Release 12.60



XYplorer 12.60 has been released on 08-Jul-2013. Here's a quick introduction to the main new features:

Zip Support. Now XYplorer can add to and extract from Zip archives. Zip related commands have been added all over the place, including interesting ones like "Drop into Zip", "Paste Into Zip", "Paste Extracted", "Paste Zipped", and "Zip Here".

In menu File | File Special you find the commands Extract Here (lets you extract an archive to the current location) and Add to Zip... (lets you add items to an existing or new archive. You are prompted for a name for the archive).
In menu Edit | Paste Special you find the commands Paste Extracted (lets you extract the Zip on the clipboard to the current folder) and Paste Zipped (lets you paste the items on the clipboard to a newly created zip file).
In the Custom Drag and Drop Context Menu you find the commands Extract Here (extracts the dragged archive here) and Zip Here (creates a Zip archive from the dragged items here).
When you right-button-drop items into a zip file a mini menu pops up with one command: Drop into Zip.
Finally, in the Custom Context Menu for List Items you find the following commands in the Zip submenu:
Zip View: The contents of the selected archive are shown in a list.
Extract Here: Extracts the selected archive here.
As a special service the command Extract Here also shows the top level folder, e.g. Extract Here (Icons\), if all contents of the archive are internally subsumed under one top level folder. This tells you that you can safely use Extract Here without making a mess of your current location.
Extract to {Folder}: {Folder} is auto-generated from the name of the archive, and auto-suffixed on collision.
Paste into this Zip: Lets you paste the items in the clipboard into the right-clicked zip file.
Add to Zip Archive...: Lets you add items to an existing or new archive. You are prompted for a name for the archive.
Add to {Zipname}: {Zipname} is auto-generated from the item owning the context menu, and auto-suffixed on collision.

The "Zip" submenu in the Custom Context Menu for List Items.

Note that Zip Support needs Zip Folders enabled in Windows (which it is by default).

Zip View. A non-modal Zip preview allowing for fast and easy consecutive browsing of Zip archives.

The contents of the selected archive are shown in a list. You get four columns: Name, [Path,] Size, Modified. The items can be live-filtered to quickly find a particular file in an archive. The dialog is non-modal, so you can leave it open and preview Zip archives by simply selecting them in the file list. The Zip View is extremely fast.

The Zip View.

Quick File View. Now the window can be non-modal so you can leave it open side by side with the main window for smooth one-click previews of any listed file.

The Quick File View is a command in menu File and can be called by Ctrl+Shift+Q. It lets you view text files as text and binary files as hexadecimal codes. Now you can open the Quick File View window and move it e.g. to the right of the main form and leave it there (the position will be remembered when you close and re-open the window). Now each file you select in the file list will be immediately displayed in the Quick File View window.

To enable this feature Configuration | Preview | Quick file view | Modeless dialog has to be ticked.

Adjustable Font Size. Now you can control the font size of all interface elements (buttons, checkboxes, labels etc).

The size can be set in Configuration | Fonts | Buttons and Labels. This option is especially useful with custom DPI settings, for example with 125%:

Buttons and Labels in a smaller size. (Click to see the full screenshot)

Buttons and Labels in a larger size. (Click to see the full screenshot)

You can control the size of this font using Ctrl+Wheel over the Status Bar. This is not only very practical but also gives you some intermediate fractional sizes that the standard font dialog does not offer.
Accessible Tooltips. Now the File Info Tips and other tooltips are displayed in the same font and font size as their parent controls, i.e. you can have them as big or as small, and ultimately as readable, as the rest of the text.

Tooltips in the same large Courier font as the rest of the main contents. (Click to see the full screenshot)

Display Hash Values. Now the most common hash values for the current file (CRC-32, MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-512) can be displayed.

The command Display Hash Values is found in menu File | File Special.

Displaying Hash Values for the selected file. (Click to see the full screenshot)

Additionally a couple of hash related scripting commands have been added: HashList, ShowHash, and FilesEqual.

Japanese. Added support for Japanese.

最後に、ファイルマネージャXYplorerは、日本語で利用可能です。

How to load the Japanese language into XYplorer:

1. Select menu Help | Download Language File... (Click to zoom)

2. Tick "Load Language after download", select Japanese and click OK. (Click to zoom)

3. Done. No restart required. (Click to zoom)