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v18.70.0112 - 2018-03-03 13:12
    ! Custom Columns: The click button in columns with trigger "Click" was not 
      correctly vertically centered with larger font sizes. Fixed.
      FYI, this bug surfaced only because of the click-button-darkening added in 
      v18.70.0111.
    ! Custom Columns: In columns with trigger "Click" you could not quickly 
      click several cells in a row before the first cell had returned and get 
      the expected results. Now it should work.

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v18.70.0114 - 2018-03-04 20:36
    * Updated the help file.
    ! Vertical Grid Lines: Fixed a drawing glitch related to Full Row Select.

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v18.80.0000 - 2018-03-05 12:00
    = NEW OFFICIAL RELEASE. Main developments since last release:
  +++ Open Throw Away Clone. Now you can open a clone of the current XYplorer 
      instance in read-only mode. You can use such a clone for quick in-between 
      jobs that should not affect your main configuration. Highly useful.
  +++ Selection Colors. Now you can customize the text and background colors of 
      selected items. Offers you a break from the age-old white-on-blue without 
      messing with the Windows system-wide color settings.
  +++ Vertical Grid. Now you can have vertical grid lines in the details view.
  +++ Live Filter Highlights. Now the matching parts can be highlighted.
  +++ Filename Length Info. Now a yellow warning icon is shown in the box when 
      the new filename would trigger a move-on-rename.
  +++ Toolbar Captions. Now you can customize the number of caption lines. The 
      more lines you use the less horizontal space is taken by each button.
  +++ Scripting. Added Compound Assignment Operators .=, +=, -=, *=, /=, \=.

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v18.80.0001 - 2018-03-06 19:06
    + Folder Thumbnails: Now also *.jpeg files are supported (not only *.jpg).
    ! Open Throw Away Clone: Did not pass the command line of the current 
      instance to the clone. Fixed. Apart from any start path, the clone will 
      open with the same command line parameters as the current instance.

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v18.80.0002 - 2018-03-07 15:18
    + Configuration | Information | Report: Added section "CVS field separator" 
      where you can choose between the System List Separator, TAB, and any other 
      string you might prefer.
      This separator is used in the CSV and Tree Structure reports on Info Panel 
      | Reports | Current Folder.
      Remarks:
      - The System List Separator can be changed in the system regional settings. 
        Depending on the Windows version this can be done around here:
          Start > Control Panel > Regional and Language Options
      - The size of "Other" is limited to 16 characters. LOL. Tell me if you 
        find a use for this, or need more.
      - If "Other" is set to "" (nothing) then it defaults to the System List 
        Separator.
      - Previously this separator had been hard-coded to System List Separator. 
        Now you have options, and your choice is portable.
    ! Mouse Down Blow Up: In a multi-monitor setup the blow up could pop on the 
      wrong monitor when the mouse went down on a file icon (Configuration | 
      Preview | Mouse Down Blow Up | On file icons as well). Fixed.

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v18.80.0003 - 2018-03-08 14:32
    + Tree: Added tweak to auto-move the selected folder to the top of the view.
        TreeSelectedToTop=1
      Ever since the selected folder is moved to the top of the view when it was 
      above the view before being selected. However, when it was within the view 
      it is not moved at all, and when it was below the view it is moved to the 
      bottom of the view. The strategy here is to minimize the amount of 
      vertical scrolling. But to have the selected folder consistently at the 
      top might also be a valid strategy.
      Notes:
      - Selecting a folder right in the tree does *not* trigger the auto-move. 
        It would just drive you crazy.
      - Near the bottom of the tree it might not be possible to bring the folder 
        up to the top. That's tree physics you got to live with.
      - The setting of "Configuration | Menus, Mouse, Safety | Usability | 
        Scroll margin" is honored, so you can have the folder auto-moved e.g. to 
        the 3rd row of the view if you like.
      - Might make this an official setting later.
    * Renamed "CVS field separator" to "CSV field separator", LOL.
    * Configuration | Shell Integration | 64-bit Windows | Show the 64-bit 
      context menu: Added small note to reduce confusion:
        "This menu does not contain XYplorer specific custom items".
    ! Mouse Down Blow Up of Text: Did not work on non-image thumbnails in 
      "Details with Thumbnails #1" view. Fixed.

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v18.80.0004 - 2018-03-09 20:54
    + Configuration | General | Tree and List | Tree. Added option "Scroll 
      selected folder to the top". Raises tweak TreeSelectedToTop to the GUI.
    * Tabs: When switching tabs the focus now stays in the Tree when it was 
      there before. Before, the focus always was set to the List.
    + List: In v11.40.0102 - 2012-08-10 09:17 I added this to adapt to the 
      behavior of WinXP's Explorer:
          From now on copies of items created in the same path as the original 
          items (by Duplicate or Paste) are not auto-selected anymore but the 
          selection stays on the original items. This is in accordance with 
          Windows Explorer behavior and indeed makes more sense.
      Now in Win8.1 and later, Explorer changed its behavior: Now it *does* 
      auto-select the copy. To allow you to mimic the new behavior I added this 
      tweak:
        ListSelectOnPasteInSamePath=1
      The factory default is 1 (we want to go with the flow), but upgraders 
      have to manually set it to 1 if they want the new behavior.
    + Configuration | Colors and Styles | Fonts: Added section Toolbar where you 
      can customize the name and size of the toolbar button captions font.
    + Toolbar: Ctrl+Wheel over the Toolbar now lets you control the fontsize of 
      the button captions. Apart from being highly practical as compared to 
      going via the Configuration dialog, this way also offers a higher 
      resolution (namely fractional sizes) than going by the ridiculously 
      outdated Windows Font dialog.
      When no button captions are shown the wheel is ignored.
    * Toolbar: Now you use Ctrl+Shift+Wheel over the Toolbar to control the 
      toolbar zoom. Before, it was Ctrl+Wheel.
    * Configuration | Fonts: Now the displayed font sizes show the fractions 
      again (2 digits) if there are any. In v17.60.0101 - 2017-02-28 21:42 I 
      changed it to fully rounded but I don't like it anymore. I don't like to 
      bow to the integer nonsense of the stupid Windows Font dialog.

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v18.80.0005 - 2018-03-12 19:16
  +++ Drag Status Box: Experimentally added something to the mouse pointer while 
      dragging stuff and hovering over a potential target. It tells you how many 
      items are being dragged and what's the target full path.
      - Additionally it's color-coded:
        Brown = Move
        Blue = Copy
        Purple = Create Shortcut
        Graphite = Add to Paper Folder
      - Tip: You can check out the colors by forcing different modes via keyboard:
        Hold SHIFT        -> Brown = Move
        Hold CTRL         -> Blue = Copy
        Hold CTRL+SHIFT   -> Purple = Create Shortcut
      - Implemented for dragging onto Tree, List, Breadcrumb Bar, Catalog, Tabs, 
        and Toolbar.
      - Of course, it will be made optional later.
      - I'd like to call it Drag Status Box or FlyBox.
      - Love it.
    * Mouse Pointer: Changed the pointer for Move operations from a Minus symbol 
      to an Arrow symbol. Reason: Some users understandably associated Minus 
      with Delete -- and got confused.
    * Configuration | Colors and Styles | Styles | Focus rectangle: Now, when 
      "Focus rectangle" is unticked and selections are set to "XYplorer Classic 
      Style" a solid (non-dotted) focus rect outline is drawn around focused 
      non-selected items using the active selection background color. Before, no 
      focus rect was drawn under these conditions.
    ! MLS: Toolbar captions were not auto-updated on language change. Fixed.

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v18.80.0006 - 2018-03-13 13:30
    + Drag Status Box: You can tweak the colors at key DragStatusClasses. This is 
      the factory default:
        DragStatusClasses=5495DC|FEA311|81409C|A0A0A0
      Background color white remains hard-coded. Text colors are auto-calculated 
      for good contrast.
    * Drag Status Box: Changed default color for Move operations from brown to 
      orange.
    ! Drag Status Box: Fixed a couple of glitches.

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v18.80.0007 - 2018-03-13 20:52
    + Drag Status Box: Added the icon to the target path. It's simply expected 
      that a path spec is accompanied by its icon.
    + Configuration | Colors and Styles | More Colors: Added "Focus rectangle" 
      with three choices:
        - Solid
        - Dotted
        - None
      Now this setting applies to both "Windows Theme Style" and "XYplorer 
      Classic Style". So now you can have the dotted focus rectangle, or no 
      focus rectangle also with "Windows Theme Style".
    - Configuration | Colors and Styles | Styles | Focus rectangle: Removed this 
      checkbox. Replaced by the dropdown above.

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v18.80.0008 - 2018-03-14 11:07
    + Configuration | General | Menus, Mouse, Safety | Safety Belts: Added 
      option "Show drag status box". Tick it to show the Drag Status Box, a 
      color-coded information box shown at the mouse pointer when hovering over 
      a drop target.
      Factory default is ON.

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v18.80.0009 - 2018-03-14 16:58
    + Configuration | General | Menus, Mouse, Safety | Safety Belts: Added 
      "Disallow left-dragging from file list". Was previously subsumed under 
      "Disallow left-dragging from tree and list".
    * Configuration | General | Menus, Mouse, Safety | Safety Belts: Renamed 
      "Disallow left-dragging from tree and list" to "Disallow left-dragging 
      from folder tree". Now it only affects dragging from the tree.
    > So now you can protect the tree from potentially disastrous drag-and-drop 
      mistakes, while keeping the list drag-ready to rock.
    ! Drag Status Box: Drop target icons in network paths incorrect. Fixed.
    ! Drag Status Box: Fixed a couple of glitches.

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v18.80.0010 - 2018-03-14 22:00
    + Drag Status Box: Now also shown for right-button dragging. The default 
      color is a light green.
    * Drag Status Box Colors: The color for right-button dragging has been 
      appended to the default values at key DragStatusClasses. This is now the 
      factory default:
        DragStatusClasses=5495DC|FEA311|81409C|A0A0A0|C7E6B7
      Upgraders: Your customizations will be reset by this upgrade! Well, it's a 
      brand-new feature in progress. To keep your custom colors you can manually 
      edit the INI key and append a 5th color before starting the new version.

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v18.80.0011 - 2018-03-15 14:27
    * Drag Status Box: Now when hovering over special paths (aka display paths), 
      the box now shows the special path instead of the real path, e.g. 
      "Donald\Sub" instead of "C:\Users\Donald\Sub".
    ! Drag Status Box: Wrong icon for folders when these two were ticked:
      - Configuration | Refresh, Icons, History | Icons | Use generic icons for 
        super-fast browsing
      - Configuration | Refresh, Icons, History | Icons | Apply to all controls
      Fixed.
    ! List: On Vertical Grid Lines enabled the cropped caption info tip popped 
      in the Name column even when nothing was cropped. Fixed.
    * Tree: Now you cannot initialize dragging anymore from a half-row at the 
      bottom. A good little safety-belt against unwanted drag operations.
    ! Tree: Under certain conditions you could not click a half-row at the 
      bottom and browse it. The row was just scrolled into view on mouse-down, 
      which also felt irritating. Fixed. Now it's scrolled into view on mouse-up 
      and then browsed.
    ! SC hash: Flag 2 was ignored when file spec was passed:
        hash("md5", $filePath, 3);
      Fixed.

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v18.80.0013 - 2018-03-15 21:42
    * Open Throw Away Clone: Now the READ-ONLY instance is dramatically marked 
      as such by a window-wide sky-blue color bar. I barely stopped myself from 
      using the colors of "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri".
    ! Links: Fixed some glitches concerning left- and right-dragging onto items 
      in the Links folder. Now you can also drag onto EXEs (Open With) and ZIPs 
      (Drop Into).

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