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v6.60.0020 - 2007-11-20 22:16
+ Menu Tools | Customize File Associations: now, environment
variables (e.g. %windir% for the windows directory) are allowed
within the application part of the definition. For example,
txt;htm>%windir%\notepad.exe
would open all TXT and HTM files with Notepad (typically located
in C:\WINDOWS\notepad.exe). Another little portability jewel.
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v6.60.0010 - 2007-11-20 13:00
+ Address Bar, Catalog, Favorites, Go to, UDC-Goto: Now the asterisk
wildcard (*) is allowed within the location term. The location is
automatically resolved to the first (in original file system sort
order) matching file or folder item.
Examples:
C:\* = C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT
C:\Programs\XY* = C:\Programs\XYplorer\
C:\Programs\XYplorer\XY* = C:\Programs\XYplorer\XYplorer.cnt
You can use the wildcard also in the middle of the term and more
than once:
C:\Pr*m*\ = C:\Programs\
C:\Programs\XYplorer\XY*.exe = C:\Programs\XYplorer\XYplorer.exe
C:\Pro*\ACD*\*.exe = C:\Programs\ACDSee32\ACDSee32.exe
But don't stress this little usability gimmick too much. This, for
example, will not work as you might expect it to:
C:\*\ACD*\*.exe != C:\Programs\ACDSee32\ACDSee32.exe
Instead it will resolve to the first match and stop there:
C:\*\ACD*\*.exe = C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT
In other words: wildcards are resolved from left to right, and
since there is no C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT\ACD*, the process halts.
+ UDC | Open With: added two new variables, <item1> and <item2>.
They are set to the first and second item of the currently selected
list items. The following term will open UltraEdit with the first
two of all selected items in the given order.
"UEdit32" <item1> <item2>
Any other selected items are ignored. If you select only one or no
item, the call will very likely fail, of course.
If you expect blanks in the items' names and if the called
application supports quoted arguments, you should put quotes
around the variables:
"UEdit32" "<item1>" "<item2>"
Note: The order of items is determined by the focus and the
current sort order in the following way (which strictly follows
the standards set by Windows Explorer): the focused item is always
the first, the next items are the following items downwards until
the bottom, then the sequence wraps to the top of the selected
items until the cycle is completed. It sounds a bit confusing
but is very simple and logical, as you see in these 3 examples:
Example 1:
- item #1 focused item
- item #2
- item #3
Example 2:
- item #3
- item #1 focused item
- item #2
Example 3:
- item #2
- item #3
- item #1 focused item
! UDC: when deleting a UDC with a KS assigned, the KS was not freed
for later usage. Fixed.
! UDC | Open, Open With: parameters were not passed when no variable
was contained. Fixed.
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v6.60.0000 - 2007-11-19 11:30
= NEW OFFICIAL RELEASE. Main changes since last release:
+++ User-Defined Commands now fully support command line parameters!
Pimp up your single keystroke to sciencefictionesque kill power.
Pack all selected files into a zipped archive with an automatic
name depending on the current date? One keystroke! Print a DOS
style directory listing of the current folder to a file or
printer? One keystroke! Welcome to one-keystroke-paradise.
+++ The Catalog Application Launch Panel now fully supports command
line parameters. Here's one-click heaven for the mousy man!
+++ User-Defined Commands now include all the important mass rename
functions. For example, you can convert an item to another file type
(extension), or clean all selected file names of certain characters,
by a single keystroke/mouse click.
+++ Added an alternative interface to assign custom keyboard shortcuts
to native and user-defined commands in a fast and intuitive way.
+++ Dropping messages from Outlook / Outlook Express is now up to a
hundred (!) times faster than before!
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v6.50.0021 - 2007-11-18 17:55
* Find Files: Now you can search for the character "[" by escaping
it with "\". Before, you had to enclose it in [ and ] (which still
works). E.g., these standard patterns will both match the file
"Info[23].txt":
Info[[]##].txt
Info\[##].txt
Note that escaping "[" is only necessary when "]" is found further
to the end of your search pattern. Why is escaping necessary at
all? Because "[...]" is otherwise interpreted as a list of
characters to be matched. For example, "[abc]*" or "[a-c]*" will
match all items starting with a, b, or c.
- Removed "Shift+Click closes tab" (added v5.80.0001 - 2007-03-08
09:00). Reason: It's non-standard, was never documented outside this
change log, and even is contradictory to other gestures in XY:
Shift+Click actually *opens* a new tab when done on a folder.
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v6.50.0020 - 2007-11-16 12:38
+ UDC dialog: added button "Assign Keyboard Shortcut...". Gives you
direct access to all currently free shortcuts. I kept things as
simple as possible:
- This new KS selection method will replace any existing KS with
the new KS. It will not accumulate multiple KSs.
- To remove any existing KS press OK without any selection in the
Free KS list. Unselect a list item: Ctrl+Click or Ctrl+Space.
- You do not have to press "Apply" to apply the new KS. Saves a
click.
+ UDC dialog: replace the "Info" icon by an Tips button. Reason:
have it keyboard accessible. Also changed the browse button from
"..." to "Browse" to make it reachable by accelerator.
+ Menu Edit | Move/Copy/Backup To: now, environment variables (e.g.
%TMP% for temp path) are allowed within the destination field.
+ UDC: now, environment variables are allowed within the argument
field for Open, Open With, and Move/Copy/Backup To actions.
+ CKS dialog: added button "Free Shortcuts...". You thought you run
out of free shortcuts? Here are some ideas. Scroll and dbl-click for
a fast alternative way to assign a new shortcut to a function.
* CKS dialog: reorganized various interface elements. I removed the
lonesome "Options" menu /that was easily overlooked) and replaced it
by a new "Options..." button which also now contains the
"Remove..." and "Reset..." functions.
Tip: Right-click the "Options..." button to pop the menu on button
down and select any menu command by right-button up.
+ Configuration | Tabs: added two more options to "On dbl-click":
- Go Home
- Go Up
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v6.50.0015 - 2007-11-15 11:42
+ CKS dialog: added 2 further options to the Copy Cheat Sheet menu,
and chose another character represent the TAB char in the menu
captions:
Shortcut » Command
Shortcut » Category / Command
Shortcut » Category / Command » Description » Scope
-
Command » Shortcut(s)
Category / Command » Shortcut(s)
Category / Command » Shortcut(s) » Description » Scope
+ Configuration | Advanced: added option "Click on status bar
toggles info panel". Note that this setting controls both left click
(show/hide panel) and right click (last size/minimize panel) on the
status bar.
Backward compatibility code has been provided.
! Toolbar: some of the button context menus did not work alright
when any of the containing commands had more than one keyboard
shortcut. Fixed.
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v6.50.0014 - 2007-11-14 12:38
! Forgot to adjust CKS mapping to the new List Management menu
order. Done.
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v6.50.0013 - 2007-11-14 10:42
* Menu Tools | List Management: reorganized the menu.
! Menu Tools | List Management: items with environment variables
were displayed without icons. Fixed.
! Menu Help | Find Files Help did not work anymore. Fixed.
! Backup from Catalog did not work as expected when list was in Find
mode. Fixed.
! Find Files Tab: button Reset Filters had a bug that could lead to
auto-checking of the Date Filter. Fixed.
! Drag'n'Drop context menu | Rich Move/Copy Here: did not work when
the search was done over a special folder like "Desktop". Fixed.
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v6.50.0012 - 2007-11-13 11:32
+ UDC dialog: added some usage tips to each of the actions.
* UDC and Catalog: now, items passed to a single instance of the
opening application are only stripped from their full path when
the command line otherwise would be too long (i.e. > 2 KB).
! UDC | Open: opening apps with parameters did not work. Fixed.
! Could crash when OK-ing Category Properties (since one day).
Fixed.
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v6.50.0009 - 2007-11-12 12:48
* UDC dialog: slightly changed order of fields to be more consistent
with catalog item properties.
* UDC dialog: now the "Options" label is set depending on the nature
of the options.
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v6.50.0008 - 2007-11-11 21:34
+ UDC | Open: now supports using short forms for registered apps
(just as Open With does already), e.g. "winzip32", "uedit32".
Find them in the registry in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications.
+ UDC | Open: now supports using parameters (incl. XY variables like
<curpath> etc.). Just as in Open With, the app name must be quoted
so that the parameters/variables are recognized as such.
+ Catalog: "Open" now supports short forms for registered apps,
parameters, and variables. For example a catalog item
"winzip32" -min
will open WinZip in minimized state on any machine that has
WinZip installed.
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v6.50.0007 - 2007-11-11 15:46 - *** Cologne Carnival Edition ***
+ UDC | Rename: added Keep Particular Characters pattern mode.
+ UDC | Rename: added Set Extension pattern mode.
+ Catalog: now, when dragging files over items pointing to
application, the form of cursor will tell you whether a single or
multiple instances of the app will be opened.
Further, holding CTRL will invert this property for this drop job.
* Menu Tools: added item "Customize File Associations...". It's just
an alternative way to the somewhat hidden Menu Tools | List
Management | File Associations. XY's Portable File Associations
constitute a very powerful functionality that deserves a more
prominent place in the menus.
* UDC statusbar message now is set *before* the action proper is
triggered. So you now already what's happening before it is all
over. A " ..." is attached to signal "it's in progress".
The statusbar message is also updated *after* the action, now
with any suffix. Note that this final message is also given when
no operation actually happened (because the user canceled the
process, or it was illegal for some reason). It just means the UDC
has been triggered and it returned from the job.
! UDC statusbar message was hard-coded to "Rename". Fixed.
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v6.50.0005 - 2007-11-10 13:05
+ Catalog: more power for you, more options in the Item Properties
dialog.
(1) Now you have one more "OnClick"-action, namely "Open
Selected Item(s) With", including a new icon overlay (slightly
different from the "Open" overlay).
(2) If this currently edited catalog item is an application used
to open multiple files with, you can now decide whether the
application will be opened single or multiple instance. This, of
course, only controls how the application is called by XYplorer.
Whether it actually can and does open in single or multiple
instance depends on the nature and configuration of the called
application.
+ Catalog: better support for parameters in items pointing to
applications. The following, for example, will work now as
"Destination" of an item on Ctrl+Shift+Click and on Drag'n'drop:
"winzip32" -a UDCmade-<dyyyymmdd-hhnnss>.zip <items>
Note that the quotes are mandatory!
+ UDC | Rename: added Search and Replace pattern mode.
+ Find Files tab | Date | "between" & "and/add" fields: improved
entering dates.
When the fields are empty:
key arrow up: set to today
key arrow down: set to yesterday
Else:
key arrow up: scroll days up
key arrow down: scroll days down
key arrow up + SHIFT: scroll months up
key arrow down + SHIFT: scroll months down
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v6.50.0004 - 2007-11-09 14:14
+ Menu Tools | List Management | File Associations: now you can
refer to the opening app by simply stating the basename of the EXE
if you can assume it is a registered application.
zip>winzip32
zip>C:\Programme\WinZip\Winzip32.exe
Both will work the same, but the first has a big advantage in
portability: you don't need to know the path to Winzip32.exe on
the host computer! The registry will find it for you.
Tip: Double-check the basename of the EXE, some are named
unexpectedly. This for example would open a *.zip with 7-zip:
zip>7zFMn
* Now icons for apps referred to by just their basename (see above)
are correctly displayed in Catalog and File associations.
+ UDC: now the UDC categories have hard-coded scopes (the focus
zones where they can be triggered by keyboard shortcuts).
Go to: Global
Open: Global
Open With: List
Move To: Tree, List
Copy To: Tree, List, Catalog
Backup To: Tree, List, Catalog
Rename: List
* UDC | Open With: now the command will work also if no items are
selected. In that case the app will be started without any items in
the command line, resp. with the <items> variable set to "" (empty
string).
+ UDC: after action you get a feedback in the statusbar "UDC
performed: (action verb)". Hmmm... not sure if I like it...
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v6.50.0003 - 2007-11-08 11:28
+ UDC | Open With: added the new variable <base> which is only
meaningful when you call multiple instances. You can use it like
this:
"winzip32" -e <items> "<base>"
This will extract all currently selected archives, each into a
folder auto-named to the base-name of the respective archive.
On the other hand, this method...
"winzip32" -e <items> "<curbase>"
... would extract all currently selected archives to the same
folder, auto-named to the base-name of the currently focused
archive (the one displayed in the status bar).
* UDC | Open With: to avoid a number of unsolvable ambiguities, and
to avoid breaking old user code, from now on you *MUST* quote the
application (even if it contains no spaces) if any parameters
shall be processed!
This will work:
"winzip32" -a UDCmade.zip <items>
This will NOT work:
winzip32 -a UDCmade.zip <items>
If no parameters are used, quoting is optional (even if spaces are
contained). These will all work as expected:
C:\Programs\WinZip\Winzip32.exe
"C:\Programs\WinZip\Winzip32.exe"
C:\Program Files\WinZip\Winzip32.exe
"C:\Program Files\WinZip\Winzip32.exe"
* UDC dialog | Open With: Browse button now returns items quoted.
! Fixed some glitches with the new UDC avec Parameters, including a
crash withthe Catalog.