Next release date: Early January 2009

Upcoming features and fixes:

• The next build of Explorer++ will be Unicode.
• Portability - Explorer++ will soon be able to save its settings to an XML configuration file, rather than the registry.
• Bookmarks will be able to be grouped into separate folders. A bookmarks toolbar will also give quick access to the most frequently used bookmarks.
• Thumbnails will be gathered independently of the main thread and loaded on demand. Several memory leaks associated with thumbnails view have also been fixed.
• Support for icon overlays, such as those used by TortoiseSVN.
• Folder sizes will be shown in details view (rather than just the display window).
• Better thread synchronization.

Below is a list of bugs in the current version of Explorer++:

• No help file yet (it is in the process of been written).
• 'Show Drive Information' may show incorrect information for some partitions.
• Not all extended sort modes have been implemented yet (such as sorting by printer status in the Printers folder).
• Show in groups does not work for all sort modes. For sort modes in which the 'Show In Groups' option has not yet been implemented, the folder will appear blank when the 'Show In Groups' option is selected.
• Search button on the main toolbar does not work yet.
• Drives in the treeview are ordered by drive name, instead of drive letter (this has been fixed, and will appear in the next update).

Development History
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Version Alpha 2
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26/9/08:
New features:
 - The language to use can now be selected in the 'Options' dialog, in the 'Language' tab. The language Explorer++ uses is based on the following (in order of importance):
   1. Any language specified on the command line.
   2. Any language saved from a previous session (using the above method).
   3. The system default language.
 - Files can now be dragged and dropped onto the treeview control.
 - 'Copy File Paths' can now be used on items in the treeview.
 - 'Cut' and 'Copy' can now be used to copy and move items from the treeview.
 - The 'Back' and 'Forward' buttons on the main toolbar now show what folder is back/forward in their infotip.
 - 'Show In Groups' now works when sorting by title.
 - 'Show In Groups' now works when sorting by subject.
 - 'Show In Groups' now works when sorting by author.
 - 'Show In Groups' now works when sorting by keywords.

Bug fixes:
 - Fixed bug that would cause directory monitoring to stop working under certain circumstances.
 - Fixed listview drag and drop bug.
 - Fixed bug that arose when sorting items by comment.
 - Fixed 'Merge Files' cancel bug.
 - Fixed 'Split File' cancel bug.
 - Fixed small 'Show In Groups' bug.
 - Fixed toolbar show/hide bug.

Misc:
 - A small delay has now been added to the treeview, meaning that when a different folder is selected, it is not browsed to immediately.

2/9/08:
New features:
 - 'Show In Groups' now works when sorting by attributes.
 - 'Show In Groups' now works when sorting by file owner.
 - 'Show In Groups' now works when sorting by file creation date.
 - 'Show In Groups' now works when sorting by date of last access.
 - 'Show In Groups' now works when sorting by short name.
 - 'Show In Groups' now works when sorting by product name.
 - 'Show In Groups' now works when sorting by company name.
 - 'Show In Groups' now works when sorting by file description.
 - 'Show In Groups' now works when sorting by file version.
 - 'Show In Groups' now works when sorting by product version.

Bug fixes:
 - When closing a tab, directory monitoring would sometimes be stopped for a different tab. Fixed.
 - Fixed toolbar bug that would sometimes cause the program to crash on exit.
 - When the column representing the current sort mode is deselected, the sort mode is automatically changed to the first available one.

Bug fixes:
 - Fixed 'Remove' button within the 'Destroy Files' dialog.
 - Fixed 'Remove' button within the 'Merge Files' dialog.
 - Fixed bug when moving columns up/down in column selection dialog.
 - Fixed several other small bugs within column selection dialog.
 - The 'Auto Arrange', 'Show In Groups' and 'Sort Ascending' default options are now saved and loaded.

Bug fixes:
 - Fixed 'Go' button bug.
 - The paste button on the main toolbar is now enabled automatically when there are files on the clipboard, and disabled automatically when there are none.

13/7/08
New features:
 - Added 'Autosize Columns' to the 'View' menu, which will resize listview columns to fit in the text of all items.
 - Files can now be dragged and dropped between tabs.
 - Added a main toolbar context menu.
 - The main menus as well as the main toolbar context menu are now owner drawn. Various items on the main menus now have pictures shown along side the menu text.
 - More main toolbar buttons added.

Bug fixes:
 - Improvements made to drag and drop handling.

Bug fixes:
 - Fixed 'Refresh Tab' on tab right click menu so that it refreshes the specified tab instead of the one that currently has focus.
 - Thumbnail images are now shown in the correct position when items are sorted in groups.
 - Small bug fixed relating to showing items in groups when sorting by name.
 - Menu help now shows for items on the context menu for individual tabs.

Bug fixes:
 - Bookmarks can now be rearranged and have their properties (name, location, description) changed.
 - Tabs now update when relevant settings in the 'Tools|Options' dialog have been applied.
 - Fixed treeview sorting bug.
 - Folders created are now inserted into their correct position in the treeview automatically.
 - Some improvements made to 'Tools|Show Drive Information'.

Misc:
 - New tabs can be opened with middle click even if the listview window does not have focus.

 Bug fixes:
 - Fixed tab swapping bug.
 - Fixed column sorting bug.
 - Fixed file size bug that arose when files in a directory were deleted then created.

29/6/08
New features:
 - Virtual folders can now be opened from the command line simply by suppyling their name:
   e.g. explorer++.exe "control panel"
   will open the Control Panel.

Bug fixes:
 - Improvements made to sorting by column.
 - Fixed bug relating to directories opened via the command line.
 - Fixed bug relating to columns not showing up for the printers folder.
 - Folder specific columns added for the 'My Network Places' folder.
 - Additional virtual folders (Recycle Bin, Printers, Network Connections and My Network Places) now have their active columns saved and loaded.
 - Fixed bug where program would sometimes stop responding after the columns for a folder had been changed.

Misc:
 - 'My Network Places' on the 'Go' menu has been changed to read 'Network' on Windows Vista.
 - The items shown on the 'Sort By' menu for a particular tab now depend on the columns that are active for that tab.
 - Menu help messages added for items on the 'Sort By' menu.

Version Alpha 1
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26/6/08
New features:
 - The display window font can now be changed (via 'View|Change Display Colours').
 - 'Open in New Tab' added to right click menu for treeview items.

Bug fixes:
 - Fixed combobox keyboard input bug.
 - Image previews in the display window now adjust their width (to maintain the correct aspect ratio) as the display window is vertically resized.

25/6/08
New features:
 - Additional settings added to default options dialog (auto arrange, show in groups and sort ascending).
 - The program can now be launched from the command line with a set of directory arguments:
   explorer++.exe dir1 dir2 ... dirN
   where dir1 to dirN are the directories to open. Each directory will be opened in its own tab.

Bug fixes:
 - Newline characters which are embedded in comments for an item in details view have been replaced with a space.
 - Virtual folders now have their friendly name shown in the title bar when the program is configured to show full directory paths.
 - Fixed drag selection bug.

Misc:
 - The display window can no longer be resized to zero height.

16/6/08
Bug fixes:
 - Minor internal bugs fixed.

10/6/08
Bug fixes:
 - Greater amount of internal error checking added.

Misc:
 - New tabs opened with the middle mouse button are no longer switched to automatically.

8/6/08
New features:
 - Tabs can now be closed with the middle mouse click button.
 - Folders can now be opened in a new tab by clicking on them with the middle mouse button.

Bug fixes:
 - Fixed slight bug with tab selection when a tab is closed.
 - Sometimes when a folder was created, it would be inserted into the treeview twice. Fixed.
 - Fixed slight problem involved with swapping tabs.

Misc:
 - Changed main window title from 'Explorer++ - Current directory' to 'Current directory - Explorer++'.
 - Display window can now be vertically resized.

6/6/08
Bug fixes:
 - Greater amount of error checking added to treeview control.
 - Minor treeview collapse selection bug fixed.
 - Bug associated with setting column data in details view fixed.
 - In options dialog, in the default settings tab, setting the details radio button had no effect on the state of the apply button. Fixed.
 - Fixed small bug where program could crash as a tab is closed (would only happen under very specific circumstances).

5/6/08
Bug fixes:
 - Display window now redraws its gradient background as the main window is resized.
 - For items in the my computer folder which have no comment, no comment text is shown in details view (previously a random series of characters was shown for an item with no comment).

4/6/08
Bug fixes:
 - Fixed treeview updating bug relating to folder renaming.
 - Minor sorting bug fixed.
 - Fixed bug relating to the collapse state of treeview items when a folder is deleted.
 - Slight alteration made so that the copying files dialog is now shown during a paste files operation.
 - Changed copy and cut on context menu so that they are handled internally, rather than by the shell.

3/6/08
New features:
 - Added 'Open in New Tab' to right click menu for folders.

Bug fixes:
 - Fixed bug where delete file permanently on File menu was only sending files to recycle bin.
 - Preview images were only been shown for images with a lower case extension. Fixed to be case insensitive.
 - Fixed thread synchronization bug, which would sometimes cause the program to hang.

2/6/08
Bug fixes:
 - Fixed small bug relating to directory monitoring/updating.
 - Fixed problem with options not been applied in 'Tools' > 'Options' general tab.
 - Slight modification made to 'Tools' > 'Show drive information' meaning it may no longer crash. Information shown may be incorrect though.

1/6/2008
* INITIAL RELEASE *