Servant Salamander 1.6 beta 2 Changelog

Release date: May 18, 1999

Changes

  • support for Quake PAK files and Quake III PK3 files, see quakepak.txt for details
  • optional Windows Explorer look, see Options/Configuration/Appearance/Windows Explorer look, you can select to box (use Ctrl modifier to inverse selection or Shift modifier to additive selection), we recommend you to choose Windows Explorer color scheme, see Options/Configuration/Appearance/Colors
  • drag&drop: content of panels scrolls if you point near to border of panel
  • mouse wheel support in panels and internal text/hex viewer, you can scroll even if you only move mouse cursor above panel or viewer window
  • Ctrl+Up Arrow and Ctrl+Down Arrow move focus in panels only within selected files and directories, works in quick search mode too
  • Quick Search mode can be entered one of three ways - letter (default), Alt+letter (Norton Commander default), or Alt+Ctrl+letter, last two ways allow direct writing to command line, first way uses Ctrl+Tab to switch to command line
  • key Ctrl+G (key Shift+F7) opens the Change Directory dialog (DOS command "cd")
  • caret position in command line changed (to end of line) after switching to panel and back
  • icon in tray: Salamander icon is in Alt+Tab application list, please note nonstandard behavior - Salamander icon is focused on first Alt+Tab key (not next application), we don't know how to fix this problem (window is not in taskbar, should be in Alt+Tab list)
  • Statistics feature was added, see Configuration/Statistics for details
  • you can use Enter key or left mouse double click to unpack focused file from archive and execute association, you can also edit (F4) files from archive; both these ways of unpacking (to temporary directory) check file time and size before you leave archive and if file change is detected, file update in archive is offered
  • pack & unpack & minimization decrease thread priority, so your other programs should run better (system gives them more processor time)
  • archivers support is year 2000 compliant (at least for dates 1/1/1980 to 1/19/2038) other parts of Salamander are Win32 code, so they are Y2K compliant too
  • internal zip shows seconds
  • "only-one-instance is on": if first instance of Salamander doesn't respond in 5 seconds, second instance of Salamander ignores "only-one-instance is on", please don't use versions 1.6 beta 1 and 1.6 beta 2 at one time
  • you can break hung (not-responding) Salamander from another instance of Salamander see command Help/Task List, please use this feature to report such kinds of bugs (after break, Bug Report dialog is displayed and you can report state of hung Salamander)
  • internal text/hex viewer did disable horizontal scrollbar after roll from long lines to short lines (possible only in text mode with wrap off)
  • unpack can offer target path named by archive (see Configuration/Custom Archivers)
  • toolbar enablers were optimized - faster cursor reactions, etc.
  • refresh in archive placed on inaccessible network path - ESC key didn't work
  • system icons (not icons extracted from files) are displayed in archives (if system icon are on)
  • floppy disk drives - after "retry" button Salamander didn't change drive to floppy disk
  • "useless" refresh after close of internal (text/hex or IE) viewer has been removed
  • minimization has switched active panel
  • drag&drop behavior corresponds to Explorer
  • fixed crash with Internet Explorer version earlier than 4.0
  • text variable $(FullPath) is expanded to "C:\" instead of "C:" (fixes problems with editing of files in root directories)
  • installation program doesn't require shlwapi.dll
  • Drive Info dialog: graph is displayed correctly and marks are plastic (only Win9X)
  • command line uses system colors (color configuration is not possible because text selection color can't be set)
  • internal viewer and IE viewer are displayed not under other windows in Win95
  • "only-one-instance is on": minimized first instance of Salamander is restored when second instance is trying to start
  • icon in tray: left mouse button double click minimizes Salamander
  • only first start bug: somewhere you could see texts "$(Path)", "$(DOSPath)", etc.
  • maximized Salamander isn't above taskbar now
  • panel mode Detailed: header line scrolls with the rest of panel in Win9X
  • key Ctrl+N switches Automatic Column Widths on/off, if it turns off A.C.W., it tries to set column widths to show all used columns (useful when filename is long)
  • key Ctrl+H switches "hide-system-and-hidden-files on/off"
  • remove.exe clears also values in registry (save configuration to file if you want to keep these values)
  • remove.exe supports Quiet Uninstall - feature for administrators
  • directory line (panel) toolbar has reset to default buttons after dir. line on/off
  • under Win9X Alt+F6 key is used by system, so we had to add Alt+F9 for unpack
  • bottom toolbar: redraw after font change
  • sometimes Salamander could not find files in packers directory
  • hidden and system files not displayed in panel are reported by symbol in directory line (only if "hide-system-and-hidden-files is on")
  • confirmation on NTFS Compress and Uncompress (see Configuration/Confirmations)
  • "show icon in tray" + "run minimized" in shortcut -> Salamander starts minimized
  • confirmation on drag&drop operations (see Configuration/Confirmations)
  • option Separated File Extension in Detailed view in panels (extensions have their own column in listing)
  • you can save configuration into the file, see Options/Export Configuration, file config.reg placed in directory with salamand.exe is loaded to registry on Salamander start (default configuration), edit configuration files to protect chosen registry values (current user values)

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