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XYplorer Beta Club
v5.80.0030 - 21.04.07 20:00
! On a dual monitor system... blah blah... fixed some more of them.
! List's context menu was gone shopping for some hours. It's back.
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v5.80.0031 - 22.04.07 10:37
+ CKS: when you get a red message "(KS) is currently assigned to
(command)" then clicking that message label will carry you to that
command.
! The menus "Back" & "Forward" in the List's context menu actually
did the same as "Up". Fixed.
! Separators galore on tab headers' ctx menu. Fixed.
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v5.80.0032 - 24.04.07 10:00
+ CKS: View menu finished. Go menu is in progress...
+ CKS: added the following functions to the Miscellaneous section
(incl. new default shortcuts).
AltGr+A -> focus Address Bar
AltGr+C -> focus Catalog
AltGr+L -> focus List
AltGr+T -> focus Tree
I defaulted them to AltGr because -- as you know -- ALT+(Letter)
shortcuts have two disadvantages: (1) they might conflict with
currently active accelerators, (2) they beep.
- Removed old shortcuts (reason: see above).
Alt+C -> focus Catalog
Alt+D -> focus Address Bar
- Menu Go | Top: removed keyboard shortcut [Ctrl+Home @Tree] (=only
if the Tree is focused). This was a one-time exceptional
construction that is not necessary anymore with CKS. Go find your
own key for it... ;)
+ Toolbar: added context menu to the "Configuration" button, showing
the main categories.
* CKS: The now called "Default Key" button is enabled only if there
is a default key for the current command.
! The List stubbornly restored a remembered scroll position (on a
tab change or as part of XY's Home concept) without adjusting it
to new circumstances (less items, higher list) when necessary.
This could lead to apparently half-filled or even empty lists
which were actually just scrolled into Nirvana. Fixed.
! Menu View|Current Tab: "Copy Location Term" copied the current
location when applied to non-current tabs (via ctx menu). Fixed.
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v5.80.0033 - 25.04.07 13:50
* CKS: 32 more keys at your disposal! The 8 navigation keys in
combination with Alt, Ctrl+Alt, Shift+Alt, and Ctrl+Shift+Alt are
not locked anymore.
* Now common traditional Windows keys keep their expected
functionality inside common contexts. For example, when editing
text (e.g. renaming a file) you expect key "A" to type an "a" at
the caret, "Ctrl+V" to paste text from clipboard etc., whatever
XYplorer functions you might have assigned to these keys.
These are the keys I'm talking about:
Ctrl+A
Ctrl+C
Ctrl+V
Ctrl+X
Backspace
Ctrl+Backspace
Ctrl+Ins
Shift+Ins
Shift+Del
Del
all Navigation keys in combination with Alt, Ctrl+Alt, Shift+Alt,
and Ctrl+Shift+Alt
all typable chars (a, b, c ... 1, 2, 3 etc)
! Backspace key did not work anymore in Edit contexts as e.g. in the
Address Bar. Fixed (see here above). Now the Backspace takes you
up one to the parent folder (or whatever function you assign to
the key) unless you are in an edit context where it will do its
traditional delete job.
* In Germany "Ctrl" and "Shift" are called "Strg" and "Umschalt".
Some years ago I made XYplorer respect this and display the German
versions when run in Germany. Enough of this! From now on it's
"Ctrl" and "Shift" for all monkeys with tools. When you still see
"Strg" or "Umschalt" in some menu then (a) the commands come
directly from the Shell, and (b) you live in Germany.
+ Statusbar: sections now are wider on wider monitors.
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v5.80.0034 - 26.04.07 22:47
+ CKS: Go and Favorites menu finished.
+ CKS: added a little navigation to the interface. I'm using labels
(that look like web links to stimulate a click impulse in the user)
instead of buttons to keep the focus where it is. Now it's very easy
to resolve an assignment conflict and jump back to where the
conflict surfaced. Works fine, but... hmm... it looks a bit "huh?".
* Browsing: when browsing to a folder for the first time within the
current session you will now get an hourglass cursor immediately.
Before, you got an hourglass only after a certain time, but this
strategy sometimes prevented an hourglass where it would have been
necessary. Due to the unpredictability of things there is no optimal
solution here, so now I opted to rather show one hourglass too
much than one too less.
+ Menu Edit | Move/Copy/Backup To...: now these dialogs accept full
relative path syntax for the destination folder. So e.g. you can
state a target like "..\sister" to move a file to a folder called
"sister" under the same parent as the moved items. And better: if
this folder does not exist yet it is created!
Now in combination with date variables this gets really slick. A
copy destination "..\snapshot_<dyyyy-mm-dd>" will create a folder
called "snapshot_2007-04-26" (that's the date today) parallel to
the source folder and copy the selected items there! Nice way to
do a quick dated copy of some items!
Note that the relative path is always relative to the *current
path* (which is always the one shown in the tree). So, if you
apply this functionality to search results you have to mentally
adjust the above examples a bit.
- Menu Tools: removed the command "Search Templates...". The
identical command in menu Edit is enough.
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v5.80.0036 - 27.04.07 14:34
+ CKS: all the main menus are finished. Now it's time for the dust
to settle... some toolbar button tooltips are still hard-coded and
there's surely some other glitch here and there...
! CKS: key combos containing Shift that would browse to a new
location would open that location in a new tab because the held
down Shift was interpreted as "open in new tab!". Fixed. Shift
that is part of a KS is not interpreted that way anymore.
! Image preview: occasional error ("Image area too large to
preview.") with larger -- but actually *not* too large -- images
depending on your system and current state of your system. Fixed.
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v5.80.0038 - 28.04.07 22:02
+ INI Tweak: ThumbSizes.
+ Menu View | Current Tab: added commands
Move Tab Left (Ctrl+Shift+Left)
Move Tab Right (Ctrl+Shift+Right)
The shortcuts are old, but they never had a place in a menu.
- Removed this: "Copy/Paste now works with Ctrl+Ins/Shift+Ins, too."
(introduced in v4.00.0147). Reason: would look funny in menu Edit
("Copy Ctrl+Ins, ..."), and if you need it you can now add it
yourself via CKS.
+ CKS: added a number of "Miscellaneous" commands.
* CKS: just like the navigation keys, the Space key had to be locked
too, of course. It plays a fundamental role in list navigation and
selection that should not be overwritten by any other usage. It
further plays a key role (sorry for the pun) in media preview
control (Start/Pause, Go to beginning).
Still available for your private joy are all combinations of Space
with Alt; however, the first two not really... something else is
playing the hotkey game, too...:
Alt+Space -> opens window icon menu
Shift+Alt+Space -> opens window icon menu
Ctrl+Alt+Space
Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Space
* CKS: same as above goes for the Enter key (aka Return). It's a
Windows standard action for opening/running the focused item in a
list. Furthermore Enter start a search when pressed with focus in
the Find Files tab. All this should and will stay as it is.
! CKS: when popping up submenus via keyboard shortcut then a match
between the used key and any accelerator in the menu would trigger
the accelerated command right away. Fixed: submenus now popup only
on the key-up event.
+ CKS: hey, I had forgotten the Tab key. All combos with Ctrl are
available:
Ctrl+Tab
Ctrl+Shift+Tab
Ctrl+Alt+Tab
Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Tab
* Menu View | Current Tab | Views: renamed "Thumbnails 1/2/3" to
"Thumbnails #1/#2/#3".
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v5.80.0039 - 29.04.07 22:16
* CKS: now, in case of conflicts the full "path" of a command is
displayed, not just the category and the command caption:
Before: View / Created
Now: View / Current Tab / Sort By / Created
Some commands paths are too long to be fully displayed. The
tooltip, however, always contains the whole story.
* CKS: decided to show all multiple keys in the command captions,
separated by commas. I will only go back to the ellipsed version
(appending ", ...") when I get enough complaints. I can't imagine
that too many users will use too many multi-keys anyway. Why should
they?
+ Catalog: reorganized the right-click context menus of category and
item. Partly renamed the captions.
+ CKS: added a few more "Miscellaneous" commands. This thing is
getting chaotic. Gotta define some sub-sections...
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v5.80.0040 - 01.05.07 09:39
+ CKS: added a tiny menu with commands to create and copy a cheat
sheet of all current (where "current" is the current state of the
CKS dialog) shortcuts and commands in various layouts and sorting
orders.
! F6 (Move focus among Tree, Address Bar, and List) did not work
when focus in Address Bar. Fixed.
* Cycle focus (F6): now includes the Catalog. The sequence is now:
Address Bar > Tree > List > Catalog.
* New default shortcut for "Go to Focused Item":
Before: Ctrl+Left
Now: Ctrl+Alt+Left
+ CKS: commands available in Search Results only now display "Search
Results only." in the Scope field of the CKS dialog.
E.g.: Miscellaneous / Go to Focused Item (Ctrl+Left)
+ CKS: Commands list got a little context menu where you can copy the
selected command to clipboard.
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v5.80.0041 - 03.05.07 09:05
* Raw View: now only the checkboxes that are relevant for the
current basic file type (ASCII or BINARY) are enabled.
* Menu Edit | New: prefixed "New " to each of the commands. It's
redundant but I think it helps newbies.
+ Menu Help | About: window now throws shadow -- the sun is shining!
XP ff only.
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v5.80.0043 - 04.05.07 10:17
+ Menu Help | XYplorer on the Web: added "Web Site".
! On a dual monitor system... the "About" windows showed on the
wrong monitor. Fixed?
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v6.00.0000 - 06.05.07 23:33
%%% The toolbar was using a lot of the stuff called memory. In fact it
wasn't Zen anymore. So I rewrote it from scratch. Reduced GDI-usage
from around 600 to around 400 objects! Also the general memory
usage went down notably.
* When autosizing columns the columns now are kept wide enough to
keep their captions uncropped.
* The main window caption now displays the actual base name of the
running exe file. So if you rename it to "XYplorerBlah.exe" you'll
see "XYplorerBlah" in the caption. Helps keeping parallel instances
apart.
* IF you have no Favorite Folders set AND iPopupFullFavMenu=0 (an
INI Tweak) THEN the Special System Folders menu is popped up when
you right-click the Tree's white space.
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v6.00.0001 - 07.05.07 12:25
+ Toolbar: now has a pressed state for the following buttons:
- Show/Hide Hidden Items
- Toggle No/Last Visual Filter
- Toggle View Details/Thumbs #1
- Toggle High Tree
- Show/Hide Tree
- Show/Hide Catalog
- Show/Hide Info Panel
- Lock Tab
! Toolbar: When clicking a button popped a menu, then clicking the
same button again did not only close the menu but also click the
button right away. Fixed: only the menu is closed.
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v6.00.0002 - 09.05.07 14:26
+ CKS: added very useful command "Open Find Files and Reset" to
Miscellaneous. Default KS: Ctrl+Shift+F.
% Configuration window now loads the previewed formats only when
Previewed Formats tab is selected. Hence much shorter load time.
+ Toolbar: added button for "Suspend Auto-Refresh". Oh, what is it?
Something red on something blue, why?
! (1) Go to a folder where you have enough items to get a
vertical scrollbar, (2) Scroll down & select a file somewhere, (3)
Now enable a Visual Filter that will both not include the selected
file and remove the scrollbar, (4) Crash. Fixed.
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v6.00.0003 - 10.05.07 11:48
+ Toolbar: added menu Edit|Paste Special as context menu to the
"Edit Files in Clipboard" button.
+ Toolbar: added menu Edit|New as context menu to the "New Folder"
button.
* Toolbar: better context menu for the "Refresh Tree and List" and
"Suspend Auto-Refresh" buttons.
+ Menu Edit | Paste Special: added commands
Mark Files in Clipboard as 'Cut'
Mark Files in Clipboard as 'Copied'
by which you can set/change the "drop effect" of the items
currently in the clipboard. On paste, "cut" items will be moved,
and "copied" items will be copied. Also the current "drop effect"
is signaled by a checkmark.
Note that "Files" here includes Folders as well. By saying "Files"
instead of "Items" I just want to make clear that this command
concerns only file system items, not images, or text, or whatever
else can be in the clipboard. Curiously there is no good summary
term for "file and folders".
Note further that the ghostiness of the (tree/list) icons of 'cut'
items is not updated when these commands are used. This effect is
very volatile anyway in any file manager I've seen, and the work
to make it persistent (always countercheck clipboard against
listed items) is not worth it really.
+ Menu Edit | Paste Special | Edit Clipboard...: changed expression
from "marked to Move/Copy" to "marked as Cut/Copied".