File Window Layout Enhancements

[Mario]

Incidentally, this is related to a bug report that just rolled in today.

I've had some troubles with the 3rd party XAML layout engine used to render File Window layouts.
They did an update and it broke some things. Yup. Old story.
And the reason why I try to avoid 3rd party components where possible, or replace them with my own code over time.

Anyways, in order to make things work and in a more predictable way, I found a neat trick that helped me to fix this problem (and the one in the bug report linked to above).

The next version of IMatch supports custom column widths for File Window layouts.
You can now configure rations like 80/20 or 20/80 to make one column occupy more space than the other, allowing for word wrapping and text flow for metadata tags or standard File Window layout attributes that hold larger amounts of text.

This is from the release notes. Left: default 50/50 ratio, right: 80/20 ratio to allow for more room for the left column.

[sinus]

This is fantastic! 

[Jingo]

This is indeed wonderful to make things "fit" a bit nicer for custom layouts.. very cool!

[Mario]

Yes.
I have updated all standard File Window layouts shipped with IMatch to make use of the new flexibility.
Mostly, the layouts which show file name left / extension right now use a 80/20 ratio.
The Index layout uses 20/80.

The release notes explain that and also how to re-import the standard File Window layouts.