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v6.80.0117 - 2008-03-30 17:14
* Updated the help file.
+ Scripting command enhanced:
- addstr
Now it can take up to 10 arguments:
::addstr $x, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11
Sets $x to "12345678910". The 11th argument is discarded.
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v6.80.0116 - 2008-03-29 09:41
! Configuration dialog did not keep position on DPI settings other
than 96. Fixed.
! Variable <focitem> returned paths with a backslash while it should
not. Fixed.
! Toolbar button Nuke: Could not nuke files that were locked due to
being previewed or raw viewed. Fixed. Any preview is closed now
before nuke is executed.
Remark: Take care with "Nuke"! While it currently does not erase
data beyond restorability, you will need specialized software to
restore a nuked file. In a planned future version of Nuke, not
even this will help...
! Reposition of tree in some cases didn't always give desired
results. Fixed.
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v6.80.0115 - 2008-03-28 10:39
! Find Files tab | Name field: Fixed some issues with alignment and
auto-completion when using the > or : prefix in patterns.
! Changing sort order when list is empty did not work anymore.
Fixed.
! INI tweak
[Settings]
PopupFullFavMenu=1
did not work as expected. (If PopupFullFavMenu=1 then the full
Favorites menu is popped up on a right-click in the tree's white
space.) Fixed.
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v6.80.0114 - 2008-03-17 12:29
+ Scripting got new commands:
- StrLen
Action: Returns the length of a string.
Syntax: StrLen OutputVar, String
Examples:
::strlen $a, "abcdef"; // 6
::strlen $a, <curitem>; // length of current item
- StrPos
Action: Returns position of first occurrence of a string.
Syntax: StrPos OutputVar, Haystack, Needle, [Start],
[MatchCase]
- OutputVar: Required, anything goes, case matters.
- Haystack: String to search in.
- Needle: String to search for.
- Start: [optional; defaults to 0] Allows you to specify
which position in haystack to start searching. The position
returned is still relative to the beginning of haystack.
- MatchCase: [optional; defaults to 0] Compare method.
0: A=a
1: A<>a
Examples:
::strpos $a, "abcabc", "a"; // returns 0
::strpos $a, "abcabc", "d"; // returns -1 (not found)
::strpos $a, "abcAbc", "A"; // returns 0
::strpos $a, "abcAbc", "A", , 1; // returns 3
::strpos $a, "abcAbc", "a", 1; // returns 3
::strpos $a, "abcAbc", "a", 10; // returns -1 (not found)
::strpos $a, "abcAbc", ""; // returns -1 (not found)
::strpos $a, "", "a"; // returns -1 (not found)
::strpos $a, "", ""; // returns -1 (not found)
- Incr
Action: Increment a numerical value.
Syntax: Incr OutputVar, [Value], [Increment=1]
- OutputVar: Required, anything goes, case matters.
- Value: Value defaults to OutputVar(!); can be negative.
- Increment: Defaults to 1; can be negative.
Examples:
::incr $a; // returns $a + 1
::set $a, 5; incr $a; // returns 6 (5 + 1)
::incr $a, 1; // returns 2 (1 + 1)
::incr $a, 1, 2; // returns 3 (1 + 2)
::incr $a, -1, 2; // returns 1 (-1 + 2)
::incr $a, 1, -2; // returns -1 (1 - 2)
::incr $a, -1, -2; // returns -3 (-1 - 2)
::incr $a, "Paul"; // returns 1 (0 + 1)
::incr $a, "3Paul"; // returns 4 (3 + 1)
* Scripting: Renamed "Add" renamed to "AddStr". Reason: "Add"
implies a numerical operation.
* Scripting: Renamed "Mid" to "SubStr". Also changed its syntax as
to match SubStr in PHP. So forget yesterday's "Mid", here's
"SubStr":
- SubStr
Action: returns part of a string
Syntax: SubStr OutputVar, String, [Start], [Length]
- OutputVar: Required, anything goes, case matters.
- String: Input string.
- Start: Start of returned part; defaults to 0, first
position is 0. If Start is negative, the returned string will
start at the start'th character from the end of string.
- Length: Length of returned part (number of characters).
If missing then the whole string is returned (beginning from
Start). If Length is negative, then that many characters
will be omitted from the end of string (after the start
position has been calculated when Start is negative). If
Start denotes a position beyond this truncation, an empty
string will be returned.
Examples:
::substr $a, "abcdef", 1; // returns "bcdef"
::substr $a, "abcdef", 1, 1; // returns "b"
::substr $a, "abcdef", -1); // returns "f"
::substr $a, "abcdef", -2); // returns "ef"
::substr $a, "abcdef", -3, 1); // returns "d"
::substr $a, "abcdef", 0, -1); // returns "abcde"
::substr $a, "abcdef", 2, -1); // returns "cde"
::substr $a, "abcdef", 4, -4); // returns ""
::substr $a, "abcdef", -3, -1); // returns "de"
+ New variable: <focitem> = currently focused item in tree or list.
Useful in scripting; for example, this works in tree or list
depending on focus:
::copytext <focitem>
Note that, contrary to <curitem>, <focitem> will also return the
focused item if it is not selected.
* Scripting | RegExReplace: Now caret (^) & dollar ($) match the
beginning & end of every line, before they'd only match the very
start and very end of the entire string.
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v6.80.0112 - 2008-03-16 11:37
+ Scripting got new commands:
- Add
Action: concatenates two or three strings
Syntax: Add OutputVar, [String1], [String2], [String3]
- OutputVar: required, anything goes, case matters
- String1/2/3: the strings
Examples:
::add $x, "a", "b" = ab
::add $x, "a", "b", "c" = abc
- Mid
Action: returns a part of a string
Syntax: Mid OutputVar, String, [Start], [Length]
- OutputVar: required, anything goes, case matters
- String: first string
- Start: start of returned part (defaults to 1)
- Length: length of returned part
Examples:
::mid $a, "Maxi", 3 = xi
::mid $a, "Maxi", 3, 0 = x
::mid $a, "Maxi", 3, 1 = x
::mid $a, "Maxi", 3, 2 = xi
::mid $a, "Maxi", 3, 3 = xi
::mid $a, "Maxi", , 2 = Ma
- Replace
Action: replaces parts of a string
Syntax: Replace OutputVar, String, Search, Replacement,
MatchCase
- OutputVar: required, anything goes, case matters
- String: string to work on (haystack)
- Search: string to be replaced (needle)
- Replacement: string to replace with
- MatchCase: compare method
0: A=a
1: A<>a
Examples:
::Replace $a, "Maxi", "max", "Min" = Mini
::Replace $a, "Maxi", "max", "Min", 1 = Maxi
- RegExReplace
Action: replaces parts of a string using a regular expression
pattern
Syntax: RegExReplace OutputVar, String, RegExPattern,
Replacement, MatchCase
- OutputVar: required, anything goes, case matters
- String: string to work on (haystack)
- RegExPattern: string to be replaced (needle)
- Replacement: string to replace with; may include
backreferences like $1
- MatchCase: compare method
0: A=a
1: A<>a
Examples:
::RegExReplace $a, "Image[1].png",
"(?#Remove common IE suffix)^(.+)\[[0-9]+\](\..+)$",
"$1$2"
(= Image.png)
::RegExReplace $a, "bob", "b$", "p"
(= bop)
- Status
Action: shows text in statusbar
Syntax: Status Text
Examples:
::Status Done!
::Status It's <dhh:nn:ss>.
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v6.80.0111 - 2008-03-15 11:35
+ Menu Help: Added command to open the help file at section
Scripting Commands Reference.
* Menu File | Settings: the Save... commands now feedback via
statusbar, not via message box anymore.
* Time-stamping, aka "Touch": From now on, the milliseconds (yes,
NTFS supports milliseconds in file times) will be set to 0 (zero)
when you touch a file date. Before they were ignored, resp. set to
some uncontrolled random value.
Tip 1: Use the undocumented scripting command "msecs" to toggle
showing milliseconds in the file list! :)
Tip 2: Use the undocumented scripting command "touch" to set all
three file dates of all currently selected items to now (setting
the milliseconds to zero! :)
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v6.80.0110 - 2008-03-14 13:42
+ Added scripting to the help file. This was harder for me than
coding scripting, and I'm ultra-ready for holiday now.
A big thanks to jacky, the wicked wiki master -- the XYwiki helped
a lot in organizing the stuff and even providing some copy+paste
text snippets!
* Variables: <srctitle> is deprecated (but still supported). Use
<srcname> instead.
! Network: The logon dialog would not pop for mapped drives. Fixed.
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v6.80.0108 - 2008-03-12 11:38
+ Secondary Sorting: Now it's remembered between sessions and in tabs.
Note that it was not possible to write backward compatibility code
for all possible situations, so some of your saved tabs might be
sorted differently than they were before when you open them the
first time.
+ Info Panel | Find Files: the "..." (Browse) button's context menu
got two more entries. Just like that.
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v6.80.0107 - 2008-03-11 13:13
+++ List: Added secondary sorting. Simply hold Shift while you click
on another column header to secondary-sort by this column. Of course,
secondary sorting makes only sense where the primary sorting results
in groups. This typically is the case with the following columns:
Ext, Type, and Attr; less so with Size and Dates.
The column that's sorted secondarily is marked by a smaller
sorting icon.
Currently not remembered between sessions. Will add tomorrow.
! Scripting: Issue with loading script files from other script
files using relative path syntax when one of the script files
happened to be located in the Current Directory (OS global).
Fixed.
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v6.80.0105 - 2008-03-10 18:01
- Configuration | Interface Colors: Removed option "Info Panel in
classic style" -- probably the shortlived interface element in
history so far.
Now the (new) classic style is back to be the only one!
+ Configuration | Tabs: Added option "Yellow highlight marks
selected tab in classic style". Check it to have a thin yellow
stripe on top of the selected tab. This setting controls the tabs
on the Info Panel, and the main browsing tabs if they are in
classic style. The latter had been hard-coded before to: yes, show
the yellow stripe.
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v6.80.0104 - 2008-03-10 15:17
* Info Panel got a new look, #2. Now the selected tabs are bold, and
some other things have been improved as well.
+ Configuration | Interface Colors: Added option "Info Panel in
classic style". If you set it to "Classic" then the Info Panel will
like pretty much as it did the day before yesterday. But with
selected tabs bold and without yellow ribbon on top.
* Info Panel | Find Files: Changed two captions:
- "Contents", was "Contained Text"
- "Excluded", was "Excluded Folders"
Accordingly the filter "Text" was renamed to "Cont.".
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v6.80.0103 - 2008-03-09 15:00
*** Info Panel got a new look. Gone are the last remnants of Win95
look and feel... :)
+ Configuration | Startup & Exit | "Permanent startup path": Now
accepts portable syntax. E.g. "?:\" to start XY always in the root
of its installation drive, or "..\Stuff" to always start in folder
"Stuff" which is a sibling of XY's application folder.
+ Toolbar: Added small context menu to button "Calculate Folder
Sizes".
* Now, if Configuration | Advanced | "Assume that servers
exist" is enabled and you go to a non-available server, the list
will be greyed with the usual "Currently not available..."
message. Before this did only happen with Assume off.
! List: "Move On Rename" did not work when you entered an absolute
path. Fixed.
! List: "Move On Rename" did not reliably work on more complex
relative patterns using ".." syntax. Fixed.
! List: "Move On Rename" did not set Last Target path (for menu Go |
Go to Last Target). Fixed.
! UDC: Couldn't edit multi-line scripts anymore since some days.
Fixed.
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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.