List of changes (version 6.01 - 6.02)

List of changes (version 6.01 - 6.02) is a list of changes to Total Commander since version 6.01 until the release of version 6.02. The list starts at the latest change and goes back in time.

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List of changes (version 6.01 - 6.02)

(03.03.04) Release Total Commander 6.02 final

• (27.02.04) Fixed: With file panels above each other, the mouse wheel may have scrolled the wrong window
• (27.02.04) Fixed: Ctrl+Q on drive in "My Computer" turned off quick view permanently

(24.02.04) Release Total Commander 6.02 Beta 3

• (24.02.04) Added: Specially sorted totalcmd.inc for internal commands as proposed in the Total Commander forum
• (24.02.04) Fixed: Regular expressions: catch crash in regex library caused by string ^??
• (24.02.04) Fixed: Enter on LNK files to files not working with TabEnterDirChange>0
• (24.02.04) Fixed: Sync tool: No delete before copy for files on file system plugins or ftp
• (24.02.04) Fixed: Increased limit of commands in totalcmd.inc from 250 to 350
• (24.02.04) Added: Cursor right in inplace rename will put cursor directly after selection
• (24.02.04) Fixed: Inplace rename (Shift+F6) will now always select the entire directory name regardless of the RenameSelOnlyName option

(18.02.04) Release Total Commander 6.02 Beta 2

• (18.02.04) Fixed: Sync dirs, asymmetric mode: Nothing happended when files only needed to be deleted
• (18.02.04) Fixed: Prevent user from closing lister with ESC while a lister plugin is loading (can cause a crash)
• (18.02.04) Fixed: Appendtabs when tab header was hidden inserted first tab before current dir
• (18.02.04) Fixed: Files - Associate: TC was writing wrong association strings to win.ini for 32-bit apps (Win9x only)
• (18.02.04) Added: Included new unrar dll which fixes some crashes with invalid RAR files
• (18.02.04) Fixed: wrong total size shown in footer after right click
• (18.02.04) Added: Search: right click on result list item selects it and then shows its context menu
• (18.02.04) Added: wincmd.ini [configuration] RenameSelOnlyName=1 selects only name (not ext) on inplace rename
• (15.02.04) Fixed: Convert Tab header names to lowercase if this option is set for DOS 8.3 names (requires restart)
• (15.02.04) Fixed: names truncated in Feed to listbox after Search
• (13.02.04) Fixed: When clicking on a tab with an ftp connection which had timed out, TC asked to reconnect. If user clicked no, a new connection was created instead of switching to a local drive.
• (13.02.04) Fixed: More checkmark problems with menu bar with "Left"+"Right" menus instead of "Show" menu
• (13.02.04) Fixed: Multi-rename tool: RegEx not saved, neither between sessions nor using the F2 function
• (13.02.04) Fixed: Bad position of right click menu in search window
• (13.02.04) Fixed: Right click on current dir or empty space in list no longer included the "New" submenu
• (13.02.04) Fixed: Right click on F8 button caused an access violation error
• (12.02.04) Fixed: Access violation on startup with option "Show tab header also when there is only one tab"

(11.02.04) Release Total Commander 6.02 Beta 1

• (11.02.04) Fixed: Access violation when calling "Compare by content" and ESC is pressed while the window is still building up
• (11.02.04) Fixed: In tree view, the free disk space wasn't always updated on both panels
• (11.02.04) Fixed: When calculating the copy speed, don't take skipped files into account
• (10.02.04) Fixed: Problems with tabs to FTP server if user name contains an '@' sign
• (11.02.04) Fixed: 16-bit: could no longer type a dot in quick search
• (10.02.04) Added: Synchronize dirs: Delete BEFORE copying in asymmetric mode, to make space for newly copied files
• (10.02.04) Fixed: Show tip window in search result - feed to listbox if name too long
• (10.02.04) Fixed: Limit length of string in brief view to panel width, show tip window if longer
• (10.02.04) Added: Made list in associate dialog a bit higher (user request)
• (10.02.04) Added: Right click context menu in search window
• (10.02.04) Added: wincmd.ini [configuration] TabEnterDirChange= when user tries to change dir on locked tab with ENTER or Double Click, then 0: do nothing, 1=open new tab, 2=ask
• (06.02.04) Added: wincmd.ini [configuration] LockedTabChange= what to do when changing dir on locked tab: 0: new tab, 1: re-use tab with same dir, 2= re-use first unlocked tab, 3=re-use last unlocked tab
• (06.02.04) Added: wincmd.ini [configuration] ReverseHistory=1 shows last visited dir first
• (06.02.04) Fixed: Unzip access violation caused by damaged zip file
• (06.02.04) Fixed: Lister plugins: Detect string was limited to 259 characters due to a saving error.
• (06.02.04) Fixed: Lister plugins: ListNotificationReceived will now also be sent when WM_MeasureItem is received during plugin creation. The value of the first parameter will then be =0. It is not sent for WM_DrawItem or WM_Notify during creation!
• (06.02.04) Fixed: When tab title length is limited to xy chars, a title of exactly xy chars was still getting .. appended
• (28.01.04) Added: When changing dir on a locked tab and the new directory already exists as a tab, switch to that tab instead of opening a new tab
• (28.01.04) Fixed: Access violation in Ctrl+Q when trying to view file name longer than the allowed 259 characters
• (28.01.04) Fixed: SFV check: Hourglass cursor may be shown after aborting check
• (28.01.04) Fixed: When a firewall was deleted in the middle of the list, all others were no longer accessible. Solution: Show <EMPTY> instead. Don't change numbers, they are stored in connections!
• (28.01.04) Fixed: Total Commander now uses the long name when starting a program from inside an archive
• (28.01.04) Fixed: 16-bit: Inplace rename caused access violation if a file with the same name already existed
• (28.01.04) Fixed: Shift+Click wasn't always selecting files from the currently active file to the clicked file
• (28.01.04) Fixed: XP bug: ShellExecute can cause exception with invalid association in registry
• (28.01.04) Fixed: XP bug: double clicking on empty space below file list opened file under cursor (Reason: lb_getcaretindex doesnt return error in this case as on other Windows versions)
• (27.01.04) Fixed: When using a menu with separate Left/Right menu, the checkmarks for comments view weren't always correct
• (27.01.04) Added: opentabs and appendtabs now also work with the tab name in the parameters field, and support placeholders like %P%N
• (23.01.04) Fixed: Punycode (accents in domain names) wasn't working correctly
• (23.01.04) Fixed: Russian names created with Russian locale settings on FAT file system could not be copied with English locale. Now copy/move/rename/open is supported. These files can still not be viewed/edited due to a Windows bug.
• (23.01.04) Added: Multi-rename tool: First letter per word uppercase: Don't do this in the file extension
• (23.01.04) Fixed: Some Unix FTP servers rename files without checking whether the target name is already in use -> problems with multi-rename tool
• (23.01.04) Added: Synchronize dirs: Show total bytes to be compared in footer
• (23.01.04) Fixed: WM_DRAWITEM was only sent to lister plugins when the window item id was set to the window handle. This is still true for WM_MEASUREITEM, which doesn't send the window handle.
• (21.01.04) Fixed: Background transfer manager aborting when switching to a different desktop with multiple desktop software
• (20.01.04) Added: Allways open background transfer manager window in upper left corner if no other transfer manager open
• (20.01.04) Added: Made background transfer manager window resizable
• (20.01.04) Fixed: "Change Start Menu" - "Add submenu" above entry with shortcut -> "--" item has shortcut too
• (20.01.04) Fixed: Win9x: Leaving inplace rename of current path causes listbox to mishave (no cursor, double click renames)
• (20.01.04) Fixed: Access violation on Win98 in Ctrl+B if subdir had exactly a length of 259 characters
• (20.01.04) Fixed: Ctrl+Q on desktop not working
• (13.01.04) Fixed: Could not unzip files in zip archives>2GB (but smaller than 4 GB) when the file starts beyond the 2 GB limit
• (13.01.04) Fixed: Buttonbar: Don't scale icons if the extracted icon has the correct size, e.g. 32x32 icon displayed as 32x32
• (13.01.04) Fixed: cm_SrcQuickview not showing size of dir as Ctrl+Q does
• (13.01.04) Fixed: Trying to put testing of archives via external packer to background caused an access violation
• (13.01.04) Fixed: "add subbar" not working correctly in dir containing a dot in the path name
• (13.01.04) Added: Environment variable support in Mainmenu= and LanguageINI= lines of wincmd.ini
• (13.01.04) Fixed: Search for case sensitive OEM (DOS) text not working in regular expressions
• (22.12.03) Fixed: Access violation when drag of tab starts just below the tab
• (22.12.03) Fixed: Access violation when drag of tab in tabbar is canceled with ESC
• (15.12.03) Fixed: Win98 access violation on right button drag of [..] updir item (only in left button selection mode)
• (15.12.03) Fixed: Lister plugins without a detect string were not unloaded with cm_UnloadPlugins
• (15.12.03) Fixed: Unicode filenames were not sorted by name, but by their alias name
• (15.12.03) Fixed: Re-create systray icon if explorer crashed and is re-loaded by Windows (react to TaskbarCreated message)
• (15.12.03) Fixed: TC hangs when clicking on "Rename" in overwrite dialog while copying with background transfer manager - but only on WinXP
• (15.12.03) Added: Multi-rename tool: Clicking on [N#-#] when no file selected offers longest name
• (15.12.03) Fixed: Inconsistent behaviour of background transfer manager when clicking on "+" while cursor on [..]
• (15.12.03) Fixed: Set current dir to Windows dir before loading Riched20.dll so it isn't loaded from the current dir
• (15.12.03) Fixed: When deleting a dir containing junctions, the data in these junctions was also deleted (not when deleting junction directly)
• (15.12.03) Fixed: Right click on tab, rename/lock, click on lock+press cancel - the tab was still locked by mistake
• (15.12.03) Fixed: If .tab file loaded which contains only a single tab on one side, don't show tab header
• (15.12.03) Fixed: Don't show Unicode names when long names are disabled
• (15.12.03) Added: wcx_ftp.ini, [General], TcpKeepAlive=1 turns on TCP keep alive packages on the FTP control connection, so a router doesn't drop the connection during a long file transfer.
• (15.12.03) Added: wincmd.ini, [Configuration], AccessTime=1 lets TC work with the last access time instead of the last write time, e.g. for copying files last accessed during the last x days