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JPEG Saver 5.44
This is a version with a bunch of small changes and fixes in it, so it should hopefully improve things for most users.
Bordering on the ridiculous
The first change was the third-oldest item on my to-do/issues list, added back in 2018. I've added the option to set an alpha value for border items. Don't ask me why it has taken so long to get this one done - it was pretty simple to do when I actually decided to look at it.
Having done that, I realised that testing the new border setting was a bit tedious - to help with this I have added a preview display box for borders so you can see the effect immediately without having to close the dialog.
JPEG Saver 5.43
There isn't much new in JPEG Saver 5.43, but it does fix a few things. It's also the first version I have compiled using Windows 11, so please report any new weirdness if you come across it. Or even any old weirdness - if there's weirdness, I should fix it.
Optional options
The only really new thing in this version is a command-line option that lets you override options from the config file. I don't expect this to be useful for the average user, but it should allow me to create scripts for testing various features that I would otherwise have had to either use the config dialog to change, or edit the config file, or use lots of slightly different config files.
The option is /o for “override” or “option”,
it should be followed by an option in the same format as a line from the config
file, and it can be used multiple times:
TrayBlank 1.13
This is something unusual - a new version of TrayBlank.
What's new?
Not much, just a couple of small improvements. I have actually been tinkering with TrayBlank on and off for the last few years, but this is the first time I have done something that seems genuinely useful
JPEG Saver 5.42
Apart from fixing quite a few bugs, JPEG Saver 5.42 actually adds something new.
Make a splash
The first new thing in this version is a splash screen. Of course it is optional, and you can choose what it looks like, but it is just a splash screen. I added this because I was asked if I could add an option to specify the first image shown. This isn't quite the same as that, but it got me thinking that a splash screen could be useful, so here it is.
If you just enable the splash screen and don't choose an image JPEG Saver will display its built-in preview image. If you do choose your own image, JPEG Saver will not do any processing to it, just display it centred on the screen as-is. This just supports static images though, so no videos.
JPEG Saver 5.41
This is a smaller update - I had hoped to get more done, but things turned out to be trickier than I had expected. There are a couple of awkward bugs fixed too.
Revisiting the logo item
I'm not good at naming things, and "logo" doesn't really describe what the item does very well at all. I might rename it to "overlay image" or something more useful in a future version.
The actual change I did make in this version was to add support for loading a logo image from a folder of images instead of just using a single image. This uses a similar method to background images, adding the folder to the database to be scanned at startup.