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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Retrieving project file pathnames]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>John,</p><p>On Windows, hovering does give the full path.&nbsp; I think it was just skipped for development time on the Linux version.&nbsp; I&#039;ll see that it is added.</p>]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[jeff]]></name>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Retrieving project file pathnames]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Jeff, is there any easy way to find out the pathnames, of files listed in the Project tab?</p><p>Most of the files in my project lists are stored in a source files subdirectory in that same project, so I always know where most of them are.&nbsp; </p><p>Sometimes, however, a project has one or two source files, pulled into another project, or from somewhere deep inside the Windows file structure, where they may have been installed automatically by running an &#039;install&#039; executable provided with a downloaded Fortran library.&nbsp; It can take a lot of effort to track down these files, when all I have to go on is the file name in the project list, but no pathname!</p><p>It becomes important to be able to retrieve this information sometimes, such as when creating another project and looking at a previous one to find out how it was built.&nbsp; Or when deleting a project file name but needing to add it back later. </p><p>If any way could be added to SF to enable pathnames to be retrieved, it would be especially useful if they could copyable into the clipboard.</p><p>If there isn&#039;t an easy way to do so, then I am wondering whether it would be very troublesome for you to add another action to the right-click menu for files in the &#039;Project&#039; files list - and it occurs to me that you might like to consider doing so in any case.</p><p>At the moment, right-clicking on one of the file names gives a menu of nine available actions.<br />Of these, seven are not actions specific to the files being right-clicked but are project-related actions.&nbsp; That is, these same seven actions can be obtained by right-clicking on any of the files in the project list.&nbsp; &nbsp;</p><p>The two FILE-SPECIFIC actions that can be taken by selecting them in the right-click list are these:<br />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; :<br />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; :<br />&nbsp; &nbsp;[Remove item] <br />&nbsp; &nbsp;[Disable file]<br />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; :<br />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; :&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p>( As an aside, I am wondering why these two use inconsistent terminology.)&nbsp; <br />( Would it not be better for them to be, &#039;Remove file&#039; and &#039;Disable file&#039;?&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; )<br />( This is not the my main point in this post, however.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; )</p><p>What I am writing to ask, Jeff, is whether you could add third file-specific action, of the <span class="bbu">file properties</span>, thus:<br />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; :<br />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; :<br />&nbsp; &nbsp;[Remove file] <br />&nbsp; &nbsp;[Disable file]<br />&nbsp; &nbsp;[Properties]<br />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; :<br />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; :&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p>Save for one particular property, I am unsure of what kinds of properties it might me useful to include, but selecting this option could then produce a list of them.&nbsp; Perhaps they could include the files last save-date, its first line (or its first 3 or 4 lines), its type (whether a source file, a compiled object file, a library etc), and, <span class="bbu"> the particular one I am looking for</span>, the <span class="bbu">pathname</span>. </p><p>I would be happy if the additional file-specific menu action was only to display the pathname, because it is this alone which I know I&#039;d find helpful.&nbsp; eg<br />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; :<br />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; :<br />&nbsp; &nbsp;[Remove file] <br />&nbsp; &nbsp;[Disable file]<br />&nbsp; &nbsp;[Pathname]<br />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; :<br />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; :&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p>Alternatively it would be helpful if the pathname could be made to appear by just hovering the mouse pointer over a filename in the project list, although I assume that this would not make pathnames clibboard-copyable.</p><p>--- <br />John</p>]]></content>
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