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v18.70.0114 - 2018-03-04 20:36
* Updated the help file.
! Vertical Grid Lines: Fixed a drawing glitch related to Full Row Select.
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v18.70.0112 - 2018-03-03 13:12
! Custom Columns: The click button in columns with trigger "Click" was not
correctly vertically centered with larger font sizes. Fixed.
FYI, this bug surfaced only because of the click-button-darkening added in
v18.70.0111.
! Custom Columns: In columns with trigger "Click" you could not quickly
click several cells in a row before the first cell had returned and get
the expected results. Now it should work.
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v18.70.0111 - 2018-03-02 10:41
+ Configuration | Colors and Styles: Created new page "More Colors". It
contains color-related stuff previously on the "Styles" page, and some new
stuff. The "Styles" page couldn't hold all of it anymore.
+ Configuration | Colors and Styles | More Colors: Added new color options
under the heading "Selections in focused controls (XYplorer Classic Style
only)". Here you can customize the text and background color of selected
items in focused controls. This has been frequently wished and the time
was ripe to make it a reality. Offers you a break from the age-old
white-on-blue, without messing with the Windows system-wide color
settings. Think total control and portable too.
Notes:
- The selection color of Edit controls (incl. the Address Bar and other
dropdowns) is out of my reach and continues to be controlled by the
Windows system-wide color settings.
* Configuration | Colors and Styles | More Colors | Selections in non-focused controls:
Removed the separation between Tree and List. Instead raised the tweak to
customize the text color to the GUI.
OLD:
Use Current Tree Folder
Use Selected List Items
NEW:
Use Selection Text
Selection Background
* Custom Columns: Now columns with trigger "Click" give a subtle visual
feedback when being clicked: The white-on-green arrow button in the column
turns a little darker while the triggered job is processed. A 100 msecs
delay had to be added else the effect would be too fast to be visible.
! Vertical Grid Lines: Fixed some minor drawing glitches.
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v18.70.0110 - 2018-03-01 12:51
+ Configuration | Colors and Styles | Styles: Added option "Vertical grid
lines in details view". Tick it to have vertical grid lines in the Details
view in all tabs on each pane.
Remarks:
- The color is controlled by the value in Configuration | Colors | List |
Grid.
- The setting is independent of the horizontal grid (Tools | Customize List
| Show Grid).
- The vertical grid is painted on top of any other stuff in the list.
+ Customize Toolbar | Options | Show Button Captions: Added an additional
submenu "Number of Caption Lines" where you can choose from 1 to 4 lines.
Note: Multiple caption lines have been already available as tweak
ToolbarCaptionLines. Now you have it in the GUI and there is some
additional optimization built in: The more lines you use the less
horizontal space is taken by the button. So the whole lines business is
starting to make some sense.
+ Scripting got a new command.
Name: RefreshList
Action: Refreshes the list on any of the panes.
Syntax: refreshlist [pane="a"]
pane:
a = [default] active pane
i = inactive pane
1 = pane 1
2 = pane 2
Examples:
refreshlist; //refresh active pane
refreshlist "i"; //refresh inactive pane
! Paper Folders: Paper Folders were not yet auto-refreshed on changes in
Labels, Tags, or Comments. Fixed.
! Environment Variables: Was still listening to WM_SETTINGCHANGE. Removed.
! MP3 Preview: Did not read the "Track" value ID3v2 correctly if larger than
255. Fixed.
Also this works correctly now if "Track" is larger than 255:
echo "<prop #mp3.track>";
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v18.70.0109 - 2018-02-28 16:57
+ Command Line Switches: New switch /feed. Back story: In v10.40.0115 -
2011-10-25 14:22 the /flg=2 switch was introduced:
Now you can feed a script into an existing instance of XYplorer without
changing the location or tabs of that instance. Simply pass the new switch
/flg=2 in the command line, for example:
E:\XY\XYplorer\XYplorer.exe /script="::msg 'Hi!';" /flg=2
To simplify the syntax a new switch /feed has been added that combines
/script and /flg=2. So the above example can now be written like this:
E:\XY\XYplorer\XYplorer.exe /feed="::msg 'Hi!';"
Remarks:
- Of course, the old way will continue to work as well.
- If you use both /script and /feed then /feed will overwrite /script.
% Show Folder Sizes: Now, if Autosize Columns is enabled, the Size column is
autosized on-the-fly while folder sizes are being calculated.
* Paper Folders: Now Paper Folders are auto-refreshed when they are in the
selected tab in the (open or closed) inactive pane (which is the only
situation where they don't auto-refresh anyway). So any changes in file
data (size, dates...) or related color filters will be visible right away
without pressing F5 first.
Tip: Auto-refresh should be enabled to capture all events.
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v18.70.0108 - 2018-02-27 21:20
- SC self: The "inc" argument and the way it was meant to be fed with data
did not work out in all situations. At the moment I don't see another way.
Hence unfortunately it had to be removed.
! Scripting: Crazy issues with scripts using the "include" command (since
v18.70.0107 - 2018-02-27 17:24). Fixed by the above removal.
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v18.70.0107 - 2018-02-27 17:24
+ Menu File: Added command "Open Throw Away Clone". Opens a clone of the
current XYplorer instance (as saved on disk) in read-only mode. You can
use such an instance for quick in-between jobs that should not affect your
main XYplorer configuration.
Remarks:
- The clone configuration is read from the configuration files on disk,
not from XYplorer's current unsaved state in memory.
- Exception: The clone always opens in the current path (even if that's
not the start path written on disk).
- Tip: To open a clone of the exact current state of the main instance use
command "Save Settings" right before using "Open Throw Away Clone".
- The command lets you open as many clones as you like.
- [READONLY] in shown in the window title bar of a clone.
+ SC self enhanced: Added switch to return the full path of the
included script file (if any) containing this command.
Syntax: self(info)
info:
inc = Full path of the included script file (if any) containing this
command.
Example:
echo self("inc"); //this line should be in included script file
Remarks:
- The command handles multiple nested includes with grace.
- To make this work it was necessary to insert pseudo commands into the
script code (in memory) that mark the beginning ("included_begin") and
the ending ("included_end") of included code, together with the included
file name.
You will see those pseudo commands in the Step Mode dialog; might be
even helpful in debugging.
* Help | List All Commands...: Now the last filter is remembered between
calls.
! Folder Size Caching: The tweak CacheFolderSizesExclude excluded specific
locations from being read from the cache, but not from being written to
the cache. Ouch. Fixed.
! Preview: Since v18.50.0005 - 2017-10-09 17:54 some Office formats could
not be previewed anymore. Fixed.
* MLS: Internally updated to version 8.98.
> TRANSLATORS: Please wait until Reference_8.98.lng is uploaded.
You will be notified if you have subscribed to this thread:
https://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=9648
- View | Caches: Removed command "Refresh Environment Variables" (#505).
Reason: It never worked.
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v18.70.0106 - 2018-02-26 11:16
+ Configuration | Preview | Thumbnails: Added option "Include local disks"
to the caching section. By default enabled, this option lets you exclude
local disks from caching which can be quite useful when operating XYplorer
from a removable media (e.g. USB stick) on an alien host system.
Note that when you untick both "Include local disks" and "Include
removable media" you will effectively get no caching at all.
% Folder Size Caching: Optimized reading and writing of the Folder Size
Cache at startup and shutdown. Now it's only read at startup when caching
is enabled (Configuration | Tree and List | List | Cache folder sizes),
and only written at shutdown when it is dirty.
This will notably speed up startup and shutdown when your Folder Size
Cache is large.
! Breadcrumb Bars | Hamburger: Was not centered in all screen resolutions.
Fixed.
! Breadcrumb Bars | Hamburger: Did not move 1 pixel down on press. Fixed.
! Hoverbox: Box height too large for files with longish names. Fixed.
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v18.70.0105 - 2018-02-24 13:46
* Configuration | Tabs | Maximum number of tabs: If set to 1 (which means
you really don't like tabs) you won't get any message prompts anymore when
another tab is supposed to be opened. Everything will just go into the
current tab without asking questions.
So that's a cool way now to turn off the whole Tabs feature.
! Preview: Depending on the app associated with PDFs and other Office files
you could have problems opening such a file by double click when the
Preview tab was open, because the Preview tab stole the second click.
Fixed. You now get a tiny delay before an Office is previewed by
mouse-select; during this delay the app waits whether the single click
will eventually turn into a double click.
FYI, the same was already implemented for PDFs only in v9.80.0014 -
2010-12-07 14:20.
! Junction Target: There was some regression that bugged showing relative
junction targets and mount point targets in File Info Tips and the
Junction Target column. Since 2017-10-08 and 2017-11-15. Fixed.
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v18.70.0104 - 2018-02-23 14:45
%%% Configuration | Thumbnails | Caption lines: Display of thumbnails with
caption lines >= 2 much faster now.
! Find Files and Quick Search: Switch /excl on "Fast Tag Search" did not
work yet when searching all drives ("This PC"). Fixed.
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v18.70.0103 - 2018-02-22 12:56
% Custom Columns: When starting on a large folder with slow hard-working
Custom Columns it would have taken a while until you would even see the
interface and understand what's going on.
Now the interface pops immediately and only then the columns are filled.
Pressing ESC will stop filling any custom columns.
* Custom Columns: Now while a Custom Column is refreshed you see a status
bar message including a hint that pressing ESC will stop the refresh.
! Custom Columns: When you removed a Custom Column while it was being filled
you could get an app crash. Fixed.
+ Catalog: Now you can drop on paths containing XY variables, e.g. <xypath>.
! Catalog: Could not drop on scripts anymore since v18.70.0004 - 2018-01-29
12:39. Fixed.
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v18.70.0102 - 2018-02-21 19:35
! Find Files and Quick Search: Switch /excl was not honored by so-called
"Fast Tag Search". Fixed. For example:
?lbl:Blues /excl=E:\Alabama\ //excludes any matches in E:\Alabama\
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v18.70.0101 - 2018-02-20 15:06
+ Command Line Switches: Added switch /readonly. Lets you run the app
in read-only mode, i.e. the settings are read from disk but never written
to disk. So your configuration on disk will be untouched by this instance.
Example:
C:\XYplorer\XYplorer.exe /readonly
Notes:
- [READONLY] in shown in the window title bar when in read-only mode.
- You get a Status Bar message when you actively attempt to save
settings in read-only mode.
+ SC fresh enhanced: Now you can pass a startpath.
Action: Runs a new XYplorer instance with factory defaults.
Syntax: fresh [startpath]
startpath: Start path in the first pane.
Defaults to the factory default start path ("This PC").
Examples:
fresh; //start fresh instance in "This PC"
fresh "C:\"; //start fresh instance in C:\
+ Scripting got a new command (ok, it's been already there for some years
but not officially documented).
Name: FreshHere
Action: Like SC Fresh but opened to current path.
Syntax: freshhere
Examples:
freshhere; //start fresh instance in current path
+ Scripting got a new command.
Name: ReadOnly
Action: Runs a new XYplorer instance with the current configuration as
saved on disk, and will not overwrite that configuration.
Syntax: readonly [startpath]
startpath: Start path in the first pane.
Defaults to the start path as saved on disk.
Examples:
readonly; //start readonly instance
readonly "C:\"; //start readonly instance in C:\
+ Scripting got a new command.
Name: ReadOnlyHere
Action: Like SC ReadOnly but opened to current path.
Syntax: readonlyhere
Examples:
readonlyhere; //start readonly instance in current path
+ Environment Variables: Now they are auto-refreshed when the app receives
the WM_SETTINGCHANGE broadcast message. You will see "environment
variables refreshed" in the Status Bar when it happens.
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v18.70.0100 - 2018-02-04 20:00
= MAINTENANCE RELEASE.
+++ Minor bug fixes and enhancements.
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v18.70.0008 - 2018-02-03 14:27
+ Scripting: Experimentally added a new class of operators, the Compound
Assignment Operators .=, +=, -=, *=, /=, \= . They can be used to shortcut
operations of two variables where the result is set to one of the variables.
For example, both lines below are functionally identical; the latter one
uses one of the new operators:
$a = $a . "b";
$a .= "b";
Examples:
$a = "a"; $a .= "b"; echo $a; //ab
$a = 1; $a += 1; echo $a; //2
$a = 1; $a -= 1; echo $a; //0
$a = 2; $a *= 3; echo $a; //6
$a = 5; $a /= 2; echo $a; //2.5
$a = 5; $a \= 2; echo $a; //2
! Live Filter Box: Attempt to fix a rare issue where the filtered list and
the filter shown in the box went out of sync, typically while the filtered
list was busy creating thumbnails.