[Gprename-users] Rev 37 changes

[Lacrocivious A. <alt...@ya...>]

The features I've used have worked very well, and
while I can't say I've batched enough files to verify
the speed increase, I can say that the renaming
operations have appeared to be instantaneous.

The switch to courier may not look ss good in the UI,
but a fixed pitch font is definitely an asset in the
actual work areas where the filenames appear, so I
applaud this change.

There is one thing I would like to see, but which I
suspect needs to wait for another release. That is the
handling of multiple selections upon encountering an
existing filename conflict with the selected renaming
operation.

Specifically, if I have chosen a few dozen files to
rename, particularly in scattered groups rather than
contiguous entries, if one or more of the filenames I
wish to rename conflicts with existing name(s), then
upon acknowledging the error dialog I lose all my
selection markers. This means I have to reselect,
avoiding the conflicting file.

If there was another conflicting name beyond the
first, then I will get another conflict error on my
second attempt, and so lose my selections again. This
repeats until my selections no longer contain any
conflicting filenames. Sometimes this takes quite a
few selection passes ;-)

At some point, it would be useful to provide a dialog
which lists *all* the conflicting files within the
selected range(s). Further, upon aborting the rename
operation, it would be useful to retain the selection
highlights so that the offending files can be
deselected either singly or in ranges, just as they
may have been selected in the beginning, singly or in
ranges.

Perhaps the conflicting files might be highlighted
differently from 'normal' selections in the list,
making it more obvious which ones need deselecting.

I suppose this requires a level of temporary retention
beyond that presently used, and therefore may be an
extremely non-trivial piece of coding to change.

Overall I am very pleased with GPRename 2.0 and have
adopted it into my 'cold dead fingers' list of
utilities... meaning 'you'd have to pry this tool from
my cold dead fingers' to take it away from me ;-)




 
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