Marc Gregoire’s Blog

The following new features have been implemented in Wallpaper Cycler in response to the Beta testers:

• Open main window with category opened that was open the previous time.
• Enable/Disable tags + hotkeys to quickly enable/disable tags. When a tag is disabled with a hotkey and the current wallpaper on the desktop has that tag, the desktop will be cycled automatically. Wallpapers with disabled tags will not be cycled.
• A “true” default tiling setting. When adding new wallpapers, the tiling setting of those wallpapers will be set to “Default”. You can then easily change the default tiling setting in Tools > Program Settings > Document > Wallpaper Default Settings.
• WPC can now automatically assign a tag like “AspectRatio 4:3” where the 4:3 is automatically calculated based on the added wallpaper or “AspectRatio Uneven”.

I also made the following bug fixes for Wallpaper Cycler in response to the Beta testers:

• Settings Window and Large Fonts gives a few texts that are, with the default window size, not visible.
• Spaces are trimmed from the beginning and ending of a tag.
• You could add tags containing only spaces.
• EXIF: Maximal and Minimal Aperture Canon Maker Notes were sometimes displayed with lots of zeros.
• The little preview that appears in the Add Wallpaper File dialog is much much faster now (for JPG’s)
• Clicking the “folder synchrozing”-balloon didn’t open the result window on top. I had to click it in the windows task bar to actually see it.
• NAS and Folder Links results in reproducable crash.
• Notes-object Text Editor -> using any of the toolbar buttons will not be undoable.
• Doubleclicking the calendar notes object on the desktop opens the edit window. However, double-clicking the object again (while the first edit window is still open AND the WPC Main window is also open) opens a second edit window.
• “Did You know Window” -> there are several tips where the link to the help-file wasn’t working.
• When you hit left while the first wallpaper is rendering in the screensaver, it “goes back” but seeing as there is no previous wallpaper the screen becomes black… -> disabled left-key for first wallpaper.
• Cycle At Times -> Add -> timestamps 1 minutes -> ok -> ok. Next cycle was in 24 hours instead of 1 minute.
• Added filename of currently opened WCL-list in “settings”-window behind “document” settings entry.
• Added a note to the Calender Notes editor to explain that those notes will be used by both the “Calendar” and “Calendar Notes” objects in layouts. This note is also a link to the helpfile with more details.
• The “Find Wallpaper…”-window had no banner
• Made the minimum width/height of layout-editor bigger.
• On the “Find Non Existing Images” results-window, the helpbutton goes to the wrong topic.
• The statistic Window should not have “ok/cancel” buttons, only a “Close” button.
• If you disable “Cycle with delay” and “Cycle at specific times” and WPC is currently cycling, WPC should stop cycling.
• On the “Current WCL Statistic” page, “20 most used wallpapers” is now selected by default.
• Helpfile: EXIF DATA page -> clicking on the link to sourceforge tries to open sourceforge within the same window. -> All external links now open with an external IE window.
• Calendar Notes Editor: Select a day in the second or third month displayed and the view will jump so the month in which you clicked becomes the first displayed. -> Fixed, however, when you click a day in the right part of the window, the left part will still jump so that the current month becomes the first month in that list (this is by design).
• Reduced volume of standard cycling sound.
• Main WPC Wizard: Change ‘Cancel’ to ‘Close’. Categories etc added through it are not undone when you hit ‘Cancel’.
• “Click here to assign tags to this category”: Make the quick-add-tag textbox active by default, so you can start typing immediately.
• “Previous Wallpaper” does not select the new wallpaper like “Next Wallpaper” does.
• Let’s say the category changes at 6:00pm (old ends @5:59) and the wallpaper is also set to change at 18:00:00, it chooses an wallpaper from the old category (it seems to switch the wall before it switches the cat). since the seconds for the fixed times cant be changed there is no easy workaround. -> WPC will now force a category time limit check before each cycle.
• When importing files recursively, the error message that might appear referenced Tools > Options and it should be Tools > Program Settings.