Dirkey History (full)
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2.0b - November 13 2004
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* Note: Only released as an update Patch for 2.0a in ZIP format.
- Fix in custom "Explore With" feature. Incorrect application arguments
were sent to the custom explorer.
2.0a - December 7 2003
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- Bug fix: The slash key on the numpad (Num /) would show up as an
empty option in the "Global Windows hotkey for Bookmarks Dialog"
combobox in the Settings window on some systems (mostly Win 98/ME).
- The "Refresh List" command (on the Options, View menu) is now
disabled when no bookmarks are defined.
- Fix for minor memory leak in Add/Create Bookmark.
- Some (invalid or virtual) folder names could not be added to the
bookmarks list manually (e.g. GUIDs for virtual folders), this has
been fixed for consistency reasons (you cannot actually do anything
with these folders though).
- Improved Plug-ins list in Settings dialog. Common prefixes are now
ommitted, the type column shows only relevant attributes and the
Description column is a bit wider by default.
- Some minor plug-in API changes for language plug-ins.
- Inactive plug-ins are now listed with a dimmed icon in the plug-ins
list of the Settings dialog.
- Bug fix: Highlighted bookmark bookmarks in the tray icon popup menu
looked different from normal menu items when using (custom) themes
in Windows XP. The appearance now correctly matches that of the
current theme.
- Updated MS Office plug-in: Support for MS Office 95/97 has been
fixed. Plug-in file now includes version information. Office 2003
is now officially supported.
- Several fixes, changes and improvements in the Help file.
2.0 - May 18 2003
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* Dirkey 2.0 is a near complete rewrite; only the most important
differences and new features are listed here.
- Dynamic bookmark list instead of fixed bookmarks slots.
- Support for a (virtually) unlimited amount of bookmarks.
- Multiple bookmarks for the same folder are automatically prevented.
- Hotkeys are now freely assignable to any bookmark.
- Bookmarks list can be sorted and filtered in a variety of ways.
- Bookmarks in bookmark list can now be shown without the full path.
- 10 instead of 9 hotkeys can now be assigned to bookmarks (0..9).
- The Select Bookmarked and Main dialog are gone, the new
Bookmarks Dialog now contains all options and can be shown
either globally or locally.
- The hotkey for the global Bookmarks Dialog (previously called the
Main window) is now a global Windows hotkey.
- Global windows hotkeys for Explore Bookmark.
- Completely redesigned Settings dialog with many, many new options.
- The Explore Bookmark dialog for tray icon popup menu is now highly
configurable.
- Bookmarked folders are shown with their native Windows icon.
- Unavailable folders are marked as such.
- Much more modular design of user interface.
- A custom file manager can now be selected for the Explore Bookmark
command.
- Various more ways of bookmarking folders. Folders can now be dragged
directly into the Bookmarks dialog. Additionally whole lists of
folders (either as text or real folders) can now be added as new
bookmarks by copying/pasting to/from the clipboard.
- The full path of all bookmarks can now be copied to the clipboard
with as single command.
- Nicer tray icon animation.
- Many other user interface improvements.
- Support for window/application extension and language plug-ins.
- Much, much more...
v1.3e - January 5 2003
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- Fixed bug: Opening bookmarked folders on a network in a new window
using Explore would not always work correctly.
v1.3d - December 2 2002
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- Fixed bug (1.3b and 1.3c only): the item editor in the Select
Bookmark dialog would not disappear correctly on all occasions
when changing the keyboard focus.
v1.3c - October 2 2002
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- Fixed bug: Size and position of main window and Select Bookmark
dialog wouldn't be saved correctly on Windows shutdown on some
systems.
- Minor internal optimizations.
v1.3b - August 3 2002
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- Fixed bug: The bookmark list would no longer have the keyboard
focus after closing the (new style) Browse for Folder dialog
(invoked by the Define command).
- Fixed bug: The edit box in the new style Browse for Folder dialog
(for Define) would disappear when it lost focus (only in v1.3 and
1.3a).
v1.3a - June 3 2002
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- Fixed bug. If the "Close Select Bookmark dialog on focus change"
option was enabled on Windows 9x/Me then the window/dialog for which
it was invoked would have lost the keyboard focus after the Select
Bookmark dialog was closed. This bug was only present in v1.3 and
did not cause any problems on Windows XP (and most likely Windows
2000).
v1.3 - May 24 2002
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- Added option for usage of 9 additional (non-numbered) bookmarks.
- Reordered and renamed categories and options items in the Settings
dialog.
- Added Help button to settings dialog and main window (only appears if
help file is in Dirkey install folder).
- "Go to" button on Select Bookmark window is now located on the right
rather than left side of the window.
- The Select Bookmark window can now be closed automatically when
the focus changes to another window with a new option in the
settings window.
- An alternative tray icon right click menu, with the bookmarks listed
directly, can now be selected in the settings dialog.
- The default setting for "keep main window on top" is now "Off"
- Improved listbox popup menu for Select Bookmark, descriptions have
changed and a new item called "Manage bookmarks" was added (this item
closes the Select Bookmark window and opens the main window).
- The new style UI for the Define Browse For Folder dialog is now used
(this includes an edit box, resizable window and a button for
creating a new folder).
- Improved tray icon "animation".
- The main window is now always hidden on startup, unless the command-
line argument /SHOW is specified.
- Added additional information to About dialog.
- The two options for the position of the Select Bookmark dialog have
been replaced by a single option which enables the dialog to be
always centered in the parent (regardless if it is invoked by mouse
or keystroke) or not. In the latter case the dialog is centered when
invoked with a keystroke and placed near the window close button when
invoked with the mouse (the default behavior for v1.2). Old style
placement of the dialog (on the left-top of the parent) can no longer
be selected.
- The "Explore" command is now also available in the Select Bookmark
dialog. Select it from the bookmark list popup menu or with the
Ctrl+E shortcut.
- Major improvements to help file. It should now be much easier to
understand what Dirkey is about and how to operate the program.
- Updated installer.
- Internal optimizations.
* Dirkey Command-line is no longer distributed along with Dirkey.
v1.2a - March 24 2002
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- Fixed bug: The last size of the Select Bookmark window wasn't
saved upon program exit (only in v1.2).
- Fixed bug: Settings weren't saved correctly in some occasions when
shutting down Windows while Dirkey was still active.
v1.2 - February 15 2002
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- Added keyboard shortcut mnemonics to all popup menu items.
- Added Help command to tray icon popup menu.
- Bookmarked folders are now "collapsed" in the main and Select
Bookmark window just like in the tray icon Explore menu. The last
part of the path is fully shown whenever possible. This behavior can
be disabled with a new option the Settings window.
- The style of the bookmark list in the main window is now the same as
the list in the Select Bookmark window.
- Bookmarks can now be edited directly in the Select Bookmark window
using F2 or "Edit" in the item popup menu.
- The item editor for the main and Select Bookmark window now stretches
to the full width of the list.
- The main window will now also be closed automatically when Explore
Bookmark is selected from the tray icon popup menu (and the option
for auto close is turned on).
- The item popup menu in main and Select Bookmark window are now
displayed near the current item instead of in the top left corner
when invoked with the keyboard.
- Changed the color for the Goto & Set bookmark tray icon indicator.
- The Settings and About dialog are now centered in the main Dirkey
window and also shown completely when the main window is only
partially shown.
- The Settings window is now centered on the desktop if shown while
the main window is closed.
- Added new option that centres the Select Bookmark window in the
parent window (enabled by default).
- Added option for using the WIN instead of CTRL key as shortcut for
going to & setting bookmarks (disabled by default).
- Added "Stay on Top" for main window on settings window (option in
system menu is still available and does the same thing).
- Redesigned Settings dialog. It now consists of 3 pages with settings
categories which can be selected by selecting an item in a list. Some
options in the dialog were reworded slightly and the order of items
has changed.
- The Explore tray icon popup menu can now also been shown directly by
Right Clicking the icon while holding down CTRL.
- Fixed minor memory leak.
- Added mouse support for showing the Select Bookmark window. The
Select Bookmark window can be shown by clicking the Close button of
a supported window with the right (default setting) or middle mouse
button. Mouse support can be disabled but is enabled by default. When
invoked with the mouse, the Select Bookmark window is displayed near
the Close button by default but this behavior can be disabled.
- Many internal improvements and changes in the core routines which
result in a higher stability, reduced memory usage and better error
handling.
- The tray icon now changes to an X when an error occurs (e.g. when a
bookmark cannot be set).
* New version of Dirkey Command-line (v1.2):
- The List command (/L) now accepts a bookmark number (1..9) as
second argument. This will display the folder assigned to the
indicated bookmark number.
- Minor performance improvement when going to bookmarked folders.
- Improved behavior on Win9x.
v1.1a - January 17 2002
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- Fixed bug, the Select Bookmark dialog was not always fully visible
on screen if the parent window was only partially visible.
- The currently selected item is now scrolled into view when the Select
Bookmark window is shown.
- Fixed various errors in the Help file.
v1.1 - December 13 2001
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- Added Go To support for File Open/Save Dialogs in Microsoft Office
95/97/2000/XP and Microsoft Visual Studio 7.
- Pressing the middle mouse button on the tray icon will now directly
show the Explore sub-menu on Windows NT/2000/XP.
- Reduced size of all program files, the total size of the program is
now about 35% less than before (compared to v1.0b).
- Added Windows XP theme support.
- Focus on controls is now hidden on Win 2000/XP until the keyboard is
used to navigate. This matches the default Windows style.
- The default system dialog font (e.g. Tahoma on Win2000/XP) is used
for all Dirkey controls, windows and dialog boxes.
- All Dirkey windows now look good with any theme, font size and any
customization to window appearance settings.
- Various other minor visual user interface improvements.
- Added option for closing the main window automatically when using
the "Explore" command on an item (enabled by default).
- Added option for selecting the default bookmark action: Edit (old
default) or Explore. The default action is invoked when pressing
Enter or double clicking on an item in the bookmark list.
- Removed "Enable local bookmark popup window" option from settings
dialog. The popup window is always enabled from now on.
- Reworded some options on the Settings dialog.
- Items in the Select Bookmark window are now shown with an icon.
- No more flickering of the Select Bookmark window on resizing.
- Select Bookmark window now highlights the item and closes with a
slight delay when using Ctrl+(Alt+)1..9.
- The Select Bookmark window now has an Edit popup menu with Cut, Copy,
Paste, Delete and Goto & Set. The shortcuts for these commands
will now also work in this window.
- Double click in Select Bookmark window no longer works if an item is
undefined.
- Clicking outside the items area in the Select bookmark list using the
right or left mouse button now selects the last item.
- Removed Maximize, Minimize and Restore options from system menu of
Select Bookmark window.
- The tray icon popup menu now pops up when the right mouse button is
release instead of pressed (common for Windows popup menus).
- The tray icon is now disabled when the Confirm Exit dialog is shown.
- Tray icons now also look good with Large Fonts setting in windows.
- Items in the tray icon Explore popup menu are now shown with an icon.
- Improved path size limiting of tray icon Explore popup menu. The
width of the menu now never exceeds a certain size, even if the path
consist only of one very long component.
- The actual availability of a bookmarked folder is now first checked
before it is opened in Explorer.
- Leading spaces, tabs and invalid characters are now automatically
removed when entering a path manually or when pasting from the
Windows clipboard.
- Fixed minor bug in valid path checking routine.
- Improved installer. Better error handling and Window XP theme
support.
- Fixed various focus problems with main window.
- Tray icon improvements. The tray icon size is now updated directly
when switching between Normal and Large Fonts in Windows. The tray
icon is restored automatically when explorer is restarted (e.g. after
a crash).
- Fixed a bug that was present since v0.85: If the Select Bookmark
window was invoked when any Dirkey dialog was open (About, Settings,
Browse for Folder) then the main window would stay disabled when this
dialog was closed. The main window would only be enabled again when
the Select Bookmark window was closed.
- Setting bookmarks in Windows Explorer is supported on Windows 95 when
Internet Explorer 4+ is not installed. This was true with previous
versions, but it was until now undocumented. The SET button in the
Select Bookmark dialog is now no longer hidden in Explorer when
running Win95 without IE4+.
- Improved Help.
* New version of Dirkey Command-line (v1.1):
- Added option to clear All bookmarks by selecting 'A' in the Select
Bookmark pick list or by using the "/C A" command.
- Added new command: Explore (/E). This command opens the specified
bookmark in a new Explorer window.
- Fixed memory leak in go to folder routine.
- Improved valid path checking.
- A single rather than a double empty line now follows the output of
the program on the command line on Windows NT.
v1.0b - November 11 2001
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- Fixed bug in Select Bookmark popup window. The window close button
and Windows shortcut Alt+F4 didn't work.
- Fixed bug in select bookmark popup window. The Go To button wasn't
updated correctly when the selected bookmark changed.
- Fixed bug in explore bookmark. When a folder name matched the name of
an executable in the parent folder then the program would try to
explore the executable rather than the folder (which would always
fail), thus making it impossible to explore the folder using Dirkey.
- Fixed general bug. The Dirkey shortcut keys wouldn't work in an
Open/Save file dialog when the current folder was the Windows Fonts
system folder.
- Fixed memory leak.
- Improved installer.
v1.0a - October 21 2001
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- Fixed bug in valid path checking. Attempting to go some very weird
illegal path names could cause Windows Explorer to crash on Win9x/ME.
- Fixed minor bug in the updating of the main window upon a change of
Windows appearance settings.
v1.0 - October 10 2001
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- First official release.
- Improved non US keyboard support for Win NT/2000/XP. Right hand
Ctrl+Alt+1..9 will now also work when using a non US keyboard layout.
v0.993 - September 30 2001
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- Release Candidate 3.
- Fixed Right Alt (Alt Gr) bug (see 0.992) for Windows 9x/Me.
- Updated Help.
v0.992 - September 29 2001
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- Release Candidate 2.
- Fixed resource leak in main and Select Bookmark resize routine.
- Fixed bug in main and Select Bookmark update routine. These windows
weren't updated correctly when the color or appearance settings were
changed in Windows.
- Fixed bug in shortcut handling. Right Alt (Alt Gr) on international
keyboards wouldn't work anymore when Dirkey was active.
- Bookmark selection now extends to the full width of the list in the
main window.
* New version of Dirkey Command-line (v0.95):
- Various internal improvements.
v0.99 - September 21 2001
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- Release Candidate.
- No longer requires Internet Explorer 4 to installed for Win9x and
thus will run on original Windows 95 and Win98Lite.
- Improved support for "Browse for Folder" dialogs. New style dialogs
as those found on Windows XP (e.g. for Move To and Copy To) and
those found in non-English Windows versions are now also supported.
- Better detection of actually supported windows on all Windows
versions.
- Improved Go To Folder support for Open/Save Dialogs on Win9x/NT4.
- Major reduction of memory usage (especially when the main window
is closed).
- Fixed main window focus problems.
- "Settings" and "Open Dirkey" tray icon popup menu items are now
hidden when the Settings or Main window are already visible.
- Fixed bug: Multiple Settings, Define and Exit Confirmation dialog
boxes could be opened. This is now prevented.
- Program and uninstall icon updates.
- Minor changes in Help File.
* New version of Dirkey Command-line (v0.90):
- Can now be installed and used by any user on Windows NT/2000/XP.
- Now correctly handles paths consisting only of a drive.
v0.96 - September 4 2001
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- Fixed bug: Help file wouldn't appear correctly when pressing F1 in
Windows 95/98.
- Added support for going to bookmarked folders in Open/Save File
Dialogs in Windows 98.
- Fixed focus problems when closing help file.
- Fixed bug in automatic program shutdown upon Windows logoff or
shutdown.
v0.95 - August 24 2001
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- Removed the header of the bookmark list, items in the list are
automatically resized whenever the window is resized so that a
horizontal scrollbar is never shown.
- When resizing the main window the selected item will always remain
within the visible area of the listview.
- Smaller minimum and default window height.
- Main window now also looks good when using "Large Fonts" in Windows.
- All Dirkey bookmarking shortcut keys CTRL(+ALT)+0..9 will now also
work in the local "Select Bookmark" popup window.
- Now fully compatible with With Windows XP.
- Added support for going to bookmarked folders in Open/Save File
Dialogs in Windows 95.
- Added shortcut for "Explore" in main window (CTRL+E).
- Size of "Select Bookmark" popup window is now saved on exit and
restored upon startup.
- "Set" button in "Select Bookmark" popup window is now hidden when
window is shown in Explorer of Windows 9x/ME (unsupported).
- Fixed bug: Enabled/Disabled state of "Go To" button in "Select
Bookmark" popup window wasn't updated when the currently selected
bookmark was cleared or set.
- Added context sensitive Help (F1).
- Various other internal changes and minor bug fixes.
* New version of Dirkey Command-line (v0.70):
- The program now checks if a directory really exists before
attempting to go to it.
- Relative paths are now indicated as an "invalid path" when set as
bookmark (not supported by Dirkey).
- Program title is no longer shown with List command (/L).
- New command: /C, this command clears a bookmark.
- G, S and C commands can now be used without a bookmark number as
second parameter, in that case a list is shown from which the user
can pick the bookmark number to go to or set.
- Commands can now also be preceded by a "-" (-L is the same as /L).
- Reduced number of possible error messages and changed text.
v0.85 - July 26 2001
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- Fixed bug in "Define Bookmark". The program would sometimes crash on
Windows 2000 after closing the Browse For Folder dialog.
- CTRL+0 will now show a child popup window within the current Explorer
or Open/Save Dialog that allows the selection or setting of a
bookmark from a list. This feature can be disabled with a new option
in the Settings dialog.
- Improved support for some customized "Browse for Folder" dialogs.
- Path names in the Explore menu are shortened somewhat less than
before.
- The main window now has a size grip.
- Added support for Dirkey Command-line interaction.
- Fixed memory leaks.
v0.77 - July 8 2001
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- Added Go To bookmarked folder support for common "Browse For Folder"
dialogs.
- The folder for a bookmark can now be defined by selecting it from a
"Browse for Folder" dialog. This can be selected from the bookmark
item popup menu or by using the new shortcut CTRL+D in the Dirkey
main window.
- Path names in the Explore menu of tray menu are now shortened so
that the menu doesn't become too wide when displaying very long
paths. This setting can be disabled with a new option in the Settings
dialog.
- The main Dirkey window is now centered on screen when shown for the
first time.
- Fixed bug: The old (pre 0.45) way of going to a bookmarked folder in
an Open/Save Dialog box was used on Windows 2000 in v0.70. This has
been fixed, the program will now behave in those dialogs on Win2000
as it did in v0.52.
- Changed (internal) shortcut key handling.
- Fixed various memory leaks.
v0.70 - July 1 2001
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- First beta release.
- Various internal optimization, resulting in faster execution time
and reduced memory usage.
- Reinstated WinNT4 Open/Save dialog Go To bookmark support.
- New installation program, courtesy of Nullsoft. A change in Dirkey
now allows the uninstall program to shutdown Dirkey (so it is now
possible to uninstall the program without shutting down Dirkey
manually first).
- Fixed bug: In some occasions it would take an extreme long time
to display the Settings Dialog on Win9x/ME.
- Fixed bug: Popup menu of tray icon wouldn't disappear when the user
wanted to 'cancel' it by clicking on e.g. the taskbar or desktop.
- Fixed bug: When the main window was resized to a small size and
then closed, the last selected bookmark could be outside the visible
bookmark list area (so scrolling would be required). The last
selected bookmark will now always be inside the view area.
- Fixed bug: Selecting a bookmark directly in the bookmark list with
keys 1..9 would result in a beep sound.
- Window height and width are now saved when the program closes and
restored on the next startup.
- Bookmarks can now be selected over the whole width of the bookmark
list area.
- Cut, Copy, Paste & Delete shortcuts will now work everywhere in the
main window without the need of having the focus on the bookmark
list view or being in Edit mode.
- Keyboard focus is now set on bookmark list after returning from
Settings, About and Exit Confirmation dialogs.
- Redesigned tray icon popup menu. Also added new sub menu: "Explore".
The items in this submenu will display the bookmarks, clicking them
will open a new Explorer window.
- Items in tray popup menu can now also be selected with the Right
mouse button.
- Unused bookmarks positions now have a dimmed icon in the list.
- There is now always a selected item in the list, clicking outside
the items region does no longer deselect the last selected item.
- Current shortcut key setting is ignored for selecting bookmarks in
the list, both the numeric keypad and normal 1-9 keys can be used at
any time.
- Redesigned Settings dialog. The key setting does the exact opposite
as before, checking it will Enable the numeric keypad keys. The
default setting is now "normal keys" (option disabled).
v0.52 (update 1) - June 17 2001
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- Fixed bug that could lead to, among others, a relatively long load
time of the main window on Win9x/Me.
- Note: Version info will show v0.52, 15 June 2001 (DKCORE.DLL is the
only file that has been updated).
v0.52 - June 15 2001
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- New (optional) tray icon. Double clicking the icon will bring up the
main window. Right clicking it will show a popup menu.
- Last position of Dirkey window is now saved when the program closes
and restored on the next startup.
- Fixed nasty bug which could crash the program in some occasions when
the settings window was opened.
v0.51 - June 1 2001
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- Major rewrite of bookmarking code, the program is more reliable and
robust than ever before.
- Improved error checking and handling.
- Added Settings dialog box ("Auto load on Windows startup" is from
now on located on this dialog).
- Added option to use the normal 0-9 keys for bookmarking, instead of
the ones on the numpad.
- Added option to toggle "beep on error".
- Added "clear bookmarks on exit" option.
- Less system resources and memory are used when the main window is
closed.
- Fixed bookmark icon color glitch on NT4.
- Various minor user interface appearance and behavior improvements.
v0.45 - May 21 2001
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- First 'widespread'(though still alpha) release.
- Much better Go To Bookmark routine.
- Text in File Edit box (in dialogs) and Address Edit (in Explorer) is
now preserved.
- Better support for customized Open/Save Dialogs.
- Improved Win9x support (dropping bookmarks in Explorer still only
possible on NT/2000 though).
- Changed shortcuts for dropping bookmark to CTRL+ALT+NP1..9 and for
going to bookmark to CTRL+NP1..9.
v0.42 (update 1) - January 18 2001
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- Updated DKCORE.DLL (v0.18.6)
- No other changes, version info will show v0.42, 15 June 2000.
v0.42 - June 15 2000
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- Fixed bug in 'auto load on startup' state indication.
- Clearing bookmarks is now possible with DEL in list.
- New small program icon.
- Removed "Development version" from main window title.
v0.4.1 - June 11 2000
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- Fixed bug in 'auto load on startup'
v0.4 - June 10 2000
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- First (alpha) release.
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