v6.30.0036 - 2007-10-01 10:44

• *** Ux theme visual styles are now applied to the tabs. If you don't like the new look you can return to the "XYplorer Classic" look by setting the new option "Visual Style" in Configuration Tabs. Note that the new style is applied to the main browsing tabs only -- it doesn't look good at the Info Panel and other tabs. Of course, the Windows Themes style is only available in XP and higher and only when you run the OS in themed mode (not in "Classic Design" mode).
  If you choose the Windows Themes style, you cannot configure the background colors of the tab headers. Later, I will add an even better third visual style, which will be totally independent from the Windows version/mode and have fully configurable colors.
• + Now you can drag-drop item onto *.BAT and *.CMD files. Of course, this works also with Catalog items as drop targets.
• + Tip of the day: added option to have it "Always on top". Unfortunately it does not work well together with modal dialogs like Configuration: it's not selectable or movable when a modal window is opened.
• * Fonts: Interface Font is now only used for the main window interface, so from now on these windows use the Dialog Font:
  - Configuration
  - Customize Keyboard Shortcuts
  - Customize Toolbar
  - Tip of the day
• ! Preview of Office files: you could not switch directly from Raw View to Preview because the file was locked by the Raw View. Fixed.
• ! A sticky MouseDownBlowUp would stay visible on tab change. Fixed.
• ! Browse for Network Server: did not work as expected when selecting the top node (My Network Places). Fixed.

v6.30.0034 - 2007-09-29 14:55

• *** Ux theme borders are now applied to the biggies: Tree, List, and Catalog. At least by default. If you don't like it you can turn it off. There's a new option in Configuration Interface Colors called "Beveled border". Check it to return to the classic 3D-bevel effect.
• ! An empty list could not be scrolled horizontally. Fixed.
• ! Rename Special: extensions of folders were treated like extensions of files (i.e. they were preserved). Fixed: folders do not have extensions, of course.
• * List: Now, when CTRL is held, the focus is set *immediately* to the clicked item on MouseDown. As before, on releasing the mouse button (MouseUp), the selection state is toggled. Note that this works also if the List itself receives the focus through this click.

v6.30.0033 - 2007-09-26 20:05

• ! Little display glitches due to recent changes. Fixed.

v6.30.0032 - 2007-09-26 15:00

• + Configuration | Colors | Color Filters: added color coding by file attribute FILE_ATTRIBUTE_REPARSE_POINT (= NTFS junction). Use this pattern: /junction (or /j)
  matches all items with FILE_ATTRIBUTE_REPARSE_POINT set
• + Added "junction" to the attributes on the Properties tab and on the Attributes tab (Find Files), and to the Attributes column (as "J") in the list.
• ! Calculate Folder Sizes: did follow NTFS junctions, which it should not. Fixed.
• ! Using "." (dot; note that on some system the dot must be quoted else Windows does not pass it on) as command line start path to open the app (resp. a new tab) at the current directory did not work as expected. Fixed.
• ! List Management: crashed when Editor Font was not existing. Fixed.
• + Toolbar: added buttons for "Show Hidden Items" and "Show System Items".
• % Lots of display code rewritten. GUI rendering should be even smoother now.

v6.30.0028 - 2007-09-24 14:06

• + Menu Tools | List Management: added "Highlighted Folders..." and "Boxed Branches...". Up to now there was no way to manage these lists so you'll likely find some orphaned entries in them. You now can edit the color values directly in the List Management interface - it is a little hardcore since you have to know Hex color coding (as in HTML: RRGGBB). Some day I might add a more luxury interface.
  NOTE: 000000 means "default color" (and NOT color "black"). So you cannot use black as a highlight color. While doing this I also rewrote the storage format for these two lists. I took care for backward compatibility, so everything should look and work as before. Nice side-effect: more speed, less memory. But you'll will not note any difference -- it's just a couple of micro-seconds and a handful of bytes.
• ! Floppy drive type was displayed as "FloInch Floppy Drive" in list view. Also other drives' type labels did not match exactly what Explorer would show. Fixed: now you even get the drive types in the local system language.
• ! Opening a command line start path in a new tab did not work anymore if an instance of XYplorer was already running. Fixed.
• ! The Configuration dialog's new GUI did not work in 120 DPI. Fixed.
• ! Tree and List: Didn't set the new focus correctly when leaving rename mode by clicking another item. Fixed.
• + Tip of the Day: added Random button.
• * Tip of the Day: If shown on startup then only if startup is not minimized.

v6.30.0021 - 2007-09-20 08:21

• ! Backup file operation: did not preserve Created and Accessed dates for files. Fixed.
• ! Tip of the Day: If shown on startup the tip window was still modal. Fixed.

v6.30.0020 - 2007-09-19 12:17

• *** Ux theme borders are now applied to all list controls. Still missing are the biggies: Tree, List, and Catalog.
• *** The Backup file operation now preserves all three dates (modified, created, accessed) in copied files and folders.
• + Search Templates: added option "Load excluded folders". Check to overwrite the current excluded folders listing by the one stored in the template. The default is unchecked because it is assumed that the excluded folders are usually a global affair.
  Nice side effect: you can now (ab)use Search Templates to store and load new sets of excluded folders (without actually doing a search).
• * Search Templates: changed the "Search stored location" option group (aka "radio buttons") into one checkbox named "Load search location" to keep some style consistency.
• * List: vertically re-shrinked the column headers by 1 pixel. See v6.30.0002 - 2007-09-06 12:16, where I had added 1 pixel.

v6.30.0019 - 2007-09-18 13:05

• + In a near idiotic effort I finally managed what I wanted to do since a long time: paint my custom control borders the way it's done since Windows XP -- flat and blue (depending on your color theme). You can see my results in 2 lists where I turned the new look on as an example: the Configuration navigation list, and the first list on Configuration | Previewed Formats.
  Note: You won't see anything if you use "classic design" or an OS < XP.
• Two questions: - Does it work? - Is it good?
• ! Window did not restore to maximized after closed minimized. Fixed.
• ! Find Files: Excluded Folders where not remembered -- neither tab- wise, nor with Search Templates. Fixed.
• ! TitlebarTemplate: did lose leading and trailing spaces between sessions. Fixed.
• * TitlebarTemplate: now it is allowed to being and/or end the template with <app>, without attaching an additional space.

v6.30.0018 - 2007-09-17 14:12

• + Menu Edit | New Items: Now, date variables are supported.
  For example:
  1. Create a file named "Log {yyyy-mm-dd}.txt" in the NewItems folder in app path.
  2. Go to some other folder.
  3. Open menu Edit New Items and select the new item (which has been auto-added here magically)
  4. A file called "Log 2007-09-17.txt" will be created! (If today is 2007-09-17.)
• + Configuration | General: added option "Show tips on startup" to
  this interface as well.
• + Tip of the Day: some additional keyboard tricks. Overview:
  PageDown: next tip.
  PageUp: previous tip.
  Home: first tip.
  End: last tip.
  R: random tip.
• + Configuration | Report: Now displays the current memory usage at the bottom. To update the value close and re-open Configuration. The values are identical to those shown in Task Manager.
• + Configuration | Interface Colors: now you can control "Highlight focused item" also from here.
• * TitlebarTemplate: in concordance with usage elsewhere in XY, I changed the brackets:
  Old: {path} - {app} @ {ini} - {ver}
  New: <path> - <app> @ <ini> - <ver>
  Forgot to mention what they mean:
  <path> = current path
  <app> = application's exe name
  <ini> = current INI file
  <ver> = exe version
• ! RegExp Rename: RegExp inline comments containing the character ">" would not work. Fixed.
• ! RegExp Rename: The preview button would disappear after a RegExp error message. Fixed.
• ! Optimize Tree: did not refresh the tree display reliably. Fixed.

v6.30.0012 - 2007-09-15 12:00

• *** Configuration: Redesigned the interface. Instead of tabs (that typically run into out-of-space problems) the category selection now is done via a (scrollable, if longer) list.
  Tip: You can nonstop-cycle the list by up/down arrows.
  As you see, I'm still not done/happy with creating some icons.
  And, more importantly, the mountain of configuration options has still to be reorganized into subchapters. Which, sadly, will make rewriting of some parts of the documenation necessary.
  I also plan to add a "find-the-setting"-tool in form of a find-as-you-type technology.
• * Configuration | Preview: renamed "Audio preview with panel down" to "Play with panel down" (just to save space).
• + Configuration | Tabs: The delay before a dragged over tab is automatically selected is now configurable. You find this new option on the new Tabs tab. It is called: "Delay before a dragged over tab is auto-selected (in milliseconds)" Allowed values are from 0 to 9999.
  *** NOTE ***: I did not write backward-compatibility code, so this Value will be initialized to 0 (zero) on a non-fresh installation. If you want to have it as it was before then go to Configuration Tabs and set the value to 1000 (= 1 second)!
• + The main window's titlebar now displays the app version.
  The form is: {path} - {app} @ {ini} - {ver}
  But read on...
• + ... now you can tweak what's displayed in the titlebar.
  In the INI you'll find a new key:
    [General]
    TitlebarTemplate=...
  A full-blown example (and the new default!) would be:
    TitlebarTemplate={path} - {app} @ {ini} - {ver}
  There are two rules:
    - The presence of the field {app} is obligatory, AND it must be surrounded by spaces. This is necessary to correctly identify previous instances of the app with a good chance.
    - This feature is only available in a licensed copy. Else the default is used and "### 30-day Trial Version ###" is inserted into {ver}.
• + From now on, fresh installations will come with some Default Color Filters. Works as a visual appetizer and as a practical example for how to do it. These are the pre-installed filters:
    [ColorFilter]
    Count=9
    1=+/s>FF0000
    2=+/d>5E738C
    3=+*.png;*.jpg;*.gif>933968
    4=+*.exe;*.bat>D24257
    5=+*.htm*;*.mht;*.php>4287D2
    6=+*.txt;*.ini>38A050
    7=+*.zip;*.rar>CC6600
    8=+*.dll;*.ocx>7800F0
    9=+*.mp3>FF8000
  They do not come activated though. I'm still unsure whether that might be a shock for newbies... ;)
• + Highlight Focused Row now happens not only in Details view but in all other views as well. It actually should be called "Highlight Focused Item" because it's not only rows anymore. So:
   Renamed: "Highlight Focused Row" to "Highlight Focused Item"
  I recommend using this Highlighting because it tells you which item is focused even if the List is not the focused control (and hence has no focus rect).
• + Added "Fully Collapse Drive" (Ctrl+Numpad Divide) to the Tree folders' context menu, inside the new submenu "Expansion". Also moved "Fully Expand" to the top position.
• ! The tip for file Info did not appear if one of the 9 first fields (from "Name" to "Owner") was not checked. Fixed.
• + Enhanced compatibility with Kontrast#1 (etc.) color schemes for visually impaired.
• * Subtle changes in focus rect coloring...
• ! Leading and trailing spaces were lost between sessions in Search & Replace (and a lot of other lists) because they were not passed quoted to INI file. Fixed.