Browser links to DO preferences pages and options

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Hello! o)

Don't you feel tired and stressed out when trying to follow Leos and Jons paths..
to specific options in the preferences at times? o)

Like this:

  • The option you're looking for is Preferences / Viewer / Appearance / Auto-size viewer window / Full screen.
  • You might want to turn on Preferences / Launching Opus / Explorer Replacement / Open all Default Lister tabs when opening a new window
  • It's controlled via the new Preferences / File Operations / Copy Options / Generate ... network files in Confirm File Replace dialog option

What about registering a new browser protocol for these kind of links at DO installation? They could look similar to this:
DO :// Preferences : Viewer / Appearance / Auto-size viewer window / Full screen
Upon clicking one of these, you'd need to confirm a browser message (once), that you accept DO to take over this link and DO would open the matching prefs page and option and maybe even surround it with the red square known from the prefs-search feature.

These links could do several things more in the future, download and install script addins or buttons with only 1 click or even toggle specific options directly without messing with the preferences dialog at all. I had some tests with this some months ago and all looked very promising (I was researching DO-script-addin-1-click installation procedures o).

Thanks for reading! o)

2

Nice idea :slight_smile:

Pasting the last segment of the path into the search field works quite well, too, but admittedly the preferences have to be opened manually.

3

Thanks lxp for your opinion! o) Hopefully some more people and the devs themself like the idea as well.

Registering a browser protocol is an easy task, it's basically just a registry entry for the protocol prefix which is tied to an application to handle this type of link. Some work in DO is also required of course to get this working. o)

Despite using these kind of links here in the forum, you could also put them into emails or in the DO documentation. I often send emails to myself with hints to specific settings, which I then "repeat" at home or at work. Using these links in custom dialogs to guide the user to relevant settings for a script addin or something like this might also be interesting, as well as making use of them in DO directly to cross-reference related settings.

I can also imagine it's useful for storing quick links to settings within a simple DO button. The prefs can be opened on specific pages already if I remember correctly, but this would get you even closer to what you are looking for.

I think, at least on paper it looks like a convenient timesaver?! o)