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v15.10.0013 - 2015-05-13 20:59
    + View | Folder View Settings | Manage Folder Views...: The list is now sorted.
    % Network: Tried to improve the speed of selecting an item in slow networks. 
      FYI, selecting-avec-focusing an item will always fill the Properties tab 
      of the Info Panel (whether it's visible or not). Gathering this 
      information may take a notable bit of time in slow networks. Now it might 
      be a notable bit faster.
    ! Thumbnails: Renaming a folder with thumbnails did not update the contents 
      of the *.dat2 files to the new path. Fixed.

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v15.10.0014 - 2015-05-14 09:52
    + Scripting got a new command.
      Name: PasteTo
      Action: Pastes the clipboard contents to the specified destination.
      Syntax: pasteto [destination]
        destination:  [optional] folder to paste the clipboard contents.
                      Defaults to current path.
      Example:
        pasteto;  //pastes here
        pasteto "C:\Test"; //pastes to C:\Test
    % Network: Tried to improve the speed of selecting an item in slow networks, #2.

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v15.10.0015 - 2015-05-16 15:19
    + Thumbnails: Experimentally added a "read only" (or "view only" or "cache 
      only" ... work in progress) mode for thumbnails:
      - Only thumbnails present in the thumbnails cache are shown.
      - Missing thumbnails are NOT automatically created.
      - The benefit: Ultra-fast browsing in thumbnails views in any location! 
      Additional remarks:
      - You still can explicitly create new thumbnails by using the various 
        "Refresh Thumbnails" commands. In that case the cache on disk will be 
        updated.
        So, the "read only" mode yields more control to you: Now *you* decide 
        when thumbnails are created and which, or whether you only want to view 
        the already existing thumbnails.
      - The "read only" mode is ignored if "Cache thumbnails on disk" is OFF.
      Note: It's currently implemented only as a tweak:
        CacheReadOnly=1
      ... and you find a toggle "-- Cache Read Only --" in the right-click menu 
      of the View related toolbar buttons when in a thumbnails view. When you 
      toggle it OFF then any missing thumbnails are created right away.
    * Thumbnails: From now on, MDBU in thumbnails views will also work on files 
      that are not showing a thumbnail at the moment. This can happen caused by 
      the new "read only" mode. Simply mousedown on the icon to get the blow up.      
    * Visual Filters: Now any XY variables in a filter pattern are resolved 
      *before* the filter is added to the MRU list.
      Hence you now can use a Visual Filter like this per tab and across 
      sessions in the expected way:
        <get SpotPatterns>
      FYI, the above variable returns the last applied Type Ahead Find or Spot 
      patterns in a |-separated list. BTW, these patterns are not remembered 
      across sessions. (The Visual Filters using them are remembered.)

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v15.10.0016 - 2015-05-17 16:07
    * Toolbar: The right-click menu of View related buttons now *always* 
      features some of the thumbnail related commands (not only in thumbnails 
      views). That way you can quickly configure the thumbnails views *before* 
      entering them. Useful.
    * Toolbar: The temporarily called "-- Cache Read Only --" toggle is now 
      called "Read-Only Cache".
      This is probably not the last name. It's work in progress... The toggle 
      might later be added to main menu and configuration.
    ! SC html: Drawing glitch with > 100% DPI settings. Fixed.
    ! Catalog: Inserting Favorite Files as Category didn't honour the captions 
      (if any). Fixed.
    ! Tabs: Under certain conditions the history of the default tab was lost 
      after auto-switching to it when selection a new location in a locked tab. 
      Fixed.
    * Updated the help file.

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v15.10.0017 - 2015-05-18 10:08
    * Configuration | Thumbnails: Added option "Show cached thumbnails only". 
      This option was previously called "Read-Only Cache".

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v15.10.0018 - 2015-05-18 16:17
    ! View | Caches | Refresh Thumbnails: Did not work with "Show cached 
      thumbnails only" enabled. Fixed.
    ! Copying an email via clipboard paste from Outlook to XYplorer did not 
      always work. Fixed.

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v15.20.0000 - 2015-05-18 20:00
    = NEW OFFICIAL RELEASE. Main developments since last release:
  +++ Drop Stacks. It will take you no more than 30 seconds to create a drop 
      stack in the toolbar, a 24x24 pixel landing place where you can drop files 
      to virtual folders. Extremely handy. And you can have many of them. (Pro 
      Edition Only)
  +++ Thumbnail Files. Now you can save the thumbnails of images as files. So 
      you can actually do something with those thumbnails beyond just staring at 
      them. (Pro Edition Only)
  +++ Auto-Select First Item. Now you can have the first list item auto-selected 
      when entering a new folder. Some cannot live without this.
  +++ Link View. Quickly check what a shortcut points to before you open it.
  +++ Network Speed. Enjoy speed improvements and smoother handling of 
      unavailable network locations.

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v15.20.0001 - 2015-05-19 15:53
    + Configuration | Menus, Mouse, Safety | Type Ahead Find: Added option 
      "Paste and find". Tick it to enable Type Ahead Find by pasting text 
      directly into the list.
      Note: This feature had been hard-coded since v13.70.0101 - 2014-01-24 
      22:34. Now it's optional. Factory default is OFF. Reason: There are 
      possible conflicts with pasting stuff from Outlook. If you get those 
      conflicts turn off "Paste and find".
    + Toolbar: The right-click menu of View related buttons now features the 
      command "Create Missing Thumbnails" if "Show cached thumbnails only" is 
      ON. You can use to create those thumbnails that are missing from the 
      cache, and have them added to the cache.
      There is a little unavoidable (but maybe also useful because it save time) 
      complication here: If "Create all thumbnails at once" is OFF then "Create 
      Missing Thumbnails" will ignore missing thumbnails that have not been 
      within the view port yet (been scrolled into view).
    * View | Caches | Refresh Thumbnails: From now on this command *always* 
      refreshes *all* thumbnails in the current list, independently of the 
      setting of these:
      - Configuration | Thumbnails | Show cached thumbnails only
      - Configuration | Thumbnails | Create all thumbnails at once
    ! File | Properties: Did not work reliably for multiple items (since 
      20150420). Fixed.

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v15.20.0002 - 2015-05-19 21:56
    ! Hunting a bug...

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v15.20.0003 - 2015-05-19 23:37
    ! List: Crash when selecting an UNC item with a size >= 2GB and < 4GB (since 
      20150513). Fixed.

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v15.20.0101 - 2015-05-20 14:41
    ! Thumbnails: Minor inconveniences with various combinations of "Show cached 
      thumbnails only", "Create all thumbnails at once", "Create Missing 
      Thumbnails", and "Refresh Thumbnails". Better.
      Note: "Create Missing Thumbnails" now always creates ALL missing 
      thumbnails, also when "Create all thumbnails at once" is OFF.

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v15.20.0102 - 2015-05-20 16:48
    ! Thumbnails: Little glitch in v15.20.0101 prevented normal auto-creation of 
      thumbnails. Fixed.

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v15.20.0104 - 2015-05-21 15:43
    + Configuration | Styles: Added "Show Age maximum hours (0 = unlimited)". 
      Here you can limit the Age display in the List. For example, enter 24 to 
      show the age for all ages <= 24 hours, for larger ages it would show the 
      absolute, uhm, birth date (as if "Show Age" was turned off).
      FYI, here is where Show Age is toggled:
        Tools | Customize List | Date Column Format | Show Age
    + Added tweak to show any fractional parts in Age display. This would show the 
      age with two decimal places:
        AgeDecimalPlaces=2
    * Tree: Going up via Backspace key now supports "Configuration | Tree and 
      List | List | Select last used subfolder" in List. Wasn't the case before.
      The Backspace key is not hard-coded anymore to trigger "go up" in the Tree. 
      Only if there is no keyboard shortcut assigned to "Go | Up" then Backspace 
      takes over in the Tree and goes up.
    ! Thumbnails: Another try to make it all work. It's now pretty much back to 
      v15.20.0001.

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v15.20.0105 - 2015-05-21 20:23
  *** List: Experimentally rewrote drag-and-drop-from-XYplorer from scratch. 
      This might solve some problems where drop targets other than XYplorer 
      itself did not see the drop. But it might also add unknown new problems. 
      Drag-and-drop is a jungle.
      Notes:
      - Currently only implemented for drags from the List, not from the Tree.
      - The mouse pointer cannot be customized anymore now. You will get the 
        simple Windows default pointers anywhere within XYplorer (no more 
        special black pointers over Catalog or Paper Folder, sigh). On the 
        positive side, you get the nice modern luxury pointers over any drop 
        target that supports them.
      - Vista and later only.

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v15.20.0106 - 2015-05-22 15:23
    + Configuration | Shell Integration: Added new section "Drag and Drop" with 
      new option "Use standard shell drag and drop". Tick it to use the new drag 
      method added in v15.20.0105. It provides better (actually full) support 
      for certain more sophisticated (or IOW less compatible) drop targets. 
      Factory default is ON.
      So, why the option to turn this OFF? Well, with the new way I cannot 
      customize the mouse pointers anymore when hovering certain drop targets 
      within XYplorer. I personally find this visual feedback useful, and I 
      don't need the new drag method. That's why.
    * The new drag-and-drop-from-XYplorer is now implemented in the Tree as 
      well. I also added some internal refinements to it that should solve the 
      rest of the remaining issues some users were reporting.
      Notes:
      - This method is not be applied when dragging from Portable Devices.
    + Tweak AgeDecimalPlaces got an additional value to show a smart and 
      friendly age format:
        AgeDecimalPlaces=-1
      It will output something like this:
         3 mins, 58 secs
           1 hr, 11 mins
          2 hrs, 55 mins
          12 days, 2 hrs
    + Portable Devices: Added mild support for Paper Folders. This is more like 
      an internal notice. I will not advertise this. But you can drop items from 
      PD to PF now. Seems to work. :)
    ! Thumbnails: "Refresh selected thumbnails" and "Create missing thumbnails" 
      could not be stopped by ESC. Fixed.

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