Having experimented with commands like Set Columnsadd and Properties SETLABEL=Bold SETLABELTOGGLE i haven't found any way to automatically preserve the status column, once i have set an status icon. At the next visit of the folder the column is gone.
I have a shortcut for saving folder settings, but it would be more convenient, if we had an option to auto-add/save some status icon column, at a given position, like (1), if such icons are present, as well as having the column removed, if all status icons are removed. That would be great for occasional use in folders. For other folders, where status icons are used on a regular base, i have a fixed status column already.
Opus won't evaluate the labels of files until they come into view, so you could have a situation where the column doesn't appear until you scroll, and then moves things around as a result of scrolling. Might work, I guess, but could also be a pain.
Do you set status icons on files in so many different places that adding the column where it's useful is a lot of work? Even with wildcard formats or the other tools available?
I guess a script could do it by looking through all the files, but I think it would be quite slow, as evaluating labels isn't that fast. Which would be another problem, even if this was built in: You'd enter a large folder and start doing things, and then 5, 10 or 30 seconds later a column would appear, which might get in the way. (That or displaying the folder contents would have to be delayed, but I think that would be worse.)
Ok, that makes sense. The actual use case for me mostly applies to smaller folders, ones, that fit onto one file display, since i have around 80 rows on my 4K monitor. These are, so to speak, "ephemeral" folders, with daily or weekly stuff.
But you're right, i could also use wild cards for that task. Maybe i can use them to pin items to the top, sorting by labels. I'll try that. Thanks, Leo.