FileVoyager 26.4.26 + Portable

+ New: Browse and Viewer: Added OpenWith tool, offering a visual shortcut to programs associated with the current file.
+ New: Diff: Save the position of toolbars.
+ New: Viewer (MM): Default album art is now shown when a file has no cover image.
+ New: Viewer (Embedded): Added a button to detach the embedded viewer and open it in an external viewer.
+ New: Viewer: When a term search reaches the end and wraps around, the title bar now blinks to notify the user.
+ New: Viewer (MM): Simple audio playback is now also available in fullscreen mode.
+ New: Viewer: File icons are now shown in the playlist pane.
+ New: Browse (Crumbar): Each Crumbar component is now autonomous: it supports its own context menu and drag-and-drop actions.
+ New: Browse (Search): Introduced a lightweight "Search Lite" tool with essential search capabilities. An "Advanced" button opens the full search interface.
+ New: Browse (Search): Added "Open parent folder in FV" to the context menu of search results.
+ New: Hash: Added support for SHA-3 (256, 384, 512-bit) hash algorithms.
~ Chg: Viewer (MM): Sleep mode is now prevented during playback, even when not in fullscreen.
~ Chg: Navigation: Added the ability to open the File menu using a right-click.
~ Chg: Viewer (Playlist): Playlist pane width is now saved to the .ini file.
~ Chg: Browse (Search): Improved compactness of subfolder depth selection controls.
~ Chg: Browse (Search): Search result context menus now use a custom menu instead of the Windows Shell menu.
~ Chg: Browse: Improved support for long paths (over 260 characters). Note: support is best-effort due to Windows API limitations.
- Fix: Browse: Fixed TAB key behavior to correctly switch focus between the two file lists.
- Fix: Viewer (BeatDrop): On some systems, BeatDrop triggered a startup error and its window couldn’t be closed. This is now fixed: in case of failure, the Viewer will fall back to displaying album covers.
- Fix: Viewer: Switching the application theme could unexpectedly change the display mode.
- Fix: Viewer: When performing a search in syntax-highlighted code, the highlighting was lost. This is now resolved.
- Fix: Viewer (Embedded): When reopened after being closed, the embedded viewer would no longer load the file. This is fixed.
- Fix: Viewer: Corrected the visibility of "embedded" icons (exit and detach) depending on whether the Viewer is standalone or embedded.
- Fix: Global: Some components lost the Dark theme after resuming from Windows hibernation.
- Fix: Browse: The "Share" option in the context menu (outside of OneDrive) was not working. Now fixed.
- Fix: Browse (Search): Fixed a crash that occurred when a search ended while the search panel was not visible.
- Fix: Hash: Fixed a bug where a completed hash thread could not be restarted. The thread is now properly recreated.

+ New: Global: Added Danish Translation (Machine translated).
+ New: Viewer: SumatraPDF - added support of Sumatra's Dark Theme
+ New: Viewer: SumatraPDF - added support of Sumatra's Translations
+ New: Diff: Dir Comparison - added a toggle to ignore/consider file content in the progress windows
+ New: Diff: File Comparison - added the detection of a file change and prompts the user to reload in case of change
~ Chg: Global: The RSS fetch is not in a separate thread, not blocking the UI anymore
~ Chg: Diff: Some UI changes
~ Chg: Viewer: Multimedia - Some UI changes
~ Chg: Global: Optimized the theming/skinning mechanism to consume less resources when theme is applied
~ Chg: Viewer: Playlists - now m3u8 playlists are created/saved without UTF BOM, as the BOM in not foreseen/supported by the standard
~ Chg: Viewer: Playlists - the playlist panel now supports Drag & Drop of files
~ Chg: Preferences - The window now supports resizing (Forums:make-prefs-panel-resizeable-or-small-with-scrollbar)
- Fix: Diff: File Comparison - fixed a misalignement between text and diffs drawing
- Fix: Diff: File Comparison - fixed a display issue where lines were elipsed and not fully visible
- Fix: Diff: File Comparison - Solved a crash that use to occur when closing a comparison window
- Fix: File Operations: Fixed an issue where Elevated operations were not supporting non-latin file names
- Fix: File Operations: Fixed a display issue in the progress window with right-to-left texts
- Fix: Multiple tools were not supporting Unicode when saving files (Hash, Playlist, Diff file, Diff folder)
- Fix: Search: Columns were misaligned

+ New: Native support of AutoCAD DWG previews in thumbnails and viewer. It's not a full support of the DWG format, FV extracts the embedded preview thumbnail in the file if any
+ New: When opening a supported Playlist file, the file was used to open tracks and it was not possible to view the source of the file. Now selecting another view mode than MM, eg Text, will display the content of the file
+ New: It's now possible to pause/resume a multimedia file by clicking the visualisation window
+ New: Added support of syntax highlighting for: Silktest, Meson, HQL & PIG, Hollywood
~ Chg: Updated Scintilla API calls to the latest version
~ Chg: Updated VLC API calls to the latest version
~ Chg: Updated 7-Zip to version 23.1 from 9.20 (cfr to 7-zip history for changes)
~ Chg: Significant improvement in File Comparison performances
- Fix: Fixed the crashes of the Viewer when opening an SVG file (Forum:access-violation-for-svg-preview/)
- Fix: Fixed an annoying behaviour that caused the file/folder list to jump in a certain scenario
- Fix: The hidden and system files icons were not "ghosted" in Thumbnail and Large report views
- Fix: Solved an issue where the File Comparison was empty
- Fix: Support of EPS file format is reintroduced after having been removed in previous version of FV due to potential crashes that have been fixed since then
- Fix: In strict Windows setups like those in enterprises, the Viewer sometimes didn't launch due to AppLocker blocking ExifTool in the Temp folder. Now, the Viewer detects and resolves this issue. However, accessing metadata from ExifTool is not be possible in these cases.

+ New: Native support of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format in thumbnails and viewer (powered by Angus Johnson Image32 library - angusj.com/image32)
+ New: Support of JPEG XR Image (jxr & wdp) HD Photo, aka Windows HD Photo, file format in thumbnails and viewer
~ Chg: The 'More' button in the DrivesPanel has now the Favorites icon
- Fix: The Search was often failing due to an access violation of the search thread, after the first result was displayed (VCL changes directly from a thread are forbidden)
- Fix: Starting FV in minimized mode was not putting it in the Systray altough the option is activated (Forum:fv-now-starts-to-the-taskbar)
- Fix: Classic menu UI was broken. Menu was hidden by a wide panel (Forum:fv-24-1-1-0-breaks-classic-ui-menu)
- Fix: When editing a filename, pressing Ctrl+A was processed by the files/folders list (Forum:ctrl-a-behavior)
- Fix: Some captions were not translated while translations were in the .lng files

~ Chg: Complete code porting from Delphi 2006 to Delphi 10.4. This required a lot of refactoring and clean up of the code
~ Chg: Viewer: Introduced a retry mechanism when loading preview of HEIC files, because initial call is delayed by Windows (PENDING)
~ Chg: Archiving: Migration from 7-zip 9.20 to 23.01
~ Chg: Viewer: Migration from VLC 2.2.0 to 3.0.20
~ Chg: Viewer: Maps - Migration to HERE Maps API v3
~ Chg: Viewer: Maps - Implementation of Mercator Projection to use with OpenStreetMap and HERE
~ Chg: Viewer: Maps - Implementation of Dark Mode (Styling for HERE, Google Maps and Bing Maps), forced via negative filter on OpenStreetMap and Yandex Maps
~ Fix: Favorites: Fixed theme/skin coloring of the wizard used to add a favorite
~ Fix: Viewer: Fixed theming/skinning of the playlist listbox
~ Fix: Global: Several fixes mainly to Hi-DPI support

+ New: Added Arabic and Dutch translations
+ New: Added Single Instance capabilities (check in PreferencesGeneral)
- Fix: Some bugfixes and language corrections

как и во многих недоразвитых клонах тотала внутренний просмотрщик файлов в состоянии открыть в лучшем случае только pdf файлы и картинки. при просмотре мс офис файлов отображается абра-кадабра. а допиливать предосмотр файлов энтузиастов я так понимаю нет.

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+ New: Viewer: Integration of ExifTool (https://exiftool.org) instead of MediaInfo. ExifTool provides EXIF metadata for a very large number of file formats. As a consequence, MediaInfo is removed from the distribution.
+ New: Viewer: When they contain Geolocation, the map is now displayed in the Metadata pane also for videos and images other than TIFF and JPEG thanks to ExifTool
+ New: Viewer: The file path in the address bar can now be copied via contextmenu
- Fix: Viewer: Optimization of the metadata reading. Previously, metadata was read every time the view mode was changed. Now it's read once per file
- Fix: General: The automatic check for a new version of FileVoyager was randomly failing due to an uninitialized variable
- Fix: Viewer: The Viewer used to crash on close when it was open from the Directory Diff tool
- Fix: Viewer: For some pictures, only the icon was displayed instead of their content
- Fix: Viewer: "Go To" (Ctrl+G) was failing to show when the default detected mode was not a text mode
- Fix: General: Fixed a DPI issue for the search
- Fix: General: Some memory leaks fixed and some code cleanup
~ Chg: Viewer: The viewer now starts the subprocesses (Sumatra & ExifTool) as Windows' Jobs. That way, even if Viewer crashes, the subprocesses are terminated. This avoids leaving orphan processes running on user's machine