Marc Gregoire’s Blog

The following new features have been implemented in Wallpaper Cycler:

• Slideshow Mode: In slideshow mode, Wallpaper Cycler will use a different cycling timeout than in normal cycling mode. You can enable/disable cycling mode from the main window or with a hotkey.
• When you set the tiling mode of a wallpaper object in a layout to “Tile” then you can now choose between the following for the offset calculation:
  • Auto: The offset will be calculated automatically based on the upper-left corner of your monitor.
  • Manual: This allows you to manually specify an offset in pixels.
  • Center: (New) The offset will be calculated automatically such that the image in the middle will be center.
• The “File > Document Settings” and the “Tools > Program Settings” have been merged into 1 dialog to make it easier to find settings. The menu entries “File > Document Settings” and “Tools > Program Settings” are left but now point to the same dialog. So now you have all settings in one place.
• In the calendar notes object in layouts you can now specify the number of days that should be rendered after the current day.
• When you select the “My Wallpapers” category, WPC will not immediately display all wallpapers in the listview but will instead show a little note in the listview to say that this might take a while depending on the number of wallpapers. When you then double click the listview, all wallpapers will be shown. This is to prevent WPC from freezing for a few seconds when you have lots of wallpapers and you select the “My Wallpapers” category.
• You can now get a fullscreen preview of the selected wallpaper. There is a “Preview Wallpaper…” in the menu when you right click a wallpaper or you can use the spacebar on your keyboard to quickly open the preview for the selected wallpaper. The preview can also be closed with the spacebar.
• “Quick Disable” hotkeys: These allow you to define system wide hotkeys to quickly disable a specific category. You can define as many of these hotkeys as you want. When the current wallpaper on your desktop is from a category that you disable with a “Quick Disable” hotkey, Wallpaper Cycler will automatically cycle to the next wallpaper.
  A “Quick Disable” Category hotkey can also be configured to show a hierarchical menu of all your categories from which you select the category to disable.
• Import/export calendar notes.

I also made the following bug fixes for Wallpaper Cycler:

• Saving WCL files is between 2 and 3 times faster now + the save algorithm has been changed as to prevent corruption of the WCL file when Windows is shutting down and Wallpaper Cycler doesn’t get enough time to save its WCL file. 
• When stretching images, sometimes a slight border artifact was visible on the edges of the image. This was especially noticable when enlarging small white wallpapers. 
• When specifying a positive tiling offset for a wallpaper object in a layout, you would see a color bar where there should be a part of the image. The tiling offset parameter should now work correctly with positive and negative offsets.
• The HTML text object editor in the layout editor crashed with:
  <hr><B><FONT size=”18″ face=”Arial” style=”+b-u-s+i”>Top News Headlines</FONT></B>
  -> crashed because no \n after <hr>
• If a category has a large number of files WPC jumps to the top of the list each time a wallpaper is moved to another category. That makes it harder to continue the check of the files. One has to scroll down again to find the last checked wallpaper and continue from that point. WPC now selects the next file in the list after a file is moved to another category.