List of changes (version 7.01 - 7.02)

List of changes (version 7.01 - 7.02) is a list of changes to Total Commander since version 7.01 until the release of version 7.02. The list starts at the latest change and goes back in time.

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List of changes (version 7.01 - 7.02)

(05.09.07) Release Total Commander 7.02 final

• (04.09.07) Fixed: Lister: After pressing Ctrl+A (select all), leave the cursor where it is, but when the user then uses Shift+Cursor keys, select text from the beginning to the current position
• (04.09.07) Added: Double click on archive or lnk in locked tab -> remember position too
• (04.09.07) Fixed: Double click on dir in locked tab -> position not always remembered
• (04.09.07) Fixed: When editing files from archives or ftp, remember TEMP path too, since environment variables can now be changed by the user -> TEMP can be different after editing

(03.09.07) Release Total Commander 7.02 rc1

• (03.09.07) Fixed: Do not send mouse down events to task bar during Drag&Drop any more, seems to cause problems with quick launch area
• (03.09.07) Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] UpdateEnv=0 allows to turn off updating of TC environment when system environment changes
• (02.09.07) Added: Windows Vista: Do not show login name with ^ sign (information about full admin rights) if user account control has been disabled
• (02.09.07) Fixed: Windows Vista only: Right click menu -> New -> Shortcut (.lnk) wasn't working
• (02.09.07) Added: .tab files now also support environment variables like %temp% in path fields
• (02.09.07) Fixed: Change attributes, save plugin settings: Special case: Add "" around saved line when it starts and ends with a ", Windows will remove them when loading from ini
• (02.09.07) Fixed: Double click on dir in locked tab (no dir changes allowed) -> new tab opened, but cursor position in old tab not remembered
• (02.09.07) Added: Command choose dialog: Also search by command numbers (numbers starting with the typed digits) when using the filter
• (31.08.07) Fixed: Synchronize dirs, ftp: Also do not show any directories containing slashes or backslashes
• (31.08.07) Fixed: FTP logging with SpecialFlags=16: Filter out multiple download/upload progress messages (background transfers)
• (29.08.07) Fixed: XP with themes: Wrong background color of label with free and total disk space in drive buttonbar
• (29.08.07) Fixed: Compare by contents: When user presses Ctrl+C and nothing is selected, don't show error, just copy nothing. Reason: Windows would copy the content of the error message to the clipboard!

(28.08.07) Release Total Commander 7.02 beta 1

• (28.08.07) Fixed: Synchronize dirs, ftp: Do not show names containing backslashes or slashes, they couldn't be synchronized anyway
• (27.08.07) Fixed: Drag&Drop from right window to single separate tree not working correctly
• (26.08.07) Fixed: Directory traversal vulnerability when an FTP server reports a file name containing backslashes -> File would be placed in the root instead of the correct target directory
• (07.08.07) Fixed: FTP upload check of text files: Some ftp servers seem to remove single <CR> characters (0D hex), which results in a smaller file size
• (07.08.07) Added: When adding files to an open background transfer manager, also add the current transfer mode in the form MODE:I, MODE:A or MODE:X (binary, ansi or automatic)
• (07.08.07) Added: F5 - F2 during an FTP connection now adds the files to an already open background transfer manager
• (07.08.07) Fixed: While TC is minimized during a transfer, show also instance number like [2] in front of the percent value -> needed to set instance number when opening another copy of TC
• (25.07.07) Added: FTP download: If downloaded file is smaller than expected, re-request file size of remote file with SIZE. If still different, report error
• (25.07.07) Added: FTP download from list: Use SIZE command (if supported) to get file size if unavailable
• (25.07.07) Fixed: Drop file(s) from outside of TC (via OLE2) -> do not refresh a panel if it shows a file system plugin or ftp connection
• (25.07.07) Fixed: Plain text comments with \n line breaks were shown on one line in hints (tooltips)
• (25.07.07) Fixed: Plain text comments without custom fields were not supported in thumbs view
• (25.07.07) Fixed: F2/Ctrl+R (refresh) not working in directories accessible only with admin rights, TC returned to the first parent accessible with normal rights
• (25.07.07) Fixed: Ignore list: Specifying a wildcard *\ excluded not only all directories, but also all files
• (25.07.07) Fixed: Lister: Only try to center/resize WMF files which are in enhanced metafile format (EMF), because only these have a bounding rectangle
• (25.07.07) Fixed: Compare by content: Error "Cannot focus a disabled or invisible window." under special conditions when editing and saving one of the files in an external editor
• (24.07.07) Fixed: Change attributes: access violation when trying to load invalid plugin attribute settings (value missing)
• (24.07.07) Added: FTP client: Check size of uploaded files after upload to make sure the file was uploaded OK. Can be turned off via SpecialFlags=32
• (22.07.07) Fixed: Background copy: Available space on target drive was randomly checked in some cases. Now it is checked only if a file is >10MB, and "Calculate space - before copying/deleting" is checked
• (22.07.07) Fixed: Dual screen mode: The following dialog boxes were shown on the wrong screen: FTP overwrite confirmation, Search - choose drives
• (22.07.07) Fixed: Copy progress dialog: Very long paths were cut incorrectly in some special cases (when only 2 characters were cut)
• (22.07.07) Fixed: Lister: Un-selecting text with cursor keys could leave rests of the selection when using Cleartype for fonts
• (22.07.07) Fixed: XP/Vista only: Pressing Alt key for the first time after starting TC made button bar redraw itself
• (20.07.07) Added: wcx_ftp.ini [General] SpecialFlags=0 allows to set special ftp flags: 1: force implicit ssl (no clear text connection), 2: force explicit ssl, 4: force TLS authentication, 8: force SSL23 authentication, 16: detailed log for ftp connections in background, 32: see above
• (18.07.07) Fixed: Compare by contents: When user presses Ctrl+C and nothing is selected, show error instead of emptying the clipboard (just like in Lister)
• (18.07.07) Fixed: Main configuration dialog: Only try to save a page when the user changed something on that page: The Apply button is being enabled in this case
• (18.07.07) Fixed: Main configuration dialog: When wincmd.ini was write protected, it was impossible to store any settings, even if some sections like [Layout] were redirected to other files
• (18.07.07) Fixed: Increased hard limit of maximum packer plugin count from 150 to 256
• (18.07.07) Added: Update Total Commander's environment variables when the system variables are changed (e.g. via Control Panel - System). Works on WinNT-based systems only
• (18.07.07) Fixed: cm_copy??namestoclip: set CF_LOCALE info for the case that the user has chosen a different keyboard layout, e.g. Russian Windows with English layout
• (18.07.07) Fixed: Compare by content: If only one file is selected for comparison in an archive, on an ftp server or fs plugin, and the other side does not contain that file, do not pass the file name to the compare tool
• (10.07.07) Added: FTP over SSL/TLS: If the server responds to AUTH TLS, connect with TLSv1 instead of SSLv23 messages
• (04.07.07) Added: Combine files: When the .crc file is missing, do not append .out if the files are named filename.ext.001 etc. -> name the file filename.ext if the file doesn't exist yet
• (04.07.07) Fixed: XP: Double click on lnk file pointing to Internet Explorer opened an empty folder instead of launching the program. -> Use SHGetFileInfo to determine link type
• (04.07.07) Fixed: Versioninfo resource still showed the year 2006
• (04.07.07) Fixed: Ctrl+Shift+Enter pasted uppercase drive letter, although almost all other functions use lowercase letters
• (04.07.07) Fixed: F7 create directory: Access violation on Windows 98 when trying to create directory like this: c:\temp\....\newdir
• (04.07.07) Fixed: Wrong error message "Directory already exists" shown when trying to create invalid directory name like .....\dir
• (04.07.07) Fixed: Search window resizing during load (full size -> reduced size)
• (04.07.07) Fixed: Search function: "Start search" button hotkey wasn't working when in search results (it invoked "go to file")
• (04.07.07) Fixed: Bring message box to the foreground when an error occurs in the background copy process
• (04.07.07) Fixed: Couldn't use string \t in custom columns view, it was converted to a Tabstop in the editor. \n is still forbidden, it's used to separate fields and will be converted to /n
• (03.07.07) Fixed: ARJ files created on Unix (os type=2): convert file date from Unix to DOS format
• (03.07.07) Fixed: Compare by content: Alt+Cursor right using the numeric keypad (numlock off) scrolled to left when releasing Alt key. Note: Do not use in edit mode, Alt+Numeric keypad is used to enter custom characters!
• (03.07.07) Fixed: Pressing ENTER or SPACE during Drag&Drop while mouse in separate tree opened dir in file panel instead of expanding separate tree
• (03.07.07) Fixed: Lister: No scrollbars were shown for images larger than the window when "center" option but none of the "fit to window" options were active
• (03.07.07) Fixed: Save state of cursor in lister (shown/not shown) and wrap text on/off when closing Lister, not only when closing Total Commander <- save didn't work when shutting down windows
• (03.07.07) Fixed: Command line parameters /P=L and /P=R didn't work when combined with switch /O
• (03.07.07) Fixed: Double click in separate tree panel didn't expand branch if the active file panel also showed a tree
• (03.07.07) Fixed: Better switching to thumbnails view (requesting the database mutex caused initial drawing of thumbnails in wrong size)
• (03.07.07) Added: Alias commands: %A0 does the same as %A, can be used when the parameter must be followed by a digit
• (03.07.07) Added: Alias commands now support new parameters %A1..%A9 to insert the parameter 1..9 at this location. Example: Alias tc=totalcmd /L=%A1 /R=%A2, user enters tc "c:\a b" d:\ -> totalcmd /L="c:\a b" /R=d:\
• (03.07.07) Added: Detection of Windows Vista and Server 2003/2008 in System Information