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MilesAhead:
The program with the use of ==/====> is going well.
I'll take a look to treePagGen

 :)
-Contro (September 03, 2011, 03:27 AM)
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OK. :)

MilesAhead:
Comment Explorer 2.3.0.0 Added a primitive Comment Search to the Tray Menu.

If you are not running in FolderMode it searches the global comment file for any comments that contain what you type in.  I suggest one word searches as it only tests that the entire substring is found in the comment. Matches are not case sensitive.

If FolderMode is active, it searches the comment file local to the folder. If one has not been loaded yet, or no comment file exists for the current folder, then the menu item will show as Disabled.  Selecting a file with the arrow keys should enable the command for that folder if there is a comment file to load.

It's primitive. It just gathers the filenames associated with the comment matches to a text file and launches it using Windows file type association.

IainB:
Not sure if this belongs in this thread:
This is a Q relating to putting file comments into "virtual folders" - not reparsed file links, but containing folders which hold pointers to a folder elsewhere.
In xplorer² (which I use most of the time) these are called "Scrap containers".

I was working with some files that I have in an xplorer² scrap container, and wanting to edit the file Comments for that file just for that scrap container view, but I could not.
This is because the Comments field is the same system field as is used in the main Windows Explorer (and xplorer²) window.
If you edit the properties (attributes) of that file in the scrap container, it actually edits them on disk.
But if you delete the file in the scrap container, it does not delete it from disk.

For comparison, I opened up my old 1999 vintage FileAlbum from PC Magazine/Ziff Davis (written by Gregory A. Wolking).
That provides sort of what I wanted, but in the shape of a virtual folder that is insulated from affecting the file properties and has an inbuilt proprietary file/folder commenting field.

The screenshot below shows 3 windows and how the file Radiolab - Numbers 100909a.mp3 appears, with its comments, in each one.

* 1. The scrap container.
* 2. The FileAlbum container.
* 3. The Windows Explorer file listing

What I want to get is:

* sometimes a file listing display with the system file Comments displayed - that's OK, the system can already give me that in file listings in Windows Explorer or xplorer²;
* then sometimes a file listing display in a collection or "scrap" container (or something that serves the same purpose) that displays the same files and the same (system) file Comments and also another field of file comments or notes that is peculiar to the files in that display/view.
Is this feasible?

MilesAhead:
There are 2 modes to the program, Folder and Global.  Folder uses the filename and extension with no path as the key to the comment. Global uses the entire path.  Folder creates a data file in every folder where you create a comment.  Global has one central data file in the same folder as CommentExplorer.exe.

If neither of the 2 modes reflect what you're asking then I don't see how I can do it.  In either mode it's a simple associative array.  String key fetches string comment.

hulkbuster:
So each time i give a comment for a file  or folder by pressing Shift+ F11 , will i be able to view it any way.???

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