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XYplorer Beta Club
v16.00.0244 - 2015-12-07 20:52
! Floating Preview: Fixed a couple of recent glitches. Especially the one
that loaded each file twice into the preview. ;)
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v16.00.0243 - 2015-12-07 18:50
+ Floating Preview: Now it supports icons (ICO files). Even with
transparency grid (toggle: Ctrl+T).
+ Floating Preview: Now it supports Web Files.
+ Floating Preview: Now it supports Zip Files (if Windows ZipFolder
technology is enabled in your system) *IF* you add *.zip to Web Files
category in Previewed Formats. In that case F11 will not open XYplorer's
internal Zip Viewer but the Floating Preview.
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v16.00.0241 - 2015-12-06 20:26
+++ Preview 2.0 | Step 2: Added the new preview to the Floating Preview and
Full Screen Preview. Now you can preview Office files, Font files, and
Audio/Video files in the Floating Preview -- for all file types with
registered preview handlers.
- Toolbar | Floating Preview (and some other buttons): Removed the toggle
"Floating and Full Screen Images Only" from the context menu. Does not
make much sense anymore with Preview 2.0.
+ MLS: Finnish is now supported. Status: 100% translated (MLS 8.68).
! Preview 2.0: Crash related to PDF previews. Fix #5. This time it's fixed
for good, and the fix is not in my code. Simply upgrade to the latest
PDF-XChange Viewer (2.5.315.0) and all is good.
All previous fix attempts have been undone.
If you are getting bugs with Adobe (Adobe Acrobat Reader installed in your
system) then your solution is: Uninstall it and change to PDF-XChange
Viewer. Experience says that Adobe will never fix their bugs.
! Toolbar: The drive buttons did not scale correctly with the ToolbarZoom
tweak or higher custom DPI settings. Fixed.
! Configuration | Preview | Text preview | UTF-8 auto-detection: Did not
work with RST files. Fixed.
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v16.00.0232 - 2015-12-04 13:57
! Preview 2.0: Crash related to PDF previews. Fix #4. You should not get a
crash anymore while XY is running. This is achieved by avoiding to unload
the preview handler while XY is running (for some reason it crashed only
after unloading the handler). And, BTW, the crash only happens if XY it
*not* the foreground window.
However, there is still a chance that XY crashes on app exit (especially
if you use Adobe's preview handler) if you have previewed at least one PDF
during the session. There is no risk of data loss, but XY might not fully
unload, it will just become invisible and get stuck in memory. The only
way to fully exit it is to kill the process via Task Manager.
This is very unpleasant, of course, and one day a solution will turn up.
For now, I will add the option to use the old way to preview PDFs (namely
through the browser component).
* Configuration | Previewed Formats | Category: Split category "Web & Office
files" in two separate categories.
- Office Files: Previewed using registered preview handlers
- Web Files: Previewed using ActiveX in Browser component)
This gives you more and clearer options.
Tip: If you suffer from using Adobe for PDF previewing you can escape the
crashes that typically come with Adobe by adding "pdf" to the Web Files
category and unticking "pdf" in the "Office Files" category.
+ Preview 2.0 | Step 1b: You now should get a preview for exotic streaming
media in the Preview tab, i.e. for those media that XY cannot handle
natively but for which a preview handler is registered. On my system this
is e.g. *.mid (MIDI file).
Unfortunately, this feature works against the above crash fix, since a streaming
preview *must* be completely unloaded (else the sound is playing on and on),
which is exactly the condition for the crash. So when you preview a PDF,
and then preview a media file (both using Preview 2.0), and then end the
media preview by unselecting the file, then you will probably get a crash
within the next minutes.
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v16.00.0226 - 2015-12-03 19:08
! Preview 2.0: Crash related to PDF previews. Fix #3.
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v16.00.0225 - 2015-12-03 17:10
+ Preview 2.0: Now okay for font files (in case you manually add them to the
Web & Office category). This will get more interesting in the up-coming
steps of the Preview 2.0 mission.
! Preview 2.0: Crash related to PDF previews. Fix #2.
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v16.00.0217 - 2015-12-02 21:25
! Preview 2.0: Crash related to PDF previews. Maybe fixed.
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v16.00.0216 - 2015-12-02 17:05
+++ Preview 2.0 | Step 1: Added the new preview to the Preview tab on the Info
Panel. It will handle Office (DOC, DOCX, XLS, PPT ...), RTF, PDF, and XPS
files here. The corresponding preview handlers have to be installed on the
system, in other words you need the Office software to preview Office
files, and some PDF viewer to preview PDF files. Probably it has to be the
32-bit handlers, we'll see.
From now on, the old Browser component is NOT used anymore for Office
previews. So we can at last say bye-bye to those idiotic "File Download:
Open or Save?" prompts.
- Removed Word Special Preview. If you don't know what this is all the
better. Then you don't need to forget it.
- Removed tweak NoWordSpecialPreview.
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v16.00.0214 - 2015-12-01 21:03
*** Radical and massive internal changes in preparation of Preview 2.0. If you
don't note anything of this then all worked out well.
! List: Drawing glitch after attempting to drag a folder (among other
selected items) into itself. Fixed.
! List: Wrong error message on attempting to drag a folder (among other
selected items) into itself. Fixed.
! UDC: Since v11.00.0021 - 2012-05-14 08:47 you could not define
accelerators in the captions anymore using &. Fixed.
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v16.00.0212 - 2015-11-30 16:28
+ SC readurl enhanced: Added an argument to pass the code page.
Syntax: readurl(url, [nocookies], [StripHTML], [flags], [codepage])
codepage: code page.
Some common code pages:
CP_SHIFT_JIS = 932 'Japanese
CP_GB2312 = 936 'Simplified Chinese (PRC, Singapore)
CP_Korean = 949 'Korean (EUC)
CP_BIG5 = 950 'Traditional Chinese (BIG5)
CP_Thai = 874 'Thai
CP_UTF7 = 65000
CP_UTF8 = 65001
Example (a Japanese website encoded in UTF-8):
text readurl("http://www.yoshidakaban.com/company/",,,,65001);
+ Scripting got a new function.
Name: ReadUrlUTF8
Action: Identical to ReadUrl, but defaults to decoding the contents as UTF-8.
Syntax: readurlutf8(url, [nocookies], [StripHTML], [flags], [codepage=65001])
Remarks:
- Many (if not most) websites are UTF-8 encoded, so I added a
simpler way to handle this than passing "65001" for codepage.
Example (a Japanese website encoded in UTF-8):
text readurlutf8("http://www.yoshidakaban.com/company/");
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v16.00.0206 - 2015-11-28 16:02
! Rename Special | Edit Item Names: Errored out since recently. Fixed.
+ Rename Special | Edit Item Names: Now also this function supports "Move on
Rename". Maybe not extremely useful here but, well, the option is there.
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v16.00.0205 - 2015-11-27 21:46
+ Air: I decided that in the age of huge high res screens we can spare a
couple of pixels to achieve a lighter, airier, less cramped overall
impression. Here are the changes for screens sized at least 1200 x 800:
- Tree line height: +2 pixels
- List line height: +2 pixels
- Catalog line height: +2 pixels
- Breadcrumb Bars height: +2 pixels
- All small lists: +0 pixels (unchanged)
Of course, these are just the factory defaults. All of these metrics can
be changed on-the-fly using Ctrl+Shift+Wheel over the controls.
+ Toolbar | Save Settings: Now the button's tooltip tells you how it's been
since you last saved the settings.
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v16.00.0204 - 2015-11-27 09:52
! Rename Special: Since v16.00.0202 paths got confused when doing a Rename
Special on search results or a branch view. Fixed.
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v16.00.0203 - 2015-11-26 18:49
+ Rename Special | Batch Rename: Added switch /o for "Overwrite on
Collision". If you want to automatically overwrite same-named existing
files without further questions, append "/o" to your pattern! Note that
nothing can restore file once they have been overwritten. No return
ticket.
+ SC rename enhanced: Added a new value to the "flags" parameter for
"Overwrite on Collision".
Syntax: rename [mode (b|r|s|k|e)], pattern, [preview (p)], _
[itemlist], [flags=1], [illegalcharsreplacewith]
flags: (binary field, defaults to 1)
128: Overwrite on collision. No questions, no undo.
Note that this flag does the same as the /o switch, but it's much easier
to handle when taking patterns e.g. from the clipboard.
Examples:
rename b, <clipboard>, p, , 128; //Overwrite on collision
rename r, "Sugar > Honey", p, , 128; //Overwrite on collision
+ Breadcrumb Bars: Now you can modify the height of the Breadcrumb Bars
on-the-fly by Ctrl+Shift+Wheel over any of them. I thought they looked a
bit thin on today's screens... and some of you might want larger drop
targets. BTW, it's in 2-pixel steps to avoid certain rounding issues with
the vertical centering of the contents.
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v16.00.0202 - 2015-11-26 10:14
+ Move on Batch Rename: Now you can state absolute paths in the patterns.
Examples:
E:\<datem yyyy>\*
F:\Photos\<dateexif yyyy>\<dateexif mm>\*
Notes on Move on Batch Rename:
- Yesterday I said "Move on Rename works only within the same volume (same
drive letter)." Today I found out that it works cross-volume on Win 8.1.
Cool, apparently this has been silently added by MS.
- Not supported not work on Portable Devices.
+ Rename Special | Search and Replace: Also here "Move on Rename" is now
supported. Example:
Pattern: Delta/Omega\Plus
From: E:\Test\b\Saturn.exe\Delta2.jpg
To: E:\Test\b\Saturn.exe\Omega\Plus2.jpg
* Drives Listing: Since v16.00.0108 polling the bytes is always skipped for
mapped network drives. I changed this: Now you need to set a tweak to skip
polling those bytes:
NetworkDriveSkipPollingBytes=1