Index of File Manager Options


Close SPFLite with last tab

Confirm file Deletes

Use Simple ANSI sort method

Display File Manager Help

Highlight Recent / Active dates

Enter the STANDARD column layout, in order

Enter the ALTERNATE column layout, in order

No. files in recent lists

Width of Command Line area (Min 5)

Width of Note column area (Min 5)

Initial FM column sort

Directory Placement



Close SPFLite with last tab


If this box is checked, then an END command on the last open Edit/Browse tab will terminate SPFLite. 


If not selected, then following the close of the last active Edit/Browse tab, you will be switched to the File Manager Tab. Note also that if you right-click any file tab or File Manager tab, it is treated exactly the same as if an END command were issued for that file or for the File Manager.



Confirm file Deletes


If this box is checked, then each Delete action selected for a file will result in a confirmation prompt before the file is actually processed. Files are deleted with the D line command and the CANCEL DELETE primary command.


The confirmation will tell you whether the file will be Recycled or will be permanently deleted depending on the Recycle option you have set, and gives you a chance to change your mind by clicking No.


If not selected, the Delete will proceed without this prompt. Because this helps you avoid deleting files by mistake, you are encouraged to enable this option.


Use Simple ANSI sort method


By default, SPFLite will sort FM file lists using the same sort sequencing as Microsoft Explorer.  i.e. numeric felds within the filename are treated logically, not as ANSI text strings.


Example:  The numbers 01, 02, 1 would be sorted as 01, 1, 02

If sorted by simple ANSI, they would be sorted as 01, 02, 1


If you select (Tick) this option, SPFLite will use the simple ANSI sort


 

Display File Manager Help


If this box is checked, when the File Manager is activated it will display a Help legend at the bottom of the screen, showing File Manager line command codes and other information. Once you have used File Manager for a while and can remember these codes, the Help display lines can be removed to reclaim some screen space for displaying more file names, by un-checking this box.


 

Highlight Recent / Active dates


If this box is checked, then the file dates in the FM list will be color coded to highlight the files which have been accessed most recently. This highlighting is done using the following colors to mean:


RED

       The file has been modified since 10 minutes before the beginning of this SPFLite session.


YELLOW

       Modified between one hour before the start of this SPFLite session and the session start.


GREEN

       Modified between eight hours before the start of this SPFLite session and one hour before the session start.


BLUE

       Modified between twenty-four hours before the start of this SPFLite session and eight hours before the session start.



For information on setting the specific colors for RED, YELLOW, GREEN and BLUE highlighting see  Options -> Screen -> Screen Colors


Enter the STANDARD column layout, in order

Enter the ALTERNATE column layout, in order

 

With the introduction of additional data columns, and also extended file properties in Release V2.4, SPFLite now provides two alternate layouts for use. For example, normal file lists would want to display common file attributes like Size, Last Write Date, Lines etc.  But for files related to various media types (Images, Videos or Audio) the preference might be for data columns such as Artist, Title, Length etc. SPFLite provides two different Layouts, referred to as STANDARD and ALTERNATE for you to specify.


In these boxes, enter from left to right, the optional File Manager information columns you wish to be displayed, separated by commas 

Each column name can specify the desired column width by appending a value in parenthesis.  e.g. NAME(45)   The PRPn column names have an extended format (see below).  If no column width is specified, an internal default will be provided.

 

The available columns are:



    • NAME

This will contain the filename. (e.g. TEXTFILE.TXT)

    • PATH

This will contain the path to the filename (e.g. C:\Users\Me\Documents\)

    • ATTR

This column will have a short string of single character indicators representing the File Attributes.  Typically this will only be 1-4 characters, however there are many possible attributes.  The attributes and their codes are:


   N = Normal                        C = Compressed

 D = Directory                        P = Sparse_File

 R = Readonly                        U = Device

 H = Hidden                        L = Reparse_Point

 S = System                        O = Offline

 A = Archive                        I = Not_Content_Indexed

 T = Temporary                        E = Encrypted

                                           V = Virtual

   

    • LINES

This column will contain the number of data lines in the file. This will only occur if:

        • The Profile for the file type is set to STATE ON.
        • The file actually has a valid STATE file created.


Details on STATE handling can be found in Saving the Edit STATE 


    • DATE

There are 3 different Dates available, each in two formats.

      • LWDATE is the date the file was Last Written.
      • CRDATE is the date the file was CReated
      • LRDATE is the date the file was Last Referenced


Note: The Last Referenced date for actual Windows files is basically useless. The Last Referenced date is only valid for the SPFLite maintained Recent Files/Paths lists.


Each of the 3 dates is available in the following formats.

LWDATE, CRDATE and LRDATE                         - will display as YYYY-MM-DD

LWDATETIME, CRDATETIME and LRDATETIME          - will display as YYYY-MM-DD  HH:MM


    • SIZESHORT

This column will have the size of the file in abbreviated Byte format. e.g. 789, 12.3K, 123.4M etc.

    • SIZELONG

This column will have the size of the file in detailed Byte format. e.g. 9,999,999,999.

    • PRPn

There are 6 available Extended Attribute columns available (PRP1 thru PRP6). These allow you to access some of the many MetaData fields available for some file types (Images, Audio, Video etc.) When specifying one of these, the normally optional (..) operand is now mandatory, and has been extended to contain 3 sub-operands.  The full format for a PRPn entry is:


       PRPv(nn,L/R,property-name)

                                                       Example:  PRP1(9,R,Duration)


Where:         nn is your desired width of the field to be displayed.


               L/R specifies whether the data in the field is to be Left aligned, or Right aligned. All property data is returned as normal text strings, even if it contains numerical data (like Duration)


               property-name is one of the supported extended properties (see below)


Note: The length must be at least as long as the property-name + 1, since SPFLite uses the column heading as the clickable area to request column sorting, and uses 1 additional character to insert the type of sort (+-*)


As well, the property-name is case sensitive. The column heading will be displayed exactly as you enter it here.


The selected columns will appear in the order you specify them. If more column data is requested than will fit in the screen width, the extra data will be created 'off-screen'  The FM display can be scrolled Left/Right using the normal LEFT/RIGHT commands.  The first column will be "frozen", the remaining columns will be scrolled.


Available property-names



ALBUM

Album name

ARTIST

Artist

BDEPTH

Bit Depth

BRATE

Bit Rate

CONTRIB

Contributors

CAMMAKER

Camera Maker

CAMMODEL

Camera Model

DATETAKEN

Original Date Taken - yyyy/mm/dd:hh:mm:ss.nnn

DIMENSION

Horizontal x Vertical dimensions

DURATION

Duration in mm:ss

EXP

Exposure

FLASH

Flash setting

FSTOP

F-Stop

GENRE

Genre

HRES

Horizontal resolution

ISO

ISO setting

PUBLISHER

Publisher

RATING

Un-Rated or 1 to 5 *

SUBTITLE

Sub-Title

TITLE

Title

TRK

Track number

VRES

Vertical resolution

YEAR

Year



No. files in recent lists


This setting specifies the maximum number of files to be retained in the Recent Files and Recent Paths file lists. The lists will automatically retain this number of entries, and remove older, less used entries from the list. The maximum value you can use is 99.


 

Width of Command Line area (Min 5)

 

If you often use longer FM line commands, you can widen this field, which defaults to a minimum length of 5. Regardless of the width set for this field, commands you enter will scroll as you type them, so you can still enter any command you need.

 

Note:  The width of the File Manager's line command area (set in File Manager Options) and the width of the Edit screen's line command area (set in Screen Options) are different settings. Also, the File Manager's line command area will scroll horizontally, while the Edit screen's line command area does not scroll.


 

Width of Note Column area (Min 5)

 

If you utilize the Note support of File Manager, this setting allows you to specify how much space on the file manager screen should be allocated to the display of the Note field. This does not restrict the size of the note itself, the Note field will scroll to allow viewing/editing of the data. 

 


Created with the Personal Edition of HelpNDoc: 5 Reasons Why a Help Authoring Tool is Better than Microsoft Word for Documentation