Request for features in Filebox Extender: switch view to Details, resize automaticcaly, and auto-switch file dialog box by clicking an Explorer window #112
1) Auto-switch File Dialog Boxes to “Details” view and automatically Sort columns by Name (optionally auto-size columns).
2) Resize Width and Height of File Dialog Boxes by a percentage (smaller or bigger).
3) Switch a File Dialog Box’s current folder to an open File Explorer’s current folder by clicking on it (optionally any window).
Unfortunately, I could not see how FP could do it. By design, FbX is embedded in the file dialog box and can take actions "from inside" a dialog box. On the other hand, FP stays "outside" and waits for a trigger. When you activate it, it finds out which window is active (or under the mouse click location) and, via the FP menu, it propose actions that can be applied to this window. When you select a menu in a file dialog boxes, FP actions are executed by simulating keystrokes sent to the dialog box. For this reason, the actions you describe (if I could develop them in FP after some research) could not be executed automatically. The would have to be triggered by a menu item in the FP menu (or by a special hotkey). But I'll add this to the wish-list for further research and thinking.
And just a note about your suggestion #3, this is not what you are asking you may have noticed that the "Current Folders" menu clicked over a file dialog box makes any folder already open in an Explorer window just a few click away.
See https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#sent/14a281233b4b2d79
Unfortunately, I could not see how FP could do it. By design, FbX is embedded in the file dialog box and can take actions "from inside" a dialog box. On the other hand, FP stays "outside" and waits for a trigger. When you activate it, it finds out which window is active (or under the mouse click location) and, via the FP menu, it propose actions that can be applied to this window. When you select a menu in a file dialog boxes, FP actions are executed by simulating keystrokes sent to the dialog box. For this reason, the actions you describe (if I could develop them in FP after some research) could not be executed automatically. The would have to be triggered by a menu item in the FP menu (or by a special hotkey). But I'll add this to the wish-list for further research and thinking.
And just a note about your suggestion #3, this is not what you are asking you may have noticed that the "Current Folders" menu clicked over a file dialog box makes any folder already open in an Explorer window just a few click away.