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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".

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v6.30.0008 - 2007-09-11 09:47
    + Configuration | File Info Tips: made the showing of the two Extra 
      fields configurable, and renamed one of them:
        Len (Full Path)         (before named "Full Name Length")
        Path (Search Results)
      You find them at the bottom of the "File info tips fields" list.
      Also, the now called "Len (Full Path)" field now shows the length 
      of the filename and the length of the full path/file (in 
      parentheses).
    * Tip of the Day: now the window is non-modal, the startup-position 
      is better (aim: don't cover the most important interface areas), and 
      the headline (DID YOU KNOW...) is easier readable.

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v6.30.0007 - 2007-09-10 12:36
    + The distribution package now includes the file "tipoftheday.htm", 
      which contains the layout (HTML) and the tip data (proprietary 
      format) for the "Tip of the Day" dialog. This file will be 
      continuously updated. Do not change it manually. 
    * Tip of the Day: Slightly changed the tip syntax. There might be 
      more changes coming in the next days, so it's too early for you to 
      write your own tip collection (see below!). Later you can do so 
      and try to sell it on the web... :)
    + Menu Help | Tip of the Day...: You now can have another file 
      called "tipoftheday_user.htm" along side "tipoftheday.htm". The 
      idea is that you can collect and keep your own private custom tips 
      in that file, without having them overwritten when the official 
      file "tipoftheday.htm" is updated. When XYplorer finds and loads 
      your custom tip file, the custom tips will be simply appended to 
      the official tips (or, optionally, replace them... see below!).
      
      You may also design a custom layout for the tips using that file: 
      If a file "tipoftheday_user.htm" exists in the application path, 
      then it can (see below!) be used as HTML template for the Tips of 
      the Day. Note, that you have to know and understand the basic 
      format of "tipoftheday.htm" to create a working user tip file.
              
      Inside this user tip file you can make two decisions by placing 
      certain keywords into the header section (anything before ###):
      (1) write "user only" (without quotes) in a separate line to use 
          only the user tips in this file for the Tips of the Day
      (2) write "html" (without quotes) in a separate line to use this 
          file as HTML template for the Tips of the Day
      
      If you do not use the "html" option, the user tip file can be 
      stripped of all the HTML code and look very simple. Here's a mini-
      example of a working "tipoftheday_user.htm" which will *replace* 
      the official tips (remove "user only" and it will be *added* to 
      the official tips):
      - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
      user only
      ###
      Stop a Search
      You can stop an ongoing search at any time by pressing ESC.
      #
      Show/Hide the Info Panel
      Left-click on the {:Statusbar}.
      #
      :Statusbar:The information bar right below the file list.
      - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
      
    ! Menu File | Copy Here As: did not work in Tree inside Special 
      folders (eg "Desktop"). Also the Tree was not always refreshed. 
      Fixed.

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v6.30.0006 - 2007-09-09 11:00
  +++ Menu Help: Added "Tip of the Day" functionality (Shift+F1). Shows 
      a random tip, usually a little usage hint or trick, ideally something 
      you would not look for because you never thought it existed, or 
      something you always tend to forget about. The aim is also to open 
      up the richness of XYplorer to newbies.
      Optionally the tips can be auto-shown at startup. You may scroll 
      through the tips by PageUp/PageDown keys. (This is actually one of 
      the tips!) Right now there are only few Tips... there will be more 
      soon, many more!
      All tips, and the HTML template used to display them, are 
      contained in one file called "tipoftheday.htm". A new version of 
      this file will be provided irregularly and can be downloaded from 
      the website. If you don't have it now you *must* download it 
      because it's not yet in the distribution package:
          http://www.xyplorer.com/download/tipoftheday.zip
      You may edit this file to add your own tips. The syntax for the 
      data is explained inside the file. Inside each tip all HTML tags 
      are allowed (including links and references to remote resources). 
      This, of course, means you can have the tips in your language! 
      Simply translate them or have them translated.