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v17.40.0213 - 2017-01-19 16:05
    * Audio Thumbs: Improved the scrubbing smoothness, especially for shorter 
      files.
    * Updated the help file.
    * MLS: Internally updated to version 8.84.
      > TRANSLATORS: Please wait until Reference_8.84.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

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v17.40.0212 - 2017-01-18 22:07
    + Time Zone Changes: Now XY automatically adjusts the displayed filetimes 
      on-the-fly to a newly selected time zone. No restart necessary.
    * Audio Preview and Audio Thumbs: New flat buttons.
    * Audio Thumbs: More natural scrolling (fast forward/backward) by mouse 
      move (left button held down).

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v17.40.0211 - 2017-01-18 16:51
    + SC get got a new named argument "previewhandler". Rather for debugging 
      purposes (but who knows) this is a way to quickly retrieve the GUID, 
      Standard value, and DisplayName of the default previewhandler associated 
      with a given extension. The information is retrieved from the registry.
      Syntax: get("previewhandler", extension, separator=CRLF)
        extension:  [required] any registered file extension
        separator:  separator between GUID, Standard, and DisplayName in the 
                    returned string
        return:     GUID,separator,Standard,separator,DisplayName
                    Nothing if no previewhandler is found.
      Example 1:
        text get("previewhandler", "pdf");
      returns (on my system):
        {CF822AB4-6DB5-4FDA-BC28-E61DF36D2583}
        PDF-XChange PDF Preview Provider
        PDF-XChange PDF Preview Provider
      Example 2:
        text get("previewhandler", "msg");
      returns (on my system):
        {53BEDF0B-4E5B-4183-8DC9-B844344FA104}
        MAPI Mail Previewer
        @%systemroot%\system32\mssvp.dll,-127
    ! Audio Thumbs: Fixed a couple of glitches.

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v17.40.0210 - 2017-01-17 13:43
    + Audio Thumbs: Now you get a basic progress bar in the Status Bar.
    + Audio Thumbs | Progress Bar: Now when you started the playback using the 
      right mouse button you can move the play position by left-clicking the 
      progress bar.
      Remarks:
      - Note that both of these must be ticked to make this work:
          Configuration | Mouse Down Blow Up | On right mouse down
          Configuration | Mouse Down Blow Up | Stay up
      - You can also toggle Pause/Play by right-clicking the progress bar.
      - There is also a tiny Pause/Play button to toggle Pause/Play.
      - Also the SPACE key will toggle Pause/Play (while focus is in the list).

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v17.40.0209 - 2017-01-16 18:36
    + Audio Thumbs: Now you get a basic progress status in the Status Bar while 
      the file is playing. This includes an error message if anything failed.
    * Audio Thumbs: Now it loops, i.e. it restarts when the playback ends.
    + Audio Thumbs: Experimentally added a way to move to a new position in the 
      playing file (fast forward/backward).
      Start playback by left mouse down on the file icon or thumbnail, then move 
      the mouse to the right with the button held down. The positioning is done 
      on an imaginary (= nothing to see) 256 pixels wide progress bar where the 
      mouse pointer is on position 0 when the playing starts. So, for example, 
      moving 128 pixels to the right of that point will play the file from its 
      middle position (e.g. from 1:30 if the song is 3:00 long). It's easy once 
      you get the knack.
      (I still might add a progress bar to look at later...)
    * Search Templates: Slightly redesigned the dialog.

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v17.40.0208 - 2017-01-15 15:32
  +++ Audio Thumbs: Now Mouse Down Blow Up works for audio files! It just plays 
      the sound as long as you hold down the mouse. No interface, no info, just 
      sound. All previewable audio file types are supported (MP3, WAV, FLAC, 
      OGG... you name it). Killer.
      This feature is optional (some folks might get shocked when their files 
      start making noises on touching them). Toggle it here:
        Configuration | Mouse Down Blow Up | Audio preview
      Some tips:
      - Tick this to enable Mouse Down Blow Up:
          Configuration | Mouse Down Blow Up | On left mouse down
      - Tick these two and the Audio Thumb plays on right-click without 
        needing to keep the button down:
          Configuration | Mouse Down Blow Up | On right mouse down
          Configuration | Mouse Down Blow Up | Stay up
        To stop either left-click or press ESC, or start the next file's Audio 
        Thumb.      
      - Tick this and you get Audio Thumbs via Mouse Down on file icons:
          Configuration | Mouse Down Blow Up | On file icons as well
      Brother, how cool can it get?!
    * Small Lists: Increased the row height by 2 pixels. More air to breathe.

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v17.40.0207 - 2017-01-14 16:10
    + SC toolbar enhanced: Now it supports the "extra large" button size.
      Syntax: toolbar([buttons], [size])
        size:    [optional]
                  0 = small
                  1 = large
                  2 = extra large
      Examples:
        toolbar(, 0);  // switch to small buttons
        toolbar(, 1);  // switch to large buttons
        toolbar(, 2);  // switch to extra large buttons
    ! Find Files: Searching on multiple drives referred to by volume labels did 
      not work correctly anymore since 20161024 (the first drive in the list was 
      wrongly parsed). Fixed.
    ! Audio Preview: Overflow error was possible with certain media. Fixed.    
    ! Tags: There was a double-drawback of the "Use Volume Serials" storage method.
      1)  If the drive is not found on XY startup, the serial cannot be resolved 
          to a drive letter.
          Problems start to surface when you plug in a drive while XY is 
          running. Tagged items on this drive would not be shown as tagged since 
          the in-memory tags still carry the unresolved serial.
      2)  If the drive is not found on XY exit, the drive letter cannot be 
          resolved to a serial.
          Problems start to surface when you plug in a drive and it assigned a 
          new drive letter by the system. Tagged items on this drive would not 
          be shown since the in-memory tags still carry the old drive letter.
       Well, both issues have been fixed: In the event of a drive being added or 
       removed the in-memory tags are updated on the fly accordingly.

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v17.40.0206 - 2017-01-13 20:36
  +++ Toolbar: Now it can have extra large buttons (48x48 pixels). Increases 
      toolbar usability on high-resolution screens.
    * Tools | Customize Toolbar: Replaced the "Large Icons" checkbox by a 
      dropdown with 3 options: Small, Large, Extra large.
      Also enlarged the whole dialog somewhat, and redesigned the bottom control 
      field.
    ! Property Columns and SC property(): Audio and Image properties were not 
      returned for user-added file types (since 20161207). Fixed.
    ! Property Columns and SC property(): Certain general media properties like 
      Length were not returned for Video files (since 20161207). Fixed.

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v17.40.0205 - 2017-01-11 16:18
    * List: In Thumbs view, when focus is in the penultimate row but no item 
      lives right below that position, and you press Down, then focus will move 
      to the last item in the list. Before, it would stay where it is.
    % Smart Dropdown Buttons: The popup menus could experience heavy delays when 
      unavailable network resources were passed to them. No more.
  $$$ XYplorerFree: The XYplorer Free Edition has been discontinued. It lived 
      for three years but the extra work grew too much to handle. New releases 
      became rare, and too much time and energy was drawn away from the main 
      project. Another reason is that the free edition simply was too good, 
      which was unfair to those who paid.

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v17.40.0204 - 2017-01-10 19:52
    ! Selection Filter: A prefixed ! (Boolean "not") in the selection filter, 
      and also some other pattern modifiers, were not indicated in the status 
      bar message. Fixed.
    ! Recycle Bin: When using Explorer to drag and drop files from RB into XY, 
      the names of the resulting files were the recycled names like $RUHDAN8.pdf 
      instead of the original names. Fixed.

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v17.40.0203 - 2017-01-09 17:51
    ! Mini Tree Meltdown: Since a couple of versions ago the Mini Tree sometimes 
      was reduced to just the PC node when a USB device was plugged in. Fixed.

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v17.40.0202 - 2016-12-28 12:00
    % Flatten Folder: Made it faster (only noticeable on large folders).
    > Tip: Search pattern to find items
            with trailing spaces: "* "    (with the quotes)
            with trailing dots:   "*."    (with the quotes)
    ! Support of filenames ending with space: Deleting such files did not work 
      yet in all contexts. Fixed.
    ! MLS: Minor capitalization glitch in "Stepping through a Script" dialog. 
      Fixed.

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v17.40.0201 - 2016-12-21 14:47
    + Support of filenames ending with dot or space: Those filenames are invalid 
      in the Windows name space and the shell cannot do anything with them: 
      Delete, rename, move... it will all fail with File Explorer (and many 
      other file managers including yesterday's XYplorer).
      NTFS, however, permits such names, and there are ways to create them. So a 
      good file manager should enable you to do something with those weird 
      files, at least to rename them to something that Windows can understand.
      XYplorer now can do it. Delete, rename, move... it all works.
      However, since those filenames are something that does not really belong 
      into a neat Windows file system, XYplorer does not allow you to *create* 
      such files. In fact it's highly recommended that you rename or remove them 
      as soon as you meet them (which, for most users, will not happen very 
      often if at all).
    * XYcopy: Updated to 2.10.0093.
    ! Configuration | Startup & Exit | Autosave settings after this many 
      minutes: Autosave would not happen if the Windows session was older than 
      25 days. Fixed.

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v17.40.0200 - 2016-12-19 18:00
    = MAINTENANCE RELEASE.
  +++ Audio Tags. Now scripting supports reading and writing ID3 tags. (Pro 
      Edition Only)
  +++ Multilingual Support. Added support for Serbian.
  +++ Minor bug fixes and enhancements.

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v17.40.0109 - 2016-12-19 08:45
    + Multilingual Support: Added support for Serbian.
    * Updated the help file.

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