SpaceMonger - What's New in 2.1

So you've used SpaceMonger before? Version 2.1 has a whole host of new features, but still has the same fresh lemony scent you know and love. It can still scan your disks and tell you how much space things are taking up, but version 2.1 contains so much, much more than the 1.x versions you're likely used to.

If you're used to version 1.x and are a little lost in version 2.1, you may want to try the Introduction for New Users.

A complete list of changes is shown below, dating back to the very beginning of SpaceMonger:

#### Version 2.1 - August 15, 2006

- Brand-new scanner and renderer code.
- Built on the Wink framework, which provides UI widgets, system code, threading tools, OS isolation and portability, XML parsing, HTML rendering, and a ton of other features.
- New UI, with new layout, that looks similar to the v2.0 layout, but is built on the Wink UI widgets.
- Fully internationalizable and translatable; includes 10 language translations upon release.
- Includes alternate visualizations, including data tables, a histogram, and a pie chart.
- Hundreds of new customization options in the Setup dialog.
- Full Unicode support throughout.
- "Find" bar that can search for files in the scan.
- Better shell integration, including the ability to open folders and disks from the Explorer in SpaceMonger and the ability to open files and programs via SpaceMonger. The "Tools" menu allows access to common Windows configuration areas.
- Full documentation, including user manual.
- A point-and-click Windows-friendly installer (NSIS).
- More accurate disk-scanning.
- Basic network-drive support.
- Ability to scan non-disk paths.
- Favorites list for common scan targets.
- Five different treemap layouts, including the classic "cluster size" treemap.
- On-the-fly scanner and updater allows you to use the program while it's scanning.
- Ability to hide files from the display.
- Ability to copy and move files, not just delete them.
- Ability to rescan portions of the scanned data without rescanning all of it.
- Multiple-file selection and the selection list, which can be used to efficently manage the selected files.
- User-interface can switch between "simple mode", which looks a lot like the old 1.x interface, and "enhanced mode", which contains all the new features.
- Tested on all major current Windows versions: Windows 95 (OSR 1/2), 98 (FE/SE), ME, 2000, XP, and Server 2003.

#### Version 2.0 - Summer 2001

- Brand-new scanner and renderer code.
- New UI, with new layout.
- No longer uses MFC, but accesses the Windows APIs directly.
- Work on this was halted in October 2001; work on v2.1 began in March 2002.

#### Version 1.4.1 - March, 2001

- Incomplete and never released, this version fixed the known deletion bug, fixed bad French spellings, and added a Dutch translation.

#### Version 1.4 - October 16, 2000

- Last public release before version 2.1. Merged French translation into original v1.x code-base.

#### Version 1.3.5fr - October 2000

- Created a French-language translation on a lark using some simple high school French. Posted on Werkema.com.

#### Version 1.3.5 - October 2, 2000

- Third Internet release, posted on Werkema.com and on SimTel. Minor bug fixes. Lockergnome featured this version in its October 2000 newsletter.

#### Version 1.3.4 - September 13, 2000

- Second Internet release, posted on Werkema.com and on SimTel. By posting this on SimTel, Chris Pirillo of Lockergnome discovered it.

#### Version 1.3.3 - Summer 2000

- Minor bug fixes and additions.

#### Version 1.3.2 - Summer 2000

- Minor bug fixes and additions.

#### Version 1.3.1 - Summer 2000

- Minor bug fixes and additions.

#### Version 1.3 - Spring 2000

- Major improvements in scanning performance by using better memory management and less data copying. First Internet release, posted on Werkema.com.

#### Version 1.2 - Late 1999

- More bug fixes; switched to Visual C++ 6.0. Released to a handful of people at Penn State. Second public version.

#### Version 1.1 - Early 1998

- Minor bug fixes; released to a handful of people at Penn State. First public version.

#### Version 1.0.3 - November 1997

- Minor bug fixes.

#### Version 1.0.2 - November 1997

- Added zoom-in / zoom-out support.

#### Version 1.0.1 - November 1997

- Minor bug fixes.

#### Version 1.0 - November 1997

- First version. Written in an afternoon on Windows 95 using Visual C++ 4.0 and MFC. Could scan a disk and render a simple treemap of its data, slowly. Unreleased.

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