Total Commander CD / DVD Burning Plugin Changelog

What's new in Total Commander CD / DVD Burning Plugin 0.9.3

• This release of TCBurner contains a new version of "FoxBurner.dll". If you are upgrading from a previous version, make sure this new DLL (size 720.896 bytes, date 23.02.2005 23:14) becomes active, i.e. you overwrite the old DLL upon installation!
• Querying the properties of plugin root entries now opens the documentation html file at the point where the selected entry is explained
• The plugin itself now supports multi-language through a .locale file. Those are stored in a subdir "Lang" under the plugin dir. You can choose the language to use in the configuration dialog. You can also make your own language file by editing the "english.locale" file which contains some remarks. (If you do so, it would be nice if you sent your language file to the developer for distribution!).
• The plugin now supports .lst files created by the DiskDir plugin. If you copy such a file (the whole file, not some contents!) to the Data-CD/DVD project, you're queried if you wish the plugin to interpret the .lst as a list file and put all files listed in it in the project instead of the list file itself.
• Data and Audio Project contents can now be saved to disk, by executing pseudo-file commands, and automatically at plugin init/shutdown
• Volume labels are now stored separately per project type
• Added "default label" option: if active, after each burning process the chosen volume label is replaced by a default value
• Added separator lines between pseudo-file commands and project contents. Meanwhile the special pseudo-files got a little too many for my taste, so some separator was needed. :) I hope it will work okay for different ways of ordering the panel in TC.
• Added "Estimated Free Space" entry to project directories. Total media space is either retrieved from a media inserted in a selectable burner, or (if not possible - no device inserted, burner busy etc.) based on a preset or user-definable media type (execute the Free Space pseudo-file to change those settings). Device/preset size is stored in configuration for each project type. In case of oversize, a warning icon and text is displayed.
• The "Info: Burning Devices" pseudo-directory now shows the type of inserted media (if any) for each burning device
• Media checks before burning (is media empty/writable/erasable?) can be skipped now, so users with slightly incompatible burners that report wrong media information can (try to) burn anyway
• Added an option to use external ASPI layer. Might help in some cases with slightly incompatible burners.
• Location of configuration file can be changed from the Global Settings dialog. In addition the file can be moved manually anytime, even while the plugin is initialized, since the location to be used is evaluated each time the config file needs to be written.
• The Burn and Erase Progress dialogs can be minimized now; the completion percentage is shown in the title/task bar
• Verify function re-made: wrote an own verify replacing the FoxBurner internal one. Advantages: faster, more stable, waits for media re-insert if it was ejected, can verify Data VideoDVD Projects, verifies only files actually in the project
• Burning log text can now also be copied to clipboard (in addition to saving it to a file)
• Configuration file is now searched for in the following folders, the first folder where it is found (top-down) is used. If it cannot be found, a new file with default settings is created in the first listed folder.
• [wincmd-ini-path] cburner.ini
• [wincmd-ini-path] cburner cburner.ini
• [plugin-path] cburner.ini
• [wincmd-path] cburner.ini
• The functions that were formerly performed with the TC Rename command (change volume label, re-order audio tracks) are now performed by executing the pseudo-files. Text entry is done in a input query dialog.
• DVD /-RW media don't support multisession, don't need to be erased before writing (i.e. any writing operation erases existing data) and may show incorrect media status ("Complete Disc" despite being empty); media checks have been modified accordingly and a warning is displayed if multisession burn on such a media is attempted
• Some static pseudo-file commands (like "Estimated Free Space" and "Load Project") are now shown in the project folders even if the project itself is empty
• When erasing a media from the burn dialog (when a non-empty but erasable media was detected), the erasing and subsequent burning is started automatically now, the Erase dialog no longer waits for user interaction
• Accidentially copying a whole lot of non-useable files to the Image, Audio or DVD project caused a great lot of error message boxes. Now a query is shown "show further errors/ignore further errors/abort operation?"
• Removed the ** from the Project pseudo-directory names; no more conflict with TC's quick directory change feature (where * has some special meaning)
• In the "Project Size" pseudo-file the size in bytes is now displayed in the TC's size column. Looks better, and avoids the last "." in the byte count being interpreted as file extension.
• The font in all dialogs has been changed from MS Sans Serif to Tahoma. Looks a good deal nicer.
• TCBurner has a new nice set of colorful alpha-blended icons
• Save-as-dialog for ISO file creation now displays "Overwrite?" warning if file already exists
• The commands in "Info: Burning Device" would allow you to retrieve device info also during a burning/erasing process, thus messing up the burning.
• ISO image filenames were checked case-sensitively, so only ".iso" would be accepted, not ".ISO" or others
• This version of TCBurner includes a new version of the FoxBurner SDK DLL which should fix the problem with Video DVDs not playing correctly on standalone DVD players
• Removed the "Data Project: Boot Image" pseudo-folder. The boot image for bootable CDs is now selected via a file requester after confirming the Burn Media dialog.