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Change Log for the latest XYplorer BETA version (v8.20.0020, 25-aug-2009).

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v8.20.0020 - 2009-08-25 12:37
  +++ Search Results Caching. Finally the results of time-consuming 
      searches can be stored and retrieved tabwise and across sessions! 
      To make it happen tick this new option:
      Configuration | Find Files | Cache Search Results.
      
      Where and when does it happen
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      Cached data are not held in memory but written to tab_*.dat files 
      down in the Panes subfolder. They are written whenever a non-
      cached search tab is backgrounded, and read whenever a search tab 
      is foregrounded (selected). In other words, caching only happens 
      on tab selection, whereas pressing F3 or any other way to run a 
      search will always trigger a live search.
      
      What is cached
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      Only the item names are cached. All other data (size, file dates, 
      attributes, etc.) are freshly polled. This polling takes time, and 
      the efficiency of the cache highly depends on the nature of the 
      search:
      - The worst case is a search without any filters (e.g. find all 
        items in all subfolders), where reading the cache and processing 
        the data is likely to be even slower than a fresh live search.
      - The best case is a search over a large area with relatively few
        results -- this is where the cache really shines.

    * Configuration: Added new section "Find Files". Some options from 
      "General" and also from the Info Panel (Find Files | Options) have 
      been moved here.

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Change Log for the latest XYplorer BETA version (v8.20.0021, 25-aug-2009).

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v8.20.0021 - 2009-08-25 15:25
    ! Search Results Caching: Quick Name Searches were cached as well, 
      which lead to inconsistencies between search results and settings 
      on Find Files tab. Fixed: Quick Name Searches are not cached 
      anymore.
    ! Menu Edit | Show All Items In Branch: On a locked tree it did not 
      open the current list location but the focused tree node's 
      location, which was the less expected one to open when both 
      differed. Fixed.
    ! Mini Tree: Nodes that were expanded by using the command "Fully 
      Expand" were not saved in the Mini Tree across sessions. Fixed.

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Change Log for the latest XYplorer BETA version (v8.20.0025, 27-aug-2009).

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v8.20.0025 - 2009-08-27 12:00
    * Spot, Jump To Item: Now there's Spot'n'Jump which means you (can) 
      get the coloring and the jumping at the same time. The rules and 
      syntax for the whole spotting and jumping business have been 
      completely redesigned.
      
      Rules:
      - New escape for Spot/Jump is " (dbl-quote) (before it was >).
      - Jump does always also Spot (color all matches).
      - Jump looks for matches only in the Name column.
      - Spot looks for matches in all columns.
      - Matches are case insensitive (A=a).
      - Hold SHIFT to jump to prev item.
      - Add closing dbl-quote to skip jumping.
      - Multiple patterns are separated by "|".
      - No jumping happens on multiple patterns.
      - A pattern with no wildcards defaults to inner match (*pattern*).
      - Coloring is also done on wildcard patterns (colors whole item).
      - Coloring is auto-removed on list refresh or location change.
      - Repeating a Spot-only pattern will work as a toggle.
      - Repeating a Jump pattern will jump to the next/prev match.
      
      Examples:
      "a      = spot "a"; jump to next/prev item with "a" anywhere in 
                the name
      "a"     = spot "a"; no jump (the trailing " kills the jump)
      "a|b    = spot "a" and "b" (no jumping on multiple patterns)
      "a*     = jump to next item beginning with "a" (matching items are 
                colored completely)
      "       = remove any coloring now                

    * Dual Pane: Now when you copy or move a tab to the other pane, the 
      target pane is auto-activated after the operation is completed.
    % Dual Pane: Copying/moving a search results tab is now even faster 
      because it transfers the complete file data (not just the names) 
      between the panes, and this avoids the need for any further hard 
      disk access.
    * Menu Help | XYplorer on the Web:
      - Renamed "Purchase" to "Buy Now".
      - Removed "XYwiki"
      - Removed "Donate"
      - Removed "Promote"
    * Menu Window | Last Size/Minimize Info Panel: Now defaults to Last 
      Size when Panel is maximized.

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Change Log for the latest XYplorer BETA version (v8.20.0026, 27-aug-2009).

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v8.20.0026 - 2009-08-27 15:30
    ! Spot/Jump: The new escape " (dbl-quote) lead to problems. So it's 
      back to >!
      Rules:
      - New escape for Spot/Jump is >.
      - Add another > anywhere to skip jumping.
      Examples:
      >a      = spot "a"; jump to next/prev item with "a" anywhere in 
                the name
      >>a     = spot "a"; no jump (the 2nd > kills the jump)
      >a|b    = spot "a" and "b" (no jumping on multiple patterns)
      >a*     = jump to next item beginning with "a" (matching items are 
                colored completely)
      >       = remove any coloring now                

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Change Log for the latest XYplorer BETA version (v8.20.0027, 28-aug-2009).

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v8.20.0027 - 2009-08-28 12:49
    + Menu Panes: Added commands "Move Tab to Other Pane" and "Copy Tab 
      to Other Pane". The tab is inserted before (left of) the currently 
      selected tab, and becomes the selected tab itself.
      When copying a tab, the source pane remains active, and when 
      moving a tab the target pane becomes active.
      The command also works in single pane mode.
      The KS (if you assign one) triggers on KeyUp since I figured you 
      don't really want key repetition with these commands.
    * Dual Pane: Now, when copying a tab, the source pane remains 
      active, and when moving a tab the target pane becomes active.
    % Dual Pane: Moving a tab to the other pane is smoother now. Before 
      there was unnecessary tree action.
    + Tabs: Now the MRU of each pane is saved across sessions. This
      service is only available if you have no more than 58 tabs in a 
      pane. Should suffice.
    ! Tabs: MRU was slightly buggy in that it did not always select the 
      expected tab. Fixed.
    + Toolbar | Home: The button's context menu now offers a way (the 
      only way) to unset a home.
    * A change in the internal representation of tab-wise data was 
      necessary. You should not note anything of this background job, 
      but FYI, the tab-wise data-list separator was changed from a pane-
      wise tweakable "»" to a global hardcoded TAB (ASCII 9). By all 
      means the better choice since "»" is a legal character in 
      filenames.

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Change Log for the latest XYplorer BETA version (v8.20.0029, 29-aug-2009).

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v8.20.0029 - 2009-08-29 10:57
    ! Dual Pane: When moving/copying a tab to the other pane...
      - the list settings of the selected tab on the inactive pane were 
        not saved before the drop of the new tab, so unless its settings 
        were saved previously (by switching tabs for instance) they were 
        lost. Fixed.
      - the inactive pane was not always shaded as expected. Fixed.
    * Dual Pane | Move/Copy Tab to Other Pane: Now the position of the 
      new tab is the same as if it would have created within the same 
      pane, i.e. either right of the current tab, or at the right end of 
      the tab bar -- depending on the setting of "Open new tab next to 
      current" in Configuration | Tabs.
    * Dual Pane: Now, also when *copying* a tab to the other pane the 
      target pane is activated. Before this was confined to moving a tab.
    ! Spot'n'Jump: Drawing glitches fixed.

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Change Log for the latest XYplorer BETA version (v8.20.0030, 30-aug-2009).

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v8.20.0030 - 2009-08-30 19:35
    * Updated the help file.

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Change Log for the latest XYplorer BETA version (v8.20.0031, 31-aug-2009).

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v8.20.0031 - 2009-08-31 10:11
    ! Thumbnails: Drawing glitch (misalignment, or partly black areas on 
      thumbnails) when changing between thumbnails sizes, e.g. from 
      Thumbnails #1 to #3, or when turning the caching on/off. Fixed.

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Summary of the latest XYplorer Official Release (v8.30.0000, 31-aug-2009).

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v8.30.0000 - 2009-08-31 12:00
    = NEW OFFICIAL RELEASE. Main changes since last release:
  +++ Search Results Caching. The results of time-consuming searches can 
      now be stored and retrieved tabwise and across sessions.
  +++ Dual Pane. Now you can easily move or copy tabs between the panes.
  +++ Spot & Jump. Quickly jump to any item in a large list, just as you 
      know it from your web browser's Find Bar.
  +++ EXIF Stamping. The new command "Set Modified Date to EXIF Date" 
      sets the Modified date of each selected image file to the file's 
      EXIF date (Exchangeable Image File Format).
  +++ Configuration. In the new section "Features" you can control some 
      of the advanced functionality of XYplorer and disable features 
      which you do not use or wish to see.
  +++ Home Edition. The new "Lifetime License Home" buys you everything 
      the current Pro Edition has -- apart from a handful of advanced 
      features -- at an incredibly low introductory price.

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Change Log for the latest XYplorer BETA version (v8.30.0002, 02-sep-2009).

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v8.30.0002 - 2009-09-02 12:46
    + Search Templates Dialog: Search Templates now support caching, 
      i.e. you can save search results in a template file (in 
      <xydata>\FindTemplates), and load them back into the list at any 
      point in future via the Search Templates dialog.
      Writing the cache: You can control whether search results are 
      stored on a per-template basis using the new option "Save search 
      results" below the "Save to Template..." button. Of course, the 
      option is only enabled when search results are present in the file 
      list.
      Reading the cache: Any previously cached results are only read 
      when you also check all the following options. Reason: Otherwise 
      the displayed results would be out of synch with the Find Files 
      panel.
        - Run search at once
        - Load search location
        - Load excluded folders
      Writing and reading the cache is super-controlled by the setting 
      Cache Search Results in Configuration | Find Files.
    + Menu Help: Added toggle "Keyboard Shortcuts on Menu". Here you 
      can choose whether hints for keyboard shortcuts are displayed in 
      the main menu (factory default), or not.
    - Menu Help: Removed "Find Files Help". Relict from prehistory.
    * Menu Help: Renamed commands
        Scripting Commands -> Help on Scripting Commands
        Keyboard Shortcuts -> Help on Keyboard Shortcuts
        List of Functions... -> Make List of Functions...
    * Menu File: Moved all "Copy Here..." commands into a new submenu 
      "Duplicate".
      Note that -- contrary to the old (now updated) description text in 
      CKS dialog -- all five commands work on files as well as folders 
      (with all contents), and on single as well as multiple selections.
    * Menu File: Added new submenu "Special" and moved the following 
      commands there:
        Create Shortcut(s)
        Delete (No Recycle Bin)	  Shift+Del
        Delete (Skip Locked)	    Ctrl+Del
        Swap Names	              Ctrl+Shift+F2
    * Raw View: A Raw Viewed file is no longer kept open and locked 
      until it is actively unselected. Now, when you close the Info 
      Panel or select another tab on the Info Panel the file is closed 
      and unlocked immediately.
      Made you sad? See next section...
    + Added tweak to keep a Raw Viewed file open and locked until it is 
      actively unselected:
        [Settings]
        RawViewKeepOpen=0
      Note that the state RawViewKeepOpen=1 has been the hard-coded 
      reality in TrackerV3/XYplorer ever since, but nobody (incl. me) 
      ever liked it a lot, and many users were disturbed by the nasty 
      file lockings resulting from this behavior.
      The tweak is for all of you who just love locked files. ;)
    ! Overlong filenames: When copying a file with overlong filename to 
      clipboard, the file's short name was not correctly put to the 
      clipboard. Fixed.
      FYI, the clipboard (tested on XP) will not handle items > 1027 
      characters. 
    * POM/PFA: Before, multiple instances of the opening application 
      were called when multiple files were to be opened.  Now, a single 
      instance is called with multiple files passed in the command line. 
      This is in perfect analogy with Catalog Open With, UDC Open With, 
      and SC openwith, which all default to opening a single instance.

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Change Log for the latest XYplorer BETA version (v8.30.0004, 03-sep-2009).

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v8.30.0004 - 2009-09-03 15:36
    + Menu Go: Added command "Recent Locations...". Shows the MRU 
      list of locations from most recent (at the top, with number 1) to 
      most ancient. Dbl-click an item to jump to it. The MRU holds 
      maximally 64 items.
    * Now History and MRU (Most Recently Used) locations are handled 
      separately internally. Before there was only one data array that 
      was used for both functionalities. Thanks to the new way, History 
      can now behave as expected: When going back in history and then 
      onwards not using History, the old "future" is dropped.
      MRU is now used (instead of History) for "Hotlist" and "Mini Tree 
      from History", now renamed to "Mini Tree from Recent". The 
      "Breadcrumb" (and "Down" functionality) will use any data from 
      tabwise History first, and then look at any matching MRU data.
      Note that History is per pane (and optionally per tab) whereas MRU 
      is global, so e.g. the Hotlist now is global and looks identical 
      no matter on which pane you are.
      On upgrading to this version the virgin MRU is initialized using 
      data from the history of Pane 1.
    - Menu View | Current Tab: Removed command
        Tab Hotlist...
      Reason: Tab history is not a useful database anymore for this (see 
      above), and a tabwise MRU is not existing.
    ! Search Templates: Cached search results were not read when the 
      previous search in that tab was a Quick Name Search. Fixed.

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Change Log for the latest XYplorer BETA version (v8.30.0005, 04-sep-2009).

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v8.30.0005 - 2009-09-04 14:15
    + Search Templates Dialog: Added option "Load saved results". Here 
      you have a choice whether to load any cached results or not. The 
      enabled state of the checkbox tells you whether cached results are 
      existing in the template or not.
      Any implied states of the other options are auto-handled for you.
    * SC LoadSearch enhanced: New option "c" to load cached results. 
      Here's the whole picture:
      - LoadSearch
        Action: Load a previously stored search template and 
                (optionally) run a search based on it.
        Syntax: loadsearch template, [options=rl]
          template: [required] search template name
                    as displayed in the search template dialog
          options:  [optional, default = rl]
                    r = Run Search
                        Run search after the template is loaded. Else 
                        just the Find Files tab is adjusted to the 
                        loaded template.
                    l = Load Search Location
                        Search the location that's stored with the 
                        template. Else search the current location.
                    e = Load Excluded Folders
                        Excluded folders as stored with the template. 
                        Else use the currently excluded folders.
                    c = Load Cached Results (if any)
                        If this option is set the other options (r, l, e) 
                        are auto-implied.
                    x = (none of the above)
    * Menu File: "Special" is now "File Special".
    * Menu Edit: Moved commands "New Shortcut..." and "New Path..." into 
      submenu "New".
    * Menu Edit: Moved the selection commands to new submenu "Select".
    ! Move/Copy/Backup To dialog: Right-click menu "Sort Destinations" 
      interfered with native list menu ("Copy Current Item" etc.). Found 
      a better solution: Right-click menu now features command "Sort 
      Items".
    * Configuration | Panes | Tab key: Renamed "Swap panes only" to "Tab 
      between both panes only".
    ! Thumbnails: Flicker when a list with thumbnails was auto-refreshed 
      (items added or removed). Fixed.

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Change Log for the latest XYplorer BETA version (v8.30.0006, 05-sep-2009).

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v8.30.0006 - 2009-09-05 15:09 - The Line Numbers Edition
    * List | Details View: The Line Numbers column now autosizes. The 
      column will enlarge as necessary but never shrink below the user-
      defined minimum size. The allowed minimum size now is 2 digits 
      (was 3 before).
    * List | Details View: Made the line number column dark grey on 
      light grey.
    * List | Details View | Line Numbers Column: The right-click menu of 
      the column header now is the same as with the other columns, 
      namely menu View | Columns, because it's what's expected here. 
      Before it was menu View | Current Tab | Sort By, but this is 
      available in the right-click menu of the list already anyway.
      Same change for the column header area right of the columns.
    ! History: Buggy. Fixed.

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Change Log for the latest XYplorer BETA version (v8.30.0007, 06-sep-2009).

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v8.30.0007 - 2009-09-06 09:35
  +++ Custom Toolbar Buttons! Ok, it's just one for now, and you cannot 
      customize the icon (FYI, the current icon is supposed to be a 
      magnolia -- I might change it later), but you can:
      (1) Program the button by entering a one-line script (which, as 
          you certainly know, has all the power you want because you can 
          load a script file by this line).
      (2) Set the tooltip of the button by prefixing a quoted caption to 
          the script. The tooltip defaults to the script itself.
      To add the button look for it under the name "User Button 1" in 
      the Customize Toolbar dialog. To edit the button right-click it.
      Examples for button scripts:
        "Say Hi..." msg "Hi!"
        "Go to work" goto "D:\Company\"
        load "teracopy6.4.xys"  //load XYS file in scripts folder
        #1433                   //call a UDC
        msg "a"; msg "b";       //can put more commands into the line
      Note: Since CTBs are based on scripting they are only featured in 
      the Pro Edition.
    + Configuration | Interface Colors: Now the line numbers text and 
      back colors are configurable.
      Also made the default line numbers text color a notch darker.

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Change Log for the latest XYplorer BETA version (v8.30.0010, 07-sep-2009).

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v8.30.0010 - 2009-09-07 16:00
    + Custom Toolbar Buttons: Now you can have 10 user buttons. They all 
      default to the magnolia icon but it's easy to define a custom icon, 
      see below...
    + Custom Toolbar Buttons: Now you can enter multi-line scripts (and 
      hence also multi-scripts) directly in the button definition. A new 
      dialog "Edit User Button" is at your service, available from the 
      context menu of each User Button.
    + Custom Toolbar Buttons: Now you can define icons for your buttons.
      Simply state any existing file or folder, and its icon will be 
      used for the button. Relative and portable paths are supported, as 
      well as environment variables. Also generic patterns are allowed, 
      e.g. "*.jpg".
      If the toolbar has large icons, stretching or shrinking to 24x24 
      pixels would be needed, but experience shows that the quality of 
      scaled icons is not satisfying, so I opted for the following:
      - If you point to an ICO file then the first contained icon 
        resource will be used on the large toolbar. Optimal results are 
        achieved if this is a 24x24 icon resource. Other sizes are 
        scaled. For the small toolbar this ICO file's small system icon 
        is used.
      - If you point to any other file type or folder, then its small 
        system icon (16x16) is used on the small and the large toolbar 
        without any scaling.
      In other words, if you know how to make icons you can create high 
      quality custom icons for the large and the small toolbar.
    * List | Details View | Line Numbers Column: Now the right border 
      color of the line numbers area will be derived from the backcolor 
      of this area by darkening. If your backcolor is black the border 
      will be black as well.