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XYplorer Beta Club
v16.40.0000 - 2016-03-08 12:00
= NEW OFFICIAL RELEASE. Main developments since last release:
+++ Preview Pane. It's finally there: A vertical preview pane!
+++ Zoom To Fill. Now the SaveThumb command can create thumbnail files that
are zoomed to fill. (Pro Edition Only)
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v16.30.0017 - 2016-03-07 17:51
* Updated the help file.
! New Items: Fixed another Win10 specific glitch.
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v16.30.0016 - 2016-03-07 12:33
! Scripting: A perm variable that was newly created in a user function was
not visible afterwards in the calling script. Fixed. This works now as
(probably) expected:
function test() {
perm $value = rand(0,1000);
echo "Test set value to $value";
}
test(); echo "Script sees value of $value";
! Menu Edit | New Items: Fixed a Win10 specific bug where the
auto-inline-rename-box was opened for the wrong item.
! Opening multiple files by Enter did not work correctly in the Home
Edition since 20150419. Fixed.
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v16.30.0015 - 2016-03-06 15:42
* EXIF date in Photo Data of Floating Preview and Tiles View now has seconds
resolution. Before, it was only minutes.
! Fixed a couple of bugs concerning the creation of new items in protected
locations.
! Attempted to fix a bug where a newly created item was listed two times.
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v16.30.0013 - 2016-03-04 17:57
+ SC get got a new named argument "listofcommands" which returns the list of
all commands.
Syntax: get("listofcommands", [flags], [separator=CRLF])
flags: (bit field)
1 = Prepend Command IDs, separated by a TAB.
2 = Append Keyboard Shortcuts, separated by a TAB.
return: The list of all commands.
Examples:
text get("listofcommands");
text get("listofcommands", 3);
+ SC ThumbsConf enhanced. Added argument to customize the separator.
Syntax: thumbsconf([settings="ShowCaption,ZoomToFill,Style,Padding"], [separator=","])
separator: Separator between values (input and return), defaults to comma.
% Raw View: Raw viewing files in ASCII mode got a lot faster for files with
long lines.
* Quick File View: Now the top and bottom lines of binary files are shown.
Before, only the top was shown but sometimes also the bottom has some
interesting information.
! Scripting: If a function returned a parameter variable by reference, and
the passed variable was a global, the variable was not set on return.
Fixed.
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v16.30.0012 - 2016-03-03 20:27
* Menu File | Quick File View: Changed the default keyboard shortcut to
Ctrl+Q.
- Menu File: Removed command "Preview" which opened the Preview tab on the
Info Panel (and the Panel itself if necessary). This IP preview is not as
important anymore given the many other previews we have now. It does not
merit a keyboard access anymore.
- Removed the PreviewRawIfNoneBetter tweak (originally added 20031120). It
was not appropriate anymore.
- Removed Configuration | Menus, Mouse, Safety | Mouse | Click on status bar
toggles info panel. The setting is kept as a tweak (ClickSBToggleIP).
! List: Files in C:\Windows\Fonts would not get the correct shell context
menu. Fixed.
! Preview Pane: Fixed some more glitches.
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v16.30.0011 - 2016-03-03 13:22
* Toolbar: New icon for "Show Catalog".
- Toolbar: Removed the "Preview" button.
* Floating Preview: From now on, files of the "Text" category are previewed
in the Floating Preview just as probably expected. Before, those files
were previewed in XY's native Quick File View.
FYI, I personally find that the Quick File View does a slightly better job
here, but consistency won the bid in this case. And to force Quick File
View there is always Ctrl+Shift+Q.
! List: Dragging items by grabbing the icon did not work anymore since
probably v15.70.0131. Fixed.
Note that you cannot grab items by the icon when "Configuration | Mouse
Down Blow Up | On file icons as well" is ticked, of course.
! Preview Pane: Fixed some more glitches.
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v16.30.0010 - 2016-03-02 20:55
+ Freeze Info and Preview: Added the command to the context menu of the
image preview in IP and PP.
* Status Bar: Now right-click pops the same menu as the Toggle Info Panel
button on the Status Bar.
Before, right-click did something really strange and disturbing: Last
Size/Minimize Info Panel (or show Info Panel if hidden).
! Preview Pane: Did not preview the targets of LNK files. Fixed.
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v16.30.0009 - 2016-03-02 15:34
+ Miscellaneous | Preview: Added toggle "Freeze Info and Preview" (#1079),
default shortcut Ctrl+Alt+F11. Tick it to freeze the current IP info and
all previews (IP, PP, FP).
So the experimental "Freeze Info" from v16.30.0008 has gone official now.
Note that the default shortcut Ctrl+Alt+F11 has been taken away from
"Miscellaneous | Preview | Snapshot Video Preview".
+ Preview Pane: Now it conforms to Configuration | Styles | Borders.
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v16.30.0008 - 2016-03-01 21:16
+ Added experimental "Freeze Info" toggle to the context menu of the "Toggle
Info Panel" Status Bar button. Tick it to freeze the current IP info and
all previews (IP, PP, FP).
! Preview Pane: Fixed some more glitches.
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v16.30.0006 - 2016-03-01 15:36
+ Portable File Associations: Now you can state the name of the executable
(with or without ".exe") of registered applications and the PFA will work.
Examples for PDF-XChange Viewer (both are functionally identical):
pdf>PDFXCview
pdf>PDFXCview.exe
* Preview Pane: Changed its color from Window Background to Button Face.
Looks and feels better, especially when nothing is being previewed.
! Preview Pane: Fixed some glitches.
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v16.30.0005 - 2016-02-29 18:09
+ Preview Pane: Now all previewed formats are supported. That was my weekend.
+ Preview Pane | Image Previews: Contrary to earlier plans I decided to make
the Preview Pane an independent thing (instead of a docked Floating
Preview), much simpler and less powerful than the Floating Preview, quite
similar to the preview in Explorer and hence totally newbie-friendly, but
with some irresistable enhancements compared to Explorer:
- There is a mouse over tooltip showing original and preview size.
- There is a context menu; same as on Preview Tab, a few things might be
added later on.
- Previews are horizontally and vertically centered in the pane. There is
a 16 pixels padding on all sides. No zoom or so, you always see the
whole image optimally scaled to the available space.
- Hard minimal pane width is 48 pixels, Hard minimal preview width is 16
pixels.
- Mouse Down Blow Up is supported.
- Optional Transparency Grid.
- Animated GIFs are previewed.
- Icons are previewed.
> Preview 2.0 | Step 3: We have three places for previews now, but only one
of them is used at each time, in this order of precedence:
Floating Preview > Preview Pane > Preview Tab
In words: Preview Tab is only used when neither Preview Pane nor Floating
Preview are visible. Preview Pane is only used when Floating Preview is
not visible.
+ Configuration | Preview | Image/Video preview: Added a 4th border option
"Shadow". Tick it to draw a drop shadow to the image preview. Affects the
Preview Tab and the new Preview Pane.
- Preview Tab | Image Preview: Removed the special loupe-shaped mouse cursor
when hovering the image. Too non-standard, scares people. Also the default
arrow-shaped cursor allows for more exact MDBU pointing.
*** Startup: From now on the focused and selected file from last app exit is not
selected anymore on next startup (but just focused). That way we avoid the
awkward startup situation that the current file is selected but not
previewed (so we have to unselect and select it again to get the preview).
Note that there is a way to select and preview the last selected file on
startup by setting the following tweaks like this:
NoPropertiesStartup=0
AllowPreviewOnStartup=1
Three *** since this changes a behavior that's easily 12 years old or more.
! Ghost Filter: The Edit Ghost Filter dialog did not scale correctly with
higher custom DPI settings. Fixed.
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v16.30.0004 - 2016-02-27 13:09
+++ Preview 2.0 | Step 3: Added a new Preview Pane for the main Window.
Window | Show Preview Pane (Ctrl+F11) (#674)
There is also new Toolbar button for this:
Preview Pane
As you see the Preview Pane is hard-coded to be a right-bound subsection
of the list pane(s). Its width is adjustable by dragging a vertical
splitter. Its height is implied with the pane(s) height.
Note there isn't any contents yet. This is left to your imagination for
the time being :)
+ SC setlayout: Now also the visibility and the width of the new Preview
Pane is part of the saved and loaded layout.
Examples:
setlayout("ShowPreviewPane=!"); //toggle Preview Pane
setlayout("PreviewPaneWidth=500"); //set Preview Pane width
Note that the possible effect of the latter command (set Preview Pane
width) is controlled by other factors (the size of the other controls) in
quite complex ways. You can do some temporarily disturbing things to the
layout here, but no crash (AFAIK).
* Configuration | Sort and Rename | Rename | Auto-replace invalid
characters: Now forward slashes, and backward slashes surrounded by
spaces, are replaced even if "Configuration | Sort and Rename | Rename |
Allow move on rename" is ON.
* MLS: Internally updated to version 8.72.
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v16.30.0003 - 2016-02-25 19:43
+ SC SaveThumb enhanced: Added argument "flags" with currently two
functional bits.
Syntax: savethumb(file="<curitem>, thumbnail_file="*_thumb", _
widthbox, heightbox, format="jpg", border_width, flags)
flags: (bit field)
1 = Drop Shadow on white border (border_width has to be set).
2 = Zoom To Fill: Zoom the thumb to fill the whole box. If heightbox
is missing it defaults to widthbox, and vice versa (= square box).
Examples (on focused list item):
// Zoom To Fill, 300x200 JPG
savethumb(, "folder", 300, 200, "jpg", , 2);
// Zoom To Fill, 7% white border, 100x300 JPG (yep, vertical slice)
savethumb(, "*_slice", 100, 300, "jpg", "7%" , 2);
// Zoom To Fill + Drop Shadow, 7% white border, 300x300 square JPG
savethumb(, "*-<width>x<height>", 300, , "jpg", "7%", 3);
Remarks:
Pretty cool functionality! Rare to meet elsewhere. Someone should go and
find a use for it!
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v16.30.0002 - 2016-02-24 21:59
! Custom File Icons: Generic file types did not handle extensions longer
than 4 characters. Fixed.
! Configuration | Menus, Mouse, Safety | Mouse | Line number selection:
Status Bar was not updated after unselecting an item. Fixed.