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v13.70.0136 - 2014-02-17 21:27
! Color Filters: Filters that are not supported in the Tree did color tree
nodes when they were inverted. Fixed.
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v13.70.0137 - 2014-02-18 11:51
* Find Files: Removed the master prefix "#:" for search terms that was added
to v13.70.0129.
Now the same fuctionality is achieved by appending the switch /t to the
search term. Use it to confine the search to all items present in the tags
database (tag.dat). Examples (ready for pasting into the Address Bar):
- List all items (excluding any orphans) in the database:
*?* /t
- List all TXT items in the database:
*?*.txt /t
- List all tagged items in the current location with no comment:
?cmt:"" /t
- List all tagged items in the current location without comment AND number 5 in ex2:
?:cmt:"" and ex2:5 /t
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? = search
: = Boolean term
cmt: = comment
"" = empty
and = Boolean AND
ex2: = extra tag 2
5 = value 5
/t = in tags database
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- Invert the previous results: List all tagged items in the current
location NOT without comment AND number 5 in ex2:
?!:cmt:"" and ex2:5 /t
* SC report: Updated behavior to the recent changes in the Checkbox column
data structure:
Columns of type Checkbox can be formatted like this:
{extra 4 yn} = Show localized "Yes" (non-empty) or "No" (empty)
{extra 4 y} = Show localized "Yes" (non-empty) or nothing (empty)
{extra 4} = Show the raw contents
There is also a fully customizable format for the non-empty/empty states:
{extra 4 OnNonEmpty|OnEmpty} = Show "OnNonEmpty" on non-empty, "OnEmpty" else
Example (assuming Extra 4 is a Checkbox column):
text report("{name}: {extra 4 Done|To Do}<crlf>");
* Temporary variable <taggedcolumn>: Before, it resolved to the column ID (as used
by SC tag) that is being tagged via clicking a column cell. Now, it
resolves to the caption of the column that is being tagged via clicking a
column cell.
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v13.70.0138 - 2014-02-19 10:29
+ MLS: Now, on a fresh start you get a simple "Please Select a Language"
dialog to immediately choose the interface language of your choice. The
dialog is only shown if your Windows locale is not English and if you are
online.
A dummy "English" is shown and preselected in the list to make things
even clearer. If you OK "English" then simply nothing will happen.
* Updated the help file.
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v13.70.0139 - 2014-02-19 13:49
! Comparing files was temporarily shattered. Fixed.
> FYI, <get curitem> is not the same as <curitem>:
- <curitem> = the currently selected and focused item.
- <get curitem> = the currently selected and focused item, or if there is
none then the previously selected and focused item.
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v13.70.0156 - 2014-02-20 15:37
* Configuration | Thumbnails | Create all thumbnails at once: This setting
is now ignored in Find mode (Search Results and Branch View). Otherwise it
would delay browsing too much.
! CHM Help: Popped *under* the main Window instead of above it on a fresh
install, at least under Win8. Probably fixed, sometimes, maybe. Still a
total bizarre mystery.
! CHM Help: The recent CHM help did not find any topics anymore. Fixed.
* Updated the help file.
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v13.70.0158 - 2014-02-20 19:12
+ MLS: Now the language names displayed in the "Please Select a Language"
dialog on a fresh startup are shown in their respective language. Vista
and later only (else necessary Unicode fonts cannot be guaranteed).
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v13.70.0159 - 2014-02-21 08:35
* MLS: Now in the "Please Select a Language" dialog on a fresh startup the
language of the current locale is preselected if it is found in the list.
* List: Changed the way checkbox selection works. Now the item is selected
on mouse up (instead of mouse down), and the focus is moved to the ticked
item, so the ticked item will become the new current item. This way is
accordance with Explorer's behavior, and is much better when you want to
pick out certain items for selection by previewing them first in the
preview tab.
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v13.70.0160 - 2014-02-21 16:09
* MLS: Greatly simplified the language selection.
- Completely removed the command "Download Language File..." from menu Help.
- Menu Help | Select Language... now opens the same "Select Language"
dialog that you get on a fresh start in a non-English locale. However,
here the currently loaded language is preselected, not the one you are
likely to choose.
Selecting a language will download it from the internet.
If the system is not online, then dialog to load a local language file
is opened.
- There is still a way to load a local language file: Hold CTRL while you
click "Select Language...".
- There is still a way to show the old dialog: Hold CTRL+SHIFT while you
click "Select Language...".
* MLS | Select Language dialog: Now the English form of the language names
is shown in parentheses, and localized languages names are shown from XP
onwards (not Vista onwards).
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v13.70.0161 - 2014-02-22 09:41
* Breadcrumb Bar: The right-click menu command "Paste and Search" now
searches the right-clicked path. Before, it searched the current path.
* Paste to Type Ahead Find: Has been called "Paste and Search" before, but
now it's called "Paste and Find" to distinguish it from the Breadcrumb
Bar's "Paste and Search".
* Paste and Find: Now it ignores the match setting of Type Ahead Find.
Paste and Find always uses "Match anywhere".
* Paste and Find: Now it honors the setting of Configuration | Menus, Mouse, Safety
| Type Ahead Find | Enable type ahead find.
* Updated the help file.
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v13.80.0000 - 2014-02-24 12:00
= NEW OFFICIAL RELEASE. Main developments since last release:
+++ Extra Tags. Five optional extra columns in the file list let you assign
user data of various formats (free text, checkboxes, rating stars, date
stamps, linked locations, and more) to any file and folder. By these data
you can then sort the file list and find files across your system at
lightning fast speed.
+++ Paste and Find. Now you can find, focus, and highlight files simply by
pasting their name into the file list. Smart time saver.
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v13.80.0001 - 2014-02-25 20:08
+ Find Files: Added a way to limit the search depth. Simply append the new
switch "/maxdepth=n" to the search term in the name field.
Example:
*.txt /maxdepth=0 only search the current location
*.txt /maxdepth=1 only search the current location and one level deeper
*.txt /maxdepth=2 only search the current location and two levels deeper
The switch can be combined with the "one-letter" switches that are
already supported for a long time. Both terms are equivalent:
* /dr /maxdepth=2 find all directories in the current location and two levels deeper
* /maxdepth=2 /dr find all directories in the current location and two levels deeper
Notes:
- The switch also works with Quick Name Search.
- /maxdepth=-1 is equal to unlimited depth, i.e. equal to omitting the
switch.
- There is a shortform for the switch: /md=n
- Tag database search is not affected by this switch.
* Find Files: Now, when you pass flags but omit any flags affecting the
inclusion of subfolders then the UI setting of Include Subfolders is used.
Before, this would have resulted in a non-recursive search (a search not
including any subfolders).
So, these terms are now equivalent IF "Include Subfolders" is ticked:
* /d /maxdepth=2
* /dr /maxdepth=2
* Extra Tags: "Customize Extra Column..." is now called "Customize
Column...".
! List: Thumbnails for shortcuts to folders were not displayed. Fixed.
! SC PopupMenu's count parameter only treated omitting it as -1. Fixed.
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v13.80.0006 - 2014-02-26 10:16
+ ContextMenu64: Now the virtual folders "This PC" (Computer), "Network",
and "Recycle Bin" are supported.
* Shell Context Menu: Now when you call the 64-bit context menu from the
32-bit context menu using the command "Show 64-bit Context Menu" then the
64-bit menu will pop exactly at the same position as the 32-bit menu.
Before, it popped at the mouse position.
* ContextMenu64: Updated to v1.2.3.
* Menu Help: Added command "Select Local Language File...". Opens the
standard Open File dialog to load a locally stored *.LNG file.
! XYplorer as default file manager did not always come to the foreground
under certain conditions. Fixed.
! List: In particular modes, e.g. Recycle Bin or Drives, the "List" and
"Small Icons" views were not correctly rendered under certain conditions
(recent bug related to the introduction of Extra Tags). Fixed.
! Thumbnails: The focus highlight was shifted to the right for some pixels
for some days. Fixed.
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v13.80.0007 - 2014-02-26 19:40
! Thumbnails: Fixed a recent issue with chopped captions.
! ContextMenu64: Popped at wrong position sometimes. Fixed.
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v13.80.0101 - 2014-02-28 14:14
* Address Bar: Now when you type into the Address Bar the very first letter
(a-z, A-Z) will not trigger a file system match list (e.g. "e" -> match
list for drive E:\) but will just look for matches in the MRU. This avoids
unnecessarily waking up sleeping drives.
> Tip: To pop a match list after just typing one letter you now either have
to type ":" as 2nd letter ("e:") or simply press the right-arrow key.
! Thumbnails: Fixed a recent issue with chopped icons.
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v13.80.0102 - 2014-03-04 20:22
+++ Custom Columns: Now you got five additional freely customizable columns
that you can use to display more information about your files, sort files
by it, and find files by it.
Usage
~~~~~
- You show the columns just like the other regular columns: Via menu View,
or via right-clicking the currently shown column headers (not with Size
and Date columns, which show their special context menu), or the zone
right of the column headers.
- To customize the Custom Columns right-click the column header. You get a
menu with the following commands:
- Select Property: Pops a list with all extended shell properties.
Simply select one and the column will be auto-named to the property
(localized) and the list filled with the matching data.
This command is actually a shortcut to something you can also achieve
via the following more comprehensive command.
- Customize Column: Pops the "Customize Column" dialog, an extended
interface for advanced customizations. Here things get wild and geeky
and you can fulfill (some of) your wildest dreams about file
management. See the next section.
Customize Column dialog
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Caption:
Caption of the column. For column type "Property" the shell's
column name will be used if you can leave it empty.
Type:
Type of the column. Controls how the following definition is
interpreted.
Definition: The format to be used depends on the Type selected above.
If Type is Property:
The definition can be either a numeric index or keyword. Microsoft
never published a documentation on the keywords so you are left to
guessing them.
Examples:
10
Owner
Dimensions
If Type is Template:
The definition is a text with variables, e.g. the <prop> variable.
Notes:
- Using the <prop> variable you can add more than one property to a
column.
- You can as well use some of the interesting XY-special properties
that go beyond the shell.
- The template input (and hence output) may be multi-line.
Examples:
Owner: <prop #10>, Size: <prop #1>
<prop #ShortcutTarget>
<prop #aspectratio>
<prop #hardlinks>
If Type is Script:
The definition is one script (single- or multi-line).
Notes:
- Of course, here you cannot state multi-scripts that would pop a
menu, so indenting of lines is totally ingnored: All lines are
combined to one script.
- The special command "return" is used to set the column data.
- There are a couple of new variables just for this context by which
you can refer to the item for which the data are being generated:
- <cc_item> = the item name with path
- <cc_name> = the item name (no path)
- <cc_path> = the item's path
Example (single line script):
// display the first 12 characters of each file
return readfile(<cc_item> , , 12);
Example (multi line script):
// fills the column with characters 4-8 of each item name
$a = substr(<cc_name>, 3, 5);
return $a;
Format:
The format controls display and sorting of the column. "Text" will be
the best setting in almost all cases.
Scope:
Here you can enter a semicolon-separated list of wildcard patterns. Only
for items whose name (without path) matches at least one of the patterns
the column data are retrieved. By setting those patterns wisely you can
speed up browsing considerably.
Notes:
- Patterns without any wildcards are treated as "ending matches"
("*pattern"); that way you can simply enter a couple of extensions
without caring about wildcards.
- To suppress auto-wildcarding you can quote the pattern.
- Matching is case-insensitive (A==a).
Examples:
jpg matches *.jpg
jpg;png;gif matches *.jpg and *.png and *.gif
"readme.txt" matches only readme.txt (and Readme.txt)
Notes
~~~~~
- You pay a price for this feature: Retrieving and processing all this
extra information takes time. The shell as used here is v-e-r-y slow
compared to XYplorer's native functions, so browsing a list with Custom
Columns using shell properties will be notably slower than browsing a
list without such columns. Also running a script for each item in a list
and for each column of type "Script" takes a lot of time.
- Only visible columns are filled with data.
- Defining columns with a script is geek stuff. Be careful! You can easily
create nasty things here.
- Column definitions are global to all tabs on both panes. In a later
phase they can be per tab and loaded via FVS.
- FYI, the column definitions are stored in the INI file.
- This feature is only available in the Pro Edition.
> Support for Find Files and Reporting and various other things will be
added in the next version.
+ Command Line Switches: Now, if you pass /flg=8 no Custom Column scripts
are executed. That way you can start in XYplorer even when you messed up
your scripts.
+ List: Now when you hold CTRL and right-click a non-empty cell you get a
small popup menu with one command "Copy Data" by which you can copy the
contents of the cell to the clipboard. This works with all columns apart
from the Name column.
Additional cool new action: Instead of holding CTRL you can hold the left
mouse button down.
Of course, the "Copy Data" feature does not work with Full Row Select
enabled.
+ Menu Help | List All Commands: Now where the currently assigned keyboard
shortcuts differ from the factory defaults, both are shown as "(Default)
>> (Now)".
* Configuration | Styles | Focus rectangle: Reduced the situations where
this rectangle is shown. It is now mainly confined to the file list and
only if Configuration | Styles | Selections is set to "XYplorer Classic".
In the Tree it is only shown when the focused node is different from the
selected node.
* Autosize Columns: Now this is not done anymore on startup, on tab switch,
or on view change. In those cases the previous column widths should be
preserved. The primary moment for Autosize Columns to happen when changing
the location within the current tab.
* MLS: Internally updated to version 8.45.
> TRANSLATORS: Please wait until Reference_8.45.lng is uploaded.
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