Feature requests for the future

[newdles]

1. Self extracting .7z archives. This isn't a must at all but surely would be nice. If it never gets added it's not really a big deal as freeware software (7zip file manager) already have that of course. However, it's always been a great thought of mine to be able to get rid of winrar and all the other archiving tools to have just one that does everything

2. Rar spanning. Unfortunately, I'm unsure if this is a copyrighted format or not for compression. If it's not, it would kick winrar out the door specially since winrar is already more expensive with WAYYY less features.

3. Batch compression. When I bought PowerArchiver, this was the reason why. Before then I had always relied on Xp's built in zipping feature or some other freeware utility that did a good enough job for me. After building a serchable database of files (over 30,000), I realized that zipping the files would be extremely beneficial to my server use and 56k downloaders.

However, compressing 30,000 individual files isn't a fun thing to do one at a time. So I bought PowerArchiver and found out that it added the full file name + extension. For example, blah.dll and sand.ocx compressed with PowerArchivers batch compression options ended up being labelled blah_dll.zip and sand_dll.zip. This is ok but it would have made my database completely in need of a 100% workover. Ended up buying Batch Zip toolkit to do the job. Anyway... it would just be nice to have built in batch compression so that if you batch zip "x" amount of files, it doesn't keep the full file name + extension but rather just the first part of the file name + the extension.

4. File explorer options and how PowerArchiver handles file compression. Unfortunately, when you open PowerArchiver, you cannot select a group of files and then click a "Compress" button that leads to a new options menu letting you select how you'd like to compress the file(s). PowerArchiver doesn't even list the files in a directory unless they're supported archiving formats.

5. Configuration option descriptions. I consider myself pretty smart and generally know what options do what without ever reading the help files. Unfortunately, there are a few options that I don't know what they do without taking a look into the help files. What would be extremely nice is the ability to get the option(s) information on mouseover or right click. This is not necessary at all but just a user friendly benefit.

Sorry for the extremely long post. This is the second time I've had to type it though Had a BSOD right in the middle of typing this because of Norton being an idiot. But if any of these options are in the works or even thought of/planned for the future, that would be great. If not, no big deal but it sure would be nice to only require one archiving utility that literally does it all