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RELEASE NOTES - FILEBROWSER v5.3.0
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RELEASED 24th September 2010
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SUPPORTS S60 3.0+
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Product Description:
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The FileBrowser tool can be used to browse directory hierarchies and perform 
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file operations under the S60 environment. It also contains some smaller tools 
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and functionalities that help RnD development and verification.
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Main Features:
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- Showing a drive list
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- Browsing through directory hierarchies
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- Disk admin tools for generic disk operations
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- Searching files with different parameters
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- Full clipboard functionality
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- Copying/moving files with the help of a separate dialog
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- Creating new files and directories
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- Showing properties of files, directories and disks
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- Sending, deleting, renaming, touching, setting attributes,
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  compressing and uncompressing of files
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- Recursive directory support
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- Sorting and ordering file view
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- Filtering entries with a search field
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- Text and hex viewer for files
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- A settings screen for altering different kind of settings
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- Data type viewer/editor
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- Ability to give TCB capability for file operations
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- Showing message attachments from Symbian messaging store
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- Touch UI toolbar (S60 5.x only)
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What's New in v5.3.0
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- Destination folder selection dialog updates
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- Property dialog improved
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- Toolbar placed to right in landscape
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- New toobak button icons
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Installation Notes:
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FileBrowser is typically preinstalled on ROM. If not, it can be added to the
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ROM with the .iby file. Alternatively, the .sis file can be found under the sis-
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directory, but the user need to sign it with their own developer certificate.
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In Nokia R&D environment, you can use directly the R&D-signed .sis file under the
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internal\sis directory.
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FileBrowser is provided as full and lite version. Lite version is aimed for
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those who cannot sign with TCB capability. Lite version can be generated by
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defining FILEBROWSER_LITE flag and then by recompiling the application and
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regenerating the sis file.
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When signing with own developer certificate, the following capabilities are
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needed in the lite version:
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  ReadDeviceData
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  WriteDeviceData
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  DiskAdmin
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  AllFiles
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  SwEvent
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  NetworkServices
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  LocalServices
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  ReadUserData
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  WriteUserData
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  Location
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  UserEnvironment
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The full version requires these addtional capabilities:
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  CommDD
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  PowerMgmt
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  MultimediaDD
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  DRM
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  TrustedUI
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  ProtServ
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  NetworkControl
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  SurroundingsDD
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  TCB
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When builing FileBrowser against S60 3.0 or 3.1, you may need to patch your SDK
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environment first with some fixes. For more information, please refer to the
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instructions under the "envpatcher" directory.  
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System Requirements:
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Basic Requirements:
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- Any S60 3.x device or emulator environment
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Compatibility Issues:
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Known Issues:
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Version History:
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Version 5.2.0 - 27th August 2010
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- Error fixes
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- Destination folder selection dialog
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- Error fixes
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- File attributes
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- Error fixes
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- File filtering
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- Usability improvements
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- Error fixes
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- All files to text file with file sizes
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- Usability improvements
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- Orbit UI
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- Fix: UI layout problems fixed
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- Fix: Filebrowser crashes with too long filenames
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- Fix: Refreshing display does not work well when starting FileBrowser
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- Fix: Internal Mass storage drive is displayed as Memory Card
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- Feature: Touch UI toolbar introduced with Navigate Up, Filter and Select
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  functionalities (S60 5.x only)
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- Fix: Date and directory attributes don't work correctly with search
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- Feature: "Remember last folder": File list view now remembers which folder
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  had the last focus before navigating deeper in a directory, and selects that
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- Fix: Execution of long file operations may cause WSERV 11 panic
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- Fix: Allow formatting even if files are in use
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- Fix: Calculation of partition size with 64-bit values caused unwanted side
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- Fix: Size of drive partitions should be calculated with 64-bit values
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Version 4.3.1 - 7th March 2008
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- Fix: Crash when search field was active and changing file view mode 
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- Feature: Extended file view now displays also the directory/file time
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- Feature: Text file viewer/editor supports also in UTF-8, UTF-16 little endian
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- Change: Opening with apparc is not anymore a default opening action but now
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- Change: Font size in file list view has been adjusted to suit better in
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- Change: In first time start, extended view is activated in QHD resolution     
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- Change: Font size in file viewer and editor is now smaller so that more text
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- Change: Settings are now saved in dictionary store instead of cenreps  
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- Fix: Copy/move to folder functionality was broken
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- Fix: Scroll bar did not work properly in text viewer when used via touch UI
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- Fix: Last line of hex viewer was not warpped correctly 
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- Fix: Menu bars of file viewer and editor did not work properly
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- Fix: Search should not return directories when searching a string
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- Feature: User mapped remote drives are visible in drive list view as normal
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- Feature: Files can be edited in both text and hex modes
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- Feature: Show checksums (message digests) on different algorithms for a file
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- Feature: Error strings are now displayed for various operations instead of
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- Feature: Disk can be ejected and dismounted via disk admin
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- Change: Increased maximum heap usage to 32Mb to allow loading large files to
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- Fix: Trying to create a directory which already exists did not return an
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- Fix: In the file list view active item not visible when deleting last item in
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- Fix: Some file specific commands were visibile in menus also for directory
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- Fix: Utilizing secure backup leaked memory 
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- Feature: File operations are now started asynchronously with own recursion
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- Feature: Status of each file operation can be monitored via RDebug 
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- Feature: Remove file locks via Secure Backup
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- Feature: File operation functionality can be customized via the settings
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- Feature: Multidrive support with erasing MBR and drive partition for drives
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- Change: Remove screen capture support since the same functionality can be
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- Fix: Forms were incorrectly constructed in search dialog and attribute editor
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- Feature: In the list view, left/right arrow keys can be simulated with drag to
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- Fix: Touch click in the listbox view
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- Fix: Scroll bar in the hex/text viewer can be scrolled on a touch UI
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- Feature: Data type editor
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- Fix: Layout in hex/text viewer in mirrored mode
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- Fix: Wrong functionality while moving a folder
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- Change: Handle backup session while formatting a drive
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- Feature: Modify debug mask
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- Feature: Simulate Symbian OS error types
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- Feature: Enable/disable icon server cache
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- Feature: Drive snapshot functionality under the main drive selection list
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- Feature: Dump message store walk into a text file
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- Change: Enhance hex/text viewer
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- Fix: Enhance folder browsing speed in Z-drive
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- Fix: Opening of search field
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- Fix: Enabling extended errors if c:\resource directory does not already
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Copyright (c) 2009 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
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All rights reserved.
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This component and the accompanying materials are made available
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under the terms of "Eclipse Public License v1.0"
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which accompanies this distribution, and is available
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at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html".