Version 5.1.0.1
22 Aug 2009
TouchPro
A Touch Utility Integrated into Explorer
TouchPro allows you to change any combination of file time attributes through a file's property pages. It fully integrates into Windows Explorer giving you the ability to affect the timestamps of:
- Individual files
- The results of any file searches possible with Explorer. For example: particular file types, or for files within a date range.
- Entire folder hierarchies
The registered version of TouchPro enables extra facilities:
- Separate time & date modification.
- Touch files and/or folders.
- Touch read-only files and folders.
- Save settings.
- Time offset modification - useful if your computer or camera's date is set incorrectly and you need files timestamps changing to the correct time.
- Load the time from the timestamp of a file or folder, or from embedded time properties in pictures, email or Microsoft Office documents.
- Select 24 hour time, and long or short date format.
- Command line version.
- Context menu operations to Touch with the saved settings, or the current time.
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Supported Operating SystemsWindows XP | Unsupported Operating Systems*Windows 95**, 98**, ME |
| * The software will probably work on unsupported operating systems, we're just not testing them anymore as they're no longer available for purchase. | |
32-bit (x86) package 1.51 MB (1,590,444 bytes)
64-bit (x64) package 575 KB (589,596 bytes)
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The following VB script examples show how you can use the command line version of TouchPro for operations that aren't immediately possible from the GUI:
1. This example sets a directory's timestamp to that of the earliest file timestamp contained in the directory: SetFolderToEarliestFile.zip
Use (from a command line):
SetFolderToEarliestFile YourDirectoryName
2. This example sets an Office document file timestamp to the same as its embedded timestamp: SetFileTimeToOfficeDocTime.zip
Use (from a command line):
SetFileTimeTofficeDocTime YourDocumentFileName
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Translations
TouchPro loads its UI components (dialog, tooltip strings, error messages) from a separate resource DLL (TouchPro.lang). By replacing this DLL with an equivalent one in a different language, the TouchPro GUI will display in that language.
We don't have the resources to do comprehensive translation work, so we're opening this up to anyone who may want to do this for themselves using their own resource editing tools (such as Visual Studio or Resource Hacker) to edit the resource DLL.
Currently we have the following non-English resource files available.
Note: These translated resource files will only work correctly with the associated release of TouchPro.
| Version | Language | Translator |
|---|---|---|
| 5.0 | German | Kindly contributed by Bernhard Rauth. |
| 5.0 | French | Kindly contributed by Vincent Laemers. |
| 5.0 | Italian | Kindly contributed by "Alex". |
| 5.0 | Traditional Chinese | Kindly contributed by Tang. |
| 4.5 | French | Kindly contributed by "int24h". |
| 4.5 | Swedish | Kindly contributed by Leif Larsson. |
| 4.5 | Simplified Chinese | Kindly contributed by Fenghua Wang. |
| 4.5 | Traditional Chinese | Kindly contributed by Hong-Yu ZHANG |
| 4.3 | French | Kindly contributed and updated for V4.3 by Vincent Laemers. |
| 4.3 | Traditional Chinese | Kindly contributed and updated for V4.3 by Jacky Lau. |
To have TouchPro use a new language DLL:
Download and un-zip the language file (or use your own version).
Rename the existing TouchPro.lang file in the TouchPro installation directory (normally %Program Files%\JD Design\TouchPro.
Note that you may not be able to delete it because it is likely to be in-use.Copy the language file to the TouchPro directory and rename it to TouchPro.lang.
You may need to log off/on for the change to take effect.
Translating the Resources
Start from the supplied master English resource file TouchPro.lang (in the TouchPro installation directory - which is normally [SysDrive]:\Program Files\JD Design\TouchPro).
Open this resource DLL with a tool that provides you with the facility to edit resource DLLs (such as MS Visual Studio).
Items that need translating:
1. The TouchPro dialog texts - except for the dialog caption. Please leave the caption as the product name "TouchPro". Use your judgement to resize and reposition any controls to fit the necessary texts, but please keep the general control order, layout, and dialog size the same as the original version.
2. The string table items. These are the various tooltip texts, context menu texts, and error messages. Note the use of && gives a single & character in the displayed text, and the "\n" is a new-line (sometimes occur in pairs as \n\n to give an extra blank line). Please leave any mentions of the product name intact.
3. Add your name (and company name if relevant) to the version resource.
Please let us know of any TouchPro translation you do, we would like to make your work available to everyone if we can come to a mutual agreement to recognise your work. For example, you might like to have the file on your own web site and have people visit your site to advertise your other work in order to download the file.