TC11.x bug reports (English) • Re: Toolbar "%Z%C1 %Z%C2" cuts of archive subdirectory on filename match

Confirmed

If I use a button like:

To make the button:
1. Mark the text in the box here above (click SELECT ALL).
2. Copy it to the ClipBoard (press Ctrl+C).
3. Right click on TC's buttonbar and choose "Paste".

Then if one or both sides are inside an archive, I get the message: "Left file not found!" or "Right file not found!".

For me it does not matter whether the file in the archive is in a subdir or not.

If I have for example these two files:
c:\test\file.txt
c:\test\file.zip

and inside c:\test\file.zip is the file file.txt but with a different content than c:\text\file.txt, then if I have the cursor on c:\test\file.txt on the left side and i have c:\test file.zip opened on the right side, then the two paths shown when I use cm_IntCompareFilesByContent are:
c:\test\file.txt
C:\TEMP\_tc\file.txt

But if I use the button here above these paths are shown:
c:\test\file.txt
c:\test\file.zip\file.txt

So with the customized compare button the archive file is not recognized as such and is therefore not unpacked to be compared.

But I would categorize this a missing feature rather than a bug.

If I inside the c:\test\file.zip file also has a subdir with a file.txt file inside - I can confim that the path is only shown as c:\test\file.zip\subdir\file.txt when I explicitly select the file c:\test\file.zip\subdir\file.txt (or make the right side the active side and place the cursor on file.txt) - otherwise c:\test\file.zip\file.txt is shown - This I consider to be a bug!

If I replace %C2 with %T%M and don't mark c:\test\file.zip\subdir\file.txt the path is shown correctly for the right side.


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"%Z%C1 %Z%C2"

You don't have to repeat the %Z parameter, one time is enough.

If I explicitly select the file on both sides it works with the custom toolbar too.

I guess that you are not using TC as the external compare tool, since this works for you.

Statistics: Posted by petermad — 2025-04-18, 11:47 UTC

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