@brian-gregory
Brian,
“In a shop”? How quaint .
It is difficult to buy a regular-sized mouse without them these days. Just look on Amazon.
It also irks me when there is a functionality in windows that I use, that many programs implement and a few do not .
IMHO, not an unreasonable request.
Nice idea spwolf, as part of any R&D this will be a valued and welcome tool in order to assist Powerarchiver maintain an already excellent customer service and in theory enable conexware to role out important fixes/patches faster with less impact to the end user.
7-Zip Optimized Compression in PowerArchiver
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What is it?**
From PowerArchiver 2009, we have added feature called Optimized 7-Zip compression. This feature is currently unique to PowerArchiver 2009.
With Optimized Compression we have tried to solve one of the most important issues that 7-Zip has when compared to ZIP and RAR formats, which is speed and automatic detection of content being compressed.
What does it do?
With Optimized compression feature on, PowerArchiver tries to smartly detect files that are being compressed and assign special compression methods to improve either speed or compression. In the case of text files, it automatically uses PPMd compression for them (instead of LZMA) which has a lot better compression ratio and is also faster. For files that can not be compressed further, it uses different LZMA settings to speed up compression without losing compression strenght. It also works great with solid setting on, which is reccomended as not only it increases compression strenght but also speed as well.
Results
Results are double the compression strenght on text files, and double the speed on files that can not be compressed (mp3, avi, mpeg, etc). Obviously these are the best case scenarios, and in real life usage it depends on data that you are trying to compress.
@Big_Boss said in hang when using the Test function with 7z archives:
I seem to have found a bug :o
I’ve tested with several different files, and PowerArchiver always hangs indefinitely when the Test function is used with a 7zip type archive (at least files created with this version of PowerArchiver, I did not have files created with other software to test with). It just does not work, and the process needs to be manually terminated. With other types of archive like zip the Test function does work properly, the problem is only with 7z files.
Windows 8.1 64-bit, latest PowerArchiver version in x64
Thanks for the report, @Mili will write it up
@TheAndyMac said in Details List not displaying properly on Hi-DPI display:
The Details list of an archive is not displaying correctly on my Hi-DPI display (version 18.00.57). The others (including List and Small Icon) are working fine. The line spacing on the Details list is too small.
What is the dpi setting there? Thanks.
@luxor said in Slow drawing of main window.:
@spwolf said in Slow drawing of main window.:
I will check if we can improve this. I dont think it was any different in previous builds.
In previous builds I’ve never seen the scroll bar out of position like it is in this build.
If it did occur it was obviously too fast for my old eyes to pick up on it.
might depend on number of files in the folder, but i went back to .37 and if folders bar + skins + hdd browse is on, scroll bar of the folders bar will be seen changing size at startup.
I wrote it in… thanks!
Wrong version on Glary Utilities software update check, even if i have newer version installed. i have to install version from website not inbuilt powerarchiver update check to get rid of mglary utilites notifcation of powerarchiver update
@drteeth said in PA 18.00.53 tab opening:
Hi spwolf,
No worries about the late reply.
As for your problem with many tabs, just have a “close all” option.
What about my request to be able to use a mouse’s forward and back buttins to navigate the archive? I always press my back button first by instinct and only then realise that I have to use the cursor and my left mouse button.
I look forward to the tab enhancements.
Cheers
DrTeeth
opened up a new thread about that:
https://forums.powerarchiver.com/topic/5984/move-back-and-forth-via-prev-next-buttons-in-archive-folders
@bigmike said in Tabs, empty windows and extra closing.:
@spwolf said in Tabs, empty windows and extra closing.:
But good idea about something there if user is not using/browsing hdd? Maybe MRU archives? Or output from favorite archives window? @Alpha-Testers - i know @Brian-Gregory is using classic with folders, maybe he can give some input?
How will this work with your proposal here?
1st tab on opening with no arguments: Files and folders/folder pane shows “My PC”
1st tab on opening with archive: Archive content/folder pane shows archive folder structure
opening an archive will open a new tab, folder pane shows archive folder structure
opening a new tab by (+) will show MRU list/Favorites?
On the first guess, I would vote for “Favorites” to fill the empty pane
Probably, that will make it pretty confusing for the standard user…
But the pane should never be empty. That is confusing, too.
Maybe restricting browsing “My PC” to explorer mode and using folder pane in archive mode consequently for Favorites/MRU and for archive folder structures, in case an archive is open, is smarter.
both folder panel and browsing hdd in archive mode are optional features, default is that there is no folder panel and there is no hdd browsing in archive mode.
So i dont think it will be too crazy for pro users… and it is useful for sure.
@brian-gregory said in Alt+Enter in Modern Toolbar?:
What is ALT-Enter supposed to do?
It always used to be full screen toggle in the old days which is now F11.
properties window… before it did not work in modern, also shortcuts were quite random.
@bigmike said in Sorting broken in all views but details view:
I can confirm, that this problem is fixed here in 18.00.56. Thank you.
thanks for reporting it!
@darthpingoo said in Pressing tools buttons restarts app:
@spwolf Are you planning to implements Ribbon in FTP/Backup/Burner tools too?
We cant do it in main PA GUI, since we cant hide individual ribbon ui components, this is technology limitation of Microsoft Ribbon UI SDK that we use for ribbon.
So people who bought Standard and Professional licenses, and also our Enterprise users that hide those from their own users (most of our Enterprise users limit this functionality as security measure), would have Backup, Burner and FTP always there which would be very annoying for them.
edit: if you thought it pabackup.exe, paburner.exe, etc, yeah, it is possible to do it there in the future. We have to have both options since Ribbon UI is only available from Windows Vista & 7, so our Windows XP users still need to have classic interface option.
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