I am SLOWLY learning to stumble around DO, and I must say this is the most flexible program I have ever found. There are only two things from other programs I miss.
The main one is from Servant Salamander. It has what they call Sticky Select. I can use the space bar to select individual files from a lister and they will stay selected until I choose unselect all. Very handy.
Is there any way to do something like that here?
The second one, is something I don't expect, but continue to long for. The Macintosh Finder is based off of NextStep, and it will essentially open a new lister pane to the right every time you drill down in a folder...this gives you a nice hierarchical view of your directories. Never have seen that one on Windows.
Sticky Select sounds a little like Opus Power Mode. Look that up in the manual and take a play with it.
I'm not sure about the other. Try opening Settings Menu - File Types - Directory Opus File Types - All Folders - Events Tab and edit one of the Mouse Events (such as Left Double-Click + ALT) to this command
Go NEWTAB=findexisting
Then when you are listing a folder (I don't think it will work from My Computer), each folder you ALT + Left Double-Click on will open on a new tab.
That can't work very well with more than a handful of folders, can it?
The thing I want Opus to nick from Finder is the hybrid thumbnails & details mode. Oh, and the Flat View-like mode where you can expand and collapse folders like in a folder tree (but with files and detail columns and thumbnails).
They are quite different. Have you looked at Preferences - Lister Display Modes - Power Mode?
You can also combine Checkbox and Power modes.[/quote]
Yes, it looks like there are differences, like the additional options in power mode. That´s what obvious to me right now. But when it comes to selecting files without using the ctrl key, they do a quite similar job. thx.
Checkbox mode (in Opus, not in Explorer) is more about having an additional selection that overrides the normal selections. About the only time you would want to use Checkbox mode is when browsing images and selecting some to delete or process afterwards. You can click on the filenames to select them normally which will show them in the viewer pane but you can also click on their checkboxes to mark them to processing. (The standalone viewer can also do this, via the Tag File (Ctrl-T) menu option.)
Outside of that situation, and one or two others like it, you're unlikely to want to use checkbox mode. Power mode, on the other hand, is likely to be the mode you use almost all of the time, if you use it at all.
You don't need the Ctrl key to select files in Details mode, by the way. Clicking filenames with the middle mouse button toggles their selection just like a ctrl-left-click does. (I use Details mode myself. It already works exactly how I want it to so there's no need for me to use Power mode as I'd only configure it to be the same as Details.)
Checkbox mode is also (sort-of) used by the Syncrhonize and Duplicate Files tools, as well.