Miscellaneous Changes
- Updated default toolbars
The default toolbars have
been updated in Opus 11 to improve their usability. Several more
powerful functions that were previously hidden in menus have been brought
to the top level. When installing Opus 11 over the top of Opus 10 you should
get the new toolbars by default, but you can also reset to the default set at
any time using the Settings / Toolbars / Factory Reset
Toolbars
command.
On the default
Menu toolbar, buttons have been added to the right of the
View menu to switch quickly between the Details (), Details
+ Thumbnails () and Thumbnails ()
display modes. To the right of the Folder menu, new buttons
provide quick access to Flat View () and Navigation Lock
().
The buttons to the right of the Lister menu provide one-click
access to dual-display horizontal () and dual-display vertical () modes, and to open
or close the metadata pane () and the viewer pane ().
The default Location toolbar
from Opus 10 has been removed, and replaced by the File Display
toolbar, which is shown in the title of each file
display.
The buttons on this toolbar
are Back (), Forward
(),
Up () and Favorites ().
The Back, Forward and Up buttons all have
associated drop-down menus that you can access by click-and-hold or
right-click. The breadcrumbs path field is then followed by the
Compatibility Files button () which will only be
visible when you are in a location that has compatibility files. Note that the
buttons to the right of this are not part of the toolbar, but are part of
the File Display Border itself and can be configured on the
Preferences / File Displays / Border page.
When
you switch the file display to Thumbnails mode the
Images toolbar will be automatically
displayed.
This provides access to several
commonly used image-related functions.
- WAV file visualization plugin
Opus 11 ships with a
new plugin that can render the waveform for WAV sound files, both for
thumbnails and (optionally) in the viewer pane as
well.
You can configure the colors used and
enable or disable the plugin's use in the viewer pane by editing the
configuration for the WAV Plugin in Preferences / Viewer / Viewer
Plugins. Currently only PCM-format WAV files are supported by the
plugin.
- Line numbers shown in script editor
The text
editor Opus uses to configure buttons and scripts now has an option to display
line
numbers.
You can turn on the
display of line numbers from the Edit menu above the text field.
Particularly with scripts, this can make it much easier to locate the lines
where errors have occurred.
- Support for RAR 5.0 archives
The 7zip archive
plugin now supports the new RAR 5.0 archives.
- The Replace File dialog makes it easier to identify the largest
and newest of the two
files
The "clock" icon () indicates which of the two files is
the most recently modified (the newer) and the "size" icon () indicates which of the two files is
the larger.
- Better handling of inline rename failures
In Opus
10, if an inline rename (e.g. one initiated by pressing F2 in the file
display) failed and you clicked Retry in the error dialog, the full
Rename dialog would be shown. In Opus 11, clicking Retry
reactivates inline rename mode letting you continue editing the name
inline.
- Option to replace existing file when renaming
If a
Rename operation fails because the new name already exists, there is now the
option to replace the existing
file.
The two replace options are keep
existing file (the existing file is renamed automatically with a numeric
suffix) and delete existing file (the existing file is deleted to the
recycle bin).
- Improved Create Folder dialog when creating multiple
folders
When the Create Folder dialog is set to
Create multiple folders mode, it now uses a multi-line text
field to make it easier to enter multiple folder names
(previously, in this mode you could not create folder names containing
commas). In this mode, press Shift+Return, or the
Return key twice, to OK the
dialog.
- Better handling of daylight savings times in Windows 7 and
above
In Windows 7 and later, file times are now correctly
converted for daylight savings time (summer time) based on the rules in force
for the date of the file rather than the current date. This is to match the
behavior of Explorer.
- Additional custom Lister title
codes
The Set LISTERTITLE command has
new codes to get the left/right paths (as opposed to source/destination
paths):
%1 - left
path
%2 - right
path
%3 - left folder
name
%4 - right folder name