new beta version 3208

[nikos]

32 bit: www.zabkat.com/test/xplorer2_setup_ult_beta.exe
64 bit: www.zabkat.com/test/xplorer2_setup64_ult_beta.exe

if you have network folders of the slow kind please check the new pinging code (use HELP > WHAT'S NEW to see the description)

any problems or suggestions please let me know

[Tuxman]

Hooray! Will test tomorrow.

[nikos]

win10 seems to be arbitrarily destroying hard links WTF? anyway here's the correct changelog file

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* ACTIONS > IMPORT SETTINGS menu lets you import settings saved earlier with EXPORT command. If registry based you supply a REG file, otherwise if [Ultimate] an INI file with settings (you must select the file in the active view pane). xplorer² then will restart itself to read the new settings. This helps people that cannot import because xplorer² is running silently in the background.

* Global registry setting bEllipsis — if present the file name fields in robust copy and delete progress dialogs will be changed into static controls that show all the filename (but possibly skipping the middle portion of the path). You lose out the possibility to copy the name though.

* Image previewer pane (DRAFT tab) supports zooming in/out. Click on a picture with the LEFT mouse button to zoom in, and with the RIGHT to zoom out. Hold down CTRL key to zoom in/out to the maximum extent. To zoom with the keyboard, press CTRL+plus/minus keys, like in your internet browser. You can drag-scroll the enlarged image to see other parts of it. Remember you can also double click on the previewer titlebar to have it floating as a separate window, that can be enlarged to taste.

* Image previewer also rotates images (press Ctrl+left/right arrows to rotate (anti)clockwise). There is also an autohiding toolbar for all zooming operations. Finger gestures should also work.

* New tips: 66a, 123a and 140a (see x2tips.RTF in the installation folder).

* [P] Quick previewer option QVOPT_NODOWNAX=512 won't let internet explorer preview mode (native tab) to start asking questions about "Do you want to open or save this file", it will just not preview office documents. Note that office stuff are nowadays previewed nicely outside IE. The only people that may need to turn this option off are office 2003 (and earlier) users or those running XP or older.

* Easier to access background menu (right click "nowhere" in a folder view) and do lasso (marquee) selection if you click the mouse on the empty space to the right of a filename. Works even in detailed view mode with full row selection enabled. Thanks Timo!

* [P] pseudo-column Group ID [S] useful for the duplicates checker view. Items identified as identical will have the same group number. You can use that for restoring the duplicate groups in case they are disrupted e.g. after a change of sort order.

* [U] TOOLS > FAST SEARCH menu command dialog has a new drop-down box where you can choose any custom text property to search in quickly

* [P] Stock property Stream names holds a list of named alternate streams (ADS), if any exist, e.g. Zone.Identifier for internet downloaded files or SummaryInformation for generic comments. The information is similar to ACTIONS > ADS > VIEW STREAMS menu command, but the advantage here is that the property is searchable.

* ACTIONS > SHRED menu command added warning when trying to shred on solid state discs. Shredding doesn't make sense there and it is actually bad for your SSD lifetime. You are better off just deleting the files instead

* [P] some total commander WLX plugins can also do thumbnail previews (images). These can be used in xplorer² for the quickviewer panel (DRAFT mode/tab) and thumbnail view mode. Sadly this type of thumbnail isn't added to the cache so it will be slower.

* global option GAOPT_SPEAKINTONGS=131072 makes xplorer² talk of error messages that would appear on the statusbar. Patry trick at present only available in english (no translations)

* [P] /L command line switch is normally used with /F:1 to start a new search, but if it is used for a normal browser window it can carry a CIDA file to pass to the miniscrap pane, e.g. /L:c:\that\file.cida

* [P] NEW ITEM ribbon button (that creates new shell items in a folder) is also available as a normal toolbar button. You must find it in the toolbar customization dialog to add it. This feature is also available when you right click on the background of a folder (or on the folder icon in a pane's titlebar) and use EXPLORER submenu.

* Main window ribbon shows frequent folders in leftmost "FILE" tab. This is the automatically managed list in GOTO > FREQUENT menu command. Hover the mouse to see the full path

* WINDOW > ACTICATE TAB submenu allows menu access to tabs, in the order they are seen in each pane

* various standard shell folders like SHELL:DOWNLOADS etc are available for autocompletion in the addressbar. For example type DOW and hit up arrow to autocomplete to the standard SHELL:DOWNLOADS folder. This is on top of the recently browsed and frequent folders that are also in the drop-down list of the addressbar. For a complete list see http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/shell-commands-to-access-the-special-folders/. There are equivalents for all folders in GOTO > SPECIAL FOLDERS menu

* [P] right click on the detailed view header row to add columns from the recently used hyper-filter (DETAILS FROM FILTER menu command). Say you did a search that included a number of additional rules like Keywords or whatever, this command will add the extra columns so you can see what was matched by the filter.

* On touch-enabled laptops and the like, scrolling works with the finger (aka Pan gesture). Caution: if you have any AHK scripts that rely on the window class name being ATL:BrowserListView AND you have a touch PC, you must revise your scripts. If you don't know what I'm talking about, it doesn't affect you :)

* [P] TOOLS > FOLDER STATISTICS (Alt+D) menu command works inside all folders (not just filesystem). However if you want to enter zipfolders and the like, you must make sure you browse the root of the archive before issuing the command.

* [P] Folder statistics window allows searching for text through ACTIONS menu or pressing Ctrl+F. To find the next occurence press F3. This way you can search for things like "error" that implies read access problems.

* Edit > Copy names menu command gathers file paths in the order they appear in the list, i.e. it respects the active sort order

* fixed problem with homegroup access. Alternatively, instead of using the homegroup folder you can directly access the remote computer by name using \\PC-NAME (using the appropriate name after \\)

* Even without /N command line switch, xplorer² should be more careful not to timeout on unavailable network locations on restart. You should also see less unresponsiveness when you disconnect VPN connections while the program is running. If a network read seems to get stuck you should be able to abort it pressing ESCAPE key (the status bar should say so)

* global registry setting nPingTimeoutMS is the maximum delay for a network folder to respond before it is considered a dropped connection. Default is 5000 milliseconds but if your network is slow you may need to increase it. Set to 0 if you want to turn off pinging.

* advanced settings editor has a search box at the left bottom of the window, where you can put a keyowrd to search for a property. The keyword is matched with the name or description. You may have to click a few times on NEXT button to find the property you are after. Note this only works for the current tab (global or layout settings). Click on the other tab to repeat the search there.

[Tuxman]

do lasso (marquee) selection if you click the mouse on the empty space to the right of a filename.

That doesn't work in Detail View, of course, as the "empty space" starts after the last column here, regardless of the free space inside the Name column.

* WINDOW > ACTICATE TAB submenu allows menu access to tabs, in the order they are seen in each pane

Amazing, but under which circumstances would using this sub-submenu be faster than the direct pane access?

* advanced settings editor has a search box at the left bottom of the window, where you can put a keyowrd to search for a property.

"keyowrd"? Oh well. - Wouldn't live filtering make more sense here?

[Kilmatead]

That doesn't work in Detail View, of course, as the "empty space" starts after the last column here, regardless of the free space inside the Name column.

It doesn't apply if you have the "don't use some Vista Effects" thing on. Otherwise it works fine in details view (even, surprisingly, with one-click selection turned on). That said, I'm having my own private war with Nikos at the moment about the right-click thing, so there's a lot of room for improvement. Right now all whitespace is considered background-territory which is just evil, unpredictable, and wrong.

...under which circumstances would using this [tabs] sub-submenu be faster than the direct pane access?

When you have a lot of tabs with really long names. The scrunched-up tabname has always been a problem that no amount of tooltips could ever fix. Not that this is a perfect solution (needs quicker access), but the idea is sound.

Wouldn't live filtering make more sense here?

"A half-arsed solution is better than no solution at all." (Unofficial motto of Ireland)

[Tuxman]

When you have a lot of tabs with really long names.

Because a menu with really long items is so much more usable...