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Change Log for the latest XYplorer BETA version (v8.30.0004, 03-sep-2009).

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v8.30.0004 - 2009-09-03 15:36
    + Menu Go: Added command "Recent Locations...". Shows the MRU 
      list of locations from most recent (at the top, with number 1) to 
      most ancient. Dbl-click an item to jump to it. The MRU holds 
      maximally 64 items.
    * Now History and MRU (Most Recently Used) locations are handled 
      separately internally. Before there was only one data array that 
      was used for both functionalities. Thanks to the new way, History 
      can now behave as expected: When going back in history and then 
      onwards not using History, the old "future" is dropped.
      MRU is now used (instead of History) for "Hotlist" and "Mini Tree 
      from History", now renamed to "Mini Tree from Recent". The 
      "Breadcrumb" (and "Down" functionality) will use any data from 
      tabwise History first, and then look at any matching MRU data.
      Note that History is per pane (and optionally per tab) whereas MRU 
      is global, so e.g. the Hotlist now is global and looks identical 
      no matter on which pane you are.
      On upgrading to this version the virgin MRU is initialized using 
      data from the history of Pane 1.
    - Menu View | Current Tab: Removed command
        Tab Hotlist...
      Reason: Tab history is not a useful database anymore for this (see 
      above), and a tabwise MRU is not existing.
    ! Search Templates: Cached search results were not read when the 
      previous search in that tab was a Quick Name Search. Fixed.

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Change Log for the latest XYplorer BETA version (v8.30.0002, 02-sep-2009).

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v8.30.0002 - 2009-09-02 12:46
    + Search Templates Dialog: Search Templates now support caching, 
      i.e. you can save search results in a template file (in 
      <xydata>\FindTemplates), and load them back into the list at any 
      point in future via the Search Templates dialog.
      Writing the cache: You can control whether search results are 
      stored on a per-template basis using the new option "Save search 
      results" below the "Save to Template..." button. Of course, the 
      option is only enabled when search results are present in the file 
      list.
      Reading the cache: Any previously cached results are only read 
      when you also check all the following options. Reason: Otherwise 
      the displayed results would be out of synch with the Find Files 
      panel.
        - Run search at once
        - Load search location
        - Load excluded folders
      Writing and reading the cache is super-controlled by the setting 
      Cache Search Results in Configuration | Find Files.
    + Menu Help: Added toggle "Keyboard Shortcuts on Menu". Here you 
      can choose whether hints for keyboard shortcuts are displayed in 
      the main menu (factory default), or not.
    - Menu Help: Removed "Find Files Help". Relict from prehistory.
    * Menu Help: Renamed commands
        Scripting Commands -> Help on Scripting Commands
        Keyboard Shortcuts -> Help on Keyboard Shortcuts
        List of Functions... -> Make List of Functions...
    * Menu File: Moved all "Copy Here..." commands into a new submenu 
      "Duplicate".
      Note that -- contrary to the old (now updated) description text in 
      CKS dialog -- all five commands work on files as well as folders 
      (with all contents), and on single as well as multiple selections.
    * Menu File: Added new submenu "Special" and moved the following 
      commands there:
        Create Shortcut(s)
        Delete (No Recycle Bin)	  Shift+Del
        Delete (Skip Locked)	    Ctrl+Del
        Swap Names	              Ctrl+Shift+F2
    * Raw View: A Raw Viewed file is no longer kept open and locked 
      until it is actively unselected. Now, when you close the Info 
      Panel or select another tab on the Info Panel the file is closed 
      and unlocked immediately.
      Made you sad? See next section...
    + Added tweak to keep a Raw Viewed file open and locked until it is 
      actively unselected:
        [Settings]
        RawViewKeepOpen=0
      Note that the state RawViewKeepOpen=1 has been the hard-coded 
      reality in TrackerV3/XYplorer ever since, but nobody (incl. me) 
      ever liked it a lot, and many users were disturbed by the nasty 
      file lockings resulting from this behavior.
      The tweak is for all of you who just love locked files. ;)
    ! Overlong filenames: When copying a file with overlong filename to 
      clipboard, the file's short name was not correctly put to the 
      clipboard. Fixed.
      FYI, the clipboard (tested on XP) will not handle items > 1027 
      characters. 
    * POM/PFA: Before, multiple instances of the opening application 
      were called when multiple files were to be opened.  Now, a single 
      instance is called with multiple files passed in the command line. 
      This is in perfect analogy with Catalog Open With, UDC Open With, 
      and SC openwith, which all default to opening a single instance.

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Summary of the latest XYplorer Official Release (v8.30.0000, 31-aug-2009).

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v8.30.0000 - 2009-08-31 12:00
    = NEW OFFICIAL RELEASE. Main changes since last release:
  +++ Search Results Caching. The results of time-consuming searches can 
      now be stored and retrieved tabwise and across sessions.
  +++ Dual Pane. Now you can easily move or copy tabs between the panes.
  +++ Spot & Jump. Quickly jump to any item in a large list, just as you 
      know it from your web browser's Find Bar.
  +++ EXIF Stamping. The new command "Set Modified Date to EXIF Date" 
      sets the Modified date of each selected image file to the file's 
      EXIF date (Exchangeable Image File Format).
  +++ Configuration. In the new section "Features" you can control some 
      of the advanced functionality of XYplorer and disable features 
      which you do not use or wish to see.
  +++ Home Edition. The new "Lifetime License Home" buys you everything 
      the current Pro Edition has -- apart from a handful of advanced 
      features -- at an incredibly low introductory price.

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Change Log for the latest XYplorer BETA version (v8.20.0031, 31-aug-2009).

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v8.20.0031 - 2009-08-31 10:11
    ! Thumbnails: Drawing glitch (misalignment, or partly black areas on 
      thumbnails) when changing between thumbnails sizes, e.g. from 
      Thumbnails #1 to #3, or when turning the caching on/off. Fixed.

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Change Log for the latest XYplorer BETA version (v8.20.0030, 30-aug-2009).

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v8.20.0030 - 2009-08-30 19:35
    * Updated the help file.

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Change Log for the latest XYplorer BETA version (v8.20.0029, 29-aug-2009).

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v8.20.0029 - 2009-08-29 10:57
    ! Dual Pane: When moving/copying a tab to the other pane...
      - the list settings of the selected tab on the inactive pane were 
        not saved before the drop of the new tab, so unless its settings 
        were saved previously (by switching tabs for instance) they were 
        lost. Fixed.
      - the inactive pane was not always shaded as expected. Fixed.
    * Dual Pane | Move/Copy Tab to Other Pane: Now the position of the 
      new tab is the same as if it would have created within the same 
      pane, i.e. either right of the current tab, or at the right end of 
      the tab bar -- depending on the setting of "Open new tab next to 
      current" in Configuration | Tabs.
    * Dual Pane: Now, also when *copying* a tab to the other pane the 
      target pane is activated. Before this was confined to moving a tab.
    ! Spot'n'Jump: Drawing glitches fixed.

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Change Log for the latest XYplorer BETA version (v8.20.0027, 28-aug-2009).

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v8.20.0027 - 2009-08-28 12:49
    + Menu Panes: Added commands "Move Tab to Other Pane" and "Copy Tab 
      to Other Pane". The tab is inserted before (left of) the currently 
      selected tab, and becomes the selected tab itself.
      When copying a tab, the source pane remains active, and when 
      moving a tab the target pane becomes active.
      The command also works in single pane mode.
      The KS (if you assign one) triggers on KeyUp since I figured you 
      don't really want key repetition with these commands.
    * Dual Pane: Now, when copying a tab, the source pane remains 
      active, and when moving a tab the target pane becomes active.
    % Dual Pane: Moving a tab to the other pane is smoother now. Before 
      there was unnecessary tree action.
    + Tabs: Now the MRU of each pane is saved across sessions. This
      service is only available if you have no more than 58 tabs in a 
      pane. Should suffice.
    ! Tabs: MRU was slightly buggy in that it did not always select the 
      expected tab. Fixed.
    + Toolbar | Home: The button's context menu now offers a way (the 
      only way) to unset a home.
    * A change in the internal representation of tab-wise data was 
      necessary. You should not note anything of this background job, 
      but FYI, the tab-wise data-list separator was changed from a pane-
      wise tweakable "»" to a global hardcoded TAB (ASCII 9). By all 
      means the better choice since "»" is a legal character in 
      filenames.

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Change Log for the latest XYplorer BETA version (v8.20.0026, 27-aug-2009).

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v8.20.0026 - 2009-08-27 15:30
    ! Spot/Jump: The new escape " (dbl-quote) lead to problems. So it's 
      back to >!
      Rules:
      - New escape for Spot/Jump is >.
      - Add another > anywhere to skip jumping.
      Examples:
      >a      = spot "a"; jump to next/prev item with "a" anywhere in 
                the name
      >>a     = spot "a"; no jump (the 2nd > kills the jump)
      >a|b    = spot "a" and "b" (no jumping on multiple patterns)
      >a*     = jump to next item beginning with "a" (matching items are 
                colored completely)
      >       = remove any coloring now                

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Change Log for the latest XYplorer BETA version (v8.20.0025, 27-aug-2009).

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v8.20.0025 - 2009-08-27 12:00
    * Spot, Jump To Item: Now there's Spot'n'Jump which means you (can) 
      get the coloring and the jumping at the same time. The rules and 
      syntax for the whole spotting and jumping business have been 
      completely redesigned.
      
      Rules:
      - New escape for Spot/Jump is " (dbl-quote) (before it was >).
      - Jump does always also Spot (color all matches).
      - Jump looks for matches only in the Name column.
      - Spot looks for matches in all columns.
      - Matches are case insensitive (A=a).
      - Hold SHIFT to jump to prev item.
      - Add closing dbl-quote to skip jumping.
      - Multiple patterns are separated by "|".
      - No jumping happens on multiple patterns.
      - A pattern with no wildcards defaults to inner match (*pattern*).
      - Coloring is also done on wildcard patterns (colors whole item).
      - Coloring is auto-removed on list refresh or location change.
      - Repeating a Spot-only pattern will work as a toggle.
      - Repeating a Jump pattern will jump to the next/prev match.
      
      Examples:
      "a      = spot "a"; jump to next/prev item with "a" anywhere in 
                the name
      "a"     = spot "a"; no jump (the trailing " kills the jump)
      "a|b    = spot "a" and "b" (no jumping on multiple patterns)
      "a*     = jump to next item beginning with "a" (matching items are 
                colored completely)
      "       = remove any coloring now                

    * Dual Pane: Now when you copy or move a tab to the other pane, the 
      target pane is auto-activated after the operation is completed.
    % Dual Pane: Copying/moving a search results tab is now even faster 
      because it transfers the complete file data (not just the names) 
      between the panes, and this avoids the need for any further hard 
      disk access.
    * Menu Help | XYplorer on the Web:
      - Renamed "Purchase" to "Buy Now".
      - Removed "XYwiki"
      - Removed "Donate"
      - Removed "Promote"
    * Menu Window | Last Size/Minimize Info Panel: Now defaults to Last 
      Size when Panel is maximized.

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Change Log for the latest XYplorer BETA version (v8.20.0021, 25-aug-2009).

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v8.20.0021 - 2009-08-25 15:25
    ! Search Results Caching: Quick Name Searches were cached as well, 
      which lead to inconsistencies between search results and settings 
      on Find Files tab. Fixed: Quick Name Searches are not cached 
      anymore.
    ! Menu Edit | Show All Items In Branch: On a locked tree it did not 
      open the current list location but the focused tree node's 
      location, which was the less expected one to open when both 
      differed. Fixed.
    ! Mini Tree: Nodes that were expanded by using the command "Fully 
      Expand" were not saved in the Mini Tree across sessions. Fixed.

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Change Log for the latest XYplorer BETA version (v8.20.0020, 25-aug-2009).

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v8.20.0020 - 2009-08-25 12:37
  +++ Search Results Caching. Finally the results of time-consuming 
      searches can be stored and retrieved tabwise and across sessions! 
      To make it happen tick this new option:
      Configuration | Find Files | Cache Search Results.
      
      Where and when does it happen
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      Cached data are not held in memory but written to tab_*.dat files 
      down in the Panes subfolder. They are written whenever a non-
      cached search tab is backgrounded, and read whenever a search tab 
      is foregrounded (selected). In other words, caching only happens 
      on tab selection, whereas pressing F3 or any other way to run a 
      search will always trigger a live search.
      
      What is cached
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      Only the item names are cached. All other data (size, file dates, 
      attributes, etc.) are freshly polled. This polling takes time, and 
      the efficiency of the cache highly depends on the nature of the 
      search:
      - The worst case is a search without any filters (e.g. find all 
        items in all subfolders), where reading the cache and processing 
        the data is likely to be even slower than a fresh live search.
      - The best case is a search over a large area with relatively few
        results -- this is where the cache really shines.

    * Configuration: Added new section "Find Files". Some options from 
      "General" and also from the Info Panel (Find Files | Options) have 
      been moved here.

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Change Log for the latest XYplorer BETA version (v8.20.0019, 24-aug-2009).

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v8.20.0019 - 2009-08-24 11:37
    % Dual Pane: Now when you copy or move a search results tab to the 
      other pane, no new search is triggered but the existing data are 
      directly injected into the target list.
      Especially with searches over large areas and few results this 
      will hugely improve performance.
    * Info Panel | Preview | ID3v1.1 tag editing: Apply/Cancel buttons 
      now appear immediately when you click into a field.
    ! Dual Pane: When opening a tree location in the inactive pane 
      (Alt+Click), a locked tab would be overwritten. Fixed. Now a new 
      foreground tab is auto-created in the inactive pane to hold the 
      location.

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Change Log for the latest XYplorer BETA version (v8.20.0018, 23-aug-2009).

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v8.20.0018 - 2009-08-23 21:49
    ! Rewrote a whole range of heavy rotation core functions to cope 
      with certain Unicode issues under DBCS systems (Chinese, Japanese 
      ...). Nice side effect: The functions got a lot faster, and since 
      they are used extremely often, the app as a whole got a bit more 
      speedy once more.
      *** Beware & Backup *** Heavy Changes ***

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Change Log for the latest XYplorer BETA version (v8.20.0017, 23-aug-2009).

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v8.20.0017 - 2009-08-23 10:13
    + Dual Pane: Now you can copy or move tabs from one pane to the 
      other by dragging them to their new position. All properties of 
      the tab are taken along, including current selections and scroll 
      position. The newly created tab is auto-selected but the target 
      pane remains inactive to streamline consecutive tab drops from one 
      pane to the other.
      The default action is move (the source tab is removed from its 
      pane), but you can force a copy by holding CTRL. If there's only 
      one tab left on a pane it will not be removed, of course.
    + SC getinfo got a new named argument "list_copyto".
      Syntax: getinfo("list_copyto", [separator = CRLF])
        [separator]:  String to place between items.
                      Defaults to CRLF (line feed).
        return:       List of current MRU items used in Copy To / Move 
                      To / Backup To.
      Example:
        ::text getinfo("list_copyto");
    + SC getinfo got a new named argument "list_hilitefolder".
      Syntax: getinfo("list_hilitefolder", [separator = CRLF])
        [separator]:  String to place between items.
                      Defaults to CRLF (line feed).
        return:       List of highlighted tree folders with their colors 
                      in RRGGBB. Format is identical to that used in the 
                      INI file.
      Example:
        ::text getinfo("list_hilitefolder");
    + Toolbar | Quick File View: The context menu of this and the other 
      Preview buttons now features a toggle "Full Screen Images Only" to 
      allow/disallow any Shell made preview in Full Screen Preview (F11).
      If checked then only images are shown full screen, all other files 
      are shown in Quick File View -- which happens to be the behavior 
      before Shell made full screen preview was introduced in v8.00.0003 
      - 2009-06- 22 15:42.
    ! Quick File View | Hex mode: Would not display Unicode files 
      correctly on Unicode/MBCS systems like Chinese, Japanese. Fixed.
    ! Open Command Prompt Here: On a locked tree it not open the current 
      list location but the focused tree node's location, which was the 
      less expected one to open when both differed. Fixed.

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Change Log for the latest XYplorer BETA version (v8.20.0016, 21-aug-2009).

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v8.20.0016 - 2009-08-21 14:00
    + Toolbar: Button "Quick File View" now with context menu.
    * Configuration | Features: Added "Catalog" to Pro-only features.
    ! Catalog: Dropping on the Catalog did always default to "copy" when 
      entering via the scrollbar. Fixed.