R740 Command line option /Panel=R fails
Posted: 22.01.2017, 23:08
R740 Command line option /Panel=R fails under certain conditions
Here are the steps needed to reproduce this problem:
Start FCXE 740 with the command line: FreeCommander.exe /ini=test.ini /panel=R
-- where test.ini does not exist (a default file is created)
Initially this results in the Right panel becoming active (the default is the Left panel).
Go into the Options View > Tree > General Tab > Set one tree per panel
Go into the Options View > Tree > Management tab > Set Base folder to Drive
Apply both settings. and exit the options window.
Now in the main display enable the tree display in the Left panel and select Drive C:
In the right panel select another hard drive (Like D: - not the desktop (0) icon)
Exit FreeCommander and start again with the same command line shown above.
Now the active panel is the Left panel. So the option /Panel=R has no effect.
Also, with the same settings, changing the right panel drive to the Desktop Drive Icon (0) and Exiting/Restarting FreeCommander will result in the right panel being active.
I had to do some investigation to find, what I believe is, the minimum changes to cause this to happen. I normally run FXCE with the options above and display a tree in each panel. I have 9 HDD partitions (Drives), 4 flash drives and one Optical drive. The new /Panel=R option has never worked for me since it was implemented. I hope this description will help to uncover what is causing this problem so I can use this feature.
Here are the steps needed to reproduce this problem:
Start FCXE 740 with the command line: FreeCommander.exe /ini=test.ini /panel=R
-- where test.ini does not exist (a default file is created)
Initially this results in the Right panel becoming active (the default is the Left panel).
Go into the Options View > Tree > General Tab > Set one tree per panel
Go into the Options View > Tree > Management tab > Set Base folder to Drive
Apply both settings. and exit the options window.
Now in the main display enable the tree display in the Left panel and select Drive C:
In the right panel select another hard drive (Like D: - not the desktop (0) icon)
Exit FreeCommander and start again with the same command line shown above.
Now the active panel is the Left panel. So the option /Panel=R has no effect.
Also, with the same settings, changing the right panel drive to the Desktop Drive Icon (0) and Exiting/Restarting FreeCommander will result in the right panel being active.
I had to do some investigation to find, what I believe is, the minimum changes to cause this to happen. I normally run FXCE with the options above and display a tree in each panel. I have 9 HDD partitions (Drives), 4 flash drives and one Optical drive. The new /Panel=R option has never worked for me since it was implemented. I hope this description will help to uncover what is causing this problem so I can use this feature.