Marc Gregoire’s Blog

The following new features have been implemented in Wallpaper Cycler:

• You can now rotate any image by 90°, 180° or 270°.
• The N/A that was rendered to the desktop when something went wrong with processing a news feed can now be disabled in the global WPC settings. When disabled, WPC will not render any text when a news feed error happens.
• Also allow F2 and Slow Double Click to rename wallpapers, however, in that case a dialog pops up in which you do the renaming, because a warning message has to be displayed.
• You can now press CTRL+C in the EXIF data dialog to copy the selected EXIF data to the clipboard.
• A new option in Tools > Program Settings > Miscellaneous to disable the error balloons that are shown when something goes wrong while downloading a news feed.
• Added a button to the toolbar to quickly change the cycling settings (delay between wallpapers).
• Added a button to the toolbar to quickly change the cycling sound.

I made the following bug fixes for Wallpaper Cycler:

• Error messages during rendering appeared behind main WPC window, causing confusion.
• Calendar template “Bright” has 2 times the year at the top.
• Cycling is working now on Windows 7 🙂
• The “Random” screensaver transition effect was not that ‘random’ + sometimes a bit slow.
• Wallpaper Cycler can rerender the wallpaper automatically when the screen resolution has changed. This is an old feature, but is now enabled by default.
• The “Spiral In” and “Box In” screensaver transition effects left a 3-5 pixel horizontal line in the middle of the screen when running at 1440×900.
• Link targets didn’t work on wallpaper objects, calendar objects and frame objects.
• Removed font references to Californian in templates since that’s not a font installed by default on Windows.
• The text object renderer in a layout again properly calculates the bounding box.
• WPC would crash when a layout contained a calendar object that was too small to render all days.
• WPC would crash when a layout contained an object with a width or height of 0.
• Rendering of gradients was broken after adding the rotation option to wallpapers.
• The small preview image in the OSD was sometimes cut off.
• The pick background/text color dialogs now correctly keep aspect ratio of the image.
• The info panel will now allow you to quickly check if a wallpaper is linked to a layout either directly or indirectly through one of its parent categories.
• The RSS feeds again show a brief description of a feed entry and not the entire entry.
• View Details/Thumbnails now have an icon in the Wallpapers menu.
• Open a wcl, then go to File>Open, click Cancel, previous WCL was closed.
• Removed dots behind “move layout up…”, “move layout down…” menu items.
• An issue with resizing the main window and the tiling combo box in the Info Panel.