explorerplusplus

Bug fixes

• In certain situations, the application could crash when closing a tab. See #252.
• If the main toolbar was moved below the address bar, the application would crash when selecting the address bar.
• A column present in version 1.3.5 was removed in an earlier development version. If a user ran version 1.3.5 and then updated to 1.4 beta 1, the application could crash when opening the "This PC" folder (due to the removed column no longer being valid).
• A large number of memory leaks in the XML load/save code have been fixed.
• Previously, not all columns were being saved to the XML config file properly.
• Some thumbnails weren't being retrieved correctly (e.g. PDF thumbnails).
• The set default columns dialog wasn't saving changes that were made. See #215.
• The "New Tab" jumplist item wasn't working correctly.
• Paths ending in backslashes weren't being parsed correctly when passed via the command line. See #202.
• The display window size was sometimes set incorrectly when resizing it. See #233.
• The text for a column wasn't always being retrieved correctly.
• Previously, even if another column was moved into the first position, the first column would still always have its text set to the name of each item. See #194.
• The 48x48 move to icon wasn't being displayed correctly.
• The size of the 48x48 refresh icon wasn't correct.

Misc

• Seconds are now shown again when displaying dates. See #149.
• An error message is now displayed when opening an item on the application toolbar fails. See #145.
• Due to the way in which listview items were deleted when navigating away from a folder, navigations away from large folders could be slow. This process should now be quicker. See #273.

New features

• The bookmarks system has been rewritten. The updated system has the following changes from the previous system:
  • Bookmarks are now managed in a very similar way to how they're managed in web browsers such as Chrome and Firefox. Bookmarks can be added to one of three top-level folders:
    • Bookmarks toolbar
    • Bookmarks menu
    • Other bookmarks
  • The add bookmark and manage bookmark dialogs are more functional than their equivalents in the previous version. For example, the manage bookmarks dialog allows items to be renamed directly (rather than by opening the edit bookmark dialog) and shows an appropriate context menu for bookmark folders in the treeview.
  • Bookmarks can now be copied/pasted.
  • When a bookmark is copied, the location of the bookmark is also copied as plain text. This makes it possible to paste the location into other applications.
  • Bookmarks can now be dragged and dropped between the bookmark windows.
  • Bookmarks on the bookmarks toolbar can now be arranged via drag and drop.
  • Right-clicking an item in the dropdown shown when clicking a folder on the bookmarks toolbar now shows the appropriate context menu.
  • In addition to being able to bookmark the current tab, it's also possible to bookmark all open tabs.
  • When a bookmark is displayed, the icon for the associated folder will be used (rather than a generic icon).
  • When right-clicking a bookmark folder, it's possible to open all child bookmarks in new tabs.
  • A number of issues present in the previous system are no longer relevant. For example:
    • The bookmark menu wasn't being built correctly (folders could be shown with the wrong name).
    • Selecting "Bookmark This Tab..." from the dropdown shown when clicking a folder on the bookmarks toolbar had no effect.
    • "Open" and "Open in New Tab" items would be shown when right-clicking a folder on the bookmarks toolbar, but selecting them would have no effect.
    • Neither the bookmarks toolbar nor the bookmarks menu would update when a bookmark was moved up/down.
    • The bookmarks menu wasn't updated when a bookmark was updated.
  • The bookmark description field has been removed.
• Settings are now automatically saved every 30 seconds. This helps to prevent recent tabs or other settings from being lost if the application crashes.
• The default icons used by the application have been updated. Additionally, a second set of Windows 10 style icons have been added. It's possible to switch between the two icon sets via Tools > Options > General > Icon theme.
• Added partial support for high DPI displays.
• It's now possible to reopen a recently closed tab using File > Reopen Recent Tab. The most recently closed tab can be reopened using Ctrl+Shift+T.
• The display window can now be displayed on the right. Previously, it was always displayed at the bottom.
• Support for the "Date Deleted" and "Original Location" recycle bin columns has been implemented.
• A context menu is now shown when right-clicking the empty space in the tab bar.
• When renaming a file, it's possible to move to the next item by pressing tab. Shift+tab can now be used to move to the previous item.
• Toolbar buttons are now available for the following actions:
  • Split file
  • Merge files
  • Close tab

Bug fixes

• The way in which column results and file icons/thumbnails are retrieved has been updated. This update brings a number of advantages:
  • Because of the way in which column result/icons/thumbnails were retrieved previously, it was possible for the application to crash if a navigation occurred while one of these items was being retrieved. Navigating to a different directory or closing a tab while results are being retrieved should now have no negative effects.
  • Column details are only retrieved for items that are visible (rather than all items).
  • Previously, it was possible for a user interface update to be done after a

New features

• Implemented the media protection column.

Bug fixes

• If the search dialog was closed while searching, the application would crash. Fixed.
• When clicking the 'Close' button while searching (in the search dialog), the dialog would not close until the search was finished. It could also result in a crash. Fixed.
• Fixed multithreaded bug in the search dialog.
• In certain areas (such as the search dialog), Unicode characters were not been converted to lowercase correctly. Fixed.

New features

• Added support for another drag and drop format (which is used, for example, by Outlook 2003 when copying attachments).

Bug fixes

• The 'Open in New Tab' menu item was not always been added to the folder context menu. Fixed.
• Previously, file times could not be set for a directory using the set file attributes dialog. Fixed.
• A UTF-16 LE BOM is now written when pasting text (as a file).

Misc

• Logging is now avilable. It can be enabled using the following command:

  explorer++.exe -enable_logging

  Information will then be saved to Explorer++.log, which will be created within the same directory as the executable.