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v24.20.0305 - 2023-03-22 12:08
    * Configuration | Preview | Previewed Formats | Category: Preview as Thumbnail: 
      Removed OpenOffice extensions .odt .ods .odp from the factory defaults. With the 
      recent version of OpenOffice there is a real preview, not just a thumbnail.
    * List | Selections Context Menu: In v18.00.0005 - 2017-06-14 17:39 the commands "Move 
      to Other Pane" and "Copy to Other Pane" were added to the menu if Dual Pane was 
      enabled. Now their visibility is also tied to Configuration | General | Menus, 
      Mouse, Usability | Context Menus | File List... | Move/Copy/Backup To.      
    * Updated the help file.
    ! Tools | Configuration...: Crashed when the tags DB loaded thru Admin.ini did not 
      have any color labels defined. Fixed.

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v24.20.0303 - 2023-03-21 11:38
    + SC preview: Added mode "tg32".
      Syntax: preview [file], [mode], [guid]
        mode: How the preview is generated.
              tg32: Use 32-bit GDI+ (Graphics Device Interface).
                    Tip: Only works for image files.
    * SC preview: Apart from mode "n", all modes ignore the settings in "Configuration | 
      Preview | Previewed Formats". Every file type is attempted to be previewed.
    * SC preview: Modes "tf32", "tf64", "te32" ignore tweak PreviewEarlyFactory. 
      Not new, but forgot to mention yesterday.
    * Configuration | Colors and Styles | Colors | Apply colors: Now these colors are also 
      applied to the selected tab of the back pane, but slightly desaturated to mark the 
      backness.

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v24.20.0302 - 2023-03-20 12:23
    + Scripting got a new command.
      Name:   Preview
      Action: Previews a file in the Preview Pane.
      Syntax: preview [file], [mode], [guid]
        file: Full path of file to preview.
              Defaults to the currently focused file.
        mode: How the preview is generated.
              n:   [Default] Normal UI preview as if you selected the file. 
              p:    Use PreviewHandler, bitness depends on current user settings (incl. possible fallback to other bitness).
              p32:  Use 32-bit PreviewHandler.
              p64:  Use 64-bit PreviewHandler.
              t:    Use ThumbnailProvider, method and bitness depend on current user settings.
              tf32: Use 32-bit IShellItemImageFactory.
              tf64: Use 64-bit IShellItemImageFactory.
              te32: Use 32-bit IExtractImage (currently not implemented in 64-bit).
              x:    Close the Preview Pane.
        guid: CLSID of the PreviewHandler to use, eg {CF822AB4-6DB5-4FDA-BC28-E61DF36D2583}.
              Only used with modes p, p32, p64.
      Remarks:
        - The command ensures that the Preview Pane is visible.
        - The time needed is displayed in the status bar.
        - Live resizing, MDBU, and tooltip are supported.
        - A powerful command that allows you to preview files that are not currently listed.
        - Also useful as a debugging device for shell-generated previews and thumbnails, 
          and as a test bed for CLSIDs.
      Examples:
        preview "E:\Test\Preview\Katakana.pdf";       //normal preview
        preview "E:\Test\Preview\Katakana.pdf", p;    //PreviewHandler (bitness depends)
        preview "E:\Test\Preview\Katakana.pdf", p32;  //PreviewHandler (32-bit)
        preview "E:\Test\Preview\Katakana.pdf", p64;  //PreviewHandler (64-bit)
        preview "E:\Test\Preview\Katakana.pdf", t;    //ThumbnailProvider (bitness depends)
        preview "E:\Test\Preview\Katakana.pdf", tf32; //ThumbnailProvider IShellItemImageFactory (32-bit)
        preview "E:\Test\Preview\Katakana.pdf", tf64; //ThumbnailProvider IShellItemImageFactory (64-bit)
        preview "E:\Test\Preview\Katakana.pdf", te32; //ThumbnailProvider IExtractImage (32-bit)
        preview; //normal preview of current file
        preview , x; //close the preview pane
        //PreviewHandler (32-bit), GUID of PDF-XChange PDF Preview Provider:
        preview "E:\Test\Preview\Katakana.pdf", p32, "{CF822AB4-6DB5-4FDA-BC28-E61DF36D2583}";

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v24.20.0301 - 2023-03-19 11:12
    + Scripting got a new function.
      Name:   HtmlEncode
      Action: Converts non-ANSI Unicode characters to numeric HTML entities.
      Syntax: htmlencode(text)
        text: String of characters to convert.
      Remarks:
        - The general entity format returned is: &#xHHHH;
          HHHH here stands for the hexadecimal Unicode code point
        - ANSI characters (ordinal 0-255) remain unchanged.
      Examples:
        text chr(0x5FEB) . " -> " . htmlencode(chr(0x5FEB)); //快 -> 快 
        text htmlencode("快速入门指南"); //快速入门指南
        copytext htmlencode(<clipboard>); //convert current clipboard contents        
    * Help | Various Information: Removed the line OS Uptime: ..., eg:
        OS Uptime: 5 days, 19 hrs, 40 mins, 39 secs
      Retrieving that information was the only reason this dialog was loading so slowly, 
      and it was pretty much useless anyway.
      So this dialog is now MUCH faster, aka instant.
    ! SC tagcheck: Did not mark the tags as dirty when necessary, nor did it update the 
      dirty count. Fixed.
    ! SC tagcheck: Did not refresh the file list when needed after correcting the 
      capitalization of tags in memory:
        tagcheck(8); //correct capitalization, returns count corrected items
      Fixed.

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v24.20.0300 - 2023-03-18 12:00
    = MAINTENANCE RELEASE.
  +++ Minor bug fixes and enhancements.

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v24.20.0211 - 2023-03-17 20:26
    * Configuration | Colors and Styles | Color Filters | Draw background colors in 
      distinctive shapes: Now the size of the shapes is adjusted to the screen resolution, 
      i.e. the shapes get bigger with higher resolution.
    ! SC freshhere: Used the real path (C:\Users\Donald\Desktop) even when "here" was a 
      special path (Desktop). Fixed.
    ! Configuration | General | Menus, Mouse, Usability | Mouse | Full name column select: 
      Selection rectangles in Details views were too wide when Age Circles (Tools | 
      Customize List | Date Column Format | Circles) were shown in the Name column. Fixed.

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v24.20.0209 - 2023-03-17 11:32
    % List: Slight speed gains (speedvolution never stops). Apart from a quicker startup 
      and increased snappiness, browsing times are now more consistent.
    ! Custom File Associations: Executable files (eg EXE, AHK) could not really be 
      associated with other executables to open them with (eg Notepad). They just 
      stubbornly opened by themselves instead. Surfaced v24.20.0110 - 2023-03-15.
      The fix also affects "Open With: ..." in Extra File Info Tips (Configuration | 
      Information | File Info Tips & Hover Box | Show file info tips | Extra fields) which 
      now shows e.g. "Notepad" for executables when it should.
    ! Breadcrumb Bars: Probably since 20180913 the focus jumped to the Address Bar after 
      going to a new location via a dropdown menu. Fixed.

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v24.20.0207 - 2023-03-16 12:57
    * Image Columns: Now if "Configuration | Information | File Info Tips & Hover Box | 
      Show file info tips" is disabled (and Hover Box for Image Columns as well), 
      you won't get a tooltip with the textual contents of the hovered cell anymore.
      However, you can still force this tooltip by holding down the CTRL key.
    * List: Column header tooltips on Ctrl+Hover now come faster, always, and update on 
      the fly when you resize the column by Ctrl+Left/Right.
    ! Title Bar: Since v24.20.0110, a Virtual Folder with a name was not shown with that 
      name in the title bar. Fixed.

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v24.20.0200 - 2023-03-15 20:00
    = MAINTENANCE RELEASE.
  +++ Minor bug fixes and enhancements.

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v24.20.0110 - 2023-03-15 11:10
    * Configuration | Preview | Preview | Image preview | Limit original preview size: 
      Reduced the factory default from 2000 to 1600. Experiments showed that 1600 x 1600 
      is still blindingly fast whereas from 1601 x 1601 onwards things slow down 
      dramatically. A little glimpse into the black box ShellImageFactory.
      Note that this setting also affects huge JPEGs that are "Previewed as thumbnail" 
      (which means: previewed by the ShellImageFactory) because other methods failed.      
    ! Configuration | Colors and Styles | Templates | Title Bar: Native variables like 
      <curfolder> were internally updated only *after* the title bar was written and hence 
      always resolved to the *previous* location. Fixed. Now the title bar is written 
      again after the list work is completed.

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v24.20.0109 - 2023-03-14 20:31
    ! Custom Toolbar Buttons, Hamburger: In a multi-monitor situation, a CTB or Hamburger 
      menu refused to pop up at the correct position if it had negative coordinates. 
      Fixed.
    > Removed the related debug logging added in v24.20.0021 - 2023-03-11 11:06.
    * Updated the help file.

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v24.20.0108 - 2023-03-14 17:12
    % Portable Devices: Expanding tree nodes with many subnodes should be notably faster 
      now.
    * Updated the help file.
    ! Configuration | General | Menus, Mouse, Usability | Mouse | Full name column select: 
      Changing the setting did not trigger an immediate repaint of the list which should 
      be done now due to recent changes in this feature. Fixed.
    ! Tree: Error 9 with full CRASH was possible when switching between Maxi and Mini 
      Tree, and also on auto-refreshing a tree, both under certain other conditions. 
      Fixed.

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v24.20.0107 - 2023-03-14 13:08
    + SC text, SC inputselect: Now they support Unicode window captions:
        $utf = "日本人"; text 3:=$utf; inputselect(7:=$utf);
    * XYcopy: Updated to 2.10.0215.

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v24.20.0106 - 2023-03-14 11:45
    ! Refresh after Delete: In the Chinese locale these two files are seen as differently 
      named (and they are: it's the parentheses that are different) but Windows sees them 
      as same-named when looking at them case-insensitively:
        Hello(XYP).txt
        Hello（XYP）.txt
      One effect was: If you deleted one of them the other one disappeared from the file 
      list as well (but luckily not from the file system). This should be fixed now.
    ! Virtual Folders: Since v24.20.0102 - 2023-03-13 12:09 VFOs with dynamic definitions 
      (eg <pick 8.m ...>) were not correctly updated anymore after file operations. Fixed.
    ! Autosize Columns: Since 20230304 the columns turned out 2 pixels too narrow in List 
      and Small Icons views. Fixed.

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v24.20.0104 - 2023-03-13 21:55
    * SC runret: Major rewrite. Should support Unicode characters now regardless of the 
      regional settings.
      All the recent debug flags were removed, just call it plain like this:
        text runret("cmd /c dir c:\"); //ANSI
        text runret("cmd /c chcp 65001 & cmd /c dir E:\Path-to-Test", , 65001); //UTF-8

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