Version 2.5.1.0 Beta 5th September 2019 First attempt to build with Delphi 2007. DPR - Added MainFormOnTaskbar. Tried MM4 but causes crash on destrouy. Added ATxClipboard to replace ClipboardProc in various units. Suppressed ATViewerOptions.ExtWeb, ATViewerOptions.ExtMedia, ATViewer.MediaAutoPlay which are from very old version of ATViewer. In UltraUtilities.pas, TColumnItem now MPShellUtilities.TColumnItem to avoid conflict. Added $DEFINE USE_TOOLBAR_TB2K to VirtualExplorerEasyListview, VirtualShellHistory and VirtualShellNewMenu so they build properly. UnitOptionsListviewContent.pas uses WideStrings for D2007 VirtualFileSearch.pas DEFINE UNICODE Trying to stop exceptions in TTntFormUltraExplorer.Destroy, added try/except And in TCustomVirtualExplorerEasyListview.Destroy, added try/except Suppressed Donate and Check Update menu itmes, no longer work Tried to use MM4 instead of FastShareMem, but crashes on exit... KNOWN ISSUE - exception on exit, may leave instance running, not found the reason yet. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Last changes by Mustangpeak seem to have been made 19 Nov 2010. Several units edited in 2010. Last built with Delphi 7. Source downloaded from svn://www.soft-gems.net/mustangpeak around that time. Now being built by Magenta Systtems Ltd, https://www.magsys.co.uk/ with Delphi 2007. Beware lots of libraries must be installed first to open this project. Only built with TNT Unicode controls. Long term plan build with Delphi 10.2 Rio or later, 64-bit. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Original notes bt Mustangpeak Version 2.5.0.0 Beta - Fixed some memory leaks - Fixed blank print preview on File Cart Tab - Implemented File Cart Rename editor - Fixed issue starting UE in minimized mode through shortcut - NOT FIXED - Fixed case sensitivity issues with the Content Rules // BUGS TO FIX - TODO Italian translation still has some English - TODO All Other duplicate when switching Options "tabs" - TODO Change language to Italian Listview>Common the sort order 2 buttons turn in to 5 buttons???? Known Windows7/Win64 Bit Issues: - If folder collapsed with the "+" button with selected folder in the branch the new parent selection does not browse the listview/history/etc. - Shell Extensions (context menu handlers etc) that were written for 64-Bit Windows will not work in UE. This is because UE is currently 32 Bit and 64 Bit DLL can not run in shell processes. See if the developer has created 32 Bit versions of the DLL so they will work with UE - TODO: EasyListview improvement, max Width with AutoSize - TODO: Add logical parsing for filters... 'AND', 'OR', 'NOT', '(', and ')' Version 2.5.0.0 Alpha - Fixed - Random focus rectangle drawn on Listviews in UE - Feature - Added more integration of UE features into the local Context Menus - Fixed - DropStack Toolbar popup menu, was disassociated from DropStack - NOTE: Document that holding CTRL when sending to FileCart (any way of sending) will clear the cart first - Feature - File Carts Tools (Tabs) implemented as temporary "scratch pads" to hold file lists. You can save the current contents or create your own file lists in an INI file with the following format: [FileCart State] Name= LastFolder= [Files] Count= [File 0] Path= [File 1] Path= [File N] Path= UltraExplorer saved File Carts will also save PIDL Count and PIDL tags but these are not needed if creating lists by hand. These help UE deal with special folders correctly (Desktop, Libraries, My Documents, etc) Version 2.2.0.0 - Improvement - Fixed flashing of window on shut down - Improvement - Implemented the File Extension Color configuration file in a Unicode ini file - Feature - Added Content Rules to the options. User can define View and Layout based on the contents of a folder - Improvement - Added multi select and auto-enabling based on current selections in the File Extension Color and Content Rules option dialogs - Feature - Added Quick Option menu choices to quickly build File Extension Color Filters and Content Rules using current selection of the Listview - Improvement - Added more robust checking and autoformating of entering file extension lists into the options. Now common ways of delimiting extensions can be used and UE will detect and convert them to the correct format. Delimiters supported are *.txt,*.doc,*rtf *.txt;*.doc;*rtf *.txt|*.doc|*rtf *.txt:*.doc:*rtf - Feature - Added File Rename Wizard - Improvement - Better tracking of deleted files and file changes in the Search, File Cart and Flatten Folder Tabs Version 2.1.0.0 [released up to Beta] - Improvement - Added printing capability to UltraExplorer - Improvement - Italian translation updated! Thanks to Folgore101 - Improvement - Romanian language updated! Thanks to muntealb - Improvement - Text Coloring of soft link (*.lnk, shortcut) files now shows the color of the type of file the shortcut points to - Fixed - Viewer AutoDetect option not saved between sessions - Fixed - Context Menu "Arrange By X" always selected the Name column to arrange by - Improvement - Added capability to copy a bitmap of the current folder to the clipboard - Improvement - Tried some tweaks to help startup freezes - Fixed - Folder Open/Closed icon backwards for Favorites - Improvement - No more hanging on startup and during file operations in Windows 7 and Vista Version 2.0.3.2 (Unreleased, jumped to 2.1.0.0) - Fixed - Refreshing (F5) could crash UE - Fixed - Adding new files could crash UE when the Listview refreshed itself - Fixed - Calculate Folders Button on Second Listview Tabbar would not stay hidden between sessions - Fixed - Inconsistent on the menu items for Tab>Customize>Left Arrow Button and Tab>Customize>Sroll Right Button. Made them both "Scroll .. Button" this will break language translations - Fixed - Columns View did not read in some options and apply them, such as hidden folders, correctly. - Improvement - Added ability to save/restore Selection Group Sets for quick selection of files/folders - Fixed - The improvement by sorting in the thread caused a bug when a non FileName was selected as the default sort Column. - Improvement - Added option to never show the thread reference dialog again, you have been warned about not closing UE when background file transfers are in progress - Improvement - Added option to show the full path of the folder in the History Window in the popup hint - Fixed - The header rebuilds to defaults everytime something happens (tab switching etc). - Improvement - The way the header works with the Set Default Column Info and Save Per Folder - Fixed - The Favorites Icon overlays would get out of sync. Made the Favorites window aware of Icon changes and now updates the icons when changes are detected - Fixed - Column View should not have been able to enter "Grouped" mode. - Fixed - Shortcut Keys for the Listview would be activated when other controls (Folders Windows/Addressbar/QuickFilter) where active and the shortcuts should effect them - Fixed - Column View did not reflect changes in the file system as well as the other views. - Fixed - Info Tip popping up while editing the file name - Improvement - Added ability of pressing arrow up/down while editing a file name to select the next/prev file and enter edit mode automatically. - Fixed - Dual Listview Toolbar would reshow itself if it was hidden and options were changed and saved - Fixed - Dual Listview Toolbar visibility not reflected correctly in the menu check state to show/hide it. - Fixed - Bug where Ctrl-W would close tabs on the main listview if the second (dual) listview was active - Improvement - Ctrl-Click on the Drives Toobar now opens the drive in a new Tab - Fixed - Bug if horz scrollbar was visible the selection when moving up one folder in the Listview was set to behind the scrollbar - Improvement - Dual Listview widths now resize proportionally when UE is resized - Improvement - Dual Listview, double clicking on the splitter bar between the Listviews (not on the center button) causes each Listview to take up 50% of the avialable space - Fixed - When browsing to a new folder from a QuickFiltered Listview the Listview would not be filtered if "Clear Filter when Browsed" is not set - Fixed - When using custom font size in the Listview only the Listview that was visible when the options were applied would set the cell height correctly - Fixed - UE could crash and become unstable if the Favorites are edited - Improvement - Added default extensions to the Viewer options for new users - Fixed - The Customizer Form strings are now included in the DkLang file - Fixed - Quick Filter showed black border regardless of theme - Fixed - Columns Mode short cut keys (Delete, Ctrl-Z, Ctrl-X, Ctrl-C) did not work - Improvement - Added ability to show thumbnails in popup hints - Fixed - Sorting Favorites by Name actually sorted the Filters by Name - Fixed - Save Restore/Set Selection did not work for Columns View - Improvement - Japaneese translation covers 99.9% of UE! Thanks to Kazuhiro Matsuda - Improvement - UE now resolved Symbolic Links and Junction Points and will browse to the resolved path instead of showing a message of Access Denied - Improvement - Up one level selection of parent folder now scrolls the selected folder to the middle of the window instead of the bottom Version 2.0.3.1 July 26, 2009 Last official release - Fixed - Bug in the writing of the Options to the options file fix from 2.0.3.0. 2.0.3.0 would crash on a restart after opening once and saving the Options file Version 2.0.3.0 July 25, 2009 - Fixed - Problem with Listview deselecting all it items when dragging from UE to another application - Fixed - Problems with the MultiPath Listviews (Search/Flatten Folder) and clipboard operations - Added - Capability to show/hide Main Menu Bar to restore right click the toolbar area and check the new Main Menu Bar item - Fixed - Problem with Listview popup hints/Query Info not working - Added - HotKey for Quick Filter now Toggles the Filter Bar - Improvement - When the Quick Filter Bar is hidden the filter is cleared automatically - Added - HotKey to Toggle Addressbar Visibility, Set Focus to it and Select the text ready for typing - Fixed - If UE was closed when minimized it reopened minimized, now opens to a normal window - Fixed - Save Per Folder would not work on startup and loading a fresh Tab - Added - Option in the Listview Coloring to allow user to decide if extension coloring is used when a file is selected. Coloring can make the filename unreadable when using themes if colors not well thought out - Added - Option to show/hide the images on the tabs, in the Tab Options Dialog - Fixed - Default Sort Column Index did not work - Improvement - The set column width for all views now includes custom sort order, visibility, and column width - Fixed - Mega-crash when changing Languages - Fixed - Layouts broken in last release - Fixed - No response/hanging when deleting/adding a significant number of files in the Listview - Fixed - Not selecting browsed up from folder in the listview - Fixed - Column header titles on the root of a network folder - Improvement - Changed Language instruction from rich text format to HTML making install 5Meg smaller - Improvement - Added shortcuts to Move/Copy files from the Active Listview to the Inactive Listview - Added - "Persist between sessions" added in the History options dialog to save the folder browse history of the tabs between sessions - Fixed - Potential for crash on shutdown - Fixed - Issue with Copy/Move from one Listview to another with no items selected in the source listview. UE would pickup any files on the clipboard and perform the operation - Fixed - BreadCrumb Dropdowns not sorted correctly in some instances - Fixed - ColumnsView Banding not enabled when Tab created - Fixed - F5 refresh did not refresh the Treeview or Breadcrumb bar - Improvement - Themes draw gradients 2x faster - Fixed - If images used the alpha channel for transparency UE did not draw the transparency correctly - Fixed - Memory Leak when using Dual Pane - Improvement - Speed increase when resizing column if Color Coding was enabled - Improvement - Significant speed increase when files are added to any view of UltraExplorer - Improvement - Sorting of the folder is now done in the enumeration thread which keeps the user interface from being frozen as much - Fixed - Bug in the writing of the Options to the options file Version 2.0.2.0 July 3, 2009 - Fixed - If "Select First Item" in the listview is NOT checked the Listview will try to find and select the folder that was browsed up from. It was not scrolling this item into view - Fixed - Changed wording of General>"Show Path in Caption" to "Show Path in Title Bar" to better reflect what it does - Added - Listview>"Hide Icons" option - Fixed - Search masks totally broken - Fixed - If the Folders Window does not have the focus and no folders are selected in the Listview the Listview Root is used as the default search path when the Search Tab is opened - Fixed - Potential to crash in ILIsEqual or ILIsParent functions - Fixed - Issues with shortcuts with spaces (Num +, Num -, etc) - Fixed - Issues with exiting while copying, showing property sheets etc - Added - UE should now copy/move/delete files asyncronously in the background better - Added - When a View Setting (View, Sort Direction, Sort Column, Grouped, etc) is changed UE now asks if you want to apply the new settings to all open Tabs, the Active Tab or New Tabs - Fixed - Shift and Control now work with the ContextMenu commands and Delete - Fixed - Extra commands in customizer now show text/icon correctly depending on what Toolbar they are placed on - Added - Extra command in customizer to delete files bypassing the Recycle Bin - Fixed - When an invalid path is entered into the Addressbar the resulting error box may end up under UE so it appears to hang. This is an issue with Windows but a workaround is implemented until the right solution is found - Fixed - Report (Details) view did not AutoSize the Name Caption - Fixed - The Thumbnail Stretch and Size controls did not disable when their functionality could not be used in the view - Fixed - Color/Font Coding did not work with selected items - Added - When adding a new Color Coding Extension the "Enable Color Coding" is automatically checked for you - Added - A new View, Report (Detail) Thumbnail View. - Fixed - Problem with the short cut for New Folder - Improved - Optimized startup time a bit - Fixed - Bug were file starting with "D" are not shown when grouping by name - Fixed - In the rework for 2.0 I messed up some conditional defines so the listview was not enumerating in the background so it was freezing the app while enumerating a large folder - Improvement - Major reworking of core components made huge speed increases and memory use reductions. Especially noticable in Vista and up - Fixed - Problem with the SHSetThreadRef and context menus when using the cut/copy commands not allowing the App to close Version 2.0.1.0 June 21, 2009 - Fixed the loader to not require the Registry Value to find UE for the Win-E hook - Fixed problem with Win-E hook opening an Explorer window plus an UltraExplorer Window - Fixed problem with crashing when removing Tabs - Fixed problem with setting focus back to tabset if the only Tab was a Flatten Folder or Search Tab - Fixed spelling of Donate... - Fixed problem with WM_DDEUltraExplorer and the context menus. - Removed ability to hide the main menu. It can cause all kinds of confusion getting it back - Fixed problem with saveing/restoring Layouts with Toolbars Locked - Fixed problem with setting focus to the Columns mode causing a crash - Fixed problem with Launcher and *FilePathList* - Added Slovak translation thanks to Sepp Winkler - Fixed problem where About and Translation dialogs can go behind the main form, thank to Netex for reporting it - Fixed some bugs with adding windows to the internal TabList (AV's) - Fixed the auto caption size option for report, list, and small icon views - Added ability to clear the Per Folder Storage of the listview in the Options Dialog - Fixed problem with commands in the customization dialog not being saved in the configuration correctly - Added ability for the dual listview Action toolbar to be customized/short cuts etc. - Fixed issue with Layouts being forgotten if UE is shut down forcefully - Added ability to included multiple files to a launcher parameter list, the legacy way is to add the files names to a file then pass the file the new names are FilePathListCmdLine, FilePathListShortCmdLine, FileNameListCmdLine, FileNameListShortCmdLine - Fixed problem with the "Open in UltraExplorer" Context Menu extension when UE was not already open - Fixed problem with Quick Filter not filtering when a refreshing listview, either F5 or if a shell notification occured - Added the Treeview has the focus Flatten Folder and Search now use the selection in that window as the source for the new tab action - Fixed problem with the Search and Flatten Folder Listview "jumping" back to the desktop - Fixed problem with the Search and Flatten Folder not removing objects from the list that have been deleted - Fixed problem with using Custom startup folders. UE now does not save all the open tabs then set them all to the same custom startup folder. It ignores all tabs and opens a single tab to the custom folder in each tabset - Fixed problem with shortcuts. Allowed changing of Listview Select All, Copy, Cut, Paste, Delete shortcuts but they did not work and/or the standard shortcuts still executed the action causing problems. Changing these shortcuts will affect the Listview ONLY - Fixed problem with syncronization of Listview Tab/BreadcrumbBar/Address Bar when editing a folder in the Folders Window - Fixed incorrect hint message for SpTBXComboBoxGestureNewTab.Hint and SpTBXCheckBoxTreeviewShowToolTip.Hint - Fixed issue with Hint not being shown on dialog boxes if Options>General>Tool Hints was on - Added some missing Hints to some of the Viewer dialog boxes - Traditional Chineese language updated thans to TonyYu27 - Fixed a problem with refreshing after a file change in watched folders - Increased performance when a lot of file changes are happening in a folder UE is watching Version 2.0.0 May 25, 2009 - Each Listview now has its own Tabset - Faster switching between tabs - Timer delay before filtering while typing a mask - User definable "x" close buttons on, no tabs, active tab, all tabs - Improved keyboard handling on the Columns View - Columns View is now a stand alone view style for a tab this allows much better integration into UE - Columns View now works with filters, quick filters, action buttons, etc. - User defined options for the Listview now work with the Columns View as well - Columns View now uses a delay time to allow faster navigation in slow folders - Any View (Flatten Folder, Search, etc) now works as the normal Listview including - QuickFilter, - Filter, - Views, - Clipboard Operations (Copy/Cut) - File Viewer, - etc - Added a "Common Listview" options tab in the Options dialog. Hopefully this will end the confusion on how to make the user's favorite view type more obvious to the user. - Layout Manager to save and restore layouts of windows/toolbars/etc - Numerous stability issue fixes - User definable default column widths for the Listview - New Listview Common Options tab to easily find common listview options Version 1.5.0 12.20.2007 Feature: This is the first version of UE with Roberts new Theming engine. The first thing you will notice is there are not as many Themes. On the other hand this new engine will do two things: o Allow you to create your own theme (will be available in next release) o Reduces the size of UE by almost 500KB! Bug Fix: Blank thumbnail problem should be fixed Bug Fix: Win-E hook should work better when using single instance and the tray Bug Fix: Filter bug fixed Bug Fix: Fixed bug when opening History folder in new Tab Bug Fix: Fixed problem with crashing during refresh (I really hope this is finally fixed) Version 1.4.4.2 Bug Fix: Fixed AV in DoThreadCallback method Feature: Added ability to set a fixed with for Tabs Version 1.4.4 Bug Fix: Fixed problem with activating viewer when full row select is used Bug Fix: Fixed drawing issue with focused column drawing. Overdrawing the first line of the header Bug Fix: Fixed Tabs so double clicking near the buttons on the right of the tab bar do not duplicate the currently active tab as like double clicking in a blank area of the tab bar does Bug Fix: Fixed Bug with drop down list of available tabs when selecting a tab that was not visible (scrolled off the current view). The tab would not be selected if it was not visible Bug Fix: Finally found the cause of the "Can not focus an invisible window" error when right clicking on the main menu bar Bug Fix: Finally found the cause of the crash when changing folders! Bug Fix: Fixed issue with Vista and sorting by extension instead of file type (Vista bug) Bug Fix: Fixed issue with Listview not refreshing when icons changed or file attributes changed Bug Fix: Fixed bug with Size Sorting Bug Fix: Fixed bug in Shell New Menu. Nothing worked if target folder was Unicode. Bug Fix: Fixed bug in Shell New Menu if the new item used the "Command" option to launch an app to create the new file, such as Vista's "Contact File" option Bug Fix: Fixed changed to make UE more Vista compatible. Caused task bar button to show/hide then show again. Bug Fix: Fixed bug introduced in 1.4.3 when showing properties of files Feature: Added ability to select multiple item and using Enter key to "open" all the selections. Feature: Added Icon Caching so images do not flicker from unknown to the system image when refreshing in the Listview Feature: Added Listview option for user to define how the size is shown, Default based on current system, force a Classic Explorer Style, actual file size, actual number of bytes the file consumes on the disk. Feature: Added Win-E Hook feature to open UE when the "Windows Key and E" are pressed instead of Explorer Feature: Added HotTracking option to Listview Feature: Added File>Flatten Folder command to show a flat list of all files in the currently selected folder and all subfolders. Currently is a real memory hog so be careful. Feature: Added user selectable time for File QueryInfo Hints to stay visible (up to 20 seconds) Version 1.4.3 Bug Fix: Drag and Drop on the Shell Objects in the Favorites Window was completely broken Bug Fix: DropStack always used Unicode shell transfers and would fail on Windows 9x Bug Fix: Viewer window caption not displaying "Viewer" when a plugin viewer not used Bug Fix: Addressbar Editbox's default context menu did not work Bug Fix: If dragging a folder from the Treeview to the Listview quickly (so the listview changes it root folder in the middle of the drag) UE intermittently would throw and AV. Bug Fix: Fixed the Listview background menu "Paste As" menu item. Did not work. Bug Fix: Command line parameters with GUID's did not work Bug Fix: Using the shortcut key to set the focus to the Addressbar Combobox when the Addressbar is hidden caused an exception Bug Fix: Fixed some special cases with the auto-selection of the filename minus the extension when entering into edit mode in the listview Bug Fix: - would place a file in a new Tab if a file was selected and cause AV's Bug Fix: Small Icon and List views now has an option auto size the cells to show the full captions Bug Fix: Fixed incremental search to more resemble the Explorer listview incremental search Bug Fix: Always Sort Folders First option now works Bug Fix: LockFonts and LockColors options for windows reversed Bug Fix: Fixed bug Folders window would not change font color Bug Fix: Select First Item option incorrectly selects the first item if there were previously stored selections if the folder was browsed earlier Bug Fix: Handled an invalid filename in the Launch Designer more elegantly Bug Fix: Fixed bug with Mouse Wheel when switching away from List View Bug Fix: Fixed Rename bug where new name would not be displayed if edited from within the Listview Bug Fix: Fixed a bug in a core class that would cause random memory overruns and may cause strange AVs Bug Fix: Fixed in Details Thread that would cause an AV in GetCaption at times Bug Fix: Fixed bug in the '/p' command line switch Bug Fix: Fixed bug in Column count extraction. Could cause incorrect column count in details view and AV's Bug Fix: Fixed problem with F4 not dropping the Folder Select rolldown window in the Explorer Combobox Bug Fix: Fixed issue where Columns View columns would not refresh when file changes occurred Bug Fix: Fixed where when using Columns View the UltraExplorer may not shut down completely when closed Bug Fix: Fixed languages not working on the Grouping headers Bug Fix: Fixed problems with context menus when using the Context Menu keyboard key Bug Fix: Fixed Up One Folder in Columns View Bug Fix: Fixed bug in "Add selected to favorites" menu item. Sometimes grayed out or would crash if active control was the Treeview. Bug Fix: Default Grouping types "Size" and "Type" were reversed in the dropdown list causing the grouping to be Type when "Size" was selected and vice-versa Bug Fix: Columns Mode Details not Unicode Bug Fix: Forgot to implement IncrementalSearch on the Treeview Bug Fix: Middle Mouse button should have opened History and Favorites in new Tab Bug Fix: Command Line mistakenly lower cased the input string so case sensitive switches would not work Bug Fix: Zip files did not ignore the extension when going into edit mode if the namespace extension to allow browsing into the zip was installed Feature: Added better handing of corrupt configuration files. If an error occurs when reading the configuration file a dialog is shown telling you of the problem and a backup of the file is saved then the original file will be deleted so the user does not have to manually try to figure out and delete a corrupted file. Feature: Added a feature to toggle between selecting between just selecting the FileName and selecting the FileName + Extension by pressing F2 when editing a file in the Listview. Feature: If the Listview "Show File Popup Hints" is active and the filename does not fit in the cell (Listview "AutoSize for Caption is off) the Popup Hint will include the filename as the first line. If the Listview "Show File Popup Hints" is off and the filename does not fit in the cell then a ToolTip is show with the full caption of the file. Feature: Added Speed Buttons for selecting the Listview View in the Navigation Toolbar (remember you can drag them off the toolbar or onto another toolbar with the Customization Dialog open) Feature: Added user definable Incremental Search Delay Timeout in the General Options Feature: Added a warning message that is shown the first time an item is dragged to the Drop Stack explaining that the Drop Stack is a reference to the files and the original files MUST exist when the references are dragged from the Drop Stack to their target destinations. Feature: Added ability to turn off/on the Main Menu Toolbar via the right click popup menu available over every toolbar Feature: If there are no windows to the left of the Listview the Splitter bar is not shown. Interferes with re-sizing window and takes valuable screen space Feature: Command line switch now supports upper and lower case "p" switch. A lower case '/p' adds the command line paths to existing tabs. An upper case '/P' removes previous tabs then adds the command line tabs Feature: When browsing up the folder tree the folder where the user browsed from is selected and scrolled to in the Listview Feature: Added a New Folder button to the Dual Pane configuration Feature: Now supports the popup thumbnails and flip windows in Vista Feature:: Added ability to show a Desktop button on the Drives Toolbar Feature: Added ability for user defined short-cut for Group Feature: Added a View>Change Auto-Update menu item to disable/enable auto update when the shell or file structure changes Feature:: Now an option if the Listview browses up one level when you double click the background Version 1.4.2 Bug Fix: Fixed AV when moving a file with CTRL Drag then selecting a new file Bug Fix: Fixed AV when using "Add All Tabs to Favorites" Bug Fix: Fixed not hot tracking in the BreadCrumb Bar with "Lock Toolbars" enabled. Bug Fix: Fixed bug in Tab Order Bug Fix: Fixed bug in Listview not responding to Numeric Keys Bug Fix: Fixed problem with BreadCrumb Bar hiding itself if double clicking on it Bug Fix: Fixed problem with Tabs not saving history of Mapped, Removable, and Network Drives when switching away from the Tab then returning to it Bug Fix: Fixed bug where Favorites could be added as sub-Folders of Favorites items that where not categories but actual files and folders Bug Fix: Fixed bug in saving Tab information. Tabs would revert to last folder in the history when switching back to tab. Feature: Changed the way CTRL-F works. Does not toggle Quick Search bar, always shows it and sets the focus to the edit ready to type Feature:: Selectable if the History Window is unique per Tab or global across all Tabs Feature:: Breadcrumb Toolbar now has a user definable hot key to open the current folders menu to allow 100% keyboard access, default is CTRL-B Feature: Breadcrumb Toolbar has options to automatically open the sub menu when the mouse hovers over the button Feature:: Breadcrumb Toolbar now has flyouts for the folders from the menu to subfolders. Feature:: Added support for multiple paths in the command line switch. Now a switch such as UltraExplorer.exe /p "c:\;%AppData%;.." will open UltraExplorer with three tabs, one to the C drive, one to the user Application Data folder, and one in the current directory that UltraExplorer is running. Feature:: Added Context Menu to allow opening Folder in UltraExplorer from other applications Feature:: Added support for Environment Variables in the ComboBox %USERPROFILE% - The current user's profile folder %ALLUSERSPROFILE% - The All Users profile folder %ProgramFiles% - The Program Files folder %SystemRoot% - The system root folder %SystemDrive% - The system drive letter %windir% - Windows folder %TMP% - Temporary Folder %TEMP% - Temporary Folder %PULBIC% - Users Public Folder %ProgramData% - Folder for common program data %HOMEDRIVE% - The drive the current users home folder is on (does not include "\") %HOMEPATH% - The Home Folder for the current user (does not include the drive but includes a leading "\" so using "%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%" is the full path %CommonProgramFiles% - Common Program Files %AppData% - Application Data folder Feature:: Added Right Mouse Button "Gestures". In the Options dialog select the Mouse Option tab and choose use the Right Mouse button for Gestures. The following are the defaults but it is user selectable in the Options Dialog. Clicking and holding the mouse button then dragging up causes a browse to the next level up Clicking and holding the mouse button then dragging left causes a browse to back one step in the browsing history Clicking and holding the mouse button then dragging left causes a browse to forward one step in the browsing history Feature:: Insert and Delete keys now Add and Remove items from the Favorites. Feature:: Added an "Enter Edit Mode" menu item to the Favorites Main Menu that opens the Favorites window, places it into edit mode, and set the input focus to it Feature:: Breadcrumb bar menus selectable if Browsable folders (such as how Zip files look like folders in Windows ME, XP and Vista) are displayed or not. In Options>Toolbars. Version 1.4.0 Bug Fix: Fixed possible AV in Listview DragDrop operation. Bug Fix: Fixed problem with Command Line sync across network drives Bug Fix: Fixed bug in rendering Thumbnails that would cause an AV Bug Fix: Fixed rendering of some alphablended thumbnails Bug Fix: Fixed problem with applications sometimes not launching when double clicking file Bug Fix: Fixed issue with dialogs and 120 DPI font mode. Bug Fix: Fixed problem when renaming file in Treeview not updating other data structures and windows in application. Bug Fix: Thumbnail Load All At Once options did not work Bug Fix: Hilighting the path in Column Mode did not work Bug Fix: Setting the column width in Column Mode set the physical width but the cell width did not always change to the new width. Bug Fix: Options dialog would crash on opening or closing if other then English language was used Bug Fix: Fixed Columns mode item width not matching the width of the column Bug Fix: Fixed Column Modes context menu for items not working Bug Fix: Fixed current folder browsing back to desktop if File Object type changed (hidden, folders, non folders) Bug Fix: Fixed bug that would cause an AV randomly when dragging a file over the listview Bug Fix: Fixed bug in Options Dialog, Show Hints check not remembered between sessions Bug Fix: Fixed problem with context menu showing on wrong monitor if using dual monitor Feature: Sort Favorites by Name Feature: Launcher ShortCut assignments now saved Feature: New "Stretch" command for Thumbnails in the Listview Action Toolbar. You will likely have to open the Customizer dialog and drag the button to a more appropriate position if you has UE installed prior to this update. Feature: Added new Auto-play on load option to the Options>Viewer tab to allow the user to decide if multimedia files automatically play when viewed. Feature: Added new Dual Pane Listview mode. This more closely resembles normal dual pane Explorer clones. Feature: Added a context menu handler that can be registered to allow access to your favorites folders thought the context menu in Explorer, UltraExplorer and Open/Save As dialogs that use the Common Windows Dialog. Use Tools>Install Context Menu Handler Feature: Thumbnail sizes save on a Per Folder basis if the Listview's Save View Per Folder option is checked. Feature: Thumbnails now has a Hide Captions options Feature: Thumbnails have an Aspect Ratio option to allow the user to best fit their particular size of thumbnail images Feature: Added main menu item to link to the Wiki Help Feature: Reworked Columns mode Details Feature: Added a user configurable hot key to toggle focus between the two listviews. Feature: Added option to show grid lines in Details View. Feature: Columns Mode window color now changeable. Feature: Columns Mode highlight banding now selectable on/off. Feature: Columns Mode banding color user definable. Feature: Addressbar Combobox width user definable under Tools>Options>Toolbars Feature: Added My Documents special folder button option for the Drives Toobar Feature: Clicking a History folder opens the folder in a new Tab Version 1.3.6 Bug Fix: Fixed bug with OLE drag and drop from UE to the desktop in WinXP and lower Bug Fix: Some controls in the options did not have hints Bug Fix: Fixed bug dragging more then one OLE object to the Drop Stack from the Treeview Bug Fix: Languages did not work on some panels in the options dialog Bug Fix: Favorites Menu and Toolbar did not respect the setting of Favorites In New Tab option Bug Fix: Main Window caption was not Unicode so Unicode Paths in the caption showed as ????? Bug Fix: Fixed drawing bug with Eos Theme and the Listboxes with checkmarks. Bug Fix: Better implementation of Locking the Toolbars. No longer shifts the Toolbars around Bug Fix: Fixed Back/Forward/History browsing Bug Fix: Fixed "New Window" command on Vista Bug Fix: Fixed AV when delete filter items Bug Fix: Fixed Toolbar positions not saved when Lock Toolbars enabled Bug Fix: Fixed "Hilight Compressed File" option in the Treeview Bug Fix: Fixed Columns Mode file select not always opening in Viewer Bug Fix: Fixed Listview from quickly changing folders then back when right clicking a different folder to show the properties sheet Bug Fix: Virtual Folders could be added as children of Physical Folders in the Favorites Window Feature: Added option to hilight encrypted files Feature: New translations, Chinese, Italian, and French Feature: Double clicking in the Tab area creates a new Tab Feature: The following variables are now available to use in the AddressBar Combobox, Command Line, and Launcher %desktop% = Top level desktop folder %network% = Network folder %printer% = Printers folder %drives% or %mycomputer% = My Computer %sysdir% = SystemDirectory %temp% = Temporary folder %appdata% = User Documents folder %favorites% = Favorites folder %personal% = My Documents folder %templates% = Templates folder %history% = History folder %desktopfolder% = Physical disk folder that contains the desktop objects Feature: Better organization of the Toolbar Context Menus Feature: Changed themed drawing of graphical folder size bars to be consistent across Windows versions. Feature: Can "Add Selected To Favorites" from Folders Treeview Feature: Completely reworked the way the components interacted with each other. Faster response when changing folders as much fewer updates between controls. Feature: Each Tab now stores its own History and Back/Forward information Feature: Double Clicking in the background of the Listview browses up one level Feature: New Tab option to position it on the bottom of the Listview Version 1.3.5 Bug Fix: Folder Size Always check not always synchronized with the menu item. Bug Fix: Fixed AV when pressing F5 Bug Fix: A number of Toolbars did not stay in sync with the the menu items to turn them on/off Bug Fix: Folder Size activation not defined when setting from the Options dialog Bug Fix: Fixed a drawing anomaly in Win9x/Win2k the first time the listview size was changed Feature: Moved the main menu Folder Size menu under the Tools menu, don't need such direct access with the speed button on the tabs bar Feature: Added themed graphical Folder Size indicators, that scale with font size Version 1.3.4 Bug Fix: Listview editor Font not the same as the Listview's Font Bug Fix: Fixed AV when opening the Edit Grouping or Edit Plugin dialogs Bug Fix: Selecting a tab that represented the Desktop did not browse to the Desktop Bug Fix: Fixed bug in XButton to browse backward/forward Bug Fix: Context menu "Arrange Icon By" did not work if not grouped Bug Fix: Fixed bug in Filters window, UE would delete the filter above the selected filter Bug Fix: Fixed occasional AV when releasing the mouse in the Folder Window Bug Fix: Quick Filter Toolbar menu item check not staying synced with visibility of Quick Filter Toolbar Bug Fix: Found bug in the History code. Could cause the mystery jumps back to the Desktop Bug Fix: The Listviews where not using the same default font as the rest of the windows Bug Fix: Favorites Font and Color options did not work Bug Fix: Double clicking a file in Columns Mode did not launch the file Feature: Added ability to customize hotkeys for History Back and Forward Feature: Minimize to Tray now keeps UltraExplorer from showing on the Taskbar Feature: Double clicking the image last column of Column View now executes the item Feature: Always Show Header option to allow header click sorting in any view Feature: When switching tabs the selected nodes and the position of the scrollbar is preserved so the next time the tab is selected the state of the listview is restored. Feature: Added Option>Toolbar>Lock Toolbars to lock the toolbars after they are position where the user wants them Feature: UltraExplorer windows dynamically resize cells based on font size Feature: Uses built in Vista drag image system for drag images in Vista Feature: Serious reworking of Columns Mode Feature: Clicking the header in Columns Mode toggled the sort direction of the view Feature: "Arrange Icons By" now works in Columns Mode Feature: New icons by Giannakopoulos Konstantinos Version 1.3.2 Bug Fix: Fixed issue with potential invalid GUID for listview background menu Bug Fix: Try again.... hope the AV in the EasyEditManager MainWindowHook is fixed Bug Fix: Fixed transparent GIF images not displaying transparent Version 1.3.1 Bug Fix: Fixed the "Edit Grouping Criteria" dialog and adding a custom criteria Bug Fix: Forgot to assign a hot letter to the "Launch" main menu item Bug Fix: Fixed problem of item in listview going into edit mode when activating the window with the mouse Bug Fix: Hope the AV in the EasyEditManager MainWindowHook is fixed Version 1.3.0 Bug Fix: Check if object is file or folder before deciding to not select the text after the last "." (used to not select the extension of a file when entering edit mode) Bug Fix: Fixed bug with the new command line path relative path options. Bug Fix: Think the double click on the header to autofit the captions should be fixed Bug Fix: Status bar "Files Selected" limited to 1G Bug Fix: Columns Mode was not using the File Objects options when showing files Bug Fix: When using command line parameters a debug dialog would show Feature: Reworked the Options Dialog to not use Tabsets Feature: Added Toolbar button and Main Menu selection to choose Folder Size Calculation type Feature: Launcher Design now drag drop aware from Explorer and the Shell to allow dropping *.exe, *.bat, *.com, and *.lnk files to create a new launcher entry. Feature: Listview ghosts the images if the object is hidden Feature: Middle mouse click on Favorites Folder opens a new Tab Version 1.2.9 Bug Fix: Fixed bug with no translation of the Launcher Edit dialog Bug Fix: List view would hang UltraExplorer Version 1.2.8 Bug Fix: Fixed bug in command line and syncing between two different drives Bug Fix: Fixed bug with autoselection of just the file name in the listview when filename contained "." other then the separation between the filename and the extension Bug Fix: Fixed bug in listview editor preventing CTL-A from selecting the entire contents of the editor Bug Fix: Fixed AV when the Hint Window shown in the Treeview (turned off Animation per Mike Lischke it is a known issue) Bug Fix: Fixed bug in custom overlay icons not showing (i.e. TortiousSVN) Feature: Added a "Auto Wildcards" checkbox to the quick filter to automatically add a "*" wildcard to the beginning and end of the typed text Feature: Added Full Row Select option for the Favorites window Feature: Added option to open a Favorites Folder in a new Tab. Also if the Ctrl or Alt is pressed when a folder is clicked it will open in a new tab Feature: Time delay between when treeview change and the new path being updated in the other controls, as in Explorer Feature: The listview does not browse until the mouse is release instead of pressed in the treeview, as in Explorer Feature: Added support for customizing hot keys for electing Next/Prev Tabs Feature: Added support for customizable hot keys for the Path Copy toolbar actions for the Listview and Addressbar Feature: Added support for calculating Folder Sizes Feature: Support for relative file paths in the -p command line switch switch (".", "..", "..\SomeFolder" Feature: Added support for context menu hint strings in the task bar Version 1.2.7 Bug Fix: When changing Object Types to show in the views and both listviews were shown they would not reset to the correct folder Bug Fix: Thumbnail size not saved on shutdown Bug Fix: Thread would not shut down and application stayed in memory Bug Fix: Random AV's in TNamespace.InternalSubItems Bug Fix: Fixed alpha blending of folder thumbnails in Windows Vista Bug Fix: Fixed bug in the List View and the mouse wheel not scrolling a column width Bug Fix: Fixed bug that could cause BreadCrumbbar to not contain sibling folders when opened (more pronounced on Windows Vista) Feature: Added option to minimize to the tray Feature: If panel Listview is closed the fixed listview receives the focus Feature: Programs and ShellExecutes are launched from a separate thread to keep the UltraExplorer responsive. Version 1.2.5 Bug Fix: Launcher Toolbar did not execute application Bug Fix: Could not re-dock the toolbar to the drop stack Bug Fix: Only Operation that would work on the Launcher was "open" Bug Fix: Customizations not saved for Text Options Bug Fix: Hot-Key Customizations not working Bug Fix: Crash in DoThreadCallback fixed. Bug Fix: Wrong context menu shown when right clicking next to and not on the item text in the Listview. Bug Fix: The Viewer color options where not updated in the Options dialog when changed. Bug Fix: Complete rewrite of the Columns View to fix List Index Out of Bounds crash. Much cleaner and smoother. Bug Fix: Fixed problem with single instance and bringing the application to the front when it was minimized to the Taskbar. Feature: Added Alt+D shortcut to select the Addressbar Feature: If Folder(s) dragged to the tabset and dropped on an empty space they are added to the tabset. Feature: UltraExplorer now stays in the background if items are dragged from it during a drag drop operation Feature: QuickFilter bar similar to FireFox. Just type CTL-F and type in the edit box. Supports DOS wildcards as well (*, ?). Feature: Options button in Toolbar now visually "fits in" Feature: Added CTL- + shortcut to auto fit columns in Details View Feature: Columns View now as a "Smooth Scroll" feature. Adjust the speed in the Listview Options. Set to 0 to disable. Feature: Columns View has alternating colors to better identify items and has images to show what items are expandable into new Columns. Feature: To support Vista the configuration files are not stored in %AppData%\{username}\Application Data\UltraExplorer Version 1.1.2 Bug Fix: Fixed bugs with Filters if the "Hide Extension" option is turned on in Explorer. Bug Fix: Fixed bug in Main Menu introduced in 1.1.0 and the accelerator keys strokes. Bug Fix: Fixed problem with Default Sort Column not taking the change until after closing browsing to a new folder. Bug Fix: Fixed problem PerFolderStorage option. Not working correctly. Bug Fix: FavoritesCrumbbar not Unicode enabled. Bug Fix: Fixed problem with crashes when using the context menu button in the Tabs area or right clicking on the background of the controls. Bug Fix: Fixed problem with last item in listview being cut off when attempting to edit it. Bug Fix: "Always select first item" option was broken. Fixed. Bug Fix: "Divide by 0" crash in Dream Theme fixed. Bug Fix: Fixed problem UltraExplorer not shutting down due to a thread not ending. Bug Fix: On shutdown UltraExplorer would give an access violation at time. Fixed. Bug Fix: Potential crashes when pressing "Group" button. Bug Fix: Changes in files and folders not updated in UltraExplorer in some instances Bug Fix: Fixed problem of CPU going to 100% when shell dialog shown and other viewer being used. Bug Fix: Fixed problem of CPU going to 100% when shell dialog shown and other viewer being used. - Bug Fix: Fixed bug when opening a new UltraExplorer window via the "New Window" command Feature: Current Disk Drive size and Free Space displayed in the Statusbar Feature: You can now customize the Favorites Name for Shell Objects and not just the Favorites Sub-Folders Feature: UltraExplorer now tracks file operations and closes the file on the Viewer so it does not give a "File in use" error when trying to delete, move, or rename a file that is being viewed. Feature: Filters may now be set to "Filter In" or "Filter Out" on an individual basis. Feature: Filters now support wildcard matching per DOS wildcard standards, requires Window 98/Windows 2000 and greater or Internet Explorer 4.0 installed. Feature: Expanded the options for the Drives Bar. Can now have a few special folders on the toolbar. Also control over if the buttons should contain Glyphs, Text or Glyphs and Text. Also popup hints for the Drive Bar are controlled separately from the global hints option. Feature: Added a "Launcher" toolbar and main menu item. Allows the user to create shortcuts to applications with operations, parameters, and window types. See the ShellExecute API for a better idea on how to use this. Also look for "Cononical Verbs" for types of operations that can be performed. Version 1.1.0 Bug Fix: Problem auto selecting the new file when using the New item in the context menu. Bug Fix: Drag and drop required the FileDescriptor clipboard format to work with some applications (Outlook, Lotus Notes, etc) Bug Fix: AV if double clicking disabled items in the Grouping Edit Dialog. Bug Fix: Per Folder View settings not saved Feature: Added a FavoritesCrumb Bar Feature: Added a "Copy to DropStack" context menu item on Favorites Items Feature: The Menu is now like a regular toolbar so other toolbars may now be docked next to it on the same line. Feature: Alt+Left = History Back and Alt+Right History Forward hot keys. Feature: Added option to Sync the Command Line with the current Folder Feature: Added mode to Filter to all "Filter In" or "Filter Out"