Directories not displaying, if other content is inside, except preview_image

dermicha567

Hey!

i am currently using this package, to allow my client to have a filemanager inside a custom app.
Now the problem is, that directories are not able to "preview", if they have ANY content inside. My client mainly uses this for managing pdf files for orders -

Another icon would be great, for example, an open folder or something like that.

Sincerely,

Karl

dermicha567 Hi. Sorry, but I don't understand the question or problem. Do you have a link? You can send to karl @ photo.gallery.

directories are not able to "preview", if they have ANY content inside

I don't know what you mean by this ... not able to preview what? They can't click the dir? A preview image will display on folders as long as there is at least one image inside the folder.

dermicha567

Hey Karl,

great to see you are so active recently!

I am explaining to you with screenshots from the your live Demo:
Currently, the list looks like this:

There are subdirectories only in this folder in this case, but my client doesnt know that at this point in time. He has to click each directory, to check, if there are files in there, that are not images.

To let users know, there is content inside a directory, it should replace the directories SVG to something like this

Currently there is no such option inside the config, to replace preview images with just an icon like this.

Karl

dermicha567 Ok, gotcha ...

Unlike "image preview", this is not an optimal feature to implement though. With image preview, we simply load an image from each folder, and if the folder doesn't contain images, the image will be empty. There is no specific way to display a preview of files that are not images ... In your example, I just see an "open folder" image, which will be on top of the other folder icon, and this to me doesn't really imply that the folder is NOT empty ... Even if I see a normal folder without the icon, how am I supposed to know that it's empty? This isn't really normal in most file browsers.

Instead, why not display the FILE COUNT (123) on top of each directory icon? This to me is much more intuitive, because it's pretty clear that the number identifies how many files are inside the folder. This has also been requested earlier, but it's still not a simple process ... If Files Gallery needs to get the count of each folder, it not only needs to read files in the current dir, but also read/count files in all folders of the current dir ... This is slower, and is not compatible with cache, because the cache file for the displaying dir can't be validated vs all changes in all subfolders ...

So for me, displaying a file count is an interesting option, but not displaying another icon on top of the existing icon. However, even this file count will need to be optional, because it comes at the cost of slower performance.

dermicha567

Karl

This file_count would also be a solution to this problem! 😃

dermicha567

Hey @Karl !

I can see that you have added it to your todo, which a am really happy about!

I dont want to be this pressuring internet guy, but is there any chance to quickly squeeze this into a small update?
My clients business structure is created to kind of rely on that feature.

Sincerely

Karl

dermicha567 I did give it a thought, but I won't be able to squeeze this into a minor update at short notice. The reason is that it needs to be planned properly. We need to make separate browser-to-server requests for every subfolder in a loaded folder to get each folders file count (we can't get subfolder count from the same process that loads the dirs, because subfolder count isn't compatible with cache for the loaded dir). Optionally, load all dir counts in bulk after the folder loads. Also, I need to design the "count" icon for all layouts, making sure it does not overlay existing icons and buttons. I will look into it for next release, which will be a few months away.