v8.50.0033 - 2009-10-30 12:14

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• * Menu File | Duplicate: From now on, the created copies are auto-selected (when the target path is identical with the current list path). Before, the originals kept their selections.
  Exception: The command "Copy Here ("Copy of...")" where Windows keeps it a secret how the copy is named.
• - Menu File | Settings: Removed "Save Action Log". Reason: Actions aren't settings.
• % Improved the action captions in various ways.
• ! Catalog: Adding special path items (e.g. Desktop\Downloads\) to a Category via drag-n-drop converted them silently to their real path equivalents. Fixed.
• ! Undo button dropdown action log could crash under certain conditions. Fixed.
  

v8.50.0029 - 2009-10-28 11:46

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• * Configuration | Undo & Action Log: Added option "Prompt before delete". If checked then you are prompted before undoing Copy or New, which both involve deletions. This prompting in accordance with Explorer behavior and the factory default is ON.
  Also, from now on, prompts before deletions show the "warning" icon as opposed to the normal "information" icon.
• * Undo: Now also partially aborted (= partially successful) actions are logged. Before, only actions without any abortions (user pressed "cancel" or "no" at some point during progress) were logged.
  Note that on undoing a partial action you might get a message about actions that cannot be undone because they never were done in the first place.
  Note also that on redoing a partial action you will not in any case get the same prompts as on the original action because redo uses its own routines for better performance. This can mean that redoing an action that was partially aborted the first time might now run through without any prompts or abortions.
• * Undo Move: Now when the original path of the moved item does not exist anymore, undoing the move will attempt to recreate it before moving the item back to it.
• ! Variable <get username> was imperfect. Fixed.
• ! Menu File | Move/Copy/Backup To: The MRU submenus would not recognize any portable paths (e.g. "?:\") or XY variables (e.g. <date yyyy>) or environment variables. Fixed.

Some blog updates were or will be temporarily delayed: Sorry!

Publication of update v8.50.0020 is still not completed due to extensive amount of editing required.

v8.50.0028 - 2009-10-26 13:27

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• ! Undo Delete: Did not work on Vista/Win7. Fixed #4.
  

v8.50.0027 - 2009-10-26 09:25

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• + Scripting got a new function.
    Name:   hexdump
    Action: Displays a string as hex dump.
    Syntax: hexdump(string, [unicode])
      string:  [required] String to display.
      unicode: [optional]
               0 = one byte/char [Default]
               1 = two bytes/char
    Examples:
      text hexdump(chr(20000), 1), 700;
      text hexdump("<clipboard>", 1), 700; //show current clipboard
    Usage:
      I know it's bloat in a file manager, but it's extremely useful
      when you want to know what's *really* on the clipboard.
  

v8.50.0026 - 2009-10-25 22:42

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• ! Undo Delete: Did not work on Vista/Win7. Fixed #3.
• ! Tree, Catalog, List: Wheel scrolling failed or did not work as it expected with high resolution mouse drivers. Fixed.
• ! Edit User Button dialog: Crash after first okaying and then canceling the dialog. Fixed.
• ! User Button: A button script that closes the app would result in an error. Fixed.

v8.50.0025 - 2009-10-24 17:38

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• + SC getinfo got a new named argument "username".
    Examples:
      echo getinfo("username");
      echo "<get username>";

v8.50.0024 - 2009-10-23 20:52

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• ! Undo Rename: List selections were lost or wrong when items were renamed and repositioned due to their new name. Fixed #2: Now it works also with batch rename.
• ! Undo Delete: Did not work on Vista/Win7. Fixed #2.
• ! Tree: Inline-renaming subfolders of special folders (Desktop etc.) did not update the tab header. Fixed.
  

v8.50.0023 - 2009-10-22 19:21

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• + Titlebar: Now the TitlebarTemplate tweak knows the variable . Here is an example for how to get the current pane number
  into the titlebar:
    [General]
    TitlebarTemplate=[<get pane>] <path>- <app> @ <ini> - <ver>
• * Undo: Now cumulative undo will skip items the are undone already, and cumulative redo will skip items that are redone already resp. not yet undone.
• * Action Log: Now you can select items in the actions list with the right mouse button (and pop the context menu right away).
• ! Undo Rename: List selections were lost or wrong when items were renamed and repositioned due to their new name. Fixed.
• ! Undo Delete: Did not work on Vista/Win7. Fixed.
• ! Undo SC copyitem: Logged time was invisible. Fixed.
• ! Tree: Inline-renaming subfolders of special folders (Desktop etc.) did not update the tree node when auto-refresh was off. Fixed.
• ! Tree: Removable drives using traditional floppy letters (A:, B:) were not auto-detected on plug-in. Fixed.
• % Tree: Generally improved auto-refreshing on added/removed removable drives. Smoother, faster, more reliable.

v8.50.0022 - 2009-10-21 18:24

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• + Action Log: Now you can right-click the selected item in the action list and do several interesting things to it:
  - Undo or Redo (depending on the state of the action)
    Note that this is non-sequential undo/redo and the current
    action (green highlight) will not move automatically.
  - Make Current Action
    Make this action the current action. This is the only way to
    move around in action history without actually undoing or
    redoing anything. The toolbar buttons will adjust after the
    Action Log window is closed.
    Such a move can be useful when you want to cumulatively undo a
    set of actions somewhen in the past. After setting the current
    action you would then trigger the cumulative undo using the
    toolbar.
• + Folder thumbnails now also look for PNG images in the folder.
• * Tabs: Improved algorithm for squeezing tabs into the available space in a fair way.
• * Features: Removed "Show Tree" from Menu and Toolbar when feature Catalog is off.
• ! Custom Tag icons had a white instead of a colored border for a couple of versions. Fixed.
• ! A suspended auto-refresh could get auto-unsuspended after a file operation. Fixed.
• ! Menu Edit | Paste Special: Menu turned disabled forever under certain conditions. Fixed.

v8.50.0021 - 2009-10-20 13:28

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• + Menu File | Settings: Added "Save Action Log".
  Note that the Action Log will be saved on exit if (and only if) you tick "Remember the logged actions between sessions" (even if "Save settings on exit" is off), so pressing "Save Action Log" is not necessary unless you expect XY to crash.
  Note also that if you click "Save Action Log" the Action Log will be saved even if "Remember the logged actions between sessions" is off. Only you can know why you should do that...
• * Undo: Now you are prompted before "Undo New" deletes a folder that is not empty anymore (i.e. it has been filled after being created). This is implemented with no GUI, IOW as a tweak with factory default = 1. You can turn it off here (but it's not extremely advisable to do so):
    [Undo]
    PromptNonEmpty=1
  The same prompt is shown for files that are not empty anymore because you actually used and modified them after creation.
• ! Undo Rename: Just changing the case could not be undone. Fixed.
• ! Undo Rename: Swap Names was not logged. Fixed.
• ! Tags & Comments were not updated on Swap Names. Fixed.
• * Quick File View: Now, if only the first part of a file is viewed the text "... [continues]" is shown at the bottom of the data.

v8.50.0010 - 2009-10-12 19:04

• * Mouse Down Blow Up on Thumbnails: Now the blow up is positioned directly over the thumb. Before this was only done when the blow up had the same (small) size as the thumb (which was also buggy in recent versions). Also greatly improved the panning of large images that don't fit the view port.
• ! Thumbnails: Under certain conditions some rows of thumbnails were not displayed on startup. Fixed.
• ! List: Fixed a scrolling issue in thumbnails mode where under certain conditions the list started to scroll by itself.
• ! List: Sorted column highlighting was not removed on manual sorting. Fixed.

v8.50.0009 - 2009-10-10 15:55

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• ! Line Numbers: Display glitch on scrolling. Fixed.
• ! Thumbnails: Fixed the years old white-thumbs bug that appeared on some systems where thumbnails turned out as 100% white empty nothing when "Super-fast thumbnails" was enabled.
• % The above fix speeds up thumbnail creation for JPEGs and other images types without transparency in "Super-fast thumbnails" mode.

v8.50.0007 - 2009-10-09 21:40

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• + Custom Toolbar Buttons: Now you can skip stating the caption when you use an internal icon. The internal caption and keyboard shortcut will be used. For example:
    "|:hotlist" button "hotlist"
  will show "Hotlist Ctrl+H" in the popup menu.
• * Custom Toolbar Buttons: Now a button can have a right-click event only (and do nothing on left-click).
• * Tree: When moving the focused folder by drag'n'drop within the Tree this folder now remains the focused one and consequently the List does not change its contents. Before, the focus switched to the new parent of the moved folder.
• * Window Class had changed from ThunderRT6FormDC to ThunderRT6Form. This has been undone: it's back to ThunderRT6FormDC.
• ! Might have fixed an issue where CPU utilization jumps to 15-20% and stays there when XYplorer is running in a virtual machine.
• ! Switching tabs with the mouse wheel crashed when item was selected in the opened tab. Fixed.
• ! Moving tabs using Shift+Wheel did not work anymore. Fixed.

v8.50.0004 - 2009-10-07 13:54

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• * Now Auto-Refresh is suspended during file operations in a more radical manner which should fix certain delay issues on certain systems, and also should contribute to the speed of the operations.
  BTW, you will now also see the AR toolbar button switching state while a file operation is in progress.
• ! Search Results Caching: A new search results tab cloned from the current search results tab was not cached immediately, and would start searching again on being selected the second time. Fixed.
• ! Font preview: Corrupt font could crash app. Fixed.
• ! Folder Report: Would not work on special folders (e.g. Desktop). Fixed.
• ! Address Bar: Icon drawing glitch fixed.
• ! Info Panel: Drawing glitch fixed.

v8.50.0002 - 2009-10-06 20:36

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• * Configuration | Tags | Database Clean Up: Now you are prompted (after OKing the first prompt) whether to check all drives or just fixed drives. Choose the latter if you want to clean your database but leave tags from removable drives untouched.
• % Reduced the number of GDI objects in memory from around 432 to around 359 (exact values depend on your configuration).
• * Installer:
  - Renamed items in program group and fixed an icon display glitch.
  - Now downgrading is allowed, i.e. you can install an older
    version over a newer one.
• * Backup operations: Now Auto-Refresh is auto-suspended while a backup operation is in progress. Makes it smoother and faster.
• ! If using a permanent startup path (Configuration | Startup & Exit) any existing Folder View Setting for that startup path was not applied. Fixed.
• ! Environment Variables: Added another degree in smartness.
• ! Tweak CEA_ListRightClickOnWhite: On CEA_ListRightClickOnWhite = 1 would attempt to paste into selected list item. Fixed.
  
  

v8.50.0000 - 2009-10-05 12:00

= NEW OFFICIAL RELEASE.
Main changes since last release:

• +++ Manual Sorting. Now you can directly manipulate the displayed order of items by dragging them to a new position. Very useful together with batch rename operations.
• +++ Custom Toolbar Buttons. Now you can define a separate script for a user button's right-click event.
• +++ New Folders. Now you can enter a list of new folders or whole new paths that will be created in one go.
• +++ Tabs. Now you can opt to display just the child folder names in the tab headers. Saves loads of space.
• +++ Scripting. Now you can show icons in script-generated popup menus.
• +++ Full Screen Preview/Thumbnails. Added file formats DWG and DWF (Vista/Win7 only).

v8.40.0122 - 2009-10-04 09:45

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• ! Environment Variables: "%temp%\test.tmp" did not work anymore since v8.40.0121. Fixed.

v8.40.0121 - 2009-10-03 18:46

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• + Menu Edit | New | New Folders...: Now also XY native variables and environment variables are supported. For example:
    backup
    code
    docs
    materials\%username%
    materials\pics
    materials\audio
    materials\video
    New <date yyyymmdd>
• * Menu Edit | New | New Path...: Now also XY native variables and environment variables are supported. For example:
    E:\Test\%username%\<date yyyymmdd>
  will create path E:\Test\Donald\20091003 and go there.
• * Script captions: Now also environment variables are supported (native variables had been supported already).
• ! Menu Edit | Select | Selection Filter: When the selection filter selected exactly one item, it (the item) would be stuck in the selected state even if you clicked on a different item. Fixed.
• * Environment Variables: Enhanced the smartness in disambiguation of environment variables within paths. Now "C:\%appdata%\" is left unchanged, whereas "C:\%username%\" is resolved to "C:\[username]\".
  Rule: An environment variable that returns a full path is not resolved when found within a path.

v8.40.0120 - 2009-10-02 13:41

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• + Menu Edit | New: Added command New Folders. Here you can enter a list of new folders (one per line) that will be created in one go.
  - The folder paths can be absolute or relative (to current).
  - They can be slashed or unslashed.
  - They can be whole new paths, or just new subfolders to existing
    paths.
  - They can be stated in any order.
  - The last list is remembered within the session.
  Example for a list:
    newsubfolderhere
    MoonLanding\TopSecret
    \MarsLanding\TopSecret\
    D:\Testpath
    D:\Testpath2\
• ! Rename Special Search and Replace: The last character in a
  replace list (e.g. ABC>>abc) was not replaced. Fixed.
  

v8.40.0117 - 2009-10-01 12:20

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• * SC setkey: Now setkey takes care that any quotes or spaces in the value are not lost when the value is read back using getkey. In other words: setkey will quote the value when necessary. Note that getkey always unquotes values that have a double-quote at both ends.
• * Updated the help file.