Resco Explorer v2.60 beta

We invite you to try this pre-release version.
Please use the Resco forum to present your comments/suggestions so that more users can react.

Download Resco Explorer v2.60.6 beta

New in v2.60.6

Launcher functionality added:

• Use General Options to set RE as the default launcher
• Use Main menu / Exit to return to the default Palm launcher
• Besides that textual time/battery with variable color indicator added

Besides that a few bugs removed, incl. the image copy problem reported on the forum today. (Concerned card images formatted as DB streams.)

DTG:
We spent on the interface more than 1 day, but finally gave up.
The implementation was partially working, but there remained several caveats.
If DTG improves the interface, we shall resume this work.

New in v2.60.5

Optimizations in the Documents and Icon cache, bug removal.

DTG:Waiting for additional details. If they arrive tomorrow, we'll implement it right away.
Otherwise v2.60 will be launched with old DTG interface and the new interface will be added as a patch.

New in v2.60.4

Some small improvements for Documents
A lot of optimization.

We just received the description of the call interface for DTG, so this will be added as well. (The current interface enables only reading of small or medium-size documents.)

New in v2.60.3

This is already very close to the final release.

Document queries do work:
Use context menu Info option to define the query and Refresh option to realize the query.
Old document links will be discarded, because the underlying DB uses different format.

The Refresh does the following:

• Adds new items satisfying the query.
• Discards non-existing items.
• Preserves unrelated items - those that do not satisfy the query, but were added manually.

Note:
If you swap the card for another card with different label, then the card gets different drive letter.
Items from the original card are not considered as not existing and are thus not removed during Refresh.

MobiSystems OfficeSuite 7.25 was just released. This version is compatible with the Explorer v2.60.

New in v2.60.2

Added application category "All"

External tools dialog: Added the possibility to select user-selected tool.
Out of the standard tools only those are listed that are installed.

Smart history: Remembers only folders where non-trivial activity was performed.

Titlebar reorganized to better fit the launcher view. Toolbar icon replaced by a small triangle in the bottom right corner.

Repligo:
Needs v 2.1.4 available from http://www.cerience.com/viewers/pc.php and from http://www.repligo.com

Context menu of each document item lists the link to the original item.

Document folders Info dialog allows to specify a query. (NOT WORKING YET - ONLY DEMO.)
RAM documents are limited to supported types, whereas card docs can be specified as the folder and list of types.

New in v2.60.1

Contains more launcher-oriented features.
Typical combo-box of the application categories contains additionally document categories. (1st level folders only.)
Treo users can use shift+left/right to swap the categories.

Associations

Associations-related menu options were moved to the "Manage Associations" dialog.
'Restore on each Reset' checkbox in this dialog allows the automatic restore of associations after each reset/Hotsync.
These are the 2 typical events when associations use to be modified either by OS or 3rd party applications. (Explorer tries to be the last application that modifies the associations, but this in fact cannot be guaranteed.)

Documents

New root folder "Documents" allows creating virtual subfolders that can hold links to files or databases. By default, subfolders "Documents", "Images" and "Music" are created and populated with known suitable databases. (Menu option "Refresh" serves for the same purpose.)

To add new item to the documents folder simply copy it using any of the means Explorer offers.
Documents can have can have any subfolder hierarchy creating thus a virtual file system.

New special filter 'Show Documents' is accessible from the RAM context menu. As the name suggests, it shows known RAM documents.

Icon View

Explorer right pane can now be presented as an icon list. (Main menu option 'Toggle Icon View'.)
Notice that the icon view may be selected independently for either Documents/Categories or the remaining folders. May be a bit confusing, but enables to select icons for documents/applications and technical list for other more technically oriented folders.
General Options allow to select large or small icons.

Interfaces

• Interface to MobiSystems Office prepared. (Should work with MobiOffice version following 7.20 that is not yet released.)
• Repligo interface works for documents located either in RAM or in the Repligo documents folder.

Name mangling

Name mangling is used less frequently.
Example:
Database "Français" is copied to the card as "Français.pdb", while previous versions would use "Fran%E7ais.pdb" replacing ç by its hexadecimal code.

Mangling is used only for non-printable characters and characters forbidden in the file names.
Full name mangling is used further on in backup.

DB viewer

Prev/next commands in the DB viewer implemented:

• via buttons
• via left/right 5way keys (models without focus navigation)
• shift+up/down (treo)

Other news

• Info dialog - added 5way navigation.
• Associations dialog optimized for speed.
• Repair Associations reports the CreatorID's of the apps that are illegally registered.
• Ordering of the context menu items modified. (User request)
• Fixed small fonts in the list on OS4 devices.