Grids 0.7.6

New

• HWP / HWPX pages in the quick preview, without Hancom Office. F3 or Space on a .hwp, .hwpx or .hwpt file now shows the document's real pages, laid out and drawn by rhwp (MIT), instead of the small built-in thumbnail. The first page appears in a fraction of a second and the rest follow one at a time (up to 50 pages), so moving to another file never waits for a whole document. Pages are kept for a day in %TEMP%\grids-hwp, so reopening the same file is instant.
• Text in a font that isn't installed is drawn with Batang or Malgun Gothic, and an installed font whose letters can't be drawn is skipped the same way, so text doesn't come out blank. A broken or unreadable HWP file falls back to the old thumbnail without closing Grids.

Note: the exe is larger than before (about 14 MB) because the HWP engine is built in.

Install: download grids-v0.7.6-x64.zip, unzip anywhere and run grids.exe. To update, use the blue Update button in Grids 0.7.0 or later, or replace the old grids.exe; your grids.ini and sessions next to it stay as they are.

The exe is not code-signed, so Windows SmartScreen may warn the first time: choose More info → Run anyway. SHA256SUMS.txt lists the checksums.

Requirements: Windows 10 (1903 or later) or Windows 11, x64.

Full changes: v0.7.5...v0.7.6

Grids 0.7.5

New

• Star Grids on GitHub from inside the app. View > ★ Star Grids on GitHub gives the project a star at once if the GitHub CLI (gh) is signed in on your PC; otherwise it opens the GitHub page so you can press ★ Star there. Once starred, the menu item shows a tick. Checking whether you've starred uses the network, so it only happens while View > Check for updates is on.

Install: download grids-v0.7.5-x64.zip, unzip anywhere and run grids.exe. To update, use the blue Update button in Grids 0.7.0 or later, or replace the old grids.exe; your grids.ini and sessions next to it stay as they are.

The exe is not code-signed, so Windows SmartScreen may warn the first time: choose More info → Run anyway. SHA256SUMS.txt lists the checksums.

Requirements: Windows 10 (1903 or later) or Windows 11, x64.

Full changes: v0.7.4...v0.7.5

Grids 0.7.4

Fixed

• The F5 spin is smooth now. In 0.7.3 the ↻ on the pane's parent-folder button shook as it turned: it was a font icon, turned about its outline box rather than the ring's centre and snapped to whole pixels at every step. It is now drawn from its own shape, anti-aliased, and turns exactly about the centre of the ring.

Install: download grids-v0.7.4-x64.zip, unzip anywhere and run grids.exe. To update, use the blue Update button in Grids 0.7.0 or later, or replace the old grids.exe; your grids.ini and sessions next to it stay as they are.

The exe is not code-signed, so Windows SmartScreen may warn the first time: choose More info → Run anyway. SHA256SUMS.txt lists the checksums.

Requirements: Windows 10 (1903 or later) or Windows 11, x64.

Full changes: v0.7.3...v0.7.4

Grids 0.7.3

New

• See F5 happen. Pressing F5 turns the pane's ↑ (parent folder) button into a ↻ that spins once, in about a second, so you can tell which pane was refreshed. Press it again while it spins and it keeps turning smoothly, stopping on a whole turn shortly after your last press.

Fixed

• Ctrl+Alt+G now works in Save dialogs. It only worked in Open dialogs before: Grids did not recognise the file name box of the Save dialog (Save As, Export…). Now it jumps there too and keeps the name you typed.
• Ctrl+Alt+G works every time, not just the first. A dialog opened right after another could miss the key until you clicked elsewhere and back, because Windows reported the dialog a moment before it counted it as the front window.

Install: download grids-v0.7.3-x64.zip, unzip anywhere and run grids.exe. To update, use the blue Update button in Grids 0.7.0 or later, or replace the old grids.exe; your grids.ini and sessions next to it stay as they are.

The exe is not code-signed, so Windows SmartScreen may warn the first time: choose More info → Run anyway. SHA256SUMS.txt lists the checksums.

Requirements: Windows 10 (1903 or later) or Windows 11, x64.

Full changes: v0.7.2...v0.7.3

Grids 0.7.2

New

• Resize the Everything search columns. Drag a border between the column titles (Name, Path, Size, Date modified) to make a column wider or narrower; double-click a border for the default widths. The widths are remembered.
• See the whole name at once. Pointing at a result shows a tooltip right away with its full name, folder, size (with the exact bytes) and date modified, so names cut off by a narrow column can still be read.

Changed

• Updates show up sooner. Grids now looks for a new release 5 seconds after it starts (it was a minute), and when you come back to Grids an hour or more after the last look it looks again, so a Grids left open all day no longer misses a release for up to 6 hours. If a look fails (offline, proxy), it tries again after 5 minutes, then 10, 20 and so on, instead of waiting 6 hours.

Install: download grids-v0.7.2-x64.zip, unzip anywhere and run grids.exe. To update, use the blue Update button in Grids 0.7.0 or later, or replace the old grids.exe; your grids.ini and sessions next to it stay as they are.

The exe is not code-signed, so Windows SmartScreen may warn the first time: choose More info → Run anyway. SHA256SUMS.txt lists the checksums.

Requirements: Windows 10 (1903 or later) or Windows 11, x64.

Full changes: v0.7.1...v0.7.2

Grids 0.7.1

New

• Sort Everything results by column. The Everything search popup (Ctrl+Shift+F) is now a table with Name, Path, Size and Date modified, one line per result, like Everything's own window. Click a column title to sort by it; click it again to reverse. Everything sorts all the matches, not only the ones on screen, so Date modified puts the newest files first and Size the biggest. The order you pick is remembered.
• The popup fits narrower screens instead of running off the edge.

Install: download grids-v0.7.1-x64.zip, unzip anywhere and run grids.exe. To update, use the blue Update button in Grids 0.7.0, or replace the old grids.exe; your grids.ini and sessions next to it stay as they are.

The exe is not code-signed, so Windows SmartScreen may warn the first time: choose More info → Run anyway. SHA256SUMS.txt lists the checksums.

Requirements: Windows 10 (1903 or later) or Windows 11, x64.

Full changes: v0.7.0...v0.7.1

Grids 0.7.0

New

• Batch rename (Ctrl+Shift+R). Rename the selected items, or every file in the folder, with a stack of rules: replace (optionally with a regular expression), insert, remove, numbering, date, case and trimming spaces. A live preview marks invalid names, duplicates and clashes with existing files. The rename is all or nothing, safe when names swap, and can be undone. Rule sets can be saved as presets.
• More in the quick preview (F3 / Space). Del sends the file shown to the Recycle Bin and moves on to the next (Shift+Del deletes it, with Windows' usual prompt), F2 renames it in place, and Ctrl+wheel or Ctrl+= / Ctrl+- / Ctrl+0 zoom pictures and PDF pages; drag or use the scrollbars to move around.
• Shift+F7 makes a new text file, ready to rename.
• "Which program is using this?" in the ⇄ menu lists the programs holding the selected files, with Retry, Switch to and Close (it asks the program to close; it never forces it).
• Compare with WinMerge in the ⇄ menu, when WinMerge is installed: two selected items, or this folder against another pane's.
• Jump from file dialogs (Ctrl+Alt+G). In another app's Open or Save dialog, pick one of the folders open in Grids and the dialog goes there, keeping the file name you typed. The key is only taken while such a dialog is in front; View menu to turn it off.
• Everything search (Ctrl+Shift+F or the orange magnifier). Shown while Everything runs: results as you type, Enter shows the item selected in the active pane, Ctrl+Enter opens a folder, Alt+O searches only under the current folder.
• Updates from inside Grids. From this version on, when a newer release is out a blue Update button appears at the top right. One click downloads it from GitHub, checks its SHA-256 and restarts Grids into it with your folders and settings. View → Check for updates turns this off, and with it all network use.

Fixed

• F7 opens the new folder's name box again, as Explorer does.

These features come from Jun's fork Samek86/maguro (MIT) and were re-implemented for Grids. Thank you, @Samek86!

Install: download grids-v0.7.0-x64.zip, unzip anywhere and run grids.exe. To update, replace the old grids.exe; your grids.ini and sessions next to it stay as they are. Later versions can be installed with the Update button.

The exe is not code-signed, so Windows SmartScreen may warn the first time: choose More info → Run anyway. SHA256SUMS.txt lists the checksums.

Requirements: Windows 10 (1903 or later) or Windows 11, x64.

Full changes: v0.6.5...v0.7.0

Grids 0.6.5

New

• HWP and HWPX previews show the whole document. Until now the preview showed only the first-page picture Hancom stores in the file. It still opens with that picture, and below it now comes the text of every page, with tables drawn as tables (scroll down; Shift+wheel for wide tables). No Hancom Office is needed. It is a reading view, not a page-exact rendering: pictures and page layout are not reproduced, and tables with merged cells can come out slightly shifted. Encrypted or distribution-locked HWP files keep the first-page picture only.

Thanks to the user who asked for this on the Grids AI development page.

Install: download grids-v0.6.5-x64.zip, unzip anywhere and run grids.exe. To update, replace the old grids.exe; your grids.ini and sessions next to it stay as they are.

The exe is not code-signed, so Windows SmartScreen may warn the first time: choose More info → Run anyway. SHA256SUMS.txt lists the checksums.

Requirements: Windows 10 (1903 or later) or Windows 11, x64.

Full changes: v0.6.4...v0.6.5

Grids 0.6.4

Fixed

• Dark mode now reaches the file lists when you switch while Grids is running. On PCs where Windows 11 uses its newer file list, switching to dark (the theme button, or Windows' light/dark setting with "Follow Windows light/dark" on) turned only the frame dark and left every file list white. Grids now reopens the panes on the same folders when the theme changes there, as 0.4 did; each pane's back/forward history and filter start fresh. Other PCs still switch in place.
• "Devices and drives" in This PC is readable in dark mode. The group heading stayed navy on a dark list; on some PCs opening This PC in dark mode could even close Grids. The heading is now drawn light.

Known issue

• Don't run Grids as administrator if you use mouse tools such as PowerToys Mouse Crosshairs: Windows doesn't pass mouse movement over an administrator window to a tool without administrator rights, so the crosshair stops following the cursor over Grids. Run Grids normally, or turn on PowerToys Settings → General → Always run as administrator. Details in the README.

Thanks to the users who reported these on the Grids AI development page.

Install: download grids-v0.6.4-x64.zip, unzip anywhere and run grids.exe. To update, replace the old grids.exe; your grids.ini and sessions next to it stay as they are.

The exe is not code-signed, so Windows SmartScreen may warn the first time: choose More info → Run anyway. SHA256SUMS.txt lists the checksums.

Requirements: Windows 10 (1903 or later) or Windows 11, x64.

Full changes: v0.6.3...v0.6.4

Grids 0.6.3

New

• Duplicate a tab: right-click a tab for Duplicate tab (and Close tab), or press Ctrl+K to copy the current tab right next to it.

Fixed

• F5 refreshes the active pane from anywhere in the window (file list, address bar, filter, folder tree). Before, F5 did nothing, so folders Windows doesn't watch for changes, such as WSL or some network folders, stayed out of date (#2).
• Double-clicking a column divider no longer jumps to the parent folder. In Details view, double-clicking the line between two column headers to fit a column's width was taken for a double-click on empty space; now only real empty space in the list goes up a folder (#3).

Thanks @moxjmkim for reporting both.

Install: download grids-v0.6.3-x64.zip, unzip anywhere and run grids.exe. To update, replace the old grids.exe; your grids.ini and sessions next to it stay as they are.

The exe is not code-signed, so Windows SmartScreen may warn the first time: choose More info → Run anyway. SHA256SUMS.txt lists the checksums.

Requirements: Windows 10 (1903 or later) or Windows 11, x64.

Full changes: v0.6.2...v0.6.3