Explorer++ is great but it could be even better
I would love it if you would add these features (some might have been already requested by someone else, sorry):
* double-clicking on the window background goes to the parent folder
* auto-refresh
* breadcrumbs to quickly move to an ancestor folder
* customization for shortcuts and the way dates are displayed
Hi nalf, thank you for the suggestions! Just one thing, auto-refresh should work at the moment. Do new files/folders ever appear, or do you always have to manually refresh the directory?
You're right, auto-refresh does work, but not as well as I expected, so I hadn't realized it was already there :
* new files/folders do appear, but at the end of the list - they should get sorted in the right place
* erased files/folders do not disappear, however except in one case...
* ... when I drag a file from a tab and drop it in another tab, it disappears from the first tab but does not appear in the other
Should I post it in the bugs section ?
No, that's ok, don't worry about posting it in the bugs section. A few questions:
- When you delete a file, does it make any difference if you delete the file from Windows Explorer, or from Explorer++?
- Which version of Windows are you using?
I think auto refreshing can be too expensive. I usually open multiple instances of E++.
Try the Win32 API ReadDirectoryChangesW.
Google this function name, and you will get what you want.
I've actually always used ReadDirectoryChangesW I meant auto refresh in the sense that the contents of a tab will be automatically updated as changes come in.
The main reason why directory monitoring may seem to break sometimes is that it's done in a seperate thread, and it's possible there are timing problems that I haven't found or fixed yet. For example, I know of at least one bug that used to put the directory monitoring thread into an infinite loop, which caused all tabs to stop updating, yet the rest of the program kept running perfectly.
After playing a little more, files DO disappear when I delete them in the usual way (pressing del when in Explorer++ or Windows Explorer) but I make extensive use Eraser (http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/) to securely erase files from the right-click menu, and they don't disappear from Explorer++ until I manually refresh
I use Windows XP SP3.
I meant auto refresh in the sense that the contents of a tab will be automatically updated as changes come in.