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Welcome to the highlights for Directory Opus 10.0.5.0.
To show you this first thing I'm going to first create a RAR archive using Opus
and then I'm going to open that archive using 7-Zip.
After I've opened it in 7-Zip, I will try and delete it
and that will fail because 7-Zip has the file open, which is fine
but this is what I wanted to show you.
Opus will now tell you which programs you need to close in order to complete that deletion.
Unfortunately, this only works with a straight delete and not when you're using the recycle bin
and it also won't work with Windows XP.
But hopefully you'll still find it useful.
Opus now supports the PortableApps system when exporting to a USB device.
The main benefit of this is that it will tie into the PortableApps launcher, as you can see here.
When you do your USB export, Opus should automatically detect PortableApps
and will show you a red icon for the drive. The rest should be taken care of for you.
We also now support Explorer Replacement mode when running from USB
and the update checker will no longer prompt you to install updates
when running on a portable install.
When the update checker detects a new version
it will now put an icon into the status bar to tell you.
We now have an option so that the update checker itself is never displayed automatically
and you'll only see the icon.
You can then click on the icon whenever you're ready to process the new update.
After you have downloaded an update via the update checker, you are now given the option
to save the installer, should you wish to keep it for another time or another computer.
If you do choose to save it, you can still run the update from within the update checker.
We've added a new background color option which is used when the quick filter is active.
To demonstrate this, I'll use quite a bright color, so it's easy to see.
When I start filtering, the window's background color will change immediately
and this now makes it really clear when a window has a filter applied.
Another thing we've added is, in the drop down, there are counts of each file type
so you can tell how many files match those filters.
Now, to talk about a different kind of filtering, I'm going to apply some different ratings to my files.
And I'm going to do this using some buttons that you can find on our forum.
Now, I can demonstrate that the Find panel can look for files based on their ratings.
So, you go to the Advanced tab... add a new Ratings clause... and in this case...
I want to search for the files that have a rating that is greater than or equal to four.
And this should find those last two JPEGs, and none of the others.
And, there you go, it does what you'd expect.
Grouping is made easier in the new version
as there's a Group option when you right-click column headers.
If you don't see this option, you may need to reset your Lister Column Header context menu.
As you can see, it's very quick now to group by different things.
It's now also possible to group by columns which aren't displayed in the window.
Within the Folder Options dialog, there's a new grouping setting
and that's called, "Keep folders at the top when grouped."
As you can guess, this will keep the folders group at the top of the window
even if it isn't naturally sorted there by the grouping and sorting order.
You can also group by columns from shell extensions
such as this one that shows source-control status.
Tiles mode is now on par with thumbnails mode, with supported added for jumbo icons
CD cases, on music folders
and for labels which can change icon colors on files and folders.
We've also improved the display of overlays such as these shortcut arrows.
Thumbnails mode has new functionality which you may find useful
if you often work with several copies of the same image, in different sizes.
To demonstrate this, I'll quickly make thumbnails out of these first two JPEGs.
As you can see, the thumbnails in each pair look identical.
The only way you could tell which is which is by looking at the small dimension numbers beneath
and that's not very good to tell at a glance.
So, in this case, the image on the left is much bigger than the one on the right
but the thumbnails look the same.
To help you deal with this, we've added a new option called, "Relative dimension bars."
If you turn this option on, we'll overlay some bars at the bottom-left of each thumbnail
which show you their height and width relative to the other files in the same folder.
Now it's easy to tell which is the small file and which is the large one
as well as compare the various files with each other.
Archive formats for Comic Books can now be turned on and off individually via Preferences.
In addition, we now display special thumbnails with the cover of comic books.
So that should look much nicer than before.
These are treated like any other archive, so you can double click them
and use the image viewer to page through the files within.
We've made some improvements to do with archive formats
with file extensions that have multiple parts. So, if you rename a .tar.bz2 file, for example...
only the main filename part is selected, and not the .tar extension as well.
Similarly, if you duplicate a file like this, we'll add the word "copy" before the .tar extension
and not after it, keeping the full extension in-tact.
In the viewer pane you can now zoom in and out by holding Ctrl and using the mouse-wheel.
The same as you could already do in the standalone viewer.
You may find this a bit easier than using the buttons in the border or the optional toolbar.
Another improvement to the viewer pane is that when you open and close it, we now ensure
that the selected file remains visible, instead of potentially being scrolled out of view
as it could in the past.
This change also applies to the metadata panel.
The viewer's movie plugin has been improved so that when you click on the trackbar
it will jump directly to the place you clicked, instead of jumping towards where you clicked.
The same change has also been applied to the thumbnail size slider
and one or two other places as well.
If you often have lots of folder tabs open
then you're probably already familiar with this overflow menu.
In the new version, we've added another way to deal with this
which is a menu, listing all of your open tabs.
So, to show you this, I'm going to edit my toolbar by going into Customize mode.
First, I'm going to insert a menu where the list of tabs will appear.
I'll give it a nice icon, which is a tab-related one
...and a name, obviously
...and I'll also make it show the label on the right.
So, that's just created an empty menu and now, within that, I'll add a button
and this button just acts as a placeholder, which will turn into the list.
So, you make it run the Go TABLIST command.
(I'll add on the "icons" argument, and make it show images, just to make it a bit more pretty.)
Now, if I exit Customize mode and open up the menu I just made
you can see the list of all the tabs, with icons as well.
You can now change tabs using that menu.
Another thing that we've added helps when dealing with groups of files
where the base names are the same and all the extensions are different
such as a movie and a subtitle, or a multi-part archive.
So, I'm going to edit my toolbar again, to show you this.
And I'll just insert a button this time.
Set the label on the right again.
And give it a name. I haven't chosen a very good name here but it doesn't matter.
The command you want to run is Select SIMILARBASE.
Now, when I exit Customize mode and try this out
you'll see that it selects the other files within each group.
So, there it selects the subtitle file
and that also works if you do things the opposite way round, of course.
If I select anything from the archives group, it'll select all the others
and this also works with multiple groups at once.
If you are already famliar with creating Opus buttons then you may already
have come across the dlgpassword code. But, just in case you haven't...
this allows you to put a code into a command
and it will display a prompt when the command is run, asking you for a password
and it will insert whatever you type into the password box into the command.
So, nothing new there so far.
What we've added is the ability to show a dual-password field
where you have to type the password twice for confirmation.
The new dual field is obviously good for when you're encrypting things
and you want to make sure you didn't have a typo
because the password you type will be used regardless.
The old field, on the other hand, is good for when you're decrypting things
because if you put a typo into that then, obvioulsy, the operation will fail
and you know you did something wrong anyway.
Some toolbar buttons or only enabled when files or folders are selected
and that makes sense most of the time but it also caused a problem
when dragging files from outside the window over the toolbar.
Which you may not know you can do, but you can.
We've fixed this problem now so that whenever you drag something over the toolbar
all the buttons become enabled, even if nothing is selected in the main window.
Like the old menus on the Back, Forward and Up buttons on the toolbar
we've added similar menus when you right-click the small buttons in the file-display border.
That should be fairly self explanatory.
Updating existing layouts has been made a bit easier, in a way that I'll demonstrate.
So, I'll just open up a layout, and I've decided that I only want it to have a single file-display
and I'll also turn off the viewer pane.
So now, to save this, I go to Settings, Lister Layouts, Save This Lister.
And now it remembers the name of the layout, so I don't have to find it from the drop-down list
and the other options are also set as they were for that layout.
So, normally, you just have to click OK and you're done. And there it is, updated.
A new Advanced Preferences option has been added so that you can display file sizes
using the SI units, or using the MiB / KiB suffixes.
By default, it uses the Windows standard
which is multiples of 1024 using the MB, KB, and so on... suffixes
but you can change to using multiples of 1000, using the MB, KB, and so on... suffixes
or the third option is to use multiples of 1024 and the MiB, KiB, and so on... suffixes.
So that's the end of the video. As always these are only highlights and you should see the
release notes for the complete list of new features and bug-fixes.
Hope you enjoy these videos, and we'll see you in the next one.