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v11.50.0000 - 2012-08-22 12:00
    = NEW OFFICIAL RELEASE. Main developments since last release:
  +++ Highlighted Groups. A revolutionary display style where every 
      group of files is highlighted depending on the sorted column.      
  +++ Ignore Diacritics. Find Files, Visual Filters, Color Filters, Spot 
      and Jump, Type Ahead Find now all optionally ignore diacritics 
      (accents on letters: àçöñ...) and thus let you find or mark files 
      with letters your keyboard cannot easily produce.
  +++ Replace with File in Clipboard. New optional context menu command 
      to replace the contents of the selected file with the contents of 
      the file currently in the clipboard.  

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v11.40.0209 - 2012-08-22 10:41
    * Zebra Stripes: Highlighted Groups: Added a smart algorithm to 
      bring some grouping into the Name column. Each name is scanned 
      from left to right until the letter type changes. Three letter 
      types are recognized: alphabet, numbers, other.

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v11.40.0208 - 2012-08-21 18:11
    + Configuration | Colors & Styles: Added another style, "Zebra 
      Stripes: Highlighted Groups", which vastly improves the group 
      spotting experience. Also slightly renamed the old styles:
        - Grid Lines: Thin 1 pixel lines between the rows.
        - Zebra Stripes: Alternate Rows: Every 2nd row is highlighted.
        - Zebra Stripes: Alternate Groups: Every 2nd group is highlighted.
        - Zebra Stripes: Highlighted Groups: Every group is highlighted.
          This new style lets you immediately spot groups.

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v11.40.0207 - 2012-08-21 10:56
    + Configuration | Colors & Styles: Added new selection dropdown for 
      "Grid Style" with three options:
        - Grid Lines: Thin 1 pixel lines between the rows.
        - Alternate Zebra Stripes: Every 2nd row is highlighted.
        - Grouped Zebra Stripes: Every 2nd group is highlighted.
      The options "Grid Lines" versus "Alternate Zebra Stripes" replace 
      the previous checkbox "Zebra Striping".
      The option "Grouped Zebra Stripes" is new and adds a revolutionary 
      display style to the file list: Groups of items are striped 
      depending on the contents of the sorted column. This gives you 
      immediate visual clues about groups of same file types, sizes, 
      dates, etc. Note that the grouping can be more exact than the 
      display if the display is rounded: Two files shown with a size of 
      38 KB each can be in different groups if the exact bytes differ.
      Notes:
      - Grids require "Show Grid" enabled in the file list (menu Tools | 
        Customize List). There is a Toolbar button for this as well.
      - Grids are shown only in views "Details" and "Details with 
        Thumbnails".
      - If the list is not sorted by any column no grid is shown on 
        "Grouped Zebra Stripes".
      - The grid color can be customized using the "Grid" item under 
        "List" in Configuration | Colors & Styles.
      - Grid Style is a global setting (not per Tab).
    ! Tags: If only one item was tagged then removing all tags from this 
      item did not work (the tags were still existing internally during 
      the session). Fixed.
    * Updated the help file.

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v11.40.0206 - 2012-08-20 12:07
    + Configuration | Extended | Type Ahead Find: Added option "Ignore 
      diacritics". Tick it to ignore diacritics in Type Ahead Find (aka 
      Find-as-you-type) in Tree and List. Typing "ö" will match "o" and 
      vice versa.
      Note: This setting also affects Spot and Jump matching. Before, 
      this was controlled by Configuration | Color Filters | Ignore 
      diacritics.
    + SC getPathComponent enhanced: Added two further values for the 
      "component" parameter.
      Syntax: getpathcomponent([path], [component], [index=1])
        component:
          count:    The count of components.
          server:   The server in case of an UNC path, else the drive.
      Examples:    
        echo getpathcomponent("\\Mars\Venus", "count");   // 2
        echo getpathcomponent("\\Mars\Venus", "server");  // Mars
    * SC getkey: Due to the changes in v10.90.0102 - 2012-03-14 13:36 
      and the hard-coding of flags=1 in v10.90.0105 the function became 
      case-sensitive regarding the parameters "key" and "section", 
      probably breaking old user code.
      Therefore the hard-coding of flags=1 has to be reverted to soft-
      coding, in other words the optional parameter "flags" has to be 
      reintroduced:
      Syntax: getkey(key, section, [INIfile], [flags])
        flags:  1: Use XYplorer's native algorithm.
                   Note that key and section are case-sensitive with 
                   this algorithm!
      Notes:
      - XYplorer's native algorithm for reading INI values will return 
        leading TAB characters. The standard Windows algorithm will not.
      - XYplorer's native algorithm is optimized for reading hundreds of 
        keys out of huge INI files. It's not made for picking out single 
        keys as the getkey() function does. So, performance-wise you 
        will suffer a bit for the added functionality.
      Examples where Year=[TAB]2012:
        // returns "2012"
        text getkey("Year", "Vacation", "<curpath>\holiday.ini");
        // returns "[TAB]2012"
        text getkey("Year", "Vacation", "<curpath>\holiday.ini", 1);

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v11.40.0205 - 2012-08-19 12:52
    * SC getPathComponent: Now any trailing colon (:) is removed from the
      returns, so "drive" will now return the drive letter alone: "E" 
      instead of "E:".
      Also now "/" is supported as component separator.
    + Added tweak to modify the Interpolation Mode used with High Quality 
      Image Resampling. This, for example, will set the Interpolation 
      Mode to NearestNeighbor:
        HighQualityImageResamplingInterpolationMode=5
      These are the possible values. The default is 0 which is internally 
      converted to 7 (HighQualityBicubic, the best and slowest mode):
        Default = 0  (defaults internally to 7)
        LowQuality = 1
        HighQuality = 2
        Bilinear = 3
        Bicubic = 4
        NearestNeighbor = 5
        HighQualityBilinear = 6
        HighQualityBicubic = 7
      Notes:
      - This tweak only takes effect when "Configuration | Preview | 
        High quality image resampling" is ticked. It affects the image 
        preview in the Preview tab, the Floating Preview, and the Full 
        Screen Preview, as well as Mouse Down Blow Up when 
        "Configuration | Preview | Shrink to fit" is ticked.
      - These values are passed to a GDI+ function, and there is no 
        further documentation available from Microsoft. For example, I 
        cannot see a difference in quality or speed between 2 and 7 , 
        so: happy experimenting!
      - I made this tweak accessible through the undocumented tweak() 
        function to allow you quicker testing. The key to use is 
        "InterpolationMode", for example:
          tweak("InterpolationMode", 3);
        Note, however, that any active preview is not auto-refreshed 
        after calling this function. You have to manually refresh the 
        preview to see the effect.
    * XYcopy: Updated to 2.00.0083.

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v11.40.0204 - 2012-08-18 21:11
    + SC getPathComponent enhanced: Now you can return components by 
      their position index. Negative indices can be used to refer to the 
      position from the right end.
      Syntax: getpathcomponent([path], [component], [index=1])
        component: The component to return:
          component: the component referred to by index
        index:  The index of the component to return. Only used if 
                component is "component". The first component is 1, the 
                last component is -1.
                Invalid indices or index 0 (zero) return nothing.
      Notes:
        UNC paths are stripped off the leading "\\" before applying the 
        index.
      Examples:
        echo getpathcomponent("E:\x\y.txt", "component");     // E:
        echo getpathcomponent("E:\x\y.txt", "component", 1);  // E:
        echo getpathcomponent("E:\x\y.txt", "component", 2);  // x
        echo getpathcomponent("E:\x\y.txt", "component", 3);  // y.txt
        echo getpathcomponent("E:\x\y.txt", "component", 4);  // <nothing>
        echo getpathcomponent("E:\x\y.txt", "component", -1); // y.txt
        echo getpathcomponent("E:\x\y.txt", "component", -2); // x
        echo getpathcomponent("E:\x\y.txt", "component", -3); // E:
        echo getpathcomponent("E:\x\y.txt", "component", -4); // <nothing>
        echo getpathcomponent("\\Mars\Venus", "component");   // Mars
    + Configuration | Color Filters: Added option "Ignore diacritics". 
      Tick it to match Koln with Köln. Applies to name: and dir: filters.
      Note: This setting also affects Spot and Jump matching which now 
      also can ignore diacritics.
    + Toolbar | Toggle Visual Filter: Now the button's context menu 
      features another toggle option:
      - Ignore Diacritics
      If checked then the filter matching ignores diacritics and a 
      filter "Koln" will match a file "Köln.txt".
    % Mouse Down Blow Up: Better placement of blow ups if "Configuration 
      | Preview | Shrink to fit" is ticked. Now it is attempted to 
      position the blow up exactly over the original while taking care 
      that everything is visible. A trade off, but with smaller images 
      clearly better than before where the blow up was just centered in 
      screen.
    % Custom Copy: Now care is taken to prevent the system from entering 
      sleep/standby during long copy or backup jobs. Windows now is kept 
      awake until the copy process is completed.
      This service needs Windows XP or later.
    * XYcopy: Updated to 2.00.0082.

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v11.40.0202 - 2012-08-17 20:58
    + Configuration | Extended | Custom items in shell context menu | 
      File List: Added one item (for files only):
        Replace with File in Clipboard
      Replaces the contents of the selected file with the contents of 
      the file in clipboard. The selected file keeps its filename, just 
      the contents are updated.
      Notes:
      - You are prompted before the replacement happens.
      - The action cannot be undone, always runs in the foreground 
        and is performed by kernel API (no Custom Copy or Shell Copy 
        involved).
      - The file in clipboard is not deleted even if it had been "cut" 
        to the clipboard.
      - The command is not visible by factory default.      
    + Scripting got a new function.
      Name:   getPathComponent
      Action: Returns the specified component of a path.
      Syntax: getpathcomponent([path], [component])
        path:     The path to parse; can be a folder or a file.
                  Defaults to the current folder or file.
        component: The component to return; can be any of the following:
          drive:  the drive or share
          path:   [default] the path without any file
          parent: the parent folder
          file:   the file without path
          base:   the file without path and without extension
          ext:    the extension
      Notes:
        Paths are returned unslashed.
      Examples:
        echo getpathcomponent(, "file"); //current item without path
        echo getpathcomponent("E:\x\y.txt", "ext");   // txt
        echo getpathcomponent("E:\x\y.txt", "base");  // y
        echo getpathcomponent("E:\x\y.txt", "file");  // y.txt
        echo getpathcomponent("E:\x\y.txt", "parent");// x
        echo getpathcomponent("E:\x\y.txt", "path");  // E:\x
        echo getpathcomponent("E:\x\y.txt", "drive"); // E:
    * Tree: Now when the Tree has the focus and the Back key is used to 
      go Up to the next parent folder you get that smart 200 msecs (I 
      shortened it from 300 to 200 msecs) delay for smoother browsing 
      that has been added in v9.40.0111.
    ! List: On slow network drives or sleepy drives (drives just waking 
      up from sleep mode) there was a faint possibility to get 
      incomplete listings in the file list when using the Up command or 
      attempting a tab switch while the current foldert was not yet 
      fully listed. Fixed.
    ! A small bug in a heavy rotation macro whereby "2" and "²" 
      (superscript 2) were seen as identical characters with respect to 
      the file system (analog to "A" and "a") which they are NOT 
      resulted in surprising behaviors where "2" and "²" were actually 
      distinctive in the file system. Not a common case but possible. 
      Fixed.

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v11.40.0201 - 2012-08-16 11:33
    + Find Files | Name & Location: Add option "Ignore diacritics". 
      Check it to match a pattern "Koln" with files "Koln.txt" and 
      "Köln.txt" and "Kóln.txt" etc. 
      Note that all accented characters (i.e. characters with 
      diacritics) in the name pattern AND in the tested filenames are 
      reduced to their base characters before the matching is performed. 
      So an accented pattern "Köln" would match a file "Koln.txt" if 
      "Ignore diacritics" is ticked.
      The function needs at least Windows 2000.

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v11.40.0105 - 2012-08-13 20:21
    * Configuration | Advanced | Paste to selected list folder: Now, if 
      that selected folder is on the clipboard then do not copy it into 
      itself but paste into the currently listed folder (as if no folder 
      would be selected in the list).
    ! New command "Paste Here As..." did not allow for a keyboard 
      shortcut yet. Fixed.

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v11.40.0104 - 2012-08-12 19:39
    + Menu Edit | Paste Special: Added command "Paste Here As...", which 
      allows you to paste item(s) in the clipboard under a new name.
      The functionality, interface, and syntax are analogue to "Copy 
      Here As..." and "Move Here As..." (including advanced syntax with 
      wildcards and variables), only that the source(s) are in the 
      clipboard.

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v11.40.0103 - 2012-08-11 19:24
    + Custom Copy: The progress dialog now shows the size of the 
      currently copied resp. verified file right after the file name.
    * XYcopy: Updated to 2.00.0081.
    * Info Panel | Tags: The edit boxes on this tab now automatically 
      re-size with the overall size of the Info Panel.
    ! List | Comment column right click menu | Copy Comment: Did not 
      re-convert internal pilcrow characters (¶) to CRLF (line feeds) in 
      multiline comments. Fixed.

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v11.40.0102 - 2012-08-10 09:17
    + Rename Special | Mp3 Special: "Filename To ID3 Tag" and "ID3 Tag 
      to Filename" now support the placeholder Year (additionally to the 
      already supported Artist, Album, Track, and Title).
      Also added another tweakable item to each of the submenus.
    * Configuration | Advanced | Paste to selected list folder: Changed 
      factory default to OFF to meet expectations set by Windows Explorer.
    ! Multi Field Search: Boolean Multi Field Search did not work 
      correctly for field types other than Len and LenT. Fixed. Now you 
      can do things like this and get the expected results:      
        prop:year: > 1989 AND LenT: > 35
        prop:year: > 1989 AND prop:year: <= 2000
        prop:year: > 1989 AND  <= 2000
      FYI, the last two are equivalent (note double-space after AND!).
    * List: 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.

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v11.40.0101 - 2012-08-08 13:21
    * Configuration | Thumbnails | Show dimensions of original image on 
      thumbnail: The dimensions shown for videos, PDFs and other non-
      images were not those of the originals (which cannot be determined 
      reliably in the necessary speed) but those of the thumbnails. 
      Pretty useless information. Therefore from now on, only image 
      files get the dimensions overlay on the thumbnails.
    ! Drag & drop of images from browsers to tab headers did not work as 
      expected. Fixed.
    ! XYcopy could not handle incremental affixes containing wildcards, 
      e.g. "Copy of *-01". Fixed.
    * XYcopy: Updated to 2.00.0080.
    ! Wipe: After wiping a folder with contents, subsequent normal 
      deletes lacked the confirmation prompt. Fixed.

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v11.40.0100 - 2012-06-29 12:00
    * Updated the help file.

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