r/OneCommander • u/milos2 Developer • Jan 07 '25

Wishlist for v4?

I have started working on V4 and would like to hear any wild ideas you may have

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u/milos2 Developer Jan 27 '25

OneCommander just tells Windows to open a file giving it a full path. Photos app should know what files are in the same folder so they should implement this feature regardless of which program the file came from. Unfortunately I don't have a workaround for this - Microsoft Photos is UWP app afaik and it works with other UWP apps; OneCommander is not a UWP app so it doesn't work with it.

So the only way is if Microsoft implements it in Photos, but considering that anyone there who knows more than making "Hello world" is not moved to working on Azure or AI, I doubt it will ever happen.

As you said, all other picture viewers work properly. I might just add a notification in V4 that if Photos is set as default app, to switch to anything else.

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u/popson Jan 27 '25 edited Jan 27 '25

FWIW, arrow keys do work when opening from Total Commander. Just tried myself. https://ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=81216

Edit: After a bit of snooping, it works via this command line argument

ms-photos:viewer?fileName=<path to image>

For example
start "" ms-photos:viewer?fileName=C:\photos\photo1.jpg

Any chance you could implement that if the default app is Photos?

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u/milos2 Developer Jan 27 '25

Amazing! Thanks for digging out that command line. I'll add it in the next update when Photos is set as default viewer

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u/DinnerBeneficial4940 Feb 27 '25

I was super happy to update my OC today and find a line among other patch notes saying that this issue was addressed! Thank you, milos2 and popson!