Hi. I have a media server on my network and when launching DO the first panel that loads (usually the left one, but not always) is missing that box. The second one that loads a little later has already discovered that box, so it's there. Is there a way to delay populating the panels with drives and network devices by a little (say a second), so both panels on startup are synchronized?
What do you mean by first and second panels?
Names of the different panels can be found here: The Lister [Directory Opus Manual]
My default view is almost the same as the initial view you get after a clean install, which is the folder tree on the left, and 2 panels showing file details display (showing Libraries > Pictures in the manual page you referred to). In my case they are This PC displays showing various types of drives and network locations. Usually one of those panels that loads first is not showing the media server that I have on my network.
F5 or the toolbar's refresh button should get it to appear if it didn't appear automatically and isn't generating new-device events to make it appear when it's ready.
Also make sure you aren't running Opus elevated, as that will block it from receiving new device events from the operating system.
Refresh is not an issue. I know how to do that. And also DOpus is run without elevation. My question is if there is a way to configure a delay in populating certain "panels" so if discovery of the elements of that panel takes a little time, all the elements are there when the list finally appears.
On my laptop where there is few local drives both DOpus panels (I like the initial display to be a commander style) are missing the media server. It's discovered after both are already shown. A refresh of course shows the media server too. On my desktop with quite a few local drives, removable drives and network drives mapped, the discovery of those takes enough time that the second panel that is populated already has the media server, but the first doesn't. That also could be useful on systems where optical drives are "powered down" by a system's power manager, or virtual optical drives. I've seen those items missing on initial startup. If there isn't anything there yet, could that feature be added?
You could have a script which triggers a refresh some time after the window opens, but that's about all you can do.
If there's no "new device has appeared" event happening then Opus has no way to know there's a new device to look for, and the only way to discover the new device exists is to enumerate all the devices again, i.e. refresh.
The drivers for that device seem to not be generating a "new device" event for it (or something in the system is blocking the event), meaning if the drive doesn't exist when the initial drive list is populated, it'll only appear later when you do a manual refresh (or open a new window, etc.). It's something the driver makers should really fix.