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Release notes 1.0.0

By Erik Jälevik on 11 April 2020

The 1.0 release candidate is finally ready. If no major bugs are found, this is the version that will be used for Fileside’s public launch.

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Release notes 0.6.4

By Erik Jälevik on 2 April 2020

Faster transfers and fixed handling of bad filenames.

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Release notes 0.6.3

By Erik Jälevik on 3 January 2020

This is intended to be the last build before 1.0, picking up a few of the remaining little issues and annoyances.

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Release notes 0.6.2

By Erik Jälevik on 24 October 2019

Fixes for symlink-related crash bugs and improvements to sorting and the context menu are the order of the day.

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Release notes 0.6.1

By Erik Jälevik on 10 October 2019

A small bugfix release to fix an annoying crash bug that crept in with the last pre-release commit.

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Release notes 0.6.0

By Erik Jälevik on 8 October 2019

After a hiatus of a few months, Fileside is back with a vengeance, with what’s intended to be the last beta version before launching publicly. As such, it contains the feature set planned for version 1.0.

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Release notes 0.5.1

By Erik Jälevik on 14 May 2019

This release finally fixes some long-known bugs, and adds support for multiple Fileside windows.

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Release notes 0.5.0

By Erik Jälevik on 8 May 2019

Working with layouts is now less of a plight, thanks to bright-looking colours that seduce and delight.

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Fixing drag and drop in Electron

By Erik Jälevik on 22 April 2019

Drag and drop from Electron apps to other applications is broken. One possible way to work around it is by writing native Node modules replacing Electron’s implementation. That way we can support dragging multiple files out of our app with full support for modifier keys. This article describes how to do this for Windows and MacOS.

But be warned, you have to want drag and drop really, really badly to go down this route. It is a lot of work, as it involves use of native Node modules, the Win32 and Cocoa APIs, and the C, C++ and Objective-C languagues. And in the end it’s still not quite perfect. If that’s not enough to deter you, do read on to embark on a journey to the heart of darkness.

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Release notes 0.4.0

By Erik Jälevik on 16 April 2019

A small update adding standard icons for each file and folder. And some bug fixes.

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