DopusWorX 1.0.0-rc.1

DopusWorX 1.0.0-rc.1

The release candidate for 1.0.0 stable. This is the stable build under a final short soak: if nothing significant surfaces, the same code ships as 1.0.0. If you have been on the beta, this is the one to update to; the in-app updater will pick it up, or grab the zip below.

DopusWorX is a document viewer and in-place editor that lives inside Directory Opus. It renders and edits documents in the Opus viewer pane and the pop-out viewer window, and it is file-type aware: open a file and DopusWorX picks the right view for it. Markdown is the headline, with Reading, Live and Source modes, but the same plugin also handles code, CSV, HTML and binary files.

Since the beta

A lot landed after beta.9 that its notes never covered:

• Heading folding. Headings in Live and Source fold their whole section, down to the next heading of the same or higher level.
• Auto-updating Table of Contents. Insert Table of Contents writes a TOC that keeps itself in step as headings change, with proper anchors so the links work in Reading mode.
• Frontmatter banners. A banner: path or URL in the YAML frontmatter renders a full-width image strip across the top of the note, in Reading and Live.
• Alignment from the right-click menu. Left, Centre, Right and Justify on a selection, a line, a table or an image; the wrapper tags are written for you and reveal themselves when the caret moves inside. Markdown inside <center> and <div align> now renders properly.
• Formatting shortcuts. Ctrl+B bold, Ctrl+I italic, Ctrl+E inline code, Ctrl+Shift+X strikethrough; all toggle cleanly.
• Undo history that tells you something. Undo and redo entries describe each step, like Cut "some words", instead of a bare list.
• Find and replace reworked. Replace sits behind a toggle so Enter can never run a destructive replace by accident, matches centre on screen, highlights clear on close, and the panel fits narrow panes.
• Format document. Pretty-prints minified files, starting with JSON.
• A Binary group in File types. Common binary extensions can preview as hex out of the box.
• The Explorer tick now sticks. Associating a file type from the File types panel now genuinely becomes the Windows default.
• Two viewers, one file. Opening a file another viewer has unsaved edits in offers those edits or the disk version; nothing is silently discarded.
• AutoHotkey highlighting. .ahk files are now syntax highlighted (GitHub issue #5).
• Docs rewritten and expanded, and every release is now gated by a much larger automated test suite.

No settings migration is needed. Your existing configuration, custom themes and file-type choices carry over.

What to test

Anything you like, but these areas changed the most and real-world hours help:

• Everyday editing in Live mode: lists, tasks, tables, maths, diagrams.
• The same file open in two viewers with unsaved edits in one.
• Files that change on disk while you have them open.
• Your own palettes and custom themes after updating.

Report anything odd on the issues page, ideally with the file (or a snippet) that triggers it.

Install

1. Download DopusWorX_v1.0.0-rc.1.zip from the Releases page.
2. Quit Directory Opus.
3. Extract the zip and run Install.cmd, then accept the UAC prompt. It copies the plugin into the Directory Opus Viewers folder and relaunches Opus. Uninstall.cmd in the same zip removes it. Install.cmd /silent runs unattended.

Updating over a beta install is fine: run Install.cmd and it replaces the old version in place.

Requirements

• Windows x64
• Directory Opus 13 or later
• The Microsoft Edge WebView2 runtime, already present on most up-to-date Windows installs. If it is missing, DopusWorX shows a download link in the pane.

Directory Opus is a trademark of GP Software. DopusWorX is an independent plugin, not affiliated with or endorsed by GP Software.

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DopusWorX 1.0.0-beta.9

DopusWorX 1.0.0-beta.9

A smaller follow-up to beta.8 with a few rendering fixes and one new Markdown convenience. It is still a development build, so please report anything that looks wrong.

Added

• Size and align images inside table cells. Use the plain Obsidian pipe syntax right in a cell, with no escaping needed: ![logo|72](path) for width, ![logo|72x48](path) for width and height, and ![logo|72|center](path) to centre it in the cell. It works in Reading and Live, and your file keeps the plain pipes exactly as you typed them. An HTML <img width> works in a cell too, and the two can be mixed in one table.
• Smarter handling of files with very long lines. Files such as SVG icon sets, whose path data can run to thousands of characters on a single line, were being mistaken for minified files and shown as plain read-only text. The check now looks at the longest line rather than the average line length, so a few long lines no longer trip it. When a file genuinely does have a line long enough to slow the editor, the notice carries a Show anyway button that opens it in the editor anyway.

Changed

• Centred headings get a nicer underline: solid through the middle, fading gently out to both sides, and running a little past the text. Left and right aligned headings are unchanged.

Fixed

• Mermaid flowchart labels are visible again. Diagrams were drawing the boxes but leaving the text inside them blank; labels now show on every palette.
• LaTeX to AsciiMath matrix conversion is correct. A 2x2 now becomes (a,b;c,d), with rows separated by semicolons, instead of the old ((a,b),(c,d)). It covers round, square, brace, bar and norm matrices.
• Links in HTML files open in your browser again, instead of loading in the viewer pane.

Install

Download the zip, quit Directory Opus, extract and run Install.cmd.

sha256: d5e227deb4d7a3023704bc513036d899da7288aeeec032ee86bf67a1fc2c3af9

DopusWorX 1.0.0-beta.8

DopusWorX 1.0.0-beta.8

This is a development build, with a lot of new ground in it, so please put it through its paces and report anything that looks wrong.

The headline additions are a binary and hex inspector (on by default for binary files, with an optional byte editor), Mermaid diagrams, a right-click menu you can drive by keyboard and touch, Go to line, a choice of which view markdown opens in, raw HTML and centred blocks that render in Live, and a smoother flash-free open, with a batch of rendering, clipboard and install fixes. The reworked split source view is also worth a careful look.

Added

• Binary and hex inspector, on by default. A file that is actually binary, detected by its content rather than its extension, now opens in a hex inspector instead of the old not-shown-as-text notice. It shows an offset, hex and ASCII dump with a data inspector down the side that reads the bytes under the cursor as 8, 16, 32 and 64-bit integers and as 32 and 64-bit floats. Select a byte range by click, shift-click or drag (Ctrl+A selects the whole file), jump to an offset with Ctrl+G (hex, 0x or #decimal), and search for a hex pattern or text with the Hex toggle in the find bar. Copy gives you the selection as hex or as text. View as hex on the menu opens any file in the inspector, and View as text takes you back.
• Hex editor, opt-in. Turn on the hex editor in Settings and the dump becomes editable: overwrite or insert bytes, type in either the hex or the ASCII column, undo and redo, and Ctrl+S writes the bytes back to disk. It is off by default, so the inspector is read-only until you ask for it.
• Mermaid diagrams, on by default. A fenced mermaid block is drawn as a diagram in Reading, Live and the split preview, covering every diagram type (flowchart, sequence, class, state, pie, gantt and the rest), and you can turn Render Mermaid diagrams off in Settings. Diagrams take their colours from the active palette so they match the page, or you can pin a palette by name, and they recolour on a light or dark switch. In Live, click a diagram to edit its source and click away to redraw. Settings cover the theme, a classic or hand-drawn style, flowchart edge shape, a separate diagram font, named font sizes, label wrapping, sequence-step numbers and a connection limit. A diagram that cannot be parsed shows a tidy error box with its source. The engine downloads only the first time you open a note that has a diagram.
• A right-click menu set of enhancements and extras, working better on a touchscreen, a press and hold opens it. The rendered HTML View also gets a small Copy and Select all menu.
• Go to line. Press Ctrl+G in any editor surface (markdown Live or Source, and code View or Edit) to open a small popup, type a line number and press Enter to jump there and centre it. It is also on the right-click menu as Go to line.
• Open markdown in. A setting to choose whether markdown files open in Reading, Live or Source by default.
• Remember each file's view is now a duration. Keep it Always, turn it Off, or set anything from five minutes up to a year, after which a file falls back to its default view.
• Centre a block. A centred div, a element or a text-align style now centres the text, and whole tables, in both Reading and Live; left, right and justify work too.
• Raw HTML in Live. A raw HTML block (a details box, a mark, an image) now renders in Live the way it does in Reading, instead of sitting as raw tags; the source comes back when you put the cursor on it.
• Magnify active row, on by default. In Source and code editing the line your cursor is on lifts slightly toward you, so it is easier to keep your place. Turn it off under Formats, Code and source files.
• Paste into CSV cells. Ctrl+V or a Paste menu item drops the clipboard into the grid: a copied range lands as a range, and a single value fills the whole selection.
• A CSV table now reopens at the zoom you left it, remembered per file.
• A Wrap long lines in code blocks setting (on by default) controls whether long lines in rendered code blocks wrap or scroll, separate from the source editor.
• Separate left and right page padding. The single page-padding setting is now a Left value and a Right value, so the two margins can be set independently. Existing setups keep their old padding.

Changed

• The viewer and Settings now open on the pane background and ease the page and toolbar in, instead of snapping in or flashing a light-then-dark page.
• Refresh now reloads from disk. Ctrl+R, F5 or the toolbar refresh re-reads the file from disk in any mode, not just Reading. If you have unsaved edits it asks first before discarding them.
• Smarter error reporting for a formula that fails to render keeps the source you typed, shown in red, with a short plain-language note of what went wrong underneath, readable on any theme, instead of raw engine jargon.
• The install and uninstall scripts find Directory Opus from the registry, so they work wherever it is installed.
• Internal rename. The viewer's internal CSS class and storage prefix changed from mdwx to dwx. If you wrote custom CSS that targets .mdwx- classes, point it at the matching .dwx- classes instead. Remembered views and CSV layouts are migrated across automatically.

Fixed

• Select all on an editable surface now selects the whole document, not just the part on screen, so copying from a long file no longer drops the off-screen text.
• Saving a file whose original was renamed or moved no longer silently recreates the old name. The viewer notices the original is gone and offers Save As instead.
• Open link in browser now appears only for real external links, so it no longer opens dead in-page or relative addresses in your browser.
• Live now always wraps the editor, so the raw source of a code block you click into no longer runs off the side of the pane.
• In Live, a wrapped list item now hangs its text under the first line, and bullets and numbers line up.
• Copy image address on a local image now copies the path you wrote, not the viewer's internal address; external and data links are left untouched.
• Right-click Paste in the editor works again: the host now grants the viewer clipboard-read access, so the menu's Paste is no longer silently ignored.

Security

• Updated the bundled DOMPurify and the build tooling to clear dependency advisories; none were exploitable in the way the viewer uses them, and the audit now reports clean.

Install

Download the zip, quit Directory Opus, extract and run Install.cmd.

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DopusWorX 1.0.0-beta.7

DopusWorX 1.0.0-beta.7

Local images outside the document folder now survive restarts, Insert Image embeds a copy by default, the right-click menu and Insert Table dialog are tidied up, and opening Settings from QuickShow no longer closes the popup.

Changed

• Insert Image now defaults to embedding a copy beside the document, so the image travels with the file. The old copy-to-folder checkbox is replaced by a Storage choice: Embed a copy (default, portable) or Link in place (an external reference that does not travel with the document). For a web URL, Link is disabled when Allow remote images is off. Sizing and alignment are unchanged.
• The right-click menu in editable views is shorter: Insert image and Insert table are one Insert submenu, and Find and Replace are a single entry since they open the same overlay.
• The Insert Table dialog is rebuilt as a centred card, with the size grid as the focus, Cols x Rows beneath it, Position as a segmented control, and Headers as toggle chips, with no dead space.
• The math symbol grid reflows to the pane width instead of a fixed eleven columns, so a wide pane fits more symbols and a narrow one fewer.

Fixed

• Local images referenced by an absolute path outside the document's own folder went blank after the viewer or Directory Opus restarted. Their folders are now rebuilt from the document's own references on load, so they keep rendering across restarts.
• Opening Settings from the gear while previewing a file in QuickShow (the Space key popup) closed the popup straight away. Settings now stays open over QuickShow while you use it, then QuickShow returns to normal once you close it. The double-click viewer and the Lister preview pane are unchanged.
• Scrolling inside the math panel no longer scrolls the editor or page underneath.

Security

• The image route that serves out-of-folder files now refuses anything in the Windows system directory, regardless of the allowlist.

Install

Download the zip, quit Directory Opus, extract and run Install.cmd.

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DopusWorX 1.0.0-beta.6

DopusWorX 1.0.0-beta.6

Footnotes rebuilt so they work properly in Live mode, plus find in Reading, gutter line selection, and a batch of image and editing fixes.

Added

• Footnotes in Live mode rebuilt from scratch. You type the note straight into the real source with no separate edit box, multi-line footnotes work and stay put, an empty footnote leaves a "click to add text" placeholder, and each footnote has a delete control that removes it and its references together so numbers reuse from one. The number and return arrow centre what they jump to.
• Gutter line selection in the editor. Click a line number to select the line, drag the gutter to grow the selection, Shift+click to extend, Ctrl+click to add or remove a line, and the up/down arrows then walk the selection. Works in code, HTML, CSV and Markdown source.
• Insert Table button on the editing toolbar, beside Insert Image. A dialog lets you pick the size from a hover grid or type columns and rows, choose where the table sits on the page (left, centre or right), and toggle a header row and a header column. Works in Source and Live.
• Copy a table as CSV. Right-click a markdown table in Reading or Live and Copy offers "Table as CSV".
• Alt+double-click any text in Reading to jump into Live with the cursor on the word you clicked. A plain double-click still selects a word to copy.
• Find and replace overlay. A floating palette, Ctrl+F in every mode, and find now works in Reading by searching the rendered page. Single find UI, so Edge's own find bar no longer pops up over it.
• Alt+Left and Alt+Right step backward and forward through a document's views (Reading, Live, Source for markdown; View, Source for HTML), and Alt+Up and Alt+Down open and close the split preview.
• Ctrl+R and F5 do the app's own refresh (keeping unsaved edits) instead of a full reload, and Ctrl+P prints.

Fixed

• Footnote numbers, the return arrow, and in-page links like [text](#heading) did nothing in Reading. They navigate now.
• Local images referenced by a Windows path (C:\pics\cat.png) showed in Live but were blank in Reading. Fixed.
• Image width and height were ignored in Reading, showing images at full size. They size correctly now, matching Live.
• Tables with merged cells (colspan/rowspan) and column scope lost that structure in Reading. They render correctly now, and ordered-list start numbers and time values were restored by the same fix.
• Image alt text no longer keeps the sizing tokens, so ![cat|40x200|right](...) reads as just "cat".
• Inserting a local image whose path has spaces, backslashes, parentheses or a hash (Screenshot (1).png) no longer produces a broken link.
• Find in Reading matches inside ==highlight== marks and across inline markup like **bold** text, and no longer goes stale after a refresh or jumps back to the first match on Enter.
• Edge browser shortcuts (Ctrl+J, Ctrl+H, Ctrl+D, back/forward and others) no longer leak into the viewer.

Install

Download the zip, quit Directory Opus, extract and run Install.cmd.

sha256: 0ea083ebcbf6e066f4de3a76d02e22b0ea7448152e072fc6304a21a357b2262e

DopusWorX 1.0.0-beta.5

DopusWorX 1.0.0-beta.5

Mostly the standalone (pop-out) viewer this time, plus an installer fix.

Added

• Full screen button in the standalone viewer. A faint round button top-right toggles full screen on and off. It only shows in the standalone viewer, not the lister preview pane, and the icon flips between expand and collapse to match the state.
• Viewer background colour in Settings, under Appearance > Page surface. Sets the area behind the page. Leave it empty and it matches your Directory Opus pane colour automatically, and uses the same colour in the standalone viewer. Set a colour to pin the same background in both. It saves with your custom palettes and themes, and built-in presets never change it.

Fixed

• Settings window opened behind the viewer when the viewer was full screen. Now it opens on top and stays with the viewer as you toggle full screen.
• Standalone viewer background now matches your lister preview pane instead of showing a different colour behind the page.
• After install or uninstall, Opus comes back as a normal program again, not elevated, even though the installer runs as admin. Opus running elevated can break drag and drop from other apps.

Install

Download the zip, quit Directory Opus, extract and run Install.cmd.

sha256: 612afdbae56d801bdcb1915bdfaa61882b50d1d78e0a412edfcd4851d6d8cd7e

DopusWorX 1.0.0-beta.4

DopusWorX 1.0.0-beta.4

This one is about keeping your edits safe, plus a round of fixes from beta3 feedback.

Added

• Reversible conflict prompts. When you choose to keep or discard edits after a file changed underneath you, a small Undo toast appears for a few seconds. Clicking it brings the options back so you can change your mind. It fades out on its own.
• A clean viewer (one with no unsaved edits) now tells you when it auto-reloaded because the file changed on disk, instead of swapping the content with no notice.
• Task checkboxes now work inside table cells - they render and toggle (and save) in both Reading and Live, so a checklist column in a table behaves like a normal task list. Checkboxes in blockquotes toggle correctly too.

Fixed

• Unsaved edits could be silently overwritten when the same file was open in more than one Opus window or pane and one of them saved (or another program changed the file on disk). The viewer now always prompts and never replaces unsaved work without asking; discard and reload is clean too, with no banner flashing back.
• The pop-out viewer window no longer overlaps the Directory Opus toolbar (the toolbar was sitting behind the viewer and staying clickable through it).
• Web and local fonts referenced by an HTML document now load and render in HTML view; they were being blocked.
• Settings help popups (the ? buttons) no longer open underneath the mouse cursor.
• Right-click submenus (Zoom, Sort, Insert, and the rest) no longer get cropped when the viewer is a short pane docked low in the lister; they reposition to stay on screen.
• In Settings, File types, the footer Apply no longer looks like it saved the Pane / DOpus / Explorer column ticks or new custom types. Those only take effect through "Apply file associations", which is now the single path that commits them. Grammar picks still save with either button.
• The Settings font list is enumerated once and pre-warmed, so it no longer lags when you open Settings.

Install

Download the zip, quit Directory Opus, extract and run Install.cmd.

sha256: e79a601cb17f70b0351a1c71fd812c448672731bf15f02c7eb77fcb6fdc4ad72

DopusWorX 1.0.0-beta.3

DopusWorX 1.0.0-beta.3

Code highlighting got a big upgrade, plus a few Settings fixes.

Added

• Around 150 languages now highlight, up from ~35. The common ones are bundled; the rest load on demand the first time you open that kind of file.
• New Highlight Grammar column in Settings ▸ File types to pick which grammar any file type uses, with a reset all link.
• Ambiguous extensions are detected by content, so .m, .v and .sig resolve correctly (MATLAB vs Objective-C vs Mathematica, etc.).
• Custom file types default to their real grammar if it's a known language, otherwise plain text.
• New Page width option in Settings ▸ Page layout: Fixed width, Expand, or Fill (edge to edge).
• Ctrl/Cmd+click opens a URL in the code/source editor and in CSV cells (a plain click still edits).

Fixed

• Font dropdowns (Body, Code, Source) were blank; they now list bundled and installed fonts.
• The Global and Syntax palette dropdowns line up at the same width.
• Context menus no longer get cut off at the edge of the viewer.
• The version shown next to Check for updates now reports correctly (it was stuck on the previous version).

Install

Download the zip, quit Directory Opus, extract and run Install.cmd.

sha256: 0ce977fec12398763489a2adcc416e3ec02fea59707addf8d250cc2a2f7a186e

DopusWorX v1.0.0-beta.2

• HTML entities now render in Live mode, like ·, © and …, the same way they already did in Reading. They stay literal inside code, and unknown ones are left as written.
• Syntax highlighting added for VBScript (.vbs), AutoHotkey (.ahk) and NirCmd (.ncl).
• Files saved under a .txt wrapper, like script.js.txt, now highlight by their inner extension.
• VBScript, AutoHotkey and NirCmd have their own File Types icons instead of the plain text one.
• Those three types preview in the Pane by default.

Install

1. Download DopusWorX_v1.0.0-beta.zip below.
2. Quit Directory Opus.
3. Extract the zip and run Install.cmd, then accept the UAC prompt. Uninstall.cmd in the same zip removes it.

Requires Windows x64, Directory Opus 12 or later, and the Microsoft Edge WebView2 runtime.

Proprietary. Copyright (c) 2026 HyperWorX. All rights reserved.

sha256: b70819ffc0cfd5da414779126e78455957e6fd6606b1036a352aac690cceefb1

DopusWorX v1.0.0-beta

DopusWorX v1.0.0-beta

Released: 2026-06-19

The first public release of DopusWorX, the successor to mdWorX. What began as a Markdown viewer has been rewritten from the ground up into a full document workspace inside Directory Opus, with a maths workspace, more file types, thirty palettes and a much sturdier save path. It carries a beta tag while it sees its first round of real-world use.

What it is

A native Directory Opus viewer plugin: a Windows x64 DLL that renders documents in the Opus viewer pane and pop-out window using the Microsoft Edge WebView2 runtime, not a separate app. It is file-type aware: Markdown opens with Reading, Live and Source; code in a highlighted Source view; CSV/TSV as an editable grid; HTML as its own page with a Source view and split.

Highlights

• Markdown in Reading, Live and Source with a split preview (draggable divider, linkable scrolling), a full formatting toolbar, find and replace (case, whole word, regex), and undo/redo with a history dropdown and live counts.
• Maths in LaTeX or AsciiMath, inline with $...$, display with $$...$$, or am blocks, with auto-detect, a symbol panel, click-to-edit, in-place convert, slanted fractions, eight fonts, your own macros, and a choice of KaTeX or Temml. $5 stays text, and the engine loads only when a document has equations.
• Code with syntax highlighting for around thirty languages, a line-number gutter, word wrap, a copy button, colour swatches, and diff/patch colouring.
• CSV/TSV as an editable grid: sort, in-cell edit, add/delete rows with undo, filter, freeze the first column, override the delimiter, and copy out as a Markdown table.
• HTML with a rendered View, a Source view, and a split.
• Thirty palettes (eighteen dark, twelve light) including ProWorX, ProWorX Light and GloWorX, following the Opus pane background by default or pinned, plus a full visual theme editor.
• GitHub-flavoured Markdown plus Obsidian-style [[wikilinks]], ![[transclusion]], embeds, and the image alt size/align syntax.
• Customisable: auto-hiding toolbars, draggable toolbar layout, file-type handling at Pane / DOpus / Explorer levels, encoding and fallback codepage, auto-save, and more.

Robust and secure

Atomic writes with an empty-buffer guard and crash recovery; content-aware detection of external changes, so no silent overwrites; remote images off by default (no network request); a hardened HTTPS-only updater with an anchored host allowlist and SHA256 verification; and no registry keys of its own.

For mdWorX users

You gain a full maths workspace, more file types (code, CSV/TSV, HTML), more palettes, and a sturdier save path. DopusWorX uses its own name, settings location and release channel (%APPDATA%\HyperWorX\DopusWorX\). Settings do not migrate; set it up fresh from its own Settings dialog.

Install

1. Download DopusWorX_v1.0.0-beta.zip below.
2. Quit Directory Opus.
3. Extract the zip and run Install.cmd, then accept the UAC prompt. Uninstall.cmd in the same zip removes it.

Requires Windows x64, Directory Opus 12 or later, and the Microsoft Edge WebView2 runtime.

Proprietary. Copyright (c) 2026 HyperWorX. All rights reserved.

sha256: b27fc842a6096fce7737a2fb7ed01242382694b95bc117aa1460486340430c62