Please add --scan option in the GUI

[ecxod]

Please add --scan option in the GUI

of course one can use it on console and it works. But It would be nice to have the option to select the Folder to scan from the GUI.

Thank you very much.

[lordmulder]

Not quite sure what you mean :confused:

This is a GUI application, i.e. there is no separate "console" version, so I don't understand what exactly you mean with:

of course one can use it on console and it works

Anyway, command-line option --scan already exists, in the GUI program (the only one that exists), and should work.

[ecxod]

Right now there are several clicks necessary to scan/re-scan the same folder. My suggestion is following : I start the program like this :

C:\Users\ecxod>DoubleFileScanner.exe --scan F:\MyMusic

because I usually compare the same folder.

Is it possible to make a menu point "File">>"Select Folder" that remembers the folder-combination to be scanned? Right now "Start Scan" suggests that all Files on Disk will be compared.

[lordmulder]

First of all, if you start the program with the --scan option, then it will scan that folder right away.

You can simply close the window and re-run the program with command-line option --scan, in order to scan that folder again.

If you select "File" → "Start new scan", or just click the "Start scan" button at the bottom, then this will not "suggests that all Files on Disk will be compared", but it will simply bring up the "Select directories" dialog, as is expected 😏

Nonetheless, I think we could have something like a new "♻Re-scan" button next to the "▶ Start new scan" button. But I can not give you any ETA for this, because I have not actively been working on this program for many years...

Regards.

[ecxod]

It was just a suggestion, I have a "custom button" with "--scan" in a Folder for each Situation. Thank you, for the code.

[Gitoffthelawn]

I think we could have something like a new "♻Re-scan" button next to the "▶ Start new scan" button.

That sounds like an excellent idea!