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v6.80.0101 - 2008-03-07 14:33
    ! Little glitch with the script name resolving added earlier today. 
      Fixed.

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v6.80.0100 - 2008-03-07 11:34
    + New variable: <curitem> = currently focused/selected list item, 
      i.e. the one that's displayed in the statusbar. Up to now this 
      variable was only recognized in the Source field of a UDC "New". 
      But there's good use for it in other contexts as well, especially 
      in scripting.
      For example:
        ::load <curitem>
      If a script file is currently selected, this script will load it.
    * Scripting: To improve the interaction between script files I 
      slightly redesigned the logic of resolving the name of a script file 
      to load:
      - If the passed file argument does not contain any extension, the 
        *.xys is assumed immediately (there is no test whether a file 
        without any extension exists).
      - If a script file was called from another ("parent") script file, 
        then the first path to look for the file is the path of the parent 
        script file. If no file is found in that path, then the 
        application data path will be searched.
      The latter is an important imporvement because it enables you to 
      run script files that depend on other script files from any 
      directory! For example, you have a lot of script files and 
      organize them into various folders. In one folder called 
      E:\XY\Scripts\Rename\ you have these four files:
        Rename.xys
        Rename - IE.xys
        Rename - Insert.xys
        Rename - Remove.xys
      Now Rename.xys calls the other files in statements like this:
        load "Rename - Remove";
      This would not have been possible without the new logic added 
      here, because "Rename - Remove.xys" would have been looked for 
      only in xy app data path and, of course, not been found. Now it is 
      found in E:\XY\Scripts\Rename\.
      So, now you can e.g. load script files from some network server 
      and need not to worry about paths.
      Also, when users share script files, you don't have to worry about 
      name collisions anymore because each script file package can run 
      in its own folder.

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v6.80.0099 - 2008-03-06 12:57
    + Scripting command enhanced:
      - load
        Now the first argument (resource) can be set to * in order to 
        refer to *this* resource! Kind of a recursion trigger, and very 
        useful.
        Example (multi-script):
        ----------------------
        "Copy 0"
          copytext "0", a;
          // load this script resource (file or script)
          load *;
        "Copy 1"
          copytext "1", a;
          // load this script resource (file or script)
          load *;
        ----------------------
        Run this script through the Try Script... dialog, or load it 
        as a script file -- it will work just the same. Tip: Use the 
        keyboard to select the menu items else your menu will try to 
        leave the screen towards south-east... ;)
    + Configuration | Advanced: Added option "Assume that servers 
      exist". If enabled then the check for existence is skipped, 
      with two possible effects:
      (1) It might speed up browsing and start up.
      (2) In some rare configurations the checks are not reliable 
          (servers that do exist are not seen), so if YOU know the 
          servers do exist, you don't need the check and can turn it 
          off.
      The factory default is ON (skip the check).
      Note that this setting has already been available as INI tweak 
      since v6.30.0044 - 2007-10-03 14:58.      

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v6.80.0098 - 2008-03-05 12:52
    + List: Now there's "Move On Rename", a cute little time saver that 
      enables you to move & rename files in one go. Simply enter a 
      relative (to the current path of the file!) or absolute path into 
      the inline rename box (F2) and "Move On Rename" will happen. If 
      the new folder (or multi-folder path!) does not exist yet, you 
      will be prompted to create it on the fly. Note that "Move On 
      Rename" does work only for one item at a time.
      For example, select a file in the List and enter this into the 
      rename box:
        - C:\new.png = Move file to C:\ renaming it to new.png.
        - C:\1\2\3\new.png = Move file to C:\1\2\3 renaming it to 
          new.png. If "C:\1\2\3\" does not exist it is created.
        - ..\new.png = Move file one up renaming it to new.png.
        - stuff\new.png = Move file one down to subfolder "stuff" 
          renaming it to new.png. If "stuff" does not exist it is 
          created.
      For logistic reasons this is currently only implemented as an INI 
      tweak. You have to manually enable it by editing the INI file:
        [Settings]
        AllowMoveOnRename=1
    * Menu File | Move/Copy/Backup To: Now the submenu MRU items are 
      prefixed with serial numbers. Also items containing an "&" are 
      displayed correctly now.
    + CKS | Miscellaneous | Tree: Added command "Create New Subfolder 
      Here". Creates new folder under the current Tree folder, and opens 
      rename box in Tree.
      Note: This command is featured in the Tree items' context menu 
      since long. Before, the keyboard shortcut for New Folder (Ctrl+N) 
      was displayed here, but that was not correct because the commands 
      are not the same: "New Folder" opens the rename box in the List, 
      whereas "Create New Subfolder Here" opens it in the tree.
    + Menu User | Run Script: items now have icons.
    + Menu User | Load Script File: items now have icons.
    * Toolbar: Removed the only two special tooltips for pressed state, 
      namely:
      - "Reactivate Auto-Refresh" of button "Suspend Auto-Refresh"
      - "Unlock Tab" of button "Lock Tab"
      It's more consistent like this, and clearer: With toggle-state 
      buttons, the tooltip always describes what happens when the button 
      is pressed, and the opposite happens when it is unpressed.
   *% List: From now on, the "Len" column will only be filled with data 
      when visible. This increases the listing speed for most users (since 
      the Len is not very commonly used) and makes no difference for 
      users that actually use the column.
      The only downside:
      - When you switch the Len column from hidden to visible you have 
        to refresh the list (F5) in order to fill it.
      - You cannot sort by Len while Len is hidden.
    * Menu Edit | New | New Folder: Now, the rename box is opened in 
      Tree when the focus was on Tree when the command was triggered by 
      keyboard. Before, the rename box was always opened in List when the 
      command was triggered by keyboard.

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v6.80.0097 - 2008-03-04 09:39
  +++ Menu Edit | Paste Special: Added "Paste Image Into New [EXT] File" 
      [Ctrl+Shift+Alt+V]. Creates a new image file filled with the image (if 
      any) currently on the clipboard.
      Call it bloat, but me loves this feature and missed it ever since! 
      If you are a visual artist or web hunter it will save you hours of 
      tedious maneuvers.
      The standard image format is PNG. But you can change this to JPG, 
      GIF, BMP or TIF using a new INI Tweak:
        [General]
        ImageFromClipFormat=jpg
      Allowed values are: png (default), jpg, gif, bmp, and tif.
      In the case of JPG you can control the quality by appending a 
      number from 1 (worst) to 100 (best) inclusively, for example:
        ImageFromClipFormat=jpg100
      or:
        ImageFromClipFormat=jpg50
      The default value is 85.
      Note that the GIF quality is very bad (dithered) and practially 
      unusable. The other formats, however, are of high quality.
      This feature requires GDI+.
    * Menu Edit | Paste Special: Renamed "Paste Clipboard Into New 
      Textfile" to "Paste Text Into New File".
    * Statusbar: Now the click duration (time between MouseDown and 
      MouseUp) must be smaller 500 msec to trigger an info pane toggle. 
      This allows you to activate the window by clicking on the statusbar 
      without toggling the info panel.

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v6.80.0093 - 2008-03-03 10:53
    + Toolbar learned to have special images for the pressed state. 
      First applied to the "Step Through Scripts" button: Now, when 
      pressed it turns red.
    + Scripting command enhanced:
      - msg
        Now you can show OK/Cancel buttons and clicking Cancel (pressing 
        ESC) will immediately terminate the script.
        Syntax: msg text, [buttons: 0 = OK | 1 = OK/Cancel]
        Example:
        ::msg "Continue script?", 1; msg "Won't show if you cancelled."
    ! Tree and List: The control would lose its Ux Theme Borders when 
      you dragged an item from it towards another application, under 
      certain circumstances. Fixed.
    ! Keyboard Shortcuts: commands File / To Clipboard / Item Base(s) 
      and File / To Clipboard / Item Short Path/Name(s) were not found. 
      Fixed.

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v6.80.0091 - 2008-03-02 12:12
  +++ Menu Edit | Paste Special: Added "Paste Clipboard Into New 
      Textfile" [Ctrl+Alt+V]. Creates a new textfile filled with the 
      current clipboard contents.
      The pasted text depends on the actual data format on the 
      clipboard; it is identical to what variable <clipboard> would 
      return:
        Clipboard contents    Text
        ------------------    ----
        Text                  The text
        File items            One item per line, CRLF ends a line
        Else (e.g. empty, or images) Nothing
      The new file is called something like "Clipboard- 20080302.txt". 
      The "-20080302" part is the date now (format defined in 
      Configuration | Report | Date suffix). The file is appended to the 
      current file list (aka "lazy sort"), and after creation of the file, 
      rename-mode is invoked.
      As you see, all this is just like the Drop-Text-To-File feature 
      that creates files named "DroppedText...".      
    % Slightly higher speed in browsing and searching. Even after years 
      of optimizing you can still find something that can be improved a 
      bit.
    * Menu View | Show Items | WOW64 Redirection (64-bit only): Now it's 
      remembered between sessions.

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v6.80.0088 - 2008-02-29 11:02
    * Menu Scripting: Renamed "Enter Script..." to "Try Script...".
    - Menu Scripting: Removed item "Enable Extended Scripting", resp. 
      moved it to Configuration as "Quick Scripting" (see next).
    * Configuration | Advanced: Dropped "Enable Scripting" and added 
      "Quick Scripting" which is exactly what was called "Enable 
      Extended Scripting" before.
    + Menu Scripting: Added "Load Script File...". Here you can load a 
      script file (*.xys) from application data path. If it contains 
      exactly one script it will immediately executed, else a menu is 
      popped up.
    - Removed the following because it's now featured menu Scripting:
      - v6.80.0011 - 2008-01-11 10:01
        Scripting: Added new command for easier switching of the 
        stepwise mode: CKS | Miscellaneous | Scripting | Step Through 
        Scripts

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v6.80.0087 - 2008-02-28 11:35
  +++ New top menu "Scripting", with the following commands:
      - Step Through Scripts
        Toggle executing scripts stepwise. Stepping is recommended for 
        debugging scripts.
        Default KS: Ctrl+Alt+S
      - Enable Extended Scripting
        Enable entering scripts through location interfaces (Address 
        Bar, Go To, Catalog, Favorites). Such scripts must be 
        additionally prefixed with a double-colon (::) to distinguish 
        them from normal locations.
        Script items in Catalog show special icons only when Enable 
        Extended Scripting is ON.
      - Enter Script...
        Enter and execute a script directly. The script can be multi-
        line, and you can enter more than one script (in which case a 
        menu will pop up).
        The last entered script is remembered during the current 
        XYplorer session. This memory is shared with the scripting 
        command try.
    * Configuration | Advanced | Enable Scripting: Now,
      if ON then
        - Menu "Scripting" is shown
        - Scripting related controls in CKS and UDC are shown
      if OFF then
        - Scripts are not processed unless you YES a yes/no prompt.
        - Menu "Scripting" is hidden
        - Scripting related controls in CKS and UDC are hidden

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v6.80.0086 - 2008-02-25 14:28
    * As you might know, the toolbar's Manage User-Defined Commands button's 
      right-click menu enables you to directly create a new UDC with the 
      argument field preset to some current context value. How? Simply 
      hold CTRL while clicking one of the menu items! The preset values 
      adjust to the command category, and now the recently added 
      categories have been added here as well:
      - "Go To", "Open", "Open With", "New", "Load Script File"
                        -> current file (if any is selected)
      - "Rename"        -> [empty]
      - "Run Script"    -> [empty]
      - else            -> current path
    * Window activation (i.e. when app in background) by clicking on 
      tabs now happens (a) before any other action is triggered, and (b) 
      also on right-button clicks.
    ! UDC | New: Could not update the Source field. Fixed.

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v6.80.0085 - 2008-02-23 11:08
  +++ The following commands now -- finally! -- support multiple items 
      (before they would work for single items only):
      Menu File:
        Copy Here with Suffix Number
        Copy Here with Suffix Date Now
        Copy Here with Suffix Date Modified
        Copy Here As...
      Drag'n'Drop context menu:
        Move Here with Suffix Number
        Move Here with Suffix Date Now
        Move Here with Suffix Date Modified
        Move Here As...
        Copy Here with Suffix Number
        Copy Here with Suffix Date Now
        Copy Here with Suffix Date Modified
        Copy Here As...
      Remarks:
      - The "...Suffix Date Now/Date Modified" variants will 
        automatically avoid any collisions with existing items by 
        appending suffix numbers if necessary.
      - It's unusual to implement "Move/Copy Here As..." for multiple 
        items but I did it anyway -- who knows who might need it. Note 
        that these commands do NOT auto-avoid collisions so you will be 
        prompted whether to overwrite any existing files.
        The newly generated names are distinguished by suffix numbers in 
        the current order of listing, for example:
        Copy
          china.jpg
          japan.jpg
        Here As "asia" will generate the following copies (assuming your 
        number suffix template is "-00"):
          asia-01.jpg (copy of china.jpg)
          asia-02.jpg (copy of japan.jpg)
        However, if only one file is selected (and this will be the 
        typical case with this command) then no suffix number is 
        appended:
        Copy
          china.jpg
        Here As "asia" will generate the following copy:
          asia.jpg
    * Scripting: The recursion checker now gives you the option to 
      continue. Also, the recursion checker now is reset everytime during 
      script execution when a menu is popped representing a manual choice 
      between an array of scripts.
    ! Could not activate window (i.e. when app in background) by 
      clicking on tabs. Fixed.
    * Toolbar | Visual Filter | Context Menu: Now, the last selected 
      filter is always shifted to position one of the MRU list. Before, it 
      stayed where it was.

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v6.80.0084 - 2008-02-20 11:46
    + New variable: <xyexe> = XYplorer executable name. This useful 
      because you can rename the executable to whatever you want and still 
      run XYplorer without problems.
      For example, this script now will backup the current XYplorer no 
      matter how it is called:
        backupto D:\Archives\XY\<srcver>_<dyyyy-mm-dd>, 
                 <xypath>\<xyexe> 
    * Scripting command "write" now is called "try"! The alternative 
      "push" is dropped.
    + Scripting commands enhanced:
      - Load
        Now you can load a script directly using the new parameter 
        "resource type".
        Syntax: load resource, [label], [resource type]
          resource:     required, scriptfile or script
            scriptfile  can be relative to app path
            script      can be any script conforming to the syntax
                        of script files
          label: optional, will directly run the script of that number 
                 (first script = 1) or label without popping a menu
          resource type:  optional, f = file (default), s = script
        Examples
          ::load "msg A loaded script.;", , s
      - Input
        Now the input field can be multiline.
        Syntax: inputtext [variable name], [caption], [default value], [m]
          m: optional, if set then input is multiline.
        Examples:
          ::input $s, Enter script, "type here...", m; text $s;
          ::input $s, Enter script, "type here...", m; load $s, , s;
        Note that the combination of "input" and "load" is pretty much 
        what "write" does in one go, only that with "input" you have more 
        control over the default, and with "load" you can specify a 
        label, for example:
          ::input $s, Enter several scripts with labels, , m;
            input $label, Enter the label of the script to run now;
            load $s, $label, s;
    * Scripting command changed/dropped:
      - CopyText
        Syntax: copytext text, [a]
          text: text to be copied
          a:    optional; if set text is appended
        Example:
          ::copytext Blah, a
            = append "Blah" to the clipboard
      - CopyTextA
        Dropped.
    ! Tab header was not updated when going home. Fixed.

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v6.80.0083 - 2008-02-18 21:26
    + Menu Edit | Paste Special: Added command "Paste Shortcut(s)". Use 
      it to paste items from clipboard as shortcuts into the current 
      folder. This standard command of Explorer had been missing from 
      XYplorer ever since -- finally it's there!
    ! UDC | Run Script: Would not accept a changed script when entered 
      through the one-liner textbox "Script:". Fixed.
    ! Could not load other configuraton files anymore since v6.80.0081. 
      Fixed.

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v6.80.0081 - 2008-02-18 11:36
    + Scripting got a new command:
      - seltab
        Action: select a tab by position
        Syntax: seltab [position]
        Examples:
          ::seltab 1 = select the first (left-most) tab
          ::seltab   = select the default tab (if any)
          ::seltab + = select the next tab (wraps around)
          ::seltab - = select the previous tab (wraps around)
    + UDC | Run Script: Now you can enter a multi-line script with 
      comments (same style as in script files). Since the standard UDC 
      textbox can only hold one line you have a new "Edit" button now by 
      which you can open a larger textbox for your scripting.
      Even better: You can enter more than one multi-line script! In 
      that case a menu pops up presenting the choices, just like when 
      loading a script file.
      And you can use the "sub" command inside the script resource.
      So in short: UDC | Run Script is now a full alternative to script 
      files.
      Note that you still can do one-liners as before.
    + Scripting command enhanced:
      - write
        Now you can enter more than one script. In that case a menu pops 
        up presenting the choices, just like when loading a script file.
        And you can use the "sub" command inside the script resource.
    * Popping up menus from script resources: Now, if the menu would 
      have only one item, this item will be called directly without 
      presenting the menu first.
      For example, this script resource (paste it into a write-box) has 
      only one visible script, the other two are invisible subs:
        "_Show date : date"
          msg <dyyyy-mm-dd>
        "_Show time : time"
          msg <dhh:nn:ss>
        "Show Date && Time : datetime"
          sub date;
          sub time
      When you run it, you will get the two msg boxes directly.
    * For consistency's sake I added a #ID button to the CKS dialog that 
      functions exactly as the one in the UDC dialog.
    ! Scripting: Command "sel" could lead to a crash depending on the 
      parameters (since yesterday). Fixed.

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v6.80.0080 - 2008-02-17 10:42
    * Scripting: Now, when a sub-script (a script that was called by 
      another script) is terminated by error or user decision then any 
      calling super-scripts are terminated immediately as well.
    + Scripting command enhanced:
      - selfilter
        Added new argument "column".
        Syntax: selfilter filterspec, [type = |f|d], [column]
          type: (none) = all, f=files only, d=dirs only
          column: column name (or part of) to filter by (default is Name)
        Examples:
          ::selfilter *h*, , attr
            = select all hidden items
          ::selfilter *Image*, , type
            = select all items of type "*image*"
          ::selfilter *Image*|*Bild*, , type
            = select all items of type "*image*" or "*bild*"
    * Scripting command "sel".
        The "pattern" argument now has to be put in brackets instead of 
        in quotes! It's easier to do and easier to read.
        Before:
          ::sel """*.txt"""   = select the next *.txt file.
        Now:
          ::sel [*.txt]   = select the next *.txt file.
          ::sel [[*]      = select the next item starting with [
          ::sel [[abc]*]  = select the next item starting with a, b, or c
    ! Scripting:
        ::sel [*.txt*]  selected the next *.txt file.
        ::sel [*.txt]   did not (but should)!
      Fixed.
    ! Resolving <src...> variables in copyto/moveto/backupto did not 
      work. For example:
        ::backupto D:\Archives\XY\<srcver>_<dyyyy-mm-dd>, 
            <xypath>\XYplorer.exe 
      Fixed. Now this backups the current XYplorer.exe to this location: 
        D:\Archives\XY\6.80.0078_2008-02-17\XYplorer.exe
      Note that the <srcver> variable will not yet be resolved at the 
      time of a stepping break.
    * Menu View | Size Column Format | Show Folder Sizes: Now the list's 
      scroll position and any selections are retained when toggling this 
      switch.
    * Iconized Tabs: Now, right-clicking them will always pop the main 
      tab context menu. Before, when you right-clicked the left half of 
      the icon, the breadcrumb menu was popped. This was not practical.