Latest Probe Beta News

The latest Probe Beta is number 87. It remains operational until 20/7-98.

Changes in Beta 87:

Beta 87 is a small update, mainly fixing some bugs relating to the Setup procedure, and also some problems with releasing ownership for files after doing file-search.

• Bugs Fixed:
  • Disk Performance Test failed for floppy-drive, when floppy was write-protected.
  • Creating new folder when running Probe Cab Self Extractor.
  • Some frame activation problems, after activating Location Bar using keyboard.
  • Updating of Disk Monitor, when disk free space changes.
  • Open item included in popup-menus for compressed/remote file-items.
  • Search-files, release owner-ship correctly, after changing base-folder for search.
  • Release ownership, when copying to a collector, in cash of name clash.
  • Function Bar, restore font-height correctly on program startup.

Changes in Beta 86:

• New Functionality:
  • Added FTP functinality:
    • Probe can now handle Server to Server file-transfers. In this mode, the contents of the transfered files travels the shortest path on the Internet, rather than through your Probe FTP Client.
    • File copy/move within a single FTP-server implemented, without the file-contents beeing transfered on the Internet at all. (It's actually a special case of the feature described above.)
  • Probe now remembers if it was closed down minimized, and starts minimized the next time.
  • Shell Improvements:
    • Implementation of the 'Send To' popup menu in context menus.
    • Keyboard accelerators F5 (Copy), F6 (Move), F7 (New Folder) now also works in Shell Folders (better under WinNT than under W95).
    • Selection buttons (Select-all, deselect-all, Select with wildcard, deselect with wildcard) also work in shell folders.
    • Selection Visualization dialog available also for Probe to Shell, Shell to Probe and Shell to Shell file-transfers.

• Optimizations
  • Probe Startup speed improved.
  • Opening of folders with many files has been optimized.
  • Repainting and Scrolling in Folder Browsers have been much improved. Also, the interaction with the Icon Loader Thread has been reworked.
  • Wildcard Selection/File Search has been speeded up.
  • Optimized progress indicators, so that they're not updated to often. Packing/Unpacking many small files benefits from this.
  • Better upload rate for FTP after doing dynamic buffer resizing at socket level.

• Bugs Fixed
  • File popup-menu overview. Items 'making no sense' for a particular storage type have been removed.
  • A bug relating to file-times beeing wrong at the last day each month has been fixed.
  • Output parsing from packers has been tested, and modified to handle special cases such as filenames with spaces etc. Progress indicators should be accurate for most cases now.
  • Location Bar improvements.
  • An obscure problem relating to a dangling pointer has finally been tracked down and fixed.
  • The 'Find Files' dialog did not release ownership of files and folders properly when closed down, this has been fixed.

Changes in Beta 85:

• New Functionality:
  • Colored filenames indicating status of file :
    • Active FTP Connection - Green
    • Locally realized file - Purple
    • NTFS-Compressed file - Blue
    • Unresolved Collector Path - Grey
  • Tree Browser:
    • New Settings Dialog for Tree Browser
    • Restructured Toolbar
    • Improved performance - Rollout, Scrolling & Repainting
  • Shell Browsing & Fileoperations
    • Better support for File Operations to the Shell
  • Location Bar
    • Loading/Saving Location Bars from/to Collectors files.

• Bugs Fixed: (This release is focused on bug-fixes, only a small number of them are reported here):
  • FTP:
    • Semaphore problem on single processor systems fixed.
    • Better handling of aborted, restarted, and resumed FTP transfers.
    • Reworked Ascii/Bionary resolution mechanism.
    • Changed default FTP connection creation, so that login info is not decrypted by default.
  • Packed Archives:
    • Better progress report.
    • Reworked error dialog (when something goes wrong during (de)compression).
  • Zip
    • Better handling of expansion/compression of very many files (such as 5000+ files).
    • Better handling of network paths in Zip archives.
  • Collectors:
    • Better path resolution (Network, Shell spaces)
    • Fix Collector to Collector Move operation.
  • Find Files
    • Delayed updating of search criteria.
    • Problem relating to uncaching of firectories beeing searched.
  • Location Bar
    • Activation/Deactivation issues.
    • Keyboard navigation.
  • Shell
    • When double clicking shell items, nothing happened, or in some situations under W95, Probe crashed.
    • Menu problem for 'My Briefcase' fixed.
  • Log Window
    • Optimized updating of Log Window to reduce time consumption during for example FTP/Archive listing.
    • Fixed problem relating to closing the Log Window when it's accessed by some file operation.

Changes in Beta 82:

• New Functionality:
  • The Location Bar has been rebuilt. New features :
    • A Location Bar can have 'child popup Location Bars', so that recursive Location Bars can be constructed.
    • Both Folders, Programs, Files can be on the Location bar.
    • The Location Bar is defined by a Collector.
    • Improved Shell Integration (D&D from anywhere to Loc Bar)
  • The 'Layout Selector' functionality of the popup button next to the min/max/close buttons has been improved.
  • Ctrl-R (refresh files) is now available in Tree Views.

• Bugs Fixed :
  • FTP :
    • Timeout problem caused multiple logins sometimes
    • Ascii/Bin File type resolution did not work good.
    • Deadlock located and removed.
  • Drag & Drop of big files to desktop could cause crasch.
  • Problems with Arj/Rar when running Probe from 'Program Files' directory.
  • Improved Tree View Sync when recycling folders.
  • When dragging some shell folders (typically under Network Neighb.), a delay happened.
  • Some fixes relating to Ctrl-F (Finding Files).
  • Starting dragging files at the same time as selecting them with shift and mouse did not work well.
  • Some improvements in maintaining layout coordinates during window sizing.
  • Some keyboard accelerators did not work in Shell Folders.

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