Unwrapping the Presents
Posted: 25 Dec 2020 14:49
All the new features found in v.21.40 were lovely Christmas gifts and put to use immediately. Especially nice was Shorten Filenames - an "automatic RegExp"
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+ Custom Copy: Added a tweak to define a bytes threshold for showing a
progress dialog
+ Configuration | Preview | Mouse Down Blow Up | Mouse Up on Folder Icons |
Folder contents preview: Added "Sorted by".
+++ Transparent Folders.
+++ Custom Event Actions.
+ Configuration | Information | File Info Tips & Hover Box | Show Hover Box
| Select Context...: Added "Tabs".
* Custom Copy: Slightly redesigned the new used space information.
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+ Custom Event Actions:
- Drive added or removed
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+ SC QuickSearch enhanced: New flag "t" includes the top folders themselves
in a multi-location search
* Small dialogs with a Live Filter Box: When the cursor/focus is in the box
you now can press ESC to clear the box and thereby reset the filter. Only
when the box is empty ESC will close the dialog.
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* Configuration dialog: Back to previous button order. The standard was not
good enough.
% Paper Folders: From now on, Paper Folders are only saved to disk if
necessary (= if modified). Before they were saved on each tab switch (when
the PF tag was backgrounded) even if nothing had changed.
+ Configuration | Tabs and Panes | Tabs: Added dropdown "Buttons position".
Here you can choose where in the tab bar to show those "New Tab" and "Tab
List" buttons.
+ Toolbar | Paper Folders: Added a new toggle to the right-click menu:
Explicit Save Only. Tick it to suppress auto-save of the current Paper
Folder on tab switch and on app exit.
+ SC paperfolder enhanced: Now you can set and retrieve the five options
that are currently only available in the right-click menu of the Paper
Folders toolbar button.
Syntax: paperfolder(name, [itemlist], [separator=CRLF], [mode=nl])
mode:
o[z|p|d|e|i]= Set option (and return old setting).
* Paper Folders: Improved the "Explicit Save Only" mode. Less disk access.
* Paper Folders | Explicit Save Only: Now any implicitly created Paper
Folder source files are created as *empty* dummy files.
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> Wow, this is the 5000th beta version! :)
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+++ Added new Branch View type "Files and non-empty
folders". Here any folders that contain nothing or only empty folders (or,
in case of a search, do not contain any files that match the search) are
not listed in the Branch View.
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+++ Color-Code Empty Tree Folders. Finally color filters can be applied in the
folder tree in a way that lets you spot all empty folders at a glance.