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Autosave Settings

#1 Post by BGM » 10.02.2011, 15:46

Hello! I am a HEAVY FreeCommander user. I use it every day for production. My request is that FC autosave its settings when it loses focus, that is, when another window becomes active. This would provide a solution for when FC crashes, you don't lose your tabs! Also, I use powerpro to add lots of other functions and capabilities to FC. One of these is generating a quick MRU list of the directories open in FC's tabs - this list I bring up when having to deal with open/save dialogues from other programs. Problem is, I have to use sendkeys to get FC to save its settings, then I can read the tabs from FC's ini file. If you don't save settings first, then you don't get the current tabs. But if FC auto-saved its settings, it wouldn't be necessary to sendkeys anymore, and the MRU list would always be current. This seems like a very easy thing to accomplish, perhaps it could be added in the next release?
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Re: Autosave Settings

#2 Post by Dreamer » 17.02.2011, 00:41

Support. I have already suggested related options here:

http://forum.freecommander.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3034

BTW for example, Avant Browser has a great feature - when the browser crashes, everything, incl. opened tabs (pages) are restored on the next start.

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Re: Autosave Settings

#3 Post by BGM » 11.10.2011, 18:50

Hello! Can we have this for the next beta? I know, being a programmer myself, that it is an easy enough thing to implement.
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Re: Autosave Settings

#4 Post by BGM » 28.01.2012, 16:00

Is there any chance of this being added? (Thanks, Marek)
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Re: Autosave Settings

#5 Post by BGM » 14.02.2012, 16:34

Hello, again! Marek, can we please have an option to autosave settings when the program loses focus, or "every x minutes"? I want to write some scripts that access the current folders and open tabs from FCXE's ini file, but the list in the ini file isn't current until settings are saved.
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Re: Autosave Settings

#6 Post by Marek » 19.02.2012, 17:47

Try to use the following line in the freecommander.ini
SaveSettingsOnFormDeactivate=1

Auto save settings must be set too.

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Re: Autosave Settings

#7 Post by BGM » 19.02.2012, 20:17

Thank you Marek!
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