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v18.80.0008 - 2018-03-14 11:07
    + Configuration | General | Menus, Mouse, Safety | Safety Belts: Added 
      option "Show drag status box". Tick it to show the Drag Status Box, a 
      color-coded information box shown at the mouse pointer when hovering over 
      a drop target.
      Factory default is ON.

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v18.80.0007 - 2018-03-13 20:52
    + Drag Status Box: Added the icon to the target path. It's simply expected 
      that a path spec is accompanied by its icon.
    + Configuration | Colors and Styles | More Colors: Added "Focus rectangle" 
      with three choices:
        - Solid
        - Dotted
        - None
      Now this setting applies to both "Windows Theme Style" and "XYplorer 
      Classic Style". So now you can have the dotted focus rectangle, or no 
      focus rectangle also with "Windows Theme Style".
    - Configuration | Colors and Styles | Styles | Focus rectangle: Removed this 
      checkbox. Replaced by the dropdown above.

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v18.80.0006 - 2018-03-13 13:30
    + Drag Status Box: You can tweak the colors at key DragStatusClasses. This is 
      the factory default:
        DragStatusClasses=5495DC|FEA311|81409C|A0A0A0
      Background color white remains hard-coded. Text colors are auto-calculated 
      for good contrast.
    * Drag Status Box: Changed default color for Move operations from brown to 
      orange.
    ! Drag Status Box: Fixed a couple of glitches.

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v18.80.0005 - 2018-03-12 19:16
  +++ Drag Status Box: Experimentally added something to the mouse pointer while 
      dragging stuff and hovering over a potential target. It tells you how many 
      items are being dragged and what's the target full path.
      - Additionally it's color-coded:
        Brown = Move
        Blue = Copy
        Purple = Create Shortcut
        Graphite = Add to Paper Folder
      - Tip: You can check out the colors by forcing different modes via keyboard:
        Hold SHIFT        -> Brown = Move
        Hold CTRL         -> Blue = Copy
        Hold CTRL+SHIFT   -> Purple = Create Shortcut
      - Implemented for dragging onto Tree, List, Breadcrumb Bar, Catalog, Tabs, 
        and Toolbar.
      - Of course, it will be made optional later.
      - I'd like to call it Drag Status Box or FlyBox.
      - Love it.
    * Mouse Pointer: Changed the pointer for Move operations from a Minus symbol 
      to an Arrow symbol. Reason: Some users understandably associated Minus 
      with Delete -- and got confused.
    * Configuration | Colors and Styles | Styles | Focus rectangle: Now, when 
      "Focus rectangle" is unticked and selections are set to "XYplorer Classic 
      Style" a solid (non-dotted) focus rect outline is drawn around focused 
      non-selected items using the active selection background color. Before, no 
      focus rect was drawn under these conditions.
    ! MLS: Toolbar captions were not auto-updated on language change. Fixed.

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v18.80.0004 - 2018-03-09 20:54
    + Configuration | General | Tree and List | Tree. Added option "Scroll 
      selected folder to the top". Raises tweak TreeSelectedToTop to the GUI.
    * Tabs: When switching tabs the focus now stays in the Tree when it was 
      there before. Before, the focus always was set to the List.
    + List: In v11.40.0102 - 2012-08-10 09:17 I added this to adapt to the 
      behavior of WinXP's Explorer:
          From now on copies of items created in the same path as the original 
          items (by Duplicate or Paste) are not auto-selected anymore but the 
          selection stays on the original items. This is in accordance with 
          Windows Explorer behavior and indeed makes more sense.
      Now in Win8.1 and later, Explorer changed its behavior: Now it *does* 
      auto-select the copy. To allow you to mimic the new behavior I added this 
      tweak:
        ListSelectOnPasteInSamePath=1
      The factory default is 1 (we want to go with the flow), but upgraders 
      have to manually set it to 1 if they want the new behavior.
    + Configuration | Colors and Styles | Fonts: Added section Toolbar where you 
      can customize the name and size of the toolbar button captions font.
    + Toolbar: Ctrl+Wheel over the Toolbar now lets you control the fontsize of 
      the button captions. Apart from being highly practical as compared to 
      going via the Configuration dialog, this way also offers a higher 
      resolution (namely fractional sizes) than going by the ridiculously 
      outdated Windows Font dialog.
      When no button captions are shown the wheel is ignored.
    * Toolbar: Now you use Ctrl+Shift+Wheel over the Toolbar to control the 
      toolbar zoom. Before, it was Ctrl+Wheel.
    * Configuration | Fonts: Now the displayed font sizes show the fractions 
      again (2 digits) if there are any. In v17.60.0101 - 2017-02-28 21:42 I 
      changed it to fully rounded but I don't like it anymore. I don't like to 
      bow to the integer nonsense of the stupid Windows Font dialog.

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v18.80.0003 - 2018-03-08 14:32
    + Tree: Added tweak to auto-move the selected folder to the top of the view.
        TreeSelectedToTop=1
      Ever since the selected folder is moved to the top of the view when it was 
      above the view before being selected. However, when it was within the view 
      it is not moved at all, and when it was below the view it is moved to the 
      bottom of the view. The strategy here is to minimize the amount of 
      vertical scrolling. But to have the selected folder consistently at the 
      top might also be a valid strategy.
      Notes:
      - Selecting a folder right in the tree does *not* trigger the auto-move. 
        It would just drive you crazy.
      - Near the bottom of the tree it might not be possible to bring the folder 
        up to the top. That's tree physics you got to live with.
      - The setting of "Configuration | Menus, Mouse, Safety | Usability | 
        Scroll margin" is honored, so you can have the folder auto-moved e.g. to 
        the 3rd row of the view if you like.
      - Might make this an official setting later.
    * Renamed "CVS field separator" to "CSV field separator", LOL.
    * Configuration | Shell Integration | 64-bit Windows | Show the 64-bit 
      context menu: Added small note to reduce confusion:
        "This menu does not contain XYplorer specific custom items".
    ! Mouse Down Blow Up of Text: Did not work on non-image thumbnails in 
      "Details with Thumbnails #1" view. Fixed.

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v18.80.0002 - 2018-03-07 15:18
    + Configuration | Information | Report: Added section "CVS field separator" 
      where you can choose between the System List Separator, TAB, and any other 
      string you might prefer.
      This separator is used in the CSV and Tree Structure reports on Info Panel 
      | Reports | Current Folder.
      Remarks:
      - The System List Separator can be changed in the system regional settings. 
        Depending on the Windows version this can be done around here:
          Start > Control Panel > Regional and Language Options
      - The size of "Other" is limited to 16 characters. LOL. Tell me if you 
        find a use for this, or need more.
      - If "Other" is set to "" (nothing) then it defaults to the System List 
        Separator.
      - Previously this separator had been hard-coded to System List Separator. 
        Now you have options, and your choice is portable.
    ! Mouse Down Blow Up: In a multi-monitor setup the blow up could pop on the 
      wrong monitor when the mouse went down on a file icon (Configuration | 
      Preview | Mouse Down Blow Up | On file icons as well). Fixed.

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v18.80.0001 - 2018-03-06 19:06
    + Folder Thumbnails: Now also *.jpeg files are supported (not only *.jpg).
    ! Open Throw Away Clone: Did not pass the command line of the current 
      instance to the clone. Fixed. Apart from any start path, the clone will 
      open with the same command line parameters as the current instance.

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v18.80.0000 - 2018-03-05 12:00
    = NEW OFFICIAL RELEASE. Main developments since last release:
  +++ Open Throw Away Clone. Now you can open a clone of the current XYplorer 
      instance in read-only mode. You can use such a clone for quick in-between 
      jobs that should not affect your main configuration. Highly useful.
  +++ Selection Colors. Now you can customize the text and background colors of 
      selected items. Offers you a break from the age-old white-on-blue without 
      messing with the Windows system-wide color settings.
  +++ Vertical Grid. Now you can have vertical grid lines in the details view.
  +++ Live Filter Highlights. Now the matching parts can be highlighted.
  +++ Filename Length Info. Now a yellow warning icon is shown in the box when 
      the new filename would trigger a move-on-rename.
  +++ Toolbar Captions. Now you can customize the number of caption lines. The 
      more lines you use the less horizontal space is taken by each button.
  +++ Scripting. Added Compound Assignment Operators .=, +=, -=, *=, /=, \=.

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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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