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v11.70.0009 - 2012-10-16 09:38
    + Menu File | Duplicate | Copy/Move Here to New Subfolder...: Now 
      the dialog suggests the last used Selection Filter as new 
      subfolder name, if that filter is a valid filename, and if it was 
      used less than 2 minutes ago.
    ! Full Screen Preview: Did not cover the taskbar in Win7-Aero since 
      20120615. Fixed.

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v11.70.0008 - 2012-10-15 12:10
    * Floating Preview: In the right-click menu, replaced the 4 color 
      items by "Cycle Background Color".
    * Floating Preview: Improved calculation and display format of the 
      aspect ratio. Unusual formats are now given in the "n:1" resp. 
      "1:n" style where "n" is a fraction of up to 2 decimal digits, 
      e.g. "1.97:1". This style also applies to the common cinemascope 
      format "2.35:1" (which as integer ratio would be a weird 47:20).
    * Floating Preview: Now on app switch to XYplorer it is ensured that 
      the Floating Preview gets the input focus.
    ! Rename Special: The Preview button disappeared when using the Tips 
      button. Fixed.

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v11.70.0007 - 2012-10-14 09:49
    + Floating Preview: The status now shows the approximated aspect 
      ratio of the image (3:2, 16:9, 3:4, etc.). If the approximation is 
      rather rough a "~" is prefixed.
    ! Floating Preview: Choosing the background color from the right-
      click menu did not work correctly. Fixed.
    + Floating Preview: Now Shift+B cycles the background colors 
      backwards.

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v11.70.0006 - 2012-10-13 18:30
    + Floating Preview: Added the toggle "Flipped" (F) to the right-
      click menu. If ticked then the preview is flipped (mirror image) 
      horizontally (relative to the preview, also if rotated).
      Notes:
      - All notes given for rotated images also apply to flipped images.
      - For a flipped image Rotate Left and Right are interpreted as 
        being applied to the flipped image, not to the original. This 
        seems to better match the user expectation. Nevertheless, the 
        status info displays the correct rotation degrees with reference 
        to the original.
      - According to Wikipedia the correct term for horizontally flipped
        would be "flopped" but IMO that's not common usage.
    * List | Inline Rename: Now it's a four-step circle when you 
      repeatedly press F2 on a filename with extension.
        1) select, extension excluded
        2) unselect, caret to end of base
        3) select all
        4) unselect, caret to end 
      With Configuration | General | Exclude extension on rename ON the 
      circle starts at 1), else at 3).
      Works the same now in dialog-based rename.
    * Floating Preview: Reorganized the background coloring again. Now 
      you got 4 choices, one of them is tweakable:
      - Black
      - Dark Gray
      - Light Gray (tweakable via FPColorLightGray)
      - White
    * Tweak "FPCustomColor" is now called "FPColorLightGray", default:
        FPColorLightGray=777777,CCCCCC

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v11.70.0005 - 2012-10-12 18:20
    + Menu Edit | New | New Files...: Now creating folders (not only 
      files) through this interface is supported. Items with a trailing 
      backslash are created as folders.
    + Menu Help | Environment Variables: Added Copy button.
    + Menu Help | Various Information: Added Copy button.
    * Menu Tools | Customize List | Date Column Format: Now the symbolic 
      codes are shown behind the resolved date/time format choices.
    + Context Sensitive Help: Now most Info Panel tabs will pop Context 
      Sensitive Help on F1.
    * Updated the help file.
    * Floating Preview: Reorganized the background coloring. Now in the 
      right-click menu you find 3 options:
        - White on Black
        - System Button Colors
        - Custom Colors
      You can cycle between these options using key B.
      The "Custom Colors" option is tweakable (might later be added to 
      Colors & Styles). This is the factory default (light grey on dark 
      grey):
        FPCustomColor=777777,222222
      The format is RRGGBB,RRGGBB (Text,Back).
    * Configuration | Preview: The same background coloring options as 
      above are also offered here in a dropdown.
    - Removed Configuration | Preview | Black background.

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v11.70.0004 - 2012-10-09 18:28
    ! Locked Tree: Switching panes on a locked tree did not correctly 
      mark the current path in the tree. Fixed.
    ! Thumbnails: A certain sequence of thumbnail related user actions 
      could lead to partly black thumbnails because a particular 
      internal value was not updated correctly. Fixed.
    ! Thumbnails: Slightly mysterious display glitch (black bars on top 
      and bottom of the thumbnail, and the image unproportionally 
      squished) for thumbnails sized 4320 x 2432 under Win7. Fixed.
      Note that the fix doesn't help in "super-fast thumbnails" mode.

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v11.70.0003 - 2012-10-09 09:21
    ! List: For some users the Info Panel was not updated when moving 
      the file list selection using arrow keys. Fixed by rewriting the 
      underlying logic (which is all about allowing fast key repetition 
      not being delayed by any Info Panel updating work).
    ! Tips button pressed state glitch. Fixed.

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v11.70.0000 - 2012-10-08 12:00
    = NEW OFFICIAL RELEASE. Main developments since last release:
  +++ Floating Preview Zoom. Now you can freely zoom in and out using 
      the keys Numpad Add and Numpad Subtract. Extra-fine stepping, Lock 
      Zoom, and Toggle Zoom is supported.
  +++ Floating Preview Rename. Now you can rename items directly from 
      the preview using F2 or the right-click menu.
  +++ Rename with Dialog. You don't like inline rename? Now there is an 
      alternative. Optionally have a nice modal dialog for renaming 
      operations in Tree and List.
  +++ Copy Tags. Finally copying tags along with the copied files is 
      supported.

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v11.60.0210 - 2012-10-07 12:57
    * Floating Preview: Messages like "No more." are now shown for just 
      one second and then disappear.
    % Rewrote a particular heavy duty function resulting in a dramatic 
      speed gain that will be notable in many places, e.g. in the 
      preparation of file operations with huge numbers of items.
    ! A logical bug resulted in lots of superfluous work in the 
      preparation of file operations with huge numbers of items. Fixed.
    ! Configuration | Colors & Styles | Mirror tree box color in list: 
      Did not work correctly with certain folder names. Fixed.
    ! Default File Info Tips did not show correctly for files in drive 
      roots. Fixed.

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v11.60.0209 - 2012-10-06 15:22
    + Info Panel | Tags: Now you can checkbox-control which tag types 
      (Label, Tags, Comment) are applied to the selected files when 
      pressing "Apply".
      Note: When you trigger apply by pressing <enter> right in the edit 
      fields (<ctrl+enter> for Comments) then the tag of this type is 
      applied even if the checkbox is not ticked.
    * Configuration | Tags | Confirm copying tags: The prompt is now 
      popped before the copy, not after. This is to avoid a conflict 
      with the progress dialog where one dialog would potentially hide 
      the other.
      Disadvantage: The prompt is popped even when no tags are present 
      in the sources. It would be too costy to check for any tags this 
      at this point. But at least a quick check is done if just one file 
      is copied: in this case the prompt will come only if that file has 
      any tags.

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v11.60.0208 - 2012-10-05 15:21
    + Info Panel | Tags: Added a small dropdown where you can select the 
      tagging mode:
      - Add     = Add given tags to the existing tags of all selected 
                  items. [New Factory Default!]
      - Set     = Replace any existing tags in all selected items with 
                  the given tags.
      - Remove  = Remove given tags from the existing tags of all 
                  selected items.
    > Info Panel | Tags: The Apply button always applies all fields.
      To apply only Tags and not the other fields (Label and Comment) 
      press Enter when the focus is in the Tags edit box. Same works for 
      the other fields.
    * Floating Preview: Messages like "No more." are now white on red.
    ! Info Panel | Preview: MDBU could get misplaced on "Shrink to fit" 
      ON and "Use whole screen" OFF. Fixed.
    ! Tree Path Tracing: Drawing glitch on a Locked Tree under certain 
      conditions. Fix #3.
    * Updated the help file.

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v11.60.0207 - 2012-10-04 14:52
    + Floating Preview: Added the setting "Lock Zoom" (K) to the right-
      click menu. If ticked then the current zoom level is kept when 
      switching images as long as the preview window is open.
    + Floating Preview: Added the command "Toggle Zoom" (G). Use it to 
      toggle between the last zoom level and the default size of the 
      image (Fit All, Original Size, etc.). The last zoom level is 
      remembered across openings of the preview window (but not across 
      app sessions).
    + Configuration | Tags: Added option "Confirm copying tags". If 
      ticked then you are prompted before any tags are copied from the 
      source items to the target items.
      The prompt is only popped when the copied items contain any tags, 
      and of course not more than once per copy or backup operation.
    + Tweak to add new tags to tag list from the Info Panel | Tags tab:
        TagsAddNewTagsTab=1
    ! Tree Path Tracing: Drawing glitch on a Locked Tree under certain 
      conditions. Fix #2.

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v11.60.0206 - 2012-10-03 20:19
    + Configuration | Tags: Added options "Copy tags on copy operations" 
      and "Copy tags on backup operations". If enabled then tags are 
      copied from the source to the target items of the respective file 
      operations.
      Notes:
      - The tag.dat database will grow for each new target item 
        (for each item that has not been overwritten).
      - If the target is on a removable drives be aware that the tags do 
        not actually end up on that drive but are just added to the 
        local tag.dat where they merely point to that drive.
    + SC get got a new named argument "list_recentlocations".
      Syntax: get("list_recentlocations", [separator=CRLF])
        [separator]:  String to place between items.
                      Defaults to CRLF (line feed).
        return:       List of recent locations (identical to menu Go | 
                      Recent Locations).
      Example:
        text get("list_recentlocations");
    * Floating Preview: Now list does not auto-resort anymore after 
      renaming through the Floating Preview.
    * Floating Preview: From now on the Floating Preview window always 
      gets the focus after it's shown. Before, the main window kept the 
      focus when the Floating Preview window did not overlap with it.
    % Floating Preview: Now toggling Mouse Down Blow Up goes instantly 
      (without unnecessarily reloading the image).
    ! Tree Path Tracing: Drawing glitch on a Locked Tree under certain 
      conditions. Fixed.

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v11.60.0205 - 2012-10-02 11:20
    + Configuration | General: Added option "Use dialog to rename single 
      items". Tick it to use a dialog instead of the usual inline-rename 
      in Tree and List.
      Note that the setting only affects the F2 rename; the slow double-
      click will always open the inline-rename.
    + Floating Preview: Now you can rename items directly from the 
      preview using F2 or the right-click menu.
    + Floating Preview: The right-click menu now features "Top-align if 
      Vertically Cropped" (V).
    * Floating Preview: Now zooming in/out by CTRL+Wheel is supported:
        zoom in   = CTRL+Wheel Up
        zoom out  = CTRL+Wheel Down
      Tip: Hold CTRL+SHIFT to fine zoom.
    * Floating Preview: Fine zooming is now done by holding SHIFT. 
      Before, it was CTRL.
    * Floating Preview: Now the logarithmic zooming always snaps to a 
      normalized scale that contains the 100% point.
      Extra smartness lets you go back to the original zoom factor (i.e. 
      to snap out of the normalized scale for that initial zoom factor). 
      For example, the normalized logarithmic 4-step scale between 50% 
      and 100% looks like this:
          50 - 59.40 - 70.75 - 84.01 - 100
      Now when you start from 79.44 (because Fit All happened to produce 
      this value), then your zoom steps will look like this:
          50 - 59.40 - 70.75 - 79.44 - 84.01 - 100
      Additional smartness: If the step between the normalized scale and 
      the initial point happens to be too small (arbitrary hard-coded 
      limit is a ratio of 1.02) then automatically the next step is 
      used.
    * List: Now when you select a tab and the previously selected file 
      is gone then the file that's now at that position is focused (but 
      not selected). Before, the first file would have been focused.
      Note that this works also across sessions.
    ! SC formatlist: Filters containing backslashes, e.g. full paths, 
      did not work alright. Fixed.
    ! Inline Rename: Could not change the selection in the edit box by 
      mouse after about 25 days uptime due to an unhandled overflow. 
      Fixed.

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v11.60.0204 - 2012-09-28 11:07
    + Floating Preview: New keyboard shortcuts:
        / (Numpad Divide)   for Original Size
        * (Numpad Multiply) for Fit All
    * Floating Preview: Now the logarithmic zooming uses smaller steps 
      (4th root of 2, which means you need 4 steps to get to the half or 
      double size), and it starts flexibly at the current zoom whatever 
      it is. The possible range is from 0.5% to 6400% of the original 
      size.
      I also added an even finer zooming by the 12th root of 2, which 
      matches the chromatic scale of Western music and e.g. echoes the 
      fret pattern on a guitar neck. For what it's worth hold CTRL to 
      zoom by the 12th root of 2 (1.0594630943593).

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