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Does ReNamer have an option for "forcing a preview" before user commits to final click to renaming file(s)?
I have seen this option in another competing program and seem like a good safety precaution
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Hi EThibeaux and welcome!
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Second to your question: check out the Settings.
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ReNamer:Program_settings#Preview_settings
Last edited by den4b (2015-08-07 16:57)
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A forced preview before rename is redundant in my opinion. It can also bring more harm than benefit.
For example, preview will discard all manual changes, unnecessarily reapply a PascalScript rule which modifies files, etc.
For the reference, there are two options for auto preview, which are enabled by default:
Auto preview on change of rules configuration
Auto preview when new files are added
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What?
Oh, I see: ... "Auto preview", not "Real-time update of the preview", sorry.
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But then, ....
what is the difference between the asked "forced preview" and the existent "Auto preview" option?
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I think the user is asking for a preview inside the "Add rule" dialog, and of course he is not the only one who notice this feature lack!.
I know that the controls are perfectlly positioned inside the space that offers each tab of the "Add rule" dialog, but a sofisticated solution should be increase a little bit the height of the dialog to add two new textboxes, "before modifications" and "after modifications" at the bottom of the params panel, of course the imaginary "after modifications" textbox should recollect all the modifications done only in the current tab ("Insert", "Delete", "Replace", RegEx", etc) NOT all tabs, just the active one, no redundant here!.
I hope my idea is understood and could be a little bit appreciated...!
A possible example:
I dream for that kind of preview, because sincerelly, never thinked about it?, is the only thing that RenamerPro can't do compared to all (ALL!) the other competitors where we can found a very friendly "precaution" feature because the existance of that kind of preview, but of course other applications are not the great RenamerPro and for that reason its a pitty that we still living with the lack of a Live-preview in RenamerPro...
...come on den4b, with that kind of preview all will be beneffits for the user experience of our renamings!!!
By the moment a trial and error of a Regex replacement is basically done by opening and closing thousand of times the "Add rule" dialog, you know why?, because there isn't any preview there!!, really... think it please, RenamerPro should be friendly in that way not having to enforce the user to do trivial things to accomplish a simple renaming task like that.
More than that, a live-preview when applying modifications at real-time (like in the "Add Rule" dialog of RenamerPro) its a basic feature that every developer should have in mind when developing a renamer software!, you know it, like you know its any hard to implement it, its a feature that could be done in five minutes and it will improve the app, visually by ofering a preview, and giving the opportunity to fix typos or regular expressions or other issues at real-time thanks to that live-preview (without exiting the dialog), then why still the lack of that preview after 6 major versions!! I really can't understand it... for me is a very obvious necessary feature!!, but we are here just to launch new suggestions to you .
My opinnion.
Bye!
Last edited by Elektro (2015-09-21 19:01)
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Thanks Elektro for the details and especially for the visual design example. You have convinced me that it is an important feature.
It won't take 5 minutes to implement that's for sure, it is quite a bit more complicated that it may seem for the user. Anyhow, it is now on a high priority feature list.
compared to all (ALL!) the other competitors
Can you provide examples of how it is implemented in other renaming products?
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Thanks Elektro for the details and especially for the visual design example. You have convinced me that it is an important feature.
It won't take 5 minutes to implement that's for sure, it is quite a bit more complicated that it may seem for the user. Anyhow, it is now on a high priority feature list.
Elektro wrote:compared to all (ALL!) the other competitors
Can you provide examples of how it is implemented in other renaming products?
No problem den4b thanks for hear this suggestion!
Please you can miss some words that I said like "all competitors" or "it takes 5 minutes", I exaggerated a bit to try to get your attention on this suggestion!, forgive me.
But its true that all renamer products have a preview like that, for example this is the renaming tool that I always used before discovered RenamerPro, it have a little bit of appearance I mean a dialog and the the preview inside.
Author url: http://sourceforge.net/projects/renameit/
Source code: https://github.com/wernight/renameit/
If I remember more (similar) apps I'll comment them.
Thanks for read
Last edited by Elektro (2015-09-22 14:14)
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Hi
Tima elapsed and just I would like to know if this feature is in development, or at the end it was not considered.
Additionally to my main question, I seen a "Activate real-time preview" checkbox in the Renamer settings but I'm not sure if this is related, when I activate it I didn't noticed anything, what is and where it is that real-time update?.
Thankyou for read!
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This feature is in the list for future future implementation but it it has a low priority.
"Real-time update of the preview" option does something very different. It may be useful when working with very large file sets or doing some computationally heavy tasks in PascalScript.
Real-time update of the preview can be dangerous and its use is not recommended!
It will cause graphical updates to the GUI during preview for every processed file but will also respond to any user activity such as mouse clicks and keyboard button presses. Beware, any accidental actions generated during a preview as a result of user activity within the application will interfere with the preview process and can cause unpredictable behavior.
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