List of changes (version 7.02a - 7.03)

List of changes (version 7.02a - 7.03) is a list of changes to Total Commander since version 7.02a until the release of version 7.03. The list starts at the latest change and goes back in time.

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List of changes (version 7.02a - 7.03)

(23.04.08) Release Total Commander 7.03 final

• (23.04.08) Fixed: Access violation reading from bad ARJ archive (fix from TC 7.5 was not yet backported)

(22.04.08) Release Total Commander 7.03 RC1

• (22.04.08) Fixed: Uncheck "Search in plugins" when loading a saved search
• (22.04.08) Fixed: Catch more locations where an invalid floating point operation can occur due to invalid sizes returned by plugins or FindFirstFile
• (18.04.08) Fixed: During Drag&Drop, the target folder selection was sometimes not removed when moving cursor away from target panel
• (18.04.08) Fixed: Drag&Drop on header or footer in active window offered to copy file to other panel
• (16.04.08) Fixed: (again, was only fixed in 7.50 beta) Large value of MinLineHeight in thumbnails view moved icons down

(16.04.08) Release Total Commander 7.03 beta 2

• (16.04.08) Fixed: Lister, single line UTF-8 or UTF-16 file with byte order marker, click BELOW the text -> cursor was placed a few characters behind the end of the text
• (16.04.08) Added: Quick search dialog: When the user selects files with Insert or Shift+Cursor up/down, move the quick search dialog down so the number of selected files can be seen (only if there is enough space on screen)
• (16.04.08) Fixed: Could not drop file name on command line if it was hidden by default, and then shown by typing some text
• (16.04.08) Fixed: Disable Delphi floating point exceptions when calling OLE functions which may involve shell extensions: Drag&Drop, Context menu, Property sheet, Copy+Paste, Overlay Icons, Thumbnails, Info-Tips
• (15.04.08) Fixed: Volume label in drive buttonbar didn't show "&" characters (they were converted to underscores)
• (15.04.08) Fixed: Search function, plugins page: It was possible to create up to 20 lines of plugin rules, but the save/restore function could not restore all these lines (only about 8)
• (15.04.08) Fixed: Configuration - Options - Tabstops: When user changes tabstops and clicks on "Apply", do not revert back when user then clicks on Cancel
• (15.04.08) Fixed: Configuration - Options - Tabstops: When user clicks on "Default", also revert Comments width to default if one of the two panels shows a comment view
• (11.04.08) Fixed: Problem with Russian locale only: Select text in binary or hex mode showed displaced text when line breaks were shown with 0 width (but GetTextExtentPoint32 reported normal width)
• (09.04.08) Added: Let user choose between internal Ctrl+Arrow key movement and Windows edit box movement: wincmd.ini [Configuration] CtrlArrow=1/0
• (09.04.08) Fixed: Large value of MinLineHeight in thumbnails view moved icons down
• (09.04.08) Fixed: Delete files: Do not abort the delete function itself when the user stops counting of files with ESC (requested by beta testers)
• (09.04.08) Fixed: Drag&Drop, press Space or enter on any item in file lists called tree code instead of file panel code by mistake

(09.04.08) Release Total Commander 7.03 beta 1

• (09.04.08) Added: Support ftps over http proxies (via GET request). Normally HTTP CONNECT should be used for secure ftp
• (08.04.08) Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Double click on file pair passed wrong short DOS name to right panel if the two files had different DOS names
• (08.04.08) Fixed: Custom columns view and thumbs view: Custom fields were not refreshed on F2/Ctrl+R if nothing else changed in that directory
• (07.04.08) Fixed: The creation of .tar.bz2 files only worked when the user had created a .bz2 file before (to load the plugin)
• (06.04.08) Added: Compare by content: When selecting multiple lines with Shift+Cursor down and then copying the lines to the other panel via button or Alt+Cursor key, and the last line isn't empty, then do not copy the unselected last line
• (04.04.08) Fixed: Limit command line length to 4095 characters on Windows >=XP, longer command lines were not shown correctly or caused access violations
• (04.04.08) Fixed: Drag&Drop to tree: When user presses space or enter, open subdir branch, but do not switch to that directory in the file panel(s)
• (02.04.08) Added: MinLineHeight= sets minimum line height in file lists if the given value is >0. If it is negative, the absolute value is added to the normal line height, e.g. MinLineHeight=-2, height=16 -> 18
• (02.04.08) Fixed: FTP log list in ftp toolbar had wrong font size when using OverrideDPI option
• (02.04.08) Added: DriveBarHide= in wincmd.ini Allows to hide certain parts of the drive button bar: A-Z=drives, 0-9=ftp, \=Nethood, .=parent+root dir, -=description
• (02.04.08) Fixed: Sync with FTP, edit remote file with external compare tool, save it -> TC hangs
• (02.04.08) Fixed: Right mouse button Drag&Drop didn't show extended menu items in drive roots. Get Drag&Drop handlers from "Drive", "Directory" and "Folder" keys for drives, and the last two for directories
• (02.04.08) Fixed: cm_SrcQuickInternalOnly in button bar now shows same state as cm_SrcQuickView (independent from whether quick view uses a plugin or not) because a click on such a pressed button closes quick view
• (02.04.08) Added: Insert key or Shift+Up/Down arrow in quick search now selects/unselects file under cursor and jumps to next match (except if insert has been redefined)
• (01.04.08) Fixed: Improved progress bar performance for plugins by updating the bar only when the percentage changes (this has been done for internal functions for a long time)
• (01.04.08) Fixed: cm_SyncChangeDir: Click on "\" button no longer switched both panels to the root
• (01.04.08) Fixed: Open dir in new Tab from history with Shift+Enter didn't work if the history item was in a subdirectory of an archive
• (01.04.08) Fixed: Wrong width of edit boxes in "change start menu" dialog when using OverrideDpi option
• (30.03.08) Fixed: External unpacker (like RAR): Put target directory in double quotes "" if short DOS names are unavailable and there is still a space in the path
• (30.03.08) Fixed: XP/Vista only: Checking/Unchecking option to show brackets around directories didn't take immediate effect when clicking on "Apply"
• (30.03.08) Fixed: Left mouse button selection mode: Drag unselected file with right button, then click on Cancel -> File still selected
• (30.03.08) Fixed: Delete files: If user stops counting of files with ESC, then also abort the delete function itself
• (30.03.08) Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Cannot delete files in ARJ/LHA/TAR/RAR archive if synchronize base dir is a subdir of the archive (note: deleting from ACE archives always seems to fail)
• (30.03.08) Fixed: Drag&Drop moves instead of copying when left+right mouse button swapped, old style hints are shown (overlaying the name), and a hint is visible when starting the drag
• (30.03.08) Fixed: FTP download from list: Remove all lines starting with "header:" when a line starting with "OK-" is encountered, so header fields meant for that line aren't passed to later transfers
• (30.03.08) Fixed: FTP download from list: match complete name when marking downloaded items with "OK-", to avoid that partial name like http://ghisler.com matches file in that location, or that Referer line is marked
• (30.03.08) Fixed: When using parameters /O /T /S to open just the target directory via command line in already running TC, keep the focus on the previously active panel
• (30.03.08) Fixed: When using parameters /O /T to open directories via command line in already running TC, keep the focus on the previously active panel if two paths are passed in
• (30.03.08) Fixed: Internal pseudo environment variables like %$PERSONAL% not working on 64-bit Windows when x64disableredirection=1
• (28.03.08) Fixed: If a content plugin used the size passthrough option, sorting by that column sorted by the standard size field (Alt+Shift+Enter) instead of the plugin size field.
• (28.03.08) Fixed: Content plugins: total length of all field names was limited to 2 kBytes. Increased limit to 64k max.
• (28.03.08) Fixed: Special handling of Ctrl+Arrow keys removed from command line and other edit boxes, revert to normal edit box movement
• (28.03.08) Fixed: cm_CopyFileDetailsToClip in custom columns view crashes if a plugin returns a field longer than 259 characters.
• (28.03.08) Fixed: Switch from a Tab any other view mode to a Tab with custom columns view -> any additional sort orders of this tab are lost
• (28.03.08) Fixed: Thumbnails view: Shift+Home/End didn't place cursor on first/last column, just on first/last row
• (28.03.08) Fixed: cm_ShowFileUser: Garbage shown in message box title in server list (path \\server) with cursor on a share
• (27.03.08) Fixed: Alt+F10 tree couldn't show any dirs containing brackets [] anywhere in the name
• (27.03.08) Fixed: Logging function stopped working after midnight if log file rotation at midnight was set, and a log file with the target name logfile.<date>.log already existed
• (27.03.08) Fixed: Status bar showed wrong file item ([..]) after switching from brief view to thumbs view and back
• (27.03.08) Fixed: F5, F6, Shift+F6: Accept also forward slashes '/' instead of backslashes '\' in paths
• (27.03.08) Fixed: TC hangs or crashes when reducing the width of a custom column to 0
• (27.03.08) Fixed: Drag&Drop, press Space or enter on [..] item in drive root -> virtual folder opens in wrong panel
• (26.03.08) Fixed: Shortcuts in ftp edit connection dialog
• (25.03.08) Fixed: Verify calls to unrar dll when archive bad
• (25.03.08) Fixed: Unzip/gzip: Add verification to inflate code whether the pointers in the huffman tree are valid or null
• (25.03.08) Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Sort files with Unicode characters by Unicode name, not by alternate DOS name
• (19.03.08) Fixed: Unzip of ppmd-packed zip files could hang in an infinite loop when the end of the in file was reached (the ppmd code didn't check for end of file)
• (11.03.08) Fixed: Error in background transfer manager when moving file and target exists, and user chooses the rename option
• (09.03.08) Fixed: Do not request version info for files > 4GB, so large programs/dlls cannot run anyway, and the function will hang
• (05.03.08) Fixed: TC on primary screen, Synchronize dirs on secondary screen -> progress dialog on wrong (primary) screen
• (05.03.08) Fixed: TC and Synchronize dirs on secondary screen -> progress dialog was on correct screen, but overwrite dialog on the wrong (primary) screen
• (05.03.08) Fixed: Command in button bar with %S parameter didn't work in search results when no start path was given
• (05.03.08) Fixed: Lister crash when searching in UTF-8 file while font is set to ASCII -> ignore ASCII flag
• (06.02.08) Fixed: Custom columns view: When displaying multiple columns containing size fields, columns to the right may receive a wrong value for the predefined size (for showing e.g. file sizes inside archives) when showing different size units, e.g. first column MBytes, second column Bytes
• (01.02.08) Fixed: Tree in main window not updated correctly when moving directories within the tree to another directory with Shift+F6
• (30.01.08) Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Compare two subdirs of the SAME archive with each other, use compare by content to change one file -> the files in the archive after that position were no longer accessible on the other side because only the changed side was updated
• (30.01.08) Fixed: Dual screen mode: The following dialog box was shown on the wrong screen: Drive selection dialog in search function
• (29.01.08) Fixed: Invalid text selection in Lister hex view when using a fixed width font, and the line break characters had a different width than the standard character width
• (29.01.08) Fixed: Ctrl+Q on text file, start selecting text, then move cursor to left panel and release mouse button -> although the file panel now had the focus, it was still shown above the quick view panel
• (29.01.08) Fixed: cm_GotoFirstFile: footer (e.g. in brief view) and quick view panel were not updated
• (27.01.08) Fixed: Close inplace rename edit box when resizing Total Commander
• (23.01.08) Fixed: Opening Quick View with a button bar button with command cm_SrcQuickview didn't show files in archives (Ctrl+Q worked)
• (22.01.08) Fixed: Custom columns view: Do not show size field if value=-1 or -2 (which means unknown)
• (22.01.08) Fixed: Calculate space of folder with space bar not working if content size was an _exact_ multiple of 4 GB
• (16.01.08) Fixed: Error updating comment in files.bbs when existing comment started with a line break
• (15.01.08) Fixed: Error "Cannot focus..." when trying to close minimized compare by contents window
• (28.12.07) Added: Background transfer manager: Consider the state of the option "FTP show hidden files" when downloading entire subdirectories
• (28.12.07) Fixed: Plugin auto-install function (unpacker): Could not overwrite hidden/system files if the files were on the ignore list
• (07.12.07) Fixed: FTP custom type: The entries "." and ".." were not detected correctly (one dot was cut)
• (07.11.07) Fixed: ENTER on LNK file switched to linked directory, but didn't update tree in other panel or separate tree panel
• (16.09.07) Fixed: Commands - System info reported Server 2008 instead of Windows Vista