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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.20.0049, 27-oct-2006).
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v5.20.0049 - 27.10.06 11:25
  +++ More support for items with UNICODE names:
      - Now you can search UNICODE folders.
      - UNICODE folders can be watched and auto-refreshed.
      - UNICODE folders can be favorites (although the menu cannot 
        display the characters).
      - Now XY correctly handles UNICODE start paths.
      - Now you can copy UNICODE names to clipboard.
      - Now you can preview UNICODE icon files.
      - Now you can time-stamp UNICODE items.
      - Now you can attribute-stamp UNICODE items.
      - Now you can pop the shell context menu of UNICODE items.   
      - Now file inof tips are UNICODE aware and can display non-latin 
        characters.
    % Again a general speed improvement.
    ! The path name completion autosuggest dropdown did not process the 
      mouse in dialogs. Fixed.
    ! Display glitch when drag-moving a folder from tree-to-tree with 
      "Auto- refresh..." and "Suspend refresh during file operations" both 
      ON. Fixed.

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.20.0041, 24-oct-2006).
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v5.20.0041 - 24.10.06 12:38
  +++ UNICODE support: now you can do quite a lot of stuff with files 
      that have non-Latin character sets in the name:
      - view Properties in the Info Panel
      - preview images, sounds, videos, fonts
      - raw view
      - view ID3 tags of MP3 files
      - display thumbnails
      - you can browse folders
    + UNICODE: now Statusbar and Tab headers talk Chinese.
    + Address Bar focused: Ctrl+A now selects the whole edit box.
    ! Address Bar focused: Ctrl+Shift+Left/Right would move tabs instead 
      of selecting words in the Address Bar. Fixed.
    % Again a general speed improvement.

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.20.0038, 23-oct-2006).
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v5.20.0038 - 23.10.06 12:51
  %%% A breakthrough in measuring the width of text that is about to be 
      drawn brings dramatic speed improvements in various parts of the app! 
      The new warp speed is especially notable in Autosize Columns, and 
      the painting of Tree and List. Call it snappy!
    + Believe or not: XYplorer now speaks Chinese (Japanese, Russian, 
      Arabic, etc.)! It's far from perfect, because you cannot do much 
      with those files yet, but at least you can see those characters 
      instead of question marks in Tree and List (nowhere else yet). 
      There's a lot left to do for full UNICODE support, but this is a 
      start...
      Note: only for NT platforms (NT/2K/XP/Vista...).
    + Toolbar: added button "Drives", which pops up a menu featuring all 
      currently shown drives.
    + Menu Go: added command "Drives...", which pops up a menu featuring 
      all currently shown drives.
    + Added path autocompletion (unconfigurable; you just want to have 
      this if you can) to the edit box in the MoveTo, CopyTo, and BackupTo 
      dialogs. Also, this edit box now is auto-highlighted on getting 
      focused.
    > Tip: in the GoTo dialog and MoveTo/CopyTo/BackupTo dialogs, when
      pressing ESC to close the autocompletion drop-down (aka "autosuggest 
      list") the key is not eaten but propagated to the dialog window 
      which is then immediately closed, too. Workaround: pressing the TAB 
      key instead of the ESC key will shift focus to the next control and 
      close the autosuggest list.
    * Toolbar: before, pressing any toolbar button after popping up a 
      menu via toolbar just closed that menu. Now you can trigger a 
      subsequent toolbar button immediately (and e.g. pop up another menu) 
      while the menu is still up. Saves one click.

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.20.0036, 22-oct-2006).
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v5.20.0036 - 22.10.06 19:45
    ! Since a couple of days the app did not browse MyComputer and 
      Nethood anymore when entered via Address Bar, GoTo, Catalog etc. 
      Fixed.
    * Improved the "Max number of tabs" feature.
    + Toolbar: added button for "Go to Last Target".
    + Added "Auto-complete path/file names in GoTo dialog", and 
      reorganized that section in Configuration | General a bit.
    % Tree: Fully Expand [Numpad Multiply] was a tight loop that could 
      freeze the app for while when expanding large branches. Now I gave 
      the CPU some air: You can abort the expanding by pressing ESC, or 
      move the form around while it's going on. Selecting any folder in 
      the tree will also abort it on the fly.

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.20.0035, 21-oct-2006).
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v5.20.0035 - 21.10.06 18:25
    ! Initial nag screen countdown glitches fixed.
    * Menu Go: moved "Go to Last Target" command upward.

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.20.0034, 21-oct-2006).
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v5.20.0034 - 21.10.06 13:00
    + Menu Go: added command "Go to Last Target" [Ctrl+Alt+F7]. Beams 
      you to the most recent target of a move/copy file operation that 
      was performed inside the current XYplorer instance and session.
      That's good news for the paranoid: a quick [Ctrl+Alt+F7] (or 
      right-handed [AltGr+F7]) will carry you to the place you've just 
      moved/copied some files to, to check personally whether the files 
      arrived in a good condition. Dual pane without the space-waste ;)
    + Configuration|Advanced: added field to set the "Max number of tabs 
      (0 for unlimited)". If the limit is reached and a new tab is to be 
      created by you or by some implied process, then the last (right-
      most) tab will be used for it. 
    + Menu Edit|Paste Special|Edit Clipboard...: now the icons are 
      updated if you edit the list items or add new ones. Works also 
      when using Editor Mode and switching back to List Mode.
    * Tree: enlarged the highlighting box for some pixels.
    $ Removed the "Reset to factory defaults" nag.
    $ The initial nag screen for unregistered users now counts down 
      taking 500 ms for each day used.
    $ Extended the trial period to 30 days.

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.20.0033, 20-oct-2006).
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v5.20.0033 - 20.10.06 11:03
    + Reactivated "auto-select the most recently used subfolder" 
      functionality, aka the "Invisible Breadcrumb".
      Now, any UP or DOWN navigation ...
        - List: dbl-clicking a folder:              go down one level
        - List: [enter] on a folder:                go down one level
        - Tree/List: [backspace] anywhere:          go up one level
        - Tree/List: [shift+backspace] anywhere:    go down one level
      ... will do it, namely select the most recently used subfolder (if 
      it's found in the history) in the list. So now you can quickly 
      crawl up and down a particular path by simply hitting [backspace] 
      to go up resp. [enter] to go down.
      The feature also works across sessions.      
      Note: In three special cases, namely Desktop, MyDocuments, and 
      MyNetworkPlaces, going up to MyComputer (drives listing) would be 
      a dead-end because they are not featured as subfolders in the 
      MyComputer list view (which is the drives listing) and hence 
      cannot be auto-selected. To prevent this I simply disabled going 
      up by backspace-on-the-list from these special "folders" to 
      MyComputer.
    * Tree: changed the coloring style a bit. Now highlighted folders 
      are displayed without a grey margin around the box anymore. 
      Instead the current folder now shows a grey margin around the box 
      if the tree is unfocused. Purpose: spot easier where you are.
    * List: changed the coloring style a bit. The focused item, if it is 
      selected, now shows a grey margin around the box if the list is 
      unfocused. Purpose: see which selected item is focused even when the 
      list has no focus currently.
    ! List: Context menu keys Shift+F10 and the proper "context menu 
      key" did not popup the selected items' context menu when items were 
      selected. Fixed.

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.20.0031, 19-oct-2006).
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v5.20.0031 - 19.10.06 11:52
  +++ Address Bar: added path name completion! If turned on then, while 
      typing into the addressbar, you get a drop-down that automatically 
      suggests *existing* file system items that match the string 
      entered so far.
      Notes:
      - Path name completion also includes files (not just dirs)!
      - Path name completion also includes MRU URLs!
      - This nice functionality is based on an API limited to systems 
        with IE5 or greater.
      - If path name completion is ON then the normal Auto-Complete 
        (based on MRU items) is silently/implicitly turned off (else you 
        would get two simultaneous drop-downs stacked over each other).
      Here's the checkbox: Configuration|General|Path name completion in 
      Address Bar.      
    + Configuration|Advanced: added warning message to clicking "Show 
      icon overlays": "You just turned on showing icon overlays. Note that 
      browsing will be notably slowed down."
    + Statusbar message "autosizing columns..." when autosizing columns 
      in lists > 3000 items (ie when it will take some time).
    * There has been a 255 character limit in the edit fields of Address 
      Bar, Find Files Name, and Find Files Location dropdowns. Increased 
      it to 1024. If you need more, tell me.
    + Menu Edit|Paste Special|Edit Clipboard...: now with icons.
      Icons still do not adapt if you edit the list... work left to do.

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.20.0029, 17-oct-2006).
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v5.20.0029 - 17.10.06 22:57
  +++ Added support for hidden shares (aka "administrative shares")! A 
      hidden share is identified by a dollar sign ($) at the end of the 
      share name. Hidden shares are not listed when browsing the network. 
      However, now you can enter a path on a hidden share in the Address 
      Bar (or the "Go to" dialog, Catalog, Favorites), and it will be 
      added to the tree node of respective server on the fly and be 
      browsable. Try e.g. "\\[servername]\ADMIN$\Fonts\". (Quoting MS: 
      "The system root folder (%SYSTEMROOT%) is shared as ADMIN$. This 
      is your Windows folder, and the administrative share provides 
      administrators easy access to the system root folder hierarchy 
      over the network.").
    * Info Panel|Version tab: from now on, only certain files types will 
      be checked for an embedded version info, namely currently: *.acm, 
      *.asr, *.ax, *.com, *.cpl, *.deu, *.dll, *.drv, *.exe, *.ime, 
      *.lx, *.ocx, *.qts, *.qtx, *.scr, *.sys, *.tlb, *.tpl, *.tsp, 
      *.vbx, *.vxd. Before, all file types were checked, which lead to 
      unnecessary work, especially notable on network drives.

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.20.0027, 15-oct-2006).
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v5.20.0027 - 15.10.06 11:33
  !!! Auto-Refresh: was not reliable in certain circumstances after file 
      operations in larger listings. Fixed.
    ! Find Mode: Search Results did not refresh correctly after delete 
      operation. Fixed.
    ! Find Mode: Info Panel did not refresh correctly after delete or 
      move operation. Fixed.
    + Menu Help|XYplorer on the Web: added Promote.

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.20.0025, 11-oct-2006).
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v5.20.0025 - 11.10.06 12:07
    + Drop-Text-To-File: now you can drop text onto Catalog items, too.
    + Drop-Text-To-File: now you can drop text onto Tab headers, too.
    ! MouseDownBlowUp while thumbsnails still being created lead to 
      irreversible logic confusion of XY's brain. Fixed: you can't do 
      that anymore.
    ! Recursive auto-refresh when parent folder of current folder is 
      deleted by another process. Fixed.
    ! Move/Copy/Backup To non-existing paths failed creating new UNC 
      paths. Fixed.

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.20.0023, 10-oct-2006).
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v5.20.0023 - 10.10.06 12:53
    ! Searching servers did not work (nothing was ever found!). Fixed.
    ! Since 20060801 tabs header tooltips did not show the tab's 
      location anymore if the tab was renamed. Fixed.
    * Select-On-Paste (List view): if pasted items are selected --
      remember that Select-On-Paste only happens when there were no 
      selections previously -- the focus is now automatically moved to the 
      topmost pasted item.
    - Preview tab: removed *.zip from previewed "Web & Office preview" 
      (i.e. files viewed through IE). Reason: the limited possibilities 
      were not satisfying. I'll rather a real zip handling later.
    * Several improvements in handling MouseDownBlowUp on thumbnails.
      - On a left-click on the thumbnail itself (not the caption), the 
        image is loaded (but not selected) only if mouse is still down 
        after a 150ms delay. A quicker click will instead not start the 
        loading but select the image. Tricky to implement I can tell.
        On right-clicking the thumbnail (MouseDownBlowUpStayUp), the 
        image loads at once, just as it has always been.
      - No more flicker when mouse is not down anymore after loading.
      - Now, repeated MouseDownBlowUpStayUp (per right-click) in 
        seamless succession is possible.

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.20.0022, 08-oct-2006).
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v5.20.0022 - 08.10.06 11:40
  +++ Added Drop-Text-To-File, yet another revolutionary XYplorer-only 
      feature. Now you can drag & drop a text chunk onto Tree and List, 
      where it will be automatically converted into a *.txt-file called 
      something like "DroppedText-20061007.txt". The "-20061007" part is 
      the date now (format defined in INI at key PostfixDate). After 
      creation of the file, rename-mode is invoked. Try it, for example, 
      with your web browser. Select a piece of text on a web page and 
      drag it onto XYplorer...
    - Removed feature (v5.00.0020 - 10.06.06 10:06): "Now you can create 
      internet shortcuts by dropping URLs onto the file list."
      Reason: potential conflicts/confusion with the above Drop-Text-To-
      File feature.
    * Dropping items from Outlook/Outlook Express: If dropping exactly 
      one item it will be suffixed with an auto-incremented number if a 
      file of the same name already exists in the target destination. So, 
      contrary to Explorer and to dropping more than one item at once, you 
      will not get the "overwrite-or-cancel" dialog.
  >>> Tips: since the recent enhancements in droppability you can do 
      some pretty amazing things, for example:
      - You can drag-drop selected text bits from XYplorer's own Web and 
        Office preview!
      - You can drag-drop selected text bits from PDF documents and they 
        will be saved as "Untitled[-##].rtf"!
      - You can even drag-drop selected image bits (details of embedded 
        images) from PDF documents and they will be saved as a BMP named 
        to the full path/file of the source file!
      - You always could drag-drop images directly from web pages (I 
        just remind you here).
    + Preview tab: added the following file type to "Web & Office 
      preview" (i.e. files viewed through IE):
        *.zip
      Believe or not, yes, XYplorer now can preview zip archives by 
      abusing IE's power to do so. It's not extremely comfortable: you 
      can't drag-extract from there, settings are not remembered... but 
      hey, at least you can now see the contents of an archive.
    + Win95 compatibility: I fixed some minor issues with Win95 and it 
      seems to work quite well now in the previous millenium's 
      environment. I won't officially recommend or promote it though, 
      since I did not thoroughly test everything under Win95. At least 
      you know: if you happen to get thrown back that far by some time 
      machine, XYplorer is with you even then.
    % Super-fast thumbnail creation again 10-20% faster depending on 
      images sizes (smaller images are now faster due to reduced 
      overhead).

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.20.0019, 07-oct-2006).
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v5.20.0019 - 07.10.06 12:24
    + Dropping items from Outlook/Outlook Express:
      (a) If you drag several messages at once, and any of them happen to 
          have the same name, the names are differentiated by a suffixed 
          auto-incremented number (format defined in INI at key PostfixNum).
      (b) You are prompted if a file by the same name already exists in 
          the destination of the file being copied.
        Note the two-step process: first the items are created in a 
        temporary folder (taking care that they all have different names), 
        then they are moved from there to their final destination (after 
        which the temporary folder is deleted).
      (c) Now you can drop messages also on the tree.
    * Super-fast thumbnail creation: removed *.gif files from the super-
      fast routine. Reasons:
      - Transparent GIF files were printed on black background instead 
        of list view background color (did not find a good way to change 
        this).
      - GIF files are usually rather small, hence fast.
      - So you get high quality GIF thumbnails at a very low price.
    + Menu File: added command "Save Here As..." (Ctrl+S). It's just a 
      menu interface to the already working Ctrl+S keyboard shortcut: 
      makes a copy of the focused tree or list item (file or folder), 
      using the new name you enter.
      It works identical to "Copy Here As..." in the drop context menu.
    + Preview tab: added the following file types to "Web & Office 
      preview" (i.e. files viewed through IE):
        *.txt *.log *.eml *.msg
      Nice thing about it: now you can select text char-wise with the 
      mouse. In Raw View selection works only line-wise.
      Note that *.eml and *.msg files are actually interpreted and shown 
      as if viewed through your mail client. Quite nice...

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.20.0018, 06-oct-2006).
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v5.20.0018 - 06.10.06 12:36
  %%% Configuration|Thumbnails: added option "Superfast thumbnail 
      creation (at slightly lesser quality; needs GDI+ installed)".
      Some folks complained about slow thumbnail creation in XYplorer. 
      Well, check this box to have it run up to 50 (!!) times faster.
      The price you pay is that the quality of the thumbnails is only as 
      poor as Explorer's. You choose...
    + Configuration|Thumbnails: changed label from "Maximum area of 
      original images in square pixels" to "Don't extract thumbnails of 
      images larger than this (in square pixels)". I think it is clearer 
      like this.
    + Since XYplorer's dependency on GDIplus.dll has been removed, 
      you'll get the following message when trying to preview an image 
      that only GDIplus can handle and you have not installed GDIplus on 
      your system:
        "GDIplus must be installed to preview this file type."
      This concerns only two image types: *.png and *.tif.