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v6.30.0019 - 2007-09-18 13:05
    + In a near idiotic effort I finally managed what I wanted to do 
      since a long time: paint my custom control borders the way it's done 
      since Windows XP -- flat and blue (depending on your color theme). 
      You can see my results in 2 lists where I turned the new look on as 
      an example: the Configuration navigation list, and the first list on 
      Configuration | Previewed Formats.
      Note: You won't see anything if you use "classic design" or an OS < XP.
      Two questions:
      - Does it work?
      - Is it good?
    ! Window did not restore to maximized after closed minimized. Fixed.
    ! Find Files: Excluded Folders where not remembered -- neither tab-
      wise, nor with Search Templates. Fixed.
    ! TitlebarTemplate: did lose leading and trailing spaces between 
      sessions. Fixed.
    * TitlebarTemplate: now it is allowed to being and/or end the 
      template with <app>, without attaching an additional space.

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v6.30.0020 - 2007-09-19 12:17
  *** Ux theme borders are now applied to all list controls. Still 
      missing are the biggies: Tree, List, and Catalog.
  *** The Backup file operation now preserves all three dates (modified, 
      created, accessed) in copied files and folders.
    + Search Templates: added option "Load excluded folders". Check to 
      overwrite the current excluded folders listing by the one stored in 
      the template. The default is unchecked because it is assumed that 
      the excluded folders are usually a global affair.
      Nice side effect: you can now (ab)use Search Templates to store 
      and load new sets of excluded folders (without actually doing a 
      search).
    * Search Templates: changed the "Search stored location" option group 
      (aka "radio buttons") into one checkbox named "Load search 
      location" to keep some style consistency.
    * List: vertically re-shrinked the column headers by 1 pixel. See 
      v6.30.0002 - 2007-09-06 12:16, where I had added 1 pixel.

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v6.30.0021 - 2007-09-20 08:21
    ! Backup file operation: did not preserve Created and Accessed dates 
      for files. Fixed.
    ! Tip of the Day: If shown on startup the tip window was still 
      modal. Fixed.

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v6.30.0028 - 2007-09-24 14:06
    + Menu Tools | List Management: added "Highlighted Folders..." and 
      "Boxed Branches...". Up to now there was no way to manage these 
      lists so you'll likely find some orphaned entries in them.
      You now can edit the color values directly in the List Management 
      interface - it is a little hardcore since you have to know Hex 
      color coding (as in HTML: RRGGBB). Some day I might add a more 
      luxury interface.
      NOTE: 000000 means "default color" (and NOT color "black"). So you 
      cannot use black as a highlight color.
      While doing this I also rewrote the storage format for these two 
      lists. I took care for backward compatibility, so everything 
      should look and work as before. Nice side-effect: more speed, less 
      memory. But you'll will not note any difference -- it's just a 
      couple of micro-seconds and a handful of bytes.
    ! Floppy drive type was displayed as "FloInch Floppy Drive" in list 
      view. Also other drives' type labels did not match exactly what 
      Explorer would show. Fixed: now you even get the drive types in 
      the local system language.
    ! Opening a command line start path in a new tab did not work 
      anymore if an instance of XYplorer was already running. Fixed.
    ! The Configuration dialog's new GUI did not work in 120 DPI. Fixed.
    ! Tree and List: Didn't set the new focus correctly when leaving 
      rename mode by clicking another item. Fixed.
    + Tip of the Day: added Random button.
    * Tip of the Day: If shown on startup then only if startup is not 
      minimized.

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v6.30.0032 - 2007-09-26 15:00
    + Configuration | Colors | Color Filters: added color coding by file 
      attribute FILE_ATTRIBUTE_REPARSE_POINT (= NTFS junction).
      Use this pattern:
        /junction  (or /j)
        matches all items with FILE_ATTRIBUTE_REPARSE_POINT set
    + Added "junction" to the attributes on the Properties tab and on 
      the Attributes tab (Find Files), and to the Attributes column (as 
      "J") in the list.
    ! Calculate Folder Sizes: did follow NTFS junctions, which it should 
      not. Fixed.
    ! Using "." (dot; note that on some system the dot must be quoted 
      else Windows does not pass it on) as command line start path to 
      open the app (resp. a new tab) at the current directory did not 
      work as expected. Fixed.
    ! List Management: crashed when Editor Font was not existing. Fixed.
    + Toolbar: added buttons for "Show Hidden Items" and "Show System 
      Items".
    % Lots of display code rewritten. GUI rendering should be even 
      smoother now.

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v6.30.0033 - 2007-09-26 20:05
    ! Little display glitches due to recent changes. Fixed.

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v6.30.0034 - 2007-09-29 14:55
  *** Ux theme borders are now applied to the biggies: Tree, List, and 
      Catalog.
      At least by default. If you don't like it you can turn it off. 
      There's a new option in Configuration | Interface Colors called 
      "Beveled border". Check it to return to the classic 3D-bevel 
      effect. 
    ! An empty list could not be scrolled horizontally. Fixed.
    ! Rename Special: extensions of folders were treated like extensions 
      of files (i.e. they were preserved). Fixed: folders do not have 
      extensions, of course.
    * List: Now, when CTRL is held, the focus is set *immediately* to 
      the clicked item on MouseDown. As before, on releasing the mouse 
      button (MouseUp), the selection state is toggled.
      Note that this works also if the List itself receives the focus 
      through this click.

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v6.30.0036 - 2007-10-01 10:44
  *** Ux theme visual styles are now applied to the tabs. If you don't 
      like the new look you can return to the "XYplorer Classic" look by 
      setting the new option "Visual Style" in Configuration | Tabs.
      Note that the new style is applied to the main browsing tabs 
      only -- it doesn't look good at the Info Panel and other tabs.
      Of course, the Windows Themes style is only available in XP and 
      higher and only when you run the OS in themed mode (not in 
      "Classic Design" mode).
      If you choose the Windows Themes style, you cannot configure the 
      background colors of the tab headers. Later, I will add an even 
      better third visual style, which will be totally independent from 
      the Windows version/mode and have fully configurable colors.
    + Now you can drag-drop item onto *.BAT and *.CMD files. Of course, 
      this works also with Catalog items as drop targets.
    + Tip of the day: added option to have it "Always on top".
      Unfortunately it does not work well together with modal dialogs 
      like Configuration: it's not selectable or movable when a modal 
      window is opened.
    * Fonts: Interface Font is now only used for the main window 
      interface, so from now on these windows use the Dialog Font:
      - Configuration
      - Customize Keyboard Shortcuts
      - Customize Toolbar
      - Tip of the day
    ! Preview of Office files: you could not switch directly from Raw 
      View to Preview because the file was locked by the Raw View. Fixed.
    ! A sticky MouseDownBlowUp would stay visible on tab change. Fixed.
    ! Browse for Network Server: did not work as expected when selecting 
      the top node (My Network Places). Fixed.

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v6.30.0039 - 2007-10-02 12:59
    + Configuration Advanced: added option "Navigation commands in List 
      context menu". Check to have the items Up, Back, and Forward in the 
      List's context menu.
    * Slightly redesigned the new ux style tabs. Looking cleaner now.
    ! Thumbnails: black thumbnails could emerge after inserting new 
      images into a cached thumbnails listing. Fixed.
    ! Menu View | Caches | Refresh Thumbs Cache: did not always do what 
      it says it would do. Fixed.
    ! List: fixed various display glitches related to the new ux theme 
      support.

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v6.30.0044 - 2007-10-03 14:58
    + Now you can tweak whether servers (computers) are checked for 
      existence before browsing to a network location. The default is YES, 
      check them. But in some rare configurations the checks are not 
      reliable (servers that do exist are not seen), so if YOU know the 
      servers do exist, you don't need the check and can turn it off.
      In the INI you'll find a new key:
        [Settings]
        iAssumeServersExist=0
      Set it to 1 to skip the checking.
    + Configuration Advanced: added option "Find Files commands in List 
      context menu". Check to have the Find Files section from menu Edit 
      in the List's context menu.
    ! Drag'n'drop moving a folder between tree locations on different 
      drives could lead to a crash under certain conditions. Fixed.
    ! Thumbnails: black thumbnails could emerge after inserting new 
      images into a cached thumbnails listing. Fixed #2.

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v6.30.0051, 04-oct-2007).
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v6.30.0051 - 2007-10-04 14:51
    + Configuration | Previewed Formats: added option "Automatically 
      show non-previewed file types in ASCII/Hex mode (Raw View)". The 
      checked state has been the hard-coded default behavior since years. 
      Now you can choose.
    % Raw View: the raw view text area heavily flickered on resizing the 
      panel. I wanted to fix this since about 7 years and finally found 
      the time to do it.    
    * Preview tab: status message now with icon.
    * Preview tab: empty files are now immediately rejected as empty.
    * The Tabs now have the ux theme hover effect.
      The same effect is now also applied to drag-hovering the tabs. 
      Before (and still when not using Windows Themes) this was marked 
      by coloring the hovered caption blue.

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v6.30.0052 - 2007-10-04 18:49
    ! Tabs hover effect needed a little refinement. Given.
    + Added some backward compatibility code for recent changes of 
      default settings. Now old users won't suffer a feature shock.

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v6.30.0053 - 2007-10-05 13:01
    + Improved support for dropping from archives.
    ! Corrupt TGA files could generate a crash. Fixed.

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v6.30.0054 - 2007-10-05 18:48
    + Improved support for dropping from archives. Now it works with 
      IZArc, and hopefully a bunch of similar apps.

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v6.30.0055 - 2007-10-06 11:31
    + Improved support for dropping from archives. Now it works with 
      IZArc, and hopefully a bunch of similar apps. Again.
    + Menu Go: added command "Go to Previous Item in List". Jumps to the 
      previously focused and selected item in the current file list. 
      Default KS: Shift+Alt+F7.
      Note: if no previous item exists, then the current item is re-
      selected, and if necessary moved in into view.
    ! Crash when dropping files between tabs in Windows Classic Design. 
      Sounds weird, but of course this was just a side-effect of the 
      recent GUI re-designs. Stupid copy-paste error while coding... 
      anyway: Fixed.