I ran into some issues with checkbox mode.
-Using the PLAY command with a hotkey won't work unless an item is checked, even if the arrow keys are selecting the files (row selection).
-Toggling off checkbox mode won't deselect the checks. Could you make that an option, please. To 'Purge checks on toggle'.
-Checkbox mode overrides hotkeys. Would be nice to add the Shift modifier to work with checks, while keeping the standard hotkeys reserved for row selections.
So when checkbox mode is active, the Ctrl + hotkey would still work with row selection, and Ctrl + Shift + the same hotkey will work on the check boxes instead.
Example: Ctrl + D = deselect rows , Ctrl + Shift + D = deselect checks.
-Using the quick filter, if I esc out of the quickfilter it won't deselect the checks that it applied.
Example: :Ambience
(Actually, when checkbox mode is not active it isn't great either: when escaping the filter with the esc key it won't revert back to the previous selection; it just deselects. But that's not the command I ordered when pressing escape. I told it to escape (cancel) the operation, which should revert, not deselect. It should be that anything else won't revert, but the esc key will, because it's a "cancel").
AFAIK, in checkbox mode, the selection is made using the checkboxes. So no checkbox = no selection = nothing to play.
Seems ok to me, since changing selection mode doesn't mean changing selection. I'll let Opus devs consider the request for an option to clear selection upon changing mode.
It does for me.
It's not what you want, but it's the way it works, and it makes much sense to me. Entering FAYT selection mode clears current selection and make you enter a new way to select. Esc clears out that selection mode and its selection.
Moreover, what would be the last selection since selection evolves "as you type"'. I guess what "you ordered" is whatever was selected before, but there's no memory on selection (unless you specifically implement it, which is something I kind of remember implementing specifically for you in a quick and dirty way using the DopStack add-in). This could be extended in a more standalone way to backup/restore selection (as commands).
You just described to me a limitation of this program as if it's a feature.
Ya the selection is made with checkbox mode and I'm wondering how to make a row selected file play anyway.
This post is basically a feature request but I didn't tag it in case there was a workaround for one or two things.
Whatever was the selection at the time the user invoked FYAT mode, is the remembered, to be applied again if the esc key is pressed, and discarded if any other action happens. The current selection (snapshot) would be armed only into the esc key. As it's the same key as 'exit filter bar' anyway (when enabled).
When instant results is enabled the selection deselects everything when you delete out your text, true. But that doesn't mean the snapshot can't still be saved and ready to be reapplied when you press esc.
Right now I'm not remembering which previous selection script you had made for me.
What would make sense to me is an alternate checkbox mode that we could enable in the settings. It would make the check boxes nothing more than persistent checkboxes; leaving all selection behavior alone. To keep track of things, kind of like bookmarks. The row selection would stay the same; you could just have this extra area of checks when you want them.
You could convert checks to and from row selections anyway. Why not give us an option where the checkboxes are only superficial, for visual use only, to keep track of something we're doing. Keeping everything else the same. Currently I'm having to use a bookmark label on files like a to-do list, but check boxes are more suited to the task.
Oh ya. I forgot because I didn't use it. I decided instead to use a dedicated folder in my downloads for temp file things, before committing them to my computer. That script looks similar to the internal clipboard manager I requested. That's cool, and now I have these third party clipboard managers I'm looking at too. Working on other stuff so I will get back to this. Thanks again for all the help.
