Standardized Copy-File Confirmation Box

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Standardized Copy-File Confirmation Box

#1 Post by Tech » 29.12.2007, 02:52

When I try to copy over a pre-existing file, the standard Windows confirmation box comes up rather than a FreeCommander box. In XP, this isn't too big a deal, as the default box does about what I'd want. But in Vista it's a PITA because the default box is huge and has the wrong default, and requires several keystrokes to select "Copy".

What I would like is the option of using a FreeCommander confirmation box instead (both for copying/moving to disk and to zip) and the ability to set the default. The only other Windows file manager I have recent experience with, Directory Opus, does have it's own confirmation boxes which do what I'm wanting.

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#2 Post by enkryptor » 30.12.2007, 12:33

FC uses built-in Windows copy routine, same as Windows Explorer :(

I think it's a simple but bad solution, 'cause threre is no advantages over Explorer in move/copy functions

Also, for the reasons given above it's unable to make an ftp client from FC yet.

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#3 Post by Tech » 30.12.2007, 16:34

Precisely!

In theory I could have gotten past this by using a different copy mechanism with the FileCopyPrg= ini entry, but it's both undocumented (other than in a message from Marek) and non-functional.

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#4 Post by Tech » 01.01.2008, 22:50

It's taken a bit of work, but I'm closer to a resolution. Using Killcopy set up as follows:
FileMovePrg=killcopy.exe |%ActivSelAsFile%|%InactivDir%| -g-m
FileCopyPrg=killcopy.exe |%ActivSelAsFile%|%InactivDir%| -g

And also acting as the drag-and-drop handler, I now can get the Killcopy confirmation consistently rather than the windows one, and can limit it to the cases I care about. It's an improvement, but unfortunately it's still a dollar short... the default is "abort". So both <enter> and <escape> result in aborting. I want <enter> to be copy and <escape> to be abort. Maybe I'll have to write my own.

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#5 Post by enkryptor » 03.01.2008, 20:16

Thank you, this is interesting!

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#6 Post by enkryptor » 03.01.2008, 22:46

the same subj.:
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