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XYplorer Beta Club
v8.70.0013 - 2009-12-08 10:43
! Menu Tools | Tools Special | Reconnect All Mapped Network Drives:
Did not work reliably under Vista/Win7. Fixed?
! Connecting to mapped network drives, fix #2.
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v8.70.0101 - 2009-12-09 21:05
! The tweak to make dropping images from Firefox 3 work did not work
with Firefox 3.5. Fixed.
The tweak itself has not changed:
[General]
WorkAroundFirefox3ImageDropBug=1
If set to 1, the images are actually *downloaded* from their web
location to your harddisk into the current folder.
! Image Preview: Some formats (e.g. BMP, GIF) would not be previewed on
some systems when they had non-ANSI characters in the name. Fixed.
! Locked Tree: When choosing an unavailable location in the Tree the
List remained blocked when going to an available location via tab
change. Fixed.
! Info Panel | Report: Non-ANSI characters are not supported in
report file names. Before you were allowed to use them anyway and
run into trouble. Fixed. Now you are politely asked to choose
another name.
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v8.70.0102 - 2009-12-10 12:06
+ Configuration | General: Added option "Mixed sort on date
columns". Check to use a mixed sort (mix folders and files when
sorting) always on the Date columns.
This promotes the former tweak "SortMixedOnDates" to a GUI
setting.
+ Menu Tools | List Management: Added command "Mini Tree". Here you
can edit the current Mini Tree. Note that in a Mini Tree
definition the first path points to the current path.
+ Toolbar | Mini Tree | Context Menu: Added command "Edit Mini
Tree...". Opens the List Management dialog for Mini Tree.
! Generic icons for network locations were drawn too generic when
the tree was locked. Fixed.
! Startup on a locked maxi tree did not select the current folder if
it was visible. Fixed.
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v8.70.0150 - 2009-12-15 12:46
+++ Recycle Bin Deluxe. Finally, after only 5 years of waiting, you
get the interpreted version of the Recycle Bin. But it's not the
spartan kind of bin you know from other file managers like e.g.
Explorer. XYplorer's Recycle Bin gives you more:
- The real path/name for each item is displayed in a separate
column "Recycled Name". Ctrl+P will copy that info to the
clipboard.
- The context menu's custom command "Go to Real Location" will
beam you to the real location of the item and select it in
XYplorer's raw recycle bin view.
- The context menu's custom command "Go to Original Location" will
beam you to the original location of the item.
- You can open (Enter, Dbl-Click) a deleted folder to browse its
contents.
- You can show the recursive folder sizes of deleted folders right
in the list (as usual in the Size column).
- You can see the Space Used or Real Size of deleted items
(Explorer shows only Space Used).
- Apply Visual Filters to the Recycle Bin.
- Sort folders separately from files.
- Color code deleted items.
- Spot and jump to items
- Compare deleted items.
- Preview deleted items.
- Open deleted items.
- And, last not least, it's faster.
Remarks
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- The Shell default action (Enter, Dbl-Click) for Recycle Bin
items is to show the item's Properties dialog. This will happen
in XY as well, unless you have a PFA defined for the file type
in question.
- The Recycle Bin is a pretty singular construct superimposed onto
the regular file system and comes with a couple of pecularities:
- It is slower than "normal" folders.
- No drag'n'drop to or from the Recycle Bin.
- No renaming or cutting or moving or duplicating.
- No pasting.
- No custom File Info Tips, just the default ones.
- The Len column refers to the original Path/Name, not to the
Recycled Name.
- The Info Panel refers to the Recycled Name because this is the
file that exists, has properties, and can be previewed.
- XYplorer's raw recycle bin view is still available on each
drive, of course.
+ Configuration | General: Added option "Show Recycle Bin" to
Show/Hide the Recycle Bin in the Tree. Changing this option will
force a rebuild of the Tree (unless you are in Mini Tree mode).
+ SC Report(): Added special field {Basename}. Return the base (file
name without extension) of each file. Folder names are returned
unchanged.
+ Environment Variables: New XY only environment variable:
%recycler% = Name of the Recycle Bin special folder
Typically on English systems it will return "Recycle Bin".
- Menu View | Show Items: Removed option "Show My Network Places".
Reason: This just duplicated the identical option in Configuration
| General, and it's a typical Set & Forget setting.
* Quick File View: Now the same KS that opened the dialog will also
close it. So, by factory default, F11 will open and close the
dialog.
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v8.70.0151 - 2009-12-16 15:02
* Recycle Bin: Now the Recycle Bin icon displays the empty/non-empty
state. It is not 100% reliable due to unknown reasons but mostly
seems to work alright.
* The tweak to support Firefox 3.* image drop now attempts to get
the images from the local cache first; only on failure it will
download them from the web.
The tweak itself has not changed:
[General]
WorkAroundFirefox3ImageDropBug=1
! Native variables <curbase> and <curext> would also parse the names
of existing folders although only file names have extensions.
Fixed.
! Recycle Bin: Did not refresh on Undo/Redo. Fixed.
! Preview: Crash on BMPs with top-down DIB. Fixed.
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v8.70.0152 - 2009-12-17 15:28
+ New variable <get path [pane]> returns the unslashed path of any
of the two panes. The optional "pane" argument can be:
a = [default] active pane
i = inactive pane
1 = pane 1
2 = pane 2
For example:
<get path> //active pane's path
<get path i> //inactive pane's path
As always, SC getinfo supports the same argument:
echo getinfo("path"); //active pane's path
echo getinfo("path", i); //inactive pane's path
+ New variable <get userrole>. Returns the user's membership (resp.
his security role in the current process) in one of the following
security groups: Admin, User, Guest, Power User. If any other
groups apply then "Other" is returned.
As always, SC getinfo supports the same argument:
echo getinfo("userrole");
% Recycle Bin: Improved refresh of listing and icon.
* Configuration | Preview | Mouse Down Blow Up: Renamed "Full
screen" to "Use whole screen".
- Removed the tweak FixOddThing. The mysterious bug could finally be
fixed (see below) turning the tweak pointless. The tweak had been
added in v7.90.0100 - 2009-02-02 12:00.
! Fixed mysterious caret position error in Tree/List inline rename
on DBCS systems (Chinese, Japanese ...).
! Tree: Did not refresh the caption of drives reliably when they
were renamed via the properties dialog. Fixed.
! SC writefile: When using the "t" argument a file would falsely be
auto-saved as UTF-16 when it contained no wide chars apart from €
and the likes which on various common code pages are mapped to the
ANSI table. Fixed: Now such a file will be saved as normal ASCII
text.
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v8.70.0153 - 2009-12-19 20:08
+ Scripting got a new function.
Name: isunicode
Action: Analyzes a text string for the presence of wide characters.
Syntax: isunicode(string, [mindcodepage])
string: [required] string (any length) to analyze.
mindcodepage: [optional]
1 = do not count wide characters that
have a narrow pendant in the current codepage.
return:
true = wide characters contained
Examples:
echo isunicode("abc"); //False
echo isunicode("abc", 1); //False
echo isunicode(chr(20000)); //True
echo isunicode(chr(20000), 1); //True
echo isunicode("€"); //True (U+20AC EURO SIGN)
echo isunicode("€", 1); //False! e.g. on 1252 Western codepage,
where the Euro sign is mapped to 0x80
Also these refer to the Euro sign:
echo isunicode(chr(8364), 0); //True
echo isunicode(chr(8364), 1); //False on 1252 Western codepage
+ Scripting got a new function.
Name: filetype
Action: Analyzes a file by its contents.
Syntax: filetype(file)
file: [required] full path/file name to analyze.
return:
Ascii It's an ASCII text file.
Unicode It's a UNICODE text file (has UTF-16 BOM).
Binary It's a binary file.
Empty It's an empty file.
Cannot Cannot open file.
Nofile It's not an existing file.
Example:
echo filetype(<curitem>);
! On a Rename Special a locked tree was refreshed and changed when
it was neither necessary nor correct. Fixed.
! Raw View misinterpreted UTF-16 files as binary files when they
contained a certain ambiguous byte pattern (a double null across
double byte borders). Fixed.
! SC report: Fields {tag} and {comment} did not return anything when
neither the Tag nor the Comment column were visible in the list.
Fixed.
Note that "Show tags and comments in file list" must be enabled in
Configuration | Tags, else SC report will not return any tags or
comments.
! SC break: Would not jump to the expected line when the broken
structure was surrounded by an if-block, for example:
if (1) {
while (1) {
break;
}
msg 'foo'; // never gets executed
}
Fixed.
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v8.70.0154 - 2009-12-21 11:45
- Menu Tools | Tools Special: Removed the following commands which
have been rendered useless by the new Recycle Bin support:
Open Recycle Bin...
Empty Recycle Bin...
Recycle Bin Stats...
Also removed the "Open Recycle Bin" toolbar button.
* Updated the help file.
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v8.70.0156 - 2009-12-21 22:48
! The tweak to support Firefox 3.* image drops did not support
dropping hyperlinked images. Fixed.
! The new shell open code from v8.70.0003 - 2009-12-02 09:42 did not
set the correct working directory for the opened apps. Fixed.
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v8.80.0000 - 2009-12-22 12:00
= NEW OFFICIAL RELEASE. Main changes since last release:
+++ Recycle Bin Deluxe. Finally you get the Recycle Bin special folder
in XYplorer as well. But not the spartan kind of bin you know from
other file managers like e.g. Explorer. XYplorer's Recycle Bin
gives you more...
+++ Edit Mini Tree. Now you can directly edit XYplorer's famous Mini
Tree. Add the branches you need to see and delete what's just in
your way.
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v8.80.0001 - 2009-12-24 10:29
+ SCs html(), input(), and text now support width and height
parameters that are relative to the screen size. Simply append a %
character to the values and they are interpreted as percentage.
Example:
html("<b>Size is relative to screen!</b>", 75%, 75%);
+ New variable <get screen [width|height|dpi]> returns width or
height of screen in pixels, resp. DPI (dots per inch).
echo <get screen width>;
echo <get screen height>;
echo <get screen dpi>;
+ Tree Context Menu: Added special functionality to the context menu
of Junctions. You now have these extra commands:
Go to Junction Target
Copy Junction Target Name
* Spot & Jump: Now spaces work as alternative pattern separators.
Makes it easier to type.
>chuck berry = spot all "chuck" and all "berry"
>chuck|berry = (same)
The old | only has to be used when spaces are part of a pattern:
>chuck berry| = spot all "chuck berry"
>ab|a b = spot all "ab" and all "a b"
! Icon Overlays: Did not show for LNK and URL files. Fixed.
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v8.80.0002 - 2009-12-27 20:38
* User Buttons: From now on the commands "Click", "Edit..." and
"Customize Toolbar..." from a User Button's context menu are never
stepped even if step mode is on.
Reason: This step was superfluous and just disturbing the work
flow (on step mode enabled).
! Recycle Bin: Did not work as Favorite Folder. Fixed.
! List: Ctrl+RightClick on a single selected item lead to run-time
error 9. Fixed.
! List: Icon Overlays were not always auto-updated. Fixed.
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v8.80.0003 - 2009-12-28 21:58
+ Address Bar: Now, right-clicking the icon will pop up the shell
context menu for the item (folder or file) currently displayed in
the Address Bar. This will always be the standard shell context
menu, without any XYplorer-only custom items.
! Tree, List: Hidden items with icon overlays weren't shown ghosted
anymore since yesterday. Fixed.
! Tree: Autorefresh on rename of subfolders of special paths did not
reliably happen. Fixed.
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v8.80.0004 - 2009-12-29 22:45
! Image Preview: PNG images that were larger than PreviewMaxArea
displayed a wrong color depth "Colors: 2 (1-bit)". Fixed. Now it
displays "Unknown" because images larger than PreviewMaxArea are
not scanned for color depth.
! Address Bar: Fixed some glitches with the new shell context menu.
! Minimize to Tray: XYplorer's icon on the tray did not survive the
restart of Explorer.exe. Fixed.
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v8.80.0005 - 2009-12-30 14:12
+ Configuration | Thumbnails: Added option "Create all thumbnails at
once". Check it to have all thumbnails in the current list created
at once (not just the ones that are currently visible in the
viewport).
Enabling this option is only advisable if also "Cache thumbnails
on disk" is enabled because then the work will have to be done
only once. Otherwise browsing large image folders will become slow
again and again.
Note that even with "Cache thumbnails on disk" enabled this new
setting makes browsing a bit slower on fully cached folders. So,
if all or most of your folders are already fully cached, you can
(very) slightly increase speed by disabling "Create all thumbnails
at once".
+ Toolbar: The context menu of the buttons related to list views now
features a command "Create All Thumbnails Now". Here you can have
all thumbnails in the current list created for *this* list,
without having the global "Create all thumbnails at once" enabled
in Configuration | Thumbnails.