im testing opus 9, and seems to have problems opening rar within opus.
in opus 8, the faq was straight forward but that seems to have changed now.
tried several things, but it stil opens in external winrar. Have HD disk images from r.00 to .rar opening .rar used to do it
ok, 30 min of testing and i made it work.
a little different than the faq.
from opus: settings->file types->system file types->RAR (double click)
events-> left double-click (double click) and write Go
Been using total commander sinnce i had to move to vista, but have to test this out in vista first before i decide.
opus + point is to replace explorer, but the cost...
I'll be updating all the FAQs today.
Re the cost, you didn't see the Australian dollars price and think it was US dollars, did you? 
hm, didnt notice the AUD.
Got hooked on it at my previous workplace.
Didnt test opus 8 on vista, since theres been so many other issues.
Total commander didnt win me over, seems it has issues with vista and slow transferring. And it doesnt replace explorer as far as i know.
opus 9 seems to work so far, much faster than tc and works as i remember.
60 days of trial is good, and il bet i can bury it in the old expence account.
Nudel,
i followed your faq tips regarding RAR plug-in, but dbl click shows me an empty lister. I have 3-4 unrar.dll's, I also moved the one from %sysdir% to the RAR program folder.
Observing DO with process viewer (Sysinternals), it appears a) DO takes the right one, and b) it reads every file information within an RAR archive. Nevertheless, plain empty lister.
Another tip ?? Best, Freddy
Maybe it's particular to the RAR file(s) you're trying to open?
Try the attached one and let us know if that works. (It works okay in Opus here.) Then we'll know whether to look at what's different with the RARs or with your Opus setup.
foo_uie_albumart_v0_045.rar (41.8 KB)
Nudel,
thanks. Your RAR displays without any problems.
Your RAR contains NO subfolders, mine does. If I remove them from mine, it displays also like yours (well, empty, if no root files). If I have root files AND subfolders, DO displays only the root files. The compression algorithm was also different, but that was not the key.
Freddy
P.S. The folder is empty, because my RARs contain no root files. Is this now a bug or a limitation?
I don't have any RARs which contain folders, nor any way to create RARs. Could you attach a couple of small examples?
Are you creating them with WinRAR?
The archive in question was built by RAR.EXE, the command line variant of WinRar, which is shipped with Winrar.
But preparing now a rar file for you, it ... displays properly in DO9, with or without root files! Some of my archives display properly, others no. Not sure if it depends on the creating program (GUI or console).
Please find one which displays just an empty files window here. (Replaced by one with harmless files, see image).
freddy
(Added comment -- obsolete)
I can now reproduce the behaviour: archives created by the console tool do not display subfolders in DO9. I copy RAR.EXE in the folder above. It's free for use (with restrictions), afaik.
(Added comment 2)
It's the -ep2 switch that makes subfolders disappear in DO. WinRar has the same option, called "store full paths". From the manual:
-ep2
Expand paths to full. Store full file paths (except a drive letter and leading path separator) when archiving.
Thanks. I've forwarded all the info here to GPSoft.
I´m happy that I finally found something about it. All the time I lived with RARs opening in separate window. Now I followed the instructions and it works on native RAR files. However the .lzh files still open within a separate window, though .lzh is listed among the RAR file extensions - strange ...
best regards
Lothar
P.S. just for notification - I don´t have many lzh ´s, isn´t really importand ...
[quote="Lothar"]I´m happy that I finally found something about it. All the time I lived with RARs opening in separate window. Now I followed the instructions and it works on native RAR files. However the .lzh files still open within a separate window, though .lzh is listed among the RAR file extensions - strange ...
best regards
Lothar
P.S. just for notification - I don´t have many lzh ´s, isn´t really importand ...[/quote]
Isn't .lzh a different format to RAR?
If they are RAR files (or something that unrar.dll understands) then you'll probably have to add them to both the RAR filetype's list of extensions and the RAR VFS Plugin's list of extensions (Prefs - Plugins - VFS, then select RAR and click Configure).
If .lzh isn't understood by unrar.dll then Opus won't be able to view it all (without someone writing a suitable VFS plugin).
LZH is really LHA, which was supported by Opus 5... on the Amiga
LZH is supported by WinRAR, 7zip, etc. but it has nothing to do with RAR.
What uses lzh or lha these days?
found a couple of good old Eric Schwartz videos compressed with lzh. However still looking for a player on PC - well meanwhile found a page with converted Schwartz anims ....
best regards
Lothar
Aminet is almost exclusively relying on LZH/LHA and LZX. Of course, that's only useful to you if you're an Amiga or UAE user.
On Windows, LZH/LHA is still widely popular amongst Japanese users (LHA was designed by a Japanese developer almost two decades ago). I bet most of them would find the lack of native LHA support in DOpus inconvenient.