New features:

• Added the &xcenter;, a &warpcenter; replacement.

• Added more items to the context menus on the "File types" page in "Workplace Shell".

• Added "No submenu" setting for "Lock in place" context menu item ("Workplace Shell", "Context menus" page 3).

• Added "Logoff network now" to desktop's removeable menu items; shutdown menu items can also be configured more (desktop settings notebook, "Menu items" page).

• Added "Ignore &xcenter;" to sliding focus settings ("Mouse", "Movement").

• Martin Lafaix contributed the "Resources" page to XWPProgramFile.

• Added "Close &warpcenter; before Desktop" setting to &xshutdown; page in Desktop's settings notebook. This now allows you to tell &xwp; to leave the &warpcenter; alone, if this lead to scroll bars on the desktop. Hope this helps.

• Moved NLS-independent resources to a separate DLL (XWPRES.DLL).

• Added more error checking to "Empty trash" on shutdown.

• Reworked WPS command interception for file engines command to avoid duplicate code... hope I didn't break anything.

• Optimized &pgr; window procedure to use less PM resources. Also improved cache locality.

• Martin Lafaix contributed some patches for the display of the folder content menus to make them look more like standard menus. Thanks.

• "Object" page is now automatically enabled in XWPSetup when object hotkeys are enabled. Some people had a hard time finding object hotkeys, Sander. ;-)

• Reworked mutex semaphore protection all over the place. Maybe the WPS is now less prone to hanging when PMSHELL.EXE is killed.

• Reworked NLS initialization. This hung the system when language DLLs failed to load.

• Fixed crashes when archiving displayed a msgbox after an archive was restored.

• Fixed two potentially dangerous situations with mutexes and 1) the shared notebook functions and 2) the worker thread/awake objects registry. This could have lead to system hangs, and maybe it did somewhere.

• Reworked internal timer functions. These stopped working when the date changed.

• Fixed crashes in Worker thread when kernel globals were locked.

• Added more error checking to internal EA functions.

• Changed a USHORT to a ULONG in my internal EXE structures. This _might_ fix problems with very strange and rare EXE files on the "Modules" page. Thanks, Martin Lafaix, for pointing this out.

• Fixed crashes when favorite or quick-open folders were deleted.

• Extended folder sorting was pretty broken. Dunno when these bugs were introduced, but open folders did _not_ react when global sort settings were changed. This was a collection of at least three bugs, which are fixed now. Unfortunately, to fix this, I had to break the folder sort settings in each folder's extended attributes, so you will lose all your folder sort settings with this release. Sorry.

• Extended associations didn't work when a data file had spaces in its full path. Fixed.

• Extended associations ignored program object settings for "no auto-close after exit" and "minimized". Fixed.

• Extended associations did not setup up the program's environment properly (WP_OBJHANDLE, WORKPLACE__PROCESS), which broke DragText. Thanks, Rich Walsh, for pointing this out to me.

• Extended associations used "plain text" as the standard file type for associations always, giving all data files the icon for plain text associations... removed that.

• "File types" page crashed when a file type was dropped on one of its descendant file types. Fixed, this is prevented now. Thanks, Martin Lafaix.

• On "File types" page, pickup and drop would not work with the context menu. Fixed.

• Creating a root file type on the "File types" page led to an error message, even though the file type was created. Fixed.

• Fixed memory leaks with "File types" page. Thanks, Martin Lafaix.

• Some "Delete" commands would not be intercepted to go to the trash can if the command was selected from an object that was not in a folder. Fixed.

• Trash can would sometimes display wrong empty/non-empty icon after Desktop startup. Should be fixed now.

• On some systems the trash can folder would appear as a template in the "Templates" folder. Preventing template creation now.

• Fixed a memory leak with every time an application was opened via object hotkeys.

• XWPString would never save the "Confirm" setting. Fixed.

• Extended system sounds broke completely with V0.9.6. Fixed. Duh.

• Pages in "Multimedia" hung the system if the object was closed while the data was still being inserted by the background threads. Fixed.

• &pgr; has been rewritten in considerable parts. We are now using a linked list instead of a global array for the internal window list; wrong sticky windows (newly created ones, Odin and EPM windows) have been fixed; maximized window handling has been redone. Dmitry Kubov helped doing all this -- thanks very much, Dmitry.

• &pgr; "move thread" now has a higher priority. This should fix problems during desktop switches when other processes hog the CPU.

• &xshutdown; would sometimes crash if "Empty trash" was enabled. Fixed.