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Hi Guys,
I'm trying to figure out if Directory Opus 9.x already supports a kind of button that allows to browse directories.

Last night I worked half hour on a small tool that creates the XML browsing recursively a directory. The result is in the attached pic.

It's nice and working and I could release it, but there are some issues:

  1. It's static. if something changes you have to rebuild the
  2. It can be extremly slow for very deep and populated directories even for creating and for the paste in Dopus.
  3. It's a memory eater. The button in the attached pic, is over 1.5Mb (well its content is really HUGE)

So... any suggestion? ideas?

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You can use variants of Go FOLDERCONTENT for this. There are a few examples in this thread:

resource.dopus.com/viewtopic.php ... dercontent

3

That's great. Thank you so much.
I admit, I was still totally ignoring most of new features.
Btw I can't figure out how to use the
parameter dirfilter to -exclude- some dirs.

In my case, I wish to exclude all directories named CVS and those ones who start with a point (eg. .metadata, .settings etc...)

Could you or someone help me with this?

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This basically works:

Go "E:\temp" FOLDERCONTENT="dirfilter=~(.*|CVS)"

But there is a caveat... any folder with CVS in the name is excluded... not just folders named purely "CVS". I'm not a whiz with the Opus pattern matching syntax which drives the dirfilter argument, so I'm not sure how to restrict it to JUST literal "CVS" name matching...

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Woopsy... it does NOT match any folder with CVS in the name. It was just that the fooCVS.foo test folder I had in the target folder was empty, and by default the FOLDERCONTENT option does not show empty folders... which can be overidden by adding the showempty arg like so:

Go "E:\temp" FOLDERCONTENT="dirfilter=~(.*|CVS),showempty"

False alarm...