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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.20.0060, 02-nov-2006).
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v5.20.0060 - 02.11.06 21:30
  +++ Added "Default Tab" to the tabs' context menu. It's a measurement to 
      reduce the number of opened tabs: Any passively (intrinsically) opened 
      new tab will open in this tab instead. There's a visual indicator 
      (currently a zigzagdotted line, but I might find something 
      better...) to show which tab is the default tab (if any). There 
      can be only one default tab.
      Note: the "Default Tab" will only be used if no other tab pointing 
      to the desired location does already exist in which case this tab 
      will be selected.
    ! Did not "Cut" (but "Copy") files on Win98SE. Fixed?

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.20.0062, 03-nov-2006).
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v5.20.0062 - 03.11.06 18:57
    + Catalog: added "Paste" command to the items' context menu.
    * Shortcut behavior consistency: Dbl-click and Enter on a shortcut 
      (LNK) now trigger identical action.
    * Renamed "Lock Tab" to "Lock Location". It's the better term for it.
    * The "Default Tab" is now marked by a green/white icon overlay. No 
      more zigzagdotted line.
    + Added select-on-paste after drag'n'drop.
    + Now the Properties Tab can display unicode filenames.

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.20.0064, 05-nov-2006).
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v5.20.0064 - 05.11.06 19:02
    + Find Files tab: added checkbox "Selected Locations". If checked 
      then any selected locations (folders, or LNKs to folders, or 
      drives) in the current list are used as search locations (thus 
      overwriting the location field). If unchecked, or if no locations 
      are selected in the list, the contents of the location field are 
      used.
      Note 1: up to now, the checked state was the hard-coded default 
      behavior. Now you have the choice.
      Note 2: this setting is global, i.e. not specific to a finding tab 
      or find template.
    + Menu Tools: added "Reconnect All Mapped Network Drives". After a 
      fresh OS boot this will (if necessary) revive all your mapped 
      drives in one go.
      To revive the drives manually and one-by-one: select a sleeping 
      drive in the tree and press Shift+F4 (Refresh Current Folder).
      Note: Reconnecting Mapped Network Drives may need a live network 
      connection depending on your system setup.
    + Menu Go: added command "Top" to jump to the top folder (Drive, 
      \\Server, Desktop, MyDocuments) of the current folder.
      The keyboard shortcut is [Ctrl+Home @Tree] (=only if the Tree is 
      focused).
    ! Crash when Ctrl+Home (Go to top folder) on MyComputer in Tree. Fixed.
    * Select-On-Paste: now happens also when there were previous 
      selections (they will get lost).
    + Close All Other Unlocked Tabs: will keep Default tab open.
    ! After deleting the Default tab, the next opened tab would become 
      automatically the default tab. Fixed.
    * Before, if you cut a locked file and then paste you get warned 
      that it is locked when you paste. Then, if you close the program 
      using the file so it becomes unlocked, then press paste again, there 
      was "nothing to paste". Now, you can just paste the file(s) then.
    ! List Management: horizontal scrollbar did not scroll when vertical 
      scrollbar was not visible. Fixed.
    * When renaming a file with UNICODE chars, now the ANSI "?" 
      replacement chars (which would be illegal anyway for the new item 
      name) are automatically removed for you in the Edit box.
    * For the sake of portability: from now on, if the thumbnails cache 
      path is below the app path, it will be stored in the INI file 
      *relative* to the app path. This allows you to move the whole app 
      folder somewhere else (even to another computer) without needing 
      to reassign the thumb cache path.
    + Toolbar: added button "Edit Files on Clipboard". Does the same as 
      menu File|Paste Special|Edit Clipboard... -- just another quick way.

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.40.0000, 06-nov-2006).
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v5.40.0000 - 06.11.06 11:37
    + File Associations: now you can state several extensions in a row, 
      separated by ";", for example:
        png;jpg>C:\Programs\Viewer\Viewer.exe
    + File Associations: now you can state a path *relative* to this 
      XYplorer's path, for example: 
        png;jpg>..\Viewer\Viewer.exe
        png;jpg>..\..\Viewer\Viewer.exe
      If this XYplorer is at C:\Programs\XYplorer\ then the examples 
      will be resolved to C:\Programs\Viewer\Viewer.exe resp. 
      C:\Viewer\Viewer.exe.
    + Now unavailable mapped network drives are reconnected on-the-fly.
    ! Find Files "Check Full Path" did not always work as expected. 
      Fixed.
      Note that in the search patterns you have to escape any 
      backslashes "\" with backslashes "\" (i.e. double them: "\\").
      For example, if "Check Full Path" is ON then:
      - The term "!\\temp\\" will exclude all items inside/below a 
        "temp" folder from the results.
      - The term ":\\keyboard or \\mouse" will find all items 
        inside/below a "keyboard*" or "mouse*" folder.
      - The term ":*\\Inbox\\*.msg and not *\\Inbox\\*\\*.msg" will find 
        all *.msg files the are located directly inside all folders named 
        "Inbox".
    + Menu Edit: added command "New Path...". Here you can create a 
      multi-part path in one go. Any slashes "/" are auto-converted into 
      backslashes "\".

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.40.0001, 07-nov-2006).
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v5.40.0001 - 07.11.06 12:47
    + Toolbar: added button "Show/Hide Tree". Does the same as 
      menu Window|Show Tree -- just another quick way.
    ! Menu Tools|Edit Configuration File... opened XYplorer.ini in 
      Windows default editor. Now XYplorer checks its internal file 
      associations first.
    * Menu Edit|New Path...: after creation you will be transported to 
      the newly created location.
      Also added keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+Alt+N (= AltGr+N).

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.40.0002, 07-nov-2006).
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v5.40.0002 - 07.11.06 22:54
    ! Pressing ESC would not reliably stop getting folder sizes. Fixed.
    ! Menu Edit|New Path...: transportation to the newly created 
      location did not work reliably. Fixed.
    * Menu Edit|New Path...: now the last new path is remembered and 
      given as default when you do it again. Good XY tradition.
    * "Alternate grid colors" now is ""Zebra striping".

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.40.0006, 08-nov-2006).
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v5.40.0006 - 08.11.06 12:56
  +++ Configuration|Colors: Redid the color selection UI.
      Added textboxes where you can enter hex color values in RRGGBB 
      format.
      Added mode selector for list colors. In case you did not know: 
      There are 4 list modes (although most interesting are just Browse 
      and Find mode) with independent color schemes in order to quickly 
      show in which mode you are. Other than in colors the 4 modes 
      differ in the kind of colimns shown in the list.
      Added new option "Underline selected row" that allows you to 
      further specify the "Highlight Selected Rows" list style: If 
      enabled, all selected rows are underlined with the color defined 
      in "Selected Row", else all selected rows are fully backlighted 
      with that color -- the latter is actually a new option, the former 
      was the hard-coded setting before. In full-backlight mode, I left 
      a 1-pixel high area empty at the bottom of each line for easier 
      eye navigation. This also allows a highlighted foxued row to shine 
      through (so this is a feature, not a bug...).
      Also added a "Reset" button that brings you back to the state of 
      affairs when the config window was opened.
    ! Default tab state was lost when Default tab became last tab after 
      closing the previous last tab. Fixed.
    + Menu View|Sort By: added option "Sort Folders Apart" -- just as an 
      alternative quick access to this interesting setting.
      Tip: the Sort By menu is the right-click menu of the line number 
      column header ("#").

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.40.0008, 09-nov-2006).
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v5.40.0008 - 09.11.06 10:42
    + Configuration|Colors: added access to two list style properties to 
      clarify the logical connections between "Highlight selected rows" 
      and "Underline", and between "Show grid" and "Zebra striping".
      Also improved a number of other things and fixed some bugs.
    ! Unconnected mapped network drives have been attached to the bottom 
      of the tree. Now they are correctly positioned.
    ! Ctrl+Shift+N broke in v5.40.0002. Fixed.
    % Faster startup time for NT-OSs (NT4, 2K, XP, Vista).

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.40.0009, 10-nov-2006).
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v5.40.0009 - 10.11.06 09:29
    - Find Files tab|"Selected Locations": Note that the claim "This 
      setting is global, i.e. not specific to a finding tab or find 
      template." has never been true but was and is sheer nonsense!
    ! Crashed on startup when INI key had more than 512 characters (NT4, 
      2K, XP, Vista). Fixed.
    ! Configuration|Colors: editing Hex fields for list colors did not 
      have any effect. Fixed.

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.40.0016, 11-nov-2006).
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v5.40.0016 - 11.11.06 11:11
    + Added some tooltips to the various options in FindFiles|Name & 
      Location and Contained Text.
    ! Menu Edit|NewItems: failed when you had commas in the item names. 
      Fixed.
    ! Did not create a new catalog file from a clean installation. Fixed.
    % Improved the load speed of the config dialog a bit by caching the 
      Previewed Formats icons.
  %%% Discovered the secret of slow loading drop-downs!!
      Resulting speed increase:
      - Show application: 10%
      - Completely load application: 40%
      - Completely (non-first) load configuration dialog: 540% (sic!)
    + Find Files|Contained Text: added option "Match unicode". If 
      enabled "Text" will match with "T0e0x0t0".

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.40.0019, 14-nov-2006).
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v5.40.0019 - 14.11.06 08:41
    + Menu View|Font: added "Monospace for RegExp..." where you can set 
      Name and Size (limited to a maximum of 12 points; else the app's 
      layout would break) of the font to be used when entering a Regular 
      Expression. Defaults to "Courier New, 8".
      Currently implemented for (and you cannot turn it off ;)):
      - the Name field of Find Files
      - RegExp Rename (under Rename Special)
      - Visual Filter dialog
      - Selection Filter dialog
      - GoTo dialog (for RegExp Name Searches)
    + Customize Toolbar: added some keyboard tricks.
      - Press [s] to add a separator.
      - Press [backspace] to remove the item right before the currently 
        selected item.
    ! When the trial period of 30 days was over you could not open the 
      app's main window anymore to enter the Personal License Key you 
      reveived after purchase. Fixed. Now you can.
    % Slightly improved access time on browsing network locations.

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.40.0021, 17-nov-2006).
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v5.40.0021 - 17.11.06 12:24
    + Menu Edit: added command "Select Focused File Type". Selects all 
      list items with the same extension as the currently focused item. 
      Also useful when you want count the items of a certain type.
    ! Various lists (e.g. the lists in the Copy To dialogs and the List 
      Management dialogs) did not adjust to the system wide Window Text 
      Color but simply printed the text in black. Fixed. Now you can have 
      XYplorer in white-on-black throughout.
    + Added a second "Marked Text" color, because "Marked Text" can 
      appear on Window background (by default white) and on Button 
      background (by default some greyish color).
      The new "Marked Text 2" for example appears in the match list of 
      the address bar (if path name completion is OFF).
    * When trying to Raw View a locked file you now get a better 
      message, and it goes like this: "Sharing violation. Cannot access 
      the file because it is being used by another process."
    ! Extended File Info: Name value was missing since about 10 days. 
      Fixed.
    + Menu Views|Tab: added command "Copy Location Term". Puts the tab's 
      location, including any Visual Filters, up to the clipboard. If 
      the tab is renamed, the command will still copy the location, not 
      the caption. Now you know why I did not call it "Copy Caption" :)

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.40.0023, 20-nov-2006).
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v5.40.0023 - 20.11.06 10:30
    ! Fixed some remaining issues with OS color schemes.
    ! Rename edit boxes in Catalog and List Management made beep/ding 
      sound on ESC key. Fixed.
    + Added (optional) path name completion to Find Files Location. 
      Naturally, in this case only folders are suggested (not files or 
      URLs as in Address Bar).
      Configurable in Configuration|General.
    * Menu View: renamed submenu "Show Columns" to "Columns".
    * Menu Edit: renamed "Select Focused File Type" to "Select by Focused 
      Type", and changed the functionality: now it goes by Type, not by 
      Extension (unless no the focused item has no Type in which case it 
      does go by Extension). 
      To select by type is better because it now also handles folders 
      (type "file folder" or whatever your local language gives you 
      here) and drive types ("Fixed drive", "CD-ROM drive" ...).
    + Menu View|Tab: added command "Filter by Focused Extension". Will 
      show only items with the same extension as the currently focused 
      item.
    * Keyboard shortcut [Ctrl+Del] (Delete (Skip Locked)) now only works 
      if either Tree or List have the focus. Before it also caught 
      keyboard events meant e.g. for the Catalog, potentially leading to 
      confusion.
  +++ Catalog: now you can copy all items contained in a Catalog 
      category! Simply select a category and press Ctrl+C. Or choose the 
      new "Copy All Items in Category" command in the category's context 
      menu. Note that, of course, only files and folders are copyable, 
      but not drives, name searches, or web-URLs.
        This little feature is a revolutionary new way to quickly and 
      repeatedly copy distributed items onto the clipboard by a single 
      click. You just have to collect them one single time under a 
      catalog category, and they are ready for repeated joint copying.
        Note: of course, if you happen to have same-named items (from 
      different locations, naturally) on the clipboard you'll run into 
      a collision-situation when pasting them.
    * Catalog|Items' Context Menu: changed caption "Remove" to "Remove 
      from Catalog" just to make clear that not the referred item but just 
      the reference is deleted.
    + Catalog|Items' Context Menu: added "Remove from Catalog (no 
      Prompt)" [Shift+Del]. The functionality was there already, but the 
      menu item has been missing.
    * Catalog: when adding a new item to a category while the category 
      itself is focused, this item is now added to the *top* (first 
      position) of the category's items, not to the bottom as before. 
      Gives better visual feedback because the top is usually visible 
      while the bottom often is hidden.
    * Catalog: changed selection style to "heavy" (using the dark-blue 
      background), but kept the little colored arrow to hold the color 
      information of the focused/selected (folected?) item.
      It's more expected like this, the folected catalog item is easier 
      recognizable, and the focused control is easier spotted as well. 
      Good reasons galore!
    * Configuration|Preview: changed option "Preview static frame, skip 
      n seconds" to "... milliseconds". Reason: the fractional values 
      (e.g. 2.123 sec) that were allowed before could lead to 
      misinterpretations on systems with different localization (different 
      decimal separator, as for example "," in Germany). Now with 2123 
      msec, this potential issue is history.

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.40.0025, 22-nov-2006).
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v5.40.0025 - 22.11.06 09:52
    + Now you can use the new keyboard shortcut Shift+F6 to move the 
      focused item into view (actually to the top of the viewport, if 
      possible) in Tree, List, and Catalog. Any selections remain alive! 
      Gone are the days of desperate scrolling!
      In tree and list you can already achieve the same by dbl-clicking 
      the white space, but in list any selections will be lost due to 
      the clicking.
    * Menu Edit: renamed "Select by Focused Type" to "Select by 
      Selected Type(s)", and changed the functionality: now the types of 
      all selected items are used. Only if there are no selections, the 
      type of the focused item is used. Nice powerful selector function!
      Here's the new keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+M.
    * Menu View|Tab: renamed "Filter by Focused Extension" to "Filter by 
      Selected Extension(s)", and changed the functionality: now the 
      extensions of all selected items are used. Only if there are no 
      selections, the extension of the focused item is used.
      Here's the new keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+Alt+J.
    * Visual Filter: when a applying or un-applying a Visual Filter, now 
      the current selections are kept alive as far as possible (i.e. as 
      far as still visible).
    ! Catalog: items dropped onto a Category were added to the bottom. 
      Fixed. Now they are added to the top of the Catagory.
    - Preview tab: removed the following file type from "Web & Office 
      preview" (i.e. files viewed through IE):
        *.log
      Reason: *.log is not a strictly defined file format that would 
      allow any prediction about the nature of the contents of the file.
      Furthermore (and consequently), *.log files can not be relied on 
      to have a Content Type key in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.
    * Catalog: changed selection style to "medium" (dark-blue background 
      when control is focused; nothing when it's unfocused).
    ! Path name completion in Find Files Location was not limited to 
      folders right after enabling it in Configuration. Fixed.

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.40.0029, 23-nov-2006).
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v5.40.0029 - 23.11.06 12:49
    + Configuration|Report: added section "Filename templates" (could 
      not find a better place for it at the moment...). The first two 
      templates have been already available since long via hardcore INI-
      editing; now they are easier accessible. The third one is new and 
      fantastic for organizing and backing up emails/messages.
      - Number suffix
          e.g. -00        (= INI-key PostfixNum)
        Used e.g. by "Copy Here with Suffix Number".
      - Date suffix
          e.g. -yyyymmdd  (= INI-key PostfixDate)
        Used e.g. by "Copy Here with Suffix Date Now/Modified".
      - Dropped messages
          e.g. <from>_<subject>_<date yyyy-mm-dd_hh-nn-ss>
        When drag-dropping messages from Outlook or Outlook 
        Express, this template controls the makeup of the new filenames.
        Syntax: You can freely change the order of the 2 available 
        fields (<from>, <subject>, and <date ...>, where date is the *sent*-date
        of the message) and pack any text strings before, after or 
        between them. Do not add the extension to the template -- it is 
        done automatically, and mind the space after "<date".
        * NOTE: currently the <date> field only works as expected for 
          Outlook Express messages (EML)! With Outlook messages (MSG) it 
          is still in an experimental stage. Vice versa with the <from> 
          field.
      Note that it's your responsibility to ensure that your templates 
      contain only characters that are legal for filenames. It is not 
      validated inside the configuration window.
    + Added a smart (sorry!) toggle to "Filter by Selected Extension(s)" 
      [Ctrl+Alt+J]: if the current VF is exactly the same as the new one 
      would be, VF is turned off. So using [Ctrl+Alt+J] two times 
      brings you back to unfiltered view.
    ! After deleting an item focus moved to a seemingly random position 
      instead of simply moving on to the next position. Fixed.
    + List view: Now you can change the sort order/sorted column also in 
      an empty list.
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