Screen capturing not working

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I have installed 7plus, and I think it's pretty great. But some explorer 
functions don't work:
-Show free space and file size in status bar doesn't do anything because there 
is no status bar.
-Pasting to new file (text or image).
-Explorer tabs.
-Explorer buttons.
-Everything related to the timer, none of the controls for the timer do 
anything.

Is it reproducible?
Unsure.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Well, I've seen how these functions are supposed to work from the youtube help 
videos, nothing like that happens.

What version of the product are you using (Binary/Source/32/64bit)? On what
operating system (XP,Vista,7,32/64bit)?

64 bit binary Windows 7

What is the language of your operating system/keyboard language?
English

Please provide any additional information below.
none

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jordan.h...@gmail.com on 12 Feb 2012 at 2:21

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You need to enable the statusbar through the View menu. Otherwise it's 
obviously useless.

Could you describe what you did in some more detail? The youtube videos are 
pretty old and some things may have changed. The next version will be released 
very soon and some of these things have been reworked, so your errors might be 
fixed.

Original comment by fragman@gmail.com on 12 Feb 2012 at 12:30

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Thanks for getting back to me,

I'm not sure what you mean by "the View menu." Is that a menu in Windows? I 
don't see an option for the status bar in the folder options settings. Nor do I 
see anything in 7 plus.

As for the rest,

Pasting to new file (text or image): I have text in my clipboard, I have an 
open explorer window. I press Ctrl+V. Nothing happens. The context menu option 
to paste is greyed out. Same for images.

Explorer tabs: Actually I figured this out on my own, I had this set up 
improperly, i.e. for middle clicking.

Explorer buttons: I don't even know what this means, but I don't see any 
explorer buttons for any option or action specifying an explorer button as the 
trigger. For example, I have the "new text file" explorer button Event checked, 
but there is no new button in the explorer bar.

Timer: I don't know how to describe this except that I can't get the timer to 
work in any way. For example, if I right click on the 7 plus tray icon, select 
"Start Timer," nothing happens. This also applies to e.g., Taskbar Events. 
There is a "MenuItem Start Timer in Tray" event that doesn't seem to do 
anything, the context menu for the task bar does not have this option. Maybe I 
am using the feature wrong? 

Original comment by jordan.h...@gmail.com on 12 Feb 2012 at 4:20

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You can press "Alt" in explorer to bring it up.

The new 7plus version was released today. Please test it and let me know if the 
other issues persist.

Original comment by fragman@gmail.com on 12 Feb 2012 at 4:58

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Unfortunately, the new version causes explorer to crash randomly when double 
clicking on files. Maybe I should open a new issue for that, but I've had to 
stop using 7 plus after the most recent update. :(

Original comment by jordan.h...@gmail.com on 12 Feb 2012 at 5:44

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Sorry to hear that. I'm going to test on x64 tomorrow and see if I can 
reproduce that.

Original comment by fragman@gmail.com on 12 Feb 2012 at 5:56

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After restarting my computer, it doesn't seem to do that anymore. So, an update 
on the other issues: 

Pasting to new file: still does nothing.

Explorer buttons: still do not appear.

Timer: this works now.

There is a new issue, though. 7 plus seems to randomly disable the media keys. 
I have media keys for play/pause, changing volume, and launching applications. 
I restarted my computer because after updating to the new version of 7 plus, 
they stopped working. After restarting, they seemed to work for a while, but 
then stopped. Even if I exit 7 plus, they still don't work. Then sometimes, 
they will just start working again without any rhyme or reason. This is more or 
less a killer issue, like it's totally unacceptable and I can't use 7 plus if 
it does this. Should i start a new issue for it?

Original comment by jordan.h...@gmail.com on 12 Feb 2012 at 6:51

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Actually, as to the timer: middle clicking on the clock will launch options to 
start a timer, but selecting the 7 plus context menu option (i.e. right 
clicking on the 7 plus icon) still does nothing.

Original comment by jordan.h...@gmail.com on 12 Feb 2012 at 6:53

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Not sure about your pasting issues, this has always worked fine for me when I 
tested it, even in x64. Using any other clipboard utilities, special 
mouse/keyboard drivers or so?

You can try enabling the settings in the fast folder page, it executes some 
code then that might help with the display of the explorer buttons.

Does it affect any keys other than the ones used for volume? If yes, then it 
might be a conflict with keyboard drivers or similar. If only volume keys are 
affected you can try disabling the events that use them. They're only used for 
displaying the volume On-Screen-Display.

Original comment by fragman@gmail.com on 12 Feb 2012 at 6:55

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Copy to file really isn't that big a deal. But no, I have no other clipboard 
software.

All media keys stopped working reliably when I updated 7 plus. There are the 
following keys: Media, Mail, Home, Calculator, Play/Pause, Vol Down, Vol Up, 
Mute. None of them work, even after exiting 7 plus, even after uninstalling it. 
Except, sometimes they will work for no apparent reason and then stop suddenly. 
I have no special keyboard drives, just the native PS/2 keyboard driver that 
came with Windows. The events for using the volume keys in 7 plus were all 
disabled.  

Original comment by jordan.h...@gmail.com on 12 Feb 2012 at 7:00

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7plus does nothing that would stop them from working while it is not running.

Original comment by fragman@gmail.com on 12 Feb 2012 at 7:13

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You're right about the timer menu entry by the way, I have this issue as well. 
I'll have to fix this.

Original comment by fragman@gmail.com on 12 Feb 2012 at 7:15

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Sorry for the alarm on that front. I think it was actually another program, and 
not 7 plus. When I exited this other program, they worked as expected. 

For the most part, my only real issues was when it randomly crashed explorer, 
which it no longer does. So, there's no problem anymore there.

Copy to file and explorer buttons are not really huge deals either. Just 
thought I would mention that.

Original comment by jordan.h...@gmail.com on 12 Feb 2012 at 7:16

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Good to know that it worked out. It's always better to check for other programs 
that might interfere.

I'm going to test those other issues you mentioned on an x64 system tomorrow. 
Please continue to report any possible bugs you might find, it's often easy to 
overlook them as a developer.

Original comment by fragman@gmail.com on 12 Feb 2012 at 7:19

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I tested on an x64 machine now and explorer seems to work fine for me, both 
explorer buttons and no crashes. However, I noticed that screen capturing 
doesn't seem to work (print key). Can you confirm this?

Original comment by fragman@gmail.com on 13 Feb 2012 at 9:48

• Changed state: Accepted

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Oh and pasting to files is also working here.

Original comment by fragman@gmail.com on 13 Feb 2012 at 9:48

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Original comment by fragman@gmail.com on 14 Feb 2012 at 10:55

• Added labels: Milestone-Release2.5

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I fixed the timer in the tray menu.

Original comment by fragman@gmail.com on 14 Feb 2012 at 3:54

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Original comment by fragman@gmail.com on 15 Feb 2012 at 4:32

• Changed title: Screen capturing not working
• Added labels: Milestone-Release2.4.1, Platform-x64
• Removed labels: Milestone-Release2.5

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It was a bug in the ListView class that also had other side effects. It's fixed 
now.

Original comment by fragman@gmail.com on 16 Feb 2012 at 8:32

• Changed state: Fixed

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Original comment by fragman@gmail.com on 25 Feb 2012 at 2:42

• Added labels: Milestone-Release2.5