Can I suggest AltGr-Drag should by default create a shortcut just as Alt-Drag does, this would give left and right options much as Shift or Ctrl can have. It seems to be otherwise unused.
It might be at some point that AltGr drag to a folder could (if specified by the user) execute a two-parameter user-script (dragged file and drop folder), so people could program it to perform for example hard or symbolic links, shrinking a dragged image (you altgr-drag an image to a folder and a shrunk version is placed in it) and so on. That could be achieved by an advanced option where the user specifies the script action.
David
AltGr ideas
Re: AltGr ideas
I will consider an option to allow AltGr-drag to create a shortcut.
Thank you for the suggestion.
Does Windows Explorer do this?
(From my testing it doesn't work as it's seen as Right Ctrl + Right Alt -maybe a real keyboard is different?)
Thank you for the suggestion.
Does Windows Explorer do this?
(From my testing it doesn't work as it's seen as Right Ctrl + Right Alt -maybe a real keyboard is different?)
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meteorquake
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Re: AltGr ideas
Windows explorer doesn't process AltGr as a modifier for a drag (just tested, W10).
Thinking more about the 2-parameter drag part of the idea, it could be that other keyboard modifiers such as letters could be user-assigned if they can be captured as modifiers, so a user could set it up so that "2"-dragging an image into a folder will place a 2400-px-edge copy of the image in the folder, "1" drag could do the same but 1200-px-edge, "H"-drag a file could place a hard link there, "S"-drag could place a symbolic link, "W"-drag one file over another could launch a comparison with winmerge, and so on, the possibilities are limitless.
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Thinking more about the 2-parameter drag part of the idea, it could be that other keyboard modifiers such as letters could be user-assigned if they can be captured as modifiers, so a user could set it up so that "2"-dragging an image into a folder will place a 2400-px-edge copy of the image in the folder, "1" drag could do the same but 1200-px-edge, "H"-drag a file could place a hard link there, "S"-drag could place a symbolic link, "W"-drag one file over another could launch a comparison with winmerge, and so on, the possibilities are limitless.
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