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v9.40.0104 - 2010-08-15 13:31

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• + Menu Help | Various Information: Hold CTRL to get some speed related information about your current settings.

v9.40.0102 - 2010-08-13 17:32

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• + Now you can force opening a folder in the other pane (inactive pane) by holding Ctrl+Shift while triggering the open. This works in the following contexts:
  - All sorts of location menus: History (Back, Forward);
    Breadcrumb; Favorites; Drives; Recent Locations; Hotlist; etc.
  - List: Ctrl+Shift+DblClick an item
    If the item is a file the containing folder is opened and the
    file is selected.
  It does not work in Tree, Catalog, and Address Bar. Quite useful little trick when you work with Dual Pane. Especially nice when the active pane shows a recursive search results listing which you want to explore further on the other pane.
• * Renaming locked items on Win7: You can now escape the "endless" message loop where Win7 again and again shows the same message by holding ESC down until the message finally disappears for good.
• ! Catalog did not yet fully support native variables <xydata> etc.). Fixed.
  

v9.40.0009 - 2010-08-11 21:10

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• ! History Retains Selections: A selected and focused item was not made the current item. Fixed.
• ! Tabs: The Clear Type related fix from v9.40.0007 had a bad side effect on tabs with a custom background color. Fixed again.
  

v9.40.0008 - 2010-08-11 14:43

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• ! Menu Go | Up: Did not work correctly with a Locked Tree and tweak AutoSelectMRUSubfolder=0. Fixed.
• $ The Home License went up from 19.95 to 29.29 Euro which is still very cheap for its relative value compared to the Pro License, but not such an extreme dumping as before. Actually the price is now identical to that of the Standard Pro License. Additionally now there are also Volume Discounts for the Home License.
  

v9.40.0007 - 2010-08-10 20:37

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• + Configuration | General: Added option "Scroll to top after sorting". If enabled the list is auto-scrolled to top when you change the sort order. Additionally, if there are no selections in the list, the focus is auto-shifted to the top item.
  Note that the option is honoured only when no current item is kept in view due to an enabled "Keep current item in view after sorting" (IOW, the latter setting takes precedence). Note that this option elevates the tweak added in v9.40.0005 - 2010-08-09 21:57 to UI level.
• * Both "Keep current item in view after sorting" and "Scroll to top after sorting" are now enabled by factory default.
• ! Info Panel | Find Files: Color-marking the tab headers for enabled filters did not work well with Clear Type enabled (color artifacts accumulated). Fixed.
• ! Tabs: Same issue as above with drag-hovering tabs in Visual Style "XYplorer Classic". Fixed.
• ! SC getinfo("SelectedItemsPathNames") and getinfo("SelectedItemsNames") returned a trailing delimiter after the last returned item. Fixed. Now delimiters are found only between the items.

v9.40.0005 - 2010-08-09 21:57

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• * List: Before (since v6.00.0014 - 2007-05-23 09:01), holding CTRL while re-sorting the list would invert the setting of "Keep current item in view after sorting". This, however, was a usability nightmare because you needed to know the state of the config setting to know what holding CTRL meant.
  From now on, holding CTRL while re-sorting the list will always keep the current item in view -- no matter whether "Keep current item in view after sorting" is enabled or not. It will even keep the focused item in view when it is not selected, so CTRL gives you even a little more power than the config setting.
• + Tweak to control whether the list scrolls to top after sorting when no current item is kept in view. Factory default is 1.
    ScrollToTopAfterSort=1
  

v9.40.0004 - 2010-08-07 10:05

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• + Tweak to toggle the service that selects the recent subfolder (taken from the "Recent Locations" data) when going Up or Down. The factory default (and hitherto hardcoded setting) is 1.
    AutoSelectMRUSubfolder=1
  Additionally to Up and Down (menu Go) this service also sets in when you enter a subfolder via the file list, and (this is new!) when you go to a location via breadcrumb. This tweak is supported by SC tweak:
    tweak("AutoSelectMRUSubfolder", 1);
    tweak("AutoSelectMRUSubfolder", 0);
• * Configuration | General | Keep focused item in view after sorting:
  Renamed it to "Keep current item in view after sorting" which now fits better.
• * Updated the help file.
• ! Recycle Bin: To browse a recycled folder, SYSTEM and HIDDEN items have to be shown (Configuration | General | Show system files and folders) because the real (not the virtual) Recycler is SYSTEM and HIDDEN.
  The bug was that you were not notified about this but ended up on the drive root of the Recycler path you attempted to go to. Fixed.
  Note that this was only an issue in Maxi Tree; the Mini Tree is tolerant about these settings and simple shows the folders you need to see.
• ! Tree: When switching from Mini to Maxi Tree on a current path that was hidden from the Maxi Tree, there was a bizarre (but hardly visible) drawing glitch, and tree and list got out of synch. Fixed.

v9.40.0003 - 2010-08-06 09:37

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• ! Tree: Keys DEL and F2 did not work in the Tree since v9.40.0002. Fixed.
• ! Copy/Move Here As... did not honour "Exclude extension on rename" anymore. Fixed.
• ! List: Would not drop anything into a selected and focused folder (e.g. from one pane to the other). Fixed.

v9.40.0002 - 2010-08-05 20:12

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• + Menu File | Duplicate: The following commands (originally added v6.40.0033 - 2007-10-31 11:03) have been elevated from CKS | Miscellaneous | File Operations to UI level and are now found in the Duplicate submenu:
  - Copy Here to New Subfolder... (Ctrl+Shift+C), #1042
  - Move Here to New Subfolder... (Ctrl+Shift+X), #1041
  Note that both commands only work on the selected list item(s), and are disabled if the file list is not focused. (They work however in scripting on selected items in a non-focused list.) I'm aware that "Move Here to New Subfolder" does not fit under the heading Duplicate, but hey... I'm confident your brain can handle it.
• * Main Menu: Removed the word "Suffix" from all captions like "Copy Here with Suffix Date Modified".
  Also "Date Now" has been rephrased to "Current Date", and "Date Modified" to "Last Modified Date".
• + Configuration | Templates | Date affix: Now the template supports the variable <folder> that is resolved to the moved/copied file's parent folder (only the folder, not the whole path).
  Example for a template:
    *-<date yyyymmdd> (<folder>)
  Note that the presence of this variable in the template is not reflected in the related commands' menu captions, so this variable is rather a very special option that you have to make a mental note about when you use it.
• * List: Now when changing the sort order and there are no selections the list is auto-scrolled to top and the top item is auto-focused -- regardless of the setting of Configuration | General | Keep focused item in view after sorting. IMO a small change with a big usability gain.