Total Commander 8 changelog?
Moderators: Hacker, petermad, Stefan2, white
Total Commander 8 changelog?
I've been looking around for a changelog for Total Commander 8. Is there one available yet?
In this post http://ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=34328 (the anouncment which is the first topic in this english forum) is a link to the history file http://www.ghisler.com/history80.txt
Greetings,
Henrie
Greetings,
Henrie
Thanks for the info. For those interested, I've compiled a list of all the new features in Total Commander 8: 
Code: Select all
25.04.12 Added: SelectionFocus=1 or color: Draw focus differently when there are selected files in that panel. Add $4000000 to only show when on not selected item (32/64)
24.04.12 Added: AppendLnk ini option: New value 2 (now the default) sets the behaviour described below. Set to 0 for behaviour as in TC7.x (32/64)
30.03.12 Added: wcx_ftp.ini [General] DecodePercent=0: If set to 1, decode %hex values in user name/password in URLs (32/64)
30.03.12 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] SubdirCopyOrder=4 sets order in which files in subdirs are copied: 4=unsorted (default), 5=like active panel (no custom columns), 0..3 ascending by name, ext, size, date, -1..-4 descending by name, ext, size, date (32/64)
28.03.12 Added: Screen readers: Use same GetTextMode options also in multi-rename tool (32/64)
28.03.12 Added: Screen readers: Made GetTextMode=1 (tab-delimited) the default (32/64)
28.03.12 Added: (Experimental): wcx_ftp.ini, SpecialFlags option, new value 2048: Duplicate all characters with code #255 for servers expecting Telnet-style escape characters (32/64)
16.03.12 Added: HideRemovableNoMedia now also works in dialog "Drive not found!" (value: 2) and Search - Drives (value: 4) (32/64)
02.03.12 Added: (Experimental) Change font for tooltips separately: wincmd.ini, resolution-specific section, FontNameTip, FontCharsetTip, FontSizeTip and FontWeightTip (TC uses the dialog box settings if these are not present) (32/64)
02.03.12 Added: Options to set format of LB_GETTEXT result (for screen readers): wincmd.ini [Configuration] GetTextMode=0: Delimiter: 0: space, 1: tab, 2=<cr> 3=<cr><lf> 4=like 2 5=like 3. 4&5 show fields with column headers (tab-separated), e.g. Name:<tab>Filename<cr>Size:<tab>10k (32/64)
28.02.12 Added: Log function for icon thread: wincmd.ini [Configuration] DebugIconThread=1 to allow test why icon extraction or dir size calculation hangs (=2 for more details) (32/64)
10.02.12 Added: Include both new unrar.dll for Windows 2000 or newer, and unrar9x.dll for older Windows versions (32)
07.02.12 Added: Searching with search list in "Search in" field (e.g. @c:\path\searchfile.txt) now also accepts wildcards and regular expressions (32/64)
07.02.12 Added: FTPS: Support encrypted data connections even after CCC command (clear command channel) (32/64)
05.02.12 Added: Also show harddisks attached via firewire/IEEE1394 as external drives (32/64)
26.01.12 Added: CheckUsbHdd=1 in wincmd.ini [Configuration]: Turn on/off check whether a harddisk is connected via USB, and show it with different icon (32/64)
26.01.12 Added: InplaceRenameSync=1 in wincmd.ini [Configuration]: Turn inplace rename in sync by left clicking on/off (32/64)
25.01.12 Added: Rename files directly in synchronize dirs (currently only in the file system), Hotkey: F6 and Shift+F6 (32/64)
20.01.12 Added: Let the user change more colors in Configuration - Options - Color (32/64)
19.01.12 Added: Directory hotlist (Ctrl+D): Option to add a new entry directly to a submenu of the list. Will be added at the end of the list, but before any contained submenu (32/64)
19.01.12 Added: Search function: When restoring the last search result, also restore the cursor position and top index in the list (32/64)
19.01.12 Added: Show harddisks connected via USB with removable disk icon, just like USB sticks (32/64)
17.01.12 Added: Copy function: Show warning at the end if some directories couldn't be opened for copying (32/64)
17.01.12 Added: Show special warning when user tries to install a 32-bit plugin in Total Commander 64-bit (64)
12.01.12 Added: Hints in multi-rename tool for options 1x and [E] (only shown when translation exists) (32/64)
12.01.12 Added: Allow to translate new media audio remote menu (32/64)
11.01.12 Added: Change attributes: F2 Load/Save combobox: Set width to longest string if more than combobox width (32/64)
06.01.12 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] CopyDirsAsAdmin=1: When a directory cannot be copied, then: 0: skip it, 1: ask user, 2: always try as administrator (32/64)
06.01.12 Added: Copy function: Show error when a directory cannot be entered, allow to use "As admin" and "All as admin" functions (32/64)
22.12.11 Added: Synchronize dirs: Faster deletion to recycle bin on Vista/7 by deleting each directory as a whole instead of each file (32/64)
15.12.11 Added: Multi-rename tool: F2 Load/Save combobox: Set width to longest string if more than combobox width (32/64)
15.12.11 Added: Synchronize dirs: F2 shows list of saved synchronize options (32/64)
09.12.11 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] NethoodStyle=0..2 set style of Network Neighborhood: 0=Windows-Standard, 1=additional XP-style subfolder, 2=only XP-style (32/64)
08.12.11 Added: Installer can now be set to install TC invisibly (e.g. from some init script): install.inf [auto], auto=1 and hidden=1 (32/64)
07.12.11 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] MediaRemote=1 use windows media remote to control TC (default: 0): Cursor+OK as usual, <- Backspace, i directory hotlist, >| Tab, |< Ctrl+Tab, Play/Pause Command menu, Stop ESC in dialogs, select file in lists (32/64)
07.12.11 Added: When auto-installing a plugin with translated description, support also other codepages than the current user codepage (32/64)
07.12.11 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] CompareDeleteBak=1: Delete .bak files when closing "Compare by content". Note that only the last created .bak file for each side is deleted (32/64)
06.12.11 Added: wcx_ftp.ini [General] PreferIPv6=2 tries the server addresses in the order the name server sends them (IPv4 and IPv6 mixed) (32/64)
04.12.11 Added: Switched to new Lazarus build with fpc 2.5.1 - may cause various incompatibility problems, please test thoroughly! (64)
02.12.11 Added: (Experimental) On Windows Vista and newer, show subfolder in Network Neighborhood with "Entire Network" (as on Windows XP - doesn't seem to contain anything on some systems) (32/64)
01.12.11 Added: Synchronize dirs: In the footer, show number of displayed AND total files when a filter is used, otherwise just one number as before (32/64)
30.11.11 Added: InplaceOkButton=2 shows confirm button to the left of the edit box, where the icon is normally shown (32/64)
27.11.11 Added: Do not move TC to the tray when the user minimizes it via task manager and there is a popup window open in TC (32/64)
25.11.11 Added: Send WM_COPYDATA with dwData='G'+256*'W': Same as with 'G'+256*'A', but data is returned as UTF-16 Unicode. dwData of return is 'R'+256*'W' (32/64)
25.11.11 Added: Send WM_COPYDATA with dwData='G'+256*'A' and lpData pointing to command to get back WM_COPYDATA with various info. Supported commands A: Active side (returns L or R), or two byte command: first byte: L=left, R=right, S=source, T=target. Second byte: P=current path, C=list count, I=caret index, N=name of file under caret. dwData of return is 'R'+256*'A' (32/64)
25.11.11 Added: New environment variable %COMMANDER_EXE% pointing to the Total Commander program (totalcmd.exe or totalcmd64.exe) (32/64)
23.11.11 Added: When dragging mail from Outlook to TC, and a mail with the same name existed, TC only offered to retry or abort (32/64)
23.11.11 Added: Allow to use 64-bit plugins also when the wincmd.ini is read only, so the [???64] sections cannot be written (64)
23.11.11 Added: Start TC with a larger default size if the size wasn't saved, make sure the window isn't partially hidden by the task bar (32/64)
23.11.11 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] AlwaysAsAdmin=1: Once the user has confirmed any operation with "All as administrator", this is applied to all other file operations too until tcmadmin is unloaded (32/64)
22.11.11 Added: Alt+F10 tree: If TreeFileLocation isn't set, save the tree in the same location as the thumbnail cache in the following cases: 1. network shares, 2. the drive containing the windows directory (revert to default with TreeFileLocation=%R%treeinfo.wc) (32/64)
22.11.11 Added: Find files, load/save search: Put character '>' in "Search for" or "Search in" box and save the search -> when loading, the field with this character is NOT loaded (32/64)
22.11.11 Added: Alt+F3 or F4: If the editor isn't found, show the name of the program which isn't found (32/64)
22.11.11 Added: Verify CRC checksums: Allows to check the checksum of a single file by putting the checksum in the clipboard and using Files - Check CRC checksums with the file to be checked (32/64)
21.11.11 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] InplaceOkButton=0 turns off the button to confirm the inplace rename (32/64)
20.11.11 Added: Show button to the right of the inplace rename edit box to confirm the renaming with the mouse (32/64)
20.11.11 Added: Lister: Jump to bookmark in html when loading from command line e.g. TOTALCMD.EXE /S=L:T5 file.html#bookmark (32/64)
20.11.11 Added: Synchronize dirs: Show number of filtered out files in the footer (right side) with filter icon (32/64)
17.11.11 Added: New internal command cm_100Percent to show one panel at full width (32/64)
17.11.11 Added: Support SSL-encrypted ftp server to server transfers by sending the server the SSCN ON command if the server reports it via FEAT, otherwise try CPSV (32/64)
17.11.11 Added: Connect to FTP or HTTP: Always try all IP addresses as long as connections fail. By default, this will now also support IPv6 on Windows Vista/7 (turn off with PreferIPv6=-2) (32/64)
17.11.11 Added: Support environment variables also in ignore list (32/64)
16.11.11 Added: Lister (F3): Use Irfanview/Xnview to load internally supported image type (e.g. *.bmp, *.jpg) if it is listed in IViewAdditionalTypes variable (32/64)
15.11.11 Added: wincmd.ini [Lister] AutoRotate=0 turns off automatic rotation of JPG images according to the EXIF orientation value (32/64)
15.11.11 Added: Compare by content: Show compare progress bar and percent done in footer (32/64)
10.11.11 Added: (experimental) Compare by content: support files >2 GB (64)
08.11.11 Added: (experimental): Quick search with Korean characters (mode: letters or letters with search dialog): Show IME window in lower left of the listbox instead of using a floating window (32)
07.11.11 Added: Lister: Auto-rotate jpg images loaded via GDI+ to the angle stored in the EXIF information (32/64)
04.11.11 Added: Synchronize dirs: When comparing two solid RAR archives or two plugin archives with each other, unpack the right archive, calculate SHA1 checksums, then unpack the left -> much faster (32/64)
04.11.11 Added: Synchronize dirs: Also support "by content" with packer plugins, if the plugins supports the PK_CAPS_SEARCHTEXT capability (e.g. 7zip) (32/64)
03.11.11 Added: (experimental): InactiveFocus=1: Use a different pattern and brightness from the normal focus rectangle to distinguish it easily (32/64)
03.11.11 Added: (experimental): wincmd.ini [Configuration] InactiveFocus=1: show focus in inactive panel (or InactiveFocus=RGB value for setting the color manually) (32/64)
02.11.11 Added: Lister: F3 can now also open directories (only in the normal file system), just like Ctrl+Q (32/64)
02.11.11 Added: Multi-rename tool: New option "[E]": If unchecked, the search string will be replaced only within the name part, and not the extension (32/64)
02.11.11 Added: Multi-rename tool: New option "1x": When checked, only the first occurrence of the search string will be replaced (32/64)
25.10.11 Added: Auto-complete: Always append backslash to folders, except in main window command line (32/64)
23.10.11 Added: SameScreenAsTC=1 now only works with modal dialogs (child windows of TC). For Lister, add 2, for Compare, add 4 (=7 for all 3) (32/64)
23.10.11 Added: Open files with extension .cmd in command processor which remains open with Shift+Enter (NT based systems only) (32/64)
23.10.11 Added: Make VistaDelete=1 the default on Windows Vista or newer (32/64)
21.10.11 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] SameScreenAsTC=1 shows all resizeable dialogs (where TC remembers the position) on the same screen as the main program (32/64)
06.10.11 Added: Updated unrar.dll and unrar64.dll to latest version 4.x (32/64)
04.10.11 Added: wincmd.ini [Lister] GifMinDelay=80 minimum delay between animated gif frames in milliseconds (default: 80) - change effective without restart (32/64)
03.10.11 Added: Use double buffering to draw GDI+ images (JPG, GIF, PNG) without flickering, also handles transparent animated GIFs correctly (32/64)
02.10.11 Added: wincmd.ini [Colors] TreeTriangles=0 allows to revert to [+] icons in tree to expand/collapse branches (32/64)
02.10.11 Added: Tree: Show old [+] icons by default when user has set a different color for tree lines (32/64)
28.09.11 Added: Also select range of files when Shift+Clicking on already selected file (32/64)
21.09.11 Added: Search function: Save current search text before starting a search, so Lister plugins can access it (32/64)
19.09.11 Added: Show version 8 in properties of installation auto-extractor and installer (32/64)
04.09.11 Added: Uninstaller: Show warning that 32-bit version will be removed too (64)
04.09.11 Added: Changed name of 64-bit program to totalcmd64.exe to allow installation to the same directory as 32-bit version (64)
28.08.11 Added: Show number of bytes handled and total bytes when copying, packing, unpacking (also with plugins) (32/64)
26.08.11 Added: Show number of files handled and total files when copying, packing, unpacking (also with plugins) (32/64)
14.08.11 Added: When browsing for plugins, also look for extension with '64' at the end. Cut off the '64' if there is a 32-bit plugin with the same name in the same directory (64)
14.08.11 Added: All 64-bit plugins MUST now have '64' at the end of the extension, e.g. wcx64 (64)
05.08.11 Added: Lister: Show jpg, gif and png images in Lister without plugins also in 32-bit version, via gdi plus (32)
27.07.11 Added: Search function (Commands - Search): In field "Search in", a list file can be specified like this: @c:\path\searchfile.txt. The format can be ANSI, UTF-8 or UTF-16 (both with bom). The file must contain one file/dir name per line, absolute or relative (32/64)
27.07.11 Added: Multi-rename tool: Use 'a' as number of digits for auto width depending on number of files, e.g. [C:a] or [C10+10:a] (32/64)
26.07.11 Added: Added buttons and hotkeys (Ctrl+Arrow up/down) to jump to previous/next wrong checksum in "Verify checksums" dialog (32/64)
24.07.11 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] NewTimeZoneMethod=1/0 sets new Windows 7 time zone method (32/64)
24.07.11 Added: Windows 7: Use new timestamp display method as in Explorer (32/64)
22.07.11 Added: Multi-rename tool: Directly accept backslashes in name field (for moving to subfolders) (32/64)
22.07.11 Added: Multi-rename tool: Create missing subfolders automatically when renaming. The Undo function will NOT remove these extra folders (32/64)
22.07.11 Added: F7 new folder: Remove double quotes around current path, e.g. when user used Ctrl+Enter on a name with spaces (32/64)
22.07.11 Added: Search function, go to file: When only one file was found, go to that file, even if it wasn't selected (32/64)
22.07.11 Added: Speed up file operations by handling progress bars with a timer (32/64)
19.07.11 Added: Draw new style (Windows Vista/7) expand/collapse icons in tree, make tree lines even lighter (can be disabled completely via ini) (32/64)
12.07.11 Added: Only show packer, file system and content plugins which are really available in 64-bit form (64)
10.07.11 Added: 64-bit self-extractor for installer (64)
06.07.11 Added: 64-bit installer, uninstaller and lzma dll (64)
26.06.11 Added: Copy from FTP or virtual folders (e.g. the desktop) to file system plugins (32/64)
22.06.11 Added: Show warning about ZIP>4GB only once when packing multiple files/folders >4GB with option "Create separate archives...", not for each archive (32/64)
17.06.11 Added: Made browse for folder dialog resizable, e.g. in synchronize dirs (32/64)
15.06.11 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] NetHoodReadInfo= set options for reading nethood: 1:GetAttributesOf, 2: SHGetDataFromIDList, 3:both (32/64)
05.06.11 Added: Support checksum file names sha256sum and sha256sums
01.06.11 Added: "Skip all" in copy as admin function, skips all files which fail to be copied as admin (32, 64)
01.06.11 Finished porting to 64-bit, resume normal bug fix operations
