beta build 1657

nikos · Moderator Joined: 07 Feb 2002 Posts: 12346 Location: UK

no more debug builds, this is (nearly) the final item!
www.zabkat.com/xplorer2_setup_BETA.exe (932 KB)

for change details see today's blog entry:
http://www.zabkat.com/blog/13May07.htm

if you see any problems please let me know and preferably get the alpha version too to tell us what's gone wrong

thanks for testing!

ckit · Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 12:11 am Post subject:

Any chance you could post a screenshot of the new editor²'s icons?

Thanks!
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nikos · Moderator Joined: 07 Feb 2002 Posts: 12346 Location: UK

probably you can't see them because you still have the old editor information in the registry (from version 1653). Just launch the editor directly from the beta folder!

WimdeLange · Silver Member Joined: 16 Aug 2004 Posts: 302 Location: NL

There is this new editor, but it is not used?
I use xplorer2 1.6.5.7
I look at the options, (Tools Options? Why not Customize Options? Razz

)
No Editor or Viewer information filled in, so it should use the one in the directory (the beta directory). Or not, because when I edit or view a file it is version 2.6.0.8 instead of 2.7.0.1 ?

Off course I could select the editor in the options window, but I thought Xplorer2 was autoselecting it when it isn't filled in in the options.

Later... After reading your previous response about the icons, I came up with the answer. Remove the information about the editor/viewer in the registry and xplorer2 finds it again. Still strange that Options doesn't show anything....
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nikos · Moderator Joined: 07 Feb 2002 Posts: 12346 Location: UK

options only show info about external editors
x2 usually autoselects the editor but here you have 2 installations in parallel and the old one wins!

stephen · New Member Joined: 22 Apr 2007 Posts: 2

I'm trying to bind 33039 (switch to previous tab view) to Ctrl + Shift + Tab, much like Firefox. However, hitting Tab changes the focus to the current keys box instead of inserting Tab into the "Press new shortcut" box.

I've already bound Ctrl+T/Ctrl+W to open tab/close tab and its very cool--good stuff. Can't wait to get Ctrl+Tab/Ctrl+Shift+Tab bound and I'll be set.

Atreus · New Member Joined: 14 May 2007 Posts: 11

nikos · Moderator Joined: 07 Feb 2002 Posts: 12346 Location: UK

there is a limitation of this system control x2 uses to register hotkeys. It won't allow TAB, SPACE, ESC and RETURN as hotkeys (or any combinations). Another big idea from m$ shrug

Atreus · New Member Joined: 14 May 2007 Posts: 11

nikos · Moderator Joined: 07 Feb 2002 Posts: 12346 Location: UK

i intend to write a codeproject article for the keyboard customization class, in the near future, so watch this space!

stephen · New Member Joined: 22 Apr 2007 Posts: 2

Is it the input box that doesn't accept tab/etc. or the keyboard hook itself?

E.g. if its just the input box, can I hack the registry somewhere and add raw key codes (or whatever) outside of the UI limitation, as Atreus was alluding to?

snakebyte · Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 3:18 pm Post subject:

I was thinking on the same lines. I think that hotkey information is stored under xplorer2_UC.global\Accelerators\binAccelTable key which unfortunatly is of the type REG_BINARY. So Reg hacking might not be possible Sad

Nikos, in future version is it possible for you use some other hotkey control or write your own custom control which accepts all the key combinations?
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haomin · Guest

when i use "Customize keyboard", in Press new shortcut key
i can Alt + , Ctrl +, but i can't shift + some key

below they make me confused
in "View", It is called "Locate in tree"
but in customize toolbar, it is called "Tree sync"
there are many the same condition make me confused
Could you do me a favor?

nikos · Moderator Joined: 07 Feb 2002 Posts: 12346 Location: UK

you can use shift with function keys F1 etc but not with letters -- otherwise you'd lose use of your keyboard!

looking for commands is easy. Just find the menu (category) and then see the command, exactly as it is displayed in the menu. If there's something wrong, it's the toolbar command names, that are taken from their tooltips

FrizzleFry · Gold Member Joined: 16 Oct 2005 Posts: 454

Occasionally the beta x2 opens a new window on my secondary monitor rather than in the primary, where the main x2 windows is open. The new Editor2 does this a lot and I have had a couple of scrap windows open in the secondary monitor as well.

My secondary monitor is a TV, good for videos, but I do not want x2 windows opening over there. I have not seen this behavior with any previous version of x2.