What's new in Portable UltraExplorer 2.0.3.1
Jul 27, 2009
- Fixed - Bug in the writing of the Options to the options file fix from 2.0.3.0. 2.0.3.0 would crash on a restart after opening once and saving the Options file
New in Portable UltraExplorer 2.0.3.0 (Jul 27, 2009)
- Fixed - Problem with Listview deselecting all it items when dragging from UE to another application
- Fixed - Problems with the MultiPath Listviews (Search/Flatten Folder) and clipboard operations
- Added - Capability to show/hide Main Menu Bar to restore right click the toolbar area and check the new Main Menu Bar item
- Fixed - Problem with Listview popup hints/Query Info not working
- Added - HotKey for Quick Filter now Toggles the Filter Bar
- Improvement - When the Quick Filter Bar is hidden the filter is cleared automatically
- Added - HotKey to Toggle Addressbar Visibility, Set Focus to it and Select the text ready for typing
- Fixed - If UE was closed when minimized it reopened minimized, now opens to a normal window
- Fixed - Save Per Folder would not work on startup and loading a fresh Tab
- Added - Option in the Listview Coloring to allow user to decide if extension coloring is used when a file is selected. Coloring can make the filename unreadable when using themes if colors not well thought out
- Added - Option to show/hide the images on the tabs, in the Tab Options Dialog
- Fixed - Default Sort Column Index did not work
- Improvement - The set column width for all views now includes custom sort order, visibility, and column width
- Fixed - Mega-crash when changing Languages
- Fixed - Layouts broken in last release
- Fixed - No response/hanging when deleting/adding a significant number of files in the Listview
- Fixed - Not selecting browsed up from folder in the listview
- Fixed - Column header titles on the root of a network folder
- Improvement - Changed Language instruction from rich text format to HTML making install 5Meg smaller
- Improvement - Added shortcuts to Move/Copy files from the Active Listview to the Inactive Listview
- Added - "Persist between sessions" added in the History options dialog to save the folder browse history of the tabs between sessions
- Fixed - Potential for crash on shutdown
- Fixed - Issue with Copy/Move from one Listview to another with no items selected in the source listview. UE would pickup any files on the clipboard and perform the operation
- Fixed - BreadCrumb Dropdowns not sorted correctly in some instances
- Fixed - ColumnsView Banding not enabled when Tab created
- Fixed - F5 refresh did not refresh the Treeview or Breadcrumb bar
- Improvement - Themes draw gradients 2x faster
- Fixed - If images used the alpha channel for transparency UE did not draw the transparency correctly
- Fixed - Memory Leak when using Dual Pane
- Improvement - Speed increase when resizing column if Color Coding was enabled
- Improvement - Significant speed increase when files are added to any view of UltraExplorer
- Improvement - Sorting of the folder is now done in the enumeration thread which keeps the user interface from being frozen as much
- Fixed - Bug in the writing of the Options to the options file
New in Portable UltraExplorer 2.0.2.0 (Jul 4, 2009)
- Fixed - If "Select First Item" in the listview is NOT checked the Listview will try to find and select the folder that was browsed up from. It was not scrolling this item into view
- Fixed - Changed wording of General>"Show Path in Caption" to "Show Path in Title Bar" to better reflect what it does
- Added - Listview>"Hide Icons" option
- Fixed - Search masks totally broken
- Fixed - If the Folders Window does not have the focus and no folders are selected in the Listview the Listview Root is used as the default search path when the Search Tab is opened
- Fixed - Potential to crash in ILIsEqual or ILIsParent functions
- Fixed - Issues with shortcuts with spaces (Num +, Num -, etc)
- Fixed - Issues with exiting while copying, showing property sheets etc
- Added - UE should now copy/move/delete files asyncronously in the background better
- Added - When a View Setting (View, Sort Direction, Sort Column, Grouped, etc) is changed UE now asks if you want to apply the new settings to all open Tabs, the Active Tab or New Tabs
- Fixed - Shift and Control now work with the ContextMenu commands and Delete
- Fixed - Extra commands in customizer now show text/icon correctly depending on what Toolbar they are placed on
- Added - Extra command in customizer to delete files bypassing the Recycle Bin
- Fixed - When an invalid path is entered into the Addressbar the resulting error box may end up under UE so it appears to hang
- Fixed - Report (Details) view did not AutoSize the Name Caption
- Fixed - The Thumbnail Stretch and Size controls did not disable when their functionality could not be used in the view
- Fixed - Color/Font Coding did not work with selected items
- Added - When adding a new Color Coding Extension the "Enable Color Coding" is automatically checked for you
- Added - A new View, Report (Detail) Thumbnail View
- Fixed - Problem with the short cut for New Folder
- Improved - Optimized startup time a bit
- Fixed - Bug were file starting with "D" are not shown when grouping by name
- Fixed - In the rework for 2.0 I messed up some conditional defines so the listview was not enumerating in the background so it was freezing the app while enumerating a large folder
- Improvement - Major reworking of core components made huge speed increases and memory use reductions. Especially noticable in Vista and up
- Fixed - Problem with the SHSetThreadRef and context menus when using the cut/copy commands not allowing the App to close
New in Portable UltraExplorer 2.0.1.0 (Jun 23, 2009)
- Fixed the loader to not require the Registry Value to find UE for the Win-E hook
- Fixed problem with Win-E hook opening an Explorer window plus an UltraExplorer Window
- Fixed problem with crashing when removing Tabs
- Fixed problem with setting focus back to tabset if the only Tab was a Flatten Folder or Search Tab
- Fixed spelling of Donate
- Fixed problem with WM_DDEUltraExplorer and the context menus
- Removed ability to hide the main menu. It can cause all kinds of confusion getting it back
- Fixed problem with saveing/restoring Layouts with Toolbars Locked
- Fixed problem with setting focus to the Columns mode causing a crash
- Fixed problem with Launcher and *FilePathList*
- Added Slovak translation thanks to Sepp Winkler
- Fixed problem where About and Translation dialogs can go behind the main form, thank to Netex for reporting it
- Fixed some bugs with adding windows to the internal TabList (AV's)
- Fixed the auto caption size option for report, list, and small icon views
- Added ability to clear the Per Folder Storage of the listview in the Options Dialog
- Fixed problem with commands in the customization dialog not being saved in the configuration correctly
- Added ability for the dual listview Action toolbar to be customized/short cuts etc
- Fixed issue with Layouts being forgotten if UE is shut down forcefully
- Added ability to included multiple files to a launcher parameter list, the legacy way is to add the files names to a file then pass the file the new names are FilePathListCmdLine, FilePathListShortCmdLine, FileNameListCmdLine, FileNameListShortCmdLine
- Fixed problem with the "Open in UltraExplorer" Context Menu extension when UE was not already open
- Fixed problem with Quick Filter not filtering when a refreshing listview, either F5 or if a shell notification occured
- Added the Treeview has the focus Flatten Folder and Search now use the selection in that window as the source for the new tab action
- Fixed problem with the Search and Flatten Folder Listview "jumping" back to the desktop
- Fixed problem with the Search and Flatten Folder not removing objects from the list that have been deleted
- Fixed problem with using Custom startup folders. UE now does not save all the open tabs then set them all to the same custom startup folder. It ignores all tabs and opens a single tab to the custom folder in each tabset
- Fixed problem with shortcuts. Allowed changing of Listview Select All, Copy, Cut, Paste, Delete shortcuts but they did not work and/or the standard shortcuts still executed the action causing problems. Changing these shortcuts will affect the Listview ONLY
- Fixed problem with syncronization of Listview Tab/BreadcrumbBar/Address Bar when editing a folder in the Folders Window
- Fixed incorrect hint message for SpTBXComboBoxGestureNewTab.Hint and SpTBXCheckBoxTreeviewShowToolTip.Hint
- Fixed issue with Hint not being shown on dialog boxes if Options>General>Tool Hints was on
- Added some missing Hints to some of the Viewer dialog boxes
- Traditional Chineese language updated thans to TonyYu27
- Fixed a problem with refreshing after a file change in watched folders
- Increased performance when a lot of file changes are happening in a folder UE is watching
New in Portable UltraExplorer 2.0.0.0 (May 27, 2009)
- Each Listview now has its own Tabset
- Faster switching between tabs
- Timer delay before filtering while typing a mask
- User definable "x" close buttons on, no tabs, active tab, all tabs
- Improved keyboard handling on the Columns View
- Columns View is now a stand alone view style for a tab this allows much better integration into UE
- Columns View now works with filters, quick filters, action buttons, etc.
- User defined options for the Listview now work with the Columns View as well
- Columns View now uses a delay time to allow faster navigation in slow folders
- Any View (Flatten Folder, Search, etc) now works as the normal Listview including
- QuickFilter,
- Filter,
- Views,
- Clipboard Operations (Copy/Cut)
- File Viewer,
- etc
- Added a "Common Listview" options tab in the Options dialog. Hopefully this will end the confusion on how to make the user's favorite view type more obvious to the user.
- Layout Manager to save and restore layouts of windows/toolbars/etc
- Numerous stability issue fixes
- User definable default column widths for the Listview
- New Listview Common Options tab to easily find common listview options
New in Portable UltraExplorer 1.4.4 (Oct 26, 2007)
- Bug Fix: Fixed problem with activating viewer when full row select is used
- Bug Fix: Fixed drawing issue with focused column drawing. Overdrawing the first line of the header
- Bug Fix: Fixed Tabs so double clicking near the buttons on the right of the tab bar do not duplicate the currently active tab as like double clicking in a blank area of the tab bar does
- Bug Fix: Fixed Bug with drop down list of available tabs when selecting a tab that was not visible (scrolled off the current view). The tab would not be selected if it was not visible
- Bug Fix: Finally found the cause of the "Can not focus an invisible window" error when right clicking on the main menu bar
- Bug Fix: Finally found the cause of the crash when changing folders!
- Bug Fix: Fixed issue with Vista and sorting by extension instead of file type (Vista bug)
- Bug Fix: Fixed issue with Listview not refreshing when icons changed or file attributes changed
- Bug Fix: Fixed bug with Size Sorting
- Bug Fix: Fixed bug in Shell New Menu. Nothing worked if target folder was Unicode.
- Bug Fix: Fixed bug in Shell New Menu if the new item used the "Command" option to launch an app to create the new file, such as Vista's "Contact File" option
- Bug Fix: Fixed changed to make UE more Vista compatible. Caused task bar button to show/hide then show again.
- Bug Fix: Fixed bug introduced in 1.4.3 when showing properties of files
- Feature: Added ability to select multiple item and using Enter key to "open" all the selections.
- Feature: Added Icon Caching so images do not flicker from unknown to the system image when refreshing in the Listview
- Feature: Added Listview option for user to define how the size is shown, Default based on current system, force a Classic Explorer Style, actual file size, actual number of bytes the file consumes on the disk.
- Feature: Added Win-E Hook feature to open UE when the "Windows Key and E" are pressed instead of Explorer
- Feature: Added HotTracking option to Listview
- Feature: Added File>Flatten Folder command to show a flat list of all files in the currently selected folder and all subfolders. Currently is a real memory hog so be careful.
- Feature: Added user selectable time for File QueryInfo Hints to stay visible (up to 20 seconds)