To find a software, a
DLL or a help file on your CDs, floppies, Zips, etc becomes easy !
Store the content of your medias and consult them 'offline'. FileBank
check for you the applications presents on your medias and let you find
them quickly. You can store the content of your backups in order to
verify the existence and / or the date of one file. If you devellop
softwares, store the content of your installation disks of each
release. You will know quickly which files you have installed, of what
date and size. Using a very powerful algorythm, FileBank can analyse
the magazine CDs to find all the applications. It stores their
descriptions and let you install them. FileBank use an explorer like
interface, easy to learn. It can scan every logical drive of windows.
This is a 32 bits application.
In French and English
for Win95/98/ME and NT 4/2000/XP. Works in Unicode (tested on a
Japanese workstation !). The english documentation is still in
developpement, but the executable file already works in english.
Update of the graphics libraries : PaintLib and others,
used to get descriptions of images. These new releases reduce the
crashes, specially inside gif reading.
Fix the output of directory size in the list, always at
0 !
Fix drawing of flat tool bar.
Fix file types in list.
Fix translation of result messages, and others....
Version 4.10 (04/2002)
Add the creation of messages file. After
translation,
this message can be used to allow the user to has its own language in
Filebank user interface.
Correction of a description pane drawing problem.
Correction of registering problem.
Version 4.00 (04/2002)
New Options box to configure Filebank..
Extract thumbnails for pictures found on the new
media.
The type of files to analyse is configurable, like the size and the
color depth of the thumbnails to obtain. A text description is also
extracted.
Extract informations from executables (EXE, DLL,
OCX) :
version number, copyrights ...
New file format compressed. The size of FBD files
has
been divided by three !
The dialog box for search results can be resized,
and
the size is stored from one call to another.
Some problem of small icons of files which
disapeared
on NT has been corrected.
A new dialog box is shown during media analysis.
This
window has an 'interrupt' button to stop processing. It alsos give
error messages of the analysis. This text is copied in the description
of the media.
It is now possible to change the user interface
language !
Version 3.11
New column 'type' in the file list.
New scrool bar in description tab.
A problem has been fixed in the search result
dialog
box : after consulting properties of a found file, it was impossible to
make another search.
Version 3.10 (07/2001)
New option for general research (applications,
files,
descriptions, directories ...).
The research ca be done on media names and media
folder
names.
New progress bar during research.
Screen refreshing problems with filters fixed.
New inverted mode for filters : Filebank will show
ALL
the files of the catalog matching the filter. When the file selection
change, Filebank will highlight the corresponding directory / media in
the left tree. A short way to find a file across big catalogs.
New yellow Filebank icon. Seems to better represent
the
'Bank' idea.
New description dockable window, at the bottom of
the
file list. It contains the description of the selected file or
application.
In the About dialog box, the copyrights of the
external
librairies and / or source codes used in Filebank is shown.
Version 3.00 (03/2001)
New option 'Visit the author site' in the Help menu.
New filters. Let Filebank only show he files you
need.
It is possible to create filters for sound files, videos, pictures or
wathever you want. Some filters are installed, but all can be edited
and / or deleted.
New automatic descriptions extracted from MP3 files
:
sampling frequency, author, composer, singer ...
New options Copy/Paste on medias, across different
catalogs.
The research is now possible by directory name.
The splash window does not wait anymore a Ok to
launch
Filebank. After three seconds, the window will close itself (if you are
registered, of course...).
Version 2.01
If the user closes Filebank with the small cross in
title bar, there were a file writing problem. Fixed.
Version 2.00
New option 'Merge'. The loaded file is merged with
the
current one.
Zip and Cab files are now scanned.
New catalog printing. Directories, files or
applications can be print. For each, it is possible to print or not
attributes, size, date and time of last modification.
The last ten research strings are now saved..
In the file research dialog box, speed improvement
of
sorting by full path.
At least, the progress bar during applications
searching on new medias works !
The 'most recently files used' list was not updated
!.
Version 1.08
In the research dialog box, 'Enter' starts
searching,
and 'Escape' exits from the box..
Directory renaming fixed. The keys 'Enter' and
'Del'
were not correctly handled.
Problem of not wanted characters in applications
descriptions fixed.
Version 1.07
Big loading error fixed !
Version 1.06
It is now possible to add comments on every file !
New research dialog box.
New option 'Consult' for files, which run Notepad.
Better applications names sorting.
Better research of the application names, to avoid
redondant characters and tabs.
Better error hadling for PDB files.
Speed improvement in directory or media
destruction.
File Applis.dat updated with new versions of well
known
applications.
Version 1.05
Use now Internet Explorer style icons.
File Applis.dat updated with new versions of well
known applications.
Direct links to my mail and my site in the About
dialog box.
A lot of screen refresh were done in previous
versions. Fixed.
Version 1.05
Some small bugs fixed.
Fix of the loading of the last file used, if this
file
has been deleted.
The installation now works with a self-extracting
program.
Version 1.03
Correction of a bug of installation programs
searching.
Big speed improvement of the tree drawing (mainly
on
small machines).
Version 1.02
Correction of a bug of installation programs
searching.
Speed improvement for applications research.
Show a progress bar during this research.
Correction of a column sorting error.
Version 1.01 (08/98)
The option "Help/Content" goes to the help summary
!
Properties on an empty file do not crash anymore.
The ToolTips work on NT 4.0.
The option 'not case sensitive' works in the
application research.
