Starlog - File Pilot

User requested features

(Feature suggestion) Replacing explorer.exe
(Feature suggestion) Add `pilot` CLI program to `PATH`.
Allow disabling overscroll/virtual space at the bottom of directory listing.
Option to not underline names when using single-click to open.
Single-click to open an item.
"Remove bookmark." button consistency.
Don't show hidden system files unless both 'Show Hidden' and 'Show System' are checked.
The storage icon looks like a trash can.
Be able to hide dotfiles.
Smarter ctrl + arrow keys/delete/backspace for input fields.
Added a hover indicator for the empty header area that opens the GoTo window.
Ability to go to folder that contains the highlighted file from the root GoTo menu.
Sum selected files' sizes.
Display Size with visual aid like a bar (Like TreeSizeFree).
Command for copying file path.
'Date modified' should sort by newest first.
Add shortcut to select the last tab.
Reopen closed tab.
Option for clicking on folders to open in new tabs.
Add tab duplication.
Single-Click to Open should be able to only work on Folder.
Option for rectangular close/maximize/minimize buttons.
Added option to use double-click on empty background to go to the parent folder.
Shortcut Alt+Double Left Click to Open Properties (Like system default).
Ctrl+doubleclick to open folder in new fpilot window.
Option to group by files first, then folders.
Allow scrolling while dragging and dropping files.
Autoscroll selection rectangle.
Add spacing before the first and after last column.
Make files and folder icons react to Tortoise SVN and other programs changes.
Show overlay icons.
Syc icons.
More Information Density for Various Elements in the UI.
Even less padding, for information density.
Change default font to 9.
Small icons are rendered in the top left corner, even at lower zoom levels.
Thumbnail options scale to fit/scale to fill the available space.
Option to prevent auto scroll when changing sorting filter if nothing was deliberately selected.
Keep scroll position in a folder.
Don't update recent marking in folder view until you leave said folder.
Follow Windows Date/Time Settings and/or Allow Manual Setting.
Make text paste (ctrl+v) work for all files selected in Bulk Rename.
Save "Type Visibility Filters" when saving folder view settings.
Find subfolders from current directory.

Features

Added commands for opening the containing paths of links and shortcuts, also accessible by clicking the path in the panel listing.
Option to control when thumbnails are loaded.
Hotkey to Copy/Move files to the previously selected panel.
Showing the zoom level icon and name in the panel footer.
Added the Close Left Tabs command.
Added Search Tabs dropdown.
Added a right-click Tabs Options popup on empty space in the tabs area.
OpenInNewTab, OpenInRightSplit, OpenInBottomSplit, and OpenInWindow now work with files as well, opening their containing folders.
Highlight Recents without sorting to the top.
Option to disable recents tracking.
Selecting the parent folder in the Files Popup when going upwards.
Refresh forces the reloading of thumbnails and previews.
Option to use double-click on empty background to go to the parent folder.
Double click on the tab opens properties of the folder that is displayed in the tab.
Added support for mouse wheel scrolling during drag and drop.
Types popup - button to toggle/untoggle all types.
Assigning hotkeys to each view zoom level.
Saving filtered types for session and saved layouts.
Improvements to Quick Access sidebar items

Showing overlay icons for shortcuts and links.
Obeying the Show File Extension setting.
Items will update when files are removed or renamed.
Showing tooltips for group items.

User reported bugs

[0.2.8] Small gap between titlebar window icons.
.mp4 video dimensions show width twice instead of height.
Framerate tanks when left on long enough.
[0.2.8] There are underscores under files and folders names.
Back/Forward buttons sometimes have black background.
[0.2.8] Crash on file rename if dead key input interrupted.
Fatal Exception code OxcOOOOOId.
[0.2.8] Crash when changing Fontsize while App Menu is open.
[0.2.8] Crash when closing pane if too many panes open.
White application bar at the top on startup.
Top bar is cut when opening the app.
Open File location on shortcut triggers exception.
[0.2.4] Crash after opening a ghost file.
[0.2.8] Bookmarks order reset when closing/opening File pilot.
[0.2.8] Some buttons are not rounded.
[0.2.8] Cannot RightClick drag in the same folder.
[0.2.8] Numbers added when renaming multiple files.
[0.2.8] Disk Voyager stopped responding to keyboard input after being left open for a while.
[0.0.15] drag&drop from a browser disables all keybinds.
Numpad enter doesn't behave like regular enter.
Bookmarks error.
Disable thumbs.db creation.
[0.2.8] Scrolling steals the focus, but that's bad.
Bookmarking behavior (active tab rather than clicked tab is bookmarked).
[0.2.1] Cursor movement overlapping with other applications affects FPilot's selection highlights.
[0.2.8] FPS drops very low when previewing text file with long lines.
[0.2.8] Context menu appears at mouse position when called from "menu/app" key.
After creating a new folder the cursor is in the filter box, instead of on the "New Folder" name.
Mouse dragging files does not trigger auto-scroll near panel top/bottom.
[0.2.3] Dropbox Smart-sync triggers unexpectedly.
[v0.2.8] Some file icons are tiny.
Why are the icons not displayed properly?
Hidden taskbar does not show when File Pilot is full-screen.
[0.2.1] Win11: moving the cursor to the bottom of the screen does not cause the taskbar to appear.
Date format ignoring system settings.
[0.2.8] Act on Press does not affect mouse4/mouse5.
Divide by zero exception when selecting "Expanded Search".
Crashes with images of extreme dimensions (e.g., 100000x20).
Access violation after previewing a binary file.
Jittery storage names.
[0.2.8] font size change hotkeys immediately reset all settings.
[0.2.1] Thumbnails do not update.
[0.2.8] Wrong thumbnails when renaming a file with the name of a deleted file.
Renamed file doesn't update correctly.
No icon after mounting a drive.
Creating and editing text files doesn't update preview.
[0.2.0] Inspector does not update modified files.
[0.2.8] Thumbnails don't update when file gets overwritten.
Thumbnail Doesn't Update.
[0.2.18] Disk Drives in Recents are grey.
Icons not reacting to image edits.
Crash that occurs on idle with a specific set of folders open...
[0.2.8] Crash on refreshing a folder.
Filepilot crashed, ( code 0xc0000005 ).
[0.2.8] Crash when opening a new File Pilot window after hibernating.
crash while the app was open in background (I was doing some stuff in git and other apps).
when opened to a mapped network drive and using another machine, file pilot crashes.
File Pilot crashed after adding many files to directory using Git.
[0.2.8] Crash when trying to open a large .TIFF file.
[0.2.8] Crashes when screens are sleep?
Shortcut are indistinguishable from folders.
[0.2.8] Shortcuts to folders are not sorted with folders when first created.
File is listed multiple times.
No refresh after delete.
CTRL + SHIFT + N Creates duplicate items.
File listing out of date (won't refresh).
Duplicate file lurking in my downloads.
ghost File.
[0.2.0] Renaming Files sometimes causes them to Disappear.
[0.2.3] Copy and Paste file seems to create a duplicate - refresh (CTRL+R) removes it.

Bugs

Resizing the left-side panel causes labels to wobble.
Exclude nested children items from hidden/system folders in flattened folder view.
Check for SSE4.1 support before running it.
Fixed a bug that referenced old config data.
Fixed a bug where the long path support setting was not showing in Options.
Fixed text wobbling in certain areas due to incorrect text alignment.
Properly listing the recycle bin from the parent path in expanded mode.
Fixed incorrect size in KB in file tooltips.
Fixed drag-and-drop state clearing when coming from an unknown source.
Fixed the incorrect viewport calculation for popups with the filter box.
Fixed the rotation animation offset.
Fixed text highlighting for the active sort column.
New Tab now opens the folder from the current tab instead of the last tab.
Using UTF-8 for the Sort by Name criteria.
Fixed popups closing when the window resizes.
Fixed assigning the correct value to the 'Start In' field when creating shortcuts.
Fixed unfinished chain hotkey termination.

Changes

Raise a system dialog popup when the program fails to initialize the OpenGL context.
Include dot files under the Hidden Files category.
Kept the border highlighted for focused text fields in Options.
Removed Pin to Quick Access and Give Access To from the right click menu.
Restored the default Windows window close animation.
Using a different icon for the main menu button.
Enabled triggering file rename while the filter text box is focused.
Clearer tooltip descriptions for buttons that toggle files and folders in the directory listing.
Allowing paths to be opened directly in the GoTo window when there is no selection.
Always display the Quick Access button next to the Menu button.
Changed the default sort direction for certain criteria, such as dates and sizes, to descending order.
Open Tab in Window – Changed default hotkey to Ctrl+N and no longer closes the tab in the original window.
Different new tab animation.
Special-cased pasting one line into multiple file names during batch renaming.
Change icon for DEBUG version of FPilot.
Changed the default hotkey for Toggle Cursor Selection from Shift+Enter to Ctrl+Space to match File Explorer's defaults.
Slightly increased the distance threshold required to initiate drags of tabs and columns.
Assigning the Enter key on the keypad as the default hotkey for the Activate command.
Session and user data loading is now more lenient, skipping unknown fields instead of throwing errors.
Reduced occurrence of the hand cursor in the UI.
Highlighting toggles in popups.
Toggles displaying an extra check or X icon.
Different icon for filter types popup.
No selection when first entering a new folder.
Loosen the hotkey system slightly, allowing most commands to be triggered while the folder filter is focused, and gracefully applying the filter when focus is lost.
Clarify tooltips for listed files and folders, including hidden/system exclusions.
Reduced resorting and refiltering in large directories through smarter file change tracking.
Include right click to open in tooltips for header columns.
Types popup respecting hidden/system files.