Maybe I'm missing a basic feature of Dopus... if you have a source and a destination lister open (or a dual pane lister), is there a single movement or button that will copy the file over to the destination instead of the [copy, ALT-TAB, paste] key sequence?
Copy button in the toolbar.
You can bind a hotkey to the copy button as well, if you want it to be a keyboard action.
Why not just drag the file(s) and drop to the other panel??
(keep the ctrl key down to override between move vs copy if needed)
I also use multiple listers on my duel monitor system, and would rather not take my hands off the keyboard (I even mouse left handed so that I have access to right side of kb w/o releasing mouse).
So I defined these two key bindings:
Tools> Customize> Keys
Sava As:
Ctrl + Shift + S - Copy As
Ctrl + Shift + M - Move AS
I did the "AS" because I may want to rename a file at the same time and is no extra work, just hit Enter if you are ok with the current name.
Landis.
But why doesn't it work with Ctrl+C & Ctrl+V? In Customize/Keys the description for Ctrl+C is "Copy selected files and folders to the clipboard" and for Ctrl+V it is "Paste files and folders on the clipboard to the destination folder". When I use the Copy button I get the desired result, the file is copied from the source window to the destination window. But then I try too repeat the copy process with Ctrl+C & Ctrl+V Dopus place a copy of the file in the source window.
You must Select the Destination window first (which usually makes it the Source window) and then press Ctrl+V.
Thanks for your answer!
If I have to paste into the Source window then the description for Ctrl+V ("Paste files and folders on the clipboard to the destination folder") must be wrong!?
Well it is and it isn't.
Whenever you keyboard into another lister, a listed file or folder always has focus (which does not mean it is selected). If you attempt to Clipboard PASTE a file at this point, it will be pasted on the file or folder with focus inside the listed folder, not in the listed folder itself. This is different than when you right-click in a listing (an empty area) and select Clipboard PASTE. At this point no file or folder is selected, other than listed folder itself.
If you were using in a context menu command named "Paste", you could right-click in any target lister. In this case, Opus will paste the file stored in the Clipboard to the Lister Window or Lister Pane you right-click in, without changing the focus. So the description stating "destination" is accurate. It is only because you are using the keyboard, that you are getting tripped up. And for this the description is not as accurate.
I don't believe there is an elegant way to change which lister pane is Source or Destination that will also allow you to paste a file from the clipboard to the listed folder with a hotkey.
What I do to get around this, is bind a separate hotkey (Ctrl + Shift + C) to the regular Copy command. Then when I'm in my Source lister, I need only a single hotkey to copy selected objects to the Destination lister.
It seemed easy but it wasn't. But I can go with your solution. Thanks!