v6.80.0101 - 2008-03-07 14:33

• ! Little glitch with the script name resolving added earlier today. Fixed.

v6.80.0100 - 2008-03-07 11:34

• + New variable: <curitem> = currently focused/selected list item, i.e. the one that's displayed in the statusbar. Up to now this variable was only recognized in the Source field of a UDC "New". But there's good use for it in other contexts as well, especially in scripting.
  For example:
    ::load <curitem>
  If a script file is currently selected, this script will load it.
• * Scripting: To improve the interaction between script files I slightly redesigned the logic of resolving the name of a script file to load:
  - If the passed file argument does not contain any extension, the
    *.xys is assumed immediately (there is no test whether a
    file without any extension exists).
  - If a script file was called from another ("parent") script file,
    then the first path to look for the file is the path of
    the parent script file. If no file is found in that path, then
    the application data path will be searched.
  The latter is an important imporvement because it enables you to run script files that depend on other script files from any directory! For example, you have a lot of script files and organize them into various folders. In one folder called E:\XY\Scripts\Rename\ you have these four files:
    Rename.xys
    Rename - IE.xys
    Rename - Insert.xys
    Rename - Remove.xys
  Now Rename.xys calls the other files in statements like this:
    load "Rename - Remove";
  This would not have been possible without the new logic added here, because "Rename - Remove.xys" would have been looked for only in xy app data path and, of course, not been found. Now it is found in E:\XY\Scripts\Rename\. So, now you can e.g. load script files from some network server and need not to worry about paths.
  Also, when users share script files, you don't have to worry about name collisions anymore because each script file package can run in its own folder.

v6.80.0099 - 2008-03-06 12:57

• + Scripting command enhanced:
    - load
      Now the first argument (resource) can be set to * in order to
      refer to *this* resource! Kind of a recursion trigger,
      and very useful.
      Example (multi-script):
      ----------------------
      "Copy 0"
        copytext "0", a;
        // load this script resource (file or script)
        load *;
      "Copy 1"
        copytext "1", a;
        // load this script resource (file or script)
        load *;
      ----------------------
      Run this script through the Try Script... dialog, or load it
      as a script file -- it will work just the same. Tip: Use the
      keyboard to select the menu items else your menu will try to
      leave the screen towards south-east... ;)
• + Configuration | Advanced: Added option "Assume that servers exist". If enabled then the check for existence is skipped, with two possible effects:
  (1) It might speed up browsing and start up.
  (2) In some rare configurations the checks are not reliable (servers that do exist are not seen), so if YOU know the servers do exist, you don't need the check and can turn it off.
  The factory default is ON (skip the check).
  Note that this setting has already been available as INI tweak since v6.30.0044 - 2007-10-03 14:58.

v6.80.0098 - 2008-03-05 12:52

• + List: Now there's "Move On Rename", a cute little time saver that enables you to move & rename files in one go. Simply enter a relative (to the current path of the file!) or absolute path into the inline rename box (F2) and "Move On Rename" will happen. If the new folder (or multi-folder path!) does not exist yet, you will be prompted to create it on the fly. Note that "Move On Rename" does work only for one item at a time. For example, select a file in the List and enter this into the rename box:
    - C:\new.png = Move file to C:\ renaming it to new.png.
    - C:\1\2\3\new.png = Move file to C:\1\2\3 renaming it to
      new.png. If "C:\1\2\3\" does not exist it is created.
    - ..\new.png = Move file one up renaming it to new.png.
    - stuff\new.png = Move file one down to subfolder "stuff"
      renaming it to new.png. If "stuff" does not exist it is
      created.
  For logistic reasons this is currently only implemented as an INI tweak. You have to manually enable it by editing the INI file:
    [Settings]
    AllowMoveOnRename=1


• * Menu File | Move/Copy/Backup To: Now the submenu MRU items are prefixed with serial numbers. Also items containing an "&" are displayed correctly now.


• + CKS | Miscellaneous | Tree: Added command "Create New Subfolder Here". Creates new folder under the current Tree folder, and opens rename box in Tree.
  Note: This command is featured in the Tree items' context menu since long. Before, the keyboard shortcut for New Folder (Ctrl+N) was displayed here, but that was not correct because the commands are not the same: "New Folder" opens the rename box in the List, whereas "Create New Subfolder Here" opens it in the tree.


• + Menu User | Run Script: items now have icons.


• + Menu User | Load Script File: items now have icons.


• * Toolbar: Removed the only two special tooltips for pressed state, namely:
  - "Reactivate Auto-Refresh" of button "Suspend Auto-Refresh"
  - "Unlock Tab" of button "Lock Tab"
  It's more consistent like this, and clearer: With toggle-state buttons, the tooltip always describes what happens when the button is pressed, and the opposite happens when it is unpressed.


• *% List: From now on, the "Len" column will only be filled with data when visible. This increases the listing speed for most users (since the Len is not very commonly used) and makes no difference for users that actually use the column. The only downside:
  - When you switch the Len column from hidden to visible you have to refresh the list (F5) in order to fill it.
  - You cannot sort by Len while Len is hidden.


• * Menu Edit | New | New Folder: Now, the rename box is opened in Tree when the focus was on Tree when the command was triggered by keyboard. Before, the rename box was always opened in List when the command was triggered by keyboard.

v6.80.0097 - 2008-03-04 09:39

• +++ Menu Edit | Paste Special: Added "Paste Image Into New [EXT] File" [Ctrl+Shift+Alt+V]. Creates a new image file filled with the image (if any) currently on the clipboard. Call it bloat, but me loves this feature and missed it ever since! If you are a visual artist or web hunter it will save you hours of tedious maneuvers. The standard image format is PNG. But you can change this to JPG, GIF, BMP or TIF using a new INI Tweak:
    [General]
    ImageFromClipFormat=jpg
  Allowed values are: png (default), jpg, gif, bmp, and tif.
  In the case of JPG you can control the quality by appending a number from 1 (worst) to 100 (best) inclusively, for example:
    ImageFromClipFormat=jpg100
  or:
    ImageFromClipFormat=jpg50
  The default value is 85.
  Note that the GIF quality is very bad (dithered) and practially unusable. The other formats, however, are of high quality. This feature requires GDI+.
• * Menu Edit | Paste Special: Renamed "Paste Clipboard Into New Textfile" to "Paste Text Into New File".
• * Statusbar: Now the click duration (time between MouseDown and MouseUp) must be smaller 500 msec to trigger an info pane toggle. This allows you to activate the window by clicking on the statusbar without toggling the info panel.

v6.80.0093 - 2008-03-03 10:53

• + Toolbar learned to have special images for the pressed state. First applied to the "Step Through Scripts" button: Now, when pressed it turns red.
• + Scripting command enhanced:
    - msg
      Now you can show OK/Cancel buttons and clicking Cancel
      (pressing ESC) will immediately terminate the script.
      Syntax: msg text, [buttons: 0 = OK | 1 = OK/Cancel]
      Example:
        ::msg "Continue script?", 1; msg "Won't show if
          you cancelled."
• ! Tree and List: The control would lose its Ux Theme Borders when you dragged an item from it towards another application, under certain circumstances. Fixed.
• ! Keyboard Shortcuts: commands File / To Clipboard / Item Base(s) and File / To Clipboard / Item Short Path/Name(s) were not found. Fixed.

v6.80.0091 - 2008-03-02 12:12

• +++ Menu Edit Paste Special: Added "Paste Clipboard Into New Textfile" [Ctrl+Alt+V]. Creates a new textfile filled with the current clipboard contents.
  The pasted text depends on the actual data format on the clipboard; it is identical to what variable <clipboard> would return:
    Clipboard contents   Text
    ------------------   ----
    Text                 The text
    File items           One item per line, CRLF ends a line
    Else (e.g. empty, or images) Nothing
  The new file is called something like "Clipboard- 20080302.txt".
  The "-20080302" part is the date now (format defined in
  Configuration | Report | Date suffix). The file is appended to the
  current file list (aka "lazy sort"), and after creation of the file, rename-mode is invoked. As you see, all this is just like the Drop-Text-To-File feature that creates files named "DroppedText...".
• % Slightly higher speed in browsing and searching. Even after years of optimizing you can still find something that can be improved a bit.
• * Menu View | Show Items | WOW64 Redirection (64-bit only): Now it's remembered between sessions.

v6.80.0088 - 2008-02-29 11:02

• * Menu Scripting: Renamed "Enter Script..." to "Try Script...".
• - Menu Scripting: Removed item "Enable Extended Scripting", resp. moved it to Configuration as "Quick Scripting" (see next).
• * Configuration | Advanced: Dropped "Enable Scripting" and added "Quick Scripting" which is exactly what was called "Enable Extended Scripting" before.
• + Menu Scripting: Added "Load Script File...". Here you can load a script file (*.xys) from application data path. If it contains exactly one script it will immediately executed, else a menu is popped up.


• - Removed the following because it's now featured menu Scripting:
    - v6.80.0011 - 2008-01-11 10:01
      Scripting: Added new command for easier switching of the
      stepwise mode: CKS | Miscellaneous | Scripting | Step
      Through Scripts

v6.80.0087 - 2008-02-28 11:35

• +++ New top menu "Scripting", with the following commands:
    - Step Through Scripts
      Toggle executing scripts stepwise. Stepping is recommended
      for debugging scripts.
      Default KS: Ctrl+Alt+S
    - Enable Extended Scripting
      Enable entering scripts through location interfaces (Address
      Bar, Go To, Catalog, Favorites). Such scripts must be
      additionally prefixed with a double-colon (::) to distinguish
      them from normal locations.
      Script items in Catalog show special icons only when Enable
      Extended Scripting is ON.
    - Enter Script...
      Enter and execute a script directly. The script can be multi-
      line, and you can enter more than one script (in which case a
      menu will pop up).
      The last entered script is remembered during the current
      XYplorer session. This memory is shared with the scripting
      command try.


• * Configuration | Advanced | Enable Scripting: Now,
    if ON then
      - Menu "Scripting" is shown
      - Scripting related controls in CKS and UDC are shown
    if OFF then
      - Scripts are not processed unless you YES a yes/no prompt.
      - Menu "Scripting" is hidden
      - Scripting related controls in CKS and UDC are hidden

v6.80.0086 - 2008-02-25 14:28

• * As you might know, the toolbar's Manage User-Defined Commands button's right-click menu enables you to directly create a new UDC with the argument field preset to some current context value. How? Simply hold CTRL while clicking one of the menu items! The preset values adjust to the command category, and now the recently added categories have been added here as well:
    - "Go To", "Open", "Open With", "New", "Load Script File"
                    -> current file (if any is selected)
    - "Rename"      -> [empty]
    - "Run Script"  -> [empty]
    - else          -> current path
• * Window activation (i.e. when app in background) by clicking on tabs now happens (a) before any other action is triggered, and (b) also on right-button clicks.
• ! UDC | New: Could not update the Source field. Fixed.