Added

Image preview uses EXIF orientation tag embedded in image file.
Base background color and selected column background color are available in compatible view.
Now the custom color settings can be applied to subfolder menu items.
UI improvements of View Custom Color page of the Option window.
An option to set keyboard focus to the specified part of the window when it is opening.
Now Explorer windows can be captured when opened by the removable drive auto-play-handler.
Improves subfolder menu speed by creating caches of removable media / drives status.
Now 'Up button' of Windows 8/8.1 opens new window with Ctrl key.
New command 'Open and close other tab' in the Group item menu contextmenu.
New commands in the contextmenu of tab origined from a group, such as 'Close this group'

Fixed bugs

Contextmenus disappear when mouse cursor is on the "Folder Band" of Windows 7.
Group sub items in the Versatile bar contextmenu make no response.
Items in the Versatile bar can't be rearranged when 'Allow to drop to sibling items' is off.
Explorer window won't open when a modal dialog is displayed.
Explorer crashes by mouse wheels with Shift key down sometimes.
Drop helper windows don't come up if sub folder menu is off in the default view style.
Drop helper windows won't disappear after drop in some cases.
Option window collapses in high-DPI environments.
Restore.exe fails on its first execution of the session if without Desktop tool.
Video preview ignores the option 'Display file info...'.
Full-screen image preview ignores the option 'Info text label'
Preview windows flash and disappear in full-row-select mode of the compatible view style.
Preview still locks files in slow devices such as USB drive.
Preview stops responding after it fails to render some kinds of media files.
Text preview takes very long time to load text files which have long lines.
Potential bug of changing menu renderer.

Tests

• Group Color (Options -> Groups -> Color for selected group)
Tabs and Group menu items are painted in specified color.
(Options -> Group options -> How to indicate group color)
Commands are added to tab contextmenu which closes all tabs of the same group, etc..


• Drop helper (Options -> Folder View -> Drop Helper)
2 small windows (Copy and Move) are displayed while dragging file over folder.
Copy or Move operation is executed by dropping onto these windows.


• File rename tool
From keyboard shortcut, or context menu of active tab -> actions to current view -> "Rename items..."
Refined in 259.
A toolbar button will be available in next version...

Run QTTabBar.exe. After logged-off, right click on the menubar of folder window and check "QTTabBar"

Run QTTabBar.exe. Old QTTabBar can be uninstalled by the newest QTTabBar.exe.

Displays Desktop Tool Menu.
To activate Desktop Tool, right click on taskbar and check Toolbars -> QT Tab Desktop Tool.
Desktop Tool provides QTTabBar functionalities to desktop view.
Also shows group/recent tab menus etc. by double-click on taskbar and desktop.
QTPopup.exe commands to show these menus.

Usage

QTPopup.exe [/X:xpos] [/Y:ypos] [/desktopcontents] [/group] [/recenttab] [/applauncher] [/recentfile]

/X	x position where the menu is displayed.
/Y	y position where the menu is displayed.
	ex /X:500 /Y:300 Pops up at mouse cursor without location specified.
/group	Displays group menu.
/recenttab	Displays recent tab menu.
/applauncher	Displays application launcher menu.
/recentfile	Displays recent file menu.
/desktopcontents	Displays items on the desktop in menu.

/group, /recenttab, /applauncher, /recentfile, /desktopcontents can be used alone.

Restores tabs contained by a previous window.

Usage

RestoreWindow.exe [/w]

/w	Restores tabs in new folder window.

Edits, downloads or uploads Language file, and downloads or uploads skin image files.

Usage

Distributor.exe [/L] [/I]

(no arguments)	Runs Language File Editor.
/L	Runs Language File Downloader.
/I	Runs Image File Downloader.

Language File Editor