v6.40.0010 - 2007-10-20 21:57

• +++ Another milestone on the long and winding road to superior productivity and file management fun: User-Defined Commands (UDC)!
  
  Contrary to my original plans (then called "Scriptable Hotkeys") I did not implement them key-based but menu-based. It took me half a year to make up my mind about this, but it was worth every second of it. What you get now is 100% full control, plus total visual feedback, full mouse and key access, and the possibility to have user-defined commands *without* an assigned keyboard shortcut (which was one of the inherent drawbacks of the key-based approach). Of course, the real power of UDCs start when you *do* assign KSs to them... :)
  
  You find a new top menu called "User", containing a link to the interface where you manage your commands, and three command categories (I'll soon add more, don't worry...). I attempted to make it as intuitive as possible. Step by step:
    - Open the Manage Commands interface
    - Select a Category
    - Press "New"
    - Enter the "Argument": that's the critical piece of data. It's where you specify the object of the Action. Usually it will be a file or folder, so there's a Browse button to the right of the edit field.
    - Optionally enter the Caption (for the menu item). If left empty, the Argument will be used for the caption.
    - Press Apply to add your edited command to the Commands list.
    - Repeat for all UDCs you need.
    - Finally press OK to apply your changes to the current session of XYplorer. The new menus will be generated in a blink. Open the User menu and see yourself...
    - Now you can open CKS and assign KSs to your new UDCs.
    - Of course, as always in XY, the UDCs will be saved to file on exit unless otherwise wanted. This file is called udc.dat.
  
  Further remarks:
  - There's virtually no limit to the number of commands, although, being menu-based and having a finite number of keys on your board you will hit a usability wall at some point.
  - The files udc.dat and ks.dat are independent from each other which has obvious advantages: e.g., you can easily switch and share data sets between parallel XY instances or XY users.
  Just keep in mind one thing: the keyboard shortcuts in ks.dat identify functions by numbers and will trigger them without asking questions. So, if you throw a udc.dat together with a ks.dat that origin from different XY instances, the UDC-referring keyboard shortcuts will, of course, trigger whatever they find in that udc.dat. So, when loading a new udc.dat or a new ks.dat, quickly have a look at your "User" menu and see how the KS<->UDC situation has changed.
  - I took the chance to open the door to one of the next big XY features: scriptability! Internally the UDCs are already processed as scripts.
  
• % Number formatting faster. You won't note it with today's hardware speed but believe me, it is faster. :)
• + Added accelerators to menus that are listing tabs. Here's an example ("&" marks next char as accelerators; "&&" stands for "&" char that's not marking an accelerator):
    0&1 - Desktop
    0&2 - Desktop\getclipboard && files
    0&3 - C:\
    0&4 - D:\Download