THE Rename Changelog

What's new in THE Rename 2.1.6

• Bugs corrections
• When you was using a personal date's format (for the files list), it was not saved. Bugs corrected
• The Select All command should be quicker
• Many internal modifications
• There was a bug in the window wich enable you to export tags and information. You could not change the field separator.
• I have changed the calendar control I was using to change, for example, files date and time. This control was causing many troubles to many users. Now the problem disappear.
• About dates, when you was changing date and time of files, there was many bugs, they have been corrected
• When you was using the option Rename with file's content, the program was crashing. Problem solved.
• The window wich enable you to use Exif tags was not properly saving the preferences. Problem solved.
• Some bugs have been corrected in the option Rename from a list.
• Some bugs have been corrected, too, when you was using Ogg tags to rename files.
• In the window wich enable you to select commands to rename your sounds files, like MP3, OGG, VQF and WMA files, the line wich contain the command (for example %Artist%) have been modified from a combo box to a text box.
• When you was saving settings, selected options for WMA files was not saved
• Some program's windows was not visible when you was using Alt + Tab. All the program's windows are now visible.
• The program was not keeping the files list sort order. Problem corrected.
• The program was crashing when you was doing a double click in the files list when you was in an empty folder. Problem solved.
• Modifications :
• Because of a last minute problem, it is not any more possible to use the F1 key to have help on a command of the Free Form option. Sorry for this.
• New Features :
• THE Rename is available in English AND in French and can be translated in any other language.
• The help file have changed, it is now available as a CHM file. (To use it you must have Internet Explorer 4)
• The window wich enable you to copy files name can now be use to save files names to a file.
• About EXIF tags, you can now extract just the date and/or the time from the tags DateTime, DateTimeDigitized and DateTimeOriginaldatas. You can also format this date or time as you want. To do it, use the Free Form option and one of the following commands :
• The Options window has changed. It looks like the preferences in Netscape/Mozilla.
• When you are searching for long files names (from the preview window), you can now only check the prefix's length. Refer to the options.
• In the perspective of an internationalization of the program, the majority of windows were modified. They are generally a little bigger. Only the window of the options have been totally changed.
• When you use the Free Form option and if you use tokens, you can now open a new window where you can see, for each file, the different tokens. To do it, scroll the little menu included with the button wich enable you to see Free form options and select the menu See tokens.
• You can add your favorites tools in the main toolbar of THE Rename. You can add them and use/launch them directly from the main screen of the program.
• The information window have been removed.
• I have added a new option Monitor Long Names. With this option, you can ask THE Rename to monitor new names and to act when they are too longs. When it's the case, you can ask the program to truncate the filename, to ignore the file to ask you a confirmation or to ask you the new name. Thank you Fred Thompson for the suggestion.
• You can use the program to rename WAV files. You can also, like for the other musical files, use THE Rename to export the tags to a text file.
• But as opposed to what I usually do, there is no user interface to use the information contained inside these files. You can only use the following Free Form commands to treat WAV files :
• For all to say to you, I am fed up to to develop such interfaces to make this kind of things whereas it is very simple to make it with the Free Form option.
• The window wich enable you to export files tags wil know remember the options you have typed
• I have changed the window I was using to rename files manually (F2). It is more powerful.
• About this window, you can create the folowing registry key :
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VB and VBA Program Settings\THERename\Param\RenManPosTxtBox
• with the folowing values to :
• Value Action
• 0 When the window is opened, the program select all the filename
• 1 The program will position to the first column of the text box
• 2 The program will position to the last column of the text box
• 3 The program will automatically select the prefix
• 4 The program will automatically select the extension
• F11 will now launch RegExp Rename.
• About RegExp rename, you can now, when you are in this window, use a preview button. Regexp rename will now log its renames in the log file.
• The contextual menu available on the text box of the Free Form option have been removed
• The listview containing the Free Form commands have been sub divised and reorganised.
• THE Rename can now read, use and export IPTC tags from Jpeg files. You can rename files with IPTC tags when you are using the Modify Prefix option and with the Free Form option with the folowing commands :
• I have added an hidden option in the registry base. If you create this key :
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VB and VBA Program Settings\THERename\HiddenParam\RenameOnlyNewFiles
• and if you set its value to 1, then when you are renaming files, if the original filename is equal to the new name (in fact if the filename does not change) then the file will not be renamed.
• Take care, I will not provide any support for this option.