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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v7.90.0414, 09-jun-2009).
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v7.90.0414 - 2009-06-09 11:56
    + Splitters: Now you can freely change the global splitter width 
      (applies to all splitters) using Shift+MouseWheel over the 
      Tree-List splitter or the Dual Pane splitter.
      Possible values range from 3 to 6 pixels.
    + Splitters: Another way (for folks w/out a wheel) to achieve the 
      same as above is a new context menu for splitters, again available 
      for the Tree-List splitter and the Dual Pane splitter.
    * New factory default for splitter width is 4 pixels.
    + Scripting got a new command.
      Name:   SaveSettings
      Action: Saves all current settings.
      Syntax: savesettings
      Remark: The command is equivalent to #182 and saves the current 
              *.ini and *.dat files, including the pane data.
    ! Tree: Alt+Click would have the inactive pane "half-focused". 
      Fixed.

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v7.90.0413, 08-jun-2009).
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v7.90.0413 - 2009-06-08 15:53
    + Tree: Alt+Click will open the folder in the inactive pane.
      Shift+Alt+Click will open it in a new tab in the inactive pane.
    + List: Now you can open a folder in a new tab by MiddleClicking it; 
      equivalent to Shift+DblClick.    
    + List: Now in Thumbnails views, when you change the width of the 
      list (and thereby the number of thumbnails per row), the list will 
      attempt to keep the top-left thumbnail fixed in the top row. 
      Before the currently visible thumbnails would have moved out of 
      sight.
    + Now shared drives also show the "shared" icon overlays (in XP a 
      "hand") that are already shown with shared folders (unless you 
      apply the NoSharedFolderOverlays=1 tweak).
    * History: Took back the changes from v7.90.0410 - 2009-06-05 17:28. 
      Too much useful information was lost by discarding the future.
    * Network: New way to retrieve the display name for servers might 
      solve an issue on certains systems.
    ! Rename Special did not set the Name column to "dirty" state (which 
      will trigger a resort instead of a reverse sort on next sort).
    ! Improved auto-refresh of tree.
    ! Statusbar did not refresh correctly on pane swap.

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v7.90.0412, 06-jun-2009).
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v7.90.0412 - 2009-06-06 20:31
    + CKS | Miscellaneous | List: Added command "Go to Other Location". 
      Goes to the inactive pane's location.
    + CKS | Miscellaneous | List: Added command "Copy List Settings from 
      Other Pane". Copies the inactive pane's list settings to the 
      current list, incl. column order, width, and visibility, sort 
      order, list style, date and size formats, and view.
      If necessary thumbnails are created.
      The function also works when the other pane is hidden, which means 
      that you can (ab)use the other pane as a backup store for list 
      settings.
      Of course, this function is only applicable when both lists have 
      the same mode (Browse, Find, Drives, Network).
    ! Fixed various refresh issues conc. the inactive pane.
    ! Fixed a refresh problem in MiniTree when unpackibg an archive 
      created folders.
    ! File Info Tips did not reset as expected. Fixed.
    ! List: The column headers text color was not theme aware. Fixed.
    ! Creating thumbnails would not stop after change of list view since 
      a couple of versions ago. Fixed.
    ! Refreshing the inactive pane applied Visual Filters of the active 
      pane. Fixed.
    ! Toggling generic/specific icons in Configuration | Advanced would 
      not reset special folder icons (My Pictures, etc.) to specific. 
      Fixed.
    ! Mini Tree would not show specific special folder icons (My 
      Pictures, etc.). Fixed.

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v7.90.0410 - 2009-06-05 17:28
    + Menu Panes: Now you can assign KSs to "Move/Copy to Other Pane".
    * Configuration | Startup & Exit: Now, when you opt to "Keep pane 
      data private", your are prompted (after OK-ing the Configuration 
      dialog) "Do you want to copy the current shared data to the 
      private data store now?". This way you can take the current tabs 
      and history along; otherwise, on next restart, you would 
      experience either a fresh start (default tabs, no history) or, if 
      this INI had private data anytime before, you would start with 
      these old data, of course.
    ! History: With "History without duplicates" ON, the strategy when 
      going to a new place while being somewhere in the middle of history 
      (= in the past) was to *somehow* preserve the old future (by 
      shifting blocks of history to new positions) -- the results were 
      not satisfying. Now, the future is simply purged -- the common 
      practice in history management.
    ! Improved auto-refreshing the inactive pane.
    ! Views menu could be out of sync. Fixed.

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v7.90.0408 - 2009-06-04 22:51
    * Menu Panes: Added the basic DP commands, "Move/Copy to Other 
      Pane".
    * Configuration | Dual Pane: Redesigned the section, added another 
      option to Tab key behavior.
    ! TAB key pane swapping and focus cycling. More glitches fixed.
    + SC getinfo got a new named argument "FocusedControl".
      Syntax: getinfo("FocusedControl")
        return:       "A" for AddressBar
                      "T" for Tree
                      "C" for Catalog
                      "L" for List
                      "X" for other
    + SC getinfo got a new named argument "Pane".
      Syntax: getinfo("Pane")
        return:       "1" if the first pane is active
                      "2" if the second pane is active
    + SC focus got new parameters:
      - Focus
        Action: focus one of the main controls
        Syntax: focus [L|A|T|C|P1|P2|PI]
        Examples:
          ::focus       = focus List (active pane)
          ::focus "L"   = focus List (active pane)
          ::focus "T"   = focus Tree
          ::focus "A"   = focus Address Bar
          ::focus "C"   = focus Catalog
          ::focus "P1"  = focus Pane 1 (left/top pane)
          ::focus "P2"  = focus Pane 2 (right/bottom pane)
          ::focus "PI"  = focus Inactive Pane
    ! Internal Refresh was partly broken. Partly fixed. ;)

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v7.90.0407 - 2009-06-04 15:07
    + Now both panes are auto-refreshed. This is probably still a bit 
      buggy but the basic functionality is there.
    * Now the normal TAB key also goes to the inactive pane.
    ! TAB key pane swapping (Commander style)...
      - ... did not work when there was no other focussable element apart 
        from the panes. Fixed.
      - ... did not work as expected when the focus was on a non-pane. 
        Now the active pane is focussed when TABbing from Address Bar, 
        Tree, or Catalog.
      - Short focus flashes on other controls. Fixed.
      - Focus could break out to other controls. Fixed.
    ! Toolbar | Open Command Prompt Here: Failed on special paths 
      (Desktop, etc.). Fixed.

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v7.90.0406 - 2009-06-03 15:30
    + Configuration dialog: Added new section "Dual Pane" and a few 
      options that you might find useful.
    + Configuration | Interface Colors: Added a field to configure the 
      inactive pane background color.
    + Main Menu: Added top menu "Dual Pane", and moved to it all DP 
      commands from menu Window. You know, there's nothing like perfect 
      categorization in this part of the universe, and this way it's 
      utmost easy and noob-friendly.
      Note: You have to reassign your keyboard shortcuts for these 
      commands!
      If you think all this just spoils your menu bar because you never 
      use DP anyway: Soon I will add a way to configure which menus and 
      menu items are shown at all -- back to simplicity...!
    * TitlebarTemplate: Added new field <wow64> which is set to 
      "[WOW64]" in 64-bit systems when WOW64-Redirection is enabled.
    ! DP glitch fixes:
      - Lock Tree was not honoured on pane switch.
      - Mouse wheel did not work on pane 2 if it was the only pane.
      - Wrong startpath when closing on a path that was not contained in 
        a locked tree.
      - Font size changes would not affect the inactive pane.
    ! Fixed a glitch with wrong tab icons and a locked tree.
    ! When maximizing XYplorer by double-clicking the window title bar 
      and a toolbar button landed under the cursor it got pushed. Fixed.

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v7.90.0404 - 2009-06-02 20:04
    ! Multi glitch fix.

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v7.90.0403 - 2009-06-02 15:32
    + DP: Now the second pane can be the only pane. And now, if you turn 
      off DP, the currently active pane will become the only pane (before, 
      always the first pane was auto-activated).
    + Menu Window: Added command "Toggle Active Pane" (Ctrl+Alt+F10). 
      Together with the enhancement described here above, this offers a 
      very nice option even for single paners: You can easily switch back 
      and forth between two completely independent sets of tabs!
    + Toolbar: Added button "Toggle Active Pane". It not only toggles the 
      active pane, but also shows which pane is currently active -- even 
      if only one pane is visible.
    + Additional means to mark the active pane: shading the background 
      of the inactive pane.
      Not yet configurable via UI, but tweakable:
        [General]
        ShadeInactivePane=1
        ClrInactivePane=15266548  (decimal of 0xE8F2F4; 0xBBGGRR)
    ! DP: Fixed a glitch with splitter positioning.
    % Due to faster icon retrieval the Catalog and some other lists 
      paint faster.
    * Network browsing: Experimentally removed server comments polling.

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v7.90.0401 - 2009-05-29 20:08
    ! Portable path syntax "?:\..." did not work anymore since .0400. 
      Fixed.

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v7.90.0400 - 2009-05-29 16:08
  +++ Dual Pane. Find the toggle in menu Window (default KS: F10).
      There's also a new toolbar button with a little context menu where 
      you have some further layout/behavior options that are currently 
      not available elsewhere.
      Things yet to add: Breadcrumbs (also providing a better way to 
      mark the active pane), and a couple of useful DP commands ("Copy 
      from A to B" etc)...
    + Tip: Dbl-click the splitter between the panes to center it.
    * Window Resizing: Now, you can shrink the window to the absolute 
      minimum allowed under Windows. Before, the height was limited so 
      that the Info Panel was always fully visible.
    % Despite adding a second list pane startup faster got faster once 
      more. Did some cleaning and learned a new trick.
    * Splitters: New more-standard cursor when hovering them.
    * Tweak to increase the width of the various splitters. Many apps 
      use 4 pixel wide splitters whereas XYplorer always had only 3 
      pixels...
        [General]
        SplitterWidth=[3-6] (default=3)
    * Catalog: Now the mouse cursor changes to "minus" when you drag-
      move a Catalog item to a new position, and to "plus" when you 
      drag- copy an item (by holding CTRL).
    * Save Settings operation now with hourglass cursor and Statusbar 
      message.
    + Drag'n'Drop now supports the new *.zipx extension.
      See http://www.winzip.com/whatsnew121.htm
    * List | Tags: Now in non-Details views always the "Name column" tag 
      coloring style is applied (unless user opted for "No Coloring". 
      Before, you could see your tags in "List" view only if you 
      selected the "Whole Row" style.
    * History: From now on, if "Don't save history" is ticked then also 
      the Mini Tree is not saved. On next startup, the Mini Tree 
      defaults to the Favorite MiniTree (if there is any defined).
    * Catalog: Now, the setting for "Use generic icons for superfast 
      browsing" (Configuration | Advanced) also applies to the Catalog 
      icons.
    ! Thumbnails from PSD files were not retrieved reliably. Fixed.
    ! Tabs: Captions with just a drive (e.g. C:\) would not be displayed 
      when the tab header was below a certain width. This was due to some 
      weird smartness (aka bug) of the used drawing API. Fixed.
    ! Info Panel: With a bit of luck you could use the drop-down lists 
      even when the panel was closed. Fixed.
    ! List: Serial Rename did not work when only List controls are 
      visible. Fixed.
    - Removed this tweak (from v7.90.0255 - 2009-05-08 08:50):
        [Settings]
        NSE101=1
      Reason: Didn't bring any improvement.
    - Removed this tweak:
        [Settings]
        NoFindOnStartup=1
      Now search on startup will not happen by default. But contrary to 
      the earlier way, now you don't lose your find settings but can 
      start the last search with a single click (also: Dbl-click 
      anywhere the message field, or press F3 (Find Now)).

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v7.90.0302, 16-may-2009).
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v7.90.0302 - 2009-05-16 17:54
    + SC getinfo got a new named argument "sort".
      Syntax: getinfo("sort")
        return:       Sorted column name and order.
      Example:
        echo getinfo("sort");
        Sample returns:
        -> "Name,a"     //Name, ascending
        -> "Name,d"     //Name, descending
        -> "Modified,d" //Modified, descending
        -> "Random"     //Random Order
        -> "Unsorted"   //Unsorted
      Using getinfo("sort") you can easily build a sort order toggle, 
      for example:
        // toggle sortorder between "Name,a" and "Modified,d"
          if (getinfo("sort") == "Name,a") {
            sortby "Modified", "d";
          } else {
            sortby "Name", "a";
          }
    + Tweak: Now you can browse the network with the broadest possible 
      "catch them all" mask.
        [Settings]
        ShowAllServers=1
    + Menu File | Settings: Made an attempt to register all changes in 
      data that are not yet saved to disk. In the menu you now see an 
      asterisk (*) prefixed to all dirty configurations.
      Note that my registering is not yet complete, especially with 
      regard to the INI file, where are millions of places where data 
      can be changed...
    + Toolbar | Save Settings: Now the button icon is green as long as 
      there is no registered change. It turns brown once there are 
      changes that need to be saved if you want to keep them across 
      sessions. The button's tooltip shows the number of registered 
      changes.
    * List: When inline-renaming PDFs or DOCs any preview is now closed 
      even before the rename box is shown (not just before the actual 
      rename). This is an attempt to fix issues with locked documents.
    ! Tabs: When cloning the "Search Results" tab (or any finding tab), 
      the cloned tab would not have the "Find" icon. Fixed.
    ! Tabs: Under certain circumstances, when selecting a finding tab 
      other than the "Search Results" tab, the "Search Results" would be 
      selected or even auto-created if not existing. Fixed.

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v7.90.0301, 15-may-2009).
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v7.90.0301 - 2009-05-15 14:42
    + Scripting got a new command.
      Name:   CopyItem
      Action: Creates a copy of a file or folder (with all contents). 
      Syntax: copyitem [item], [copy]
        item: [optional] full path/name of the item to copy
              if missing defaults to current item
              can be relative to current path
        copy: [optional] full path/name of the copy to create
              if missing defaults to current item plus an automatic 
              number suffix
              can be relative to current path
              can contain * to stand for the base of item
              can contain ? to stand for the extension of item
      Examples:
        // if the current item is "blah.txt" then this will create 
        // "blah-01.txt" in the current folder:
        copyitem;
        // duplicates blah.txt as blub.txt in another location:
        copyitem "C:\Temp\blah.txt", "D:\blub.txt";
        // will create folder new\ if necessary:
        copyitem "C:\Temp\blah.txt", "D:\new\blub.txt";
        // duplicates blah.txt in the current path as blah-copy.txt:
        copyitem "C:\Temp\blah.txt", "*-copy.?";
        // backup XY data folder to [e.g.] ..appdata_backup_20090515:
        copyitem "<xydata>", "<xydata>_backup_<date yyyymmdd>";
        // duplicates folder "C:\Temp" with all its contents as 
        // "C:\Temp-01":
        copyitem "C:\Temp";
      Remarks:
      - The command uses the shell copy engine for the job. Hence you 
        get the usual prompts about overwriting and no support for 
        overlong filenames.
      - Any non-existing folders in the target are silently created 
        without asking you politely for your approval.
      - Note the difference to the command "CopyTo": In CopyTo the 
        "location" argument is the destination where the source is 
        copied to. In CopyItem the "copy" argument is the name of the 
        copy itself.
      - You cannot pass a drive, server, or share, as argument.
      - Trailing slashes for folders are optional.
      - The "copyitem" command partly overlaps functionally with the 
        "new" command when you pass a source argument to the latter. 
        However, "copyitem" is straighter to use for the job and has 
        additional powers (e.g. using wildcards * and ?). Also, "new" 
        will never overwrite an existing file or folder whereas 
        "copyitem" will (unless you omit the "copy" argument).
    + New variable: <xypane> = XYplorer active pane data path 
      (unslashed).      
    + Configuration | Startup & Exit: Added option "Keep pane data 
      private". Check it if you don't want share history and tab data 
      with other configurations. Changing this option will have an 
      effect only after a restart.
    * Configuration | Startup & Exit: Renamed "Cache network servers 
      between sessions" to "Cache network servers" to gain a little space.
    ! When migrating INI files other than XYplorer.ini to the new data 
      layout (Panes folder), shared pane data were overwritten by data of 
      those INI files. Fixed. Now those INIs by default keep their pane 
      data (history and tabs) private. You can change this setting in 
      configuration to make them share the data with XYplorer.ini.
    ! Rename Special: Folders with dots in the name were incorrectly 
      treated as having extensions. Fixed.

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v7.90.0300, 14-may-2009).
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!!! Radical changes in this BETA !!! Backup your current XYplorer folder with all contents before running it !!!

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v7.90.0300 - 2009-05-14 14:45
  *** DP Phase 2. Radical reorganization of configuration data.
      !!! Backup your current XYplorer folder with all contents !!!
      New data layout:
      - <xydata>\         = shared data (between the panes)
          XYplorer.ini        = main configuration data
          catalog.dat         = various binary data files
          fvs.dat
          ks.dat
          lastini.dat
          servers.dat
          tag.dat
          udc.dat
        - FindTemplates\    = shared data
            *.ini             = search templates
        - NewItems\         = shared data
            (files, folders)  = new items
        - Scripts\          = shared data
            *.xys             = script files
        - Panes\1, 2        = panewise settings
            pane.ini          = history data, tabs data
            tab_[#].dat       = tabwise find settings
      
    + Now you can rename the special "Search Results" tab using the 
      normal Rename... interface for tabs.
    + Tweak: Added the possibility to add more file types to drop stuff 
      on. The format of the values is "dot- [extension-dot-]extension-
      dot". So it could look like this, for example:
        [Settings]
        DropTargetCustomExtensions=.dro.drp.drq.
    ! Command Line: Using ? for relative drive letter in /ini= switch 
      had stopped working. Fixed.

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v7.90.0265 - 2009-05-13 15:48
    + Added INI Tweak to customize the title of the "Search results" 
      tab.
        [General]
        TermSearchResults=Search results
      Now you can make it shorter and/or adapt it to your language.
    ! Fixed some glitches with the new layout.

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