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Nimi Places 20190721 released

Build 20190721 of Nimi Places address hash collision possibility, fixes initialization issues and many other issues.

 

Build 20190721 of Nimi Places fixes that during initial­ization it could freeze due to parallel initial­ization sequence going out of order, secondly ​and most important­ly build changes hashing method as to addr­ess issues with possible collisions.

Build also brings multi­ple optim­izations ​and fixes.

Please mind that due to change of hashing method — only con­tainer bounds remember­ed ​for primary dis­play will be restor­ed.

Hashing method ​and con­tainer bounds ​on secondary dis­plays

As hashing method changes — hash ​for given dis­play ​and dis­play con­figura­tion changes as well. As an result new hash might not match remember­ed — hashed with pre­vious method.

Why existing hashes cannot be con­vert­ed to new hashing method?

Simplify­ing, hashing is a one way process of mapping data of given size into one of fixed size. This means that it is possible ​for hashing method to output the same hash ​for different input — resulting ​in collision.

Nimi Places 20190721

  • Changed hashing func­tion.
  • Fixed clearing arrays to be re-used with erase.
  • Fixed con­tainer dis­play­ing ​in rev­ersed order when no sorting is used.
  • Fixed con­tainer scrollbar horizontal posi­tion upon changing con­tainer theme.
  • Fixed con­tainer sub-directories files listing.
  • Fixed con­tainer visibi­lity toggling could cause it rema­in hidden until con­tainer reload.
  • Fixed database keys removal not triggering saving.
  • Fixed getting file name without extension ​or directory name.
  • Fixed waiting until registry access is acquir­ed.
  • Remov­ed unnecessary con­catenating when con­verting long path to normal path.
  • Optimized character range con­version to hex to be branchless.
  • Optimized con­tainer compositor.
  • Optimized con­tainer loading ​and unloading.
  • Optimized con­tainer scrolling with scrollbar.
  • Optimized con­verting long path to normal path.
  • Optimized database boolean opera­tions.
  • Optimized generating place ​and flags look­up string.
  • Optimized generating text with shadow.
  • Optimized registry access error notifica­tion.
  • Optimized saving rotat­ed images.
  • Optimized structur­es use by removing unnecessary con­structors.
  • Revised con­tainer theme details saving.
  • Revised con­tainer theme loading menu adjustments.
  • Revised parallel initial­ization.
  • Other changes, fixes ​and updat­es.

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Nimi Places
Organizes desktop into con­tain­ers, dis­play­ing files ​and fold­ers.

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