The Windows 7 file browser is now able to display thumbnail images for wire files. This change applies to Windows Explorer, as well as the Windows file browser used in Alias when opening and saving files.
The Windows file browser within Alias has a different look, more in line with Windows 7. Some of the original functionality has been modified:
- The Go lister at the top of the browser is now called Go To and is located in the lower left corner. The options are:
Current Home – Goes to the folder that is one level up from the current project folder.
Current Project – Goes to the current project folder.
Current Wire – Goes to the wire folder in the current project.
- The Project > Set Current menu choice is now a button called Set Current centered at the bottom of the browser. It sets the selected (highlighted) folder to be the current project
- The Project > New Project menu choice is now a button called New Project, which creates a new project folder in the current folder.
Clicking the Show the preview pane icon at the top of the browser (circled in red in the image) opens a pane displaying a thumbnail of the wire file currently selected.
Thumbnail images are generated within all wire files. The Create .ICON files check box in Preferences > General Preferences now appears only when Type of file browser is set to Alias (old Alias browser) or when running Windows XP, which does not support the new browser thumbnail feature.
If you have Alias installed, Windows Explorer also displays thumbnails for wire files.
On the Mac platform, the file browser has the same appearance as before, but now displays a preview of the wire files when using the Alias browser (opening and saving files). Wire files also display an associated image in the Finder.
The Reference Manager and the saveLayers plug-in now use the new file browser.