Drag'n'Drop on User Menu Toolbar
Posted: 29 Apr 2006, 02:04
SS 2.5 RC1
I found some problems dropping files on User Menu Bar icons.
1. A program that is defined using a variable (e.g. $(SysDir)\notepad.exe) does not accept files dropped on it.
2. Any options defined for the program are ignored when a file is dropped on it. I'd expect Salamander to replace the specified variables with the values taken from the dropped file, at least as long as a single file or directory is dropped. If no selection specific variables are specified in the parameters field, I'd consider putting a list of quoted full names at the end of the provided parameters as appropriate.
As an example I use BareGrep, a free regular expression search tool by Bare Metal Software Pty Ltd. Its command line syntax is
or
Obviously, since I have no way of telling it what to search for from within SS, I need to use the second form. When dropping files on the User Menu Bar icon, SS ignores the specified -n option and consequently baregrep treats the first or only file as the search pattern.
3. (Feature request:) The advanced variable $(ListOfSelectedNames) should be accompanied by $(ListOfSelectedFullNames) which provides full path names for each file in the list.
E.g. BareGrep usually treats any file name, which is not a fully qualified path as a search pattern, which it searches throughout the subfolders.
I found some problems dropping files on User Menu Bar icons.
1. A program that is defined using a variable (e.g. $(SysDir)\notepad.exe) does not accept files dropped on it.
2. Any options defined for the program are ignored when a file is dropped on it. I'd expect Salamander to replace the specified variables with the values taken from the dropped file, at least as long as a single file or directory is dropped. If no selection specific variables are specified in the parameters field, I'd consider putting a list of quoted full names at the end of the provided parameters as appropriate.
As an example I use BareGrep, a free regular expression search tool by Bare Metal Software Pty Ltd. Its command line syntax is
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baregrep [options] [pattern {file(s)}]or
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baregrep (-n|--no-regex) [options] {file(s)}Obviously, since I have no way of telling it what to search for from within SS, I need to use the second form. When dropping files on the User Menu Bar icon, SS ignores the specified -n option and consequently baregrep treats the first or only file as the search pattern.
3. (Feature request:) The advanced variable $(ListOfSelectedNames) should be accompanied by $(ListOfSelectedFullNames) which provides full path names for each file in the list.
E.g. BareGrep usually treats any file name, which is not a fully qualified path as a search pattern, which it searches throughout the subfolders.