LLB Plugin for Total Commander

[vugie]

Kind of experiment. More ore less successful up to now. I'm sure that many of us use Total Commander. I suppose also that - like me - many of us does not use LLBs and are sick when have to open something from it. Conclusion? Packer plugin for Total Commander. Surprisingly it appeared to be so easy that it is strange that such a thing does not exist yet (however the TC API is @%$#^%&@^%$...).

As for now plugin only supports viewing and copying from LLB

Short introduction video first. Please assume that title bar simply does not exist.

I'm not that drunken. Video recompression caused cursor shaking.

Because video is in Polish, some text instructions: do not extract downloaded ZIP manually. Just double-click it in TC, confirm few times and plugin should be installed. I configured plugin not to show an archive icons for LLBs. They have normal icons and standard behavior for double-click. You can browse them with Ctrl-PgDn. Normal copying from LLB is possible as for all other archive types. Please note that opening VIs from LLB is not possible. To be precise it is possible, but is not equivalent to doing so from Explorer, because TC extracts clicked file to temporary directory before opening it. So VI will loose its subVIs.

I include also the source. Dependencies (for the source only): vug_lib_memblock, oglib_file

Plugin is built with LV2009. So it require appropriate run-time engine.

[EDIT] Top level VIs are marked with "system" attribute (to distinguish them from the rest of VIs), so their icons are with "!"

[EDIT2] There is an open-source project Double Commander which claims to support Total Commander's plugins

LLBPackerPlugin-source.zip

LLBPackerPlugin.zip

[Ton Plomp]

This is absolutly super! Duper.

Kudos, to you Vugie!

One question, is it hard to tweak the usage to 'standard' behaviour (double click to explor).

I once looked at building such a plugin, but never got through the TC documentation.

Ton

[vugie]

One question, is it hard to tweak the usage to 'standard' behaviour (double click to explor).

TC API does not support such functionality. Other methods (such as activity monitoring) are not worth en effort.

[Ton Plomp]

One question, is it hard to tweak the usage to 'standard' behaviour (double click to explor).

TC API does not support such functionality. Other methods (such as activity monitoring) are not worth en effort.

No, that's not what I meant, I meant 'double click to open with TC'.

Any ideas on how to mange 'Top Level VIs' ?

Ton

[vugie]

No, that's not what I meant, I meant 'double click to open with TC'.

Any ideas on how to mange 'Top Level VIs' ?

That is how I understood it. After double-clicking TC extracts the clicked file to temp directory and launches it. And this behavior cannot be changed with plugin.

As for top level VIs I currently display them as they have "system" attribute, so they appear in different way. I don't know now how it will work with copying files to LLB.