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XYplorer Beta Club
v9.40.0003 - 2010-08-06 09:37
! Tree: Keys DEL and F2 did not work in the Tree since v9.40.0002.
Fixed.
! Copy/Move Here As... did not honour "Exclude extension on rename"
anymore. Fixed.
! List: Would not drop anything into a selected and focused folder
(e.g. from one pane to the other). Fixed.
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v9.40.0002 - 2010-08-05 20:12
+ Menu File | Duplicate: The following commands (originally added
v6.40.0033 - 2007-10-31 11:03) have been elevated from CKS |
Miscellaneous | File Operations to UI level and are now found in
the Duplicate submenu:
- Copy Here to New Subfolder... (Ctrl+Shift+C), #1042
- Move Here to New Subfolder... (Ctrl+Shift+X), #1041
Note that both commands only work on the selected list item(s),
and are disabled if the file list is not focused. (They work
however in scripting on selected items in a non-focused list.)
I'm aware that "Move Here to New Subfolder" does not fit under the
heading Duplicate, but hey... I'm confident your brain can handle
it.
* Main Menu: Removed the word "Suffix" from all captions like "Copy
Here with Suffix Date Modified".
Also "Date Now" has been rephrased to "Current Date", and "Date
Modified" to "Last Modified Date".
+ Configuration | Templates | Date affix: Now the template supports
the variable <folder> that is resolved to the moved/copied file's
parent folder (only the folder, not the whole path).
Example for a template:
*-<date yyyymmdd> (<folder>)
Note that the presence of this variable in the template is not
reflected in the related commands' menu captions, so this variable
is rather a very special option that you have to make a mental
note about when you use it.
* List: Now when changing the sort order and there are no selections
the list is auto-scrolled to top and the top item is auto-focused
-- regardless of the setting of Configuration | General | Keep
focused item in view after sorting. IMO a small change with a big
usability gain.
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v9.40.0001 - 2010-08-04 13:25
+ Configuration | Templates | Date affix (previously "Date suffix"):
Now this template can define a prefix, a circumfix, or a suffix
(previously it could just define a suffix). To this purpose the
file base is represented by an asterisk in the pattern. The
(optional) date uses the <date ...> syntax known from XY
variables.
This template is employed for example when files are copied or
moved using "Copy (Move) Here with Suffix Date Now (Modified)".
Examples for copying a file called "Test.txt" using various affix
templates:
*-<date yyyymmdd> = Test-20100803.txt
<date yyyymmdd> * = 20100803 Test.txt
Copy of * = Copy of Test.txt
Copy of * from <date yyyymmdd> = Copy of Test from 20100803.txt
Notes:
- If the asterisk is missing the pattern is by default suffixed to
the file base.
- Each asterisk is replaced by the base, so you can do bizarre
things like this:
** = duplicates the base of the copied (moved) items
UPGRADE NOTE:
- When upgrading to this version the Date affix is reset to the
factory default *-<date yyyymmdd>.
+ Configuration | Previewed Formats: Now you can add files without
any extension as a separate file type to any of the file type
groups. To do this state "<none>" (without the quotes) as the
extension.
* List: Now when right-click DnD'ing some files onto a folder, the
target folder is kept highlighted while the popup menu is
displayed.
* Configuration | General | Keep focused item in view after sorting:
From now on this setting is ignored if there are no selections in
the list.
+ Tweak to select list items by clicking the whole Name column, not
just the caption:
ListFullNameSelect=1
The tweak is ignored if Full Row Select is enabled.
! Catalog: When adding selected items via context menu, the icons
where not immediately updated in the Catalog. Fixed.
! Catalog: Insert a New Category Here | Clipboard Item(s) did not
work at all due to a false index. Fixed.
! List: Drawing glitches and confusion when using the wheel while
lasso selecting. Fixed the glitches and abolished the combination
of lasso and wheel. Once you wheel you lose the selections and the
lasso.
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v9.40.0000 - 2010-08-02 12:00
= NEW OFFICIAL RELEASE. Main changes since last release:
+++ Portable Tabs. Now tabs can be made fully portable by pointing
them to a portable path that is resolved depending on the context,
for example %userprofile%. Portable Tabs smartly adapt their
contents to the current host system.
+++ Go to Last Target. Now the copied or moved items found in the
target location are auto-selected when you go there using the "Go
to Last Target" command. A surprisingly useful little service.
+++ History Retains Selections. Now (optionally) if you return to a
previous location, any previous selections in this location are
restored.
+++ Portable File Associations. Now you can define associations for
files without extension.
+++ Tree. Now tooltips of junctions display the Junction Target.
+++ Scripting. This new version comes with a couple of powerful new or
improved scripting commands like inputselect(), tab(), listfolder(),
and report().
+++ Address Bar. Now right-clicking the dropdown arrow pops the
breadcrumb menu for the current path.
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v9.30.0029 - 2010-08-01 17:32
+ SC GetToken enhanced. Now you can pass "count" as second parameter
to retrieve the token count in the string. Note that the function
returns 0 when the string is empty.
text gettoken("a,b", "count", ","); // 2
text gettoken("a,", "count", ","); // 2
text gettoken(",", "count", ","); // 2
text gettoken("", "count", ","); // 0
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v9.30.0028 - 2010-07-31 17:48
+ Menu Scripting: Added command "Run Script..." which opens a
multiline edit box where you can enter a script and run it.
The command is near identical to "Try Script..." but does not
enforce Step Mode. Both commands share the same remembered
contents when the dialog is opened again, and also the same last
size and position.
Note that the dialog has context sensitive help: F1 will open the
Scripting Commands Reference.
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v9.30.0025 - 2010-07-31 12:51
* Updated the help file.
! There was a problem with the MIDI preview on some systems. Fixed.
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v9.30.0024 - 2010-07-30 18:43
+ Tree: Now a tree with a horizontal scrollbar auto-scrolls into
view when you drag-hover the left or right margins, aka Hot
Scrolling.
* SC replacelist enhanced. Now if you state only one replace unit,
all items in the search list are replaced with that one unit.
Removal of items is just a subcase of the rule (replace all items
in search list with nothing).
Examples:
::text replacelist("Taxi", "ai", ""); //Tx
::text replacelist("Taxi", "ai", "u"); //Tuxu
::text replacelist("Taxi", "a,i", "ou", ","); //Touxou
* List | Inline Rename. Now it's a three-step circle when you
repeatedly press F2 on a filename with extension.
1) select, extension excluded
2) select, extension included
3) unselect, caret to end
With Configuration | General | Exclude extension on rename ON the
circle starts at 1), else at 2).
+ Tweak to preview audio files in an alternative manner. This might
help if XYplorer does not play MIDI files using the factory
defaults:
AudioMCICustomExtensions=mid
+ Mini Tree: Non-existing drives or folders now can be removed via
context menu ("Hide Folder from Mini Tree").
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v9.30.0023 - 2010-07-29 12:14
+ Scripting got a new function.
Name: listfolder
Action: Lists the contents of a folder (non-recursive).
Syntax: listfolder([path=<curpath>], [pattern=*], [filesonly], _
[separator="|"])
path: Path of folder to list; defaults to current list path.
Special paths ("Desktop") and portable paths ("?:\")
are supported.
pattern: Wildcard (?, *) pattern to filter returned items;
defaults to "*" (show all).
If no wildcards are contained, the pattern is auto-
embraced by "*".
filesonly:
0: show folders and files [default]
1: show only filees
separator: Separates the items in the returned list;
defaults to | (pipe).
return: List of items.
Notes:
- The order of items is determined by the OS resp. file system.
For XP/NTFS and later it's alphabetical, files and folders
mixed.
- The possibilities this command brings to scripting are mind-
boggling.
Examples:
//list all items current list folder
::text listfolder();
//list all items in %windir% that contain "y" in the name
::text listfolder(%windir%, "y", , <crlf>);
//list all DLL files in %windir% (typically C:\Windows\)
//and gives a short report on them
::$itemlist = listfolder(%windir%, "*.dll", 1);
text report("{Name}, {Size B} bytes,
{Modified yyyy-mm-dd hh:nn:ss},
ver {FileVersion}<crlf>", $itemlist);
//list all DLL files in %windir%, select one to goto
::$itemlist = listfolder(%windir%, "*.dll", 1);
goto inputselect("DLLs in %windir%", $itemlist, , 1);
+ Scripting got a new function.
Name: replacelist
Action: Replaces substrings by list.
Syntax: replacelist(string, searchlist, [replacelist], _
[delimiter], [matchcase])
string: String to work on (haystack).
searchlist: Substrings to be replaced (needles).
replacelist: Substrings to replace with.
empty: All substrings in searchlist are removed.
delimiter: Delimites the strings in the lists;
empty: Each character is taken as a substring.
matchcase: Compare method.
0: A=a [Default]
1: A<>a
return: The new string.
Examples:
::text replacelist("Taxi", "ai", "ia"); //Tixa
::text replacelist("Taxi", "ax,i", "-,Rex", ","); //T-Rex
::text replacelist("Taxi", "ai"); //Tx
Notes:
- As you see from the 2nd example, the strings in search-replace
pair can have different lengths.
- If the item count in both list differs, then the smaller count
is used and the surplus items are ignored.
- The string is walked on time from left to right; any replaced
parts are not processed again. So in this example, "Rex" will
not be replaced by "Bone" in a second pass:
::text replacelist("Taxi", "ax,i,Rex", "-,Rex,Bone", ",");
- The substrings are processed from left to right, first match
wins. Therefore:
::text replacelist("Taxi", "a,ax", "i,ox"); //Tixi
::text replacelist("Taxi", "ax,a", "ox,i"); //Toxi
Usage:
- This command can be used for interesting things, e.g. to
(roughly) transliterate e.g. Cyrillic to Latin, or do some
simple encryption, or clean file names from undesired
characters.
* SC report(): Merged the "onlyselected" and "itemlist" parameter!
New syntax:
report([template], [itemlist], [header], [footer])
itemlist:
0 or "" = all current list items
1 = all currently selected list items
else = pipe(|)-separated list of items (full path).
Example for a report about a single specific item:
text report("
{Name},
{Size B} bytes,
{Modified yyyy-mm-dd hh:nn:ss},
ver {FileVersion}", "E:\XY\XYplorer\XYplorer.exe");
* Menu Go | Go to Last Target: Auto-selection of target items is not
dependent on the setting of "History retains selections" anymore.
It simply is done always.
! Spot & Jump: Would not spot a pattern when "Configuration |
General | Type-ahead find uses sorted column" was enabled and the
list was sorted by Ext, Type, or Path. Fixed. Spot & Jump now
always works on the Name column independently of this setting.
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v9.30.0022 - 2010-07-28 20:12
+ SC report() enhanced. Added new optional argument "itemlist",
where you can state the items that you want a report about.
Syntax:
report([template], [onlyselected=0], [header], [footer], _
[itemlist])
itemlist: pipe(|)-separated list of items (fullpath).
Example for a report about a single specific item:
text report("
{Name},
{Size B} bytes,
{Modified yyyy-mm-dd hh:nn:ss},
ver {FileVersion}", , , , "E:\XY\XYplorer\XYplorer.exe");
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v9.30.0021 - 2010-07-28 11:44
+ Menu Go | Go to Last Target: Now the copied or moved items found
in that target location are auto-selected when you go there using
this command. This service is only active when "History retains
selections" (which is a similar service) is enabled.
Note that any cancelled overwrite prompts are not taken into
account here, so the selections are done *as if* all copies/moves
actually happened.
Every new copy/move will overwrite the previous last target data.
And, just like the target folder itself, these selections are not
remembered between sessions.
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v9.30.0020 - 2010-07-27 21:00
! Configuration | Previewed Formats: Focusing the top listbox would
cause a total freeze on systems with DBCS codepages (e.g.
Chinese). Fixed.
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v9.30.0019 - 2010-07-27 10:52
+ Address Bar: Now right-clicking the dropdown arrow pops the
breadcrumb menu for the current path.
Ctrl+RClick to get the popup of the MyComputer toolbar button
with virtual folders and drives.
+ Moving or renaming items with XYplorer did not notify the shell
about it, so other apps could not auto-update their display
accordingly. Now the notification is done.
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v9.30.0016 - 2010-07-26 19:52
! Tree: Improved the automatic refresh of the Tree pane for non-
current folders. Now all nodes (incl. special paths) should be
updated correctly, directly and smoothly, including all folder
related data like highlights, tags, favorites, thumbnail caches
etc. -- even if those nodes are not shown currently in the tree!
As long as XY is running then every change to the file system by
any other app should be auto-adjusted to in XYplorer's various
path related data. That's the goal and we are quite near.
! Portable Tabs: The tab icon was not correctly updated when going
to a location under a tab with a "soft locked home zone" (e.g.
<xydata>). Fixed.
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v9.30.0015 - 2010-07-26 14:31
+ SC tab enhanced: The operation "get" got a new data parameter:
text tab("get", "term"); //path with any VF or QS
Returns the same as Copy Location Term.
+ Tree: Now if hovering a junction the tooltip displays the Junction
Target.
! Inline Rename auto-committed after creating a New Folder or New
Text File on some systems under certain circumstances. Fixed.
! Thumbnails: Switching to and from and thumbed search result list
would overwrite the disk cache of the previous list under certain
conditions. Fixed.
* Thumbnails: Thumbnails in a search results list are now kept in
memory when you switch to a non-thumb mode or to another tab with
a non-thumb mode. So thumbs do not have to be generated again when
re-opening the search results list. Note that this is true even if
"Configuration | Thumbnails | Cache thumbnails of search results,
too" is off!