Directory Opus 13.20.1 (Beta)

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Expandable folder improvements

• Added two new options to Preferences / File Displays / Folder Expansion:

  • Expand deeper level with Alt+click on expand button: If enabled, Alt+click on a folder's expansion button repeatedly expands a deeper level of folders every time. That is, the first click expands the folder as normal, the second click expands all its sub-folders, the third click expands all their sub-folders and so on.

  • Collapse deepest level with Shift+Alt+click on expand button: If enabled, Shift+Alt+click on a folder's expansion button repeatedly collapses the deepest level of expanded folders under that item.

  • Added keywords subsequent and deepest to the Go EXPANDBRANCH command to invoke these behaviors.

  • Also added levels: keyword to Go EXPANDBRANCH which lets you expand multiple levels at once (e.g. Go EXPANDBRANCH=levels:3 would expand three levels of sub-folders automatically).

  • Split the Folder Expansion Preferences page out to two separate pages.

Unattended copy

• The error dialog for a Copy/Move operation now has an option in the Skip dropdown menu to switch into unattended mode for the remainder of the operation.

• The progress dialog's error tab now has the option to export the list of errors to a file collection, as well as as a text/csv file.

Other improvements

• JPEG-XL images now work in the viewer if Microsoft's JPEG XL Image Extension is installed.

• Added Preferences / Miscellaneous / Advanced: [Behaviour] expandable_collections option to make file collections expandable at the root level if desired (the implementation has a number of issues currently and so by default this is normally not supported).

• If the Preferences / File Displays / Mouse / Mouse wheel + Shift to navigate back and forward option is turned off, Shift+mousewheel now scrolls the file display (details/power mode) horizontally.

• Added Go TABSWITCHER=taborder command. Displays the tab switcher with tabs listed in the same order they appear in the Lister, rather than being sorted in order of last use.

• Go FOLDERCONTENT with resolvedirlinks now uses the icon defined for a folder shortcut (if applicable) rather than the generic folder icon.

• Go FOLDERCONTENT with copy/move options now works on a top-level toolbar.

• Changed how wildcard and regex path formats are tested and sorted internally. Patterns with more path separators are still tested first, but now if two patterns have the same number of separators they will be tested in alphabetical order.

• The Text viewer no longer tries to display .STL files as text, allowing text-based STL models to fall through to a shell thumbnailer instead. (If hex viewing is enabled and no suitable thumbnailer is installed, it will still display them as hex.)

• The Tags column is now included in the columns that are blurred in a secure screenshot.

• The illegal_namechar_replace advanced option can now override / and \ even if the option to allow rename into subfolders is turned on. This lets you replace one but leave the other active, if desired.

Scripting

• The StringTools.LanguageStr() script method (and similar function in the evaluator) can now return the description string of an internal icon, e.g. LanguageStr("icon:deletesecure") returns "Secure Delete" in English.

• The FSUtils.Run() method now supports an optional sixth argument to specify the encoding any captured output should be interpreted as. If not specified, UTF-8 is the default. Specify 0 for the current system codepage. You can also specify "raw" to receive the output as a Blob object and then convert it yourself using the StringTools methods.

• The FSUtils.Run() method now supports a Map as a single parameter; other parameters can be provided as values of the Map. Values you can set are "command", "showcmd", "flags", "input", "cd" and "codepage".

• Script and evaluation columns can now be flagged to be blurred for secure screenshots. For evaluation columns there's a new option in the column editor. For script columns, set the new blurrable property to true.

Fixes

• Fixed tooltip layout issue with long unbroken text in some cases.
• The filter bar/FAYT "Select first matching item" options now work properly with expanded folders.
• Fixed cursor sometimes flickering over resize bars when toolbars are moved into the Lister titlebar.
• Icon browser's category drop-down now fades empty categories.
• Fix for icon browser not updating the current icon image if you select an icon and change to another set with the same icon.
• Fix for icon browser sometimes showing the current icon's name twice.
• The Send To menu is now sorted ignoring string case.
• Changes to reduce config file diff noise. (Sort some config data that doesn't really need to be sorted.)
• In the FAYT folders mode, favorites configured via an alias now show the correct folder icon in the popup list.