Re: [fossil-users] Adding Fossil to Windows Explorer context menu?
On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:56:43 +0200, Kohn Bernhard bernhard.k...@ait.ac.at wrote: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/830/fastexplorerfos.png I notice that none of the commands you added to the menu use parameters. I wanted to add gdiff --from previous %1, but I can't get Fast Explorer to send the full path to the file if it contains spaces :-/ ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] Adding Fossil to Windows Explorer context menu?
On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:15:14 +0200, Gilles gilles.gana...@free.fr wrote: I wanted to add gdiff --from previous %1, but I can't get Fast Explorer to send the full path to the file if it contains spaces :-/ Problem solved: I thought FastExplorer sent all the parameters as a single string, while it sends each as an independent parameter, so that we must loop through them in the application that sits between Fast Explorer and fossil.exe. ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] Adding Fossil to Windows Explorer context menu?
Dear Gilles, I have used the fast explorer to achieve a menu entry just beneath 7zip explorer entry. You should try the Submenu Items selection on the left side of fast explorer. But I use only the type File Folder. Best regards Bernhard -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: fossil-users-boun...@lists.fossil-scm.org [mailto:fossil-users-boun...@lists.fossil-scm.org] Im Auftrag von Gilles Gesendet: Mittwoch, 19. Oktober 2011 15:00 An: fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org Betreff: Re: [fossil-users] Adding Fossil to Windows Explorer context menu? On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:33:15 +0200, Kohn Bernhard bernhard.k...@ait.ac.at wrote: thanks for sharing the idea using Fast Explorer. I find it very good! Actually, it's not that good because... - it requires installing Fast Explorer - it requires adding a fossil.bat just to call pause to keep the DOS box open after fossil.exe exits - fossil gdiff --from previous myfile.txt doesn't work because %1% returns the full path - the gdiff above is called for All Files, which means that this item is not displayed in the Fossil group like the other items I haven't found how to add a group + items in the context menu à la 7zip. It seems like we must write a COM DLL for this. For my personal use I have written a small .net program FossilCmd for opening a windows command console and sending fossil commands to it. Sound good. Could you upload it so we can check it out? Thank you. ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] Adding Fossil to Windows Explorer context menu?
Hello Tomek, you are right, this would be the best solution. But there exist a problem with shell extension and .net. As far as I know it is not officially supported by Microsoft. First they said, that with the .net Framework 4.0 it should be available, but it is not announced (but may be I am wrong, if anybody knows better, please mail). The thing I liked with the fast explorer approach one can customize the options to the own needs, I my self only use very little commands of all the available ones, so I can configure it, to those things I really need, with very low amount of time. Best regards Bernhard Von: fossil-users-boun...@lists.fossil-scm.org [mailto:fossil-users-boun...@lists.fossil-scm.org] Im Auftrag von Tomek Kott Gesendet: Mittwoch, 19. Oktober 2011 17:23 An: Fossil SCM user's discussion Betreff: Re: [fossil-users] Adding Fossil to Windows Explorer context menu? For windows users, there is already an effort to get fossil extended to the explorer context menu. At the moment, the C# library for fossil commands is being written. See Ingo's SharpFossil library implementation for .NET purposes: http://repository.mobile-developers.de/cgi-bin/ikoch/sharpfossil/wiki?name=SharpFossil+Library. I think that the library currently has most of the commonly used functions written, so there might be an opportunity to start coding a explorer extension using that library. Just some cents... Tomek On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Gilles gilles.gana...@free.frmailto:gilles.gana...@free.fr wrote: On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:33:15 +0200, Kohn Bernhard bernhard.k...@ait.ac.atmailto:bernhard.k...@ait.ac.at wrote: thanks for sharing the idea using Fast Explorer. I find it very good! Actually, it's not that good because... - it requires installing Fast Explorer - it requires adding a fossil.bat just to call pause to keep the DOS box open after fossil.exe exits - fossil gdiff --from previous myfile.txt doesn't work because %1% returns the full path - the gdiff above is called for All Files, which means that this item is not displayed in the Fossil group like the other items I haven't found how to add a group + items in the context menu à la 7zip. It seems like we must write a COM DLL for this. For my personal use I have written a small .net program FossilCmd for opening a windows command console and sending fossil commands to it. Sound good. Could you upload it so we can check it out? Thank you. ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.orgmailto:fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] Adding Fossil to Windows Explorer context menu?
Hello Gilles Actually, it's not that good because... - it requires installing Fast Explorer - it requires adding a fossil.bat just to call pause to keep the DOS box open after fossil.exe exits - fossil gdiff --from previous myfile.txt doesn't work because %1% returns the full path - the gdiff above is called for All Files, which means that this item is not displayed in the Fossil group like the other items I haven't found how to add a group + items in the context menu à la 7zip. It seems like we must write a COM DLL for this. For my personal use I have written a small .net program FossilCmd for opening a windows command console and sending fossil commands to it. Sound good. Could you upload it so we can check it out? I will make it available next week, when I am back in office Best regards Bernhard ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] Adding Fossil to Windows Explorer context menu?
On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:39:43 +0200, Kohn Bernhard bernhard.k...@ait.ac.at wrote: I have used the fast explorer to achieve a menu entry just beneath 7zip explorer entry. You should try the Submenu Items selection on the left side of fast explorer. But I use only the type File Folder. That's why: It doesn't seem possible to add an item to a group that is only called when right-clicking on a file while the other items are called when right-clicking on a folder. The former will be displayed outside the Fossil group :-/ A picture being worth a thousand words... http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/8620/fossilfastexplorer.png I did some research, but the Registry doesn't seem to allow this, so coding a COM DLL seems the way to add a menu and items that can be called on either folders or files. ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] Adding Fossil to Windows Explorer context menu?
On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:56:43 +0200, Kohn Bernhard bernhard.k...@ait.ac.at wrote: it works. You just have to add a new submenu item with the same name but different File Type. To this submen you can add a item. http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/830/fastexplorerfos.png Thanks much for the tip :-) I'll look around how to have the batch file remove the drive letter + replace backslashes with frontslashes: Parameters=gdiff --from previous %1 C:\My Projects\fossil.exe gdiff --from previous C:\My Projects\Form1.vb C:\fossil.exe: fossil.exe: unknown command: gdiff --from previous C:\My Projects\Form1.vb fossil.exe: use help for more information ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] Adding Fossil to Windows Explorer context menu?
Hi Gilles, thanks for sharing the idea using Fast Explorer. I find it very good! For my personal use I have written a small .net program FossilCmd for opening a windows command console and sending fossil commands to it. The windows command console remains open until I close it directly. If there is already an open windows command console for this particular working directory, the command is send to this window, so there will no cluttering of serval open windows command consoles, only one per working directory (this is achieved by searching the _FOSSIL_ file in the parent directories). With the fast explorer I build an explorer menu (only for directories) and call the program (e.g. FossilCmd changes %1, where %1 is the directory I selected in explorer). This is pretty nice working (just used it for one day). If this is of any use for others, I can make this public available. Best regards Bernhard ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] Adding Fossil to Windows Explorer context menu?
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:33:15 +0200, Kohn Bernhard bernhard.k...@ait.ac.at wrote: thanks for sharing the idea using Fast Explorer. I find it very good! Actually, it's not that good because... - it requires installing Fast Explorer - it requires adding a fossil.bat just to call pause to keep the DOS box open after fossil.exe exits - fossil gdiff --from previous myfile.txt doesn't work because %1% returns the full path - the gdiff above is called for All Files, which means that this item is not displayed in the Fossil group like the other items I haven't found how to add a group + items in the context menu à la 7zip. It seems like we must write a COM DLL for this. For my personal use I have written a small .net program FossilCmd for opening a windows command console and sending fossil commands to it. Sound good. Could you upload it so we can check it out? Thank you. ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] Adding Fossil to Windows Explorer context menu?
For windows users, there is already an effort to get fossil extended to the explorer context menu. At the moment, the C# library for fossil commands is being written. See Ingo's SharpFossil library implementation for .NET purposes: http://repository.mobile-developers.de/cgi-bin/ikoch/sharpfossil/wiki?name=SharpFossil+Library . I think that the library currently has most of the commonly used functions written, so there might be an opportunity to start coding a explorer extension using that library. Just some cents... Tomek On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Gilles gilles.gana...@free.fr wrote: On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:33:15 +0200, Kohn Bernhard bernhard.k...@ait.ac.at wrote: thanks for sharing the idea using Fast Explorer. I find it very good! Actually, it's not that good because... - it requires installing Fast Explorer - it requires adding a fossil.bat just to call pause to keep the DOS box open after fossil.exe exits - fossil gdiff --from previous myfile.txt doesn't work because %1% returns the full path - the gdiff above is called for All Files, which means that this item is not displayed in the Fossil group like the other items I haven't found how to add a group + items in the context menu à la 7zip. It seems like we must write a COM DLL for this. For my personal use I have written a small .net program FossilCmd for opening a windows command console and sending fossil commands to it. Sound good. Could you upload it so we can check it out? Thank you. ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] Adding Fossil to Windows Explorer context menu?
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:22:38 -0400, Tomek Kott tkott.s...@gmail.com wrote: For windows users, there is already an effort to get fossil extended to the explorer context menu. I think there's a need for a simple group + items that we can simply use through file managers like Windows Explorer without launching a full-fledged application. www.zhacks.com/2010/03/10/edit-7-zip-right-click-shell-context-menu/ Can someone confirm/infirm that a COM DLL is required for a group + items to be part of Windows' context menu? ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] Adding Fossil to Windows Explorer context menu?
On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:19:58 +0200, Gilles gilles.gana...@free.fr wrote: 2. Is there a way to tell Fossil to pause after running a command, so the user has some feedback before the DOS box closes, which it does when running commands that don't prompt the user for more such as revert or undo? As a work-around, I built a simple fossil.bat which is called by the context menu, and prevents the DOS from closing right after running fossil, which happens when fossil doesn't prompt the user for eg. typing a comment after commiting changes: c:\fossil.bat fossil.exe %1% pause I think it'd be useful for all commands to include an option to somehow prompt the user to hit ENTER, so this little batch file would no longer be necessary. HTH, ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] Adding Fossil to Windows Explorer context menu?
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:03:55 +0200, Gilles gilles.gana...@free.fr wrote: I read this article about Fast Explorer 2008 which lets the user edit the items found in the popup menu that is displayed when right-clicking in Windows Explorer: www.ghacks.net/2010/08/15/add-custom-items-to-windows-explorer-context-menu/ I was wondering if someone has tried using this to add Fossil, so that we can at least add/commit changes by just right-clicking in Windows Explorer? I played with it today, and it seems to work fine. 1. Through its Submenu Items section, I added a new Item Fossil that will be called when right-clicking on folders (File Type = Folder) 2. After selecting the Fossil menu, I clicked on the Item button, and proceeded to add four items to the menu, each using c:\fossil.exe as the application but each having their own Parameters (without the quotes): commit, add %1, revert, and undo. I can now perform those tasks from within Total Commander instead of having to open a DOS box and typing the commands. I have a couple of questions: 1. In Windows, what is the difference between Folder and File Folder? Fast Explorer provides those two choices, and I have no idea what the difference is 2. Is there a way to tell Fossil to pause after running a command, so the user has some feedback before the DOS box closes, which it does when running commands that don't prompt the user for more such as revert or undo? 3. In Fast Explorer, does anyone have an idea what the difference is between Static Items and Shell Extensions? It looks like the former are just pointers to applications while the latter are pointers to COM-based DLLs. Thank you. ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
