v8.80.0322 - 2010-02-27 22:47

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• * Layout: Now the Address Bar keeps a somewhat higher minimal width (raised from 64 to 100 pixels) and is not pushed out to the right of the window anymore by the Toolbar.
• ! Info Panel: Orange button was gone for some days. Back.
• ! Recycle Bin: Memory leak since v8.80.0321. Fixed.
• ! Recycle Bin: List selection glitch. Fixed.
• ! Recycle Bin: Flicker when showing a larger list. Removed.
• ! Toolbar: Tooltips lagged 1 pixel behind hover effect. Fixed.

v8.80.0321 - 2010-02-26 15:36

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• *** Recycle Bin: Rewritten from scratch. The issue with the slow context menu should be fixed now.
• ! Recycle Bin: Did not always auto-refresh when multiple files or folders were restored from within the Recycle Bin. Fixed.
• + Configuration | Backup & Report | Backup Operations: Added option "Pop up stats when done". Check to pop up a summary message about what was copied / overwritten / not overwritten.
• + SC backupto enhanced: Added parameter pop_stats.
  Syntax: backupto location, [source], [on_collision], _
            [preserve_dates], [create_log], [pop_stats]
    preserve_dates:
      (only applied if the file itself is copied)
      Empty = Use global setting from Configuration.
      0 = Whether/which dates are copied depends on OS.
      1 = All three dates are copied.
    create_log:
      Empty = Use global setting from Configuration.
      0 = Don't.
      1 = Do.
    pop_stats:
      Empty = Use global setting from Configuration.
      0 = Don't.
      1 = Do.
  Example:
    // backup selected items; on collision suffix date now;
    // preserve dates; create log; popup stats
  backupto "E:\Test", , 5, 1, 1, 1;
• + Added extented NTFS attribute "Offline" (FILE_ATTRIBUTE_OFFLINE) to the attributes on the Properties tab and on the Attributes tab (Find Files), and to the Attributes column in the list.
• + Configuration | Colors | Color Filters: Added color coding by file attribute "Offline" (FILE_ATTRIBUTE_OFFLINE). Use this pattern:
    /offline (or /o) -> matches all items with
                        FILE_ATTRIBUTE_OFFLINE set
• ! Toolbar: Error on wheeling the toolbar when Toolbar scrolling was disabled on startup. Fixed.
  

v8.80.0320 - 2010-02-25 22:07

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• +++ Toolbar: Now it can be scrolled. Drag it with left or right mouse button. Or wheel it. Drag fast and you get a bit of animation when you release the mouse button.
  You turn scrolling ON/OFF in Customize Toolbar at the new checkbox "Toolbar can be scrolled". Factory default is OFF. When you OK the Customize Toolbar dialog the scroll position is reset to initial.
  The scroll position is not stored between sessions. Might be added in future though.
• * Toolbar: Added buttons "Zoom In" and "Zoom Out", which let you control the font size of Tree, List, Catalog, and Address Bar.
  Credits and thanks go to http://www.visualpharm.com/
• * Toolbar: The "Find" button now opens the Find Files tab (like Ctrl+F). Before it actually started a search (like F3). The is the expected behavior when you come from any other file manager and it's even the better behavior.
• * Toolbar: New factory default button layout. (You can reset to factory default by using "Remove All" in Customize Toolbar.)

v8.80.0318 - 2010-02-21 19:24

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• * Removed the "Upgrade Keyboard Shortcuts?" prompt at startup. Now when upgrading to a version with new functions with default keyboard shortcuts (that is, new compared to your last version), these new KS are automatically and silently assigned if they are not already used otherwise.
• ! Edit | Copy crashed on w2kpro SP4+. Fixed #2.
  

v8.80.0317 - 2010-02-21 15:07

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• + Configuration: Added new section "Shell Integration". The option ""XYplorer" in shell context menu" moved here from section "Advanced", and there is a new option "XYplorer is default file manager". Check the latter to make double-clicking drives or folders open them in XYplorer. The latter option is logically and technically subordinated to the former.
  Note that changes in these settings will take immediate effect and modify the registry of the host system.
  Note that non-file special folders like "Control Panel" are not yet supported and will instead open the MyComputer node.
• * CKS Dialog | Options | Reset Unused Shortcuts To Defaults...: Now you get a list of all reset functions/shortcuts when the job is done.
• ! Edit | Copy crashed on w2kpro SP4+ since v8.80.0303 - 2010-02-13 20:39. Fixed.

v8.80.0316 - 2010-02-20 21:32

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• * Nuke: The Nuke function/button has been redesigned to be a fully configurable delete machine. You find all options you might need in the button's context menu. These settings also control Nuke when triggered by KS.
  Factory defaults:
    NukeNoConfirm=0
    NukeNoRecycle=0
    NukeSkipLocked=0
• ! Delete (Skip Locked): Did not recognize / delete files with Unicode names. Fixed.
• * Now, when upgrading to a new version with new functions you will get this prompt at startup:
    You have upgraded to a version that has new functions with
    default keyboard shortcuts.
    Press OK to assign these new shortcuts now. Only shortcuts that
    are not already used are affected.
  Note that this prompt will be triggered when upgrading to *this* version for testing reasons (although this version has no new functions with KS).
• ! New bug in Undo delete since v8.80.0315 made it not find all items in recycler. Fixed.

v8.80.0315 - 2010-02-20 16:53

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• * Now, when you attempt to go to a non-existing location you are prompted to create it on the fly. Will also create whole new paths (as long as the drive exists and is writable).
  This means you can now use the Address Bar as a quick and easy interface to create new folders or paths, and go there right away after creation. Nice!
  Note: Since the Address Bar also supports entering files (not only folders) the above service only is delivered when the item in question ends with a backslash to show it's meant to be a path.
• * Locations: Now you can pass locations in URL style and they are silently converted to Windows style.
  For example, this
    D:/www/xyplorer.com/code/removed%20bits/
  will be converted to
    D:\www\xyplorer.com\code\removed bits\
  The prefix file:/// however will pass the item directly to the OS-default opening application.
• * New style for "Not Found" message.
• * New style and wording fo "Upgrade Note" message.
• * Backup operations: Statusbar after completed operation now uses "new" instead of "copied". It's a bit clearer IMO because also "updated" files have been copied. So now we have:
  - new:     files of that name did not exist in target
  - updated: files of the same name were overwritten
  - skipped: files were not copied, e.g. because they were older
             than files of same name in target
  BTW, note that any created folders are not counted in these stats.

v8.80.0314 - 2010-02-19 14:48

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• *** More UAC related changes!
  
  !!! TIP: Backup your XY app data before running this version!!!
  
  Upgrading to this version
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  If you use the installer to upgrade to this version and you had no startup.ini in the app path then the installer will create a startup.ini and thereby change your app data path.
  
  In this case,
  AND if you use Vista or later,
  AND if XYplorer.exe is located under Program Files,
  AND if your appdata are currently located where XYplorer.exe is,
  
  THEN
  on first app run after upgrade, XYplorer will attempt to migrate (copy, not move -- for safety and to avoid any lack-of-rights-induced problems) your application data files to the new app data path.
  Before anything happens, you are prompted whether you agree to this, or rather prefer to use the old app data path (in which latter case UAC might give you a hard time when trying to save your configuration next time.)
  
• + Menu Panes: Added command "Backup to Other Pane". Does what it claims to do. Default KS: Ctrl+Shift+F6.
  BTW, this command comes pretty close to a nice Two-Way Folder Synch: Do it left-to-right and right-to-left, and you end up with two identical folders, and - depending on your Backup configuration - with all the newest versions from either side.
• * Backup operations: No more "Done" message box when the operation is done. The status bar message has been pimped up to make up for it: You will now see something like this:
    Backup done in 0.032 sec (8 files processed: 4 copied,
    2 updated, 2 skipped)
  Meaning:
  - copied:  files of that name did not exist in target
  - updated: files of the same name were overwritten
  - skipped: files were not copied, e.g. because they were older
             than files of same name in target
• * Menu Edit | Paste Special: Renamed "Edit Clipboard..." to "Edit Files in Clipboard...". 'Cause that's what it's about.
• * Recycle Bin: Now you get statusbar progress while restoring.
• * Nuke: Now the function will pop a confirmation prompt before deleting without recycle bin.
  Note that Nuke will always pop the prompt, also when "Turn off delete "onfirmation" is enabled. Everything else would be madness.
• * Nuke: Removed this unnecessary and probably confusing complication:
    v5.10.0040 - 2006-09-20 12:57
    + The dangerous Nuke button from hell now always skips locked
      files.
  Now Nuke is simply a button that deletes without recycle bin. Later, I will add some shredding power to it...
• * List: In "List" view clicking an item in a cropped column does not scroll that column into view anymore.

v8.80.0310 - 2010-02-18 14:54

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• + Menu Edit | Paste: Now you can paste attachments copied from Outlook.
• ! Dropping attachments dragged from Outlook Express did not work anymore since a while. Fixed.
• + Menu Panes: Added command "Go to Other Location". Use it to go to the inactive pane's location, in other words to make the active pane's location the same as the inactive pane's.
  Note: This command replaces the same-named command in CKS / Miscellaneous / List. The command ID remains the same (#1070).
• + Menu Panes: Added command "Go Here in Other Pane". Use it to make the inactive pane's location the same as the active pane's. It's the reverse of the above "Go to Other Location".
  Tip: Hold SHIFT to open the location in a new foreground tab.
• * Toolbar: Slightly changed the "Hotlist" icon to better distinguish it from the "Recent Locations" icon on black & white screens. :)
• * Tabs: Now if "Don't save history" and/or "Don't save tabs" are enabled the active and inactive pane's last paths are remembered and restored on next start.
  Note that Configuration | Startup & Exit | Permanent Startup Path will always overwrite the last path of the active pane.
• * The general default path now is MyComputer. Before it was Desktop.
• * Raw View: Now when you toggle the "Tail" option in the context menu of the Raw View (orange button drop down menu), the view jumps to the head resp. tail of the viewed file immediately.

v8.80.0305 - 2010-02-15 21:58

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• + Preview: Added MTS (*.mts) and M2TS (*.m2ts) video files to preview.
  - MTS: High-definition MPEG Transport Stream video format, commonly
    called "AVCHD" (Advanced Video Codec High Definition)used by
    Sony, Panasonic, and other HD camcorders; based on the MPEG-2
    transport stream and supports 720p and 1080i HD video formats.
  - M2TS: Video file saved in the high-definition Blu-ray BDAV format;
    used for saving video data on Blu-ray discs; based on the MPEG-2
    transport stream and supports 720p and 1080i formats. BDAV
    stands for "Blu-ray Disc Audio/Visual," while the M2TS extension
    refers to "MPEG-2 Transport Stream."
    As always you just need the codec on your system to actually be able
    to preview *.flac files. The shell will generate thumbnails for
    these files if the appropriate extensions are installed.
• * Tabs: If "Don't save tabs" is enabled now the inactive pane's last path is remembered and restored on next start. Before it was reset to Desktop.
  Note that if "Don't save history" and "Don't save tabs" are both enabled then both panes' paths are forgotten.
• ! Tabs: Empty tab caption when moving a folder from a special folder in another tab with tab captions set to "Folder Only". Fixed.