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What gets me most with the FileMatrix screenshot is that I have no idea what has focus -- i.e. if you were to hit Enter, what would happen?
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Swallow the red pill and find out.
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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Mike Mullikin wrote: Swallow the red pill and find out.
Which one?
There are almost 20 of them on the Kameisi pic!
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Been digging in the interface hall of shame again?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Been digging in the interface hall of shame again?
Nah, I needed a re-namer that can handle UTF-8. I've used Lupus for years, but it doesn't recognise multi-byte chars.
I know that re-naming stuff is built into Xplorer2, but I like having a separate little window for it.
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There is a time in every developers education when he thinks "Can I squeeze another control in there?"
At that point, he should be smacked round the head with a four by two to drive the point home. "No". I say. "No, you can't".
"Medic!"
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Sometimes its an advantage to loose a control, who knew 
Oh, this isn't the thought of today  I'll get my coat and and take the dog[^] for a walk.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Can I squeeze another control in there
Oh I remember the transition from 16 to 32 colours, man were there some ugly UIs inflicted on companies in those days. It is where I first started using battleshit grey as my primary colour scheme.
And we are going back to the 90s with the fisher paykel UIs of today.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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It reminds me some of my COBOL screens from 20-25 years ago - except colors...I used much better balanced color schemes..
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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You shouldn't need a GUI with COBOL programs; just tweak the 88 lines and the procedure/variable names until the user can type in plain English to use it.
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That's maybe half-a-visual-studio, tops.
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That's a good point.
"Modern design" may be less cluttered, but all it seems to do in many instances is hide the stuff you need behind links that either don't look like links, or they look like links to something completely different.
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I like "Modern Design" in the sense of throwing away everything, reducing to the absolute minimum and then see, step by step, what people really can't get used to.
Looking at the dis- and reappearance of the start menu as a process of figuring out if people really can't get used to not having it, it's totally fine.
Remove the shoutycaps from my Visual Studio and I am sold.
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peterchen wrote: Looking at the dis- and reappearance of the start menu as a process of figuring out if people really can't get used to not having it, it's totally fine.
I just put links on my win8 desktop to the start menu folders (which are still there), and use KO Approach[^]. It's close enough.
It's the poor sods who have to carry on doing their work who suffer, whilst all this experimentation is going on.
But it really wouldn't have taken a genius to foresee that the baby-blocks start screen was a loser for PCs, or that the effluent interface would never be a suitable replacement for configurable toolbars and menus on PCs.
So sure, experiment by taking items away from the menu and toolbar default lists, but don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Menus and toolbars are The Best PC Interface Tools, whether you're using a mouse, a keyboard, a pen, your fingers, or your voice. Baby blocks and effluent ribbons just don't cut it.
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Does it work on network drives? Two that I've tried don't, so they're not very useful to me.
Lupas can navigate networks, and even has a context-menu item on folders (which doesn't care if they're on a network drive), which is a big usability plus.
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Works anywhere you want. No installation needed, so you can test it out. I've been using it for years.
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Hmm. Had to do regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\Bulk Rename Utility\BRUHere.dll" to get a context menu item like the one from Lupas, but it still doesn't open folders across the network.
And the Interface!
It gives FileMatrix a run for the money!
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No need for context menu.
Open the drive in the tree.
Select the files you wish to rename (Ctrl+A minus those that you don't want).
Fill in the options that you want (while previewing the changes on top - 2nd column).
Click Rename to make the change.
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Um.
It. Does. Not. Work. For. Network. Folders.
For example, with Lupas, if I (use a shortcut to) navigate across the network to a drive on one of my other computers, I can right-click on any folder on that drive -- which is attached to a different computer -- and open Lupas to rename any files in there.
If I right-click the same folder with BRU, it opens to the My Computer view, with no active folder.
If you just open BRU directly, all you see is the local machine; no network.
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I have it open right now and I'm seeing and opening all the network drives listed (11 of them in total). Did you try downloading the ZIP file? The WinZip icon on the download page is clickable.
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote: I have it open right now and I'm seeing and opening all the network drives listed (11 of them in total).
Are these mapped network drives that you are talking about? That's a completely different thing.
I want to navigate to network drives.
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Gotcha! Unfortunately, can't navigate here due to security lockdowns. I have a couple of Network Location folders that for some reason are not accessible in Windows right now. Probably due to the virus that some people passed around yesterday. Once that's re-enabled, I can try navigating to them and other networks to see if it works for me. However, I've never needed that before, so it probably won't work since you tested it. 
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It didn't work. I can see my non-mapped network folders and open them up, but it refuses to see the files inside them. That's definitely not a feature. 
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Yup. It's annoying, because it can handle the multi-byte characters.
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