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v11.10.0001 - 2012-05-16 15:19
    * Full Screen Preview: Rewritten from scratch.
      - Mouse XButtons should work now.
      - Support for Mouse Down Blow Up.
        Consequently a mouse click does not close it anymore.
      - Support for Fit Width.
      - Before, when opening the Full Screen Preview on a file that's 
        not supported the Quick File View was automatically opened for 
        that file. This is no longer happening. I decided it's bad to 
        silently trigger other functions than the user intended.
    + Tweak to modify the column spacing in Details View. For example, 
      to add an additional 4 pixels to the right of each column:
        ListDetailsColumnsSpacing=4
      Allowed values: 0-12. Factory default: 0.    
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v11.10.0002 - 2012-05-17 19:44
    * Renamed "Show Grid under Transparent Areas" to "Transparency 
      Grid" in various parts of the interface.
    + Floating and Full Screen Preview: Added two commands to the 
      context menu:
      - "High Quality Image Resampling" (H)
      - "Transparency Grid" (T)
    + Floating and Full Screen Preview: Now on Fit Width, you can move 
      the displayed portion of the image by holding RightMouse or 
      CTRL+LeftMouse.
    + Floating Preview: Experimentally changed the icon.
      Credits for the icon (from the incredibly good Free Vintage Design 
      Icons) go to: http://www.designcontest.com/free-icons/
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v11.10.0004 - 2012-05-18 12:08
    + Floating and Full Screen Preview: Reorganized the "Fit" commands 
      and added "Fit Height" for completeness. Also added "Original 
      Size" and "Double Size". Whole picture:
      - "Fit All" (A)
      - "Fit Width" (W)
      - "Fit Height" (H)
      - "Original Size" (O, 1)
      - "Double Size" (D, 2)
      Note that "Original Size" and "Double Size" overwrite "Zoom to 
      Fit".
      Note that "Fit Width" and "Fit Height" toggle with "Fit All".
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v11.10.0005 - 2012-05-21 16:24
  *** Selection Style: In Vista and later, the item selection in Tree, 
      List, Catalog, and various other lists now is drawn in the style 
      of the active Windows Themes. No focus rect is drawn anymore by 
      factory default (since it aesthetically collides with those 
      styles, and is not expected anymore by Vista/Win7 users).
      You can tweak this setting using key SelectionStyle and combining 
      these values:
        1: use Windows Themes selection style (ONLY Vista onwards)
        2: draw focus rect
      Examples:
        SelectionStyle=0    'back to v11.10.0004 and earlier
        SelectionStyle=3    'Windows Themes + focus rect
    + Tree: Now it has optional Full Row Select. Toggle it in menu Tools 
      | Customize Tree | Full Row Select.
      Of course, with Full Row Select on it's bye-bye to the white space 
      context menu.
    * Floating and Full Screen Preview: Now also that "Original Size" 
      and "Double Size" toggle with "Fit All".
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v11.10.0009 - 2012-05-22 14:58
    + Configuration | General: Added option "Add new items at the end of 
      the list". Tick it to have new items added at the end of the list. 
      Untick it to have new items added where they belong according to 
      the current sort order.
      This has been hard-coded to ON before. Now the factory default is 
      OFF (following the new Win7 standards).
    + Configuration | Colors & Styles: Added dropdown "Selections". Here 
      you can choose how selected items are drawn in Tree, Catalog, and 
      all lists.
      Note: This choice is only meaningful in Vista and later because 
      earlier systems Windows Themes don't affect selections.
    + Configuration | Colors & Styles: Added "Focus rectangle". Tick it 
      to draw a dotted focus rectangle on the focused item. This has 
      been the hard-coded default ever since. Now you can turn it off, 
      and in Vista and later it is turned off by factory default.
    - Removed tweak SelectionStyle (v11.10.0005). This is now handled in 
      Configuration as described here above.
    % Catalog and various Lists: Heavily improved the drawing and 
      scrolling performance under Vista and later. (By working around a 
      mysterious Vista bug where a certain GDI function is easily 100 
      times slower than in XP).
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v11.10.0010 - 2012-05-23 10:40
    + Smart Dropdown Buttons: Now also Aliases are supported.
    + Address Bar Search: Now also Aliases are supported. e.g. @x?a*.
    * List: Changed the Grid default colors to something more visible. 
      And Zebra Striping is now the factory default.
    ! List: In Full Row Select mode there were some painting glitches 
      since recently. Fixed.
    ! Preview: The PDF shell preview created smaller previews in Vista 
      and later than in XP. Fixed.
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v11.10.0011 - 2012-05-23 14:17
    * Updated the help file.
    ! List: Minor drawing glitch in Full Row Select under Vista and 
      later. Fixed.
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v11.10.0012 - 2012-05-23 21:11
    + Toolbar: Added button "Show Grid" to quickly toggle horizontal 
      zebra striping in the file list. It's a shortcut to the already 
      existing "Show Grid" command in menu Tools | Customize List | Show 
      Grid. The button's right-click menu offers the complete Customize 
      List submenu.    
      FYI, the grid is set per list mode: Browse, Find, Drives, Network, 
      Recycler -- they all keep their own independent Customize List 
      settings. Of course, the grid is only shown in view modes 
      "Details" and "Details with Thumbnails".
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v11.20.0000 - 2012-05-24 12:00
    = NEW OFFICIAL RELEASE. Main developments since last release:
  +++ Selection Style. Now the whole interface supports the Windows 
      Themes selection style. A vast improvement in look and feel if you 
      are running a post-XP operating system.
  +++ Floating Preview. Enhanced features, handling, and speed.
  +++ Full Screen Preview. Now it supports everything the Floating 
      Preview supports, including Mouse Down Blow Up.
  +++ Tree Full Row Select. The folder tree now supports Full Row 
      Select.
  +++ Show Grid. Now there is a toolbar button to quickly toggle 
      horizontal zebra striping in the file list.

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v11.20.0001 - 2012-05-26 19:20
    + Preview: Added the following RAW image types to the previewed 
      and thumbnailed image formats:
        *.arw (Sony Digital Camera Image)
        *.dcr (Kodak RAW Image File)
        *.fff (Hasselblad RAW Image)
        *.mrw (Minolta Raw Image File)
        *.nrw (Nikon Raw Image File)
        *.orf (Olympus RAW File)
        *.pef (Pentax Electronic File)
        *.raf (Fuji RAW Image File)
        *.raw (Raw Image Data File)
        *.rw2 (Panasonic RAW Image)
        *.rwl (Leica RAW Image)
        *.sr2 (Sony RAW Image)
        *.srf (Sony RAW Image)
        *.srw (Samsung RAW Image)        
        *.x3f (SIGMA X3F Camera RAW File)        
      Codecs are on you. Tip: FastPictureViewer Codec Pack 3.2 will 
      decode all of the above.
      Note that using the same Codec Pack I got better results with Win7 
      than with XP. Particularly Win7 allowed me to determine the 
      original size of the RAW format images which did not work in XP.
    % Preview: RAW image types are now previewed in original size, and 
      PDFs are previewed larger than before.
    * Configuration | Colors & Styles: Reorganized interface and logic. 
      Now the 2 colors concerning selected items are found under 
      Selections. Both can be individually ticked. If ticked they 
      overwrite the active selection style, be it Themes or Classic.
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v11.20.0002 - 2012-05-28 10:25
    + Preview: Added the following RAW image types to the previewed 
      and thumbnailed image formats:
        *.erf (Epson Raw Image File)
        *.mef (Mamiya Raw Image File)
    % Preview: Better handling of RAW image formats under XP and 
      earlier. Before, of some formats the embedded JPEG preview was 
      shown instead of the original image.
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v11.20.0003 - 2012-05-29 20:29
  %%% Completely rewrote transparent image drawing with speed gains in 
      XP and more notably in Win7. No effect in pre-Win 2000 systems.
    + Configuration | Thumbnails: Now you can choose between various 
      display styles. The new Style dropdown offers 5 styles:
        - Plain
        - Box
        - Frame
        - Shadow
        - Frame with Shadow
      The last one is the new factory default.
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v11.20.0004 - 2012-05-30 13:58
    + SC property enhanced: New optional parameter "flags".
      Syntax: property([property], [item], [flags])
        flags:    A combination of these in any order (well there is 
                  just one at the moment):
          m:      property is a metadata template
      Metadata Templates:
        A metadata template is a newly designed format to specify the 
        contents and layout of any available and desired metadata of a 
        file. Rules:
        - The individual metadata fields are referred to by their index 
          (as can be seen in the checkbox list in Configuration | File 
          Info Tips), and can be listed in any order, separated by "," 
          (comma). The fields are returned prefixed by the field name.
        - Optional columns are separated by ";" (semicolon). The columns 
          are autosized to hold the longest item without cropping 
          (unless widths are defined, see below). The columns are 
          separated by 4 spaces.
        - Column widths can optionally be defined per column by 
          prefixing "[number of characters]:" to the column. Longer 
          items are cropped.
        - Spaces can be inserted as you like. They are ignored.
      Examples:
        msg property("0,1,3,37", "%winsysdir%\msvbvm60.dll", "m");
        text property("0,1,37;3,4,5", "%winsysdir%\msvbvm60.dll", "m");
        text property("30:0,1,37;3,4,5", "%winsysdir%\msvbvm60.dll", "m");
      Notes:
      - With flags "m", the "property" parameter defaults to showing the 
        system default metadata (identical to the system default File 
        Info Tip), e.g.:
          text property(, "%winsysdir%\msvbvm60.dll", "m");
          text property(, , "m"); //for the current file
      - Metadata field indices use to change from Windows to Windows 
        version (a kinky MS tradition), so metadata templates need 
        manual adjustment when migrating cross-OS-version.
    + Variable <prop ...> now supports an optional parameter "switches" 
      if the first parameter is a property index:
        <prop [property index] [switches]>.
      Currently one switch is supported:
        n = Return the field name prefixed to the field value.
      Examples:
      - Retrieve Size and Type of the current item:
        text "<prop #1>, <prop #2>";
      - The same, but with field names prefixed:
        text "<prop #1 n>, <prop #2 n>";
    * Configuration | File Info Tips: Raised the number of listed 
      fields. Most upper fields will be "[reserved]" but that's 
      unavoidable because any installed software can add such fields 
      (Extended File Properties) and I never could find a way to 
      retrieve the actually existing number.
    + Added tweak to open files that are opened with the windows-
      associated program (not PFA-opened files) in a more direct way 
      bypassing the shell-provided routines:
        NoShellOpen=1
      This might result in a snappier open experience on some systems.        
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v11.20.0007 - 2012-05-31 21:01
  +++ Info Panel: Added tab "Meta", where some basic file-specific 
      metadata provided by the shell are displayed.
      The default metadata layouts differ by file type (images, audio, 
      and so on...). In a later stage the user will be able to define 
      his own metadata layouts, actually Portable Metadata Layouts 
      (PML).
    ! User-Defined Commands: Fixed a glitch with "&" in menu captions.
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v11.20.0008 - 2012-06-01 17:31
    * Metadata Layouts (previously known as "Metadata Templates"): Now 
      also named arguments are supported. Your part is to find a working 
      name. MS makes it a secret, but you might be lucky hunting a name in 
      the web. E.g. "Dimensions" works to return image dimensions, and 
      "WhenTaken" for the shooting date.
      NOTE, however, that some named arguments return different values 
      then their numeric counterparts. Mysteries of the Windows shell. 
      For example (XP SP3), watch especially the Modified date:
      - text property("0,1,3,37", "%winsysdir%\msvbvm60.dll", "m");
          Name: msvbvm60.dll               
          Größe: 1.353 KB                  
          Geändert am: 14.04.2008 04:22    
          Dateiversion: 6.0.98.2           
      - text property("Name,Size,Write,FileVersion", "%winsysdir%\msvbvm60.dll", "m");
          Name: msvbvm60.dll            
          Size: 1384479                 
          Write: 14.04.2008 02:22:18    
          FileVersion: 6.0.98.2         
      It's the numeric arguments that show the expected values, at least 
      in my tests.
    * Metadata Layouts: Changed the width marker from ":" to "!".
        text property("30!0,1,37;3,4,5", "%winsysdir%\msvbvm60.dll", "m");
    * Metadata Layouts: Now you can provide alternative field names. 
      They can be prefixed to the value identifiers (numeric or names) 
      separated by ":". Example for a ML:
        "24,Wann:25,So groß:Dimensions;Blah blah:14;"
    * Info Panel: Moved the Tags tab to the right of the Raw View tab.
    + Info Panel | Meta: Right-click offers "Copy to Clipboard".
    ! Info Panel | Meta: Attempted a fix where the indices for certain 
      image properties were one off.
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