List of changes (version 7.55a - 7.56)

List of changes (version 7.56 - 7.55a) is a list of changes to Total Commander since version 7.56 until the release of version 7.55a. The list starts at the latest change and goes back in time.

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List of changes (version 7.56 - 7.55a)

(29.11.10) Release Total Commander 7.56 final

• (29.11.10) Fixed: New unrar.dll crashes on certain damaged archives -> return to unrar.dll from TC 7.55a
• (29.11.10) Fixed: Workaround to possible security flaw in Windows html help module (loading dlls from wrong directory)
• (28.11.10) Fixed: Lister, UTF-8 search forward or backward could hang with 255 character search string
• (28.11.10) Fixed: F5 copy, option "Copy to all selected folders/links": In branch view, the file was only copied to subdirs, not to the base dir, even if a file was selected there
• (26.11.10) Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Highlight text color wrong when not using SyncSelBack option
• (26.11.10) Fixed: Do not show old search results in "Expand selection" - "Define"
• (26.11.10) Fixed: Master password dialog: Maximum password length (256 characters) could only be entered via copy+paste, not by typing it (3 characters less)
• (25.11.10) Fixed: New unrar.dll was hanging on Windows 9x/ME
• (24.11.10) Fixed: Could not copy file from inside one archive to archive in other panel if the other was a self-extracting archive from a plugin (e.g. 7zip)

(23.11.10) Release Total Commander 7.56 release candidate 1

• (23.11.10) Fixed: Main window could look incorrect after stopping theme services (Windows XP or newer)
• (23.11.10) Fixed: *.cmd files could not be launched as administrator via button bar
• (23.11.10) Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] SkipCharOnCursor flag can now also be used to configure left arrow press in edit fields (see help)
• (23.11.10) Fixed: When using branch view of selected files/folders and "watch directory changes", do not show files/folders which do not belong to the selection when they show up later
• (23.11.10) Fixed: Synchronize dirs with ftp, saved selection not working because subdir names were stored with trailing slash instead of backslash -> accept also names with slash
• (21.11.10) Fixed: Synchronize dirs, SyncSelBack set by user -> choose foreground color white or black for equal files depending on brightness of background color
• (21.11.10) Fixed: Configuring user-defined sounds gave strange error on Windows XP x64 only
• (19.11.10) Fixed: Button bar, start menu, parameter %L or %l: For ftp connections, just put /relative_path/filename in the list file
• (19.11.10) Fixed: Lister: Percent value shown in title after searching was sometimes wrong
• (19.11.10) Added: MinimizeOnClose=4: Minimize TC also when clicking on button "Alt+F4 Exit" in lower right corner
• (19.11.10) Fixed: New SyncSelBack option didn't support hex values in the form $800000
• (19.11.10) Fixed: New unrar.dll crashes TC -> fix size of RARHeaderDataEx
• (19.11.10) Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] longnamecopy=3: Completely disallow to write names longer than 256 characters, let user skip or rename

(17.11.10) Release Total Commander 7.56 beta 2

• (17.11.10) Fixed: Installer could not close running Total Commander with MinimizeOnClose>0
• (17.11.10) Added: wincmd.ini [Colors] SyncSelBack= set background color of selected items in Synchronize dirs
• (17.11.10) Added: wcx_ftp.ini [General] MLSD=-1/1/0: Globally enable/disable MLSD command. Can also be set in the individual connections
• (17.11.10) Added: Button bar: Begin command with a '*' followed by a full path or env. variable to always start the program with admin rights
• (17.11.10) Fixed: Lister: Reset percent value shown in title to previous position after searching (didn't seem to work automatically on some computers)
• (16.11.10) Fixed: Synchronize dirs, archives by content: Could not abort during unpacking, only during actual comparison
• (16.11.10) Fixed: Search function: Open search dialog directly with the full size when loading previous search results
• (16.11.10) Fixed: Compare by content, edit mode, switch encoding -> "Copy ->" and "Copy <-" buttons were disabled
• (12.11.10) Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] SelectionMarker="* " set marker for selected lines in file lists (returned via LB_GETTEXT) - mainly useful for the blind
• (12.11.10) Added: Right click on button, "As Administrator": Now also works with most documents, not only programs (if the association is correct)
• (11.11.10) Fixed: Version info in totalcmd.exe file was wrong
• (10.11.10) Added: Show menu item "As Administrator" also in button bar drop-down (linked .bar file with option "show as menu")
• (10.11.10) Fixed: Synchronize dirs: double click for compare files not working any more
• (10.11.10) Fixed: MinimizeOnClose=2 was not working
• (10.11.10) Fixed: By mistake, some dialogs like the search function were closed when minimizing them
• (10.11.10) Fixed: "Pause" button tooltip in Aero Peek view was always in English

(10.11.10) Release Total Commander 7.56 beta 1

• (10.11.10) Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] CopyOverwriteDefault=1..8: Set default option chosen when clicking on "Options" button in F5 copy dialog (only used when extended copy dialog opened!)
• (10.11.10) Added: Find files: Remember last search results when using "Go to file" or "Cancel" (but not when using "Feed to listbox"). Turn off with SearchKeepLast=0 in wincmd.ini
• (10.11.10) Added: Quick search dialog: Support hotkeys Ctrl+X, Ctrl+C and Ctrl+A
• (10.11.10) Added: When renaming a file in place (Shift+F6) and the entered name is invalid, show a dialog box where the user can correct the name
• (10.11.10) Added: When creating new file via context menu, e.g. New -> Text file, do not select the extension (.txt)
• (10.11.10) Added: Ctrl+A in command line selects entire line
• (08.11.10) Added: Help system: set encoding in each html file, so the help works correctly even when Internet Explorer is set to a different fixed encoding
• (05.11.10) Added: Windows 7: Show pause button in "aero peek" windows (shown when hovering over taskbar icon) during file operations to pause them
• (04.11.10) Added: Compare by Content: Auto-detect UTF-8-encoded css files starting with text: @charset "utf-8"
• (04.11.10) Added: Compare by Content: Auto-detect UTF-8-encoded xml files by tag <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ...
• (04.11.10) Added: Compare by Content: Auto-detect UTF-8-encoded html files by tag <meta http-equiv="Content-type" charset=UTF-8" ...
• (04.11.10) Added: Lister, Compare by Content: Auto-detect UTF-8-encoded files by checking the presence of only valid multi-byte sequences (first byte determines length of sequence)
• (04.11.10) Added: Button bar right click menu: Menu item "As Administrator" for running the program of that button with admin rights
• (04.11.10) Added: HideRemovableNoMedia=2: Hide drives with no media in it in drive dropdown list (use 3 for both drive dropdown list and drive bar)
• (04.11.10) Fixed: When copying to multiple selected files, make sure each file is copied only once
• (03.11.10) Added: Compare by content: Double click on a word selects that word
• (03.11.10) Fixed: ZIP packer: Set special flag for text files in central directory header, needed by Info-ZIP on Unix to convert Windows line breaks to Unix line breaks
• (03.11.10) Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] MinimizeOnClose: Minimize main window instead of closing it 1: when clicking on [X] button, 2: On Alt+F4, 3: both (note: Hold down shift when clicking on [X] to force close)
• (02.11.10) Fixed: USB cable connection: Problem downloading file immediately after downloading 0 byte file (timing problem)
• (29.10.10) Fixed: Synchronize dirs, by content: Comparison could fail with error ERROR_TOO_MANY_OPEN_FILES or ERROR_NOT_ENOUGH_SERVER_MEMORY -> retry every 0.5 seconds for max 30 seconds
• (29.10.10) Added: F5 copy, option "Copy to all selected folders/links": When normal files are selected, copy to the directories of these files after search - feed to listbox (only if there is no target dir)
• (29.10.10) Fixed: Compare by content: After changing a file in an external editor and recomparing, the cursor was placed on the previous line, but the top display line was wrong
• (29.10.10) Fixed: Alt+F5 pack: Change name between name.archiveext and *.*.archiveext automatically when switching between archiver supporting multiple files (like zip) and packer supporting 1 file only (like gz)
• (29.10.10) Fixed: Could not abort ftp upload while retrying 3 times (e.g. because target was write protected)
• (27.10.10) Fixed: Watch directory changes: When receiving notification about file rename and both old and new name exist in the list, then remove the old name from the list
• (26.10.10) Fixed: Verifying bugfixes in both 32-bit and (not yet released) 64-bit versions, minor fixes
• (24.10.10) Fixed: Icons in archives: If there is no DefaultIcon value for a file type, also look for DefaultIcon in clsid key pointed to by classname\CLSID value
• (22.10.10) Fixed: Associate dialog: Wrong association could be chosen if two file types had the same description
• (22.10.10) Fixed: wincmd.ini: TreeFileLocation option didn't support pseudo environment variables like %$LOCAL_APPDATA%
• (22.10.10) Fixed: No shield overlay icons shown on Windows 7 because function LoadIconWithScaleDown is missing in comctl32.dll
• (17.10.10) Fixed: Copy names with path to clipboard sometimes exported drives as uppercase after search - feed to listbox
• (17.10.10) Fixed: Increased maximum possible stack size from 1/4 to 1/2 MByte, otherwise some plugins like ShellDetails may crash on load
• (15.10.10) Fixed: Compare by content, edit one file externally so the two are the same, let the compare tool recompare -> Message "Identical" was shown, but no file content
• (15.10.10) Added: Calculate occupied space: Show size also in kBytes, MBytes and GBytes
• (15.10.10) Added: Button bar, start menu: Two new placeholders, %v and %V: Adds virtual file name (%v: just the name, %V: with full path) instead of redirected path to command line in plugins like Temporary panel
• (15.10.10) Added: Ctrl+D directory hotlist: Mark also subfolder(s) when the current directory is in a subfolder of the directory hotlist
• (15.10.10) Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] SkipCharOnCursor: Set to 3 to not put cursor directly behind selected part when user presses right arrow key (restores standard Windows behaviour)
• (15.10.10) Added: In edit boxes like the F5 copy dialog, put cursor directly behind selected part when user presses right arrow key (just like in inplace rename box)
• (12.10.10) Fixed: Moving selected folders+files to their parent (drag to [..]) could overwrite files, e.g. when a subdir contains files with same name -> move this subdir at the very end (see http://www.hardtoc.com/archives/198)
• (12.10.10) Fixed: Windows 7 no longer showed overlay icons for shared folders -> show our own if there is no other overlay for that folder!
• (12.10.10) Fixed: Alt+Enter on file in ZIP showed wrong text field heights when using high DPI values (e.g. 180 dpi)
• (12.10.10) Fixed: Windows 7 theme for Vista (with patched uxtheme.dll) causes distorted headers (Name, Ext, Size etc)
• (10.10.10) Fixed: Getting floppy disk type slow on Windows 7 -> cache it, makes Alt+F1/F2 faster
• (08.10.10) Fixed: Support also checksum files named *.md5sum, *.md5sums, *.sha1sum, *.sha1sums, md5sums, sha1sums (not via ENTER, just via menu)
• (08.10.10) Fixed: Avoid duplicate names in list from "auto-refresh" when the list had already been updated
• (08.10.10) Fixed: Could not use "auto-rename target" if the target file was the same as its DOS name, e.g. testit~1.txt -> infinite loop trying to find alternate name
• (08.10.10) Fixed: Various crashes, e.g. avoid recursive calls of sorting function
• (07.10.10) Fixed: Various crashes
• (06.10.10) Fixed: User-defined hotkeys with Alt+Windows key were not working correctly
• (05.10.10) Fixed: No thousands delimiters were shown in copy progress dialog (transfer speed)
• (05.10.10) Fixed: Directory hotlist: cd ftp://user:pass@server.com/path/ didn't work if the user name or password contained an asterisk (*) character (make sure the path ends with a slash to make it work)
• (05.10.10) Fixed: Regular expressions, Unicode (e.g. in multi-rename tool): Disallow pattern ^?? because it causes a crash (replace by ^? as for ANSI regex searches)
• (01.10.10) Fixed: Drag&Drop from search->feed to listbox not working on network shares. Now it should work when all selected files are on the same share (\\server\share)
• (30.09.10) Fixed: Don't check for shield overlay icon on UNC paths because it seems to be very slow
• (30.09.10) Fixed: File lists: Cache per file icons again, so they show up immediately when they were shown before, but always reload them in the background thread
• (30.09.10) Fixed: Lister didn't support case-insensitive backwards search in UTF-8 files
• (30.09.10) Fixed: Start editing comment (Ctrl+Z) while background packing of TGZ archive active, save comment (F2) -> access violation (only occurs when 'watch directory changes' is off)
• (30.09.10) Fixed: Archive with encrypted file names (e.g. RAR): Pressed F3 on <Encrypted -> F5> text -> error message was shown, but cursor remained an hourglass
• (30.09.10) Fixed: Synchronize dirs - "compare plugins" configuration dialog: First column wasn't cut off at start of second column
• (30.09.10) Fixed: F5 - F2 background transfer manager timing problem: In some cases, the BTM could close before new files could be added to it
• (28.09.10) Fixed: Button bar: Try to find better suited icon when dropping file on bar, similar to icons in file list when using option "All"
• (28.09.10) Fixed: FTP: Viewing files containing forbidden characters (e.g. a colon ":") only worked with internal viewer, not external (Alt+F3)
• (28.09.10) Fixed: FTP: User had to re-enter server password (instead of master password) after closing TC with ftp connection on different tab, when this tab was locked with directory changes allowed
• (28.09.10) Fixed: Create CRC checksums, give name of existing directory as target file name -> Error that controls were deleted in background thread
• (28.09.10) Fixed: Windows Vista/7: Do not follow junctions (reparse points) located on network drives when the target drive differs, because the stored target is an absolute path, so the redirection would go to a local directory
• (28.09.10) Fixed: RAR packer: -sfx was passed twice to the packer when creating self-extracting archives
• (28.09.10) Fixed: Verify CRC checksums: Could not abort verification while no files were found to be checked, e.g. because the crc file was moved to a different directory
• (28.09.10) Fixed: Documentation of E_BAD_DATA and E_BAD_ARCHIVE in packer plugin help file was wrong (reversed)
• (28.09.10) Fixed: FTP master password not working when longer than 64 bytes (after converting it to UTF-8 internally)
• (28.09.10) Fixed: Show extended context menu items also in "x64" submenu on 64-bit systems when Shift is pressed while the context menu (not the x64 submenu) is opened
• (27.09.10) Fixed: Configuration - Change button bar: Icons appeared on multiple lines when using high dpi settings (e.g. 175 dpi)
• (27.09.10) Fixed: Delete directories, one of them is locked because it's the current dir in another program -> user closes program, clicks "retry" -> only that directory is deleted, but the delete operation stops
• (27.09.10) Fixed: Also ignore trailing spaces in XXE-Encoded files
• (27.09.10) Fixed: Select files (Num+"+"): Function couldn't handle selection by size properly for files > 2GB
• (26.09.10) Added: Support of new non-standard zip file used by Firefox (omni.jar), not starting with "PK" 03 04
• (26.09.10) Fixed: Win9x/ME: Position of file tips wrong when not using Win32-style tips
• (26.09.10) Fixed: Files - Split very unresponsive (e.g. to abort button) when splitting huge files (several GB)
• (26.09.10) Fixed: Renaming directory failed if the contents of a subdir were shown in the other panel, and "Watch directory changes" was used
• (26.09.10) Fixed: When using "watch directory changes" and closing Word, some temporary files didn't disappear from the list (because watching for list changes was temporarily suspended) -> do not suspend it when staying in same dir
• (26.09.10) Fixed: Synchronize dirs: "Read Error" message was shown when comparing directory with empty drive (e.g. newly formatted USB stick)
• (26.09.10) Fixed: Handle faulty ftp servers which return Unix file listing in reply to MLSD command (instead of MLSD format)
• (26.09.10) Fixed: Close help file when auto-installing to program dir or language dir, so help files can be auto-updated too
• (26.09.10) Fixed: Normal file list, cursor on file at the top of the list (e.g. via End, PageUp), delete file -> cursor on correct file, but shown at the bottom now
• (26.09.10) Fixed: File system plugin, cursor on file at the top of the list (e.g. via End, PageUp), delete file -> cursor went to [..]
• (24.09.10) Fixed: Security update to bzip2 plugin and bzip2 unpacker in tcunzlib.dll
• (24.09.10) Fixed: FTP: Store flag to preserve file dates on upload in separate ini entry (PreserveDatesUpload) from same option for downloads
• (24.09.10) Fixed: Crash on startup when starting with both separate trees and trees in normal panels -> disallow it
• (24.09.10) Fixed: Search dialog, find text: Storing of Unicode text with spaces at start or end not working
• (24.09.10) Fixed: FTP download from list, list >1024 bytes, edit list during download -> crash
• (31.08.10) Added: Start work on 64-bit conversion
• (29.08.10) Fixed: F4 Edit: Do not try to run default editor notepad.exe from current directory (if just notepad.exe is defined as default editor)
• (27.08.10) Added: Check whether Total Commander is vulnerable to DLL load problem - no, not directly, but plugins may be vulnerable -> add protection
• (14.07.10) Added: Start work on conversion to Lazarus/Free Pascal in preparation for 64-bit version
• (13.07.10) Added: Deleted all old 16 bit code (in $ifdef) in preparation for 64-bit version