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Beta Releases / Version 12 * BETA *

« on: May 26, 2022, 16:41:21 »

V 12.0  (Build 2885) (2-Jul-2022 )

 270+ Yes lots of changes.

-- 2885 -  ( 2-Jul-2022 )
  ADDED - Device dropdown can now show free space on device.
  ADDED - Option for Device Dropdown if it should show free space and if free space should be update when shown or not.
  ADDED - When executing file from within a archive. User now get ask if all files in archive should be unpack or just the selected file
  ADDED - Added some logging to app log if some uncommon error happens
  FIXED - Fixed option "Only auto close on short processes" for Copy/Move file operations
  FIXED - FileProperties (Columns) that should be fetched in the background was not always fetched in the background.
  FIXED - Fixed some text that was not using MultiLanguge system
  FIXED - Hover Preview did not use SqureImage option. it always used the standard thumbnail option for this not what was specified in template.

-- 2882 -  ( 23-Jun-2022 )
  ADDED - Zip now support LZMA/LZMA2 compression method for zip and unzip
  ADDED - Autodetect if AVX2 CPU instruction are available. if not zip/unzip is configured not to use AVX2 instructions.
  FIXED - Thread memory leak. Changed the parallel startup to use anohter thread method.
  FIXED - UTC date issue for extended date columns
  CHANGE- Default hotkey for Hover Preview change to Alt+Q

-- 2880 -  ( 17-Jun-2022 )
 
  ADDED - Default DataPreviewTemplates have been tweaked a bit
  ADDED - Data Preview templates can now define a default margin for columns or rows
  CHANGE- UI rendering of Data Preview that showing folder content changed
  FIXED - Improved error logging if WindowsPreview handler fails to show anything.
  FIXED - "NOPROGRESS" parameter for MultiScript function CopyFile/MoveFile now works again
  FIXED - Some places did not just multi langauge texts.
  FIXED - MultiText for a text for FSZip extension used duplicated text id

-- 2879 -  ( 10-Jun-2022 )
  UPDATE-  Hover Data Preview templates tweaked a bit
  ADDED -  Added Extended FileProp for Documents (ms office docs) using the Windows Property Service
  ADDED -  HoverDataPreview can now show horizontal line and program icon.
  FIXED -  Some extended date columns did not convert UTF date to local
  FIXED -  Unpacking multiple files from zip the filedate was not set correctly

-- 2877 -  ( 6-Jun-2022 )
  Added  - HoverDataPreview now support WindowsPreviewHandler so now PDF, docx, xlsx can be reviewed (office files require office installed)
  Fixed  - Overwrite option issue when unpacking multiple zip files.
  Fixed  - In some rare situation the default icons was not loaded during startup.
  Fixed  - Moving files via Symlink on other volume that points back to source volume
  Fixed  - If custom tab color is used but inactive color is not set. It will now used the same color for both active / inactive
  Fixed  - Various stability fixes

-- 2875 -  ( 26-Mar-2022 )
  Update - Zlib 3rd party library
  Update - Zip source updated and rewrites in MC Zip extension because of major zip api changes.
  Update - 7-Zip code to v21.07
  Update - Updated unrar source to v6.10.3
  Update - Updated 3rd party xml code library
  Added  - Hover data preview (beta) that can be toggled on/off with Ctrl+H or click on Talk-Bubble button on toolbar
  Added  - Menubar now support darkmode.
  Added  - Added support for creating zip archive with encryption PKCrypt or AES-256
  Added  - Added support for AES-256 encryption for zip
  Added  - Custom tab color can now be configured with a color for when the tab is both active and inactive.
  Fixed  - CopyUnpack copy pluging now detects first rar volume of RAR5 files correct.
  Fixed  - Filter button below filelist sometimes lost dark mode style
  Change - Massive code restructuring of core parts.


Hover Data Preview (Beta)
===================================
This is the new major feature to MultiCommander in this release.

This is a new type over hover tips (tooltip) when hovering over files. This hover tooltip can show lots more information.
But it can also be annoying if you do not need it. But when you need it you do not want to dig down in settings to enable it.
So Hover Data Preview tips are enabled/disabled using Ctrl+H, or press the new talk-bubble icon on the toolbar
(the talk bubble icon will turn green when enabled).

When enabled and when you hover over files you will get more information.
If you hover over an images and videos it will show the thumbnail. For text files it will show the first couple of line in the file.
For .exe file it will show version and other information. and so on.

Any file property that MultiCommander support can be shown in the Hover Data Preview tips.

What the Hover Data Preview tips are showing are customizable. However right now there is no UI for it.
But if you are brave you can try to edit the DataPreviewsTemplates.xml in config (copy it to your user config folder first) else you loose your changes when multicommander is updated.

Features missing from Hover Data Preview tips that are planned are
* Able to Zoom thumbnail that are show with mouse wheel ( probably need to hold shift and scroll to zoom )
* Able to show zip information for zip files. And what some of the zip inside the zip is
* When hovering over folder show the first folders/files in the folders
* Show Windows Preview in the Hover Data Preview tip. This will hook into the Preview Handler in Windows 10/11 and depending on what you have installed, you get more information on special files.

In the future some more extended features for the Hover Data preview is planed.

Please let me know if you fell that some information is missing from the Hover data preview tips.
Like when hovering for file type X it should show Y.

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Beta Releases / Version 11.5

« on: November 20, 2021, 17:08:22 »

This is the beta release of the next version. It has not been fully tested.
If any of the function listed below have issue please report them
If you find issues that about things not in the list below. Then post a normal bug report in "Support and feedback" section.


Release v11.5 (Build 2342) ( 4-Jan-2021 )

46+ Changes

  ADDED - MultiScript function for MultiRename to start a MultiRename with list of files and a profile without showing UI
  ADDED - Fixed Name conflict issue when items from different path but had same name was being renamed
  ADDED - MultiRename window can now be started from MultiScript with a list of files/folders and what profile to autoload
  ADDED - New MultiRename Tag 'U' upper case, 'L' Lower case 'n' Normal case
  ADDED - RestartAndRecovery now save recovery data when application is forced down by restart because of Windows update
  ADDED - When option to show Close button on TabPanel is on, the close button now supports dark mode
  ADDED - Support for Application Restart and Recovery, Restarts MC on Crash / Reboot becuse of Windows Update, Remembering most things as as it was.
  CHANGE- Rename, Replace text part in name does now ignore case for find part
  CHANGE- Rename, Replace text part in name does now keep dialog open until close is pressed
  CHANGE- How Inline rename works. When pressing left/right arrow key (and also Ctrl+Arrow)
  CHANGE- Changed how MultiRename profiles created/saved/removed
  FIXED - High dpi issue with MultiRename window
  FIXED - Issue where Crash dumps was not created, Workaround added because of bug in Google Drive ShellExtension
  FIXED - Issue when copying files to extra long path
  FIXED - Issue with MultiScript CopyFile(..) , Progress dialog was not able to be shown.
  FIXED - Issue when open path from locked tab, Some configuration option resulted in 2 new tabs opening instead of 1
  FIXED - Never hide ".." folder even if file attribute say so (Win11 sometimes have .. folder as hidden)
  FIXED - 14 Stability Issues
  REMOVE- Lots of unused code that was not used anymore since it was rewritten.


MultiRename window can now be started from MultiScript

Code: [Select]

import("MCMultiRename");

# Send all files from E:\Rename to the MultiRename window.
@var $items = FindFiles( 'E:\Rename\*.*', 0, 1);

# Autoload "profile 1" if it exists
MultiRenameShow("Profile 1", $items);


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Beta Releases / version 11.3 RC (Last updated 27-Sep-21)

« on: August 28, 2021, 15:07:47 »

This is the beta release of the next version. It has not been fully tested.
If any of the function listed below have issue please report them
If you find issues that about things not in the list below. Then post a normal bug report in "Support and feedback" section.


** 27-Sep - Release Candidate - If you find any issue report ASAP **


-- 2818 -  27-Sep-21
  FIXED - Code cleanup
  FIXED - 2 Stability issues

-- 2817 -  26-Sep-21
  FIXED - Changed in what order some things are initialized during the parallel startup.
  FIXED - 2 Stability issues

-- 2816 - 25-Sep-21
  ADDED - CustomConfigPath now support environment tags like %USERNAME%, %APPDATA% and so on
  CHANGE- Core cleanup
  FIXED - Startup fixes, More things is run in parallel during startup, Faster startup.

-- 2812 - 16-Sep-21
  ADDED  - Added support for AdditionalScriptFolders in the CustomConfigPath.xml when redirecting config files
  ADDED  - FileType setup now support the Windows verb 'Enqueue'
  FIXED  - Tab Colors are now read correct again
  FIXED  - 3 Stability issues
  CHANGE - More code cleanup

-- 2810 - 10-Sep-21
  FIXED - Hang during startup on some systems

-- 2809 - 10-Sep-21
  ADDED - Support for Changing Config/Log/Userdata path
  ADDED - Support for redirecting some config files to locations.
  ADDED - Path sent as parameter to multicommander now support  "." for current folder
  ADDED - Some part of startup process is now run in parallel.
  CHANGE - Mode code cleanup

Build 2803 - 29-Aug-21
  CHANGE- Code cleanup and removed unused code, and refactored how core settings are read
  ADDED - Updated language pack. Was missing in 2802

Build 2802 - 28-Aug-21
  CHANGE - Copy/Move Progress dialog changed. Can now show Read/Write speed separately and some other changed.
  ADDED - Option to prevent Windows from autoscaling in MultiMontor setup with different monitor scaling.
  ADDED - Option to tweak how fast a refresh of the filesystem should happen when filesystem is changed
  ADDED - Setting for gridline line type.
  ADDED - Mouse command 'Go to parent folder' for Mouse configuration
  FIXED - Changing Attributes/Datetime on items in RESx: virtual device now works.
  FIXED - Improved navigation when filelist is in ListView mode.
  FIXED - Home/End keys issue in some edit fields.
  FIXED - Overwrite Readonly files issue when upacking zip archive
  FIXED - 4 Stability issues


** Copy/Move Progress Dialog **
This is the biggest UI change. There is no more detailed information there when doing copy/move also some information have moved around to other places.
It now shown the read/write speed separately , Is any other information missing ? is it too much ? maybe an option is need to disable some of it. ?

**** A lot of how config files are read have change and also how the program is initializing things during startup. let me know if you have any issue that can be caused by that ****

Documentation for the CustomConfigPath thing.. (Yes I wrote some documentation, wow )
http://multicommander.com/content/customized-paths

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Announcements and News / PDG documentation updated (April 2021)

« on: April 10, 2021, 15:32:24 »

I was finally able to get the script running again that generate the PDF documentation from the webpage. 
So the PDF documentation is now updated again and I will now be able to keep it up to date.
(However some part of the documentation is obsolete. and need rewriting. I have not yet had the time for that)

http://multicommander.com/docs/

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Beta Releases / v11.1 ** BETA ** (Updated 5-Apr)

« on: March 28, 2021, 14:51:38 »

This beta have a new settings for the Explorer Panel, "Delay Update". In the Beta version this will be ENABLED by default. In release it might be disabled by default.
When enabled the Explorer Panels will not update the UI and not do a FileSystem scan until the tab is shown.. You will see a "!" in front of some tab names. This indicator is that the tab is NOT update yet.



50+ Changes

 -- Build 2788 ( 5 Apr-2021 )

  ADDED - MultiScript function StrRFind now support offset parameter, this parameter is at what position the reverse scan should start
  FIXED - Right click on Show/Hide Hidden files icon now works again
  ADDED - Can now configure different gridlines colors for horizontal and vertical gridlines
  FIXED - Get Filename of folder with dots sometimes cut of the last dot part, Like it was a file extension
  ADDED - New language Bulgarian, create by Lyuben Penchev
  ADDED - Added new command to open folder in new tab or in other panel
  ADDED - MultiCommander part in shell menu now show a command for "Open in New Tab" / "New Tab Other Panel"
  FIXED - Copy fileitems with date to clipboard the date was UTC and not local time
  FIXED - WPD: (Portable device) - Now works better when getting disconnected. Will to a refresh and clear view better

 -- Build 2782 ( 5 Apr-2021 )
  ADDED - If ExplorerPanel config is corrupt when starting a messagebox is now sown asking if it should reset that file.

-- Build 2781 ( 1-Apr-2021 )
  FIXED - ExplorerPanel corrupted config file and show dialog behind splash screen at startup halting startup
  FIXED - Saving config and tabs not updated because of delay update it lost their tab name.

-- Build 2780  ( 28-Mar-2021 )   
    ADDED - During startup MC verify extensions. This process is now done in parallel to improve startup speed.
    ADDED - So tabs can be have delayed update. So they are not updated during startup. This can be Disabled in settings. (In Release this settings might be OFF by default)
    ADDED - Add Warning and user settings to warn if multiple files are selected when doing edit operation.
    FIXED - Top margin for main toolbar is correct
    CHANGE- Did lots of code cleanup in reading the settings.
    ADDED - Holder for the FreeSpace Field and the icons after it are rebuilt. A ExplorerPanel tab UI will now be created faster. Look should be identical with before.

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Beta Releases / v11.0 - Release Candidate (Updated 18-Feb)

« on: January 07, 2021, 17:21:30 »

Current UserDefinedCommand will be auto converted to a new format.
The old UDC file was UserDefinedCommands.xml and it will be rename to UserDefinedCommands.xml.bak-Migrated
So if you revert back to old version. You need to rename that file to get back your commands

The new version store UDC Scripts in Config/Scripts/ Script can be seperate *.udc file or bundled together as a zip.
They can also be organized in folders. Script/Examples/Examples.zip contains examples script.
If modifed then do not keep them inside the zip. since this zip will be update on new versions.

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** 26-Jan **
In build 2756  there is a change in what icons sizes is used. Before there was 4 icons sizes  16,24,32,48 . This is still true.
So when scaling to 125% it picked the icon closest in size and used that. for 125% it was 24px. but 24px is actually a 150% scaling of the 16px, it should have been 20px.  But because of reasons there was no support for scaling the icons during drawing. But that has now been fixed. So if you run at high scaling you MIGHT see the icons have shrunk in size. This is because now their are drawn in the correct size. If you want then bigger change the icon size settings in Core and Explorer Panel settings. Small, Medium , Large, xLarge can be selected. and the icon will then be scaled depending on Windows Scaling settings-

As you can see in this table. You see the actually icon size depending on scaling and icon size selected
       
         100%  125%  150%  175%  200%  225% 250%
Small     16    20    24    28    32    36   40
Medium    24    30    36    42    48    54   60
Large     32    40    48    56    64    72   80
X-Large   48    60    72    84    96   108  120

***********************************************************


Release v11.0
-- 2768 - 18-Feb-2021
   FIXED - Backup/Restore now also include the new Script files
   FIXED - MultiUpdate update log is now more detailed
   FIXED - MultiUpdate will show crashreport dialog if crashed
   ADDED - MC.Explorer.Goto support ItemFocus= parameter to set focus after scan
   ADDED - Will show a message at startup if there are problem loading extension/modules (Failed to be upgraded?)

-- 2765  - 13-Feb-2021
   FIXED - Various DPI Scaling issue in FolderTree, CheckSum extension, MultiRename
   FIXED - FindFiles dialog now closes on Escape key again.
   FIXED - WindowsExplorer styled setup will now map F3 to search again.
   FIXED - 1 Stability Issues
 
-- 2761 - 5-Feb-2021
   ADDED - :SysInfo command now includes Monitor information and Windows 10 Release ID
   ADDED - MultiTags  ${pid}, ${mctemp} , ${sourcefocusext}, ${targetfocusext}
   ADDED - Example script with all multitags
   FIXED - UserDefinedCommand Dialog fixes
   FIXED - Scaling issue with the width of items shown on statusbar
   FIXED - Toolbar still visible if all toolbars disabled in config

-- Build 2759 - 30-Jan-2021
   ADDED - Drag and drop of script in UserDefinedCommands-Dialog to move to subfolder
   ADDED - Heigh of Freespace field is now calculated better
   FIXED - 1 Stability Issues

- Build 2756 - 26-Jan-2021

   ADDED - MultiScript with external ref can now be views or converted from MutliScript editor.
   ADDED - Added more Examples script
   FIXED - *.UDC script files with multilist comment/desc can now be loaded
   FIXED - Fixed issue with wrong icons sizes used in 125% / 175% scaling, Will now be drawn in correct sizes and scaled if needed
   FIXED - Copy 1 folder, and it is empty. Datetime is now kept is option for that is enabled.
   FIXED - Portable mode overwrite examples.zip as a empty xml
   FIXED - 1 Stability Issues and many icon scaling issues at 125%/175% scaling

 - Build 2751 - 7-Jan-2021

   ADDED - MultiCommander.exe CommandLine command /OPEN now support more paramters  /PANEL=Left|Right|Active|Source|Target and /NONEWTAB is added
   ADDED - MultiCommander.exe CommandLine command /QUIT to exit current running instance
   FIXED - CommandLine field will now try to do auto complete on paths when starting to type.
   FIXED - MultiDataViewer - HyperLink in text that was formatted was not always clickable
   FIXED - MultiDataViewer - Text Formatting that formated text to end on line. did not block formatting that was inside.
   FIXED - MultiDataViewer - Text with multiple formatting sometimes lost formatting when parts was selected
   FIXED - MultiDataViewer - Sometimes crashed if selection was done over part with multiple formats
   ADDED - Minor Redisgned to UserDefinedCommands dialog (TreeView and Icons and DarkMode Support)
   ADDED - Example script is included in release
   ADDED - Old UserDefinedCommand scripts will be migrated to scripts/*.udc script files
   ADDED - UserDefinedCommands can now be loaded from zip
   ADDED - UserDefinedCommands file format changed.
   FIXED - Tweaked detection if file is binary during content search and file viewer
   FIXED - Minor tweak and code cleanup
   FIXED - 3 Stability Issues

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Script / Look for script

« on: December 06, 2020, 13:39:57 »

I know many of you are write scripts.

I'm look for nice generic script that you think should be included in a standard installation of MultiCommander.
Both as fully functional and as examples..

Tips of scripts and/or full script are wanted.

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Announcements and News / Release v10.0 (Build 2740) - Dark Mode - No XP Support, Store Edition

« on: November 24, 2020, 08:21:32 »

Release v10 (Build 2740) is finally released.

This release have lots of fixes and lots of UI changes. (100+)
To be able to support dark mode some standard UI controllers/Element needed to be release with own custom controllers. (Toolbar, Combobox, CheckBox and more)

Dark Mode / Dark Theme
The big new feature is support for Dark Mode/Dark Theme in most places on Windows 10.
However MultiCommander has over 100 dialogs windows and each of them need to be updated manually to support dark mode and this is too much work.
So the Main UI supports dark mode and most common dialogs.. More dialogs windows will get dark theme in the future.

To be able to enabled dark theme you must run Windows 10 1904+ and you also need to enable dark theme in Windows 10 color settings
Then you enable the in Menu > Configuration > Dark color theme setup...

XP Support
From version 10 of MultiCommander, Windows XP is no longer support. This version will not work on Windows XP.
There are still some users that are using MultiCommander on XP.. But there will be a new edition of named MultiCommander XP that will work on Windows XP.
This version will only get some of the bug files and minor changes that the standard version gets. It will not get any new major features.
There is a version 9.8 out that is the MultiCommander XP edition. If you update MultiCommander 9.7 on XP you should get this version automatically
You can also download the XP Edition here http://multicommander.com/downloads/XP

Store Edition
Store edition of MultiCommander is finally updated. It had some things that needed to be change to be able to publish MultiCommander again on the Windows Store and I finally fixed them. So now MultiCommander SE (Store Edition) should available soon at the Microsoft Store on Windows 10.
However there are some minor restriction in Desktop apps in the store.
Store apps that read/write to some system folder of the OS, Windows will virtualize that. The Changes will only be seen for that app.
So do not use the Store Edition if you plan to Edit/Copy/Delete/Rename files inside the Windows folder

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / MOVED: Avoid white flashback when opening a tab in dark theme?

« on: November 12, 2020, 07:03:08 »

This topic has been moved to Beta Releases.

http://forum.multicommander.com/forum/index.php?topic=4050.0

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Beta Releases / MOVED: Quick search

« on: October 22, 2020, 09:37:43 »

This topic has been moved to Support and Feedback.

http://forum.multicommander.com/forum/index.php?topic=4040.0

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Beta Releases / v10.0 RC 2733

« on: September 22, 2020, 17:22:25 »

Lots of internal UI change.
Support for Dark Theme and other fixes


Release v10.0.x

-- Build 2733 ( Release Candidate - 24-Okt-2020 )
   FIXED - Fixed some high DPI issue in many places,
   FIXED - Freespace field will now auto scale font according to DPI settings.
   FIXED - DarkMode works again in Windows 10 10H2 release
   CHANGE- Change some default values
   ADDED - In FindFiles dialogs, You can now set search path to selected folders in source/target panel
   FIXED - 2 Stability issues

-- 2731 ( Beta - 11-Okt-2020 )
   ADDED - CopyTo Dialog now have buttonfor easy adding path from other open tabs , favorites and recent vistied locations.
   CHANGE- Minor redesign of CopyTo dialog
   FIXED - Fixed problem that tab open from locked tab did not receive input focus
   FIXED - Search dialog will not start search if return is pressed when input focus is in text box.
   FIXED - Issue when dragging from search result RESx: devices
   FIXED - Right click on rename icon on toolbar now have same items in popup as rename submenu in menu has.
   FIXED - 2 Stability issues

-- 2728 (Beta - 22-Sep-2020 )
   FIXED - Tab Tooltip wrong if a tab was moved inside the same panel
   FIXED - All toolbars can now be hidden again
   FIXED - Dialog size of Filter Editor is now correct
   ADDED - When dark mode is enabled, it will now try to force enable it
   ADDED - Option to now activate tab when dragging over a tab when dragging files

-- 2726 (Beta - 19-Sep-2020)
   FIXED - EntireRow QuickLaunch bar now works again
   ADDED - MultiScript SaveStringToFile can now append to file

-- 2725 (Beta)
   ADDED - Enable/Disable Dark Theme settings that also can change some customized colors if wanted
   ADDED - New Toolbar that support dark mode and resizing better (and other improvments in the toolbar)
   FIXED - DeviceCombo is now updated correctly when devices are added/removed
   FIXED - Lots of minor fixes and changes to support dark theme
   FIXED - ComboBox Popup fixes with High DPI mode
   FIXED - High DPI Issues with Checkboxes
   ADDED - ComboBox now support dynamic width with the popup
   ADDED - Makesure Alt+Arrow Down and Alt+Up withs in Combobox to show/close popup
   FIXED - Sometimes device combo was not updated.
   ADDED - DarkMode support on Windows 10 in MOST places.. MC have over 100 dialog so only the most common are changed
           Using Undocumented Windows 10 API. so might stop work on new version of Windows.
           See Forum for more info  http://forum.multicommander.com/forum/index.php/board,8.0.html
   ADDED - FindFiles option to do content search in binary files.
   ADDED - FindFiles will no longer by default search binary files when doing content search.
   ADDED - Custom ComboBox (Dropdown) controller that support darkmode
   ADDED - Command field command to set position and size of MC.  ":setpos x y""

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / MOVED: Refresh

« on: July 15, 2020, 14:35:57 »

This topic has been moved to Beta Releases.

http://forum.multicommander.com/forum/index.php?topic=3952.0

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Beta Releases / MultiCommander v10 (Alpha VERSION) Darkness is coming

« on: May 01, 2020, 13:52:11 »

There are lots of code changes in version MC 10.
And they are almost all because of one feature. Dark Mode

Some background
Dark mode is somethings I wanted my self for sometimes and also a feature that is often requested.
However. It is also somethings that is not exactly easy to add.
Windows do not have any support for dark mode for standard desktop apps. (only for new UWP styled apps)
But Microsoft is working on some sort of dark mode support for standard desktop apps. Windows Explorer does support it in Windows 10.
However, it is using undocumented functions in Windows but ONLY the UI controllers that you see in Windows Explorer is supported in dark mode.
And that list is very very very low. The colors in most standard UI controller can be tweaked, Some more than other. some only in part.

So do be able to support Dark mode MC have to use undocumented features that can change between releases.
Also It require that I create custom variants of UI controllers like ComboBox (Dropdown list), Checkbox, Radio Button, and more
It also requires that current custom UI controllers must be updated to allow dark mode.
And MC contains more than a 100 dialogs and each one of them need to be tweak.

So, What is done ? And known issues.

The most common dialog does now support Dark mode, (CopyTo / Progress. Conflict dialog and more)
But not ALL of them will be fixed. there are too many, and some is very rarely shown.
But if you have one that popup a lot and want that fixed. Post a request about it here.

I created a new ComboBox like controller. Its default look of it is almost the same as the standard one.
But it might have some different behaviors. That is somethings I wanted to do for some time anyway. since I got other plans in the future that required
a combobox where I got full control of the popup that is shown.
This is used anywhere where a dark mode combobox is shown. The Command Line Field.  Device DropDown. and other places.

The option for dark mode in settings only changes the default UI, The list view. since all those colors can be customized.
If you want a full change to dark mode that also changes all the other colors go to Quick Look'n'Feel Setup and selected a new darkmode option in cutomize.
There should be a configuration for that.  (might need to restart, app for now)

MenuBar is not dark. MC is currently using the standard menubar in Windows and there is no way to change the color of that.
and I had not bad the time to create a custom menubar controller for MC. The Menubar is very deeply connected into the core of standard application.
So creating a custom menubar require a lot of work.

When a ComboBox is in NOT a dropdown list mode, it has a edit field. Like the commandline field.
This edit field is not a custom controller. creating a custom controller that is an editor is A LOT of work. because there are a lot
of language depended things it needs to support. so, the standard edit controller is used. And it is possible to tweak its background and text colors.
However. some of the edit controls in MC have a cue banner text.  this is the text that is shown if there is no text in it and it is not in focus.
And this text color can NOT be changed. That makes the text hard to read in dark mode. And there is nothing I can do about it for now.

When showing the dropdown from a ComboBox, it is shown directly. it is not animated like it was pulled down. Like the standard one. But I almost sees that as a features. It is faster to just show it.
There are some minor bugs still with the dropdown.
There might be some issue in high DPI mode, I have not done any testing with high DPI yet.
And finally, Dark mode is ONLY support on Windows 10 and because MC is using the limited support that is in Windows for it. And Windows 10 Dark mode is a theme. You will get a weird look (I assume) if you turned of all theming in Windows 10.

IMPORTANT.

Bugs you find in version 10 report them here. BUT only if there are unique for version 10.
like Darkmode stuff or other UI issues that can have been affected be the dark mode changes or new UI controllers. For other not UI released bugs please check if they are in the latest version 9.x. if they are report in normal place. Else report them here.
I really need to separate issues that are version 10 unique or not, My time is very limited since I also have a day job. And the more clear the bug reports are the the better

Also this is a ALPHA, There will be issues with it. DO NOT upgrade current version to this without creating a backup first.  Recommended is to run the portable edition

Version 10.0 (2709)  Contains all fixed that are in 9.7

Changes:
Custom CombBox controller supporting custom colors.
Custom Checkbox/Radio Button supporting custom colors.
GroupBox controller updated to a 3rd party that support custom colors and more UI options.
Some icons updated to work better with dark mode.
Default font changed to Segoe UI (if MC is upgrades this is not changed)

Other Changes:
- Everything in 9.7
- When searching for files using content matching, Binary files are not searched by default, New option added to include binary files.
- Command line filed command ":setpos x y" or ":set pos x y h w" to set pos and size of MC window.

Know issues:
- Some of the controllers may have high DPI issues. (please report issue with DPI you find)
- Device Dropdown list is not calculating the correct width. So it is not expanded if needed
- Dark mode only works with Windows 10 1903+ (Minor issues in 1804 that can be fixed)
- Menubar is not dark. And right now it can't be fixed without major rewrites. Hoping Microsoft will add DarkMode support for that. (Or if I find a good 3rd party option)
- Many dialog is not change to DarkMode. All of them will not be change. But request the dialogs that pops up often for you that you want to be updated.

2020-06-06 2716
FIXED - ComboBox Popup fixes with High DPI mode
FIXED - High DPI Issues with Checkboxes
ADDED - ComboBox now support dynamic width with the popup
ADDED - Makesure Alt+Arrow Down and Alt+Up withs in Combobox to show/close popup
FIXED - Sometimes device combo was not updated.


32bit Portable : http://multicommander.com/files/alpha/MultiCommander_win32_Portable_(10.0.0.2716).zip
64bit Portable : http://multicommander.com/files/alpha/MultiCommander_x64_Portable_(10.0.0.2716).zip

32Bit Installer : http://multicommander.com/files/alpha/MultiCommander_win32_(10.0.0.2716).exe
64Bit Installer : http://multicommander.com/files/alpha/MultiCommander_x64_(10.0.0.2716).exe

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Announcements and News / Version 9.7 ( 26-Apr-2020 )

« on: April 27, 2020, 22:53:48 »

Release v9.7 is a minor release. Mostly fixes. Most of the development time have gone into the coming version 10.  But that is not ready yet.
So instead here is a minor release with the fixes.


Release v9.7 (Build 2590) ( 26-Apr-2020 )
 
   ADDED - New Language - Slovenian , created by Jadran Rudec
   ADDED - CustomCommand MC.Run will now set the exitcode to $__CMDRESULT if WAIT option was used.
   FIXED - Filesearch with date match had an UTC issue when comparing time
   FIXED - MultiScript command GetXXXXXXSelectedFileNames()/GetXXXXXSelectedPaths() functions now support the option "IGNORE_FOCUS" that ignore fouce item if no items are selected.
   FIXED - MultiScript command "NetWGET" tried to save to alternative when it should not.
   FIXED - Fixed crash issue with WPD (Portable)
   FIXED - Issue when copying from RESx/Flat view and selecting merge folders.
   FIXED - 6 Stability Issues

15

Script / New function in 9.5 (ArrayToString)

« on: January 04, 2020, 14:34:37 »

From version 9.5 ArrayToString(..) now exists
http://multicommander.com/docs/multiscript/functions/array#arraytostring

It let you have an array of strings and create one string out of them, and you can specify what delimiter you want to use. (text bit that should be in between the strings)
and also if you want to put " around the each string.

All this can already be done with MultiScript funtions, but this function will make it much easier.
The main reason for this is to make string that are sent to external program as parameters easier.
like if you want to create a string with all the selected files and want to use them as a parameter

example

Code: [Select]

// get FULL path for all selected items from active view
@var $selectedItems = GetSelectedPaths();

// delimiter here is a comma and then space. ", "
// 1 is that all string should have " around then. so if there are space in the string the program can open them correct anyway
@var $selected = ArrayToString( $selectedItems , ", ", 1 );

MC.Run CMD="C:\Apps\NotePad++\notepad++.exe" ARG="{$selected}"


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Beta Releases / Version 9.5

« on: December 30, 2019, 23:07:10 »

Version 9.5


 30+ Changes

Build 2570 - (30-Okt-2019)
*  ADDED - Possible to customzie the font that the tabs will use
*  ADDED - Possible to limit tab size is with by size
*  ADDED - Possible to limit tab size is with by characters
*  ADDED - Video Properties for length,width,size,FPS,BR,FourCC (Using Windows Shell)
*  ADDED - Customze Column list now support double click to remove or add items
*  ADDED - Create MD5/SFV files now support subfolders, however if used, it will make them incompatible with most other checkers
*  ADDED - New Language Ukrainian, Created by Bohdan Kalynyak
*  ADDED - MultiScript - ArrayToString(arr, delimiter, esacpe yn) that take an array of string and combine them to a string with delimiters.
*  FIXED - FindFiles windows enabled/disabled in another way so should work better for all now
*  FIXED - Correct MCIcons.dll files so icons are now correct again.
*  FIXED - 5 Stability Issues

17

Announcements and News / Website / Forum / Mail Back online (20-Nov 2019)

« on: November 20, 2019, 18:24:08 »

The MultiCommander website and forum and mail system is coming back online.
It all when down after a internet provider network change. It should have been down for only an hour. But because of some very strange and annoying reason it took them 3day to fix it.
(Everything that could go wrong did)

Everything is starting to work again. It might take up to a day until everything for everyone, since the IP was changed the domains was updated and since the domain is cached in many places on the internet it can for some people take up to a day before the are provided the correct IP address.

18

Support and Feedback / MOVED: possible change to tree pane

« on: October 16, 2019, 15:04:50 »

This topic has been moved to Feature Requests and Suggestions.

http://forum.multicommander.com/forum/index.php?topic=3616.0

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Beta Releases / Multi Commander 9.1 **BETA**

« on: August 12, 2019, 14:40:31 »

Version 9.1 **BETA**


 75+ Changes

Build 2554 - (17-Okt-2019)
* ADDED - Extended logging to startup and shutdown proceess, Only active if loglevel DEBUG is set for Application log
* ADDED - Commandline field command ":qexit" That will exits MC quickly without save cleanup
* ADDED - Internal command to launch internal text or picture viewer even if anohter viewer is configured
* FIXED - WebDownload window will now use translated texts
* ADDED - WebDownload progress dialog will now show download speed
* FIXED - SortFolderByName option now works again
* FIXED - 2 Stability fixes
 
Build 2552 - (29-Sep-2019)
* ADDED - Toolbar inside FolderTree with Collapse all command (more commands later)
* FIXED - QuickLaunchbar Icon for local icon works again
* FIXED - WebDownload windows do now support translations
* FIXED - 3 Stability fixes

Build 2548 - (25-Aug-2019)
* ADDED - When renaming folder to already existing folder. You can now selected to merge content.
* FIXED - Added workaround in MultiDataViewer to avoid weird scroll behavior
* FIXED - Crash when using Env variables that no longer is valid in QuickLunchBar
* FIXED - Using UderDefinedCommands in CustomContextMenu would mess up if you removed some UserDefinedCommands.
* FIXED - Change how Secure FTP (SSL/TLS) communication works.
* FIXED - 2 Stability fixes

Build 2546 - (19-Aug-2019)
* ADDED - Added option for FolderTree if auto adjust horizontal scrollbar should be used
* FIXED - Possible hang issue when expanding FolderTree
* FIXED - Sometimes removable devices was added twice to the FolderTreeView
* ADDED - VirtualDevice created from search will now preset search string for viewed files if search used content matching
* ADDED - FTP - Change order of some of the commands sent when connection using SSL/TLS, Some FTP server that did not like previous order
* ADDED - Internal command and Menu command to restart current instance as Admin
* FIXED - MultiDataViewer user profiles could sometimes not be removed
* FIXED - MultiDataViewer user profiles with forced view mode did not always load correct
* FIXED - Ctrl+Return now works in VirtualDevice (RESx:)


Build 2540 - (12-Aug-2019)
* Added WebDownload features. Use from Tools menu or type ":wget <url to file>" in command line field
* Added Internal Command to save layout (Just as it is when exiting but without exiting) (Core.1130) (To be used from own script)
* Added Option to sort files so files are shown before folders
* Added MultiScript command "StrToCamel" that convert string to 'Camel Case'
* Fixed Calculate checksum now shows the CRC32 value in the correct way
* Fixed Progress dialog when using 'Correct folder date/time'
* Fixed Using 'Find And Replace in file' on file in virtual device (ex RESx:)
* Fixed 3 Stability issues

20

Support and Feedback / V9.0 IS FINALLY OUT

« on: July 29, 2019, 18:44:38 »

Version v9.0 is now finally out !!!

The workaround for the window focus bug in Windows 10 (1803) took longer then planned and also the virtual device thing took a lot longer then planned.

Next Release will not contain any major feature like that. It will be a fix up release for bugs that are found and minor changes and minor new features.
And will be released a lot faster.

So if you got any requests that you would like to see in the next version. Let me know now! (Even if you asked before)
Since I'm currently planning what to include in the next release.

There more information you can provide around a feature idea the bigger the chance is that it will be added.
However.. If it is a major addition. I will put in the the backlog for major ides for future release. For the next release I'm look for smaller quality of life fixes/addition.

(Post idea here http://forum.multicommander.com/forum/index.php/topic,3552.0.html )

21

Feature Requests and Suggestions / V9.0 IS FINALLY OUT

« on: July 29, 2019, 18:43:01 »

Version v9.0 is now finally out !!!

The workaround for the window focus bug in Windows 10 (1803) took longer then planned and also the virtual device thing took a lot longer then planned.

Next Release will not contain any major feature like that. It will be a fix up release for bugs that are found and minor changes and minor new features.
And will be released a lot faster.

So if you got any requests that you would like to see in the next version. Let me know now! (Even if you asked before)
Since I'm currently planning what to include in the next release.

There more information you can provide around a feature idea the bigger the chance is that it will be added.
However.. If it is a major addition. I will put in the the backlog for major ides for future release. For the next release I'm look for smaller quality of life fixes/addition.

22

Beta Releases / MOVED: Re: MultiCommander v8.9 BETA

« on: May 19, 2019, 14:38:48 »

This topic has been moved to Support and Feedback.

http://forum.multicommander.com/forum/index.php?topic=3307.0

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Beta Releases / MultiCommander v8.9 BETA

« on: March 03, 2019, 14:50:39 »

Finally a new Beta version is here.

It been a while and it is because I do not have so much time to put on MultiCommander these day like before.
Also this release have taken extra long since I had to redesign more than I planned.

The new major core feature is that MultiCommander now have core support for virtual devices.

What it that?
That is a fake device inside MultiCommander that can hold references and show files and folder that are located in other places.
But since they are located in the virtual device almost all other features in MultiCommander will work on them,
also the Explorer panel see it as any other location so File coloring, custom columns, thumbnails and so on works on file references located in the virtual device.

So what are you going to use this for? Well as a user you will not use it directly but other features in MultiCommander will and the first one
that is using it is File Search.
Instead of file search to open its own result panel. the result will now be show in a virtual device named RES1:, or RES2:, RES3, (up to 9)
So with this,  File coloring and filtering and other features that normally work with normal paths now works on the search result.

(If there are any issue with the new result devices for file search you can enable the old search panel in Core settings > fileSystem > Tweaks )

Some other bug and minor features have also been fixed but they are not included in this beta. They re added in another code branch and will be included in the coming beta versions.

So test out the new search result panel. and let me know what works and what does not work. I got a list already of something to change. But all feedback around this is good

One different from the old panel search is that you no longer can have multiple searches running at the same time.
Not sure if that is and issue ? Support for that might be added again if there are any requests for it

Build 2515
This release has no new fixed for the new search but how progress dialogs are shown have been rewitten. This to get around the Windows 10 (1809) bug where the input focus window was not returned to MC when progress was closed. If there are any issue there is a temporary settings in Core Settings > FileSystem > Tweaks  that can you change to go back to the old way.


Build 2523 - 2019-06-08
* Can now search in the RESx: Device, So it is now possible to search in the search result
* Other minor fixes and clean up making ready for release

Build 2520 - 2019-05-26
* Added button in Explorer panel that are active only for Virtual Devices.
  It have commands for excluding items and more
* Added above commands also to context menu
* Bug Fixes

Build 2517 - 2019-05-03
* Added button top stop / pause search in waiting screen
If two panels show the res both will show the button and screen.

Build 2515 - 2019-04-28
* Fixed update issue with some progress dialogs in some situations
* Fixed issue view VirtualDeviceFolder then populated by Search Result
* Various minor update issues with search and virtual device folder fixed
* Folder search is currently searching is is now shown when filesystem scan is waiting for search to complete.
* GoogleDrive is now detected and shown in DropDown/Toolbar for cloud drive.
* SQLite support added. MC can now read/wite SQLite DB. Used for GoogleDrive support, But are plans to use it for other things in the future
* Pressing Ctrl+Left/Right arrow in th RESx: panel now works better, (Open item into other panel)
* Some stability and memory issues fixed

Build 2508 - 2019-04-07
Rewritten how progress dialogs are shown to get around the Windows 10 1809 Bug where focus was not returned to MC when program dialog was closed

Build 2500 - 2019-03-10
Added running progress in status bar when searching is active
If RESx: panel need to open open. It will now open in the target panel
Language Fixes

Build 2499 - 2019-03-06
Removed so you can not force start the old search panel from menu.
Search in extension menu is replaced with the "Find Files..." command that are also located under File Menu
You might need to update shortcut if you customized it.

 

(Bug post from previous build is split into its own post)

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Beta Releases / Multi Commander 8.3

« on: August 03, 2018, 16:24:29 »

Better late then never

Release v8.3

I have not had so much time to spent on MC as planned , also been working on some internal changes.

 15+ Changes

-- Build 2466 - 3-Aug-2018

 ADDED - Executing generate bat script can now accept parameters from commandline field
 ADDED - Can now select Skip All when error is SOURCE and TARGET is same path
 ADDED - Create new shell item will now logout what is happening. Some users have issue with this, and this might solve why
 FIXED - Invert selection now works better in Windows Explorer Mode
 FIXED - Image library failed on PSD files.. remove PSD support since it was very buggy
 FIXED - Now support more then 300 UserDefinedCommand, New limit is 600
 FIXED - 2 Stability issue reported by crash report system

25

Support and Feedback / ** NEW VERSION v8.0 / v8.1 **

« on: May 01, 2018, 12:35:25 »

Final a new version. Took a lot longer than expected.


v8.1 (Build 2452) ( 5-May-2018 )

10+ Changes

 FIXED - Sometimes overwrite of readonly files failed
 FIXED - Showing second dialog page in MP3 Info dialog (ctrl+y) caused a crash
 FIXED - AudioTool - Create Mp3 Playlist can cause a crash if filter used mp3 genre matching
 FIXED - Crash when trying to replace a file inside a zip archive
 FIXED - FSBZip2 extension now support new overwrite system when extracing multile files from .tar.bz2 file
 FIXED - 3 Stability issue reported by crash report system

v8.0  (Build 2450)  ( 1-May-2018)

 140+ Changes

 ADDED - FS7Zip extension is now build using 7Zip SDK 18.01
 ADDED - FolderTree now support rename
 ADDED - Core Settings to start MultiCommnder minimized
 ADDED - Added Command line settings /MINIMIZED to force MultiCommander to start minimized
 ADDED - FolderTree can now show smart expand boxes, That only show the (+) expand box if folder have subfolders.
         (However it can cause performance issuse since it must scan all folders, Enable settings in Explorer Panel Settings)
 ADDED - Copy/Move option to skip copy or move of empty folders
         (Moving on same drive with this option will be slower, since optimzied move cant be used)
 ADDED - CustomCommand MC.Explorer.Copy/Move now support SKIPEMPTYFOLDERS
 ADDED - CustomCommand MC.Explorer.Copy/Move Now support overwrite options OVERWRITE_IFNEWER / OVERWRITE_IFSIZEDIFF / OVERWRITE_IFSIZELARGER /
                                                           OVERWRITE_IFSIZESMALLER / OVERWRITE_AUTORENAME_EXISTING / OVERWRITE_AUTORENAME_NEW
 ADDED - MultiScipt CopyFile/MoveFile function now support OVERWRITE_IFNEWER / OVERWRITE_IFSIZEDIFF / OVERWRITE_IFSIZELARGER /
                                                           OVERWRITE_IFSIZESMALLER / OVERWRITE_AUTORENAME_EXISTING / OVERWRITE_AUTORENAME_NEW
 ADDED - MultiScript function to work with tabs. (TabActivePanelSide/TabActiveTab/TabCount/TabGetPath/TabLoadTabSession)
 ADDED - Option to turn thumbnail on/off in AlreadyExistsDialog
 ADDED - Overwrite 'both' works for files copied to/from normal file system
 ADDED - Pressing F4 in the Overwrite dialog will change 'Append' button to a 'Resume' button
 ADDED - AlreadyExistsDialog shown for virtual filesystems like archive (zip,7zip) will now support the new overwrite states.
 CHANGE- Major internal change for handling of options of overwrite of files.
 FIXED - Changed how MultiCommand detects shutdown/restart of Windows 10. So it should no longer hang around when restarting Windows 10
 FIXED - Issue with single instace and show tray icon
 FIXED - Issue with minimize to tray icon and but Keep taskbar icon setting
 FIXED - Misc uncommon issues with copy overwrite options.
 FIXED - AlreadyExistsDialog , Overwrite option now works for Portable device (WPD)
 FIXED - Selecting AlreadyExistsDialog Append/Rename for single file in dialog now works.
 FIXED - New AlreadyExists dialog now works with drag/drop of Stream data (eg Office Outlook)
 FIXED - FSRAR,7Zip, FSZip, FSBZip2 now support now file overwrite options better
 FIXED - 4 Stability issue reported by crash report system