Finder 1.1 Release Notes (Dec 2013)
There are numerous updates to Finder in this release, as listed below.
Most of these enhancements were due to suggestions by Rick Schummer at SW Fox this year, noting that with these suggestions Finder provides many of the common features of the Project Manager, but with a more usable UI.
[1] You can have multiple instances of Finder open, one for each open project.
This capability is enabled by using a new option in the Finder Options dialog:
Thereafter, any time you open Finder, it creates a new instance of Finder for the active project (or uses the one already open for that project). When you close an instance of Finder that is project related, its settings are saved for the next time Finder is used for that project.
[2] You can open Finder programmatically for a project by executing:
Execscript(_Screen.cThorDispatcher, 'Thor_Proc_Finder.PRG', <projectname>)
where <projectname> is the name and full path of the project.
[3] The context menu for a file allows you to add or remove the selected file to any project that is open, not only the active project.
[4] There is a new button to build a project, mimicking the behavior of “Build” in Project Manager.
[5] There is a Plug-In PRG that can be called when the “Build” button is clicked.
[6] The search phrase for files has been expanded to allow for matches (include partial matches) to the names of folders in the fully expanded path name of a file. To do so, use a backslash. Examples:
SHOW == *SHOW*.*
SHOW.SCX == *SHOW*.SCX
'\' means you are searching the path as well, and is interpreted as *\*
JOB\ == *JOB*\*.* Entire folder
JOB\SHOW == *JOB*\*SHOW*.* All files in JOB folder with SHOW in name
JOB\.SCX == *JOB*\*.SCX All SCX files in JOB folder
[7] An infinite loop, reported and fixed by Mike Potjer, has been removed.
[8] The Escape key now closes the form (suggested by Matt Slay)
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