12.26 2nd December, 2021
The following changes were part of the 12.25.1 - 12.25.4 beta
updates:
- Added support for the new Windows 11 context menu system. This makes
context menus for things like OneDrive and WinRAR show up again on Windows
11.
- Added SetAttr PIN and DEHYDRATE
arguments; for cloud files, this implements the same logic as the "Always keep
on this device" and "Free up space" context menu commands.
- Lister windows now take on the current folder's icon by default. (In a
dual-display or multi-tab window, the source active folder tab's icon will be
used.) A new option under Preferences / Display / Options
lets you switch back to the color-coded Opus logo if you
wish.
- Added metadata panel support for Composer, Conductor and
Encoded By fields on FLAC, OGG and APE audio files. Also tidied up
where the Encoded By data comes from for FLAC files.
- CreateFolder READAUTO now has left and
right parameters which are like the old dual
but always read the folder into a particular side.
- Added Properties SETLABELREMOVE argument; similar to
SETLABELTOGGLE, except it only turns the specified labels
off, it won't turn them on.
- Properties ADDLABEL, SETLABELTOGGLE (and
SETLABELREMOVE) now accept
shift/alt/ctrl arguments to
allow any of the three qualifier keys to be chosen.
- Fix/workaround for Windows 11's bug which caused the Desktop Double-Click
feature to open Listers from just a single-click if desktop icons were turned
off. If you still see an issue after installing the update, please try
rebooting, although it isn't normally needed.
- Added support for quotes around parameters given to
@ifexists, @ifrunning, and
@script. (Quotes are not required for any of them, but now
you don't have to remember that.)
- File display scrolling via the mouse wheel is now capped so it won't
scroll more than a page, even if the mouse wheel is configured to scroll more
lines than are visible. (Mainly helps with Details+Thumbnails mode
and large thumbs combined with a wheel configured to scroll a lot more lines
than usual.)
- Fixed incorrect display of multi-value ID3v2 tags written by Media
Monkey.
- Fixed situation where the standalone viewer's metadata editor still said
changes were pending after clicking Apply.
- Improved drag & drop editing of Favorites list in
Preferences. As well as fixing a couple of bugs, it is now possible to control
whether an item is dropped into or next to a Favorites branch by dragging it
to the left or right of the branch's label. (The drop indicator lets you see
what will happen before releasing the button.)
- Fixed Add To Favorites dialog getting confused by
Favorites tree branches with colons in their names, and made name filtering
consistent between that dialog and the editor in Preferences.
- Added workarounds for handling shortcut files under very long
paths.
- Find (Simple) now ignores the Type
drop-down being set to File Type Group if no group is
selected in the drop-down next to it.
- Menus listing columns from multi-column scripts are now sorted by name.
(This was incorrectly listed in the 12.21 release notes before the actual
change was made.)
- Where two paths point to the same drive via the Windows
subst command, moving files between them is now done via a
fast rename rather than a slow copy-then-delete.
- When undoing a folder creation, the deletion will do nothing if the folder
contains any files or non-empty folders. This is to avoid accidentally
deleting items created after the folder was created. ("Empty folder" here
means a folder with zero files below it and at most one child "empty" folder
which itself is either empty or has one empty child folder, and so on,
recursively. So you can still undo a multi-level folder creation, as long as
nothing extra has been created within the directories.)
- You can now use the Copy MAKESFX HERE command on archives
within collections (e.g. Find Results), where it will create the new exe in
the same folder as the archive. (Similar functionality already existed for
extracting archives in collections to their own parent folders.)
- Fixed problem with Rename command where if you used
FROM without PATTERN, and the
FROM argument contained a wildcard, it would try to use that
as the value for PATTERN even if it contained wildcard
characters that PATTERN doesn't support. Now it will only do
this if the only wildcard char used is a *.
- If Rename uses FROM as the value for
PATTERN, it now unescapes any wildcard chars that are also
valid filename chars automatically.
- Fix for rare crash in the sound player when a sample stops playing and
auto-close is on.
- Viewer plugins that return a text stream for another plugin (e.g. the text
viewer plugin) to display can now return Unicode/UTF-8 text in the stream
without a BOM.
- URL targets are now displayed for .url files with very long paths.
(Workaround for Windows limitation.)
- If you right-click an archive and choose "Extract To..." from a
dual-display Lister, the Select Destination Folder dialog that opens will now
default to the path in the other file display.
- Thumbnails generated via Windows now go one at a time, as the OS seems to
have issues with multiple simultaneous requests. (This was already being done
for Folder Thumbnails, but is now done for all thumbnails which come via the
shell. Normal image files are not affected, as Opus generates thumbnails for
those itself.)
- The Display extended sync attributes for cloud folders
option was backwards. Note this has been reset to off for everyone.
- Fix for nothing happening on drag & drop of individual pages from
PDF-XChange Editor's thumbnails view into Opus.
- Fixed bug which could cause the progress dialog to appear unnecessarily
behind the delete confirmation dialog.
- Added Windows 11 support to the WinVer script object
(win11 and win11orbetter
properties).
- Scripting FSUtil.SameDrive method has a new
s flag to test if two paths point to the same drive via drive
letters made via the Windows subst command.
- Script listviews can now use 0 as a group id.