Introduction

• What is Multi Commander
• System Requirements
• Download and Installation
• Upgrading
• License

Overview / Layout

• Main Application Layout
  • Menu Bar
  • Standard Command Bar
  • File Commands
  • Drive Bar
  • Command line Bar
  • Quick Launch Bar
  • Status Bar
• Extensions and Plug-ins
• Favorites
• Button Panel
• Panel Tabs

Panels

• Explorer Panel
  • Layout
    • Path Field
  • Navigation
  • Customize Columns
  • Customize Column Layouts
  • Folder Tree
  • File Coloring
  • Pasting Clipboard Data into Explorer Panel
• File Search

FileSystem

• Multi Commander's Virtual FileSystem
• Archives (Zip, Rar, 7Zip)
• Network (NET:)
• Portable (WPD:)
• Registry (REG:)
• FTP (FTP:)
• Favorites (FAV:)

File Operations

• Copy/Move Operations
  • Copy/Move using Presets
  • Copy/Move using Filters
  • Copy/Move Progress Window
• Delete Operations
• Pack Files
  • Packer Profiles
  • External Packers
• Unpack Files

Extensions

• MultiRename
• File Checksum
  • Create
  • Verify
• MultiDataViewer - The File Viewer 
• Internal Picture Viewer
• Language Editor

Tools

• Select/Unselect files and folders
• Calculate Folder Size
• Change File Properties (Attributes, Date/Time)
• Create Folders
• Correct Folder Date/Time
• Find Opened/Locked Files
• Send to the Clipboard (Path, Filename, ... )
• Rename Tools
• Text Tools
  • Text Conversion Tools
  • Sort Lines in Files
  • Find and Replace in Files
• Base 64 Encoding/Decoding
• File Security
• File Checksum Tools
• Picture Tools
• Audio Tools
• Video Tools

Customization and Configuration

• Managing Aliases (Alias Editor)
• File Type Setup
• Button Editor
  • Button Panel - Wizard Mode
• User Menu Editor
• Keyboard Customization (Shortcuts)
  • Default Keyboard Shortcuts (Commander Style)
  • Default Keyboard Shortcuts (Windows Explorer Style)
• Custom ContexMenu Editor
• Filters

Configuring the Layout

• Core Settings
• Explorer Panel Settings 
• Change Look and Feel to Windows Explorer Mode

User Commands and Scripting

• User Defined Commands
  • Internal Commands
  • External Commands
  • Custom Commands
    • List of Custom Commands
    • Examples
  • Batch Script (.BAT)
  • MultiScript
    • Language Syntax
    • Script Functions
      • Type checks and type converters
      • Array functions
      • String functions
      • RowList functions
      • Date/Time functions
      • File System functions
      • Registry functions
      • Panel Selections and Paths
      • Tab Panel
      • Misc functions (Logging, Load/Save to file, Clipboard, MessageBox, ... )
    • Extension defined MultiScript functions
      • FTP functions
      • Checksum functions
    • MultiScript Debugger
    • Examples
  • MultiTags

Other

• Backup and Restore Configuration
• Cleanup User Data
• MultiUpdate
• Command Line Parameters
• Custom configuration paths, Additional script folders
• Credits and Acknowledgements

API

• Multi Commander Windows Message API

Troubleshooting

• Multi Commander Hangs and is Not Responding
• Multi Commander Crashes

FAQ (pages to follow)

• Favorites
• Show Hidden files/folders
• Customize Colors
• Enter folder on Single Click
• Save and Resize Columns

Index

• Content Index

Extensions and Plug-ins

Multi Commander is built around extensions and plug-ins.
Some of the extension are built directly into Multi Commander and some of them are located as external DLL files.

This allows for Multi Commander to grow with new features in an easy way and for other developers to create plugins to extend Multi Commander.

With the Manage Plugins and Extensions selection in the Configuration menu you can enable and disable extensions and plugins.

There are 4 types of extensions and plug-ins:

Application Extensions

These are extensions that have GUIs and create new tabs with functions in Multi Commander. Examples of Application Extensions are the Explorer Panel and File Search.

FileSystem Plug-ins

All filesystems and archives that Multi Commander supports are handled by plug-ins. There are plug-ins for Zip, 7-Zip, RAR, FTP and the Registry.

File Operations Plug-ins

These are plug-ins that are used when copying and moving files. These plug-ins can change how and where files are read and written.

FileProperties Plug-ins

These plug-ins allow for more data to be shown about files in new columns in the Explorer Panel. For Example the filesystem plug-in FS-Registry also has a FileProperties Extension allowing you to see the special registry information in the Explorer Panel.

Configuration of Virtual FileSystem Plug-ins

Configuration of which file extension a file system plug-in uses are configured here.
Read more about that under the Virtual FileSystem pages