News archive
JPEG Saver 4.4.1
A bugfix release for JPEG Saver, this one fixes a bug where the 'e' key option to find and select the current file in Explorer would only work if you had a "Now Playing" item enabled.
Yes, it's a weird bug, but it makes sense. The function to go to a file in Explorer is called "SHOpenFolderAndSelectItems", which requires that "CoInitialize" is called first to set up COM. Up until now it was only being called in the class that reads the current track title from iTunes, which is why the "Now Playing" item was required.
The new version is available from the downloads page.
TagCanvas 1.11.1 jQuery plugin update
This is a quick bugfix in the jQuery plugin version of TagCanvas -
the default interval value was not being used, which
meant animation didn't start at all in Internet Explorer and went
too fast in other browsers.
I've also updated the TagCanvas page with some slightly improved documentation, including full example code for pages using the stand-alone and jQuery plugin versions of the script.
TagCanvas 1.11
I've updated TagCanvas with a couple of new and interesting options.
People have been asking me for a while if they can have a different
shaped cloud to the usual sphere, so now there is the option to have a
cylinder shape instead. There are actually two shape
options, one for a cylinder that starts off aligned along the x-axis,
and one aligned along the y-axis.
The reason for the initial alignment options becomes clear when
used in conjunction with one of the other new options: lock.
You can use this to lock rotation around either the x or y axis, to
keep the cylinder aligned - though you can set it to x or y for any
of the shapes.
The final new feature is zooming of the cloud in response to the mouse wheel (or scroll gesture on a touchpad). This is on by default, but there are a few new options to control it or turn it off completely. The updated files are available from the TagCanvas page.
JPEG Saver 4.4
The new version of JPEG Saver adds a feature that I've been hoping to add for a while now - filtering the list of images. Now that the file details are stored in a database it is fairly straightforward to limit the list of images display by their size, age, and by the file name and path.
The new filters dialog is available on the Folders tab, where there is now a "Filters..." button. Pressing this will present you with the dialog shown here:
You can set up quite complex conditions using this dialog. The "exclude" option that was available in the config file to filter out directories in previous versions has been removed, as you can now achieve this using the filter rules.
JPEG Saver 4.3.1
This is a minor update to JPEG Saver, fixing the sequential mode so that it remains sequential after new files are added to a folder. The order of the sequence used is not the same as the order that Windows lists files in, so I might take another look at this in a future version.
This version also comes with an updated installer, which STRONGLY RECOMMENDS that you choose the option to install the config files in your user profile instead of keeping them with the screensaver file. This is to prevent file permissions issues from preventing writing to the database, which causes JPEG Saver to appear to not find files. It should now also install your config files as the user that runs the installer instead of as the admin user.
The new and slightly improved installer is available from the downloads page.