File links in Codesnippets Plugin using File Browser

[mariocup]

Hi CB team,

I am using codesnippets plugin and the file browser of (cbiplugin). As it is to easy navigate within the filesystem with the file explorer it would be time saving to add file links to the codesnippets plugin in the following manner.

1. Select a file in the file explorer or text within the cb editor an hold the left mouse button
2. Drag the file or text to a folder/subcategory of the codesnippets view
3. Generate an add snippet and pop up the properties dialog containing already the file link or text.

What do you think about that?

Bye,

Mario

[dmoore]

For right click on file/folders it would be easy for Pecan to add a context menu item to add the link.

For drag and drop I will need to do some more work on my end...

[Pecan]

Hi CB team,

I am using codesnippets plugin and the file browser of (cbiplugin). As it is to easy navigate within the filesystem with the file explorer it would be time saving to add file links to the codesnippets plugin in the following manner.

1. Select a file in the file explorer or text within the cb editor an hold the left mouse button
2. Drag the file or text to a folder/subcategory of the codesnippets view
3. Generate an add snippet and pop up the properties dialog containing already the file link or text.

What do you think about that?

Bye,

Mario

CodeSnippets already accepts dragged text or file lists when dragged on top of a category. It creates a new text snippet or fileLink by the name "new snippet".

Right click for the properties context menu and change the name, or left click and hold to edit the label.

[dmoore]

Pecan: Any interest in implementing the file explorer integration? it sounds like a reasonable thing to me (file explorer accepts multiple file/directory selections and passes a string containing the list of selections to each plugin's BuildModuleMenu). I could also add support for the drag and drop messaging...

[Pecan]

Pecan: Any interest in implementing the file explorer integration? it sounds like a reasonable thing to me (file explorer accepts multiple file/directory selections and passes a string containing the list of selections to each plugin's BuildModuleMenu). I could also add support for the drag and drop messaging...

I'm sorry. I don't understand.
Why would CodeSnippets want to present a list of files in it's context menus?

[dmoore]

other way round. fileexplorer passes the list of files to codesnippets, presumably to be stored as a snippet.

[Pecan]

other way round. fileexplorer passes the list of files to codesnippets, presumably to be stored as a snippet.

Does the user want to create an individual snippet (fileLink) for each file in the incomming list, or one snippet containing all the filenames?

[mariocup]

Hi Pecan,

I would prefer to create an individual snippet (fileLink) for each file in the incomming list.

I have different categories in the codesnippets view: documentation (file links to pdf files), hardware (files links to layouts), Headers (files links to general headers) etc.

These files are spread on different network drives, so it is easier to navigate with the file explorer to location of the files and drag the file to the codesnippets view than browsing the path with the properties dialog.