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v10.00.0011 - 2011-07-17 12:27
    ! Backup / Custom Copy: The Name Collision dialog did not show 
      "(older)" behind the date when it should have. Fixed.
    ! SC writefile: Would not write to network paths for a couple of 
      versions. Fixed.
    ! Toolbar: The hover effect was not always reset when clicking a 
      button that opened another app setting XY into the background. 
      Fixed.
    * XYcopy 2.00.0046: Internal changes and fixes.

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v10.00.0010 - 2011-07-16 21:25
    + New variable: <xy> = XYplorer executable path and name. It's just 
      a handy equivalent to <xypath>\<xyexe>.
    ! Tab Bar: Fixed a recent drawing glitch with the New Tab button.
    * Updated the help file.

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v10.00.0009 - 2011-07-15 14:59
    + Droppable User Buttons (DUB): Command line parameters now work 
      also when dropping onto the buttons. Fictive example for an 
      executable identified by basename and with a command switch, in 
      the Name field:
        "ACDSee32" /fullscreen
    * Catalog: Better support for basenames as referrers to executables.

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v10.00.0008 - 2011-07-14 15:42
    + [UNOFFICIAL FEATURE]
      Droppable User Buttons (DUB): Now you can enter a Location or EXE 
      or File into the Name field of a CTB. Leave the "On Click" field 
      empty! The button will now automatically show the matching icon 
      and certain matching behaviors:
      
                Location        EXE             File
                ~~~~~~~~~~~~    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
        Click:  Go to           Run EXE         Open with Associated (PFA)
         Drop:  Copy/Move to    Open with EXE   (Nothing)
      
      Note that all portability feats are fully supported. Also 
      basenames (e.g. "Photoshop" can stand for the full path to the 
      EXE) are supported for registered applications.
      The feature is UNOFFICIAL (and will not be mentioned in the Help) 
      because it is inherently lacking. E.g. the icons are not very 
      telling in the case of locations (almost all have the same folder 
      icon) and files with non-specific icons. Nevertheless it can be 
      useful and fun, so I mentioned it.
      The feature is also incomplete: Command line parameters do work 
      for EXEs, but not for the dropping part (they are ignored). And 
      the icons should have an overlay marking them as drop targets.
    * Configuration | General | Expand tree nodes on single-click: Now 
      it only affects left button clicks. Before, it also affected also
      middle button clicks.
    * XYcopy 2.00.0045: Internal changes and fixes.
    * SC backupto: Any progress dialog will now be strictly modal, 
      otherwise the correct sequence of script statements can not be 
      ensured.
    * SC backupto: Any progress dialog will be kept open, so "Keep 
      progress dialog open" (a setting that's not available as argument) 
      is internally ON when the progress dialog is popped via SC 
      backupto.
    ! Menu Edit | Paste Special: Commands "Paste (Move)" and "Paste 
      (Copy)" did not work as advertised. Fixed.

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v10.00.0007 - 2011-07-13 12:31
    + Toolbar: The drive buttons now support drops. You can drag-drop 
      files, folders, and even texts right onto the buttons. Also 
      supported is right-mouse dropping, which pops the usual extensive 
      drop context menu.
    + Toolbar: Added more button groups:
      - Network Drives (Group)    = mapped network drives (connected and 
        unconnected) 
      - CD-ROM Drives (Group)     = CD-ROM drives (empty or not)
    + Customize Toolbar Dialog: The Available Buttons list now has a 
      Live Filter Box.
    * Spot & Jump: Jump now shows "(no other matches)" in the status bar 
      when the jump ends up in the current position.

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v10.00.0006 - 2011-07-12 11:00
    + Toolbar: Now the toolbar got smarter about drives. You get a 
      couple of "button groups" which softly and automatically (when you 
      plug in/out a removable drive) react to the current drives setup. 
      The groups have different scopes and partly contain each other, so 
      for your toolbar you would typically choose one of them:
      - All Drives (Group)        = all drives as listed in MyComputer
      - Available Drives (Group)  = all drives apart from empty CD drives
        and unconnected mapped network drives
      - Hard Drives (Group)       = only hard drives
      - Removable Drives (Group)  = only available removable drives 
        (e.g. a floppy drive, thumb drive, or flash card reader)
      These soft groups make the drives section of the toolbar perfectly 
      portable.
      Notes:
      - The soft groups are sensitive to the following settings in 
        Configuration | General: Show floppy drives, Show hidden drives.
      - If Show floppy drives is ticked then floppies are displayed even 
        if empty to spare the annoying hardware check.
      - You can use the normal drive buttons parallely to the soft 
        groups without problems.        
    > Toolbar: Using scripting, permanent variables and SC toolbar() you 
      can easily build a user button that lets you quickly switch between 
      different toolbar layouts.
    * Drive Buttons: Now right-clicking the buttons pops the drive's 
      shell context menu if the drive is available, else it pops all 
      available drives.
    * SC writefile: Now the path of the file to be written is auto-
      created if necessary.
    * XYcopy 2.00.0044: Internal changes and fixes.
    * Configuration | Startup & Exit | Auto-backup configuration: Now 
      also the file catalog.dat is auto-backupped.
    * Backup / Custom Copy Configuration Dialog: Renamed "Preserve item 
      dates" to "Preserve all item dates". Reason: Also when unchecked, 
      at least the Modified date of files (but not of folders) is 
      preserved; this is Windows standard behavior.
    ! List: Label "View is empty" would sometimes be printed in an 
      unexpected color. Fixed.
    ! File Info Tips: Would flicker when tips got extremely large and 
      were popped under the mouse cursor. Fixed.

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v10.00.0005 - 2011-07-09 12:20
    + Toolbar: Added buttons for drives A: to Z:, so now you can build 
      your own Drives Bar section within the main toolbar.
      If the toolbar has large icons the buttons show the specific drive 
      icon plus the drive letter, else just the letter. The icons react 
      on adding or removing of removable drives if Auto-Refresh is 
      enabled.
      The buttons' tooltips show the drive display captions. The 
      buttons' right-click menu offers all available drives.
      Note that there are plans for a more flexible approach in a later 
      version: Only and all available drives will be shown as buttons. 
      To achieve this the toolbar definition will allow for a "soft" 
      pseudo button like "Available Drives" which is then on-the-fly 
      resolved to a row of buttons.
    ! Backup / Custom Copy Configuration Dialog: Did not honor non-
      standard DPI settings. Fixed.
    * XYcopy 2.00.0043: Internal changes and fixes.

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v10.00.0004 - 2011-07-08 13:20
    + Configuration | Extended | Custom items in shell context menu | 
      Folder Tree: Added one item:
        Empty Folder
      Empties the right-clicked tree folder.
    + Configuration | Extended | Custom items in shell context menu | 
      File List: Added one item (for folders only):
        Empty Folder
      Empties the right-clicked folder.
    + Thumbnails: Added "Refresh Selected Thumbnails", as opposed to 
      "Refresh Thumbnails" which refreshes them all.
      You find the new command in the right-click menu of the view 
      related toolbar buttons. The command is only available when the 
      current list is in thumbnails mode.
    + SC rotate enhanced: Added a flags parameter where you can control 
      refreshing of the list, preview, and thumbnails.
      Name:   rotate
      Action: Rotates JPG images. Rotation is lossless for typical 
              digital camera images.
      Syntax: rotate [mode=90|180|270|h|v], [jpgfile_src], [jpgfile_trg],
                     [only_if_lossless=0|1], [flags]
        flags = 0: [default] no refresh
                1: refresh
      Remarks:
        Thumbnails are refreshed only when in thumbnails mode.
      Example:
        ::rotate 90, , , , 1;
    ! XYcopy: Closing XYplorer while a background Backup or Custom Copy 
      was still in progress could lead to an error and undesired 
      abortion of the copy job. Fixed.
    * XYcopy 2.00.0042: Internal changes and fixes.

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v10.00.0003 - 2011-07-07 20:37
    + Configuration | Tabs: Added "Show 'New Tab' button". Check to show 
      the "New Tab" dummy tab or button or whatever it is.

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v10.00.0002 - 2011-07-07 12:45
    + Tabs: Added a "New Tab" dummy tab that is positioned right of all 
      real tabs and offers a mousy way to open a new tab.
      This is currently bound to the setting Configuration | Tabs | 
      Always keep right end of tab bar empty and will replace it in 
      future. Still looking for a good caption...
    * SCs download and readurl: Tried a different approach to fetch data 
      that might fix a problem with certain code pages. Attempt #4.

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v10.00.0001 - 2011-07-06 13:49
    + Configuration | General: Added "Sort filenames by base" (ON by 
      factory default). Check it to sort filenames primarily by base, 
      secondarily by extension. Note that Explorer in Windows XP sorts 
      by full name (base + extension) whereas Explorer in Vista/Win7 
      sorts by base.

        ======================================      
        Natural numeric sort order ON
        --------------------------------------
        Sort by base ON     Sort by base OFF
        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
        a.txt               a2.txt            
        a2.txt              a10.txt           
        a10.txt             a.txt             
        Test.txt            Test-01.bam       
        Test-01.bam         Test-01.bim       
        Test-01.bim         Test-01.bum       
        Test-01.bum         Test-01.txt       
        Test-01.txt         Test-02.txt       
        Test-02.txt         Test.txt          
        xxxxxxxxx.BBB       xxxxxxxxx.AA.CCC  
        xxxxxxxxx.AA.CCC    xxxxxxxxx.BBB     

        ======================================
        Natural numeric sort order OFF
        --------------------------------------
        Sort by base ON     Sort by base OFF
        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
        a.txt               a.txt             
        a10.txt             a10.txt           
        a2.txt              a2.txt            
        Test.txt            Test.txt          
        Test-01.bam         Test-01.bam       
        Test-01.bim         Test-01.bim       
        Test-01.bum         Test-01.bum       
        Test-01.txt         Test-01.txt       
        Test-02.txt         Test-02.txt       
        xxxxxxxxx.BBB       xxxxxxxxx.AA.CCC  
        xxxxxxxxx.AA.CCC    xxxxxxxxx.BBB     
         
    ! List: Label "View is empty" appeared quickly after going anywhere 
      from a blocked list (i.e. location unavailable). Fixed.
    * XYcopy 2.00.0041: Internal changes and fixes.

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v10.00.0000 - 2011-07-05 12:00
    = NEW OFFICIAL RELEASE. Main changes since last release:
  +++ Custom Copy. A widely configurable alternative copy method that 
      exceeds the Windows standard copy in many ways, e.g. verification, 
      reporting, and logging. Custom Copy operations can be backgrounded 
      and queued.
  +++ Backup. Backup operations now can be backgrounded and queued.

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v9.90.1125 - 2011-07-05 08:56
    ! Menu File | Swap Names: Suffered from the bizarre Windows bug 
      described in v9.90.1124, i.e. the Created dates did not come out 
      as expected. Fixed.
      FYI, Swap Names now provides a perfect name swap, something you 
      cannot achieve manually (by a sequence of inline-renames) due to 
      the Windows bug.
    * XYcopy 2.00.0040: Internal changes and fixes.

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v9.90.1124 - 2011-07-04 17:59
    ! Safe Overwrite: On "Safe Overwrite" enabled, "Preserve Item Dates" 
      did not work for the Created date because of an old and bizarre 
      Windows bug where a new or renamed file inherits the created date 
      of the last deleted or renamed file with the same path/name. Fixed 
      (successfully worked around the Windows bug).
    * Various Drives Popups: Removed the recent change (v9.90.1123) 
      because drive items were not accessible by accelerators keys 
      anymore ("C" to go to drive C: etc).
    * XYcopy 2.00.0039: Internal changes and fixes.

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v9.90.1123 - 2011-07-04 13:06
    + Configuration | General | Tree: Added option "Select parent of 
      deleted folder". Check it to always select the parent of a deleted 
      folder. If unchecked the next sibling is selected (if there is 
      any, otherwise the parent is selected).
      This raises the tweak TreeSelectParentOfDeleted to UI level.
    * Various Drives Popups: Simplified the menu items.
        OLD: C:\ - (C:) Drive Caption
        NEW: (C:) Drive Caption

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