Basic Concept

 

As you see the centre of PiCo are those two panes that contain the tabs "File View", "Filter View" and "FFL View". One of the panes is always active the other always passive. When you click on one it becomes active and the other becomes passive. The background (of the file list) of the passive pane becomes grey. As you can see in the picture above the right pane is the passive one.

All commands are related to the active pane. Some commands use the directory of the passive pane to place files to e.g FileCopy, Move, Unzip, Add 2 Zip, Extract, Add, Create Lib, List to File and Convert to. For example selecting files in the active pane and pressing Filecopy will copy these selected files to the directory displayed in the passive pane.

Clicking the right mouse button over the file list in Filter View, over the filter list in Filter View, over the FFL list in FFL View and over the window background of the Filter Factory Editor window will pop up a context menu.

PiCo has three differnt views:

A essential part of PiCo is the Filter Factory Editor. Hope these comments helped to have a good start with PlugIn Commander. Maybe not all possibilities are mentioned, so keep on playing with PiCo's features ...