Marc Gregoire’s Blog

The following new features have been implemented in Wallpaper Cycler:

• The folder synchronization feature now will detect new sub folders and will create the appropriate categories for those new folders. System subfolders like the “recycle bin” and “System Volume Information” will be skipped automatically.
• The wallpaper will now automatically be rerendered when resuming from standy or hibernation.
• Nicer selection of items in the image list on the main window on Windows Vista.
• When you click on the My Wallpapers category, the wallpapers are only shown after double clicking a message. This is done to prevent performance issues with large wallpaper lists. An option has been added to disable this behaviour and to show the wallpapers immediately when clicking the My Wallpapers category.
• On a clean installation, the folder synchronization feature will by default skip *.db, *.ini, *.avi and *.lnk files. This behaviour can always be changed by adding/removing extensions in Tools > Program Settings > Global > Folder Synchronization > Skip Extensions
• Option to hide the message that says “Failed to install ChangeNotification on…” when the folder synchronization function could not be installed (for example: remote drives)
• A new Info Panel has been implemented that removes the Information Frame on the right of the main window.
• Every layout object now has an option called “visible” that can be used to hide an object from the desktop.
• You can now also pick a color from the selected wallpaper to use as text color, just as you were able to pick a color for the background.
• Hicolor toolbar and menu bitmaps.
• Two new options “Align Horizontal” and “Align Vertical” for a wallpaper object in a layout. These allow you to change the alignment of the wallpaper in that wallpaper object, so you can for example stretch to height + align to right or other combinations

I also made the following bug fixes for Wallpaper Cycler

• The new 3.6 installer will check if a previous version is installed and will ask to uninstall it. This is needed because quite a few new DLLs are being used and we want to get rid of the old ones.
• After uninstalling the previous version, the new 3.6 installer will automatically remove any oleacc.dl_ and/or dwmapi.dl_ files in the folder of the previous installation. These files were created by a Wallpaper Cycler Windows Vista patch and don’t get uninstalled by the uninstaller.
• The new 3.6 installer will save your registration username and serial number before running the uninstaller and will restore your username and serial number after installing the new version.
• Readme and license txt files are now fixed width, which reads easier on wide screen monitors and which is according to the RFC2822 regarding text documents.
• You could often not use the arrow keys and the spacebar key to check/uncheck items in the list on the right in Program Settings > Global > Miscellaneous.
• On a clean install, the main window will be bigger by default if you have a bigger monitor.
• Enlarged minimum window height due to new Info Panel.
• In new layout wizard, when you click the calendar template button, the Wallpaper Cycler calendar template folder will be opened by default.
• The zlib library has been updated to the latest version.
• When the folder synchronization kicks in in the background, no progressbar is shown anymore.
• F3 (Find Next) would not always work.