List of changes (version 5.10 - 5.50)
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List of changes (version 5.10 - 5.50) is a list of changes to Total Commander since version 5.10 until the release of version 5.50. The list starts at the latest change and goes back in time.
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List of changes (version 5.10 - 5.50)
(04.11.02) Release Total Commander 5.50 Silent update 1
- (04.11.02) Fixed: File name and comment could overlap when showing extensions directly after file names
- (04.11.02) Fixed: Lister: RTF viewer printed unlimited number of pages
- (03.11.02) Fixed: Switch /O no longer working
(29.10.02) Release Total Commander 5.50 Final
- (29.10.02) Added: Conversions to new name "Total Commander" completed
- (29.10.02) Fixed: In F5-Copy dialog, allow user to uncheck "Overwrite hidden/system/read only"
- (29.10.02) Fixed: When user tries to download a file from a file system plugin to an archive, suggest the parent dir of the archive as the target
- (29.10.02) Fixed: Show error "Function not supported" when user tries to upload a file from inside a ZIP to a file system plugin
- (29.10.02) Fixed: Ctrl+Alt+Click on F5 button didn't create archive in same dir
- (29.10.02) Fixed: Drop URL from Internet Explorer on Totalcmd now creates .URL file, Shift+Drop starts download
- (23.10.02) Added: Conversions to new name "Total Commander" start
(22.10.02) Release Windows Commander 5.50 Release Candidate 1
- (22.10.02) Added: Compare by contents: Detect lines longer than 16350 chars as being different in text mode (was seen as identical)
- (22.10.02) Added: Compare by contents: Alt+Cursor left/right scrolls by 30 characters
- (22.10.02) Fixed: When moving files and a disk full error occurs, the cursor may be set on a non-existing item in the file list
- (22.10.02) Fixed: Removed '&' sign in some dialogs (e.g. Rename fs-plugin dialog)
- (22.10.02) Fixed: RAR32 and ACE32: Also allow long names with spaces as archive names
- (22.10.02) Fixed: 32-bit external packers: Set source dir to long name before calling packer
- (22.10.02) Added: Recognize html bookmarks exported by Internet Explorer (which don't have a <head> or <body> tag)
- (22.10.02) Fixed: Create CRC checksums: when using the tree button, preserve the file name
- (18.10.02) Fixed: Subdirs sometimes not deleted when using 'skip' or when a descript.ion file is present
- (18.10.02) Fixed: "Edit ini files directly" not working if ini files in windows dir
- (18.10.02) Fixed: Use own function to convert current date to string in search function, because Delphi function may make invalid conversion
- (18.10.02) Fixed: When packing from 'search'-'feed to listbox', only short names were created
- (18.10.02) Added: Search backwards in RTF
- (18.10.02) Fixed: Search no longer worked in RTF control (Lister)
(16.10.02) Release Windows Commander 5.50 Beta 4
- (15.10.02) Fixed: Hide comment if descript.ion contains empty comment
- (15.10.02) Fixed: 16 bit version couldn't open all dialogs due to low local heap
- (15.10.02) Fixed: Support Explorer-private associations also on Win2k and WinME (was already supported on XP)
- (15.10.02) Fixed: Compare by contents: Limit re-sync length to 50'000 lines to avoid endless wait
- (13.10.02) Added: Synchronize dirs: Keep cursor on current file if user switches on/off display options (e.g. equal files)
- (11.10.02) Fixed: When user enters incomplete path to archive, Wincmd converts it to full path (for plugins)
- (11.10.02) Added: Synchronize dirs: When deleting files, don't simply skip read-only files, ask the user instead
- (11.10.02) Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] olecomments=0 turns off retrieval of Explorer comments (only get comments from text description files)
- (10.10.02) Fixed: Show Network Neighborhood also when there is no net, to show file system plugins
- (10.10.02) Fixed: Files in zip containing multiple dots could still be converted to lowercase
- (10.10.02) Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] SearchInFiles=*.jar *.exe forces Wincmd to search in these additional archive types
- (10.10.02) Fixed: Couldn't create one archive per file when file name contained ' -' (was interpreted as a switch)
- (10.10.02) Fixed: Don't try to open ini files for editing if they don't exist
- (10.10.02) Fixed: Wrong title in Ctrl+D - Add current dir
(09.10.02) Release Windows Commander 5.50 Beta 3
- (09.10.02) Fixed: Search - go to file: Don't place cursor at bottom of list
- (09.10.02) Fixed: Wincmd reported a bad CRC for 0 byte files in archives which weren't actually bad
- (09.10.02) Fixed: Calculate occupied space no longer showed the unit 'k'.
- (09.10.02) Fixed: Always show comments to the lower right of the mouse cursor when the option "Win32 style comments" is checked
- (08.10.02) Fixed: cm_LeftComments and cm_RightComments internal commands didn't work
- (06.10.02) Added: Menu item to edit ini files
- (06.10.02) Fixed: Allow values in single quotes in HTML, e.g. <a href='somefile'>
- (06.10.02) Fixed: WinME: Wrong tips shown for folders (WinME returned empty string instead of NULL string)
- (06.10.02) Fixed: When switching to vertical arrangement during comments view, tabstops could get wrong
- (06.10.02) Fixed: Access violation in 16bit version when trying to use 'cd command' button in buttonbar
- (04.10.02) Fixed: 4th or 5th mouse button click on AVI window in lister hanged Wincmd
- (04.10.02) Added: File system plugin interface: Sum up dirs with Spacebar or Alt+Shift+Enter
- (04.10.02) Added: descriptions to Wincmd dir
- (04.10.02) Fixed: Comments view: no hints shown if file name truncated
- (04.10.02) Fixed: Strings " of " and " free" now contain the spaces (for languages with a dash after the 'k' or 'M' display)
- (04.10.02) Fixed: Background transfer manager had no press bar when adding selected files for download with "+" button
- (02.10.02) Fixed: Potential division by zero error in Windows CE plugin
- (02.10.02) Fixed: RTF control forgets margins when switching between wrapped and unwrapped mode
- (02.10.02) Fixed: Synchronize dirs: do not synchronize comment files (the comments will be synchronized with the files)
- (02.10.02) Fixed: Exclude comment files from multi-rename tool. To include them, you need to enable copying of these files.
- (02.10.02) Fixed: When renaming, moving, copying or deleting files, skip comment files except if it's the only selected file
- (01.10.02) Fixed: SFTP Plugin: Create new connection with F7
- (01.10.02) Fixed: Don't try to get file tip window again and again if it failed the first time and the mouse wasn't moved
- (01.10.02) Fixed: New internal command cm_VisDriveButtons didn't display volume label+disk size
- (01.10.02) Fixed: Multi-rename tool: Show '..' after shortened numbers
- (01.10.02) Fixed: SFTP Plugin: Forget password when user clicks on disconnect
- (01.10.02) Fixed: When deleting subdirs, show no error when comment file is already deleted
- (01.10.02) Added: Sync dirs: Added browse buttons >> for target dirs
- (01.10.02) Fixed: Hide tooltips when any key is pressed, until the mouse is moved again
- (01.10.02) Fixed: Only descript.ion files are created hidden, files.bbs are created normally
- (01.10.02) Fixed: Background transfer manager: Don't show "Continue with next" if no file in list and user clicks on "-"
- (01.10.02) Fixed: Shortcut definitions not shown with correct font in Starter - Change starter menu
- (30.09.02) Fixed: Two strings were missing (1520+1521)
- (30.09.02) Added: Resume upload: if SIZE command not supported, rely on size returned through FTP listing (less safe)
- (29.09.02) Fixed: Search in CAB files: F3 sometimes opened wrong file (when file was reaching in next archive of multi-volume archive)
- (29.09.02) Fixed: Try to catch bad mouse messages to drive combobox (Logitech mouse problem)
(26.09.02) Release Windows Commander 5.50 Beta 2
- (26.09.02) Added: Show free+total disk space exactly like footer (selected files): User can choose between bytes, kbytes and dynamic
- (26.09.02) Fixed: In Compare by contents, move cursor with search result
- (26.09.02) Fixed: In Compare by contents, changed search result underline color to green
- (26.09.02) Fixed: Changed default color of differences in compare by contents to red (because WinXP uses a light blue to show selected lines)
- (26.09.02) Fixed: If 2 FTP connections are open and Wincmd tries to reconnect the second, it may show the wrong path
- (26.09.02) Fixed: Couldn't unpack ZIP archive with Alt+F9 which contained the full path to the file (including drive)
- (26.09.02) Fixed: Use Ansi font for Ansi comments
- (26.09.02) Added: Set default comment type to descript.ion with ANSI charset
- (26.09.02) Added: Option to choose whether to store file comments with DOS (ASCII) or Windows (ANSI) charset. Default is ANSI.
- (26.09.02) Fixed: When deleting html files in lower dir levels with associated "filename_files" subdir, Wincmd could show error "Could not delete directory xyz"
- (26.09.02) Fixed: Sometimes there was no progressbar shown for background downloads
- (26.09.02) Fixed: Don't react to Ctrl+Z in inplace rename field or command line (it's used for undo by the edit field)
- (24.09.02) Fixed: When moving a file comment from one format to the other, the comment type wasn't always adjusted
- (24.09.02) Fixed: FTP toolbar wasn't shown after dropping ftp url to Wincmd
- (24.09.02) Added: Commands cm_CopySrcPathToClip and cm_CopyTrgPathToClip to copy current source/target path to clipboard
- (22.09.02) Fixed: Problems with RTF viewer on NT4
- (22.09.02) Fixed: When switching between horizontal and vertical arrangement, scroll item under cursor into view
- (22.09.02) Fixed: clear color cache when user presses F2, so all custom file colors are re-read (necessary for time-dependent colors, e.g. files max 1 day old)
- (22.09.02) Added: "Save position": Saves separate window width/separators in comments view mode! You can make the panel wider and choose "Save position"
- (22.09.02) Added: Comments view (Ctrl+Shift+F2): use fixed tab position for comments (even when resizing window)
- (22.09.02) Fixed: When a foreground thread finished while a background thread showed the overwrite dialog, the dialog disappeared! Solution: Don't close FG progress until BG dialog used.
- (20.09.02) Added: FTP resume upload now uses SIZE+APPE instead of REST+STOR. Reason: bugs in some ftp servers corrupted uploaded data!
- (20.09.02) Added: Delete sfv files when user aborts its creation and the file doesn't contain any checksums
- (20.09.02) Fixed: Synchronize dirs asymmetric mode: Don't delete empty dirs by default, user needs to check this option
- (20.09.02) Fixed: Alt+F3 on file when no default external lister defined -> wincmd passed DOS name to lister
- (20.09.02) Fixed: Drag a link from Mozilla to Wincmd didn't work
- (20.09.02) Fixed: When changing descript.ion file, don't show data after Ctrl+D character to the user
- (20.09.02) Fixed: When showing comments, don't show data after Ctrl+D character to the user
- (20.09.02) Fixed: Some dirs appear in uppercase in the tree
- (17.09.02) Fixed: No comment was shown if the file name was in double quotes but didn't contain any space
- (17.09.02) Added: Internal commands to Show/hide various user elements (cm_visButtonbar etc.)
- (17.09.02) Added: FTP-Connect via Ctrl+D now also works with target dir
- (17.09.02) Fixed: Expandable tree didn't initially show special icons, e.g. for recycle bin
- (17.09.02) Fixed: Drag&Drop was not working with file system plugins
- (17.09.02) Fixed: Buttons slow while browsing with file system plugin
- (17.09.02) Fixed: Stored 2 different paths to same ftp server in Ctrl+D, open both in left+right window sets wrong path in first
- (17.09.02) Fixed: Branch view, Mark newer, hide same files could show too many files and crash
- (17.09.02) Fixed: Crash when disconnecting from ftp while focus is in history list window
- (17.09.02) Added: Checkbox to also save the target dir in Ctrl+D menu
- (17.09.02) Fixed: Don't allow the user to enter a dash "-" as the first char when changing user menu title (it's used for submenus)
- (17.09.02) Fixed: Create description files as hidden files
- (17.09.02) Fixed: Multi-rename tool: don't store <Clear> as replacement text
- (17.09.02) Added: Always enclose Multi-Rename settings in double quotes to preserve spaces
- (17.09.02) Added: Comment-change dialog: Let user choose between Windows and DOS font (comments are always STORED in DOS font)
- (17.09.02) Added: Comment-change dialog: Also support Ctrl+Enter to save comment
- (17.09.02) Fixed: Changed maximum allowed comment length for descript.ion lines to 511
- (17.09.02) Added: RTF viewer: Set left margin of 8 pixels
- (17.09.02) Fixed: Show->Comments not working in English version
- (17.09.02) Fixed: Crash on CRC check of packer plugin
- (17.09.02) Fixed: File system plugins couldn't be loaded on Win9x/ME
(16.09.02) Release Windows Commander 5.11 Final (just the bugfixes)
- (14.09.02) Fixed: Copying to device with trailing colon (e.g. prn:) was no longer possible
- (14.09.02) Fixed: Delete comment file if it contains no more comments (size=0)
- (14.09.02) Fixed: Don't modify comment file when deleting a file and no comment exists for this file
- (13.09.02) Fixed: Store last cursor positions for selection separately per file pane
- (12.09.02) Fixed: Searching on multiple drives was not working if space after ";", e.g. c:\; d:\; e:\
- (12.09.02) Fixed: Packing with ARJ no longer packed recursively (folders in subfolders were not packed)
- (12.09.02) Fixed: Files in subdirs may be copied in reverse order
- (12.09.02) Fixed: Don't show file tip while right click context menu is open
- (12.09.02) Fixed: Lister was sometimes not switching to next RTF file with 'n' key
(11.09.02) Release Windows Commander 5.50 Beta 1
- (11.09.02) Added: HTML viewer: Use id="name" as jump target, this may be present in any supported tag, e.g. <p id="name"> instead of the usual <a name="name">
- (11.09.02) Fixed: Also refresh other panel when changing attributes in subdirs and the other panel shows a subdir of the active panel
- (11.09.02) Fixed: FTP upload in background: Also cause a refresh if the transfer was aborted (to show partial file)
- (11.09.02) Added: CRC creation and branch view: Don't try to create SFV files in subdirs if user gives different target dir
- (10.09.02) Added: Make CRC creation work correctly with Branch View (Ctrl+B): A single SFV file contains relative paths to subdirs; individual SFV files are created in the subdirs
- (10.09.02) Fixed: Lister: When copying ASCII text, don't set cf_locale clipboard format any more (can cause problems)
- (10.09.02) Added: Search function: Ctrl+C or Ctrl+Insert in result list copies whole list to clipboard
- (10.09.02) Added: CRC check function: Copy selected lines in listbox to clipboard with Ctrl+C or Ctrl+Insert
- (08.09.02) Added: Call external WinRAR for unpacking when RAR with encryped headers is detected
- (08.09.02) Added: Change attributes on FTP: Allow user to enter Unix mode numerically
- (08.09.02) Fixed: Press Tab, then Shift+Click to select files -> Selection started at the wrong item
- (08.09.02) Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] iconsspecialfolders= allows to enable/disable display of special folder icons (0=none, 1=local, 2=in nethood, 3=both)
- (08.09.02) Fixed: Search function couldn't find file names in double quotes "" except if they contained a space!
- (08.09.02) Added: Wincmd can now look into Winzip-stype 'split-zip' files. Naming convention: file.z01, file.z02, ... last part: file.zip (!)
- (08.09.02) Fixed: FTP upload resume: No longer ignore last 10 k (Reason: Some faulty FTP servers ignore the number passed in the REST command and always restart at the end!)
- (08.09.02) Fixed: Changed some buttons in English and German: RenMov -> Move, MkDir->NewFolder
- (05.09.02) Fixed: WinXP: Some associations stopped working
- (03.09.02) Added: Flag PK_CAPS_HIDE for packer plugins, associated files will not show up with packer icon and need to be opened with Ctrl+PgDn
- (03.09.02) Fixed: HTML viewer: convert special characters also in links, e.g. & -> "&"
- (03.09.02) Fixed: Calculate new total of all selected subdirs when copying/moving with F5/F6
- (03.09.02) Added: Show custom icons for file system plugins (just use first icon found inside the plugin)
- (01.09.02) Added: Option to keep unpacked files (from zip) even if the CRC checksum is wrong
- (01.09.02) Added: Option to open partial zip files, allows to look inside a ZIP during the download!
- (31.08.02) Fixed: Plugin interface: No auto-refresh after chmod
- (31.08.02) Fixed: Make links work with file system plugins