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Evaluator Button Tooltips

You can use the evaluator to generatge the tooltip for a toolbar button dynamically.

Unlike Evaluator Button Icons and Evaluator Button Labels, there's no @ modifier for tooltips - instead, you enter a = character followed by the evaluation expression, directly into the tooltip field in the button editor.

A number of variables are available to the evaluator in this context. Note that some are only applicable to toolbars in the standalone image viewer, and some only apply to Lister toolbars.

Variable	Type	Description
dest	path	The current destination path.
dest_shell	bool	True if the destination is a shell (virtual) folder hosted by Explorer, otherwise false.
expanded	uint	Returns the number of expanded directories.
fullscreen	bool	Viewer only. True if the viewer is fullscreen, otherwise false.
key_repeat	bool	True if the function was launched from a repeated key press (i.e. the key was held down).
seldirs	uint	Returns the number of selected directories.
selfiles	uint	Returns the number of selected files.
selimage	bool	Viewer only. True if an area of the image has been selected, false otherwise.
selitems	uint	Returns the total number of selected items.
source	path	The current source path.
source_shell	bool	True if the source is a shell (virtual) folder hosted by Explorer, otherwise false.
totaldirs	uint	Returns the total number of directories.
totalfiles	uint	Returns the total number of files.
totalitems	uint	Returns the total number of items.
viewmode	str	Returns the current view mode in the file display. Values are largeicons, smallicons, list, details, power, thumbnails and tiles.

As well as the above variables, you can also use evaluator functions like IsChecked and IsEnabled to query other information about the state of the Lister.

The return value from the evaluation expression will be used as the tooltip for the button.

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