Using GetSizes in a script

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I'm customising a hotkey to toggle the MD5sum columns on/off, and when enabled, use

GetSizes NODESELECT MD5 USEHASHCACHE

to populate the MD5 sums of the selected files.

I started with the following; (Its very early scripting days for me still)

function OnClick(clickData)
{
	var cols = clickData.func.sourcetab.format.columns
	var enum_cols = new Enumerator(cols)
	var cmd = clickData.func.Command

	cmd.deselect = false
	cmd.SetFiles( clickData.func.sourcetab.selected_files )
	
	var found = 0

    while( !enum_cols.atEnd() ) {
	    if( enum_cols.item() == "md5sum" ) {
			found = 1
		}
		enum_cols.moveNext()
	}

	if( found == 1 )
	{
		DOpus.Output("Found it.. must hide column")

		cmd.RunCommand("set format=!folder")
	} else {
		DOpus.Output("Not Found.. must show column")

		cmd.RunCommand("getsizes nodeselect md5 usehashcache")
	}
}

It successfully toggled the MD5sum column on/off, logging the correct 'Found'/'Not Found' messages, but if any files were
selected, NO md5 sums would be populated. If nothing was selected, all MD5 sums would be calculated, which wasn't quite what I wanted.

I then tried the same thing in VB script, and got the same results. I drew the conclusion that the GetSizes function doesn't quite work when called from Run() or RunCommand().

Finally, I tried the following;

@nodeselect
@@toggle:set COLUMNSTOGGLE=md5sum
@if:set COLUMNSTOGGLE=md5sum
Set COLUMNSTOGGLE=md5sum
@if:else
GetSizes NODESELECT MD5 USEHASHCACHE

and it worked perfectly.

Is this a bug? Or am I misunderstanding how the Command object interacts with selected files?

Thanks

2

We need to investigate further to work out exactly what's going on, but on first glance it doesn't look like you're doing anything wrong in your script.

3

This will be fixed in the next update.

4

Thanks for this. I wanted the scripting interface so I could "update" selected checksums rather without having to close and
reopen the md5 column. (The same way You can use Ctrl-L to update sizes on selected files)