Multi Commander 4.2 Beta

[Mathias (Author)]

This release contains only some minor fixed 


  300+ Changes and some of them are...

-- Build 1669
  UPDATE - Updated Language Packs
  FIXED  - 2 crash issues reported by Crash report system

-- Build 1665
  FIXED - QuickLaunchBar now works better with relative and enviroments paths.
  ADDED - Command line command ":one" now also work for going to OneDrive/SkyDrive folder
  ADDED - New MultiScript functions PathMakeRelativeMC(...), PathMakeAbsoluteMC(...), PathTranslatePath(...), TranslateEnvString(...)
  ADDED - User Defined Commands can now be duplicated.
 

-- Build 1660 ( 30-Mar-14 )
  FIXED - Color rules are now refresh when files are renamed or attributes changed (From inside MC)
  FIXED - Copying files to folder starting with ".." now works again. Eg "..Myfolder"
  FIXED - FileTypeSetup will not clear extension field if external program is selected
  FIXED - If sorting of column that shown extended info (data fetched in background), view will now resort automatically when data is ready.
  FIXED - Windows Shell context menu did not work in some locations.
  FIXED - Fixed a couple of strange issues with context menu handling
  FIXED - Fixed issue with overwriting existing file inside a zip archive.
  FIXED - Fixed refresh issues when a zip is rebuilt.
  FIXED - 2 crash issues reported by Crash report system
  FIXED - Command line fields dropdown history is now shown and saved correct.
  ADDED - Button panel changed so it can not be undocked. Then no close button is shown making it look better
  ADDED - Button is the Button panel can now be drawn transparent.
  ADDED - New column that shows the length of the name or fullpath.
  ADDED - Added option to enable/disable the refresh tab when application focus is returned to MultiCommander
  ADDED - Command line field can now show hits/tips when not used. (Can be disabled in core settings)

-- Build 1650  ( 22-Mar-14 )
  FIXED - Lots of more DPI scaling issues fixed. MC now look good in 150% DPI. Still some issue with 125%
  FIXED - Improved error handling and error reporting of read/write errors.
  FIXED - A lot of minor fixes and changes to error handling
  FIXED - Placeholder file is now being identified (Win8.1+ only)
  FIXED - 2 crash issues reported by Crash report system
  FIXED - When unpacking rar it could happen it complained that disk was full even if disk was not full.
  ADDED - Option for "Expand folder hovering over during drag and drop in folder tree". (Was always enabled before, can now be disabled)
  ADDED - Option if a new tab should be opened when browsing to new location in a locked tab.
  ADDED - Rule Based file coloring can now be configured to also change font style like Bold,Italic,Underline,Strikeout
  ADDED - Custom command MC.Explorer.NewBrowser now support TABCOLORS,TABNAME,TABLOCK paramters
  ADDED - New Custom command MC.Explorer.SetTabProp for setting tab properties like color, on existing tab
  ADDED - Duplicating a Explorer Panel tab. or opening a folder from one tab into a new tab. New tab will recieve same custom Tab Colors.
  ADDED - Custom Command MC.FileSystem.Unpack

-- Build 1640 ( 2-Mar-14 )
 FIXED - Lots of DPI scaling issue (Mostly tested on 150% DPI scaling)
 ADDED - Doing TapAndHold on touch devices will now be a right click. (Show context menu in most places)
 ADDED - Upgrade build system for MultiCommander to VisualStudio 2013 update 1
 FIXED - Improved error logging in a couple of places.
 FIXED - 2 crash issues reported by Crash report system

-- Build 1630
  FIXED - Last beta release was missing updated language packs.

-- Build 1629
  ADDED - MultiFileViewer have experimental support for line filtering (grep)
  FIXED - Some minor high DPI issues fixed.
  FIXED - Some icons was messed up if icon cached was cleared
  FIXED - 6 crash issues reported by Crash report system

-- Build 1623
  FIXED - Internal read/write buffer optimizations.
  FIXED - Context Menu key on keyboard now works for the ".." item
  FIXED - The settings "Remember Selected files/folders when changing path" now works again. (can be turned off)
  FIXED - Better error handling in a couple of places.
  FIXED - Improved error logging.

[jasonliul]

Pretty fast when start Multi Commander.

[ice-man]

ADDED - MultiFileViewer have experimental support for line filtering (grep)

It works very well for being "experimental". I already have had good use of it.
Being able to filter out lines from logfiles that are 2-300MB in memory is very fast and useful..

[Mathias (Author)]

New beta available build 1650.

most of the changes in this beta are for internal changes or for high DPI changes.
But there are also a couple of new things.. See the modified changelog in the first post at the top

[Stephen]

Max read/write chunk size is now working properly, and the buffers size display as well.

Thankyou

[Mathias (Author)]

New MultiScript functions

<str> PathMakeRelativeMC( <str> )

Convert path to a relative path. (Relative to where MC is installed)

<str> PathMakeAbsoluteMC(<str>)

Convert a relative to absolute path. (the relative path is assumes to be relative to MC)

<str> PathTranslatePath(<str>)

Translate path, Support both Relative to absolute and environmental tags ( eg %WINDIR% ) and ${mcpath} tag

<str> TranslateEnvString( <str> )

Translate a string that have environmental tags in it.
"Path to Windows is : %WINDIR%" => "Path to Windows is : C:\Windows"

[Ulfhednar]

Previously when I clicked the path bar on the active pane I could get my favorites/quick paths list up. 
Doesn't seem to want to do that now - 4.2 b1669
Is it just me or is something broken?


Good to see some cool new script features appearing. 

[Mathias (Author)]

It must be just you because it is still there. But you must right click on "empty" area.  (Unless you reconfigured in under mouse settings in the Explorer Panel)

[Ulfhednar]

Yep, it is back now (after a reboot) I tried every click possible on that field & only got the path to hi-lite.....another computer thing to file under weird!   

[Ulfhednar]

Just installed b1671 & my favorites via click is gone again.
Had some weird permissions & sharing errors dialogs appear on file move & rename ops until I rebooted 
Reboot hasn't brought the favorites back to the path field this time 
All MC files are whitelisted, I cleaned the cache etc in Win as a precaution, & I'm always running as Admin.
Coincidence?

[Mathias (Author)]

I'm not able to recreate that problem and don't even understand how the menu does not even show up.
Only reason is if it can't read the config file and it things the action is "do nothing" But even without a config file that should not happen since the default are "do something"..

Whitelist ?  Are you running some kind of sandboxing ?
There are all kind of strange problem with those, I do not use them and do not test using them.

If you run the installed version you can test and see if you get the same issue with the portable version (they use the same binaries. but different default config)

[Ulfhednar]

Hi Mathias,
I'm using Comodo IS, it 'partially' sandboxes new executables.  I then add these to the white-list.
Turned off CIS & it doesn't affect MC & the favorites dialog.
Portable version doesn't work either.
When I click the path field I only get a response with hi-lighting of the path & it being selectable. 
Bottom line - I need this feature more than the favorites dialog which I can access by the other means.

[Mathias (Author)]

Do other popup menus work ?

Nothing in the code with the favorites popup menu or the path field have change i in 4.2 or not even in 4.1.

The only way I can make the favorites popup menu go way. is if I change the mouse configuration for "Path Field" and set the action "Right click outside path item" to "No Action"

[Ulfhednar]

Just did the update to 1672 & it's back.
Before that I did a deep AV scan, defrag & reg clean which didn't show anything unexpected so I am mystified. 
Some TSR getting in the way maybe...? 

Just proves MC is a can't live without app.