Copy different files to another directory

Marco Nef · Post by **Marco Nef** » Sun May 16, 2004 1:57 pm

Hi

For my dayly work with Exam Diff Pro I miss the following functionality: How about a button that allows to copy the changed files to another directory that can be chosen freely. Very important: The directory structure should be kept.

Thanks
Marco

Post by **psguru** » Sun May 16, 2004 1:59 pm

There is already following suggestion at http://www.prestosoft.com/ps.asp?page=edp_suggestions :
"Add 'Copy To...' command to directory comparison view".
I'll add your vote to it.

Marco Nef · Post by **Marco Nef** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 12:55 am

Another idea that would be really helpfull and is in this context:

If I have an ExamDiff in file comparison mode, I often would like to drag a file from one of the file panes and drop it to an explorer window with the intention to copy it to that location.

By the way: This forum is great and your support even better!

Post by **psguru** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:34 am

Now that "Add 'Copy To...' command to directory comparison view" is implemented in 3.3, do you want "Copy To..." command added to the file comparison context menu?

Marco Nef · Post by **Marco Nef** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:43 am

No, maybe I wasn't clear enough. Take the following situation: There are two screens in front of you, on one of them is ExamDiff, on the other is Windows Explorer. The feature I would like to have is the following: Drag a file from ExamDiff by taking it with the mouse and drop it in any directory shown in Windows Explorer at that moment, which means that the file should be copied.

Post by **psguru** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:25 pm

I don't think such functionality is very useful, or easily discoverable, and hence worth the effort. Dragging from a file pane will interfere with drag-n-drop editing - if a selection exists, and is a little unusual -- if a selection does not exist.

An easy alternative is to use Explorer Menu (Right Click, Explorer Menu, or Shift-Right Click), then Copy command. Then simply paste the file into your Explorer window.

Marco Nef · Post by **Marco Nef** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 10:52 pm

You're right, that's a good alternative.

psguru wrote:Dragging from a file pane will interfere with drag-n-drop editing - if a selection exists, and is a little unusual -- if a selection does not exist.

What's that? I've never seen any drag n' drop functionality in a file pane and can't find it now.

Post by **psguru** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 7:02 am

Select text in a file comparison pane, drag it into the same pane or the opposite one.

Marco Nef · Post by **Marco Nef** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 7:09 am

Sorry, I think I made some confusion about file and directory pane. What I was talking about was allways the directory pane where I can see several files at at time, not their content. So my wish is a drag/drop from the directory pane to an explorer window.

Post by **psguru** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 7:12 am

I see. I'll add your vote to

Drag and Drop files and subdirectories from directory comparison panes to other Windows applications

af http://www.prestosoft.com/ps.asp?page=edp_suggestions