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v24.50.0003 - 2023-06-09 18:09
    + Stepping through a Script Dialog: Now you can right-click the lines in the upper 
      section to pop a menu that allows you to copy them to clipboard.
    * Tweak ButtonFaceColor: Renamed it to InterfaceColor. In the next paragraph you'll 
      see why.
    + Tweak InterfaceColor: Now you can also specify a custom textcolor, separated from 
      the custom backcolor by a | character, general form: RRGGBB[|RRGGBB] (Back|Text).
      This, for example, defines a dark blue on a warm grey:
        InterfaceColor=E9E6E3|124578
      To tweak one color only, omit the other part:
        InterfaceColor=E9E6E3|      //only backcolor
        InterfaceColor=|124578      //only textcolor
      If no second color is defined then just the backcolor is tweaked:
        InterfaceColor=E9E6E3
    ! Folder View Settings: A Visual Filter defined via FVS could not be overwritten by a 
      VF passed directly with the location (appended after |). Fixed.

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v24.50.0005 - 2023-06-10 11:21
    ! Tweak InterfaceColor: Checkboxes and radio buttons did not take the textcolor. 
      Fixed. As with Dark Mode, the textcolor of these controls can only be changed if the 
      theme is turned off for them.
    ! Tweak InterfaceColor: Tab colors were not yet set correctly. Fixed.

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v24.50.0006 - 2023-06-10 18:49
    * Tweak InterfaceColor: Renamed it to InterfaceColors, and Dark Mode is now completely 
      unaffected by the tweak. But who needs a tweak when there is a scripting command...
    + Scripting got a new function.
      Name: InterfaceColors
      Action: Sets or gets custom interface colors.
      Syntax: interfacecolors([colors])
        colors: New custom interface colors.
                Format: RRGGBB[|RRGGBB] (backcolor|textcolor)
                Empty: reset interface colors to Windows defaults
                Missing: just return current custom interface colors
        return: Current custom interface colors.
      Remarks:
        - Colors are to be stated in hexadecimal RRGGBB format (red, green, blue).
        - If you set the textcolor then checkboxes and radio buttons lose their Windows 
          Theme Style. It's the only way to change their text color.
        - It is recommended to choose a backcolor that is lighter than the textcolor, 
          otherwise you will have readability problems in some areas of the interface.
        - Dark Mode is completely unaffected by the colors defined here.
        - Raises tweak InterfaceColors to scripting.
      Example:
        echo interfacecolors(); //show current custom interface colors
        interfacecolors("");    //reset interface colors to Windows defaults
        interfacecolors("E9E6E3|124578"); //set backcolor and textcolor
        interfacecolors("EC8F32|C07532"); //New York City smoke mode
        interfacecolors("|124578");       //set textcolor only
        interfacecolors("E9E6E3|");       //set backcolor only
        interfacecolors("E9E6E3");        //set backcolor only

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v24.50.0008 - 2023-06-11 12:14
    + Custom Columns: Now Custom Columns of format Icon support icons extracted from icon 
      resources (exe; dll; cpl; ocx; scr; icl; bpl; wlx; wfx; wcx; wdx; acm).
      Example:
        "%WINSYSDIR%\joy.cpl /0
    ! Custom File Icons (and some other places): Support for icons extracted from icon 
      resources (exe; dll; cpl; ocx; scr; icl; bpl; wlx; wfx; wcx; wdx; acm) only worked 
      for exe, dll, icl. Fixed.
    ! Icons extracted from icon resources: There was a drawing problem all along where 
      small icons (16x16) were drawn by shrinking large icons (32x32), resulting in poor 
      quality and often missing pixels around the edge. Fixed. No more shrinking involved.
    > BTW, if you're interested in embedded icons, check out these semi-documented commands:
        sysicons "%winsysdir%\shell32.dll", , "e";  //16 x 16
        sysicons "%winsysdir%\shell32.dll", 0, "e"; //32 x 32
        sysicons "%winsysdir%\shell32.dll", 1, "e"; //16 x 16

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v24.50.0009 - 2023-06-11 20:45
    ! Content-Based Folder Icons: The last match won instead of the first. Fixed.
    ! Custom File Icons: Specifying icon resources (to extract icons from) with a relative 
      path (which defaults to the <xydata>\Icons path) failed due to a parsing error. No 
      icon was extracted. Fixed.
    ! Custom File Icons: Since v24.50.0008, icons extracted from icon resources did not 
      look good in Large Icons view (32x32) because they were stretched from 16x16 icons. 
      Fixed. Now the original 32x32 icon is used.

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v24.50.0010 - 2023-06-12 09:27
    ! Icons extracted from icon resources: Since v24.50.0008, a leak in GDI objects caused 
      a fast application meltdown when displaying extracted icons. Fixed.

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v24.50.0011 - 2023-06-13 09:10
    ! SC sysicons: Showing embedded/extracted icons with switch "e" was one off. Indices 
      start with 1, not with 0. Fixed.
    ! Configuration | General | Sort and Rename | Rename | Show name length while 
      renaming: Removed a small flicker when renaming a tree folder.

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v24.50.0012 - 2023-06-13 16:35
    + Info Panel | Properties: The embedded icons scrollbar (only visible when you select 
      a file that contains embedded icons) now reacts to the mouse wheel. Hold SHIFT to 
      wheel 6 times as fast.
    + Info Panel | Properties: The embedded icons count label (only visible when you 
      select a file that contains embedded icons) can now be double-clicked to open a list 
      of all embedded icons.
    ! Configuration | General | Sort and Rename | Rename | Show name length while 
      renaming: Renaming folders with a long name in the tree pane could disrupt the name 
      alignment. Fixed.

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v24.50.0013 - 2023-06-14 19:42
    ! Scripting | Arrays: Interpolation (variables are resolved when they are embedded in 
      double-quoted strings) did not work for array variables where the index itself was 
      an expression. Fixed. This works now as expected:
    
        $a = array(a,b,c); $one = 1;
          echo $a[0] . " == $a[0]"; //a == a
          echo $a[$one] . " == $a[$one]"; //b == b
          echo $a[$one + $one] . " == $a[$one + $one]"; //c == c
          echo $a[$one + 1] . " == $a[$one + 1]"; //c == c
          echo $a[1 + 1] . " == $a[1 + 1]"; //c == c

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v24.50.0014 - 2023-06-15 10:12
    ! Scripting: Something was not reset between consecutive ForEach loops which could 
      lead to error 9 (Subscript out of range). Fixed.

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v24.50.0100 - 2023-06-15 18:00
    = MAINTENANCE RELEASE.
  +++ Minor bug fixes and enhancements.

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v24.50.0101 - 2023-06-16 18:55
    % Tabs: Added another intermediate size (automatically adjusted to the font size of 
      the tab header) for the X-close button. Now it can be 15x15 pixels and will be that 
      size on Segoe 9 at 125%. Before there was a jump from 12x12 to 18x18.
    ! Configuration | File Operations | File Operations | Background Processing | Queue 
      file operations: Selections in the current list could get lost by auto-refresh when 
      and while a background operation popped a prompt (AND "Refresh during file 
      operations" was enabled). Fixed.
    ! Configuration | General | Sort and Rename | Rename | Show name length while 
      renaming: If enabled, the rename box became too small when renaming drives in the 
      tree. Fixed.
    ! List | Drives Listing: A drive name was not auto-updated when changed through 
      Properties. Fixed.      

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v24.50.0104 - 2023-06-17 16:33
    + Custom File Icons: Default icons for "Access Denied" folders and empty folders are 
      now embedded in XYplorer.exe. CFI syntax:
        *\ /x><xy> /4 //matches all accessed denied folders
        *\ /e><xy> /5 //matches all empty folders
      This way, it's easy to predefine these icons in the factory defaults and make them 
      easily accessible to newbies.
      However, and this drives me crazy, sizes larger than 32 are stretched, and even that 
      only goes up to 48. Even though the embedded resource has all sizes up to 256 in the 
      finest quality. A million tries and a whole day wasted.
    + Info Panel | Properties: The embedded icons preview area (only visible if 
      "Configuration | General | Refresh, Icons, History | Icons | Show embedded icons on 
      Properties tab" is ticked AND you select a file that contains embedded icons) now 
      reacts to the mouse wheel. Hold SHIFT to wheel 6 times as fast.
    ! List | Tiles views: The focus rect was 2 pixels too low. Fixed.

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v24.50.0114 - 2023-06-17 20:23
    % Icons extracted from icon resources: XY learned to extract icons larger than 32x32. 
      Here shown with the semi-documented sysicon command:
        sysicons "<xy>", 4, "e"; //256x256
      This fixed part of the embedded icons issue from v24.50.0104. 48x48 icons are now 
      shown perfectly. However 256x256 icons still fail. Working on it...

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v24.50.0116 - 2023-06-18 14:11
    > Custom File Icons: Failed to use factory default CFI icons embedded in XYplorer.exe. 
      I could not add them to the jumbo image list. Mysterious Windows fail. Tried it all. 
      Had to give up. I leave the (now slightly modified) icons embedded anyway. Could be 
      good for something. The icons themselves will be further improved.
    ! Scripting | Arrays: The interpolation fix in v24.50.0013 - 2023-06-14 19:42 caused 
      unjustified "Dubious Syntax" messages. Fixed.
    ! Fresh Instance Layout: On 125% screen resolution (or higher) the startup window was 
      too small to show all contents of the Info Panel. Fixed.

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