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General Software Discussion / Re: 12 Windows Explorer Alternatives Compared
« on: August 05, 2007, 08:47 AM »
I do know of a sure fool-proof way to make it crash though...
-Dirhael (July 29, 2007, 04:48 PM)
Can't reproduce. I'm using thumbnails on huge folders with small image files since years without any crash. Maybe one of your tile files makes trouble? You can send them to me in a zip (if that's okay).

Donald (XY's author)
-DonL (July 30, 2007, 03:02 AM)

Absolutely, I'll send them to you when I get back from my vacation. I should clarify though, this problem only happens if the images are GIF's. I have never encountered the problem with jpeg's and png's. Really appreciate you looking into such a insignificant problem, I don't think many other developers would have taken the time :)
-Dirhael (July 30, 2007, 04:45 AM)
My intuition was correct (but you could not find it as easily as I can from here): It is *one* pic that is truncated and throws XYplorer out of the tracks: wp_floral_931.gif

I did not fix the image but I fixed the crash. The next version will just display "Bad Image" and go on working.

Thanks for spotting this!

Don

-DonL (August 05, 2007, 01:29 AM)

No thank you for fixing the problem, and to think that you got it done it just a couple of days! http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/7002/ohsnapsbygirlflashpm8.gif
Never imagined to see a fix so soon, especially for something that most people would never have a problem with :)

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General Software Discussion / Re: 12 Windows Explorer Alternatives Compared
« on: August 04, 2007, 11:14 AM »
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Servant Salamander - Absolutely no support for unicode. It won't even let you launch files with unicode names from it! Useless for me and many others. They have been promising unicode support for what seems like forever now, but nothing has happened yet. ...
-Dirhael (July 29, 2007, 05:57 AM)

dirhael: 1st of all, i agree that Salamander's dev team have progressed very cautiously (about 10 years to move from version 1.52 to 2.5  :o) but to be fair they have a whole page in their help file dedicated to explaining and using workarounds in the mean time.. :)

Unfortunately, Unicode is not supported in Altap Salamander 2.5. We plan to support it in feature versions. Now we will describe how to deal with foreign names of files and directories. If you didn't encounter problems with names of files and directories, you can skip reading of this chapter. ...
-the help file
-lanux128 (July 30, 2007, 09:00 PM)

It's true that they do have such a page, but unfortunately none of the methods they list is a proper workaround. In fact, none of the methods would help me at all as I need more than one Asian fallback language at any one time, and using Windows Explorer is most definitely not an option.
Let's just wait and see what happens with the future releases instead :)

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General Software Discussion / Re: 12 Windows Explorer Alternatives Compared
« on: August 04, 2007, 11:11 AM »
... Really appreciate you looking into such a insignificant problem, I don't think many other developers would have taken the time :)
-Dirhael (July 30, 2007, 04:45 AM)
A crash is not insignificant to me. Hey, I'm a developer with an attitude! ;)
-DonL (July 30, 2007, 09:25 AM)

Hehe, good to hear :D I'm back from my vacation now, so as soon as I'm done uploading the archive of gif's to my server, I'll send you a mail with the link and some more detailed tests I just did to verify that the problem still exists even with the latest version.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Some HomeSite Replacement Help?
« on: July 30, 2007, 09:54 AM »
It's just that it has fallen behind much of the competition in some areas
Could you care to explain? Things like macro recording?

I'm confident all the good shortcuts can be recreated with DirectAccess and the developers are very responsive. It's juts a lot of work, although with the upcoming command pack sharing features it should become easier.

The various visual studio editions have the right features that I would be looking at, but I'm juts not sure how well they support the html /css.
Perhaps in combination with Topstyle all the bases are covered. We're looking to move towards that because we're moving from classic asp to asp.net here at work. I love the intellisense, and topstyle has that for html/css, but a lot of alternatives just have syntax coloring which is a real miss.
-justice (July 30, 2007, 07:52 AM)

Well yes, macro recording would be one of the things it's missing. Other things include the fact that the project managment isn't all it could be, the editor itself is very inflexible when it comes to actually being able to customize it. It also really just supports HTML & CSS. Yes you can add your own keyword files, but they actually just offer you syntax colouring within html documents and not proper support for the languages by themselves.
Another important thing it needs is more advanced snippets/clips. If all you want is to paste predefined text, then the current implementation might be enough. After trying the more advanced options provided in editors like TextMate/E, Komodo and others it just isn't enough anymore. It would also be nice to see some support for version control, as it is very useful for larger projects and already present in several other editors. There are other smaller things I'd like to see improved as well, but you get the idea.

Anyway, is still is a great CSS editor but for the insane price I expect more. It may have been worth the price a few years back, but not today.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Some HomeSite Replacement Help?
« on: July 30, 2007, 07:39 AM »
I'm using Direct Access in combination with Topstyle. Topstyle has all the great html shortcuts and css handling, and any serverside languages I add in autotexts with Direct Access, i guess it's the closest to snippets.

Now with Topstyle being semi developed again... it looks good. I don't know why Nick can't commit to editors for some reason ;)

E does look good and there was another textmate inspired editor for windows, but can't remember the name. I just don't want to depend on unproven beta software at the moment.

-justice (July 30, 2007, 07:26 AM)

I belive the editor you're thinking of is InType. Unfortunately, it isn't really much of an editor yet. It's alpha software, you can't add bundles yet, no tabbed interface and no project management. Right now it's not much more than a pretty face.

I'm interested in seeing if Nick actually starts taking care of Topstyle again, but I'm having my doubts about anything more than bugfixes. It's a shame though, as it really is a nice program. It's just that it has fallen behind much of the competition in some areas, and it's not flexible at all if you want to work in languages other than CSS & HTML.

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