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Hello again, And thanks again for this great program, some of my REGEX's now work with the new engine!
Now, I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but with all the wonderful new features, I can't believe this hasn't been addressed (that I'm aware of).
SPACE works fine to toggle mark/unmarked state.
CTRL+A works fine to select all files.
But selecting all, and then pressing SPACE does not mark/unmark all files selected.
So I'm requesting a couple of simple keyboard shortcuts (or 1 toggle) to 'Mark All' 'Mark None', rather than having to use the right-click menu.
I've attempted to replicate this behavoiur using a simple Autohotkey script, which does work (for the most part) but because it has no idea what state the checkboxes are in, it sometimes runs into trouble!
I've set my script to active on CTRL+S.
It scans up the list a set number of steps (25) to hopefully bring it to the beginning (as it has no idea which file you currently have selected), then inches down one by one and marks each file using the 'SPACE' function. Again, 25 places, so if you have more files than that loaded it wont mark them. If pressed again, it reverses whether marked or not, as would pressing the SPACE bar on any of those files.
It takes milliseconds to work on my system, but due to its aforementioned limitations, a built-in facility would be much better.
Chrs.
Now, I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but with all the wonderful new features, I can't believe this hasn't been addressed (that I'm aware of).
SPACE works fine to toggle mark/unmarked state.
CTRL+A works fine to select all files.
But selecting all, and then pressing SPACE does not mark/unmark all files selected.
So I'm requesting a couple of simple keyboard shortcuts (or 1 toggle) to 'Mark All' 'Mark None', rather than having to use the right-click menu.
I've attempted to replicate this behavoiur using a simple Autohotkey script, which does work (for the most part) but because it has no idea what state the checkboxes are in, it sometimes runs into trouble!
I've set my script to active on CTRL+S.
It scans up the list a set number of steps (25) to hopefully bring it to the beginning (as it has no idea which file you currently have selected), then inches down one by one and marks each file using the 'SPACE' function. Again, 25 places, so if you have more files than that loaded it wont mark them. If pressed again, it reverses whether marked or not, as would pressing the SPACE bar on any of those files.
It takes milliseconds to work on my system, but due to its aforementioned limitations, a built-in facility would be much better.
Chrs.
Reply to #1:
Interesting workflow...
'Mark All' + 'Mark None' would be nice and also standard-ish, although I've never needed such in Aren.
But this might be a better case for allowing JS to check/uncheck items (as suggested elsewhere).
That way you could code whatever criteria you use, once, and then not have to futz with manually checking the, uh, check boxes. ;)
Interesting workflow...
'Mark All' + 'Mark None' would be nice and also standard-ish, although I've never needed such in Aren.
But this might be a better case for allowing JS to check/uncheck items (as suggested elsewhere).
That way you could code whatever criteria you use, once, and then not have to futz with manually checking the, uh, check boxes. ;)
Reply to #2:
Hello, Well during normal operation, I import a set of files (usually 15-25) into Aren. These files usually comprise completely different naming schemes.
I have formulated numerous 'Renaming Methods' which work for most of the files in the set, but I have to apply a renaming template, to see which files have been successfully renamed to my preferred output format, and unmark the rest.
Then once processed, I apply the next renaming format, and so on. Each time requiring that I 'Mark All' so that the new applied reanming format can show a preview of who it acts upon the remaining files in the window.
I'm sure there would be a better way using the JS section, but I don't know JS, and i'm not particularly clever.
Hello, Well during normal operation, I import a set of files (usually 15-25) into Aren. These files usually comprise completely different naming schemes.
I have formulated numerous 'Renaming Methods' which work for most of the files in the set, but I have to apply a renaming template, to see which files have been successfully renamed to my preferred output format, and unmark the rest.
Then once processed, I apply the next renaming format, and so on. Each time requiring that I 'Mark All' so that the new applied reanming format can show a preview of who it acts upon the remaining files in the window.
I'm sure there would be a better way using the JS section, but I don't know JS, and i'm not particularly clever.
Reply to #4:
Hey Kim,
More spam above. Do you have a script that searches for the word "spam" in posts here?
Hey Kim,
More spam above. Do you have a script that searches for the word "spam" in posts here?
Reply to #5:
I do have some spam protection in place, but it is not 100%.
I do have some spam protection in place, but it is not 100%.
Reply to #5:
I beg your pardon?
I beg your pardon?
Reply to #7:
Kath,
There was a spam post in this thread (message #4, now deleted).
And I was asking Kim if there was a way to alert about spam posts as I've encountered three or four of them here in the last couple of days.
Kath,
There was a spam post in this thread (message #4, now deleted).
And I was asking Kim if there was a way to alert about spam posts as I've encountered three or four of them here in the last couple of days.