[Coco] Another Coco Virtual Disk Util

[Wayne Campbell]

I understand the issue of selecting multiple dirs to copy. On the large dir
problem, how about a timed (only a few seconds maybe) popup that simply
says something like "copying files" and closes when the copy is completed?
 On Oct 19, 2013 3:29 PM, "Walt Zydhek" <walt at wzydhek.com> wrote:

> Modified Drag and Drop behavior so that dropped files will not be
> duplicated
> if dropped on same disk. You can now drag the root directory to copy the
> entire disk contents without creating a subdirectory the name of the source
> disk if the destination is another virtual disk. Improved RSDOS format
> detection. Also added an Import File progress dialog. Now supporting 0
> length files in OS9 Formats. Added logic to determine if there is enough
> space on the destination for a dropped file.
>
> It would be difficult at best to drag multiple directories at once. The
> TreeView only allows a single node to be selected. If multiple Nodes were
> selected it would cause problems for the ListView.
> I may keep this in mind for the future though.
>
> One thing I have noticed though, for dragging files from a source that has
> a
> LOT of content, the cursor doesn't change immediately indicating a drag
> operation is in progress. This is because of the logic I used to make drag
> drop work for both Windows and Virtual Disks. In this case, when a drag
> operation is initiated, all recursively selected files are read and
> buffered
> in preparation for dropping. This buffering process can take a bit on disks
> with a LOT of content. The only way around this is to only buffer the
> selected files or nodes, and then do the recursion in the drop handler.
> That
> in itself could be problematic. I would rather wait on that until I can
> find
> someone more experienced with C# coding to assist me.
>
> -Walt Zydhek
>
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> Subject: Re: [Coco] Another Coco Virtual Disk Util
>
> I downloaded the latest version this morning. I have not tried the instance
> setup yet. The format error is now gone, but a different error occurred
> which I have not been able to reproduce. It occurred when I was copying a
> large directory with multiple subdirectories. It did not copy them, and I
> ended up making the parent dir and copying the subdirs one at a time. I
> don't know how difficult it would be, but can you make it so when copying
> larger dirs it gives you some impression that it's working? I sat here for
> a
> minute with no change to the screen before I started checking to see what
> was happening. I closed the image and reopened it before I was sure the dir
> didn't copy.
>
> I also noticed if you drop a dir after you started to drag it, and you drop
> it in the same image, EmuDisk will just create a new copy of the whole dir.
> I think a confirmation dialog would be handy to avoid having to delete dirs
> created unintentionally..
>
> A new thing showed up after I formatted an image with EmuDisk. When I went
> to open it again after closing it, I was for the first time asked which OS
> I
> wanted to open it under because it was formatted both. I never selected
> RSDOS in the format, and there was no BOTH option, so I don't know what is
> happening there. It made me think it might be better to give someone the
> option of setting up partitions for OS9 and RSDOS so that this won't happen
> unless the user specifically requests it through a dialog.
>
> The most difficult suggestion/request in this post, can you make it so I
> can
> select multiple dirs to drag? I can only copy one at a time, and it would
> be
> faster to be able to select the dirs I want to copy and copy them all at
> once.
>
> Thanks for all the work you are doing on this, Walt. EmuDisk is proving to
> be the file-copy program I need for copying between vhd images.
>
> Wayne
>
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 9:30 PM, Walt Zydhek <walt at wzydhek.com> wrote:
>
> > EmuDisk now sports a Single Instance interface, AND supports command
> > line arguments. SO... You can map your Virtual Disk Images to open
> > with EmuDisk, and open them directly from windows. Multiple images
> > will all open in a single instance of EmuDisk :)
> >
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