v9.00.0010 - 2010-03-28 12:34

= MAINTENANCE RELEASE.

• ! The Standard License Pro Key issued for v9.00 did not unlock the application. Fixed.

v9.00.0009 - 2010-03-27 08:52

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• * Sexed up the alternative app icon.
  

v9.00.0004 - 2010-03-26 16:11

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• + Tweak to load alternative app icon.
    IconResource=1
  Set to 1 (resp. anything but 0) to use an embedded alternative app icon. The alternative app icon will be used on the main window and all child windows, on the taskbar, and the system tray. It will not affect the icon of the XYplorer.exe file itself, of course, because for this you would have to change the file.
• ! About box still had the XY8 watermark. Upgraded to XY9.

v9.00.0000 - 2010-03-26 12:00

= NEW OFFICIAL RELEASE.
Main changes since last release:

• +++ Background Processing. Now you can continue working in XYplorer while heavy copy jobs are processed in the background.
• +++ Queued File Operations. Background file operations can optionally be processed sequentially (in a queue), which is often far more efficient than processing them in parallel.
• +++ Remove Diacritics. A special rename command to strip any diacritical marks from the letters in all selected item names, e.g. "Köln" > "Koln".
• +++ Raw View. Now UTF-16BE (Big Endian) files are supported when they have the UTF-16BE BOM.
• +++ Visual Filters. Now you can define a caption to each filter item and thus give complex filters a friendly name.

v8.90.0018 - 2010-03-26 11:58

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• * Audio Preview revisited: Here are the revised Keyboard and Mouse tricks, including a fix for Shift+Space which did not stop the clip.
  Keyboard shortcuts:
    Space bar                Start/Pause playing.
    Shift+Space bar          Go to beginning and stop.
  Mouse on the progress bar:
    Left Mouse Down          Go to mouse position.
    Right Mouse Down         Start/Pause playing.
    Shift+Left Mouse Down    Go to beginning.
    Shift+Right Mouse Down   Go to beginning and stop.
    Ctrl+Left Mouse Down     Set start of sub loop.
    Ctrl+Right Mouse Down    Set end of sub loop.
    Ctrl+Alt+Mouse Down      Reset sub loop.
  

v8.90.0017 - 2010-03-25 15:40

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• ! Fixed some glitches related to the new ultra-fast startup.

v8.90.0014 - 2010-03-24 14:00

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• + Visual Filters: Now you can prepend a caption to each filter item. The syntax is similar to the one you know from Favorites or the POM, only that the quoted caption must be followed by a space character to avoid ambiguities.
  For example:
    "Images" *.gif|*.png|*.jpg
    "Items ending with g" >g$
  The tab captions will show only the (unquoted) caption of a VF with caption.
• * Rename Preview: Now on showing the preview the window is initially auto-sized to the optimal (=minimal) width.
• % Cleaner and faster startup due to removed unnecessary painting.
• ! XYcopy: Vanished from the taskbar in v8.90.0012. Returned.
  

v8.90.0016 - 2010-03-25 12:33

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• + Menu File | Settings: Added command "Backup All Settings...". Backups the whole contents of the Application Data Folder to a folder of your choice (defaulting to the current folder). The hard-coded operation type is "Backup" with "Overwrite only older files" and "Preserve item dates".
• * Updated the help file.

v8.90.0015 - 2010-03-25 09:10

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• ! Possible error 380 on startup in v8.90.0014. Fixed.

v8.90.0012 - 2010-03-23 12:41

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• + New variable <get item [pane]> returns the focused item of any of the two panes. The optional "pane" argument can be:
    a = [default] active pane
    i = inactive pane
    1 = pane 1
    2 = pane 2
  For example:
    <get item>   //active pane's focused item
    <get item i> //inactive pane's focused item
  As always, SC getinfo supports the same argument:
    echo getinfo("item");    //active pane's focused item
    echo getinfo("item", i); //inactive pane's focused item
• * XYcopy: Status Log now shows if jobs were cancelled or partially completed, and other improvements.
• ! Recycle Bin: Shell-pasting of items shell-cut from RB did not work as expected. Fixed. (Shell-paste and shell-cut means using the commands from the shell context menu.)
• ! List: Under certain conditions uncovered thumbnails were not repainted on IP show/hide. Fixed.
  

v8.90.0010 - 2010-03-22 14:59

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• + A bunch of modal dialogs showing a simple list were not resizable. Now they are.
• * XYcopy: Pimped up the Status Log.
• * Configuration | File Operations:
  - Reorganized the order of options and the head lines.
  - Renamed "Background processing" to "Enable background
    processing".
  - Added some tooltips.
• * Configuration | Advanced: Readded "Refresh During File Operations". It had been only available in the context menu of the Refresh toolbar buttons for a while.
• * Toolbar | Queue Multiple Operations: New icon. The Jamaican Mandala did not transport the Queue motif in a consumer compatible way.
• * XYcopy: Drag'n'drop operations from other apps into XYplorer are now forced to run in the foreground no matter what. This solves known problems with some archivers who depend on the volatile existence of temporary files in %TEMP%, and probably yet unknown problems where the source app expects immediate action.
• ! With "Refresh during file operations" OFF, Auto-Refresh kept being suspended after a file operation. Fixed.
• ! Info Panel | Current List: Did not honour the "Hide Extensions" list style. Fixed. Also fixed for SC report().
• ! Menu File | File Special | Delete (Skip Locked): Would misinterpret read-only files as "Locked". Fixed.
• ! When dbl-clicking an empty CD-drive (or otherwise unavailable drive) on a locked MyComputer tab, the (locked) tab would then point to the CD-drive. Fixed. Now the first existing tab pointing to this location is selected, or a new tab is opened.
• ! FVS: On startup and with "Don't save tabs" enabled, the inactive pane's tab would not honour any applicable FVS. Fixed.

v8.90.0009 - 2010-03-19 15:58

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• * Configuration | File Operations: Renamed "Process file operations in the background" to "Background processing".
• * XYcopy: Now, when "Background processing" is ON and "Queue file operations" is OFF, new file operations are immediately triggered in their own fresh process.
  Notes:
  - This option is applied on a per-job basis in the moment the jobs
    are initiated by the user, so while one or more jobs are running
    in the background you can change the setting of "Queue file
    operations" to control how the *next* job is handled; running
    or pending jobs are not affected.
  - There's no explicit limit applied to the number of parallel
    processes, but I assume Windows will let you know before your
    computer explodes.
• * XYcopy: Now also the various commands in the drag'n'drop context menu (Move/Copy Here with Suffix...) support background processing.
• * Menu Go | Go to Application Data Folder: This item is now always shown. Before it had been hidden when the Application Data Folder was identical to the Application Folder, but this made support unnecessarily hard ("If you see an item ... then click else ...").
• * Upgrading Application Data from a pre-8.90 version: Now also data that hang out in Vista/W7's VirtualStore are correctly auto-upgraded to a UAC conforming app data path.
• + Menu Tools | List Management: Added command "Recent Locations".
  Here you can edit the data which feed Recent Locations, Hotlist, Mini Tree From Recent, Breadcrumb, and Down (menu Go).
• ! Environment Variables: Worked around a Windows (!) bug where %appdata% is not resolved when XYplorer is started via 'Run As...' for <admin> privileges.

v8.90.0006 - 2010-03-18 20:45

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• + Toolbar: Added button "Queue file operations". Identical to "Queue file operations" in Configuration | File Operations. If pressed then any new file operation is delayed until any pending file operations are completed.
  The button's context menu allows you to turn off background processing in which case the button is displayed disabled (but you still can use its context menu).
  The button is tributed to Bob Marley.
• + Toolbar | Queue file operations: The button's context menu has an item "Status Log..." which displays a list of all file operations executed (or queued for execution) in the background (through XYcopy) within the current session. The log is not stored between sessions. Makeup of a log line:
  - Time the job was initiated by the user (not the time when it was
    actually triggered in case of queueing)
  - Description of the job
  - Status and duration
• * Configuration | File Operations: Renamed "Auto-queue pending file operations" to "Queue file operations".
• * XYcopy: Now only Copies and cross-partition Moves are done in the background. Within-partition Moves are fast because they are just renames, and Deletes are fast as well anyway.
• * Installer Package: Readded the "Run XYplorer" checkbox. It was not to blame.
• * Installer Package: Now you can run the installer with /S (case sensitive) on the command line, and you get a totally silent install with all the default choices made for you.

v8.90.0005 - 2010-03-17 12:53

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• +++ XYcopy aka File Operations in the Background (FOB): This should work pretty good now, so it's official: XYplorer supports multithreaded and queued file operations.
  Note that this feature is now optional and configurable in Configuration | File Operations (see below). The factory default is OFF so you have to turn it on if you want to use it.
• + Configuration: Added new section "File Operations" and moved topic "Backup Operations" to here. Also moved the following options from Advanced settings to here:
    File operation progress dialog modeless
    Turn off delete confirmation
    Preserve permissions on move operation
• + Configuration | File Operations: Added a couple of options related to recent developments in asynchronous handling of file operations.
  - Process file operations in the background: Check to enable the
    new asynchronous handling of file operations using XYcopy.exe.
    Affected are operations of type Copy, Move, and Delete.
  - Auto-queue pending file operations: Check to keep new operations
    pending until the old operations are completed. If unchecked,
    then new operations are triggered in the foreground if
    background operations are still in progress.
    This option is only enabled if background processing is.
• * Configuration File Operations: Note that the setting "File operation progress dialog modeless" is pointless and therefore ignored if "Process file operations in the background" is enabled.
• * Configuration: Renamed "Backup & Report" to "Report".
• + In v8.70.0154 - 2009-12-21 11:45 I did this:
    Menu Tools | Tools Special: Removed the following commands which
    have been rendered useless by the new Recycle Bin support:
      Open Recycle Bin...
      Empty Recycle Bin...
      Recycle Bin Stats...
  But now I changed my mind. Those commands still have their use
  depending on your work style.
• * Menu Go | Drives... and TB "MyComputer" and "Drives": Now by factory default all known drives are shown, including empty CD-drives. To exclude the latter use the following tweak.
• + Tweak to show only available drives in Go | Drives... and TB "MyComputer" and "Drives":
    [Settings]
    PopupAvailableDrivesOnly=1

v8.90.0004 - 2010-03-16 22:37

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• * XYcopy: Still in experimental stage but improving. You should get
  pretty good refreshing (means almost as good as it always was) now for most file operations. Also the Action Log should be fed again.
  Notes:
  - The new asynchronous handling of file operations made
    necessary a drastic rewrite of the internal refresh routines.
    The best case scenario is that you note nothing of it. But it
    might be that some folder or list is not refreshed as it should
    be after completion of a file operation. Let me know...
  - When you (are so crazy to) terminate XYplorer while XYcopy is
    still working, the job in progress will be finished, but any
    jobs still waiting in queue will not be triggered.
  - Any file operations triggered by Undo/Redo are not spawned to
    XYcopy.
• * Tag Find: Now MyComputer (or alias "*") as searched location will return matches from all locations. Before it was restricted to all local drives but excluded floppy, CD, and other removable drives, and network shares.
• * SC filetype: Now it returns "UTF-16LE" resp. "UTF-16BE" for such files. Before it returned "Unicode" for both.
• * Raw View: Now UTF-16BE (Big Endian) files are supported when they have the UTF-16BE BOM.
• % Raw View: Improved the exactness of the load timing.
• * Installer Package: Removed the "Run XYplorer" checkbox on the finish page. Too much trouble with unwanted elevation when the XYplorer process apparently inherited the admin level from the installer process.
• * Installer Package: Improved Uninstall. Now it resets resp. removes any registry keys that might have been set to XYplorer using Shell Integration.
• ! Tree: Inline-renaming a drive via Enter or focus loss would happen but the rename box stayed visible. Fixed.
• ! Emptying the Recycle Bin would lead to trouble when done while an item in the Recycle Bin was being previewed. Fixed: Now any preview is stopped before empyting.

v8.90.0003 - 2010-03-14 18:35

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• +++ Special Experimental Edition Attempting To Handle Blocking Issues with File Operations In Vista SP1 And Later.
  Since multi-threading is not an option within XY's current development tools, I opted for multi-processing. There's a new helper proggy called XYcopy.exe in the same path as XYplorer (it is contained in the download packages from now on). XYcopy.exe will handle Move, Copy, and Delete jobs in its own thread, which of course means you can continue working in XYplorer while the file operations are going on in the background.
  
  Further, the jobs are auto-queued. E.g. if you initiate a Copy operation while another one is still in progress, the new one will be delayed until the other one is finished. One job is triggered after the next, until all pending jobs are completed. This means there is no inefficient pseudo-parallel processing. Yes, I know that this can be refined later...
  
  This is just the beginning. Currently only the Shell API is employed (with all its nagging prompts). Later there will be options to use other (faster) API to do the work including an interface with shiny real time progress bars making you feel like a pilot in action, etc. Also the Backup operations will be (optionally) routed this way in future.
  But for now I just want to know one thing: Is that blocking issue in Vista/Win7 now history or still present???
  
  BEFORE YOU RUN THIS EDITION, PLEASE NOTE that this is work in progress, therefore:
  - Do not use this edition for any serious work, certain things
    like auto-refreshing and Action Log are not working 100% yet.
  - Turn ON "Refresh during file operations" (context menu of Auto-
    Refresh TB button), else you have to refresh manually after a
    file operation.
  - The whole XYcopy thing and its behavior will be optional /
    configurable later, of course, but for now it's all hard-coded.
    Note also that XYcopy is only for WinNT and later (not for Win9*
    or ME). And it will stay like this.
  
• + Scripting got a new function.
    Name:   rand
    Action: Generates an integer random number.
    Syntax: rand([low=0], [high=1])
      low:    the lowest value to return (default: 0)
      high:   the highest value to return (default: 1)
              should be same or higher than low
      return: random number
    Examples:
      echo rand();      //returns 0 or 1
      echo rand(2, 4);  //returns 2 or 3 or 4
      echo rand(-1, 1); //returns -1 or 0 or 1
• ! List: Better formula to auto-calculate the color of the sorted column (used in inactive pane and when "Apply box color to list" is enabled).
  

v8.90.0002 - 2010-03-12 10:43

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• * Shell Integration: Rewrote more code concerning setting and removing XYplorer as Default File Manager.

v8.90.0001 - 2010-03-11 21:38

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• + Rename Special: Added command
    Remove Diacritics (ä > a ...)
  Strips any diacritical marks from the letters in the selected item names.
• * Scripting: Experimentally it is now disallowed to minimize the application while a script is running. Reason: Any modal forms popped by a script while the application is minimized would block the application.
• ! SC load: Did not support special path syntax like in
    ::load "Desktop\copy.xys";
  Fixed.
• * Shell Integration: Rewrote some code concerning removing XYplorer as Default File Manager.
  

v8.90.0000 - 2010-03-09 12:00

= NEW OFFICIAL RELEASE.
Main changes since last release:

• +++ Fast Tag Search. New algorithm gets tag and comment search up to warp speed, even if you search large areas like e.g. your whole computer.
• +++ Toolbar. New button "Find by Tag" gives you one-click access to global tag-wise searches. For example, to search all local drives for items tagged "Blue" simply click "Blue" from the button's arrow menu. Should take a split second...
• +++ Toolbar. New buttons "Zoom In" and "Zoom Out" let you control the font size of Tree, List, Catalog, and Address Bar.
• +++ 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.
• +++ Toolbar. Now it has an overflow dropdown. You can freely combine it with the toolbar scrolling feature.
• +++ The Nuke button is now fully configurable giving you a one-click delete the way you like it.
• +++ New command "Paste Folder Structure" allows you to paste the folder structure (without any contained files) from folder(s) in the clipboard into the current path.
• +++ Now you can hide the main menu by pressing Alt+Up (configurable).
• +++ Preview. Added MTS (High-definition MPEG) and M2TS (Blu-ray) video files to preview.
• +++ Create new folders right through the Address Bar. When you attempt to go to a non-existing location you are prompted to create it on the fly.
• +++ Rename Files. Now you can specify replacement lists like this one:
    Ä|Ö|Ü|ä|ö|ü>>Ae|Oe|Ue|ae|oe|ue
  and do any number of string-to-string replacements in all selected filenames in one go.
• +++ Find Files by Contents. Now supports Unicode text.
• +++ Shell Integration. Make XYplorer the Default File Manager by simply ticking a checkbox.

v8.80.0338 - 2010-03-07 12:53

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• + Scripting got a new command.
    Name:   beep
    Action: Generates a simple tone on the motherboard speaker.
    Syntax: beep [frequency=800], [duration=200]
      frequency: The frequency of the sound, in hertz. This parameter
                 must be in the range 37 through 32,767.
                 Defaults to 800.
      duration:  The duration of the sound, in milliseconds.
                 Defaults to 200.
    Example:
      ::beep 800,100; beep 400,100; beep 600,100;
    Note:
      The function is synchronous; it does not return control to its
      caller until the sound finishes.
      Win7 will send the tone through the soundcard.
  

v8.80.0337 - 2010-03-06 09:23

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• + SC resolvepath enhanced: Added parameter abs2rel.
  Syntax: resolvepath([path], [base=<xypath>\], [abs2rel])
    path:   relative or portable path
            if empty or missing the function returns base
    base:   base path; defaults to <xypath>\
    abs2rel: 0 = normal function
             1 = reversed function: path is absolute,
                 return path is relative to base
    return: absolute or relative path (dep. on abs2rel)
• + Titlebar: Now the TitlebarTemplate tweak supports all XY native variables. So when you feel like it you can add lots of info to your titlebar now, like <date>, <xydrive>, <get pane> etc.
  Remember that the <app> variable is mandatory, else your tweak is reset to the internal default: "<path> - <app> @ <ini> - <ver>"

v8.80.0336 - 2010-03-05 10:50

• + Scripting got a new function.
    Name:   resolvepath
    Action: Converts a relative or portable path to an absolute path.
    Syntax: resolvepath([path], [base=<xypath>\])
      path:   relative or portable path
              if empty or missing the function returns base
      base:   base path; defaults to \
      return: absolute path
  
    Examples:
    Assuming <xypath> = C:\Program Files\XYplorer:
    ::echo resolvepath();       //C:\Program Files\XYplorer\
    ::echo resolvepath("foo");  //C:\Program Files\XYplorer\foo
    ::echo resolvepath("foo\"); //C:\Program Files\XYplorer\foo\
    ::echo resolvepath("\foo"); //C:\foo
    ::echo resolvepath("\foo\");//C:\foo\
    ::echo resolvepath("\");    //C:\
    ::echo resolvepath("..");   //C:\Program Files
    ::echo resolvepath("?:");   //C:
    ::echo resolvepath("?:\");  //C:\
    ::echo resolvepath("?:\foo\bar\"); //C:\foo\bar\
  
    ::echo resolvepath("?:", "D:\foo\bar\");  //D:
    ::echo resolvepath("foo", "D:\foo\bar\"); //D:\foo\bar\foo
    ::echo resolvepath("", "D:\foo\bar\");    //D:\foo\bar\
  
• + New variable: <xydrive> = XYplorer's drive (unslashed).
  Examples:
  - C:\Program Files\XYplorer\XYplorer.exe
    <xydrive> returns C:
  - \\Server\Share\Program Files\XYplorer\XYplorer.exe
    <xydrive> returns \\Server\Share
• * Info Panel: Orange button menus now pop at a position so that a second click at the same coordinates will close them. Also added a "Cancel" item to the bottom.

v8.80.0331 - 2010-03-04 15:19

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• + Scripting got a new command.
    Name:   Sound
    Action: Plays a sound.
    Syntax: sound [sound], [loop], [event]
      sound: file or label
             leave empty to stop any sound
      loop:  0 = don't loop
             1 = loop
      event: 0 = sound is a *.wav file
             1 = sound is an event label
    Examples:
      ::sound "F:\Fun\sounds\ted_stranglehold.wav";
      ::sound <curitem>, 1; //loop the current WAV file
      ::sound; // stop any playing sound
      ::sound "SystemHand", , 1; //system error sound
    Notes:
      Event labels can be found in your registry here:
      HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\EventLabels\<EVENTLABEL>
• + Rename Special | Search and Replace: Now you can specify lists with units larger than one character. Also different lengths of old a new string are now allowed in such lists. To enable this functionality simply separate the individual units with | (pipe).
  Examples:
    Ä|Ö|Ü|ä|ö|ü>>Ae|Oe|Ue|ae|oe|ue
    &| |->>and|space|hyphen
    Copy|of>>Kopie|von
  Any excess units on either side are ignored.
• ! Configuration | Shell Integration: Disabling "XYplorer is default file manager" did not work correctly. Fixed #2.
• + Find Files | Contents: Now you can search for Unicode text.
• ! Find Files | Contents: Would not handle files with wide (Unicode) characters in the name or path. Fixed.

v8.80.0328 - 2010-03-03 12:33

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• ! Configuration | Shell Integration: Disabling "XYplorer is default file manager" did not work correctly. Fixed.
  

v8.80.0327 - 2010-03-03 11:49

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• * Configuration | Shell Integration: Now shell special folders like "Control Panel" are still opened in Explorer whereas normal file system directories and drives are opened in XYplorer.
• ! Pane-to-pane drop onto folders, executables, and other drop targets did not reset the target selection afterwards. Fixed.
• ! Toolbar: Fixed more glitches with the new overflow dropdown.
• ! POM: Would not reliably retrieve the OS-associated application for items with extensions longer than 3 characters. Fixed.
  

v8.80.0326 - 2010-03-02 20:06

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• * Address Bar and other controls that might share a row with the Toolbar: Now their minimal width defaults to 400 pixels -- we have the space now because we have the overflow dropdown! You can tweak this number in the INI file under this key:
    ToolbarKeepOff=400
• ! Toolbar: Fixed some glitches with the new overflow dropdown.

v8.80.0325 - 2010-03-02 15:44

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• + Toolbar: Now it has an overflow dropdown. The nice thing is that you can freely combine it with the toolbar scrolling feature.
• * List: The vertical Hot Scroll Zone (the zone where dragging-over scrolls the list up or down) is now at most 8 pixels high on top and bottom of the list. Further, in a list with a smaller number of visible rows the scrolling is now slowed down somewhat.
  BTW, remember that Hot Scrolling in XY only happens in the left third of the list.
• % Faster startup!
• ! Info Panel: Pause and Stop buttons were missing. Back.