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Painlessly expand DGME's capabilities
What would you think about a way to pass selected or highlighted files to Windows as a command line for external processing? For example, Scooter Software's Beyond Compare (BC) program lets you play 2 MP3s side by side so you can make auditory comparisons -- this is a really powerful way to compare audio content. If I was able to select very similar files from DGME's results list for further examination outside of DGME it would really streamline the duplicate finding process.
Once the external program returns control to DGME, DGME would refresh those specific entries in its list in case any properties of the files have changed. A configurable command line would tell BC to load the two files for comparison in the above example. There could even be a list of programs defined by the user for regular use. Maybe it could come with some example entries to get people started.
Once the external program returns control to DGME, DGME would refresh those specific entries in its list in case any properties of the files have changed. A configurable command line would tell BC to load the two files for comparison in the above example. There could even be a list of programs defined by the user for regular use. Maybe it could come with some example entries to get people started.
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Inappropriate?I'm not 100% sure I get this straight. So what you would like to see is a way to customize what happens when you double-click on a file. Instead of opening the file with the default application, you would like to be able to give dupeGuru a command to execute, and have the possibility to have both the dupe and the reference's path in the command.
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Inappropriate?Not exactly. I think a doubleclick should be consistent. I was thinking of a right-click option since it'd be a less-used feature than opening the file normally. But yes, the paths would need to be included.
Thus, it'd be "[path to alternate program] [file path 1] [file path 2]" for the main string, with bracketed items treated as wildcards for configuration purposes so that program-specific command line switches could also be included. Does that help? -
Inappropriate?Ok, adding it to the list.
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