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Leif · **Posted:** Sat Dec 17, 2011 10:09 am

Tillman (aka Si3rra) wrote about DropIt yesterday, but it was not published since he was not previously a member here. Who OKs his message and when?

Leif · **Posted:** Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:09 am

Certainly no big deal but I was a bit surprised when I failed to delete my password after I had selected it and then hit Delete.
Nothing happened. Huh? See image:

Leif · **Posted:** Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:45 am

si3rra wrote:

guinness, hi. im the friend of Leif thats running Windows classic, the registry for the selected theme is found @
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Themes
The string "CurrentTheme", but can be hard if user is using a custom theme, but ill guess there is something there that tells.

To Leif, hello!

Last of all some kind of bug report, to continue on the Recycle thing, the problem is that i can set a rule / association to move or copy a file to a system folder (that i choose from the popup box) it can be "Computer", "Network" or Recycle bin. but then when dropping files they are as some of thoose places is not even writeable the files are moved to a folder called for example "Computer" in the DropIt program folder.

Any comments on this issue?

tux. · **Joined:** Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:35 am **Posts:** 4

I, personally, miss regex support for file names...

tux. · **Joined:** Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:35 am **Posts:** 4

One more thing that's missing is the ability to perform more than one action per file. :/

epb613 · **Joined:** Sun Dec 18, 2011 11:11 am **Posts:** 1

Hi, thanks for the great program! This could save me so much time organizing the scans in my digital office.

I noticed a bug though - when I have conflicting rules, and try to sort a file,, the select option dialog appears, but nothing is displayed on it, and the program stops responding. My rules weren't mutually exclusive of each other - they were both copy.

Ideally, I wish the program could support multiple actions. This is because alot of time I want my scans to go several places. For example, if I scan a receipt from a charity I donated to, I want to set up a move rule to add it to a folder for that charity, and another move rule to add it to my taxes folder. (So basically, I would set up 2 move rules, and it would copy the files to each folder, and delete the original.)

Let me know if you need more details to replicate my bug.

Thanks,
Pinny

Lupo73 · **Posted:** Sun Dec 18, 2011 1:35 pm

@Leif: I'll check the problem to delete the password.. even if I think it is not a priority now..

@Si3rra: I'll check also the problem using system folders as destinations..

@tux: RegEx support and multi-action support are already in the list of planned features, I'll try to do my best in next releases to implement them..

My plan at the moment is to do few more fixes and minor improvements to current beta, publish a second beta and then a stable version before the new year..

tux. · **Joined:** Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:35 am **Posts:** 4

Great, thanks.

si3rra · **Joined:** Fri Dec 16, 2011 11:30 am **Posts:** 7

@Lupo73 thanks.

but the "same" thing appers if i set up kind of crazy associations, like.

Compress -> *.txt using -> notepad.exe i drop a .txt file and sometimes the software asks for decryption password, but every time a folder called notepad.exe is created in the dropit folder. (looks like this dropit\notepad.exe\textfile.zip (containg the file)

guinness · **Joined:** Mon Aug 27, 2007 2:00 am **Posts:** 3733

The deletion of the password isn't an AutoIt error & was simple to find, though I haven't committed because I didn't know how you would do it.

The problem is here (see code box) because DEL is being taken up by a dummy control, so the alternative is to use another hotkey (Ctrl+R) OR when the monitoring tab is selected set the hotkeys as below and if not then set again minus the DEL key item.

Code:

Local $oHotKeys[3][2] = [["^n", $oMn_Add],["{DELETE}", $oMn_Remove],["{ENTER}", $oMn_Edit]]
   GUISetAccelerators($oHotKeys)

Lupo73 · **Posted:** Mon Dec 19, 2011 1:41 pm

Thanks for the report guinness, I'll check it..

@si3rra: I don't know why sometimes it asks for decryption password, but anyway it correctly works because for Compress actions you have to define the destination folder and not the program used to compress files..

In a next release I'm considering to remove special actions and integrate them as normal actions, naming them: Shortcut, Playlist, Clipboard.. I'd like to know your opinion about it, also because they are not verbs (as other actions) and could badly sound together.. but on the other hand it may simplifies and extends their use..

Leif · **Posted:** Mon Dec 19, 2011 2:18 pm

Lupo73 wrote:

In a next release I'm considering to remove special actions and integrate them as normal actions, naming them: Shortcut, Playlist, Clipboard.. I'd like to know your opinion about it, also because they are not verbs (as other actions) and could badly sound together.. but on the other hand it may simplifies and extends their use..

In my opinion a very good idea. I didn't know about the playlist feature until I read the Guide. And who reads Guides? So very easy to miss good features if they are "hidden away".
They are not verbs but couldn't you just add a verb in front of them? "Make shortcuts" etc.

Lupo73 · **Posted:** Mon Dec 19, 2011 2:37 pm

I'm agree with you.. I could use "Create Shortcut" and "Create Playlist", but I don't like "Copy to the Clipboard" so much..

Lupo73 · **Posted:** Tue Dec 20, 2011 6:30 am

Leif is helping me to do minor language corrections and other fixes.. about the password deletion issue, it can be deleted using the backspace key so I think it doesn't need a fix..

guinness · **Joined:** Mon Aug 27, 2007 2:00 am **Posts:** 3733

Quote:

about the password deletion issue, it can be deleted using the backspace key so I think it doesn't need a fix..

OK, though perhaps make it clear that you can't use the DEL key in the password inputs, because as Leif demonstrated users are so used to using the DEL key rather than the backspace.

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