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Source: Ulrich Möller (ulrich.moeller@rz.hu-berlin.de)
Moderator: Trevor Smith (editor@os2ezine.com)
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It's been a while since the last XFolder version has been 
released, but here is version 0.60 beta with lots of new 
features. (Obviously, I have not ceased development of 
XFolder, but I wanted to get these features done before 
releasing the next version. Some people seem to have been 
worried about XFolder's future already...)

The new version is available at:
    http://www2.rz.hu-berlin.de/~h0444vnd/os2.htm

For those who are not familiar with XFolder yet: XFolder is 
a collection of WPS replacement classes, adding a number of 
those features to your Desktop which you've always missed (I 
hope). Most importantly, you may freely configure your WPS 
context menus without having to work your way through the 
"Menu" settings pages. Moreover, XFolder adds hotkeys for 
the most used folder functions.

New features in V0.60 beta:

--  XFolder can remove many more OS/2 default menu items.
--  All of XFolder's functions now work on the Desktop and 
drive objects too.
--  Folders can carry their full path in their window 
titles, which is now configurable INDIVIDUALLY for each 
folder.
--  Auto-scroll folder Tree views to make appearing items 
visible, i.e. if you expand a folder tree view, XFolder 
scrolls the window exactly to the point to make as much of 

what is appearing visible.
--  At last, there is an easy way to change the order of 
XFolder context menu items: these are now displayed 
according to the order in Details view.
--  Netscape is now started via my new "Netscape DDE 
Interface", which is included in the package. Instead of 
always starting a new Netscape instance for each URL to 
open, which takes ages, this tool simply passes the URL to 
Netscape by using Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE), and the 
already running Netscape instance will open this URL. This 
works for local files as well as Internet addresses, so you 
might just as well use this tool as your default browser for 
URL objects...
--  Extended Shutdown: XFolder now replaces the OS/2 default 
shutdown sequence in order to allow cancelling shutdown, 
displaying its progress, and skipping applications which are 
not closing. You can also automatically reboot after 
shutdown has completed.
-- Restart WPS (integrated into Desktop): does the same 
procedure, but instead of shutting down, only the WPS will 
be restarted. There have been a number of utilities allowing 
to do this, but none of them (as far as I know) saved the 
WPS's state before restarting it.

And lots of bugfixes and little enhancements. XFolder is now 
fully multi-threaded too.

I hope this feature list makes up for the long wait for the 
next XFolder version.

Note however that this is (again) a BETA VERSION. I am 
releasing this version into the public to get feedback; it 
is running fine on my system (and it is doing so every day), 
but I cannot predict if any conflicts occur with whatever is 
running on your system. XFolder has become quite complex by 
now, and there may be sideeffects.

In a word: Make a WPS backup before installing.

Thanks for your interest, and feel free to drop me a mail 
for comments and suggestions.

Ulrich Möller
ulrich.moeller@rz.hu-berlin.de
http://www2.rz.hu-berlin.de/~h0444vnd/os2.htm



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