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Remote Drive Tree
Posted by toddw
on 2007-11-16 15:27
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Here is an extension that provides a servers tab inside of Komodo (installed after the Code Browser tab).
This extension provides a server tree row, one for each of your server accounts set in server preferences.
The server tree rows are expandable and upon selection of a server tree row, the file contents will be displayed in a file tree (located just below the server tree).
The file tree rows can be selected and the correstponding files can be opened by double-clicking a row or by pressing the enter key.
Updates
1.3.0
- Added native file images for the file listings
- Hopefully fix a bug of Komodo hanging when toggling open/closed a directory (bug 81497)
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Hi Todd,
first of all, thanks a lot for the extension, it's so practical, awesome.
I've got a suggestion to make: clicking on a folder could display contained sub-folders instead of only displaying files in the clicked folder. I don't really need to have the tree expanded a lot of times, so clicking on a displayed sub-folder in the clicked one would suffice. The current behaviour is a little deviant from what I've come to expect from a FTP software. Hope I am making any sense here.
Keep up the good work!
It seems fairly normal to me that the files would be displayed with the subfolders of the folder being clicked.
Hi Todd
Great addon, awesome!
It would be nice to see chmod option or by clicking right mouse button to see some option as "remove,rename"...
Great addon, but.. I think what people really want in such an addon is actually a light ftp client. A way to add/delete/edit files on an FTP server directly on a remote server as you would do with dreamweaver, coda and so on.
Any plans/rumors of a "complete" ftp addon to Komodo?
Best regards,
Thomas
Hi Thomas,
The Komodo team do not have any plans to create/modify the ftp functionality or modify the existing ftp add-ons in the near future.
Note that Komodo's remote file dialog ("File->Open->Remote File" menu) does provide the ability to "delete" and "rename" (through the right-click context menu) as well as the ability to create new directories.
Komodo (since it is built on top of Mozilla) can also re-use a lot of existing Firefox extensions, so perhaps one of the existing FTP extensions like FireFTP could be ported to Komodo. I'm sure it would not be too difficult to do (at least for someone who has knowledge of XUL and/or Mozilla extensions).
Cheers,
Todd
Based on what I've seen in these forums, and in my own experience, I am very surprised by the lack of plans for FTP improvements. The primary use case for web developers is to work on files locally and then deploy to an FTP server once complete. This basic functionality is prevalant in every IDE I've worked in, even free ones like Aptana. Why not in Komodo? I don't think it's reasonable to just assume someone will write an extension ... if it's so simple, why can't the Komodo team create one?
I have defined remote servers (SCP and FTP) in Komodo's Preferences section, including usernames and passwords. When I browse the remote server using Remote Drive Tree, the folders are displayed (so the login must have been successful). However when I double click on a file to edit it, I am prompted for my username and password, which shouldn't be necessary.
I have only seen this happen with Komodo Edit 5.0.1 and 5.0.2. If I use the "Open Remote File" menu option within Komodo, I am not prompted for credentials. The same version of Remote Drive Tree (1.2.0) works fine with Komodo Edit 4.4.1 (no additional login prompt), so I wonder if there is a subtle change come in with Komodo 5.x that affects Remote Drive Tree?
Thanks,
Kippy
Hi Kippy,
we had the very same issue.
Have you entered a port number?
Once we entered the default port number 21 for FTP the problem went away.
Hope this helps,
Gregor
Yep, once I added the port numbers (21 for FTP, 22 for SCP) there were no additional prompts :-)
Strange that it's able to connect to the server successfully to get the directory structure etc. just by assuming the port numbers from the protocol specified, and the problem only comes up when opening a file.
Thanks
Kippy
Thanks for the reports and the workaround, it helped to track down the problem:
http://bugs.activestate.com/show_bug.cgi?id=81137
You'll still need to user the workaround until this can be fixed properly in the Komodo codebase (likely 5.1.0).
Cheers,
Todd
Well the work around poses a problem for me but more so it's marked fixed/solved/resolved as of 5.0.2 However I'm running Komodo Edit, version 5.1.1, build 3355, platform win32-x86.
Built on Wed Apr 01 08:16:13 2009. and I have this problem. Setting the ports doesn't fix anything. Does anyone have something further to suggest?
Please ensure your "Remote drive tree" extension is the latest version: 1.3.0.
If it's up-to-date, can you add your specific problem/details to the above bug report.
Specifically I'd like to know:
* full path of the filename in question
* Komodo server preference settings (alias, port, path, username, etc...)
Thanks,
Todd
OK so you want a few things but I'm unsure of what your really asking so let's go through this piece by piece.
Please ensure your "Remote drive tree" extension is the latest version: 1.3.0.
--- It is
If it's up-to-date, can you add your specific problem/details to the above bug report.
--- meaning --> http://bugs.activestate.com/show_bug.cgi?id=81137
Specifically I'd like to know:
* full path of the filename in question
--- from what perspective, the web server root, the servers full file system path, or network to webserver root to file?
* Komodo server preference settings (alias, port, path, username, etc...)
--- This is a huge list, happens on all servers server type ftp, port (this never saves in Komodo so all the discussion about 1 vs -1, or actual port number is moot for me as Komodo always discards this) hostname 192.168.X.X yada yada
--- there is no difference if I use a domain name or if I have files being opened locally off local network addresses.
I love this extension, is there a way to "sync" server configurations between mac, win, linux?
Scott
There is no way to currently sync the server settings.
You could use a Komodo macro to dump out the accounts and then the same to read them in, it's a bit of work, but it's possible.
Komodo needs a generic sync extension, one that can easily synchronize the different settings in Komodo, such as the server preferences, toolbox, keybinding / color schemes, etc...
Cheers,
Todd
how go up from default directory?
The remote drive tree is a simplistic view of the filesystem and does not provide a way to move above the default directory.
You can use Komodo's "File->Open->Remote File" dialog to navigate around the remote file system, or change the starting directory to "/".
Cheers,
Todd
Hi Todd
I see you are only one here who is answering, even answering ridicules questions (ex. parent dir).
There is something missing in FTP client of komodo which i really miss. It's:
1) caching. Using caching of ls of files would be perfect!
2) progress bar. Sometimes it takes minutes to get list of files of server (specialy if it's slow server). It would be nice to see some icon while it's loading.
3) writing code while loading. I'm using Komodo edit 5.0.3 and it stucks while loading files. it would be nice to make it background progress so i could keep writing the code while loading.
Best regards
Komodo does cache the remote file information for both the remote drive tree and the "Open->Remote file" dialog, and there is a "Refresh the current Directory" button on both of these UI elements.
Yes, asynchronous loading with a progress bar would be a nice feature (points 2 and 3), it's on the cards but not implemented yet.
Also it would be great if saving was done in the background. It's annoying that saving currently locks the interface.
Is it just me or has this stopped working in 5.1? When I switch to the "Servers" tab I just get a grey tab with no content.
Note that I'm using the latest Nightly and I'm not sure if it worked on 5.1 Final..
Hi Nathan,
It's working for me on Linux / Ubuntu. Are there any errors in the Komodo log files:
http://community.activestate.com/faq/komodo-file-locations#log_files
Cheers,
Todd
Hi,
It's working on Windows Vista 64 as well and even imported
my seeting from 5.0 :-)
Gregor
Hi Todd, the psystderr.log has quite some messages in it, what I did is I cleared it, restarted Komodo and checked it again.. there were a couple of lines.. I then switched to the "Servers" tab and the error log grew significantly..
Here are the contents (Komodo Edit, version 5.1.1, build 3301, platform win32-x86)
C:\Program Files\ActiveState Komodo Edit 5\lib\mozilla\python\komodo\Crypto\Hash\SHA.py:6: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead from sha import * C:\Program Files\ActiveState Komodo Edit 5\lib\mozilla\python\komodo\Crypto\Hash\MD5.py:6: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead from md5 import * [2009-03-26 09:18:27,157] [ERROR] extensions.sourcetree: Loading Tree[object Object] [2009-03-26 09:18:34,703] [ERROR] KoObserverService: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Program Files\ActiveState Komodo Edit 5\lib\mozilla\components\koObserverService.py", line 82, in __init__ osSvc.addObserver(self._nsIObserver, 'xpcom-shutdown', 1) File "", line 3, in addObserver Exception ... addObserver exception aboves repeats 20 times ...Hi Nathan,
Try disabling some of the other extensions, such as the "Source Tree" extension (and other third-party extensions) to see if these are the cause of the problem.
Cheers,
Todd
Thanks Todd, the problem was caused by JSTreeDrive.
I just added a remote folder and thought it didn't work, until I restarted Komodo and the new server was there. Is that normal / acceptable behavior around these parts?
I didn't notice the reload button there. Quite obviously. I thought on adding a new server it would refresh. Thanks
Nod, it should be made to automatically refresh. There is a bug on this limitation here:
http://bugs.activestate.com/show_bug.cgi?id=57127
I am getting the following javascript error when clicking on a server to expand its directories:
"Connection error: Operation now in progress"
This just started happening today for some reason. Can't think of anything I would have changed between yesterday and today that might cause this. I can connect to the servers in question fine with other ftp clients.
I have tried reinstalling the extension, disabling all other extensions, restarting, etc. I'm using the latest version of Komodo on a Mac.
Any thoughts? Thank you.
EDIT: Actually it appears this is happening within Komodo itself. I'll seek a solution there. Thanks.