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XYplorer Beta Club
v6.30.0052 - 2007-10-04 18:49
! Tabs hover effect needed a little refinement. Given.
+ Added some backward compatibility code for recent changes of
default settings. Now old users won't suffer a feature shock.
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v6.30.0051 - 2007-10-04 14:51
+ Configuration | Previewed Formats: added option "Automatically
show non-previewed file types in ASCII/Hex mode (Raw View)". The
checked state has been the hard-coded default behavior since years.
Now you can choose.
% Raw View: the raw view text area heavily flickered on resizing the
panel. I wanted to fix this since about 7 years and finally found
the time to do it.
* Preview tab: status message now with icon.
* Preview tab: empty files are now immediately rejected as empty.
* The Tabs now have the ux theme hover effect.
The same effect is now also applied to drag-hovering the tabs.
Before (and still when not using Windows Themes) this was marked
by coloring the hovered caption blue.
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v6.30.0044 - 2007-10-03 14:58
+ Now you can tweak whether servers (computers) are checked for
existence before browsing to a network location. The default is YES,
check them. But 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.
In the INI you'll find a new key:
[Settings]
iAssumeServersExist=0
Set it to 1 to skip the checking.
+ Configuration Advanced: added option "Find Files commands in List
context menu". Check to have the Find Files section from menu Edit
in the List's context menu.
! Drag'n'drop moving a folder between tree locations on different
drives could lead to a crash under certain conditions. Fixed.
! Thumbnails: black thumbnails could emerge after inserting new
images into a cached thumbnails listing. Fixed #2.
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v6.30.0039 - 2007-10-02 12:59
+ Configuration Advanced: added option "Navigation commands in List
context menu". Check to have the items Up, Back, and Forward in the
List's context menu.
* Slightly redesigned the new ux style tabs. Looking cleaner now.
! Thumbnails: black thumbnails could emerge after inserting new
images into a cached thumbnails listing. Fixed.
! Menu View | Caches | Refresh Thumbs Cache: did not always do what
it says it would do. Fixed.
! List: fixed various display glitches related to the new ux theme
support.
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v6.30.0036 - 2007-10-01 10:44
*** Ux theme visual styles are now applied to the tabs. If you don't
like the new look you can return to the "XYplorer Classic" look by
setting the new option "Visual Style" in Configuration | Tabs.
Note that the new style is applied to the main browsing tabs
only -- it doesn't look good at the Info Panel and other tabs.
Of course, the Windows Themes style is only available in XP and
higher and only when you run the OS in themed mode (not in
"Classic Design" mode).
If you choose the Windows Themes style, you cannot configure the
background colors of the tab headers. Later, I will add an even
better third visual style, which will be totally independent from
the Windows version/mode and have fully configurable colors.
+ Now you can drag-drop item onto *.BAT and *.CMD files. Of course,
this works also with Catalog items as drop targets.
+ Tip of the day: added option to have it "Always on top".
Unfortunately it does not work well together with modal dialogs
like Configuration: it's not selectable or movable when a modal
window is opened.
* Fonts: Interface Font is now only used for the main window
interface, so from now on these windows use the Dialog Font:
- Configuration
- Customize Keyboard Shortcuts
- Customize Toolbar
- Tip of the day
! Preview of Office files: you could not switch directly from Raw
View to Preview because the file was locked by the Raw View. Fixed.
! A sticky MouseDownBlowUp would stay visible on tab change. Fixed.
! Browse for Network Server: did not work as expected when selecting
the top node (My Network Places). Fixed.
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v6.30.0034 - 2007-09-29 14:55
*** Ux theme borders are now applied to the biggies: Tree, List, and
Catalog.
At least by default. If you don't like it you can turn it off.
There's a new option in Configuration | Interface Colors called
"Beveled border". Check it to return to the classic 3D-bevel
effect.
! An empty list could not be scrolled horizontally. Fixed.
! Rename Special: extensions of folders were treated like extensions
of files (i.e. they were preserved). Fixed: folders do not have
extensions, of course.
* List: Now, when CTRL is held, the focus is set *immediately* to
the clicked item on MouseDown. As before, on releasing the mouse
button (MouseUp), the selection state is toggled.
Note that this works also if the List itself receives the focus
through this click.
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v6.30.0033 - 2007-09-26 20:05
! Little display glitches due to recent changes. Fixed.
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v6.30.0032 - 2007-09-26 15:00
+ Configuration | Colors | Color Filters: added color coding by file
attribute FILE_ATTRIBUTE_REPARSE_POINT (= NTFS junction).
Use this pattern:
/junction (or /j)
matches all items with FILE_ATTRIBUTE_REPARSE_POINT set
+ Added "junction" to the attributes on the Properties tab and on
the Attributes tab (Find Files), and to the Attributes column (as
"J") in the list.
! Calculate Folder Sizes: did follow NTFS junctions, which it should
not. Fixed.
! Using "." (dot; note that on some system the dot must be quoted
else Windows does not pass it on) as command line start path to
open the app (resp. a new tab) at the current directory did not
work as expected. Fixed.
! List Management: crashed when Editor Font was not existing. Fixed.
+ Toolbar: added buttons for "Show Hidden Items" and "Show System
Items".
% Lots of display code rewritten. GUI rendering should be even
smoother now.
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v6.30.0028 - 2007-09-24 14:06
+ Menu Tools | List Management: added "Highlighted Folders..." and
"Boxed Branches...". Up to now there was no way to manage these
lists so you'll likely find some orphaned entries in them.
You now can edit the color values directly in the List Management
interface - it is a little hardcore since you have to know Hex
color coding (as in HTML: RRGGBB). Some day I might add a more
luxury interface.
NOTE: 000000 means "default color" (and NOT color "black"). So you
cannot use black as a highlight color.
While doing this I also rewrote the storage format for these two
lists. I took care for backward compatibility, so everything
should look and work as before. Nice side-effect: more speed, less
memory. But you'll will not note any difference -- it's just a
couple of micro-seconds and a handful of bytes.
! Floppy drive type was displayed as "FloInch Floppy Drive" in list
view. Also other drives' type labels did not match exactly what
Explorer would show. Fixed: now you even get the drive types in
the local system language.
! Opening a command line start path in a new tab did not work
anymore if an instance of XYplorer was already running. Fixed.
! The Configuration dialog's new GUI did not work in 120 DPI. Fixed.
! Tree and List: Didn't set the new focus correctly when leaving
rename mode by clicking another item. Fixed.
+ Tip of the Day: added Random button.
* Tip of the Day: If shown on startup then only if startup is not
minimized.
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v6.30.0021 - 2007-09-20 08:21
! Backup file operation: did not preserve Created and Accessed dates
for files. Fixed.
! Tip of the Day: If shown on startup the tip window was still
modal. Fixed.
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v6.30.0020 - 2007-09-19 12:17
*** Ux theme borders are now applied to all list controls. Still
missing are the biggies: Tree, List, and Catalog.
*** The Backup file operation now preserves all three dates (modified,
created, accessed) in copied files and folders.
+ Search Templates: added option "Load excluded folders". Check to
overwrite the current excluded folders listing by the one stored in
the template. The default is unchecked because it is assumed that
the excluded folders are usually a global affair.
Nice side effect: you can now (ab)use Search Templates to store
and load new sets of excluded folders (without actually doing a
search).
* Search Templates: changed the "Search stored location" option group
(aka "radio buttons") into one checkbox named "Load search
location" to keep some style consistency.
* List: vertically re-shrinked the column headers by 1 pixel. See
v6.30.0002 - 2007-09-06 12:16, where I had added 1 pixel.
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v6.30.0019 - 2007-09-18 13:05
+ In a near idiotic effort I finally managed what I wanted to do
since a long time: paint my custom control borders the way it's done
since Windows XP -- flat and blue (depending on your color theme).
You can see my results in 2 lists where I turned the new look on as
an example: the Configuration navigation list, and the first list on
Configuration | Previewed Formats.
Note: You won't see anything if you use "classic design" or an OS < XP.
Two questions:
- Does it work?
- Is it good?
! Window did not restore to maximized after closed minimized. Fixed.
! Find Files: Excluded Folders where not remembered -- neither tab-
wise, nor with Search Templates. Fixed.
! TitlebarTemplate: did lose leading and trailing spaces between
sessions. Fixed.
* TitlebarTemplate: now it is allowed to being and/or end the
template with <app>, without attaching an additional space.
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v6.30.0018 - 2007-09-17 14:12
+ Menu Edit | New Items: Now, date variables are supported.
For example:
1. Create a file named "Log {yyyy-mm-dd}.txt" in the
NewItems folder in app path.
2. Go to some other folder.
3. Open menu Edit | New Items and select the new item (which has
been auto-added here magically)
4. A file called "Log 2007-09-17.txt" will be created!
(If today is 2007-09-17.)
+ Configuration | General: added option "Show tips on startup" to
this interface as well.
+ Tip of the Day: some additional keyboard tricks. Overview:
PageDown: next tip.
PageUp: previous tip.
Home: first tip.
End: last tip.
R: random tip.
+ Configuration | Report: Now displays the current memory usage at
the bottom. To update the value close and re-open Configuration.
The values are identical to those shown in Task Manager.
+ Configuration | Interface Colors: now you can control "Highlight
focused item" also from here.
* TitlebarTemplate: in concordance with usage elsewhere in XY, I changed the brackets:
Old: {path} - {app} @ {ini} - {ver}
New: <path> - <app> @ <ini> - <ver>
Forgot to mention what they mean:
<path> current path
<app> application's exe name
<ini> current INI file
<ver> exe version
! RegExp Rename: RegExp inline comments containing the character ">"
would not work. Fixed.
! RegExp Rename: The preview button would disappear after a RegExp
error message. Fixed.
! Optimize Tree: did not refresh the tree display reliably. Fixed.
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v6.30.0012 - 2007-09-15 12:00
*** Configuration: Redesigned the interface. Instead of tabs (that
typically run into out-of-space problems) the category selection now
is done via a (scrollable, if longer) list.
Tip: You can nonstop-cycle the list by up/down arrows.
As you see, I'm still not done/happy with creating some icons.
And, more importantly, the mountain of configuration options has
still to be reorganized into subchapters. Which, sadly, will make
rewriting of some parts of the documenation necessary.
I also plan to add a "find-the-setting"-tool in form of a find-as-
you-type technology.
* Configuration | Preview: renamed "Audio preview with panel down"
to "Play with panel down" (just to save space).
+ Configuration | Tabs: The delay before a dragged over tab is
automatically selected is now configurable. You find this new option
on the new Tabs tab. It is called: "Delay before a dragged over
tab is auto-selected (in milliseconds)"
Allowed values are from 0 to 9999.
*** NOTE ***: I did not write backward-compatibility code, so this
Value will be initialized to 0 (zero) on a non-fresh installation.
If you want to have it as it was before then go to Configuration |
Tabs and set the value to 1000 (= 1 second)!
+ The main window's titlebar now displays the app version.
The form is: {path} - {app} @ {ini} - {ver}
But read on...
+ ... now you can tweak what's displayed in the titlebar.
In the INI you'll find a new key:
[General]
TitlebarTemplate=...
A full-blown example (and the new default!) would be:
TitlebarTemplate={path} - {app} @ {ini} - {ver}
There are two rules:
- The presence of the field {app} is obligatory, AND it must
be surrounded by spaces. This is necessary to correctly
identify previous instances of the app with a good chance.
- This feature is only available in a licensed copy.
Else the default is used and "### 30-day Trial Version ###"
is inserted into {ver}.
+ From now on, fresh installations will come with some Default Color
Filters. Works as a visual appetizer and as a practical example for
how to do it. These are the pre-installed filters:
[ColorFilter]
Count=9
1=+/s>FF0000
2=+/d>5E738C
3=+*.png;*.jpg;*.gif>933968
4=+*.exe;*.bat>D24257
5=+*.htm*;*.mht;*.php>4287D2
6=+*.txt;*.ini>38A050
7=+*.zip;*.rar>CC6600
8=+*.dll;*.ocx>7800F0
9=+*.mp3>FF8000
They do not come activated though. I'm still unsure whether that
might be a shock for newbies... ;)
+ Highlight Focused Row now happens not only in Details view but in
all other views as well. It actually should be called "Highlight
Focused Item" because it's not only rows anymore. So:
Renamed: "Highlight Focused Row" to "Highlight Focused Item"
I recommend using this Highlighting because it tells you which item
is focused even if the List is not the focused control (and hence
has no focus rect).
+ Added "Fully Collapse Drive" (Ctrl+Numpad Divide) to the Tree
folders' context menu, inside the new submenu "Expansion".
Also moved "Fully Expand" to the top position.
! The tip for file Info did not appear if one of the 9 first fields
(from "Name" to "Owner") was not checked. Fixed.
+ Enhanced compatibility with Kontrast#1 (etc.) color schemes for
visually impaired.
* Subtle changes in focus rect coloring...
! Leading and trailing spaces were lost between sessions in Search &
Replace (and a lot of other lists) because they were not passed
quoted to INI file. Fixed.
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v6.30.0009 - 2007-09-13 11:59
+ Dbl-click on empty space goes up (or down when holding Shift) one
level: now implemented for the tree's empty space, too.
+ CKS: added new command to "Miscellaneous":
- Optimize Tree
Only expand the current path, collapse all other paths.
Default KS: Shift+Numpad Divide
+ Added "Optimize Tree" to the Tree folders' context menu, inside a
new submenu "Expansion".
+ Now holding Shift while selecting a menu item will open a location
in a new tab in Breadcrumb, Hotlist, Drives, Favorite Folders, and
Favorite Files menus.
+ Configuration | File Info Tips: added yet another (super-)field to
the bottom of the list: "Version Information". Shows the following
six fields (if they exist) from the so-called "String Version Info",
for example for XYplorer.exe:
FileDescription: XYplorer
CompanyName: www.xyplorer.com
FileVersion: 6.30.0008
OriginalFilename: XYplorer.exe
LegalCopyright: Copyright © 2000-07 by Donald Lessau
Comments: A portable multi-tabbed file manager... (etc.)
* Hot scrolling (auto-scrolling when drag-hovering the upper or
lower margins of a long list) now happens only when over the left
third of the list. Before, it was the left half, but that was
still too hot for me.
! Raw View: Incorrect line parsing with ASCII-Mac/DOS files. Fixed.
* Rename Special: now, the default button is the "OK" button and it
is triggered by Enter, as expected. To open the Rename Preview press
Ctrl+Enter (Think: "Control"). In the Rename Preview, pressing
Ctrl+Enter will bring you back to the edit pattern interface. In
other words: while you hold Ctrl, no actual rename will happen via
keyboard, but you jump back and forth between preview and edit
interface.
* Catalog's Context Menu|Import as New Category Here|Current List:
now this item is auto-renamed to "Selected List Item(s)" if there
are any selections. Only if there are no items selected the whole
list is imported and the item is aptly called "Current List".