Here’s the notes, day early because I don’t have time for it tomorrow. It’s been busy week and I didn’t have time to make as much progress with CE as I was planning. My goal for this week was to implement DualView. However, I got stuck at the very beginning due to lack of inspiration. Basically, I’m not quite sure how the DualView should work. Should there be different tabs for each view or would it be better to just divide a single tab into two views? Or maybe those views could have their own tabs inside a single “main” tab. Not sure

Anyway, I did do some changes here and there. I added file extension column and toolbar buttons for sessions and bookmarks. Also there’s now advanced options to turn off the session history.

Change Log

• Disabled exceptions on settings file creation.
• Fixed Access Violation on Options panel.
• Added Sessions toolbar button.
• Added Bookmarks toolbar button.
• Added option to disable session history.
• Added option for session history count.
• Breadcrumb now reactivates if needed.
• Added Extension column.
• Added Slovak translation.
• Made CE more Vista compatible.

CubicExplorer 0.91.0.1167 (SVN Snapshot)
Installer (2.2MB)
Zip (2.5MB)

It’s been pretty productive week and I managed to make good progress. Most of the week went into rewriting the sessions support which was quite a big job. It’s now finished and I like it. I’ve never been happy with the old one so I made some changes. I added a session manager to make things more sane. Also there is now a history feature that let’s you go back to previous sessions.

I’ve also added BrowseZipFolders option into FileView’s and FolderPanel’s advanced settings. By enabling it you will be able to open ZIP files like folders inside CE. However, there are still some bugs left that I need to fix. For example, you have to use the right click menu to open files from inside ZIP, double click doesn’t work.

Anyway, I’m not yet sure what’s next week’s agenda. Maybe I’ll write DualView or QuickFilter. At least I’ll try to finish rearranging the todo list.

Change Log

• Added new session support.
• Added temporary fix for TabBar visibility issue.
• Added BrowseZipFolders option for FileView and FolderPanel.
• StatusBar now remembers it’s visibility.
• Fixed Reuse Tabs option.
• Fixed breadcrumb related crash.

CubicExplorer 0.91.0.1160 (SVN Snapshot)
Installer (2.2MB)
Zip (2.5MB)

Not that productive this week. I’ve still been occupied by other stuff but I did manage to do little work with CE. Still no sessions though, sorry. Also the todo list needs to be rearranged. However, this snapshot is more useful than the previous one. The keyboard bug is fixed which was also affecting the advanced settings editor. I added AutoFit and few other options to tabs. Those can be found in the advanced settings.

Anyway, I’m hoping to have sessions up and running next week. The reason why it’s taking so long is the fact that I’m rewriting the sessions support from scratch. Also I’ll try to sort the todo list. It’s quite a nasty job so I’m not really looking forward to it.

Change Log

• Added AutoFit tabs, MaxTabSize and CloseButton settings.
• Removed old bug fix.
• Fixed icon size bug (again).
• Fixed memory leaks.
• Fixed keyboard bug.

CubicExplorer 0.91.0.1149 (SVN Snapshot)
Installer (2.2MB)
Zip (2.5MB)

Just a quick note. This week I’ve been busy with other stuff and haven’t been able to work much with CE. Next week will be different and there should be some progress and snapshot release.

I still haven’t sorted out the todo list. I’ll try to do that next week.

This week I’ve been working with the new settings engine. I’ve removed the old engine and updated everything to use the new one. I’ll still have to update bookmarks and sessions to use the new engine. At the moment I’m in the middle of updating sessions. It looks like I’ll rewrite the whole session support as it’s easier like that. Also I wasn’t very happy with the old session support so now is good time to make it right. Today’s snapshot has sessions disabled but they should be up and running again next week. Hopefully I’ll manage to update bookmarks next week too.

I also added advanced settings editor in the Options Dialog. However, at the moment it doesn’t accept keyboard input for some reason. So you can only use mouse or copy/paste to change the values. I will write my own editor so this one is temporary. More options are coming also.

CubicExplorer 0.91.0.1145 (SVN Snapshot)
Installer (2.2MB)
Zip (2.5MB)

Unfortunately there’s no snapshot this week (sorry Tommy). I’ve been working with the new settings engine. Basically I need to add all settings stuff again and remove the old ones. At the moment I’m half way there. It’s quite a big job but well worth it. This new engine makes it very easy for me to add new settings. There are a lot of hidden settings available in CE. With the upcoming advanced settings editor and the new settings engine, it will be possible to access those settings.

I was meaning to post a new snapshot this week but at the moment CE is unusable mess so there’s no point in doing that. I’m pretty confident that I’ll finish everything up next week. So hopefully there will be a snapshot next Friday.

A special thanks to 2301 who has been working with the Wiki. I’ve also started to create a rough roadmap in there for future versions (see it here).

Phew, finally this site is ready. This week I’ve been doing a lot of tweaking and messing around with fonts and other formatting stuff. Also I made the forum login site wide. Now you can edit Wiki and write comments with your forum username. If you have any login related problems, let me know. I have tested everything in Windows with Firefox 3.10, IE 7 and Opera 9.64. On those everything seems to work and the site looks (almost) same. If you see any bugs, let me know.

I didn’t manage to write the roadmap for CE yet. Next week I’ll start to work with version 0.91 and on Friday there should be a new snapshot release. I’m not yet quite sure what features will be included in 0.91. However, at least there will be a new settings engine and advanced settings panel. Also DualView will be in 0.91. Anyway, I’ll figure out the roadmap next week.

After quite a journey since last official release, here is 0.90 final. I know this release isn’t perfect and there are some known issues still in it, but I think it’s good enough to replace the 0.80 final. On this build I’ve fixed some bugs that I found from those missing bug reports. Also I added few new icons and updated couple old ones. As this is an official build, it will install itself by default into CubicExplorer folder and not in CubicExplorer_dev.

Next week I’ll create a roadmap for future releases and sort out the todo list. Also I’ll try to setup a wiki for documentation and other CE related stuff. 0.91 will be the next version milestone. It will have at least Dual view and an advanced settings editor.

Change Log

• Fixed View Style remembering bug.
• Fixed address bar popup bug.
• Fixed possible crash in Video Player.
• Fixed possible crash in File Search.
• Fixed possible crash when closing tabs.
• Updated few icons.
• Added new icons.

CubicExplorer 0.90 Final (0.90.0.1131)
Installer (2.1MB)
Zip (2.4MB)

Yet another RC. I think this will be the last one unless some major issue shows up. In this build I did a lot of small changes here and there, also many translation bugs were fixed. I drew few new tab icons and reorganized the about box. Also, CE is now officially licensed under MPL 1.1.

Change Log

• Fixed "Filters are not cleared when switching to different tab" bug.
• Fixed rename box alignment in Tile view style.
• Fixed inconsistency in "Show Extensions" for zip files.
• Fixed file size calculation bug.
• Fixed language change bug.
• Fixed many Unicode string bugs.
• Removed "minimizing bug fix" try.
• Made "dbl click on background" work properly on every view style.
• Updated About Dialog.
• Updated Japanese translation.
• Updated tab icons.
• Changed License.
• Focused image is now shown in QuickView when Ctrl+Click selecting files.
• "Duplicate Tab" action now opens new tab even when "Reuse opened tab" is enabled.
• Esc now closes options dialog.

CubicExplorer 0.90 RC 6 (0.90.0.1122)
Installer (2.1MB)
Zip (2.4MB)

No 0.90 final yet. Beginning of this week went in rebuilding my work system. I wiped the whole drive and started from scratch. Now there are two Windows XP’s and one Linux installed. I have everything up and running now so no more excuses next week .

Anyway, I did manage to do some work with CE later this week. I added an option to always sort folders first. It makes folders to stay top and not mix with files. Also there’s now a popup menu in Filters panel where you can find an option to clear filters when you navigate to different folder. Lastly, there is a change that tries to fix the self minimizing bug some of you are having in Vista. Let me know how it’s working and if there are problems with CE’s taskbar button or issues when moving, minimizing,restoring…etc. CE’s window.

Oh and, I drew new icons for Tab Add and Tab Close. Not sure how I feel in few days but at the moment I’m pretty happy on how they look:

Change Log

• Fixed item height bug in Folder and Bookmark panels.
• Fixed column size bug.
• Minimizing bug fix try.
• Removed "Remember Tabs" action.
• Made filters work even when Filters panel is hidden.
• Filters clear now on path change by default.
• Added popup menu option to clear filters on path change.
• Added option to always sort folders first.
• Added restrictions to file types that can be opened in text editor.
• Updated tab icons (only big ones).

CubicExplorer 0.90 RC 5 (0.90.0.1113)
Installer (2.1MB)
Zip (2.4MB)