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v5.10.0050 - 28.09.06 12:45
  +++ Menu Go: added the Hotlist [Ctrl+H].
      The Hotlist is a brand-new interface to your history, with the 
      intention to present the history in a way that makes it as easy 
      as possible to quickly go back to one of the places you have 
      recently been -- as opposed to the traditional presentation of the 
      history which makes it easy to go back and forth on your recent 
      track.
      The Hotlist is made like this:
      - All its items are taken from the history.
      - MyComputer and MyNetworkPlaces are removed (to keep it tight).
      - It's ordered alphabetically.
      - It's fresh: only existing paths are shown (the history can be 
        outdated in this aspect).
      - It's compressed: only the *leaves* of the branches are 
        displayed. If your history contains
          C:\
          C:\Programs
          C:\Programs\XYplorer
        then only the latter is shown in the Hotlist. It is assumed that 
        the skipped parent items have just been transit stations on the 
        way to the final "leaf" item, C:\Programs\XYplorer, and hence 
        aren't interesting (or "hot") targets.
      - It's grouped by separators, one section per drive.
    * New keyboard shortcut:
        Ctrl+Shift+B = Toggle Highlighted Folder.
      Before it was Ctrl+H, which is now used for the new Hotlist (above).
    - Removed keyboard shortcut [Ctrl+O] for Menu Go|Toggle Boxed 
      Branch. It's needed for more important stuff to come.
    + Menu View|Size Column Format: added option "Show Space Used". When 
      checked, all file sizes in the list are showing the disk space 
      wasted by each file. The column heading will be changed from 
      "Size" to "Space".
      If "Show Space Used" is turned ON then the displayed folder sizes 
      are also concerned, independent of the setting of "Report the disk 
      space used" in Configuration, General.
      Of course, this item is also available in the context menu of the 
      size column header.
    + Rename Special: now you get an hourglass and a statusbar message.
    * Info to Clipboard statusbar message more elaborated.
    + Now you can pop the breadcrumb also when the Address Bar is 
      focused, by pressing [Ctrl+Backspace] or [Ctrl+Alt+Backspace].
    + Added new keyboard shortcut [Ctrl+Home] (tree focus only) to jump 
      to the top folder (Drive, \\Server, Desktop, MyDocuments) of the 
      current folder.
    ! Since the Select-On-Paste functionality has been added (v5.00.0109 
      - 02.08.06 20:16) the tree did not refresh on pasting a folder into 
      the list. Fixed.

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v5.10.0048 - 26.09.06 11:00
    + Added new keyboard shortcut [Ctrl+Numpad Div] to fully collapse the 
      current drive (resp. \\Server, Desktop, MyDocuments). The drive root 
      will automatically be selected, and the tree will get the focus if 
      necessary and possible (the command also works when the tree is 
      not visible because you turned it off).
      There is currently no menu item for this command because I'm not 
      sure yet where to add it...
    + The key combination [Ctrl+Backspace] for popping the breadcrumb 
      unfortunately produces a "Ding"-sound in your speaker. There's no 
      way to stop that, but as a workaround I added the alternative 
      not-dinging keyboard shortcut [Ctrl+Alt+Backspace] for the same 
      thing.
      Note that [Ctrl+Alt+Backspace] == [AltGr+Backspace], so it can 
      easily done with the right hand only, even more comfy than 
      [Ctrl+Backspace].
    + The breadcrumb keys now also work when the catalog has the focus.
    ! [Shift+Backspace] for Go|Down did happily open new tabs because of 
      the Shift key being down. Fixed.
    ! The handcuffs on the recycle bin didn't lock on W2K. Fixed.
    - Removed the "auto-select the most recently used subfolder" 
      feature introduced in v5.10.0035. Reason: The new breadcrumb is 
      far more handy and powerful, and the automatic selection of items 
      is rather non-expected behavior to my taste.

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.10.0045, 25-sept-2006).
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v5.10.0045 - 25.09.06 13:15
    + Improved the recently added "Up-Down-History" aka "The breadcrumb 
      that pops" by adding two new items and two new keyboard shortcuts 
      to menu Go:
      - "Down" <Shift+Backspace>: takes you down to the most recently 
        used subfolder of the current folder (if any).
      - "Breadcrumb..." <Ctrl+Backspace>: pops up the breadcrumb menu.
        If triggered by Ctrl+Backspace the menu is located in the upper 
        left corner of the tree (if tree is visible), else at the 
        current mouse pointer position.
      Also added MyComputer as top node, and made it all work with 
      special folders Desktop, Personal, and Nethood.
      So, we now have a nice, brand-new, and revolutionary feature:
      - It's a breadcrumb that takes *no screenspace at all* if you 
        don't want it to. It works without toolbar, addressbar, whatever 
        bar. Simply press <Ctrl+Backspace> to have it pop up.
      - It's a breadcrumb that's manageable by *keyboard-only*. Even 
        one-handedly when using the right Ctrl-key!
      - It's a breadcrumb that goes not only back up but also back down.
      All this is unique in the world of breadcrumbs. Welcome to 
      revolution!
    + Toolbar: the "Up" button now has an Arrow sidekick to popup the 
      breadcrumb.
    * Put handcuffs on the recycle bin: Now you cannot delete, rename or 
      move recycle bin items from XYplorer's Raw Recycle Bin View (= 
      browsing ?:\RECYCLER\) anymore. Reason: you are likely to spoil the 
      Recycle Bin's data integrity by changing its contents this way.
    ! Crash on Ctrl+X or Ctrl+C when no items selected (since a couple 
      of days). Fixed.
  %%% Selecting/Focusing items in the list view when
        - the current path is the Recycle Bin (Raw Recycle Bin View)
        - the current path is a network path
      is now instantaneous! Before you could experience notable delays 
      depending on your specific conditions.
    + List view: The "Copy" command in the context menu of selected 
      items now can handle multiselections with items from different 
      folders (as found in Search Results from recursing subfolders).

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.10.0044, 24-sept-2006).
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v5.10.0044 - 24.09.06 11:34
  +++ I invented a cute little gimmick for the "Up" toolbar button: the 
      "Up-Down-History"! Never seen it before (the Google Toolbar has 
      the Up-part but not the Down-part). You could also call it a 
      "popup breadcrumb" or a "relative history".
        You'll immediately grap the idea: when you right-click the "Up" 
      button a menu is popped up presenting you a selection of 
      destinations directly related to your current location. The Up-
      part is simply generated by parsing the current path. The Down-
      part is drawn from the recent history. So easy and so cool! :)
        Notes: In the popup menu the current location is disabled
      because you are there already, right? Also, I did not mark the 
      first upper location as the default entry (by making it bold) 
      because this would spoil the neat alignment of the menu items. 
      Still, when you simply left-click the up button, you'll be 
      transported exactly there: one up.
    ! Fixed scrolling issue concerning the list view.
    ! Menu Edit|Move To/Copy To/Backup To: now the preselected default 
      location is automatically scrolled into view.
    ! Menu File|Move/Copy/Backup To did not support relative paths. 
      Fixed.

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.10.0042, 23-sept-2006).
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v5.10.0042 - 23.09.06 11:05
    + Menu File|Info to Clipboard: Now you get a statusbar message "Info 
      copied to clipboard." when the job is done.
    + Now, environment variables are also allowed in the Location field 
      on the Find Files tab.
    ! When hovering items in the Raw Recycle Bin (?:\RECYCLER\... resp. 
      ?:\RECYCLED\... depending on the OS) and File Info Tips were active 
      then the app hung for some seconds before finally showing no tip. 
      Fixed: Now you get a tip with the message "No File Info Tips for 
      items in Recycle Bin."

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.10.0041, 22-sept-2006).
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v5.10.0041 - 22.09.06 22:26
    * Auto-Refresh: before, only the current folder was watched for all 
      sorts of file system changes, whereas the current *branch* was 
      watched only for changes concerning folders. Now the current branch 
      is watched for all types of changes. Effect: when you have "Show 
      Folder Sizes in File List" turned on, now the shown sizes will be 
      updated on the fly when any byte down in some subfolder is added or 
      removed.
    + Drag & Drop: now you can create shortcuts of dragged items by 
      holding Alt or Ctrl+Shift while dragging *also to the Catalog*.
    * Now, if you attempt to do any file operation with items containing 
      upper UNICODE characters (e.g. Japanese), it will not be allowed.
      Reason: The results are not 100% predictable.
    ! If Info Panel is hidden when tab header color is changed, then it 
      didn't get set when Info Panel is shown again. Fixed.
    ! Fixed 3 rare scrolling anomalies.
    ! Menu File|Delete (Skip Locked): now also checks whether empty 
      *folders* are locked.

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.10.0040, 20-sept-2006).
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v5.10.0040 - 20.09.06 12:57
  +++ Now you can enter common Windows environment variables into the 
      Address Bar (Catalog, Favorites, Go To), to have a soft-coded 
      approach to certain useful system paths. They have to be marked by a 
      leading "%" and a trailing "%".
      Obviously, to serve as a location those variables should point to 
      individual paths. So, XYplorer allows only a subset of the Windows 
      environment variables, but adds some proprietary variables to the 
      set.
      These are the valid environment variables in XYplorer:
        Common Windows:
          %allusersprofile%
          %appdata%
          %commonprogramfiles%
          %programfiles%
          %systemdrive%
          %systemroot%
          %temp%
          %tmp%
          %userprofile%
          %windir%
        XYplorer only:
          %computer%      -> "MyComputer" = drives listing
          %desktop%       -> "Desktop" Special Folder
          %net%           -> "My Network Places"
          %personal%      -> "My Documents" Special Folder
          %desktopreal%   -> Desktop Real Path
          %personalreal%  -> MyDocuments Real Path
          %winsysdir%     -> Windows System Directory
      Note that case is ignored: %desktop% = %DESKTOP%.
      Note that all paths are returned back-slashed, apart from the 
      quoted items above (%desktop% becomes "Desktop", not "Desktop\").
      Note that these variables work in combination with switches, even 
      with themselves. It's a simple string replacement. For example:
        %tmp%?*.tmp
        %desktop%;%personal%?*.txt
        %desktop%\archive         (! note the slash)
        %desktopreal%archive      (no slash necessary)
    + Catalog context menu: added command "Add Current Address Bar 
      Contents Here". So now you can quickly add an items pointing e.g. to 
      a Quick Name Search or an environment variable.
    + Catalog: the delete item confirmation dialog now mentions the 
      caption of the item to be deleted.
    + Menu File|Delete (Skip Locked): added keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Del.
    + Menu File|Delete (Skip Locked): hold SHIFT when clicking the 
      command to terminally delete the selected items (no recycle bin).
      Or more easy: simply press Ctrl+Shift+Del! :)
    + Menu File|Delete (Skip Locked): looking for locked files can take 
      a while if you delete a LOT of files. Now you get a statusbar 
      message, an hourglass, and a chance to stop it by ESC.
    + The dangerous Nuke button from hell now always skips locked files.
    + Menu View|Caches: Renamed "Refresh Icons Cache" to "Refresh List 
      Icons Cache". Added "Refresh Catalog Icons Cache".
    + Drag & Drop: now you can create shortcuts of dragged items by 
      holding Alt or Ctrl+Shift while dragging. It's a Windows standard 
      functionality. It also works when dragging to tab headers. Not to 
      the Catalog, though, because the Catalog is kind of a shortcut 
      list anyway, right?

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.10.0039, 19-sept-2006).
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v5.10.0039 - 19.09.06 10:58
  +++ Menu File: added command "Delete (Skip Locked)". Normally, when 
      deleting multiple files and a locked file (a file currently used 
      by any application) is met, the OS sits about 2 seconds doing 
      nothing, and then you get a message that a file can't be deleted 
      because it is in use, and finally the deleting stops at this 
      point. All other files that are not in use aren't deleted. 
      Very annoying, and you have surely experienced this when you 
      wanted to clean up in your temp folder last time.
      Well, "Delete (Skip Locked)" is the solution! It simply deletes 
      everything that's not locked and does not contain anything locked. 
      It takes the following two-step approach:
      (1) Look for any locked files within the current selection 
          (recursing any selected folders). Then delete all other 
          (unlocked) files (if any).
      (2) Look for any empty folders (where empty means: no *files* 
          contained in the whole branch) within the current selection.
          Then delete those folders (if any).
      In step (1), if any locked files are detected, you'll get a 
      confirmation dialog where you can decide how to procede.
      In step (2), if any empty folders are detected, you'll get a 
      confirmation dialog where you can decide how to procede.
      I added these explicit dialogs for one reason: On top of them 
      you'll get two more delete confirmation dialogs (unless you turned 
      off delete confirmation in Configuration|Advanced), one for each 
      step. These stem from the standard OS Delete API I am using. What 
      you have to know is that these latter dialogs probably do not 
      match your current selection, because:
        (a) I pass only unlocked files to the API.
        (b) I pass files from recursing any folders in your selection.
      So, the bottomline is: you pay a small price for the fantastic 
      "Delete (Skip Locked)", namely a slight delay due to the checking 
      of the lockedness, and, the two-step operation with its dialogs.
    ! Fixed issues with Visual Filters and opening new tabs, Part 2 of 2.

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.10.0037, 18-sept-2006).
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v5.10.0037 - 18.09.06 12:58 (yes, 0037 again, I forgot...)
    ! Fixed issues with Visual Filters and opening new tabs, Part 1. 
      More fixes will follow...
    ! Crash on clicking menu View | Rebuild Tree when "clipped tips" 
      active. Fixed.
    ! Visual Filters on tab headers: another little display glitch fixed.
    ! Move To, Copy To, Backup To to relative paths did not work on 
      special folders like Desktop or MyDocuments. Fixed.

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.10.0037, 17-sept-2006).
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v5.10.0037 - 17.09.06 09:57
    ! Preview crashed (error 438) when previewing Office files on 
      clicking the "Address" label to toggle it to "Title" (which only 
      works for HTML documents), or on opening an Office preview when this 
      label is already set to "Title". Fixed.
    * Changed the above label's tooltip to "Shift+Click to open in 
      default application" which is what will happen. Before it was "... 
      default browser". Office docs, however, are openend in Office apps.
    ! The "List" view crashed (error 380) on deleting more files than 
      one column contained and when certain other conditions were met. 
      Fixed.
    * Menu Go | Goto: simplified the dialog by removing the "defaults to 
      current folder" variants. They still work, but it just looked too 
      cluttered. And you know: a few more things are coming to that 
      dialog soon...
    + Toolbar: added "Manage Visual Filters..." to the context menu of 
      the Visual Filters button.
    + Move To, Copy To, Backup To: added the possibility to state paths 
      relative to the current path.
      Note that this works only for paths *below* the current path (the 
      "..\"-syntax is currently not supported).
      Relative paths even have icons in the MRU list of the dialogs if 
      they are valid (exist).
    * Now, if auto-complete in drop-down lists is turned off then 
      pressing ArrowDown or ArrowUp will open the combo's MRU list.

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.10.0035, 15-sept-2006).
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v5.10.0035 - 15.09.06 12:59
    + Improved the new "auto-select the most recently used subfolder" 
      feature introduced v5.10.0032 (but then just for the Backspace key).
      Now any navigation via the list view...
        - dbl-clicking a folder:  go down one level
        - <enter> on a folder:    go down one level
        - <backspace> anywhere:   go up one level
      ... will do it, namely select the most recently used subfolder (if 
      it's found in the history). For example, you now 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.
    ! Stupid little bug: I forgot to implement the decision whether it's 
      a QNS (Quick Name Search) or a QVF (Quick Visual Filter) when *both* 
      operators are present in the pattern. Naturally, the first one 
      rules. For example:
        Desktop|????.*        = Visual Filter
          (list all items with 4-letter base)
        Desktop?:f*.* | *k.*  = Name Search
          (find all items starting with f or ending with k)
    * Find Files: the "Reset Filters" button now will reset "Include 
      subfolders" to the checked state. That's the more normal, less 
      marked state, I think.
    ! Now, Show/Hide Catalog (F8) triggers no action if tree is hidden. 
      Before it resulted in some glitchy catalog pixels where there 
      shouldn't by any.

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.10.0032, 14-sept-2006).
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v5.10.0032 - 14.09.06 11:45
  +++ Now you can set a Visual Filter directly through the Address Bar, 
      the Catalog, the Favorites etc. This means you can set a new path 
      and a new filter at the same time! For example:
        Desktop|*.jpg;*.png   = browse to Desktop and show only *.jpg 
                                and *.png files
      The crucial operator here is the "|"-char (pipe). These are the 
      general syntax options (Path can be slashed or not):
        Path|a*   = set filter "a*" to Path
        Path|     = remove any filters from Path
        |a*       = set filter "a*" to current Path
        |         = remove any filters from current Path
      The filter will be added to the top of the Visual Filter MRU (most 
      recently used) list, so it will be available for toggling on/off 
      (Ctrl+Shift+J).
      These "Quick Visual Filters" can not be combined with "Quick 
      Searches" (aka "Name Searches", using the "?" operator), as 
      generally Searches cannot be visually filtered (it would mean 
      filtering a filter...).
      NOTE: I had to do some complex deep level restructuring to get 
      this thing working smoothly (hence the longish time it took). So 
      you might make a backup of the current version before upgrading...
    * Enlarged the Visual Filter MRU list from 32 to 64.
    + Now, when using the Backspace key (go up one level) on the list, 
      the folder you are coming from is preselected after going up. So 
      you can go down again by a simply hitting return.
    * If a search or report has been stopped by ESC, the statusbar 
      message now is displayed in red color.
    ! Selections that had been made *during* browsing (e.g. when 
      getting folders sizes) became "sticky" (i.e. they did not get 
      auto-unselected on selecting any other files). Fixed.
    * Now the file info tips vanish in the moment your mouse pointer 
      touches them.
    + Menu Tools | List Management | File Associations: Now you may sort 
      and move the items. Order is important here since they are 
      processed in the order of listing and the first match will make 
      it.

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.10.0031, 13-sept-2006).
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v5.10.0031 - 13.09.06 23:55
  %%% Vastly improved the performance of an internal function for 
      retrieving selected list items. You'll note the difference when 
      copying many (> 1000) items or items' information to clipboard, or 
      when using Move To, Copy To, etc. on many items.
    + Menu Tools | List Management | File Associations: Now you have 
      checkboxes in the list, which allows you to easily (de)activate 
      particular file associations without the need to delete and retype 
      them. As always in XY's checkbox lists, a right-click menu offers 
      (Un)Select All.
    ! Crashed when trying to open the context menu of more than 32767 
      selected items. Fixed.
    * Rewrote File Info Tips from scratch. You won't note much on the 
      surface. Only: Now you get a fresh tip when changing mouse position 
      between the icon and the name of an item. If "Show tip only when 
      hovering file icon" is checked, this allows you to directly go from 
      the clipped tip to the file info tip on the same item.

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.10.0030, 11-sept-2006).
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v5.10.0030 - 11.09.06 20:58
    + Configuration | File Info Tips: added option "Show tips for 
      clipped tree and list items" (aka "in-place tooltips").
      Will display a tooltip with the full item name when hovering an 
      item with a partly clipped name.
      In case of the file list, these tips will only appear when the 
      other sorts of tips (file info tips, mp3 info tips) do not.
      The tips are hard-coded to an initial delay of 200 ms and vanish 
      after 3 seconds.
    * Before, you could not drag-move/copy system folders from the tree 
      (only from the list). Now you can. Take care.

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.10.0028, 09-sept-2006).
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v5.10.0028 - 09.09.06 14:07
    + Configuration | General: added option "Disallow dragging from tree 
      and list". If you feel shaky with the mouse this is your safety 
      belt.
    * Menu File | Previous Location (F7): complete rewrite. Now F7 is 
      completely detached from the History data. It simply zaps back to 
      the last tab / last mode / last location. The new location will be 
      added to the top of the history (as if you selected it in the tree 
      or went through the address bar).
      Only exception: F7 cannot zap back and forth between 2 different 
      subsequent searches on one and the same tab (because it does not 
      keep track of the search settings). Instead, no matter how many 
      subsequent searches you do on one and the same tab, F7 will always 
      carry you back to the last *browsed* tab / location.
      Note that on startup there is no previous location to goto; the 
      command will have no effect then.
    * History: if currently in find mode, then clicking "back" or 
      "forward" will not move in history but re-enter browse mode at the 
      current history position.
    * Name Searches are now completely detached from the Find Files 
      settings (Filter tabs) -- neither write nor read them. Also, the 
      name search pattern is now displayed in the main window title bar, 
      and in the Address Bar, and in the tabs' tooltips. And, name 
      searches are remembered between sessions and per-tab.
    * Menu Edit: renamed "Repeat Last Find" to "Repeat Last Search". 
      This way it is less suggesting that the last "Find" is simply re-
      displayed from some cache. Which it is not.