Electron FolderView

I originally created this as a nodejs app to view local images. I was frustrated with the free and paid image apps I had--I needed something to simply display images in a folder. With the many wonderful image handling libraries available for the web, I thought it would be simple enough to throw something together in node...then I found the awesomeness of Electron!

This app allows me to quickly add functionality to handle various file management tasks. The immediate one was to be able to view media files quickly without clunky widgets or ui chrome getting in the way. With Electron I was able to create a general purpose directory browser with custom functionality using web technology in a Windows executable!

This is a work in progress. Feel free to use and modify as you wish.

Important Note, Sep 24/21

I've discontinued development of this app on GitHub. The changes made since Electron v9 are too substantial to manage at this point in time. The app uses Electron v9 and v15 is the latest.

I use the app daily without incident in the isolation of my LAN. The security issues addressed by updates to Electron and other modules are not relevant in the context of personal use. To exploit the security issues addressed by the updates one would have to manually insert code into the application--but this is true of any application and security issue.

In addition, the app was started in in 2017. Technology has changed a lot since then and the experiments represented here are only relevant in the context of the most basic CSS/HTML/Javascript usage. There are libraries and tools available now that simplify many of the technical problems addressed.

Features

main purpose is to view folder items
item functions: copy, clipboard..., delete, explore, folder size, open, move, rename, set image as background, zero
items displayed in a grid
grid functions: hide items, filter, folder up, last folder, order, scale, scroll, shuffle, click an image to start slideshow, double-click item to launch with Windows' default application
grid layouts: cols, rows, vert, wall
clicking an image opens slideshow
slideshow functions: copy, delete, fullscreen, move, zoom, auto play, set delay
"Tools/Open With" context menu: run any application on disk with selected file as argument
SFTP functions: auto download, browse, delete, download, minimize by clicking dialog title bar
create zero length files; when a folder is selected this function will delete all files in sub-folders but sub-folders will remain
export list of file properties as: CSV, JSON, m3u, txt
pathBar dialog: handy dialog for selecting a folder
rename dialog: handy tools for renaming a file
log messages are written to Javascript console (F12 or Ctrl+Shift+i)
find dialog with advanced search functions (regex, case, invert results, search subfolders)
Youtube video download
FireFox extenstion to transfer video urls to FolderView for downloading, and other tools
Video wall layout, plays all videos in a folder in a grid.

App Notes

Install:
- Windows only; I use it on Win10, Win81 and Win7
- requires Node.js be installed on your system (https://nodejs.org/)
- download to a local folder:
  > git clone https://github.com/ChrisDeFreitas/Electron-FolderView
  > cd Electron-FolderView
- to use with a global installation of Electron:
  > npm install electron -g
- install required packages (installs local Electron if not installed globally):
  > npm install
- if you want to generate an executable, install Electron Package Manager:
  > npm install electron-packager -g
Test:
- the test script is not included as it is specific to my sytem
- create this batch file to execute your tests: ./scripts/testFolderView.bat
- then run
  > npm run test
Execute main.js:
- with a local installation of Electron
  > "node_modules/electron/dist/electron.exe" main.js
- with a global installation of Electron
  > electron main.js
Build FolderView.exe:
> npm run build
- the app is built with Electron Packager so it can be used as a regular Windows program.
- Electron Packager must be install globally: npm install electron-packager -g
- npm executes "build..." scripts from package.json: npm run build
- the scripts will build, then zip, the Win64 version in the ./dist/ folder.
- you can modify this to use for your own purposes, see scripts/electronPackager.bat and scripts/zip.bat
- the executable is: dist\FolderView-win32-x64\FolderView.exe
- the source and settings are in: dist\FolderView-win32-x64\resources\app

Commandline Switches

its safest to prefix path with --:
FolderView.exe --path="c:/users/chris/pictures" shuffle=true scroll=true (it looks like path conflicts with an internal switch)
commandline arguments documented in main.js:

var argmap =
{
	descending:{ type:'boolean', default:false, notes:'sort items in descending order' },
	devtools:{ type:'boolean', default:false },
	folders:{ type:'string',  default:'default', range:['default','first','hidden','last'] },
	fontsize:{ type:'string',  default:'12px',	notes:'set the default font size for the document.' },
	fullscreen:{ type:'boolean', default:false },
	height:{ type:'number', default:0, notes:'default window height; 0 = max height' },
	iconsOnly:{	type:'boolean', default:false, notes:'display icons instead of audio/image/video controls' },
	layout:{ type:'string',	default:'wall',	range:['cols','rows','vert','wall']
				, notes:`cols:"default to item.width=(window.innerWidth/3).",rows:"item.height=300px",vert:"single col",wall:"wallboard of images"` },
	order:{ type:'string',	default:'name', range:['date','name','size','type'], notes:'Sort order of items' },
	path:{ type:'string',	default:'',	notes:'file or folder to open; always prefix with --', alias:['--path'] },
	scale:{	type:'number',  default:1, range:{greaterThan:0}, notes:"scale size of grid items." },
	scroll:{ type:'boolean', default:false,	notes:"turn on/off scrolling grid whenever items loaded." },
	sftpDownloadMax:{	type:'number', default:2,	notes:"Set max number of files to download at once." },
	showSlideCaptions:{	type:'boolean',	default:true,	notes:"Display slideshow captions" },
    shuffle:{	type:'boolean',	default:false,	notes:"shuffle grid items via arrShuffle()" },
	videoMetadata:{		type:'boolean',	default:false,		notes:'Load video metadata (thumbnails), will slow large folders', alias:['videometadata'] },
	videoURL:{		type:'string',	default:'',		notes:'Open Video Download with this URL selected; true = automatically open VideoDownload window.', alias:['videourl','--videoURL'] },
  width:{	type:'number', default:0, notes:'default window width; 0 = max width' }
}

Keyboard Shortcuts

see keyboardshortcuts.txt

Sample tmp/customLibraries.ini

[paths]
c:/users/chris/code/
c:/electron/
c:/users/chris/temp/
c:/website/

tmp/settings.ini

This file is used to store SFTP and FireFox Tools settings. Here is example content:

[sftp]
host=192.168.0.111
port=22
user=SshUserName
pw=SshPassword
defaultpath=/home/UserName/FolderWithFilesToDownload

[btools]
autoListen=false
port=8124

Filtering Folder Items

filtering is based on item type, either a folder or file extension. It may be expanded in the future as new needs arise.
the filter menu displays all the item types found in the current folder. Click on an item type to view only that item type.
multiple item types may be filtered together.
Show All is autommatically selected when a folder is opened.

About FireFox Tools

built to test FireFox extension development and simplify Youtube video downloads
added a few extra features to see whether they would work
some features are not fully implemented, however, there are no plans to expand beyond the existing functionality
to use, the extension must be loaded into FireFox as a temporary extension and the socket.io client muse be listening in FolderView, top menu/FireFox Tools
the socket.io server in FolderView.exe will be installed via "npm install". So older installations will need to run "npm install" to get the code.
the socket.io client exists within the FireFox folder
instructions to install a temporary FireFox extension: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Your_first_WebExtension#Trying_it_out

About VideoWall Layout

displays a grid of videos (tiles). The default grid is 3 X 3. Be careful increasing the number of tiles as it will affect system performance (default settings failed on an old Win7 i7, 6MB RAM).
when a video finishes, the next unplayed video is played in the tile
click a tile to play in the larger video player
press Alt+T or click main menu/Layout/Video Wall to activate
press ESC to toggle the VideoWall settings dialog
settings: order/shuffle, grid width/height, play (videos in all tiles), scroll videos, reset application
video tile context menu: copy, delete, move, scroll next/last set, fullscreen, inspect
video player context menu: scroll next/last set, fullscreen, inspect
when scrolling videos, videos are always displayed in sort order

ToDo/Issues

ChangeFolder: add new folder to folder history
ChangeFolder: ESC does not always close
multi-select: sometimes Delete key does not activate delete function
selectList: allow Shift+Click to select a range of items
gallery zoom: fix mouse wheel zoom algorithm to zoom area under mouse only; currently zooms from center of image
create new dialog: view keyboardshortcuts.txt, F1 key
filter menu: ?add invert filter function?
add version to zip file name
SFTP dialog: re-write with async/await
SFTP dialog: sftpDownloadMax option only limits downloads of top level files and folders. So if a folder contains many files they won't be affected by sftpDownloadMax.
personal settings remain in config as example of how to use application

Changes

Jul 8/21

Video Download: when switch videoURL=true the VideoDL window will open on startup
Video Download: change VideoTitle control to an edit box so videos can be renamed

Jul 2/21

did an "npm update" to get the latest code for ytdl-core, this will resolve video download errors.
dis "npm audit fix" to address vulnerabilities in dependent packages
electron-packager needs to be updated, but will test (and fix) before uploading

May 31/21

did an "npm update" to get the latest code for ytdl-core, this will resolve video download errors.
forgot to upload the Feb 12 changes.

Feb 12/21

VideoWall: fixed bug in tilePlayNext() when tile == null received
VideoWall dlg: mute button is now a toggle switch
VideoWall dlg: added "Find Dupes" context menu
dlgFind: added options parameter to control default settings

Jan 21/21

VideoWall: code refactoring/optimizations
VideoWall dlg: changing values automatically updates layout
VideoWall dlg: added controls to view next/prior set of videos
VideoWall: fixed handling for videos.length < tiles.length
VideoWall: now displays < three columns correctly

Jan 15/21
This update adds functionality to the VideoWall layout. A few functions had to be converted to async to facilitate the new operations. In particular I'm watching the ExecQue for side effects.

videoWall: no longer runs in fullscreen by default. This allows the main menu to be accessed while videos are playing.
videoWall: added main video context menu: fullscreen, inspect
videoWal: added video tile context menu: copy, delete, move, play last/next video, fullscreen, inspect

Dec 5/20

videoDl.js: update ytdl-core to 4.01; modified usage of ytdl.getInfo() to be compatible
dlgRename not editable bug: added "isContentEditable=true"; Seems to be working so far???
change startup behaviour to only show open dialog, when folder not found on startup

Sep 07/20
There are a lot of changes that I am still monitoring for issues. The main update is the addition of a VideoWall layout. It displays a grid of video tiles, clicking a tile opens the video in the larger player. File management routines could not be integrated because the browser's file locks are not released immediately. Also, The VideoWall setting dialog is using new code based on the polyfill for the HTML Dialog Element. New dialogs will use this technology; at this point the old dialog code will remain as it works, therefore little is gained by refactoring.

VideoWall layout: new, see "About VideoWall Layout" above
gallery zoom: no longer scrolls image when zooming with mouse wheel (see ToDo for details)
find dlg: add "Paste and search" button
find dlg: results now display search text
refactored Layout menu
more integrations of filter functionality into UI functions

Jul --- (forgot to upload)
The filtering functionality was lost to the mists of time. It has been re-worked to be more intuitive and added filtering by mediaTypes.

filter menu update: filter menu was displaying content for previous folder viewed
filter menu update: menu items are no longer checked by default
filter menu update: when menu item selected all other items are hidden
filter menu update: added mediaTypes
dlgFind: when rolled up header will also shrink to take less space vertically
icons only menu: now retains existing filter
layout menus: now retains existing filter
order menus: now retains existing filter
scale menus: now retains existing filter
shuffle menu: now retains existing filter

Jun 16/20 - 3

Windows Explorer menu: Electron changed shell function from shell.openItem to shell.openPath

Jun 16/20 - 2
Removed the zip file and Git LFS because the quota limits were reached. If the product was better documented I would not have even attempted it as a 1GB download limit on a 160MB file is ridiculous.

Jun 16/20
I'm not sure if the issues addressed here are long standing or introduced by new versions of Electron/nodejs. But I was able to achieve substanital speed increases to the sorting algorithms of the pathBar and item grid. They should be noticeable on folders with lots of files--but still looking for other ways to optimize the loading and handling of grid items.

New functions in dlgRename are working well. I've used them a lot without incident.

folderNew() fix: requires the default path be translated from posix to win32
folderNew() update: changed to accept a default path (was using the default application path)
pathBar fix: folder items are now sorted alphabetically
pathBar update: optimized loading of folder items
pathBar update: renamed ui.var.apipath to ui.var.pathBarPath for clarity
item grid update: optimized sort algorithm to speed loading folder items

Jun 10/20
Installed Git LFS to include a zip version of the application in ./dist/. Tested: zip file works when downloaded from GitHub (via download button on the FolderView-win32-x64.zip page).

Jun 9/20
Pushed this through while testing changes to dlgFind, dlgRename and Electron 9.x because found error in ytdl-core that caused downloads to fail. Resovled by updating to the latest version--no repository code changes required.

Main goal was to simplify cleaning up media file names. Created two major dlgRename features. The first "Auto select left", automatically selects the trailing part of media file names containing format data. The other feature allows selection steps (including "Delete Selection" and "Apply Changes") to be recorded, then played back against other files. Although its fairly simple at this point, the code can be optimized and adapted for other file naming conventions. Still being tested.

Along the way used dlgFind to lookup obscure media file names. The RegEx search and Invert Results functions were previously implemented and are working well. But added regex examples to th UI because despite being useful regex is terribly documented everywhere.

dlgRename update: added "Auto select left" button to automatically highight text to be trimmed. Designed for media files. Very simple at this point.
dlgRename update: added Record/Play selection operations (see actionMap.js).
dlgRename update: added checkbox to indicate whether selection controls should keep file extension. Default to true for files, false for folders.
dlgFind update: added regex examples for a quick reference
NewFolder function fixed: looks like the usage of showSaveDialog function changed from when the new folder function was originally created
vert layout fixed: dlgReplace fails to update ui element with message: "Cannot set property 'innerHTML' of undefined"
changed: video tag's preload=none (was metadata) because it was slowing down folders with lots of videos (>200)
fixed: when path argument points to an image, the image is now correctly displayed in the slideshow
fixed: first argument to FolderView.exe was not processed
found: strange error where under certain conditons the path must be prefixed with -- (eg electron main.js --path="c:/a/b/c" shuffle=true).
found: path operations will accept posix paths (so far) so will continue to use posix paths internally
update: startup errors are now written to Electron console
added: VSCode debugging for main process (main.js): https://www.electronjs.org/docs/tutorial/debugging-main-process-vscode
updated: Electron to v9.x
updated: ytdl-core to v3.x

May 22/2020

FireFox Tools Extension: sends video urls to FolderView for downloading and other functions
grinder: fixed bug that occured when parsing strings like "url=https://a.b?c=1" (the part after the second = was lost)
Video Download: added commandline argument to open on startup (videoURL=http...)
dlgRename: now indicates whether a rename failure was due to a locked file.
dlgMove: tweaked error messages to be more readable

Apr 23/2020

the Jul 2019 update was not uploaded to Git
updated Electron to v8.x
updated ytdl-core to 2.01
updated Video Download to work with the new ytdl-core

Jul --/2019

Last Folder (F8): updated algorithm to find last folder viewed
Video Download menu (F10): created to download Youtube videos
ffmpeg.exe: application now includes ./bin/ffmpeg.exe to combine audio and video streams into an .mkv file
execQue.js: modified to handle video downloads be creating cmdType=immediate, runs command immediately
removed node-iniparser: duplicated functionality provided by ini
removed argv-to-obj: replaced by custom library, commandline arguments no longer require "--" prefixes
added Inspect context menu: allows UI controls to be inpsected in Chrome debugger
dlgFind: expanded Find functionality
removed dlgIdx.js: functionality duplicated and expanded by dlgFind
removed sizeable: functionality duplicated and expanded by folderWalk.js

Jun 16/2019
Added a find dialog and an item index to make it easier to navigate large lists. The item index slides from the left side of the page--clicking an item scrolls it into view. The item index is only available when the main window has scroll bars.

Find menu: opens a dialog to find folder items, Ctrl+F
dlgIdx: item index slides out from the left side of page when more that 10 items in folder
dlgExecQue: mouseover hint displays list of remaining jobs
ui.var.execQueTitleMaxJobs: controls number of jobs listed in dlgExecQue mouseover hint, default=10
isotope: updated to latest version
removed from package.json because not used: "packery": "^2.1.2",
small tweaks and fixes

Jun 9/2019
The vert layout was broken after the May 26 update. I took the opportunity to update the app to handle folders with over 400 audio/image/video items. In these situations Chrome does a lot of disk thrashing as it tries to create thumbnails for the HTML controls--it looks like Chrome (as well as Windows) doesn't throttle disk access. To avoid this I added the iconOnly menu item to only display file type icons. And made vert layout much easier to read and select items so working with long lists is easier. The new column sort function of the FolderSize dialog also helps by allowing max/min item counts/sizes to be easily identified.

The execQue has been very stable. The item move functionality has been implemented there now. And added the ability to kill copy jobs and pause/resume/stop the que; move jobs can't be killed because they are functions.

FolderSize dialog: added column sorting
FolderSize menu: added F9 keyboard shortcut
"open With.../Default Application" context menu: fixed opening Directories; creates a new FolderView instance containing Directory contents
move context menu: now executed through execQue
dlbBulk: move function now executed through execQue
execQue: refactored code
execQue: can now execute functions as well as console commands
execQue: kill copy jobs by clicking status dialog
execQue: added que pause/resume/stop functionality
now using file type icons from https://github.com/dmhendricks/file-icon-vectors
vert layout: re-constructed as it was very broken after the May 26 updated
vert layout screenshot: created new, deleted old
"Layout/Icons Only" menu: added functionality to allow folders with > 400 items to be displayed without disk thrashing caused by Chrome creating icons for images and videos
iconsOnly application argument (main.js/argmap): boolean, display file icons instead of audio/image/video controls
more bug fixes and tweaks
added .m4v and .webp to the media types

Jun 1/2019
Mainly bug fixes. Added "Folder Size" menu. Tried to display videos in the slideshow put ran into some issues with Photoswipe's zoom function.

ui.var.dblClickDelay: manually handling dlbclick events because the default click/dblclick events are triggered at the same time. For example, double-clicking an image will also trigger the click event, thereby launching the slideshow while the shell associated application is run.
grid: double-clicking an image will now open it in the shell associated application
slideshow: now only handles keyboard events with it's event.target.id (pswpMain); update for Photoswipe v4.1.3
"Folder Size" menu: display folder and subfolder sizes and file counts via sizeable (https://github.com/comodinx/sizeable)
"Tools/Folder Size" context menu: display size of subfolders
dlgBulk: click dialog caption to rollup dialog
dlgRename: no longer defaults to "Autoload Items" as modified item is updated in place
dlgRename: arrow keys now work when slideshow open due to Photoswipe keyboard event update

May 26/2019
Refactored ui.js/gridLoad() and main.js/fldrObjGen(). It was a long time coming as the code was originally written for a web slideshow application, with a hasty conversion to Electron.

slideshow: now using Photoswipe v4.1.3,
slideshow: removed animations so images display quicker; background is black, no longer translucent
ui.js/gridLoad(): refactored code that loads grid items
main.js/fldrLoad(): optimized code that reads folder items; this started back in the April 29 update or so
random UI and code tweaks

May 22/2019
Created a dialog box for execQue, dlgExecQ, to display status of commands executed. Still monitoring execQue; the limit of ui.var.execQueMax=1 still provides best performance for large files--probably due to my laptop hardware.

execQue: added dlgExecQ to display status of commands that are executed
pathBar: decreased hoverDelayMs for menu buttons, so their lists popup faster
recent list: list size now controlled by ui.var.recentListMax; increased to 25 from 15
dlgBulk: tweaks

May 21/2019 (or May 112/2019)

Lots of bug fixes and refactoring for the many changes in the last update--expect more because of the number of changes. Also created an execution que (execQue.js) to copy files asynchronously, thereby freeing the UI and allowing an opportunity for performance optimization. The que will eventually be used to spawn all commands for now I'm watching it for bugs and optimizations.

Recent menu: added to main menu for quick access to previosly opened folders
dlgRename: reload button was incrementing file name before replacing
dlgRename: fixed bug where the replace function was working on last file name instead of the current
dlgRename: refactored
Order/Shuffle menu: moved from Layout menu and changed to checkbox so it can override other sort orders
Layout/Folders menu: moved from Order menu
Layout/Show Hidden menu: deleted because it duplicates "Filter/Show All" menu
"Open With/Find..." context menu: fixed error that was attaching trailing slash to paths
execQue.js: implemented to control the execution of console commands
execQue.js: ui.var.execQueMax controls number of parallel commands executed
execQue.js: found that when copying files, execQueMax=1 gives best performance; testing with 4 folders ~5GB, found ~15% faster than Explorer dragging and dropping the same folders
copy menu: now using execQue
dlgBulk: now using execQue for copying files
dlgBulk: bug fixes and refactored
slideshow: new feature allows viewing only items in selectList (if item clicked in selectList then only display images in selectList, else display all images)
grid: clicking background removes all selections

May 10/2019
Primarily made it easier to copy/delete/edit/move/rename folder items. After many years of use its a new direction for the application. And it seems to be working pretty well. With the new rename dialog, I've gone rename crazy (perhaps due to years of trauma with Windows Explorer: F2, Home, delete, delete, etc)

added screenshot of new rename dialog
copying folders now works
removed keyboard shortcuts: c(col mode), r(row mode), s(scroll), v(vert mode), w(wall mode); use Alt+ combintaions
showSlideCaptions application argument: enabled and documented, default=true; displays captions filename, dimensions, size in slideshow
fontsize application argument: now defaults to 20px
"Last Folder" menu: new function opens the second item in the recent folders list, "-" keyboard shortcut
"New Folder" menu: additonal shortcut key = n
Exit context menu: removed
slideshow: now only handles keyboard events with it's event.target.id (pswpMain)
slideshow: added item functions to context menu
slideshow: pressing c/m/delete will operate on the current item
pathBar dialog: added subtitle
pathBar dialog: after creating a new folder, items reloaded to display new folder
Open With context menu: moved to top of context menu
Open With context menu: applications are now sorted by executable name (instead of path) when execApps.json written
Open With context menu: execApps.json contents formatted with tab characters for easy editing
Open With context menu: created ui.calc.execSpawn() to spawn applications without blocking events or causing maxBuffer errors
Rename dialog: items are no longer automatically renamed by incrementing numeric portion of file name
Rename dialog: when Reload enabled, item is now selected after being renamed
Rename dialog: when closing, now closes slideshow
Rename dialog: no longer using fs.rename() because renaming a folder generates an EBUSY error
Rename dialog: added functions to select/unselect text
Rename dialog: added search and replace function
ui.var.selectList: implemented code to manage a subset of items, items in list have a green border, last item added has red border (a standard selection)
Filter/Selected All menu (Alt+A/Ctrl+A): if selectList is empty and itemselected is null, add all items to selectList, else empty selectList and/or unselect item
Ctrl+Left Click: Toggle assigning to selectList
Left Click: Empty selectList, execute default click action for item
Copy context menu: new function to copy items or selectList, keyboard shortcut = "c"
Copy context menu: created ui.calc.execAsync() to copy asynchronously (prevent large files from slowing UI)
Move context menu: if item in selectList, will open bulkOps
Tools/Delete context menu: if item in selectList will open bulkOps
Delete function: if item in selectList, will open bulkOps
Delete function: now activated by "Delete" key
BulkOps dialog: added "Auto Mode" checkbox, disables confirmation and closes dialog after selected operation completes.
BulkOps dialog: automode is OFF only when opened via "Tools/Bulk Operations" context menu
BulkOps dialog: tried to make interface easier to use
BulkOps dialog: many bug fixes
Tools/"Bulk Operations" context menu: will use selectList if item in list; default to autoMode = false
keyboardshortcuts.txt: updated

Apr 28/19

run under Node.js v10 LTS
upgraded to Electron v3.1.8; could not upgrade Electron to v5.0.0 because the browser's default double-click hanlder is run before the user defined handler
upgraded to Electron Package Manager v13.1.1
added mv (https://github.com/andrewrk/node-mv) because fs.rename fails between drives and the file system's move command fails with certain file names
pathBar.js: clicking header buttons toggles associated list
pathBar.js: added hoverDelayMs (500ms) to header buttons, this smooths navigation by preventing the lists from popping up immediately when mouse enters a header buttons
pathBar.js: added highlighting to folder item under mouse cursor (.btnFolderItem:hover)
pathBar.js: sped up loading folder items
pathBar.js: folder items now display file date and size in tooltip
pathBar.js: fixed bug that occurred when selecting a file, a new file list would be returned
updated keyboardshortcuts.txt with slideshow keys
included sample and note for settings.ini

Jan 22/19

upgraded to Node v10
upgraded to Electron v3.1.1; electron v4.0.2 has problem where dblcick event maximizes video before calling user code
upgraded to Electron Package Manager v13.0.1
addresssed new security issue: https://electronjs.org/docs/tutorial/security#2-disable-nodejs-integration-for-remote-content
ignored all warnings "[Violation] 'XXX' handler took NNNms"
fixed Move operation error when moving items between drives: "EXDEV: cross-device link not permitted ..."
changed on all menus: "Close" to "Exit (Alt+F4)"
added to context menu: "Folder Up (Backspace)"
added to context menu: "Copy to Clipboard"; when selected text available
removed from context menu: "Dev Tools (F12)"; currently available on "App Menu"
removed Application memory usage due to deprecation of process.getProcessMemoryInfo() in Electron v4 (will add later)

Nov 5/17

bug fixes for sftpDlg Auto functions
update to Node v8.9
update to Electron v1.7.9
added tmp/settings to store default sftp connection settings (using node-iniparser)

Oct 30/17

no errors in bulkOpsDlg since last update
add to bulkOps: create zero length files (and empty folders of all files)
add to dlgSftp: auto connect and auto download functions
add to top Order menu: "File Date, Descending" "File Name, Ascending" "File Size, Descending"

Oct 6/17

SFTP testing done; no errors since last git update in July.
added Bulk Copy/Delete/Move dialog, F7 shortcut key
added New Folder function, F8 shortcut key
added folder selected in Move operations to recent folder list
added height argument, if height=== 0 then max height
added width argument, if width === 0 then max width
updates to rename dlg
updates to pathBar
added text functions context menu for input, textarea
top menu items in alpha order
move item function: remove item from items array
included changes from https://github.com/tyzbit/Electron-FolderView
1. added .webm video file type
2. included keyboardshortcuts.txt (requires more updates)
general tweaks and fixes:
1. comment out height/width px of item names; text is no longer vertically truncated with large fonts
2. comment out galleryScale() in renderer.js; was generating error
3. exclude tmp and scrnshots folders from zip files (npm run build:zip)
4. store paths internally using '/' (not Windows '\') to maintain compatibility with Linux file handling
5. add Elusive Icons to replace usage of HTML entities

Jul 20/17

context menu/Tools/Delete now deletes the item from the internal list so sort functions no longer display them from browser cache
items tooltips now include file size in GB/MB/KB/bytes as appropriate
changed context menu/Delete to not use shell function due to limitations on drives with no RecycleBin
added context menu/"Open With...". Allows files to be opened with any app in file system. Apps selected are stored in tmp/execApps.json and displayed on submenu.
added SFTP dialog with remote browse/download/delete functions
updated node.js and Electron versions to latest

Apr 27/17

added F5 accelerator to menu App/Reload
added a separator and Reload to top menu

Apr 15/17

configured Export List's save dialog
added path supplied on commandline to recent folders
removed Filter from context menu
fixed bugs in Filter menu handling
added menu App/Folder Up, Backspace shortcut key
created menus Up and Change to quickly access the these functions
set folders to be displayed first by default
fixed bug in pathBar when path has no trailing slash
added package.json version number to menu App/"System Info",F2
added path export to Export List
recent list now stores last 15 folders (was 10)
changed app version to date format (ui.updateDate)

Apr 14/17

manually changed version to 0.6.0
fixed bug in clipboard functions
added menu App/"Export List" F4, to save file properties to file or clipboard
changed shortcut for "Change Folder" from F3 to F6
added menu App/"Windows Explorer" F3
modified folder double-click action to load new folder items (not open new app)

Apr 4/17

added this section
added pathBar.js to select files and folders. This is a custom control I created because I didn't like the default dialog box. I have tried to find all the bugs but...
the pathBar's library paths are loaded from an .ini file: customLibraries.ini
fixed issues with rename dialog box
fixed "Change Folder" and Reload functions
changed shortcut for "Change Folder" to F3 (changed to F6 April 14/17)
added menu item: App/"System Info", F2 to toggle
changed double-clicking folder icon to open new folderView.exe instance. This will probably change in the future.
updated dev to electron 1.6.2
added and updated screen shots

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Good Luck!

Chris.

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