WALLMASTER PRO ============== Welcome to the latest update of WallMaster Pro! What's new in version 4.0a? (April 18, 2002) -------------------------------------------- * New features and enhancements: - Finally, WallMaster Pro is using the new advanced imaging engine (the same one used in FX Saver) which is faster and supports more image formats - Enhanced load wallpaper dialog (with preview window) - Enhanced save/convert wallpaper dialog - New zoom button next to the preview window - History list to ease you in managing your showlist files - Option to display the wallpaper file name (title) on the desktop - Option to enable/disable WallMaster Pro on startup - Built-in support for custom wallpaper position * New add-on tool: - Image Express, a simple versatile tool to view, edit, and add special effects to your wallpaper image quickly What's new in version 3.4e? (November 22, 2001) ----------------------------------------------- * New features: - Windows XP detection to offer more compabilities - The Hide Desktop Icons feature is working again on XP - Enhanced load/save dialogs to adapt the new WinME/2000/XP style - Options to ignore missing files when loading showlist What's new in version 3.4d? (May 25, 2001) ----------------------------------------------- * New features: - Enhanced "Update Properties" button where you can apply the setting to all wallpapers in the showlist at once - Show/hide the tooltips easily from the Options menu * Fixed bug: - The problem in running WallMaster Pro on Windows XP has been fixed What's new in version 3.4c? (February 1, 2001) ----------------------------------------------- * New features: - Option to preserve the desktop icons transparency effect * Fixed bug: - Problem in saving the shuffled wallpapers status What's new in version 3.4a? (December 21, 2000) ----------------------------------------------- * New features and enhancements: - New "Add Wallpapers From Folder" function (actually, this feature was imported from FX Saver as suggested by Stephen Fisher, one of our loyal customers :-) - Now remember the last opened directory when adding new wallpapers - The background color of the selected wallpaper is now displayed on WallMaster Control Panel and you can change it easily from the color selection combo box - For FX Saver users, WallMaster Pro now allows you to import your existing FX Saver showlists quickly and it also provides a shortcut access to your FX Saver Control Panel - Improved delete function * Changes - The hotkey for "Scan Disk For Wallpapers" has been changed to . The old hotkey is now belong to the newly added function "Add Wallpapers From Folder" What's new in version 3.0b? (June 19, 2000) -------------------------------------------- * Changes - Faster showlist loading What's new in version 3.0a? (April 14, 2000) -------------------------------------------- * New features and enhancements: - Improved and more user-friendly interface in the WallMaster Control Panel - HTML wallpaper support; now you can display web page, animation or movie on your desktop - Now supports TIF images (uncompressed, LZW, CCITT, G3, G4) - New feature to let you specify a search path where WallMaster Pro will automatically search for new wallpapers on startup - Now you can play multiple sound files on wallpaper change e.g. "c:\windows\*.wav" (from the Options - General menu) - Removed "Enable Active Desktop support" WallMaster now detects Active Desktop setting automatically and will optimize the wallpaper changing when possible - Better screensaver detection (for Win98 and Win2000) - Allows you to disable hotkeys for certain events by selecting "" from the Options - Hotkeys menu - Display long file name compressed (e.g. "...long file name.jpg") - All the source codes have been re-compiled with the latest Inprise Delphi 5 * Changes - Save the bitmap in WallMaster directory, instead of Windows directory, to avoid output error in NT - The showlist now uses "|" instead of "," to parse field names * Fixed bug: - Fixed registry problem that caused the desktop icons are sometimes hidden on startup What's new in version 2.7a (March 11, 1999) ------------------------------------------ Please read the help file for complete information about the new features introduced in this version since most of them are not visible (work transparently). * New exciting features and enhancements: - Multi-user support (allows multiple users keep their own wallpaper settings separately from the other users) - Command-line support (useful for running from batch file or network) - Enable you to change the default WallMaster's icon as you like - Switch between safe/force mode in hiding the desktop icons * Fixed bugs: - Access violation error when clicking the tray icon (often happened after deleting the last items on the showlist) - Fixed bug in the scan disk function that caused incompleted files scanning What's new in version 2.5a (November 17, 1998) ---------------------------------------------- * New exciting features: - Produce high quality wallpaper with image resampling using interpolation and averaging - Added supports for RLE-compressed BMP, Adobe Photoshop 3.0 (PSD), WordPerfect Graphics (WPG), and Windows Metafile (WMF) graphics formats - Now with a built-in wallpaper editor, you can do basic editing of the wallpaper easily (change color res, brightness, contrast, sharpen, soften, emboss, filter, rotate, resize, and many more) - Allow you to convert your wallpaper format to other graphics formats easily (BMP, JPG, GIF, PNG, TGA, PCX, PCD, PSD, WPG, and WMF)! - You can now print your nice wallpaper with just a few mouse clicks * Some enhancements: - Much better and faster image decoding routine - Fully-integrated with Windows Explorer to ease you managing the wallpaper files from WallMaster Control Panel - Enhanced shuffle mode to prevent each wallpaper displayed twice - Added option "Recurse subdirectories" on the "Scan Disk..." dialog - Added option to copy the previewed wallpaper to the clipboard easily - Enhanced save showlist function What's new in version 2.0b (October 17, 1998) ---------------------------------------------- * New features and enhancements - Ability to suspend wallpaper change if screen saver is running - Make desktop icon text backgrounds transparent, allowing your wallpaper to show through - Access Display Properties dialog quickly from the tray menu - Find current active wallpaper easily by pressing Ctrl+U on WallMaster Control Panel * Reduced memory usage and few minor bug fixes What's new in version 2.0a (September 1, 1998) ---------------------------------------------- WallMaster Pro v2.0a is the commercial version of WallMaster and has many new outstanding features and enhancements. * New features - Ability to set the timer to seconds, minutes, hours, and days! - Added "Move Files" feature beside the existing copy, delete, and rename files capabilities - Added option to set default background color when adding new wallpapers to the showlist - New context menu to change current wallpaper position on fly - New context menu to control your screen saver: activate screen saver and enable/disable screen saver - New context menu to remove current wallpaper from showlist * Some enhancements: - Reload menu now displays the current desktop wallpaper file name - Much better and faster "Scan Disk For Wallpapers" to scan your disk for wallpaper files quickly - Added several new customizable hotkeys to activate screen saver, change current wallpaper position, etc. - Prevent multiple instances of WallMaster Pro from being executed * Bug fixed: - Sound file (in Options menu) doesn't work properly if using long file name in the edit box