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v5.80.0018 - 12.04.07 12:05
+++ Added Customizable Keyboard Shortcuts (CKS). The new command Tools
| Customize Keyboard Shortcuts... (Shift+F9) will open the dialog.
!!! NOTE: what you get today is a *sneak preview* -- the job is not
completed yet! Only commands in menus File (not yet complete)
and Tools (complete) are available for now. I'm eating my way
through the rest while you are reading this.
Yet I wanted to give you a first taste of it, and an early chance
to check out the functionality and usability of the thing. As
always, I took care to make it extremely speedy and memory-
friendly. But in usability, it's you who has the last word...
!!! Do NOT spend a lot of time defining your perfect keyboard
shortcuts now -- with the next version your work will be garbage
because the internal formats are still changing !!!
Here are some basic properties of XYplorer's CKS:
- You can use any combination of Ctrl/Shift/Alt (incl. none) with
any key on your board (with a few obvious exceptions, see next).
- Some special keys like the Tab key, Windows key, the Context
Menu key, the Numlock key are not available for customization.
They are not used at all by the program.
- Also the 8 navigation keys are not customizable: they are
internally hard-coded to their traditional tasks in navigating the
GUI, and cannot be assigned nor removed by the user.
- You can assign as many different shortcuts as you want to each
of the functions.
- You can also assign shortcuts to (non-clickable) menu items
heading a submenu. On pressing the shortcut the submenu will pop-
up at the current position of the mouse cursor.
(Yep, I added it -- it was not as difficult as I thought first.)
- In the "Customize Keyboard Shortcuts" dialog you can press a key
combo not only with the focus in the "Press New Shortcuts Key"
field, but also with the focus in the functions list (a little
usability plus ;)).
- Some shortcuts, e.g. F12, will appear to be assignable but in
fact still trigger their original function. Don't worry, this is
just because I'm not finished with removing all the old hard-
coded stuff. It's in progress...
- The shortcuts are saved in app path in a file called "ks.dat".
- In later versions you'll get scriptable hotkeys and multi-language
support... but first things first.
Just one: I internally set Ctrl+Shift+Alt+C for "Goto C:\". Enjoy.
Later you'll be able to edit this and add any number of "Goto ..."
and many other hotkey actions.
%%% Introduced a better sort algorithm (based on work by John
Korejwa). Makes the app faster whenever something is sorted (and
sorting happens all the time in a file manager).
+ INI file: added comment line to those hardcore keys without a user
interface (UI) for editing them. The comment line always begins with
"; No UI: " followed by a short explanation.
! Preview/Raw View: glitches in LNK/target distinction. Fixed.
+ List Management: now icons/overlays are shown for Name Searches
and Visual Filters.
! Vista: Would not reconnect unavailable mapped network drives
because WNetRestoreConnectionW is not supported on Windows Vista and
later. Fixed. Now under Vista the job is done using the "net use"
command.
! Configuration|Colors: the Boxed Branch textbox for the HTML-like
color code didn't change the Boxed Branch label but the Highlighted
Folder label instead. Fixed.
! Configuration|Colors: List color related settings were not
immediately applied when certain other List related settings were
done at the same time. Fixed.
! Configuration|Colors: changes of the List style related checkboxes
"Hightlight Selected Rows" and "Show Grid" were not reflected in
main window's menu View|List Style|... Fixed.
! When drag-dropping images from FireFox to XYplorer while FireFox
overlapped XYplorer (and XYplorer was not the foreground window)
then 0-byte files were created in the drop destination. Fixed.
* Menu File: renamed "Save Here As..." to "Copy Here As...".
+ Menu File: added the following commands to the menu:
Copy Here ("Copy of...")
Copy Here with Suffix Number
Copy Here with Suffix Date Now
Copy Here with Suffix Date Modified
They are already featured in the drag'n'drop context menu. By
adding them to the main menu they will be available to Customized
Keyboard Shortcuts.
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