{"id":57,"date":"2008-05-10T16:17:11","date_gmt":"2008-05-10T15:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/?p=57"},"modified":"2008-05-10T16:17:11","modified_gmt":"2008-05-10T15:17:11","slug":"wallpaper-cycler-36-beta-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nuonsoft.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/10\/wallpaper-cycler-36-beta-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallpaper Cycler 3.6 Beta 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I&#8217;m pleased to announce that Beta 1 of NuonSoft Wallpaper Cycler 3.6 is currently in the hands of our beta testers.<\/p>\n<p>This beta version contains the following changes.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>New Features<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>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:\n<ul>\n<li>The preview window now allows you to use the left and right keys to move through the images in that category or search folder.<\/li>\n<li>A small (optional) help text is displayed in the preview window.<\/li>\n<li>Information of the image being previewed can optionally be shown on the preview.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The tray menu now contains a &#8220;Tools &gt; Find Non-Existing Wallpapers&#8230;&#8221; item.<\/li>\n<li>When a new update has been downloaded, WPC will now ask you if you want to run it immediately.<\/li>\n<li>The &#8220;Check for updates&#8221; feature will now calculate a checksum of the downloaded file to see if it was downloaded correctly.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>New option to disable word wrapping for notes in calender notes objects.<\/li>\n<li>Some Open\/Save dialogs now have the true Vista layout when running on Windows Vista.<\/li>\n<li>When a layout doesn&#8217;t contain a wallpaper object with the &#8220;Which Wallpaper&#8221; property set to &#8220;Auto&#8221; 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&#8217;s the &#8220;Auto&#8221; wallpaper.<\/li>\n<li>You can make a printout of your calendar notes.<\/li>\n<li>%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.<\/li>\n<li>A new option in Tools &gt; Program Settings &gt; Global &gt; Startup called &#8220;Delay load last WCL at startup&#8221;. This allows you to specify a delay in seconds before Wallpaper Cycler will reload the last WCL file at startup.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Bug Fixes<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>Increased the contrast a little bit of the Wallpaper Cycler Vista gadget.<\/li>\n<li>The Wallpaper Cycler Vista gadget didn&#8217;t display correctly when Vista was running in high DPI mode.<\/li>\n<li>WPC crashed when loading BMP files that where compressed with for example RLE8 compression.<\/li>\n<li>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 &gt; Document Properties.<\/li>\n<li>The screensaver will now wait until the transition effect is finished before starting the timer for the next image.<\/li>\n<li>The &#8220;Circles Out&#8221; screensaver transition effect didn&#8217;t always completely covered the screen.<\/li>\n<li>Wallpaper Cycler didn&#8217;t always start automatically when logging in to Windows and autostart was enabled.<\/li>\n<li>cycle-at-time would not check exactly at the new minute when resuming from standy or hibernation.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed some problems with the cycle-at-time feature especially in combination with hibernation.<\/li>\n<li>You could press the &#8220;Delete&#8221; key on your keyboard to delete the &#8220;My Layouts&#8221; category which would crash WPC.<\/li>\n<li>oleacc.dll is now only installed on anything pre-xp<\/li>\n<li>When using &#8220;Random from fixed category&#8221; for a wallpaper object in a layout, WPC will now recursively select a wallpaper from the selected fixed category.<\/li>\n<li>Some configurations of wallpaper objects in layouts didn&#8217;t take disabled tags into account.<\/li>\n<li>The &#8220;Quick Disable&#8221; feature now properly checks all wallpapers currently on the desktop to determine if it needs to cycle when disabling a category or tag.<\/li>\n<li>WPC would crash with truncated BMP files.<\/li>\n<li>The Vista gadget didn&#8217;t install on vista 64 bit. (wrong program files folder)<\/li>\n<li>You were unable to specify &#8220;-1&#8221; for the &#8220;Days After Current Day&#8221; in layouts &gt; Calendar Notes Object &gt; Edit Calendar Notes &gt; General<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I&#8217;m pleased to announce that Beta 1 of NuonSoft Wallpaper Cycler 3.6 is currently in the hands of our beta testers. 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