What's new in Portable V 16 SR1
Mar 9, 2020
- New features in Version 16 SR1 are:
- Copy Current Line command added to the Edit menu (Ctrl+Y)
- Shift+click on CSV column header to select entire column
- Touch command added to the Folder context menu
- SR1 also fixes the following problems:
- Arrow keys were not always working at the top and bottom of a chunk
- Switching between CSV and non-CSV mode did not always maintain the file position
- CSV/Grid header was not refreshed if the file was refreshed
- Window position would drift if opened on a second monitor with the Windows taskbar on the left
- Empty folders in ZIP files were not being displayed
- V would sometimes crash when displaying folders with very long names
New in Portable V 15 (May 8, 2018)
- High DPI Support:
- The main new feature in Version 15 is high DPI support.
- When running on high resolution monitors, Windows will automatically use a scaling factor (125% or 150% is typical) to increase the size of text and other user interface elements (eg, icons and buttons). Unfortunately, this has the effect of making V look a bit blurry.
- With the high DPI support in V15, V recognizes that it is running on a high resolution monitor and adjusts the user interface accordingly. Windows no longer scales the text and V once again looks crisp and sharp!
- V15 also introduces Tab Sets and a new Highlight All functionality.
- Tab Sets:
- FolderTabs are a great way of bookmarking often visited folders. You can quickly go to a folder by clicking on its tab. However, FolderTabs can get a bit messy once you start having many folders. This is where Tab Sets are useful.
- Tab Sets allow you to create several different sets of tabs and decide which set to use based on what you are doing. For example, you can use one set of tabs when you are organizing your photo collection, another set of tabs for your music, another for your documents and spreadsheets and another set for general use.
- To save the current tabs in a Tab Set, right-click on any tab and select Save as Tab Set. To load in a new Tab Set, right-click on any tab and select Load Tab Set.
- Highlight All:
- The Highlight All functionality has changed in V15. Previously, only all occurrences of the search string were highlighted. As of V15, all occurrences of the selected text are highlighted.
- For example, if you double-click on a word, all occurrences of that word will be highlighted.
New in Portable V 14 (May 31, 2013)
- The main new feature in V14 is the ability to view CSV files as tables.
- Other minor features include:
- RE to match path (instead of name) option added to Find Files/GREP. This option matches the regular expression mask against the fully qualified file path instead of just the file name.
- Better recognition of UTF-8 files
- Will now look for 4DOS descriptions in .description as well as descript.ion
- Zip/Tar/Cab/BZip now works on files with Unicode file names
- Fixed FolderTab display when folder name contains "&"
- Improved crash diagnostics in the crash file
- x64 version now uses ipworkszip9.dll for ZIP functionality
- A portable x64 version
New in Portable V 13 (May 31, 2013)
- The major new features are:
- Spanish, French and Russian language interfaces can now be selected from the new Language tab of Preferences.
- An experimental Bioinformatics/DNA search which lets you search for amino acid strings and IUPAC codes in files containing DNA sequences.
- Support for XMIT and AWS files (used in IBM mainframe environments).
- Other minor changes include:
- Better support for Unicode files containing Asian characters.
- The ability to change the font used by the Directory/Mask/Device boxes and by the FolderTabs.
- A change in name from "V - The File Viewer" to "The V File Viewer".
New in Portable V 11 (May 31, 2013)
- A change to the way V scrolls a document with the introduction of a current line marker
- Introduction of more traditional bookmarking (Ctrl+F2/F2)
- File Masks can now be used to filter directory names
- Improved support for Windows 7/Vista (including better support for themes)
New in Portable V 10 Service Release 1 (May 31, 2013)
- Deleting files from the search results could cause V to crash
- Assigning a command to a single letter (eg, 'c') could sometimes cause V to ignore the following keystroke(s)
- In GreenBar mode the green lines were not always drawn correctly if the window had been scrolled
- Double-clicking on a FolderTab goes to its root (for locked tabs that allow subfolder browsing)
- You can now search folders with commas in their names (by enclosing the folder name in double quotes)
New in Portable V 9 Service Release 1 (May 31, 2013)
- Service Release 1 adds the following:
- A Network/UNC Timeout (in the Directory Options)
- "Insert Date into Name" option in File Name Modify
- It also fixes the following problems:
- V9 would sometimes crash if GridLines were being used
- Searching for hex (binary) data did not always work