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v9.50.0103 - 2010-09-23 12:01
    + Tweak to configure the extra line spacing in Vista, Win7, and 
      whatever is following. Lines in these OSs are generally somewhat 
      higher than in previous OSs and XYplorer adapts to the new style 
      by adding 2 pixels (factory default) to the line height in Tree, 
      List, and Catalog.
      You can alter this value in the following INI key:
        WinVistaExtraLineSpacing=2
      The value does not affect the line height in pre-Vista OSs. If you 
      set it to 0 then the line spacing will be the same when you switch 
      between Vista+ and pre-Vista.
    * Menu View | Rebuild Tree: Now, experimentally, the expansion state 
      of the whole tree is preserved when it is a locked Maxi Tree and 
      Configuration | General | Remember state of tree is enabled.
    + Sync Tools: The dialog now remembers size and position.
    * Sync Tools: Improved the captions of the actions.
    ! Menu Help | Various Information: OS Uptime was still slightly off. 
      Fixed.
    ! The thumbs cache folder was set to <xydata>\Thumbnails by factory 
      defaults and stored with the variable resolved. Fixed: Now the 
      path is stored soft and portable.
    ! Go Home: List settings were not applied if "Configuration | 
      Advanced | Remember list settings per tab" was completely or partly 
      off. Fixed.

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v9.50.0102 - 2010-09-22 15:19
    ! Sync Tools: Incredibly stupid bug made the "Select Matching" 
      command dysfunctional. Fixed.

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v9.50.0101 - 2010-09-22 13:40
  +++ Menu Panes: Added "Sync Tools", a collection of commands that use 
      the state of one or both panes to affect the state of the other or 
      both panes.
      Currently there are just four different commands (all pretty self-
      explaining) and one modifier (Ignore Extensions), by which you can 
      select items in the active pane based on the contents and 
      selections in the inactive pane (be it visible or not):
      - Select Matching
        Select all items that are shown in the other pane.
      - Select Non-Matching
        Select all items that are not shown in the other pane.
      - Select Selected
        Select all items that are selected in the other pane.
      - Select Unselected
        Select all items that are unselected in the other pane.
      Notes:
      - The last used command and the state of the modifier are saved 
        between sessions.
      - Matching is case-insensitive (A=a).
      - More commands will be added to Sync Tools in future.
    + Scripting got a new command.
      Name:   makecoffee
      Action: Makes a good cup of coffee.
      Syntax: makecoffee
      Example:
        ::makecoffee;
      Remarks:
        Call again for another cup.
    ! Dialogs like the Rename Previews, List Managers, Action Log, 
      Background Jobs, and Background Job Details should remember their 
      last position and size, but be centered in the parent form by 
      factory default. Due to a flawed logic, however, they did fall 
      back to factory default when the user positioned them at pos (0,0) 
      or at negative values. Fixed.
    ! Menu Help | Various Information: OS Uptime was buggy. Fixed.

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v9.50.0100 - 2010-09-21 10:00
    + Scripting got a new function.
      Name:   format
      Action: Returns a string formatted.
      Syntax: format(string, style)
        string:   String to format: can be a number or a date.
        style:    Description of the desired format.
        return:   The formatted string.
      Examples:
        ::text format(1, "000"); //001
        ::text format(1234.56, "#,0.00"); //1,234.56
        ::text format(<date>, "yyyy"); //2010
        ::text format(<date>, "dd-mmm-yy"); //20-Sep-10
        ::text format(<date>, "dddd"); //Monday (in your locale)

        // create a number of empty TXT files in the current folder
          $numfiles = input("Number of files to create", , "10");
          $i = 1;
          while ($i <= $numfiles) {
            new "file" . format($i, "000") . ".txt";
            $i++;
          }

      Remark:
        This function perfectly mirrows the Format function in Visual 
        Basic 6. See more information and examples here:
        http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/59bz1f0h%28VS.71%29.aspx
    * Tab Icons: From now on the commands Refresh File List (F5) and 
      Refresh and Reset File List (Ctrl+F5) will also refresh the icon 
      of the current tab.
    * Updated the help file.

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v9.50.0015 - 2010-09-20 15:22
    * Configuration | Previewed Formats: Reorganized the interface.
      Also fixed a mysterious bug that only attacks Greeks.

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v9.50.0013 - 2010-09-20 12:30
    * Configuration | Startup & Exit: Removed the grey labels at the 
      bottom. All this info is now available in Menu Help | Various 
      Information.
    * Menu Help | Various Information: Slightly reorganized the top and 
      added OS Uptime as extra service.
    ! Menu Help | Various Information: Did not auto-adjust the height 
      correctly depending on the current font settings. Fixed.
    ! Auto-Refresh: Did not update any folder sizes in the file list 
      when items were deleted in subfolders of the current folder. 
      Fixed.

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v9.50.0011 - 2010-09-19 12:44
    + Menu Help | Various Information: Now shows load time, uptime, and 
      memory usage.
    * Menu File | Settings | Save Copy of Configuration As...: Now you 
      are allowed to save a copy of the configuration file (usually 
      XYplorer.ini) outside the app data folder. In that case no pane 
      data are saved along with the configuration file because pane data 
      have to be located under the app data folder.    
    * Menu File | Settings: Renamed "Backup All Settings..." to "Backup 
      Application Data Folder..." because that's what it does.
    ! Word Preview: Switching between Word and certain other previews 
      did not work as expected. Fixed.    

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v9.50.0010 - 2010-09-18 09:55
    * Word Preview: Relaxed the locked state of the preview because of 
      several problems with it. Main advantage: Now you can select and 
      copy any parts of the previewed contents.
      An unwanted side-effect is that you now can *apparently* edit the 
      contents -- however, there is no risk: the changes will NOT be 
      saved; it is just the preview you edit, not the original file!
    * Word Preview: Removed the horizontal scrollbar. It's superfluous 
      with "best fit" view. 

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v9.50.0009 - 2010-09-17 11:58
    * Office Preview: Word preview improved.
      - Word documents are now opened read-only.
      - No temporary hidden file is created during the preview.
      - Rulers are hidden.
      - Page is shown in "best fit" view and adapts to resizing the 
        preview area.
    ! Configuration | Thumbnails | Clear...: Did not work when the 
      thumbs cache folder was given in portable format. Fixed.      

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v9.50.0008 - 2010-09-15 12:21
    * Office Preview: Now Word documents (doc, docx) are previewed in a 
      technically completely new way which should take care of the known 
      issues when attempting to preview Office 2007 through Internet 
      Explorer.

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Change Log for the latest XYplorer BETA version v9.50.0006, 14-sep-2010).

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v9.50.0006 - 2010-09-14 20:30
    * Menu Edit | Select | Selection Filter...:
      - Swapped the functionality of Ctrl+OK and Shift+OK:
        Ctrl+OK:  Add matches to the current selections
        Shift+OK: Remove matches from the current selections
      - Now Ctrl+Enter and Shift+Enter work just as Ctrl+OK and 
        Shift+OK. No rat required.
    * Menu Edit | Select | Select Items...: Defined Ctrl+Shift+M as 
      default KS.
    * File Tags: The context menu (of Tags TB button, and of tags 
      column) command "Select All "[Tag Name]"" can be modified by 
      modifier keys. Now the functionality of Ctrl and Shift swapped:
      - Hold None:  Select all [tag] items, unselect all other items.
      - Hold CTRL:  Select all [tag] items, keep other selections.
      - Hold SHIFT: Unselect all [tag] items, keep other selections.

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Change Log for the latest XYplorer BETA version v9.50.0005, 14-sep-2010).

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v9.50.0005 - 2010-09-14 12:32
    ! Permanent Startup Path was not added to history on startup. Fixed.
    ! Edit User Button dialog: The new Clear button was triggered by 
      ESC. Fixed.

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Change Log for the latest XYplorer BETA version v9.50.0003, 13-sep-2010).

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v9.50.0003 - 2010-09-13 21:35
    + Rename Special: Added command "Edit Item Names..." by which you 
      can edit the names of the selected List items in a multiline text 
      box. Depending on your rename tasks this offers an elegant way to 
      handle them.
      You might even copy the names to a full blown editor, do some 
      fancy things with them, and then paste them back to the dialog and 
      perform the rename.
      Notes:
      - Empty lines or missing lines at the end of the list will be 
        taken as "don't rename this item"; excessive lines at the end of 
        the list will be ignored.
      - With this rename the Rename Preview is unconditionally invoked 
        before the actual rename is performed.
    + Edit User Button dialog: New button "Clear" to clear all fields.
      Hint: The "undocumented" Copy/Paste Snippet menu now pops on 
      right-clicking this button.

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Change Log for the latest XYplorer BETA version v9.50.0002, 12-sep-2010).

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v9.50.0002 - 2010-09-12 18:53
    + Configuration | Startup & Exit: Added "Expand in tree". If checked 
      then the Permanent Startup Path (if any) will be guaranteed to be 
      expanded on next startup. If unchecked it will only be expanded if 
      on last exit it was the last path and expanded.
    * List: In view mode "Details with Thumbnails" the File Info Tips 
      now also appear when hovering the thumbnail.
    ! SC recase with "title" argument did not count line breaks as word 
      delimiters. Fixed. Example:
      ::text recase("tEXT<crlf>tEXT", "title");   //Text¶¶Text
    ! Catalog: Since v9.40.0102 - 2010-08-13 17:32 the Catalog did not 
      support Aliases anymore. Fixed.
    ! Rename Special | Mp3 Special: "ID3 Tag to Filename" would only 
      happen when the file's ID3 tag had an Artist entry. Fixed.
    ! Tree: On startup, when a Permanent Startup Path was set, the 
      expanded state of the last folder on last exit was inherited by 
      the new startup folder. Fixed. Now a startup folder that's set by 
      Permanent Startup Path is always collapsed, unless it was the last 
      folder anyway and expanded, or "Expand in tree" is checked.

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Change Log for the latest XYplorer BETA version v9.50.0001, 09-sep-2010).

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v9.50.0001 - 2010-09-09 11:15
    + Scripting got a new function.
      Name:   recase
      Action: Changes the case of a string.
      Syntax: recase(string, [mode])
        string:   String to change case of.
        mode:     One of the following:
          lower = [default] to lower case
          upper = to upper case
          title = to title case (first letter of each word to upper 
                  case, other letters to lower case)
        return:   String with changed case.
      Examples:
        ::text recase("tEXT","lower");   //text
        ::text recase("tEXT","upper");   //TEXT
        ::text recase("tEXT","title");   //Text
    * SC readurl got a new StripHTML parameter which can be used to 
      return the (ideally) pure text without any HTML formatting.
      - ReadURL
        Action: Returns the contents of a web file.
        Syntax: readurl(url, [nocookies], [StripHTML])
          url:        [required] URL
          nocookies:  [optional]
            0 = use cookies
            1 = don't use cookies
          StripHTML:  [optional]
            0 = return unchanged HTML
            1 = strip HTML comments and tags, scripts and styles,  
                convert some common HTML entities, and remove excessive 
                tabs, spaces and empty lines
          return:     url's contents
        Examples:
        ::text readurl("http://www.xyplorer.com/download.htm", 0, 1);
        ::text readurl("http://www.xyplorer.com/tour/ _
          index.php?page=portable", 0, 1);
    ! The recently added variable <items> (introduced in v9.40.0110 -
      2010-09-03 15:27) was in conflict with an already existing variable 
      of the same name that was restricted to the context of OpenWith 
      (SC openwith and UDC OpenWith). To resolve the conflict the 
      recently added variable has been renamed to <selitems>.
      Both <selitems> and <items> are functionally identical (they 
      return a space-separated list of the currently selected list items 
      in quotes and with full path, ordered as listed from top to 
      bottom) but are used in different contexts.
        ::echo <items>;     //does not work (but only in OpenWith)
        ::echo <selitems>;  //works
      Real world use case: To register all currently selected files you 
      can now use this DOS command through the Address Bar:
        !!regsvr32 <selitems>

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