| [View Project][View Threads]| Title: | Workbench file lister |  | Synopsis:
Create a replacement file lister that resembles the ones used in Diropus and Diropus Magellan. |
| orgin | [Done] Adding copy/paste buffer | 20090222 14:17 |  | I'm going to post about my work on copy/paste functionality here.
The main idea is to implement the ability to copy/cut a set of selected entries and then paste it into another lister.
When issuing copy or cut the following will happen:
- A new file (ram:t/filer.clipboard) will be created
- The first line in the file will say either "COPY" or "CUT"
- The rest of the file will contain the full path to the selected entries
- each entry will also end up in the system clipboard allowing the user to paste a file list into a text editor.
- each entry is unselected in the file lister
When issuing a paste the following will happen:
- The filer will look for ram:t/filer.clipboard
- it will check if the first line is "COPY" or "CUT"
- It will read each following line and either copy or move to the path selected in the receiving file lister.
copy/cut/paste should be available in the main menu, by using keyboard shortcuts and in a right click popup menu. | | |
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| orgin | Re: Adding copy/paste buffer | 20090222 21:00 | | @orgin
I've added main menu entries for copy/cut/paste.
Copy/cut works. (except system clipboard stuff)
Paste only outputs what is to be copied/moved to stderr. | | |
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| orgin | Re: Adding copy/paste buffer | 20090317 07:29 | | @orgin
Paste now actually works to a degree.
Files will be copied to the currently selected folder, without replacing any files. | | |
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| orgin | Re: Adding copy/paste buffer | 20090319 06:54 | | @orgin
Paste now does recursive copying of folders as well, there's also a lot of error control and requesters that allows the user to replace, replace all, retry, skip, skip all, cancel etc (where appropriate) for each file.
The error checking for when copying the folder (not contents) needs some more error checking and requesters though before I can move on to move files.
I'm going to try to make 'move' smart by not copy/delete files if they are on the same partition. They will simply be moved.
During this whole ordeal I've noticed some peculiarities of amigaos and its file systems. For example, the permission flags are respected differently for different file systems and permissions are respected differently in different parts of the process for different file systems.
The copy/move functionality will not be able to handle soft/hard links in its first release. I'll have to figure out a way to deal with them later on. (I don't even know how to create them, even manually). For not they are treated as unreadable/unwriteable files.
I will not add a progress requester for the first release either. It's not very hard to do, but I want the copy/move released before going into that. | | |
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| orgin | Re: Adding copy/paste buffer | 20090319 21:01 | | @orgin
I've added the missing error control for folder so c&p should work just fine now. You can download 53.8 HERE
Nice to have c&p done, I'm actually using the filer for ordinary tasks now :)
There might be problems in low memory/device full scenarios. But that can be fixed later(tm). | | |
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