0.10.0

Changes for 0.10.0

• Breaking change: The Configuration Files directory has moved from %USERPROFILE%\ShellAnything to %USERPROFILE%\ShellAnything\configurations. Configuration Files in the old directory will move to the new directory automatically on application first launch. Other files in %USERPROFILE%\ShellAnything will not be moved.
• Breaking change: The logs directory has moved from %USERPROFILE%\ShellAnything\Logs to %LOCALAPPDATA%\ShellAnything\logs. The previous logs directory will be removed on application first launch.
• ShellAnything has a new high-resolution logo icon!
• Shellanything now features verbose logging mode and command line arguments debugging tools.
• ShellAnything now packages icons from icons8/flat-color-icons.

Fixes:

• Fixed issue #6 : (twice) Right-click on a directory with Windows Explorer in the left panel shows the menus twice.
• Fixed issue #31 : (twice) Error in logs for CContextMenu::GetCommandString()
• Fixed issue #108: Separate location for log files ? (and exclusions?)
• Fixed issue #109: Implement default and verbose logging.
• Fixed issue #110: Create a simple command line arguments debugging application.
• Fixed issue #148: Can't uninstall.
• Fixed issue #150: ico icon (that do not specifically force index=0) are not working.
• Fixed issue #157: Compilation fails on Github Action: fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'atlbase.h': No such file or directory.
• Fixed issue #158: Compilation fails on Github Action: CPack error : Problem running WiX..
• Fixed issue #159: Unit test fails on Github Actions: TestPlugins.testServices().
• Fixed issue #161: Create tools to help quickly find a system icon when creating a menu.
• Fixed issue #164: Fails to identify icon for HTML files.
• Fixed issue #167: Improve the quality and accuracy of icon's fileextension attribute resolution (Icon::ResolveFileExtensionIcon()).
• Fixed issue #171: New logo icon.
• Fixed issue #177: Execute a console program without showing a window.
• Fixed issue #178: Exec action should expose the created process id.

What's Changed

• Merge branch feature-issue158. by @end2endzone in #160
• Merge branch feature-issue150. by @end2endzone in #156
• Merge branch feature-issue109. by @end2endzone in #163
• Merge branch feature-issue6. by @end2endzone in #165
• Replaced using CRLF by LF in IObject::ToLongString() implementations. by @end2endzone in #166
• Merge branch feature-issue164. by @end2endzone in #168
• Merge branch feature-issue167. by @end2endzone in #169
• Merge feature-issue110 by @end2endzone in #170
• Feature issue 148 by @end2endzone in #172
• Feature issue161 by @end2endzone in #175
• Added missing fixed properties to the documentation. by @end2endzone in #176
• Feature issue177 by @end2endzone in #179
• Feature issue171 by @end2endzone in #180
• Feature issue108 by @end2endzone in #183

Full Changelog: 0.9.0...0.10.0

0.9.0

What's changed for 0.9.0

• Fixed issue #111: Move code from the shell extension to the core.
• Fixed issue #126: Remove single quote characters surrounding values in ActionExecute logs.
• Fixed issue #127: Question Prompt action does not accept answers longer than the visual textbox.
• Fixed issue #129: Utilize clipboard contents as well as set them.
• Fixed issue #130: Set a property value from the content of a file.
• Fixed issue #132: Delete deprecated NSIS installer references.
• Fixed issue #133: Support for Github's Actions for the project.
• Fixed issue #134: Set a property value from a registry key.
• Fixed issue #135: Set a property value from a search in the PATH environment variable.
• Fixed issue #137: Library independent logging support.
• Fixed issue #138: Restrict the context menu to appear only when the Shift key is held down.
• Fixed issue #139: Wait for an action to complete before executing the next action.
• Fixed issue #141: Separator visibility options.
• Fixed issue #144: Create more live properties from date and time.
• Fixed issue #146: Set a property value from a random value (generate random values).
• Fixed issue #147: Allow property action attributes to not fail (continue to next action) if unresolved.

Notes:

• ShellAnything has support for Live properties.
• Support for clipboard, random values and more property settings (searchpath, registrykey and file) are the major improvements in the release.

Full Changelog: 0.8.0...0.9.0

0.8.0

Changes for 0.8.0

• Shellanything now features support for plugins (beta).
• Now using GLOG (Google Logging Library) as a shared DLL instead of a static library.
• Now using libexprtk as a shared DLL instead of a static library.
• Fixed issue #50: Multi-select filename handling and complex visibility judgment.
• Fixed issue #89: Show a confirmation prompt as an action before proceeding.
• Fixed issue #103: ShellAnything API in C.
• Fixed issue #105: Support for .editorconfig as a coding standard.
• Fixed issue #101: Deprecate setup.exe installer in favor of the Windows Installer (*.msi).
• Fixed issue #113: Upgrading from v0.7.0 to 0.8.0 installs at the wrong location.
• Fixed issue #114: Implement sa_plugin_terminate() in the C API.
• Fixed issue #117: Menu entries with icons that uses an icon file (.ico) does not work when scale is greater than 100%.
• Fixed issue #118: Registry corruption while registering the extension.
• Fixed issue #119: Disable logs when the shell extension is loaded by registry editor (regedit.exe).
• Fixed issue #121: ShellAnything Errors out when opening a context on Google Docs/Sheets/etc.
• Fixed issue #124: Property 'application.path' resolves to sa.core.dll instead of sa.shellextension.dll.

Notes:

• Plugins support is in beta stage.
• The file name of Shellanything's shell extension is now sa.shellextension.dll. If you update from a previous version, make sure you unregister the previous shell extension (formally shellext.dll).
• Deprecated support for Windows 7. Version 0.7 is the last version to support Windows 7.

0.7.0

Changes for 0.7.0

• Using RapidAssist version 0.10.2.
• Using File for Windows v5.38 with minimal changes.
• Using PCRE2 version 10.30
• Fixed issue #59: Implement a new type of separator for creating a menu with multiple columns.
• Fixed issue #90: New property for detecting empty directories.
• Fixed issue #91: String encoding in source code.
• Fixed issue #92: New property for detecting file type based on content.
• Fixed issue #96: Problems with Files > 2Gb
• Fixed issue #97: Files and folders together do not start MENU.
• Fixed issue #98: Show only one log warning message about missing icon for a file extension.
• Fixed issue #100: Visibility/Validity attribute istrue and isfalse for validation against boolean properties.

Support for 32-bit Windows is deprecated.

0.6.1

Changes for 0.6.1

• Fixed issue #78: Syntax error in default.xml
• Fixed issue #79: Directory of selection: property selection.dir
• Fixed issue #80: Comment inside XML
• Fixed issue #85: Refresh script

Changes for 0.6.0

• Fixed issue #23: Implement menu validation based on a string expression.
• Fixed issue #53: Multiple or elements support.
• Fixed issue #60: Unit tests cannot execute from installation directory.
• Fixed issue #71: Uniformalize function argument names.
• Fixed issue #72: The PropertyManager::Expand() method is not optimized.

NOTE: This is the last version of ShellAnything that supports 32-bit Windows.

0.6.0

Changes for 0.6.0

• Fixed issue #23: Implement menu validation based on a string expression.
• Fixed issue #53: Multiple or elements support.
• Fixed issue #60: Unit tests cannot execute from installation directory.
• Fixed issue #71: Uniformalize function argument names.
• Fixed issue #72: The PropertyManager::Expand() method is not optimized.

0.5.1

Changes for 0.5.1

• Fixed issue #75: Wix Installer: Incorrect shortcuts in Start Menu

Changes for 0.5.0

• Fixed issue #45: Registration and unregistration scripts are missing from installer and portable version.
• Fixed issue #46: Typo in register and unregister scripts filenames.
• Fixed issue #47: Installer should create shotcuts to register and unregister scripts.
• Fixed issue #48: User Manual: Validity / Visibility hyperlink does not work.
• Fixed issue #49: Validity / Visibility should have an inverse attribute.
• Fixed issue #51: Action "Open command prompt here" from default.xml configuration does not work.
• Fixed issue #52: Define a specific property for use as separator for handling multiple file selection.
• Fixed issue #54: Icon background and dark mode.
• Fixed issue #55: Menu name maximum length limit and escape string.
• Fixed issue #56: Not implemented administrator mode.
• Fixed issue #58: More useful features: class and pattern attributes for validity / visibility.
• Fixed issue #61: Support for WIX installer.
• Fixed issue #66: Github don't identify the repository LICENSE as MIT.
• Fixed issue #68: INSTALL.md mentions that 'application does not provides pre-build binaries' which is incorrect.
• Fixed issue #69: Compilation of PACKAGE target fails if Wix Toolset is not installed on system.
• Fixed issue #70: Merge Win32Clipboard library dependency into ShellAnything.

0.5.0

Changes for 0.5.0

• Fixed issue #45: Registration and unregistration scripts are missing from installer and portable version.
• Fixed issue #46: Typo in register and unregister scripts filenames.
• Fixed issue #47: Installer should create shotcuts to register and unregister scripts.
• Fixed issue #48: User Manual: Validity / Visibility hyperlink does not work.
• Fixed issue #49: Validity / Visibility should have an inverse attribute.
• Fixed issue #51: Action "Open command prompt here" from default.xml configuration does not work.
• Fixed issue #52: Define a specific property for use as separator for handling multiple file selection.
• Fixed issue #54: Icon background and dark mode.
• Fixed issue #55: Menu name maximum length limit and escape string.
• Fixed issue #56: Not implemented administrator mode.
• Fixed issue #58: More useful features: class and pattern attributes for validity / visibility.
• Fixed issue #61: Support for WIX installer.
• Fixed issue #66: Github don't identify the repository LICENSE as MIT.
• Fixed issue #68: INSTALL.md mentions that 'application does not provides pre-build binaries' which is incorrect.
• Fixed issue #69: Compilation of PACKAGE target fails if Wix Toolset is not installed on system.
• Fixed issue #70: Merge Win32Clipboard library dependency into ShellAnything.

Note:
It is recommended to not use the *.msi installer. These are kept for reference. See issue #75 for details.
Please use the exe installers instead.

0.4.0

Changes for 0.4.0

• Using win32Clipboard version 0.3.0.
• Using RapidAssist version 0.8.1.
• Fixed issue #36: Support utf-8 strings in configuration files.
• Fixed issue #38: Unable to load configuration if filename is utf-8 encoded.
• Fixed issue #39: Update coding guidelines to Google's C++ Style Guide.
• Fixed issue #40: Create a action to show a simple popup message.
• Fixed issue #41: Prompt action does not expand default property value.
• Fixed issue #42: Define new fixed properties for action.
• Fixed issue #44: Create an attribute for text encoding of actions.

0.3.0

Changes for 0.3.0

• Using RapidAssist version 0.7.0.
• Using win32Clipboard version 0.2.0.
• Fixed issue #34: Missing documentation with installed software.
• Fixed issue #35: Logs are deleted after 10 days instead of 5 days.