{"id":5939,"date":"2019-06-02T14:00:03","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/?p=5939"},"modified":"2019-07-07T16:09:29","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T16:09:29","slug":"visual-installers-file-list-can-be-refreshed-automatically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/2019\/06\/visual-installers-file-list-can-be-refreshed-automatically\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Installer&#8217;s file list can be refreshed automatically"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/pad\/icons\/visual_installer.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\">You may already know that if you press the <strong>F5<\/strong> key on your keyboard or choose the <strong>List &#8211; Refresh List<\/strong> menu item in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/visual-installer\/visual-installer.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Visual Installer&#8217;s<\/a> editor, the contents of the file list (in the editor&#8217;s <strong>File List<\/strong> tab) is refreshed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/images\/product-visual-installer\/vi-menu-list--refresh-list.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>When a file list is refreshed, file dates and size information etc. is updated. If a file is missing at a source file path, you will be informed about that.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to have the file list refreshed automatically when a project is opened, this is also possible. If you choose the <strong>Special &#8211; Editor options<\/strong> menu item and select the <strong>Update file list automatically<\/strong> option in the dialog box that is shown (see the picture below)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/images\/product-visual-installer\/vi-dialogbox-editor-options--update-file-list-automatically.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>the file list will be updated automatically when the .VIP project file is opened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may already know that if you press the F5 key on your keyboard or choose the List &#8211; Refresh List menu item in Visual Installer&#8217;s editor, the contents of the file list (in the editor&#8217;s File List tab) is refreshed. When a file list is refreshed, file dates and size information etc. is updated. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/2019\/06\/visual-installers-file-list-can-be-refreshed-automatically\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Visual Installer&#8217;s file list can be refreshed automatically&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5939"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5986,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5939\/revisions\/5986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}