JPEG Saver 5.45
Published
A small update this time, mainly because it is the first to be built using Visual Studio 2026 and I wanted to make sure everything works properly.
Background check
Apart from updating all the libraries that have had updates since the last release, I have only added one new thing to this version. Now when you add folders to the list they are scanned for files in the background worker thread. That's it.
You can close the config dialog while the scan is still running if you want to - the screen saver will continue the scan when it starts, the same way it would if you closed the screen saver while it was still scanning at startup.
I have been working through my long to-do list, and this item was one of the oldest remaining, from 2018. There are a couple of older items still there but they are for ideas that I'm not sure about and a bug that I could never reproduce. I did manage to remove a few items from the list because they seem like a bad idea, or not worth the effort, or even can't possibly work. I had wanted to stop rendering to a screen when it was turned off, but after looking into it I found out that there is no reliable way to tell if a screen is turned off. So I won't be doing that.
Hopefully the next version will be a bit more interesting, though I haven't decided what to work on for it yet.
Bugs?
I haven't had any new bugs to fix in this version, but the Visual Studio update might cause something to break somewhere. It isn't likely though, as I have been through quite a few compiler upgrades now and this one has been the easiest yet. In any case, please let me know if you find anything that isn't working the way it should.
Download link
The updated installers are available from the downloads page.