Wallpaper Cycler 3.6 Beta 1
Today I’m pleased to announce that Beta 1 of NuonSoft Wallpaper Cycler 3.6 is currently in the hands of our beta testers.
This beta version contains the following changes.
New Features
- New functionality added to the image preview window, the window that appears when you press the spacebar when an image is selected in the main window of Wallpaper Cycler:
- The preview window now allows you to use the left and right keys to move through the images in that category or search folder.
- A small (optional) help text is displayed in the preview window.
- Information of the image being previewed can optionally be shown on the preview.
- The tray menu now contains a “Tools > Find Non-Existing Wallpapers…” item.
- When a new update has been downloaded, WPC will now ask you if you want to run it immediately.
- The “Check for updates” feature will now calculate a checksum of the downloaded file to see if it was downloaded correctly.
- Text objects in layouts can now be linked to a wallpaper object in your layout. This allows you to use the %wallpapername% and other commands to display information about the wallpaper being shown in the linked wallpaper object.
- New option to disable word wrapping for notes in calender notes objects.
- Some Open/Save dialogs now have the true Vista layout when running on Windows Vista.
- When a layout doesn’t contain a wallpaper object with the “Which Wallpaper” property set to “Auto” a warning will be shown. This is done because in that case certain aspects of WPC will not work as expected. Double clicking a wallpaper in the main window for example will actually NOT show that wallpaper on your desktop because that’s the “Auto” wallpaper.
- You can make a printout of your calendar notes.
- %wallpaperfullname% can be used in text objects on layouts to display the full pathname + extension of a wallpaper and not only the filename part like %wallpapername% does.
- A new option in Tools > Program Settings > Global > Startup called “Delay load last WCL at startup”. This allows you to specify a delay in seconds before Wallpaper Cycler will reload the last WCL file at startup.
Bug Fixes
- The tree on the left of the main window was recreated every time you changed/added/deleted a category resulting in quite anoying visual flickering. This has been fixed now and the tree almost never flickers anymore.
- When running the trial version, when starting a new WCL file and then exiting Wallpaper Cycler, no question was asked whether to save the file or not.
- Increased the contrast a little bit of the Wallpaper Cycler Vista gadget.
- The Wallpaper Cycler Vista gadget didn’t display correctly when Vista was running in high DPI mode.
- WPC crashed when loading BMP files that where compressed with for example RLE8 compression.
- By default WPC will no longer make a sound when cycling or when CPU Load is too high to cycle. Of course this can be enabled again in File > Document Properties.
- The screensaver will now wait until the transition effect is finished before starting the timer for the next image.
- The “Circles Out” screensaver transition effect didn’t always completely covered the screen.
- Wallpaper Cycler didn’t always start automatically when logging in to Windows and autostart was enabled.
- cycle-at-time would not check exactly at the new minute when resuming from standy or hibernation.
- Fixed some problems with the cycle-at-time feature especially in combination with hibernation.
- You could press the “Delete” key on your keyboard to delete the “My Layouts” category which would crash WPC.
- oleacc.dll is now only installed on anything pre-xp
- When using “Random from fixed category” for a wallpaper object in a layout, WPC will now recursively select a wallpaper from the selected fixed category.
- Some configurations of wallpaper objects in layouts didn’t take disabled tags into account.
- The “Quick Disable” feature now properly checks all wallpapers currently on the desktop to determine if it needs to cycle when disabling a category or tag.
- WPC would crash with truncated BMP files.
- The Vista gadget didn’t install on vista 64 bit. (wrong program files folder)
- You were unable to specify “-1” for the “Days After Current Day” in layouts > Calendar Notes Object > Edit Calendar Notes > General
