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| Posted by: JX3D Jun 30 2003, 03:44 AM |
| Feature Request Add option (a toggle option like the add file extensions option) to remember the opened filename for automatic use in the save dialog. And allow the user to add a string to be included before the extension. Ie. "Filename[String].avi". I always do this: I Click the file in the open dialog, press the tab key, do a ctrl-c (to copy the filename). Then when saving, I paste the filename, and change it a little bit (ie. I usaly add an underscore before the extension, like "filename_.avi"). It would be a good idea if the pasted filename, could include such a character/string (like my underscore) too. |
| Posted by: Kippesoep Jun 30 2003, 10:41 AM |
| I doubt there is sufficient interest in this for it to make it in. Saving a few characters typed is not what I'd call a huge improvement. If you have really long filenames, why not just click on the filename once (don't double-click) and the filename you clicked on appears in the dialog box, ready for editing. |
| Posted by: JX3D Jul 3 2003, 05:57 PM |
| Hi Kippesoep I dont see it as a big thing to include. Its pretty simple (I'm a programmer myself) and it would help a lot when dealing with a few hundred small files you want to work on. I often deal with lots of small files. I am already doing almost as You suggest, though the "clicking on file" isn't needed *S* I do think my suggestion will improve the program, even though its a small thing - and as we say in denmark "Many small streams - makes a big river" ;-) |
| Posted by: Kippesoep Jul 3 2003, 09:37 PM |
| I'm a (professional) programmer, too, so I know the stuff that would be involved. It's not that it's a very big thing, it's just that it's not of a whole lot of interest. Adding features that only a few people will use will make a program more difficult to use and larger. If only Microsoft had incorporated all the suggestions I sent them into Windows XP, it would be a dream to use (for me). Also, if you put in the option to append a single string to the output filename, another person will come in who wants it in front of the filename. Another wants to append numbers. Some, like me, use a bunch of source files that are written to output files with names quite similar to eachother, but not dependent on the input filename, so it needs to be turned off. Before you know it, a dialog box has to be designed, extra routines have to be written and tested. Don't get me wrong. I'm not objecting to the functionality itself (as long as it can be switched off), nor do I have any say about what goes into VD. I'm just explaining why I doubt it's very likely to make it in because it is of little use to many people and there are more important things that everybody benefits from. Still, the program is open source, so you can simply put it in yourself... |
| Posted by: JX3D Jul 5 2003, 11:56 AM |
| I see your point and tend to agree on most of it - but I still believe more people than just me, would like such a feature that I suggested - even though you dont ;-) Its not a big feature (as we both say) but since this is a developement forum, I feel its the correct place to suggest features I am missing in VirtualDub. Well - lets end our off-topic discussion here - since we both aggree on a lot, like that we are two different persons with different needs ;-) |