)
Interested?


Found some info:
http://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?p=129941#129941


 

[rnan]

suppose I have a program which accepts parameters -

How can I send to it the selected files from the branch view ?

I 've looked at changing the cutton perferences but all it has is internal cmd_XXX procedures.

say I selected 3 files from left pane : how can I do that when I click the toolbar icon - it will open my soft with the selected files as parameteres ?

[MVV]

As far I can remember, there are some problems with handling files with different paths, that's why context menu item is absent.

Regarding passing files: you can use %L, %UL or %WL in button parameters to pass temporary filelist path to program, or you can use %PS to pass files in a long single line (limited length). Anyway it depends on a program how it accepts parameters.

[petermad]

2rnan

Hmm, you dont state what OS you use, but here it works under Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 in TC 8.51a in both 32 bit and 64 bit version.

See example under Windows 8.1 here: http://madsenworld.dk/tcmd/pictureresizer.png - shown in Ctrl+B mode.

Maybe you need to reinstall your Picture Resizer.

[MVV]

rnan,
Maybe you should ask extension developer because other shell extensions seem to work fine in branch view...

[rnan]

I have windows 8.1 pro

IT DOES SHOW the resizer when CTRL+B but only for a single FILE

The whole point is to select files ( sorted by size desc) from different directories ( via ctrl+b mode) and then resize them

[solid]

I've just tested with XnView shell extension, it shows the entry and works fine for multiple files in the branch view on windows 7 x64.
You can try if this extension will work for you. You can preview, convert and resize pictures.

[rnan]

2solid , @solid -

it doesn't work in ctrl+b for different location images.

try it.

[solid]

2rnan
I've just tried it before writing the post. It works for multiple files from different folders in branch view same as in any view.
TC32 on win7 x64.
I guess that the reason for your problem is somewhere else not in the branch view itself.

Try to start TC with blank ini file (/I switch)

[petermad]

IT DOES SHOW the resizer when CTRL+B but only for a single FILE

Aha, I can confirm that it doesn't work for multiple selected files


I tried XnView 2.32 on 32bit TC 8.51a under Windows XP - it doesn't work either for multiple selected files (tried with clean wincmd.ini).

[MVV]

I tried 7-Zip extension with 32-bit TC, I see its items in context menu but it warns that files have same names and packs all files into archive w/o keeping directory structure. BTW it works in the same way from TC search results!

BTW I tested it with 7-Zip shell extension in Windows Explorer search results, it works in pretty same way: warns about duplicate filenames and puts all files into archive w/o keeping directory structure. I would test other shell extensions but I don't have more.

As I stated before, there are problems with files from multiple dirs. Similar topic is here.