Hi, i have a few questions about opus 8

[mluna]

i've been using directory for some years, but there are somethings that i can't figure out yet.

1.) is there any way to remove the white borders around thumbnails in thumbnail view? they don't bother me, but i'd rather see them gone. also in thumbnail view in a movie folders, the wallpaper would get distorted as i scrolled the files, it was as if the thumbnails themselves were getting stuck in the paint of the wallpaper and kinda smeared it as you scrolled up and down.. if that makes sense....

one thing i did notice was that in my recycle bin, if i set to thumbnail mode, the borders are thinner and less noticible than else where. maybe that has something to do with there being no filmstrip sprokets (?) borders around the movie files either..

2.) is there any way to make it so that the context menus can have a shared image as the background instead of just a solid color? i use an image in shared mode for the toolbars so they make a solid picture. also if i click on file, edit, view, etc. the menu that pops up is also of shared image; i was wondering if the file menu can do that, can the context menu as well?

3.) is there any way to change font color per folder to accomodate for different images being too light or too dark and make the default font difficult to read?

4.) is there any way to give the mp3 viewer pane a background image?

5.) is there any way to use regular expressions in folder formats > display > sorting > ignore prefix? i saw a pdf that said to do things like the |a |an, but what if i wanted to ignore a series of numbers from 1-101 or something like that? would i have to use 1 |2 |3 |4 |etc. ?

please excuse me if these aren't good questions. i tried to use the forum search, google, and various pdf.

thanks!

[Leo]

@mluna

1.) is there any way to remove the white borders around thumbnails in thumbnail view?

You can make the thumbnail backgrounds transparent but right now you can't turn off the actual borders (the black outlines) completely. You may be able to quite soon, though.

also in thumbnail view in a movie folders, the wallpaper would get distorted as i scrolled the files, it was as if the thumbnails themselves were getting stuck in the paint of the wallpaper and kinda smeared it as you scrolled up and down..

I've never heard of such a problem before. Have you turned on the Animate AVI thumbnails option? That's the only factor I can think of that might cause a problem that hasn't been noticed before (since I bet almost everyone leaves that feature turned off, and it does relate to movie files), unless it's a graphics driver oddity.

It could also affect movie files because the sprockets added to their thumbnails have transparent portions. If that is the case then you should see the same problem when dragging around other transparent thumbnails, such as the attached image at the bottom of this post. Create a few copies of that and try scrolling around in thumbnails. Does the same thing happen?

Could you post a screenshot to show exactly what happens?

It's possible this problem will go away in the next version of Opus anyway, since the code behind Thumbnails has been re-written to make it more flexible and fix a few bugs.

in my recycle bin, if i set to thumbnail mode, the borders are thinner and less noticible than else where.

The Recycle Bin is drawn by Explorer so it won't look the same as normal folders that Opus draws. That's normal.

2.) is there any way to make it so that the context menus can have a shared image as the background instead of just a solid color?

I don't think background images are supported in context menus. You might be able to trick Opus into using them by editing the menu XML but Opus may ignore the background property or may not line-up the shared background with the other images.

3.) is there any way to change font color per folder to accomodate for different images being too light or too dark and make the default font difficult to read?

No, not at the moment anyway. You can set colors for particular items, but not for all items in particular folders.

4.) is there any way to give the mp3 viewer pane a background image?

There's an image setting for the viewer pane but it's only used when nothing else is displayed (e.g. if you open the viewer pane when there aren't any files selected). Once a file is selected there isn't a way to control the background image at the moment, although you can set the background color when viewing images (but not MP3s).

5.) is there any way to use regular expressions in folder formats > display > sorting > ignore prefix?

Doesn't look like it, which is odd as some of the pattern matching characters do work, but the range one doesn't.

e.g. you can use this:

"(0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9) "

which is the same as

"0 |1 |2 |3 |4 |5 |6 |7 |8 |9 "

but this doesn't work:

"[0-9] "

[mluna]

thank you for the reply! everything makes sense, maybe some things will be changed in opus 9.

speaking of, i'm not sure if this is relevant anymore (since the way thumbnail handling has been improved?), but here are some pictures showing the distortion i was takling about.

i use thumbnail mode with two lines 24-bit color depth as the wallpaper.
the same thing happens in listview. also, the animated icons are off, thumbnails are high quality, and opus is set to get all the thumbnails even if i haven't scrolled yet, but this distortion happens even if i give opus time to load all the thumbnails.

normal window is the one on bottom, error one is on the top.

thanks for the help!

[Leo]

Looks like the background is being tiled early and/or moving with the thumbs instead of being fixed in place. Don't know why that would happen. Probably not worth worrying about for now. If it still happens with the new thumbnail code in Opus 9 then please raise it again.

[mluna]

thank you for the reply.
i will (are!!!) be waiting for opus 9 to see what happens, until then i won't be bothered, i was just curious to if anyone has issue similar to this.

...i've never been excited to use new... software until now >.>

thanks for reading!

[mluna]

opus 9 fixed the thumbnail scrolling issue, thanks!