- Fixed - Bug in the writing of the Options to the options file fix from 2.0.3.0. 2.0.3.0 would crash on a restart after opening once and saving the Options file
Version 2.0.3.0 July 25, 2009
- Fixed - Problem with Listview deselecting all it items when dragging from UE to another application
- Fixed - Problems with the MultiPath Listviews (Search/Flatten Folder) and clipboard operations
- Added - Capability to show/hide Main Menu Bar to restore right click the toolbar area and check the new Main Menu Bar item
- Fixed - Problem with Listview popup hints/Query Info not working
- Added - HotKey for Quick Filter now Toggles the Filter Bar
- Improvement - When the Quick Filter Bar is hidden the filter is cleared automatically
- Added - HotKey to Toggle Addressbar Visibility, Set Focus to it and Select the text ready for typing
- Fixed - If UE was closed when minimized it reopened minimized, now opens to a normal window
- Fixed - Save Per Folder would not work on startup and loading a fresh Tab
- Added - Option in the Listview Coloring to allow user to decide if extension coloring is used when a file is selected. Coloring can make the filename unreadable when using themes if colors not well thought out
- Added - Option to show/hide the images on the tabs, in the Tab Options Dialog
- Fixed - Default Sort Column Index did not work
- Improvement - The set column width for all views now includes custom sort order, visibility, and column width
- Fixed - Mega-crash when changing Languages
- Fixed - Layouts broken in last release
- Fixed - No response/hanging when deleting/adding a significant number of files in the Listview
- Fixed - Not selecting browsed up from folder in the listview
- Fixed - Column header titles on the root of a network folder
- Improvement - Changed Language instruction from rich text format to HTML making install 5Meg smaller
- Improvement - Added shortcuts to Move/Copy files from the Active Listview to the Inactive Listview
- Added - "Persist between sessions" added in the History options dialog to save the folder browse history of the tabs between sessions
- Fixed - Potential for crash on shutdown
- Fixed - Issue with Copy/Move from one Listview to another with no items selected in the source listview. UE would pickup any files on the clipboard and perform the operation
- Fixed - BreadCrumb Dropdowns not sorted correctly in some instances
- Fixed - ColumnsView Banding not enabled when Tab created
- Fixed - F5 refresh did not refresh the Treeview or Breadcrumb bar
- Improvement - Themes draw gradients 2x faster
- Fixed - If images used the alpha channel for transparency UE did not draw the transparency correctly
- Fixed - Memory Leak when using Dual Pane
- Improvement - Speed increase when resizing column if Color Coding was enabled
- Improvement - Significant speed increase when files are added to any view of UltraExplorer
- Improvement - Sorting of the folder is now done in the enumeration thread which keeps the user interface from being frozen as much
- Fixed - Bug in the writing of the Options to the options file
Version 2.0.2.0 July 3, 2009
- Fixed - If "Select First Item" in the listview is NOT checked the Listview will try to find and select the folder that was browsed up from. It was not scrolling this item into view
- Fixed - Changed wording of General>"Show Path in Caption" to "Show Path in Title Bar" to better reflect what it does
- Added - Listview>"Hide Icons" option
- Fixed - Search masks totally broken
- Fixed - If the Folders Window does not have the focus and no folders are selected in the Listview the Listview Root is used as the default search path when the Search Tab is opened
- Fixed - Potential to crash in ILIsEqual or ILIsParent functions
- Fixed - Issues with shortcuts with spaces (Num +, Num -, etc)
- Fixed - Issues with exiting while copying, showing property sheets etc
- Added - UE should now copy/move/delete files asyncronously in the background better
- Added - When a View Setting (View, Sort Direction, Sort Column, Grouped, etc) is changed UE now asks if you want to apply the new settings to all open Tabs, the Active Tab or New Tabs
- Fixed - Shift and Control now work with the ContextMenu commands and Delete
- Fixed - Extra commands in customizer now show text/icon correctly depending on what Toolbar they are placed on
- Added - Extra command in customizer to delete files bypassing the Recycle Bin
- Fixed - When an invalid path is entered into the Addressbar the resulting error box may end up under UE so it appears to hang. This is an issue with Windows but a workaround is implemented until the right solution is found
- Fixed - Report (Details) view did not AutoSize the Name Caption
- Fixed - The Thumbnail Stretch and Size controls did not disable when their functionality could not be used in the view
- Fixed - Color/Font Coding did not work with selected items
- Added - When adding a new Color Coding Extension the "Enable Color Coding" is automatically checked for you
- Added - A new View, Report (Detail) Thumbnail View.
- Fixed - Problem with the short cut for New Folder
- Improved - Optimized startup time a bit
- Fixed - Bug were file starting with "D" are not shown when grouping by name
- Fixed - In the rework for 2.0 I messed up some conditional defines so the listview was not enumerating in the background so it was freezing the app while enumerating a large folder
- Improvement - Major reworking of core components made huge speed increases and memory use reductions. Especially noticable in Vista and up
- Fixed - Problem with the SHSetThreadRef and context menus when using the cut/copy commands not allowing the App to close
Version 2.0.1.0 June 21, 2009
- Fixed the loader to not require the Registry Value to find UE for the Win-E hook
- Fixed problem with Win-E hook opening an Explorer window plus an UltraExplorer Window
- Fixed problem with crashing when removing Tabs
- Fixed problem with setting focus back to tabset if the only Tab was a Flatten Folder or Search Tab
- Fixed spelling of Donate...
- Fixed problem with WM_DDEUltraExplorer and the context menus.
- Removed ability to hide the main menu. It can cause all kinds of confusion getting it back
- Fixed problem with saveing/restoring Layouts with Toolbars Locked
- Fixed problem with setting focus to the Columns mode causing a crash
- Fixed problem with Launcher and *FilePathList*
- Added Slovak translation thanks to Sepp Winkler
- Fixed problem where About and Translation dialogs can go behind the main form, thank to Netex for reporting it
- Fixed some bugs with adding windows to the internal TabList (AV's)
- Fixed the auto caption size option for report, list, and small icon views
- Added ability to clear the Per Folder Storage of the listview in the Options Dialog
- Fixed problem with commands in the customization dialog not being saved in the configuration correctly
- Added ability for the dual listview Action toolbar to be customized/short cuts etc.
- Fixed issue with Layouts being forgotten if UE is shut down forcefully
- Added ability to included multiple files to a launcher parameter list, the legacy way is to add the files names to a file then pass the file the new names are FilePathListCmdLine, FilePathListShortCmdLine, FileNameListCmdLine, FileNameListShortCmdLine
- Fixed problem with the "Open in UltraExplorer" Context Menu extension when UE was not already open
- Fixed problem with Quick Filter not filtering when a refreshing listview, either F5 or if a shell notification occured
- Added the Treeview has the focus Flatten Folder and Search now use the selection in that window as the source for the new tab action
- Fixed problem with the Search and Flatten Folder Listview "jumping" back to the desktop
- Fixed problem with the Search and Flatten Folder not removing objects from the list that have been deleted
- Fixed problem with using Custom startup folders. UE now does not save all the open tabs then set them all to the same custom startup folder. It ignores all tabs and opens a single tab to the custom folder in each tabset
- Fixed problem with shortcuts. Allowed changing of Listview Select All, Copy, Cut, Paste, Delete shortcuts but they did not work and/or the standard shortcuts still executed the action causing problems. Changing these shortcuts will affect the Listview ONLY
- Fixed problem with syncronization of Listview Tab/BreadcrumbBar/Address Bar when editing a folder in the Folders Window
- Fixed incorrect hint message for SpTBXComboBoxGestureNewTab.Hint and SpTBXCheckBoxTreeviewShowToolTip.Hint
- Fixed issue with Hint not being shown on dialog boxes if Options>General>Tool Hints was on
- Added some missing Hints to some of the Viewer dialog boxes
- Traditional Chineese language updated thans to TonyYu27
- Fixed a problem with refreshing after a file change in watched folders
- Increased performance when a lot of file changes are happening in a folder UE is watching
Version 2.0.0 May 25, 2009
- Each Listview now has its own Tabset
- Faster switching between tabs
- Timer delay before filtering while typing a mask
- User definable "x" close buttons on, no tabs, active tab, all tabs
- Improved keyboard handling on the Columns View
- Columns View is now a stand alone view style for a tab this allows much better integration into UE
- Columns View now works with filters, quick filters, action buttons, etc.
- User defined options for the Listview now work with the Columns View as well
- Columns View now uses a delay time to allow faster navigation in slow folders
- Any View (Flatten Folder, Search, etc) now works as the normal Listview including
- QuickFilter,
- Filter,
- Views,
- Clipboard Operations (Copy/Cut)
- File Viewer,
- etc
- Added a "Common Listview" options tab in the Options dialog. Hopefully this will end the confusion on how to make the user's favorite view type more obvious to the user.
- Layout Manager to save and restore layouts of windows/toolbars/etc
- Numerous stability issue fixes
- User definable default column widths for the Listview
- New Listview Common Options tab to easily find common listview options
Version 1.5.0 12.20.2007
Feature: This is the first version of UE with Roberts new Theming engine. The first thing you will notice is there are not as many Themes. On the other hand this new engine will do two things:
o Allow you to create your own theme (will be available in next release)
o Reduces the size of UE by almost 500KB!
Bug Fix: Blank thumbnail problem should be fixed
Bug Fix: Win-E hook should work better when using single instance and the tray
Bug Fix: Filter bug fixed
Bug Fix: Fixed bug when opening History folder in new Tab
Bug Fix: Fixed problem with crashing during refresh (I really hope this is finally fixed)
Version 1.4.4.2
Bug Fix: Fixed AV in DoThreadCallback method
Feature: Added ability to set a fixed with for Tabs
Version 1.4.4
Bug Fix: Fixed problem with activating viewer when full row select is used
Bug Fix: Fixed drawing issue with focused column drawing. Overdrawing the first line of the header
Bug Fix: Fixed Tabs so double clicking near the buttons on the right of the tab bar do not duplicate the currently active tab as like double clicking in a blank area of the tab bar does
Bug Fix: Fixed Bug with drop down list of available tabs when selecting a tab that was not visible (scrolled off the current view). The tab would not be selected if it was not visible
Bug Fix: Finally found the cause of the "Can not focus an invisible window" error when right clicking on the main menu bar
Bug Fix: Finally found the cause of the crash when changing folders!
Bug Fix: Fixed issue with Vista and sorting by extension instead of file type (Vista bug)
Bug Fix: Fixed issue with Listview not refreshing when icons changed or file attributes changed
Bug Fix: Fixed bug with Size Sorting
Bug Fix: Fixed bug in Shell New Menu. Nothing worked if target folder was Unicode.
Bug Fix: Fixed bug in Shell New Menu if the new item used the "Command" option to launch an app to create the new file, such as Vista's "Contact File" option
Bug Fix: Fixed changed to make UE more Vista compatible. Caused task bar button to show/hide then show again.
Bug Fix: Fixed bug introduced in 1.4.3 when showing properties of files
Feature: Added ability to select multiple item and using Enter key to "open" all the selections.
Feature: Added Icon Caching so images do not flicker from unknown to the system image when refreshing in the Listview
Feature: Added Listview option for user to define how the size is shown, Default based on current system, force a Classic Explorer Style, actual file size, actual number of bytes the file consumes on the disk.
Feature: Added Win-E Hook feature to open UE when the "Windows Key and E" are pressed instead of Explorer
Feature: Added HotTracking option to Listview
Feature: Added File>Flatten Folder command to show a flat list of all files in the currently selected folder and all subfolders. Currently is a real memory hog so be careful.
Feature: Added user selectable time for File QueryInfo Hints to stay visible (up to 20 seconds)
Version 1.4.3
Bug Fix: Drag and Drop on the Shell Objects in the Favorites Window was completely broken
Bug Fix: DropStack always used Unicode shell transfers and would fail on Windows 9x
Bug Fix: Viewer window caption not displaying "Viewer" when a plugin viewer not used
Bug Fix: Addressbar Editbox's default context menu did not work
Bug Fix: If dragging a folder from the Treeview to the Listview quickly (so the listview changes it root folder in the middle of the drag) UE intermittently would throw and AV.
Bug Fix: Fixed the Listview background menu "Paste As" menu item. Did not work.
Bug Fix: Command line parameters with GUID's did not work
Bug Fix: Using the shortcut key to set the focus to the Addressbar Combobox when the Addressbar is hidden caused an exception
Bug Fix: Fixed some special cases with the auto-selection of the filename minus the extension when entering into edit mode in the listview
Bug Fix: <CTRL> - <ENTER> would place a file in a new Tab if a file was selected and cause AV's
Bug Fix: Small Icon and List views now has an option auto size the cells to show the full captions
Bug Fix: Fixed incremental search to more resemble the Explorer listview incremental search
Bug Fix: Always Sort Folders First option now works
Bug Fix: LockFonts and LockColors options for windows reversed
Bug Fix: Fixed bug Folders window would not change font color
Bug Fix: Select First Item option incorrectly selects the first item if there were previously stored selections if the folder was browsed earlier
Bug Fix: Handled an invalid filename in the Launch Designer more elegantly
Bug Fix: Fixed bug with Mouse Wheel when switching away from List View
Bug Fix: Fixed Rename bug where new name would not be displayed if edited from within the Listview
Bug Fix: Fixed a bug in a core class that would cause random memory overruns and may cause strange AVs
Bug Fix: Fixed in Details Thread that would cause an AV in GetCaption at times
Bug Fix: Fixed bug in the '/p' command line switch
Bug Fix: Fixed bug in Column count extraction. Could cause incorrect column count in details view and AV's
Bug Fix: Fixed problem with F4 not dropping the Folder Select rolldown window in the Explorer Combobox
Bug Fix: Fixed issue where Columns View columns would not refresh when file changes occurred
Bug Fix: Fixed where when using Columns View the UltraExplorer may not shut down completely when closed
Bug Fix: Fixed languages not working on the Grouping headers
Bug Fix: Fixed problems with context menus when using the Context Menu keyboard key
Bug Fix: Fixed Up One Folder in Columns View
Bug Fix: Fixed bug in "Add selected to favorites" menu item. Sometimes grayed out or would crash if active control was the Treeview.
Bug Fix: Default Grouping types "Size" and "Type" were reversed in the dropdown list causing the grouping to be Type when "Size" was selected and vice-versa
Bug Fix: Columns Mode Details not Unicode
Bug Fix: Forgot to implement IncrementalSearch on the Treeview
Bug Fix: Middle Mouse button should have opened History and Favorites in new Tab
Bug Fix: Command Line mistakenly lower cased the input string so case sensitive switches would not work
Bug Fix: Zip files did not ignore the extension when going into edit mode if the namespace extension to allow browsing into the zip was installed
Feature: Added better handing of corrupt configuration files. If an error occurs when reading the configuration file a dialog is shown telling you of the problem and a backup of the file is saved then the original file will be deleted so the user does not have to manually try to figure out and delete a corrupted file.
Feature: Added a feature to toggle between selecting between just selecting the FileName and selecting the FileName + Extension by pressing F2 when editing a file in the Listview.
Feature: If the Listview "Show File Popup Hints" is active and the filename does not fit in the cell (Listview "AutoSize for Caption is off) the Popup Hint will include the filename as the first line. If the Listview "Show File Popup Hints" is off and the filename does not fit in the cell then a ToolTip is show with the full caption of the file.
Feature: Added Speed Buttons for selecting the Listview View in the Navigation Toolbar (remember you can drag them off the toolbar or onto another toolbar with the Customization Dialog open)
Feature: Added user definable Incremental Search Delay Timeout in the General Options
Feature: Added a warning message that is shown the first time an item is dragged to the Drop Stack explaining that the Drop Stack is a reference to the files and the original files MUST exist when the references are dragged from the Drop Stack to their target destinations.
Feature: Added ability to turn off/on the Main Menu Toolbar via the right click popup menu available over every toolbar
Feature: If there are no windows to the left of the Listview the Splitter bar is not shown. Interferes with re-sizing window and takes valuable screen space
Feature: Command line switch now supports upper and lower case "p" switch. A lower case '/p' adds the command line paths to existing tabs. An upper case '/P' removes previous tabs then adds the command line tabs
Feature: When browsing up the folder tree the folder where the user browsed from is selected and scrolled to in the Listview
Feature: Added a New Folder button to the Dual Pane configuration
Feature: Now supports the popup thumbnails and flip windows in Vista
Feature:: Added ability to show a Desktop button on the Drives Toolbar
Feature: Added ability for user defined short-cut for Group
Feature: Added a View>Change Auto-Update menu item to disable/enable auto update when the shell or file structure changes
Feature:: Now an option if the Listview browses up one level when you double click the background
Version 1.4.2
Bug Fix: Fixed AV when moving a file with CTRL Drag then selecting a new file
Bug Fix: Fixed AV when using "Add All Tabs to Favorites"
Bug Fix: Fixed not hot tracking in the BreadCrumb Bar with "Lock Toolbars" enabled.
Bug Fix: Fixed bug in Tab Order
Bug Fix: Fixed bug in Listview not responding to Numeric Keys
Bug Fix: Fixed problem with BreadCrumb Bar hiding itself if double clicking on it
Bug Fix: Fixed problem with Tabs not saving history of Mapped, Removable, and Network Drives when switching away from the Tab then returning to it
Bug Fix: Fixed bug where Favorites could be added as sub-Folders of Favorites items that where not categories but actual files and folders
Bug Fix: Fixed bug in saving Tab information. Tabs would revert to last folder in the history when switching back to tab.
Feature: Changed the way CTRL-F works. Does not toggle Quick Search bar, always shows it and sets the focus to the edit ready to type
Feature:: Selectable if the History Window is unique per Tab or global across all Tabs
Feature:: Breadcrumb Toolbar now has a user definable hot key to open the current folders menu to allow 100% keyboard access, default is CTRL-B
Feature: Breadcrumb Toolbar has options to automatically open the sub menu when the mouse hovers over the button
Feature:: Breadcrumb Toolbar now has flyouts for the folders from the menu to subfolders.
Feature:: Added support for multiple paths in the command line switch. Now a switch such as UltraExplorer.exe /p "c:\;%AppData%;.." will open UltraExplorer with three tabs, one to the C drive, one to the user Application Data folder, and one in the current directory that UltraExplorer is running.
Feature:: Added Context Menu to allow opening Folder in UltraExplorer from other applications
Feature:: Added support for Environment Variables in the ComboBox
%USERPROFILE% - The current user's profile folder
%ALLUSERSPROFILE% - The All Users profile folder
%ProgramFiles% - The Program Files folder
%SystemRoot% - The system root folder
%SystemDrive% - The system drive letter
%windir% - Windows folder
%TMP% - Temporary Folder
%TEMP% - Temporary Folder
%PULBIC% - Users Public Folder
%ProgramData% - Folder for common program data
%HOMEDRIVE% - The drive the current users home folder is on (does not include "\")
%HOMEPATH% - The Home Folder for the current user (does not include the drive but includes a leading "\" so using "%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%" is the full path
%CommonProgramFiles% - Common Program Files
%AppData% - Application Data folder
Feature:: Added Right Mouse Button "Gestures". In the Options dialog select the Mouse Option tab and choose use the Right Mouse button for Gestures. The following are the defaults but it is user selectable in the Options Dialog.
Clicking and holding the mouse button then dragging up causes a browse to the next level up
Clicking and holding the mouse button then dragging left causes a browse to back one step in the browsing history
Clicking and holding the mouse button then dragging left causes a browse to forward one step in the browsing history
Feature:: Insert and Delete keys now Add and Remove items from the Favorites.
Feature:: Added an "Enter Edit Mode" menu item to the Favorites Main Menu that opens the Favorites window, places it into edit mode, and set the input focus to it
Feature:: Breadcrumb bar menus selectable if Browsable folders (such as how Zip files look like folders in Windows ME, XP and Vista) are displayed or not. In Options>Toolbars.
Version 1.4.0
Bug Fix: Fixed possible AV in Listview DragDrop operation.
Bug Fix: Fixed problem with Command Line sync across network drives
Bug Fix: Fixed bug in rendering Thumbnails that would cause an AV
Bug Fix: Fixed rendering of some alphablended thumbnails
Bug Fix: Fixed problem with applications sometimes not launching when double clicking file
Bug Fix: Fixed issue with dialogs and 120 DPI font mode.
Bug Fix: Fixed problem when renaming file in Treeview not updating other data structures and windows in application.
Bug Fix: Thumbnail Load All At Once options did not work
Bug Fix: Hilighting the path in Column Mode did not work
Bug Fix: Setting the column width in Column Mode set the physical width but the cell width did not always change to the new width.
Bug Fix: Options dialog would crash on opening or closing if other then English language was used
Bug Fix: Fixed Columns mode item width not matching the width of the column
Bug Fix: Fixed Column Modes context menu for items not working
Bug Fix: Fixed current folder browsing back to desktop if File Object type changed (hidden, folders, non folders)
Bug Fix: Fixed bug that would cause an AV randomly when dragging a file over the listview
Bug Fix: Fixed bug in Options Dialog, Show Hints check not remembered between sessions
Bug Fix: Fixed problem with context menu showing on wrong monitor if using dual monitor
Feature: Sort Favorites by Name
Feature: Launcher ShortCut assignments now saved
Feature: New "Stretch" command for Thumbnails in the Listview Action Toolbar. You will likely have to open the Customizer dialog and drag the button to a more appropriate position if you has UE installed prior to this update.
Feature: Added new Auto-play on load option to the Options>Viewer tab to allow the user to decide if multimedia files automatically play when viewed.
Feature: Added new Dual Pane Listview mode. This more closely resembles normal dual pane Explorer clones.
Feature: Added a context menu handler that can be registered to allow access to your favorites folders thought the context menu in Explorer, UltraExplorer and Open/Save As dialogs that use the Common Windows Dialog. Use Tools>Install Context Menu Handler
Feature: Thumbnail sizes save on a Per Folder basis if the Listview's Save View Per Folder option is checked.
Feature: Thumbnails now has a Hide Captions options
Feature: Thumbnails have an Aspect Ratio option to allow the user to best fit their particular size of thumbnail images
Feature: Added main menu item to link to the Wiki Help
Feature: Reworked Columns mode Details
Feature: Added a user configurable hot key to toggle focus between the two listviews.
Feature: Added option to show grid lines in Details View.
Feature: Columns Mode window color now changeable.
Feature: Columns Mode highlight banding now selectable on/off.
Feature: Columns Mode banding color user definable.
Feature: Addressbar Combobox width user definable under Tools>Options>Toolbars
Feature: Added My Documents special folder button option for the Drives Toobar
Feature: Clicking a History folder opens the folder in a new Tab
Version 1.3.6
Bug Fix: Fixed bug with OLE drag and drop from UE to the desktop in WinXP and lower
Bug Fix: Some controls in the options did not have hints
Bug Fix: Fixed bug dragging more then one OLE object to the Drop Stack from the Treeview
Bug Fix: Languages did not work on some panels in the options dialog
Bug Fix: Favorites Menu and Toolbar did not respect the setting of Favorites In New Tab option
Bug Fix: Main Window caption was not Unicode so Unicode Paths in the caption showed as ?????
Bug Fix: Fixed drawing bug with Eos Theme and the Listboxes with checkmarks.
Bug Fix: Better implementation of Locking the Toolbars. No longer shifts the Toolbars around
Bug Fix: Fixed Back/Forward/History browsing
Bug Fix: Fixed "New Window" command on Vista
Bug Fix: Fixed AV when delete filter items
Bug Fix: Fixed Toolbar positions not saved when Lock Toolbars enabled
Bug Fix: Fixed "Hilight Compressed File" option in the Treeview
Bug Fix: Fixed Columns Mode file select not always opening in Viewer
Bug Fix: Fixed Listview from quickly changing folders then back when right clicking a different folder to show the properties sheet
Bug Fix: Virtual Folders could be added as children of Physical Folders in the Favorites Window
Feature: Added option to hilight encrypted files
Feature: New translations, Chinese, Italian, and French
Feature: Double clicking in the Tab area creates a new Tab
Feature: The following variables are now available to use in the AddressBar Combobox, Command Line, and Launcher
%desktop% = Top level desktop folder
%network% = Network folder
%printer% = Printers folder
%drives% or %mycomputer% = My Computer
%sysdir% = SystemDirectory
%temp% = Temporary folder
%appdata% = User Documents folder
%favorites% = Favorites folder
%personal% = My Documents folder
%templates% = Templates folder
%history% = History folder
%desktopfolder% = Physical disk folder that contains the desktop objects
Feature: Better organization of the Toolbar Context Menus
Feature: Changed themed drawing of graphical folder size bars to be consistent across Windows versions.
Feature: Can "Add Selected To Favorites" from Folders Treeview
Feature: Completely reworked the way the components interacted with each other. Faster response when changing folders as much fewer updates between controls.
Feature: Each Tab now stores its own History and Back/Forward information
Feature: Double Clicking in the background of the Listview browses up one level
Feature: New Tab option to position it on the bottom of the Listview
Version 1.3.5
Bug Fix: Folder Size Always check not always synchronized with the menu item.
Bug Fix: Fixed AV when pressing F5
Bug Fix: A number of Toolbars did not stay in sync with the the menu items to turn them on/off
Bug Fix: Folder Size activation not defined when setting from the Options dialog
Bug Fix: Fixed a drawing anomaly in Win9x/Win2k the first time the listview size was changed
Feature: Moved the main menu Folder Size menu under the Tools menu, don't need such direct access with the speed button on the tabs bar
Feature: Added themed graphical Folder Size indicators, that scale with font size
Version 1.3.4
Bug Fix: Listview editor Font not the same as the Listview's Font
Bug Fix: Fixed AV when opening the Edit Grouping or Edit Plugin dialogs
Bug Fix: Selecting a tab that represented the Desktop did not browse to the Desktop
Bug Fix: Fixed bug in XButton to browse backward/forward
Bug Fix: Context menu "Arrange Icon By" did not work if not grouped
Bug Fix: Fixed bug in Filters window, UE would delete the filter above the selected filter
Bug Fix: Fixed occasional AV when releasing the mouse in the Folder Window
Bug Fix: Quick Filter Toolbar menu item check not staying synced with visibility of Quick Filter Toolbar
Bug Fix: Found bug in the History code. Could cause the mystery jumps back to the Desktop
Bug Fix: The Listviews where not using the same default font as the rest of the windows
Bug Fix: Favorites Font and Color options did not work
Bug Fix: Double clicking a file in Columns Mode did not launch the file
Feature: Added ability to customize hotkeys for History Back and Forward
Feature: Minimize to Tray now keeps UltraExplorer from showing on the Taskbar
Feature: Double clicking the image last column of Column View now executes the item
Feature: Always Show Header option to allow header click sorting in any view
Feature: When switching tabs the selected nodes and the position of the scrollbar is preserved so the next time the tab is selected the state of the listview is restored.
Feature: Added Option>Toolbar>Lock Toolbars to lock the toolbars after they are position where the user wants them
Feature: UltraExplorer windows dynamically resize cells based on font size
Feature: Uses built in Vista drag image system for drag images in Vista
Feature: Serious reworking of Columns Mode
Feature: Clicking the header in Columns Mode toggled the sort direction of the view
Feature: "Arrange Icons By" now works in Columns Mode
Feature: New icons by Giannakopoulos Konstantinos
Version 1.3.2
Bug Fix: Fixed issue with potential invalid GUID for listview background menu
Bug Fix: Try again.... hope the AV in the EasyEditManager MainWindowHook is fixed
Bug Fix: Fixed transparent GIF images not displaying transparent
Version 1.3.1
Bug Fix: Fixed the "Edit Grouping Criteria" dialog and adding a custom criteria
Bug Fix: Forgot to assign a hot letter to the "Launch" main menu item
Bug Fix: Fixed problem of item in listview going into edit mode when activating the window with the mouse
Bug Fix: Hope the AV in the EasyEditManager MainWindowHook is fixed
Version 1.3.0
Bug Fix: Check if object is file or folder before deciding to not select the text after the last "." (used to not select the extension of a file when entering edit mode)
Bug Fix: Fixed bug with the new command line path relative path options.
Bug Fix: Think the double click on the header to autofit the captions should be fixed
Bug Fix: Status bar "Files Selected" limited to 1G
Bug Fix: Columns Mode was not using the File Objects options when showing files
Bug Fix: When using command line parameters a debug dialog would show
Feature: Reworked the Options Dialog to not use Tabsets
Feature: Added Toolbar button and Main Menu selection to choose Folder Size Calculation type
Feature: Launcher Design now drag drop aware from Explorer and the Shell to allow dropping *.exe, *.bat, *.com, and *.lnk files to create a new launcher entry.
Feature: Listview ghosts the images if the object is hidden
Feature: Middle mouse click on Favorites Folder opens a new Tab
Version 1.2.9
Bug Fix: Fixed bug with no translation of the Launcher Edit dialog
Bug Fix: List view would hang UltraExplorer
Version 1.2.8
Bug Fix: Fixed bug in command line and syncing between two different drives
Bug Fix: Fixed bug with autoselection of just the file name in the listview when filename contained "." other then the separation between the filename and the extension
Bug Fix: Fixed bug in listview editor preventing CTL-A from selecting the entire contents of the editor
Bug Fix: Fixed AV when the Hint Window shown in the Treeview (turned off Animation per Mike Lischke it is a known issue)
Bug Fix: Fixed bug in custom overlay icons not showing (i.e. TortiousSVN)
Feature: Added a "Auto Wildcards" checkbox to the quick filter to automatically add a "*" wildcard to the beginning and end of the typed text
Feature: Added Full Row Select option for the Favorites window
Feature: Added option to open a Favorites Folder in a new Tab. Also if the Ctrl or Alt is pressed when a folder is clicked it will open in a new tab
Feature: Time delay between when treeview change and the new path being updated in the other controls, as in Explorer
Feature: The listview does not browse until the mouse is release instead of pressed in the treeview, as in Explorer
Feature: Added support for customizing hot keys for electing Next/Prev Tabs
Feature: Added support for customizable hot keys for the Path Copy toolbar actions for the Listview and Addressbar
Feature: Added support for calculating Folder Sizes
Feature: Support for relative file paths in the -p command line switch switch (".", "..", "..\SomeFolder"
Feature: Added support for context menu hint strings in the task bar
Version 1.2.7
Bug Fix: When changing Object Types to show in the views and both listviews were shown they would not reset to the correct folder
Bug Fix: Thumbnail size not saved on shutdown
Bug Fix: Thread would not shut down and application stayed in memory
Bug Fix: Random AV's in TNamespace.InternalSubItems
Bug Fix: Fixed alpha blending of folder thumbnails in Windows Vista
Bug Fix: Fixed bug in the List View and the mouse wheel not scrolling a column width
Bug Fix: Fixed bug that could cause BreadCrumbbar to not contain sibling folders when opened (more pronounced on Windows Vista)
Feature: Added option to minimize to the tray
Feature: If panel Listview is closed the fixed listview receives the focus
Feature: Programs and ShellExecutes are launched from a separate thread to keep the UltraExplorer responsive.
Version 1.2.5
Bug Fix: Launcher Toolbar did not execute application
Bug Fix: Could not re-dock the toolbar to the drop stack
Bug Fix: Only Operation that would work on the Launcher was "open"
Bug Fix: Customizations not saved for Text Options
Bug Fix: Hot-Key Customizations not working
Bug Fix: Crash in DoThreadCallback fixed.
Bug Fix: Wrong context menu shown when right clicking next to and not on the item text in the Listview.
Bug Fix: The Viewer color options where not updated in the Options dialog when changed.
Bug Fix: Complete rewrite of the Columns View to fix List Index Out of Bounds crash. Much cleaner and smoother.
Bug Fix: Fixed problem with single instance and bringing the application to the front when it was minimized to the Taskbar.
Feature: Added Alt+D shortcut to select the Addressbar
Feature: If Folder(s) dragged to the tabset and dropped on an empty space they are added to the tabset.
Feature: UltraExplorer now stays in the background if items are dragged from it during a drag drop operation
Feature: QuickFilter bar similar to FireFox. Just type CTL-F and type in the edit box. Supports DOS wildcards as well (*, ?).
Feature: Options button in Toolbar now visually "fits in"
Feature: Added CTL- + shortcut to auto fit columns in Details View
Feature: Columns View now as a "Smooth Scroll" feature. Adjust the speed in the Listview Options. Set to 0 to disable.
Feature: Columns View has alternating colors to better identify items and has images to show what items are expandable into new Columns.
Feature: To support Vista the configuration files are not stored in %AppData%\{username}\Application Data\UltraExplorer
Version 1.1.2
Bug Fix: Fixed bugs with Filters if the "Hide Extension" option is turned on in Explorer.
Bug Fix: Fixed bug in Main Menu introduced in 1.1.0 and the accelerator keys strokes.
Bug Fix: Fixed problem with Default Sort Column not taking the change until after closing browsing to a new folder.
Bug Fix: Fixed problem PerFolderStorage option. Not working correctly.
Bug Fix: FavoritesCrumbbar not Unicode enabled.
Bug Fix: Fixed problem with crashes when using the context menu button in the Tabs area or right clicking on the background of the controls.
Bug Fix: Fixed problem with last item in listview being cut off when attempting to edit it.
Bug Fix: "Always select first item" option was broken. Fixed.
Bug Fix: "Divide by 0" crash in Dream Theme fixed.
Bug Fix: Fixed problem UltraExplorer not shutting down due to a thread not ending.
Bug Fix: On shutdown UltraExplorer would give an access violation at time. Fixed.
Bug Fix: Potential crashes when pressing "Group" button.
Bug Fix: Changes in files and folders not updated in UltraExplorer in some instances
Bug Fix: Fixed problem of CPU going to 100% when shell dialog shown and other viewer being used.
Bug Fix: Fixed problem of CPU going to 100% when shell dialog shown and other viewer being used.
- Bug Fix: Fixed bug when opening a new UltraExplorer window via the "New Window" command
Feature: Current Disk Drive size and Free Space displayed in the Statusbar
Feature: You can now customize the Favorites Name for Shell Objects and not just the Favorites Sub-Folders
Feature: UltraExplorer now tracks file operations and closes the file on the Viewer so it does not give a "File in use" error when trying to delete, move, or rename a file that is being viewed.
Feature: Filters may now be set to "Filter In" or "Filter Out" on an individual basis.
Feature: Filters now support wildcard matching per DOS wildcard standards, requires Window 98/Windows 2000 and greater or Internet Explorer 4.0 installed.
Feature: Expanded the options for the Drives Bar. Can now have a few special folders on the toolbar. Also control over if the buttons should contain Glyphs, Text or Glyphs and Text. Also popup hints for the Drive Bar are controlled separately from the global hints option.
Feature: Added a "Launcher" toolbar and main menu item. Allows the user to create shortcuts to applications with operations, parameters, and window types. See the ShellExecute API for a better idea on how to use this. Also look for "Cononical Verbs" for types of operations that can be performed.
Version 1.1.0
Bug Fix: Problem auto selecting the new file when using the New item in the context menu.
Bug Fix: Drag and drop required the FileDescriptor clipboard format to work with some applications (Outlook, Lotus Notes, etc)
Bug Fix: AV if double clicking disabled items in the Grouping Edit Dialog.
Bug Fix: Per Folder View settings not saved
Feature: Added a FavoritesCrumb Bar
Feature: Added a "Copy to DropStack" context menu item on Favorites Items
Feature: The Menu is now like a regular toolbar so other toolbars may now be docked next to it on the same line.
Feature: Alt+Left = History Back and Alt+Right History Forward hot keys.
Feature: Added option to Sync the Command Line with the current Folder
Feature: Added mode to Filter to all "Filter In" or "Filter Out"
