16 July 2020

Directory Opus 12.21.2 (Beta)

Directory Opus 12.21.2 (beta) is now available for all Opus 12 users.

This is a preliminary, beta release. Translations may not be fully up-to-date and some English text may appear in non-English versions.

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Changes since 12.21.1:

  • Added Copy WHENEXISTS=recycle option (can be combined with others, e.g. WHENEXISTS=replace,recycle). Replaced files will be deleted to the recycle bin if possible. Note that Undo can not be used to restore these files automatically, however you will be able to retrieve them from the recycle bin manually.
     
  • Fixed crash that could occur in a Go FOLDERCONTENT-generated menu if you opened several nested submenus and then right-clicked on one to show the context menu.
     
  • The Sort By and Group By menus now list columns in the same order as the file display, instead of alphabetically.
     
  • Go FOLDERCONTENT now treats shortcuts to folders like folders. (Unless noparselinks is specified.)
     
  • Localized folder names are supported again for profile folders (etc.) which have been moved to other drives.
     
  • Added workaround for Windows issue where VLC's file type context menus do not work if VLC is not the default video player.
     
  • Text pasted into the User Command name field is now processed the same as text typed into the field.
     
  • When the folder tab bar is on the left or right, it can now be resized using the Set TABWIDTH command (in addition to dragging and double-clicking the splitter, as before). e.g. Set TABWIDTH=auto,both or Set TABWIDTH=widest can be used to make both tab bars the same width in a dual-display window. See docs for full details.
     
  • A dynamic list of user-defined aliases can now be added to a toolbar or menu using Favorites ALIAS=list. You can also specify ALIAS=list,all (all aliases) and ALIAS=list,builtin (built-in aliases only).
     
  • The MTP "Can Delete" flag is now mapped to the Read-Only attribute when copying files from MTP devices (assuming Opus is configured to preserve attributes).
     
  • Fix for unnecessary errors in the script log when scripts which use Shell Properties (File Explorer columns) ask about files within archives and other things which the shell doesn't understand.
     
  • Improved performance when using script columns in folders with a very large number of items.
     
  • Fixed script columns not always auto-resizing for the last data which came back from the script.
     
  • Commands like Clipboard PASTE AS C:\test now work when the current folder is a plugin archive which doesn't support pasting text/image data.

4 July 2020

Directory Opus 12.21.1 (Beta)

Directory Opus 12.21.1 (beta) is now available for all Opus 12 users.

This is a preliminary, beta release. Translations may not be fully up-to-date and some English text may appear in non-English versions.

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Changes since 12.21:

  • Fixed icons in some dialogs getting clipped slightly at 125% DPI scaling.
     
  • Made it easier to edit a new, empty toolbar docked to the side of the screen. Previously, only a narrow strip of the visible space responded to right-clicks and drag & drops until the first button was added; now the whole toolbar does.
     
  • Simple request dialogs now use minimal widths for multi-line messages.
     
  • Added mitigation for something external to Opus setting ACDSee32.exe as the double-click event for images, even on machines which do not have ACDSee installed.
     
  • Folders prevented from auto-loading by Preferences flags now do a proper evaluation of their folder format once they are loaded.
     
  • The script Dlg.RunDlg method will now show the dialog if it has not been shown already.
     
  • Fixed rare issue decoding certain JPEGs.
     
  • The Folder Format group Collapse checkbox is now ignored when a file display is in List or Tiles (Vertical Layout) modes, since they do not support collapsed groups. Similarly, if you go to Preferences and turn on Tiles / Vertical Layout, all groups in Tiles mode file displays will be expanded automatically.
     
  • Fixed List mode scrollbar appearing before it was really required if the file display was grouped.
     
  • If the preview pane falls back on a shell thumbnail, it will now request one the size of the screen instead of something 256x256. This makes the Microsoft Raw Extension usable as a viewer within the Opus preview pane. Also fixed an issue where some file types loaded via shell thumbnails would be rotated incorrectly.
     
  • Exporting a User Command now works even if it has illegal path characters in its name. Those characters are now also filtered out when editing user command names, since they could cause other problems.
     
  • Adobe Illustrator .AI files are new always opened via temporary copies, like .PDF files before them, due to a lot of PDF/AI viewers ignoring the Preview Handler specifications about not locking the files they view.
     
  • Fix for modes other than Details/Power, where shift + cursor did not select the expected range if you had just changed the selection via certain commands.
     
  • The "close" event for the Tab.WatchTab script notification system wasn't being sent.
     
  • Fix for slow scrolling in folders with a large number of files when labels using filters were active.
     
  • Menus listing columns from multi-column scripts are now sorted by name.
     
  • file:// URLs pasted into the path field are now converted to normal paths. (Note: Typing them by hand, rather than pasting, doesn't work, but we can't think of any reason you'd ever do that.)