At the Option - By window Type - we can see the file managers actually supported by Listary, but can the user add other file managers? For example Multi Commander (a very good one).
Sorry that you can’t add a file manager manually. Listary needs the file manager to provide some interfaces to work.
quote - Listary needs the file manager to provide some interfaces to work.
Don’t understand what you mean.
That means the file manager must support Listary.
And what is necessary to have that support?
Just read comments about this in the Multi Commander forum (March this year) where some one stated that you (Channing) have said:
“I’ll try to add Multi Commander support in the next major version”
Is this true?
The file manager must support exporting the following content to a file or provide other means for an external application to access them:
- The current folder path
- The current file list (including file name, full path, file type)
- The current selected file in the file list
It should also allow an external application to:
- Select a specific file in the file list
- Open a specific file in the file list
- Open a specific folder
jcmn said:
Just read comments about this in the Multi Commander forum (March this year) where some one stated that you (Channing) have said:“I’ll try to add Multi Commander support in the next major version”
Is this true?
This is true, but it’s not easy.
Looks like according to the developer section of the Multi Commander web site the author hasn’t released the SDK yet to allow third-party development of plug-ins and extensions.
Hopefully, Channing can contact Multi Commander’s author to make sure that the API will allow Listary to access what it needs from Multi Commander so Listary can do its job.
The author of Directory Opus & Channing did an awesome job of working together so Directory Opus is fully supported. Hopefully, history will repeat itself with Multi Commander.