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Switches to show settings ini file names in TC window title
Posted: 2015-11-30, 11:55 UTC
by DrShark
Currently TC window full title looks like this:
[n] Username^ - Total Commander - NOT REGISTERED
I suggest to add a command line switches to Total Commander to show main and ftp settings ini file names (without full path) after [n] and before Username^ in title (if settings are stored in registry, TC can display "Registry" word instead of ini file name). It will help to test different features/bugs in TC at once. Currently it's not easy to do it because to look what ini files used by certain TC instance user have to look in Help->About, which doesn't really help to quickly switch between few instances of TC with different settings for each.
Posted: 2015-11-30, 12:05 UTC
by Horst.Epp
Sorry, but this is an almost useless request.
Help about gives all the necessary information
and I guess most users will not have many TC config files at all.
Posted: 2015-11-30, 12:13 UTC
by DrShark
Horst.Epp wrote:I guess most users will not have many TC config files at all.
That's why I mentioned that this suggestion is only for purpose of testing some TC features/bugs at once, and that's why I asked to add it via command line switches.
Posted: 2015-11-30, 12:38 UTC
by MVV
You can use any script/tool to set window title for every TC instance as you wish even w/o internal TC feature, and you can use Autorun plugin for starting that script/tool for every TC instance and pass required arguments to it (in case when scripting environment can't read process variables).
Posted: 2015-11-30, 13:11 UTC
by DrShark
MVV wrote:You can use any script/tool to set window title for every TC instance as you wish even w/o internal TC feature, and you can use Autorun plugin for starting that script/tool for every TC instance and pass required arguments to it (in case when scripting environment can't read process variables).
Yes, but the right way to reproduce a bug is to call Total Commander with default settings and than to change the settings only related to a bug. If I add some script or wdx plugin to change the TC title, in can't be called "default settings" anymore, because there is always a chance that this script or wdx plugin will have some effect on bug/TC behaviour.
Posted: 2015-11-30, 13:22 UTC
by MVV
When I call default TC, I see the difference just immediately: it has different buttonbar, it uses different colours, it has no my shortcuts/hotlist items, and it uses another menu.

Posted: 2015-11-30, 13:36 UTC
by DrShark
MVV wrote:When I call default TC, I see the difference just immediately: it has different buttonbar, it uses different colours, it has no my shortcuts/hotlist items, and it uses another menu.

The goal of the suggestion is to help to quickly switch between different TC instances when each TC copy started with /I= switch to ini with default settings + minor setting difference for certain bug. So in my taskbar or task manager I want to see titles like following:
tcbug1.ini / customwcx_ftp.ini - Total Commander
[2] tcbug1.ini / customwcx_ftp.ini - Total Commander
tcbug2.ini - Total Commander
etc.