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v7.00.0032 - 2008-04-15 22:36
! UnicodeToUTF8 function was buggy. Fixed.
* Toolbar: Changed the POM button graphics to something a touch more
dynamic. It's also more distinct from the Hotlist button now.
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v7.00.0029 - 2008-04-15 13:08
! PFA: Associating scripts with executables did not work alright
yet. For example,
*.exe>::copytext <curver>
should copy an EXE's version when double-clicking it, and
*.exe>UEdit32
should open an EXE in UltraEdit, but in fact it simply run the
EXE. Fixed. Had to massively rewrite some PFA code -- let's see if
everything still works as expected.
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v7.00.0028 - 2008-04-15 11:44
* Toolbar: New "arrow" graphics for buttons that pop a menu.
Keep a copy of v7.00.0026 and compare...
! Fixed a couple of glitches with the now-called Portable Openwith
Menu (POM).
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v7.00.0026 - 2008-04-14 14:25
+ Catalog: Now catalog items can contain multi-line scripts in the
Data field! Means nothing less than: The Catalog now has the full
power of scripting.
Note that here in Catalog, all multi-line data are automatically
treated as scripts, so you don't have to prefix "::" to mark a
multi-line script as script.
+ Info Panel | Properties: Now, the date/time format matches the one
currently used in the file list. Note that special formats "Zodiac"
and "ISO Week" are not supported here -- in that case the format
will fall back to the current OS standard.
+ Toolbar: Added button "Open With", which corresponds to the new
menu command "Open With...".
A context menu is included, which also features an extra option
"Show Full Paths in 'Open With...' Menu". To keep the app light
you find this option only here, not in configuration. It is,
however, remembered across sessions.
Don't ask about the graphics -- just accept its eternal beauty.
* OpenWithMenu (OWM): Now this trick -- Hold Ctrl when clicking to
*go* to the application! -- works also for PFA menu items.
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v7.00.0025 - 2008-04-13 21:46
+ Sharply enhanced the new OpenWithMenu (OWM): now the default OS
associated application is given (if there is one), with friendly
name and full path to executable -- quite a friendly little
service I'd say... I wonder why everybody isn't dancing on the
table -- this OWM is mind-boggling blockbuster! Wait till I add
the new TB button...
Anyway, the menu now has up to 3 sections:
----------------------------------------
[Portable File Association(s)]
...
-
[OS File Association]
(Hot Tip: Hold Ctrl when clicking to *go* to the application!)
-
Customize File Associations...
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v7.00.0024 - 2008-04-13 14:34
+++ Menu File: Added command "Open with..." (Ctrl+Alt+Enter). Pops up
a menu showing all applications associated (Portable File Associations
- PFA) with the current (focused+selected) List item. Select one
of them to open all selected List item(s) with it.
So, now it makes sense to have more than one PFA match the same
pattern. As before, the standard "Open" command (Dbl- click/Enter)
will only make use of the first matching PFA. However, the new
"Open With" popup menu will list *all* matches, in the order given
in the PFA customization dialog (menu Tools).
At the bottom of the menu you find a link to the PFA customization
dialog. If no PFAs exist yet for the current item, then this link
is the only item in the menu.
Associated scripts are also supported. Whether they apply to all
selected files or only to the focused file depends on the script.
It is called only once (not for each selected item).
+ Configuration | Tabs: Added option "Flexible width for named
tabs". Enabling it brings double benefits to your home:
(1) It will save you valuable screenspace if you choose short
names for your named tabs because tabs will only be as wide as
necessary to show the full caption;
(2) at the same time, it will guarantee that your named tabs are
never cropped if space gets scarce.
! Toolbar: Clicking on Favorite Files button crashed when no
Favorite Files were defined. Fixed.
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v7.00.0023 - 2008-04-11 14:05
+ Scripting now supports entering UNICODE characters via the *#####
scheme. For example:
::msg *31934*27494*38376
+ Tweak: Added the possibility to return to the old before-UNICODE
way of drag'n'drop handling. In some east-asian DBCS (double-byte
character set) systems the old way apparently works better.
To return to the old way, simply edit XYplorer.ini and set the key
NoUnicodeDrop to 1:
[General]
NoUnicodeDrop=1
! Autosize columns: Column headers would get cropped in drives
listing (MyComputer). Fixed.
! You could create almost completely hidden but functional toolbar
button. Fixed.
* When setting the Home to a tab, you now get a statusbar message
"Home defined.". Before, you'd have to OK a prompt.
* Rename Special | Batch Rename: Improved the mechanism of adding
user-defined increments while avoiding any collision with existing
files. An example will enlighten you more than the previous
sentence:
Test-<#001>
This pattern will generate filenames that do not collide with any
existing file.
The full power of this little improvement comes with scripting.
E.g., to name items as their containing folder while having full
control over the number suffix format and start number, you now
can use any of these scripts without fearing collisions:
::rename , <curfolder>-<#001>, p;
::rename , <curfolder>-<#00001>, p;
::rename , <curfolder>-<#23>, p;
! Crash when right-clicking an item inside a hidden system folder
(since 1 day). Fixed.
+ Menu Go: Added "Go to Script Files".
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v7.00.0021 - 2008-04-09 15:04
+++ Renaming UNICODE file names via edit box (using F2): I finally
developed a workable way to rename files containing unicode
characters in the name. Sure it's not ideal, but far better than
nothing.
It works quite simple: Before being displayed in the edit box I
convert all unicode chars to their numerical equivalents prefixed
with * (asterisk). You will see something like this:
*48149*46041*44397abc.txt
You can now normally edit the name (even the numbers if you know
what you are doing) and apply the new name. The escape sequences
will be converted back to unicode and displayed in the file list
(which does support unicode, of course).
Works everywhere: Tree, List, Catalog, and all other sorts of
listswith a rename functionality.
Note: This revolutionary *##### scheme will provide easy UNICODE
support for scripting (converter commands will be added soon...),
and it will allow you to store UNICODE in normal ASCII text files!
+++ Rename Special: Works with UNICODE file names now. Sure, you have
to adopt the *##### scheme explained here above, but once you get
used to it, you can do all the nice Rename Special tricks with
your Chinese cooking recipes!
You also can do what's called a "transliteration" (mapping of
charsets), e.g. from Cyrillic to Latin, using the "Search and
Replace" type of rename! Here's a hint how:
*#####*#####*#####>>abc
Of course, this is only a 1:1 char mapping. Support for 1:many
mapping comes tomorrow via scripting.
+ Rename Special: Added commands
*.aaa Set extension to lower case.
*.AAA Set extension to upper case.
+ Rename Special: The following commands now support UNICODE item
names:
UrlEscape: convert " " to "%20" etc.
UrlUnescape: convert "%20" to " " etc.
+ Color Filters: Now they work with unicode filenames.
! Issue with unicode filenames on Right D&D > Shell context menu.
Fixed.
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v7.00.0020 - 2008-04-08 21:21
+ Toolbar: Added button "MyComputer", which pops up a menu giving
you quick access to the MyComputer top node and all its immediate
child nodes (Desktop, Personal, all drives, and Nethood).
Consequently, the "Drives" button that had been altered some days
ago as to include the MyComputer pointer, has been reverted to its
original state (showing only the drives).
* Scripting: Changed the order of default paths where script files
are looked for to this:
<xydata>\Scripts
<xydata>
So, a script file given with no path or a relative path, will be
opened in path <xydata>\Scripts first, and only if not found there
in <xydata>.
Also, menu Scripting | Load Script File... will now by default
open in <xydata>\Scripts if that folder exists (else in appdata).
And, well, I'm pretty sure it does exist because from now on the
app takes care about that.
Recommendation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Hereby it is *officially recommended* that you place your script
files in <xydata>\Scripts or subfolders of it. At the same time is
should be stressed that script files can be executed from any
other location as well without problems. It's just a bit less
comfy.
+ Scripting command enhanced:
- OpenWith
Before, it only worked on the currently selected List item(s).
Now you can open a specific file, independent of the current
selections.
Syntax: openwith [application], [mode (s|m)], [item]
application: application to open item(s) with
mode: s = single instance [default]
m = multi instance
item: specific item to open (overriding any List
selections)
Example:
::openwith UEdit32, , "<xypath>\History.txt"
! File Rename: The mechanism to auto-avoid collisions by suffixing
serial numbers could be fooled when a file would be renamed to the
same name but with different capitalization. Fixed.
! Tabs: Fixed the mysterious green flash bug.
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v7.00.0010 - 2008-04-07 13:43
+ Color Filters: Now you can color certain List items _in specific
directories_ by stating a pattern that will be matched against the
full path of each item.
Rules:
If the pattern contains the character "\" then
it's treated against the full path (relative/portable syntax
supported)
Else
it's treated against the file name (without path)
Examples:
- The pattern "?:\*.png" will match only those PNG files that are
located on XY's home drive.
- The pattern "C:\Windows\*.dll" will match only those DLL files
that are located in C:\Windows\.
- The pattern "C:\Windows\*" will match _all_ items that are
located in C:\Windows\.
+ Scripting command enhanced:
- Open
Now you can open an item bypassing XY'S PFA, i.e. you can force-
open it with the Windows associated application.
Syntax: open item, [with (|w)]
item: file or folder to open
with: (empty) = use PFA (portable file associations)
w = use associated application
+ Scripting: Script files are now found in the following paths in
this order:
<xydata>
<xydata>\Scripts
In other words, scripts file in one of these paths are can be
loaded without stating the full path.
Of course, unless you use startup.ini, <xydata> is identical to
<xypath>, which is the path of XYplorer.exe.
+ Scripting | Step Dialog | Buttons' Context Menu: added command
"Copy Command (Parsed and Resolved)". Might be helpful when
debugging scripts.
+ CKS | Miscellaneous | File Operations: Added "Open Selected
Item(s) with OS Default" [Ctrl+Shift+Enter]. Same as menu File |
Open Selected Item(s), but bypassing Portable File Associations
(PFA).
! Favorite Folders/Files: Fixed some glitches with the new
caption/location syntax.
* When Favorite Folders/Files are imported to the Catalog, the
Catalog item captions are taken from the Favorite captions.
* Portable File Associations (PFA): Now, also # is accepted as
wildcard (stands for any numerical/digit).
! Drag'n'drop from outside (other applications) did not work anymore
in certain constellations since 3 days ago. Fixed.
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v7.00.0009 - 2008-04-06 10:28
+++ Favorite Folders/Files: Now, you can optionally define menu
captions for the items. Simply prefix the caption in quotes
(optionally followed by any number of blanks).
These will work identically:
"caption" location
"caption"location
"caption" location
The place to add captions is menu Tools | List Management | Favorite
Folders/Files. For example:
"Script to append modified date" ::rename bat, *-<myyyymmdd>
Will show "Script to append modified date" (without quotes) in the
menu; when you click it, the script is executed. So you now have
another, very comfortable way to place some heavy-rotation scripts
right under your mouse button! You also can attach catchy aliases
to long and hard-to-read paths! For example:
"Transparent PNGs" E:\VB-Don\TestFiles\Media\image-formats\trans\
png\ARGB 32bit\
Notes
~~~~~
(1) Items with no caption defined work as before: The
location is taken as the caption (potentially cropped if too
long).
(2) When Favorite Folders/Files are imported to the Catalog, the
captions are auto-stripped.
+++ Portable File Associations (PFA): Before, you could only state
lists of extensions to match the opened file against. Now you can
state whole file names or even full, relative, or portable paths;
patterns containing wildcards are allowed.
Rules:
If the pattern contains the character "\" then
it's treated against the full path (relative/portable syntax
supported)
Elseif the pattern contains wildchars (*, ?) or a dot (.) then
it's treated against the file name
Else (no \*?.)
it's treated against the extension (ensuring backward
compatibility)
Examples:
- ?:\*.xys>::load <curitem>
Loads opened XYS file, but only if it's on app drive.
This is VERY NICE, since in a "portable situation" (you stick
your (USB)drive into another computer), you can have files on
your drive opened by your apps, all other files opened by the
system's default app, or by some other app you define; for example:
?:\*.dat>?:\app1.exe
*.dat>?:\app2.exe
The second definition will match all files that have not been
matched by the first definition (= all DAT files that are NOT on
app drive).
- appdata\*.txt>::msg <dyyyy-mm-dd>
Shows the date if you (attempt to) open a TXT file in folder
<xypath>\appdata -- what a cool function! ;-)
- a*;b*>uedit32
Opens file with UltraEdit if its name starts with "a" or "b".
- readme.txt>::status "Who cares?!"
Any attempt to open a readme.txt file will just result in a
statusbar message "Who cares?!".
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v7.00.0008 - 2008-04-05 11:37
+++ Scripting and Portable File Associations (PFA): Now you can state
a one-line script as "application" in the definition of a PFA!
Example:
xys>::load <curitem>
Now dbl-clicking a *.xys file will actually load that file, and
pop up the menu defined by it.
Of course, the scripts inside that file should not make
reference/action to <curitem> (and similar <cur...> vars) because
this will always be the dbl-clicked script file itself. But
"global" scripts, e.g. backup routines, could then started by dbl-
clicking a file! Even directly, without first popping a menu,
because -- as you will know -- if a script file contains just one
script, it is directly executed. So, now have fun writing little
"executables"... :)
+ Preview: Added two OpenOffice formats.
- *.odt (OASIS OpenDocument Format text document)
- *.ods (OASIS OpenDocument Format spreadsheet)
You can preview them if you have the ActiveX control installed,
which shows all OpenOffice formats in Internet Explorer 7.
+ Tweak: Added the possibility to add more file types to the Web &
Office preview. Open XYplorer.ini and find the key
"OfficePreviewCustomExtensions". The format of the values is "dot-
[extension-dot-]extension-dot". So it could look like this, for
example:
[Settings]
MediaPreviewCustomExtensions=.odg.odp.odf.
* About dialog: License key is not fully shown anymore.
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v7.00.0007 - 2008-04-04 08:28
+++ Tree and List: Now drag'n'drop fully supports UNICODE. Means you
can drag'n'drop items with UNICODE characters from and to folders with
UNICODE characters. Just in time before the Olympics... :)
+ Also the Catalog now supports the drop of items with UNICODE
characters.
+ Popup menu "Drives": Experimentally added command to go to
MyComputer.
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v7.00.0003 - 2008-04-03 12:03
+ Now the Catalog supports UNICODE characters. Items with such
characters can be added through the context menu and are correctly
preserved between sessions.
Note that I'm still working on UNICODE for drag'n'drop...
+ Now the following popup menus can display UNICODE characters:
- History
- Hotlist
- Favorite Folders
- Favorite Files
For technical reasons it is impossible to display UNICODE
characters in the main menu of the window, but the popup menus
(which are also opened from the toolbar) are more important
anyway.
+ History, Favorite Folders, Favorite Files: Now UNICODE characters
are correctly preserved between sessions.
+ Configuration | General | Turn off delete confirmation: Now this
setting also controls the behavior when you trigger menu Tools |
Empty Recycle Bin.
! In rare constellations there could be a run time error on start
up. This should be fixed now once and for all.
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v7.00.0002 - 2008-04-02 11:42
+ Menu File | To Clipboard: Added command "Item UNC Path/Name(s)".
Copies the full path/name of all selected Tree or List items, using
the UNC path for items located on a mapped drive. Other items are
copied without change.
! Configuration | Startup & Exit: Checking "Open new instance
always" did not have any effect. Fixed.
! Opening shell links to network locations would not always work as
expected. Fixed.