Marc Gregoire’s Blog

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

• The help is now available offline AND online. An option called “Use the online web-based help” is added to “Tools > Program Settings > Miscellaneous” that you can use to switch between online and offline help. With this, users can always consult the online help when there are compatibility issues with the offline help file, which some users experienced when running the offline help on Vista.
• New option in the layout editor to vertically and horizontally center 1 object to another object.
• You can now choose whether a “Move To Hotkeys” or a “Give Tags Hotkeys” is executed on the selected wallpapers in the main window of Wallpaper Cycler OR on the current wallpaper on the desktop.
• Cycle once a day and do not exit at windows logon

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

• The “Find Non-Existing Wallpapers” now also properly checks for the existence of URL wallpapers instead of skipping them.
• In the effects editor you could enter values outside the allowed range. For example, for transparency you could type 900.
• In the layout editor, editing things in the Effects dialog gave some unexpected behaviour. Suppose a wallpaper object had a transparency and you clicked the percentage box and set it to e.g. 0 and press enter to confirm. Next, when you clicked this text box again, it didn’t become editable. But despite it not being editable, if you’d enter e.g. 60 and do something else, like clicking the Merge mode box or resizing the column width, the percentage will change to show 60.
• In the righthand properties (e.g. in the layout editor), you couldn’t tab through all properties: you got stuck whenever a value (text, number) can be typed in the property because the value becomes selected when you tabbed to its attribute.
• Help file, page about Layout Editor: Calendar Notes Object contains a few “typos”, %m is displayed as %<linebreak>m. Same for %w and %W when Help window is too small.