Can you query the current folders "Content Type"?

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Ok, maybe this might sound a bit strange, I dont know! lol

I kind of have two question rolled into one here :

  1. Is there a command that will let me display my own custom dialog box, such as "Hello World" "OK" ?, ive tried looking in the "Show" command and the arguments "Dialogs" but I cant seem to find what im looking for.

  2. Can I query the current "Content Type" in the source / dest folder

Thiese might seem odd questions, but my reason is this : I would like to (for testing purposes) be able to click on a button and it will say "The current view mode is 'images'" or whatever. or even better, just a label somewhere that just displays it. Would be nice if the menu which allows you to select a view mode for the current folder (Images, Music etc...) had a bullet mark next to the current view mode.

The reason im asking this is because im having real problems trying to get my head around these view modes. I have "Enable folder content Type detection for : local drives only" checked, and have set up each view type as I want, eg. so images display as thumbnails, folders that contain music display the track length/bit rate etc... im aware there is a threshold as to the determination of the contents of a folder, and have taken that into consideration, however, it just seems hit and miss if it works, sometimes it seems to, sometimes it doesnt, and its starting to make me loose my mind a bit!

I havent done a lot of investigation into this 'problem' yet, but I know that sometimes I can go to "My Pictures" and I get lovely thumbnails, then when I go back there another time, its just showing me a normal folder view.

Thanks

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The default pathbar should have a Content Type drop-down which does that:

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ahhh, brilliant. Thank you very much, I wasnt using that, I had a different one displayed.

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I just have one last question remaining :blush:

I cant figure out how to save column widths related to a content type. For example say in my "Movies" content type I want the Name column width to be 100 pixels wide (or whatever) but I want name column in my "Music" content type to be 200 pixels wide, I just cant figure out how to make opus remember this.

Thanks in advance for any help.

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[quote="jimmyboy"]I just have one last question remaining :blush:

I cant figure out how to save column widths related to a content type. For example say in my "Movies" content type I want the Name column width to be 100 pixels wide (or whatever) but I want name column in my "Music" content type to be 200 pixels wide, I just cant figure out how to make opus remember this.

Thanks in advance for any help.[/quote]

Please check tools -> folder options -> for your folders (seems not to work generally in the prefs -> folders -> folder formats) & set the column widths in the right field manually & save for that folder/subfolders). This will apply to your default lister layout only.

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doh! What an idiot, I didnt even see the "Width" field even though its been there in front of my eyes all this time!

Thanks again!