[Promotion-technology] Fwd: FileDir 2.6 released

[David Andrews]

>
>http://www.EmpowermentZone.com/dirsetup.exe
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>Version 2.6
>Released June 12, 2007
>
>Fixed the Yield on Drive command, Control+Shift+Y, reporting megabytes
>instead of gigabytes.  Fixed the Start Timer command, F12, announcing
>elapsed time every 60 seconds when 0 was specified for the announcement
>interval.  Fixed edit boxes within dialogs not always selecting text when
>receiving focus (such selection is efficient for typing a new entry that
>automatically replaces the previous one).
>
>Fixed pasting in FileDir causing a runtime error if no files were found on
>the clipboard.  Fixed files copied to the clipboard not being available
>for pasting by other applications after FileDir is closed.
>
>For consistency with the Homer interface (multiple JAWS script sets that
>give a consistent command structure to various applications), assigned
>Alt+Shift+C for configuring options of FileDir.  This dialog is still
>available with Alt+O as well.
>
>Made clipboard-related commands more powerful and convenient.  The revised
>interface is described in the following exerpt from the documentation.
>
>Like Windows Explorer, Control+C, Control+X, and Control+V copy, cut, and
>paste file or folder items between the current directory and clipboard.
>FileDir enhances these commands with a plain text format in addition to
>the binary "drop list" that Windows Explorer uses to facilitate drag and
>drop transfers with a mouse.  Since the clipboard can actually hold
>multiple formats at the same time, FileDir creates both a binary and a
>text format when copying with Control+C or cutting with Control+X.  The
>text format is simply a list of file or folder paths, one per line.  Thus,
>paths on the clipboard are simultaneously available both to applications
>like Windows Explorer that look for the binary format, and applications
>like Notepad that look for plain text.
>
>When pasting, Control+V recognizes the text format as well as the binary
>one.  Since the text format does not indicate whether files had been
>copied or cut to the clipboard, this command copies, rather than moves,
>the originals when only text format is found.  With either format, you may
>ensure that the originals are copied with Alt+V, or that they are moved
>with Alt+Shift+V.
>
>Use the Copy Append command, Alt+C, to add items to the clipboard in both
>binary and text formats.  This lets you build a list on the clipboard from
>files in different directories.  It also lets you build a list by pressing
>Alt+C when focused on each item of interest, rather than first creating a
>set of tagged items and then copying them as a batch.
>
>To put a list of file names on the clipboard without preceding paths,
>press Control+Shift+C.  To hear what files are on the clipboard, use the
>Quote Clipboard command, Alt+Apostrophe.  Before saying each path, FileDir
>says "Path drop list" if it finds this binary format.  Otherwise, FileDir
>only speaks text format -- other binary formats on the clipboard are not
>interpreted.
>
>Jamal