[Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks

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Sat Sep 20 08:41:00 EDT 2014




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     Contents:

     1. The Ultimate Screen Clock 5 Revision 2

     2. Graphic Workshop Professional 5 Revision 4

     3. Graphic Workshop 4 Resource Leak

     4. Replying to this Message and List Removal




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     1. The Ultimate Screen Clock 5 Revision 2
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     The Ultimate Screen Clock 5 has been updated. This release:



     - Adds a new clock style - experience Century.


     - Fixes a bug in the screen saver that prevented it from doing much of
       anything under certain builds and configurations of Windows.
     

     - Adds multiple screen saver modes. In addition to just orbiting your 
       screen, the screen saver clock window now knows a number of new 
       tricks. You can configure its options with the Screen Saver Mode 
       combo in Setup. The default Random option will display a different
       mode each time the screen saver activates. The Infinite Loop option
       will return The Ultimate Screen Clock's screen saver to its
       traditional orbit.


     - Improves the performance of the Select Style window.


     - Fixes a potentially troublesome resource leak.


     - Updates the various Custom clock styles of make them a bit quicker
       to open up.


     - Implements our work-around for the Microsoft installer limitation 
       that hitherto required each previous release of The Ultimate Screen 
       Clock to be uninstalled before an update could be installed. This 
       release of The Ultimate Screen Clock 5 can be installed right over 
       the previous one - it will in fact automatically uninstall the 
       previous software as part of the install. 

       While we're just tickled with how well this worked in house, we are
       aware that some third-party install managers and security 
       applications meddle with the software installation process, and in
       so doing might break our clever innovation. If you encounter any 
       issues with installing this release of The Ultimate Screen Clock, 
       please let us know what happened.

       We hasten to add that you'll still need to click on the Enter Your
       Registration Key button in the opening window of the newly updated
       The Ultimate Screen Clock 5 to handle validating it. Assuming that 
       you allowed The Ultimate Screen Clock to save your key to disk last 
       time, this will involve clicking on Next several times and then 
       closing the "thank you" window.


     - Fixes a number of issues that appeared during the upgrade to 
       version 5.


     - Updates the documentation.
 


     Please see the discussion of version 5 enhancements at:
  
         http://www.mindworkshop.info/gif-construction-set/v5-upgrades/

     You can download The Ultimate Screen Clock 5 from:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/clock.html#download



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     UPGRADES


     If you registered or upgraded a registration for The Ultimate Screen 
     Clock 4 on or after June 1, 2013, you’re welcome to a free upgrade to 
     The Ultimate Screen Clock 5. 

     If you registered or upgraded a registration for The Ultimate Screen 
     Clock 4 prior to June 1, 2013, you can upgrade to The Ultimate Screen 
     Clock 5 for half the cost of a new single-user license.

     When you first run The Ultimate Screen Clock 5, it will check to 
     see if you have a registration for The Ultimate Screen Clock 4 
     on your system. If it finds one, it will display a window to tell you 
     which of the foregoing upgrade options is applicable. Click on the 
     Upgrade button to visit our web page and request or order an upgrade. 

     The upgrade window can subsequently be accessed through the Upgrade
     Manager -> Upgrade from Previous Version item of the right-click menu 
     of The Ultimate Screen Clock.

     You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/clkkey.html

     and the upgrade order page at:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html     
   



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     2. Graphic Workshop Professional 5 Revision 4 (Second Notification)
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     Graphic Workshop Professional 5 has been updated. This release:


     - Adds middle-click functionality. The middle mouse button is now 
       configurable to perform one of several functions in the View window. 
       The most useful of these is toggling the Zoom function - middle-click 
       to select between the default zoom level for a picture and 
       zoom-to-fill. See the Configure item in the Picture menu of the Zoom 
       window to change the behavior of the middle button.


     - Fixes a bug in the PNG reader that prevented it from reading some 
       16-bit PNG graphics correctly.


     - Fixes a bug in the PNG import library that could crash several of 
       Graphic Workshop's ancillary applications if they encountered a
       malformed PNG file.


     - Adds the capability of creating new folders, renaming folders and 
       deleting folders from within the Destination and the Move and Copy
       windows. Right-click in the folder tree to access it.


     - Adds the capability of creating new folders, renaming folders and 
       deleting folders from within the GWS Camera screen capture 
       application. Right-click in the folder tree to access it.


     - Addresses a number of issues in the Textures and Fractals window, 
       and removes a spurious texture mode that didn't actually do anything.


     - Fixes a very subtle and potentially nasty resource leak in the 
       various folder trees that appear in Graphic Workshop's browser 
       windows and dialogs. 


     - Improves the Windows shell interface, so files created by Graphic 
       Workshop will appear in Explorer with less delay.


     - Improves the performance of the Graphic Workshop tool bar, so it 
       appears sooner... and all at once... when the application starts up.


     - Fixes a bug in the Line tool of the e-Paint UltraLight application 
       included with Graphic Workshop that caused it to position incorrectly
       when the snap-to grid was active, under some builds of Windows.


     - Fixes a bug that prevented the folder history list from appearing in
       the File menu under some circumstances.


     - Adds an option to the White Balance filter to allow it to use the
       selectable paper color as its white reference.


     - Fixes a number of issues that appeared during the upgrade to 
       version 5.


     - Updates the documentation.



     Please visit:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download

     to download Graphic Workshop Professional 5.


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     UPGRADES

     If you registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop 
     Professional 4 on or after May 1, 2013, you’re welcome to a free 
     upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 5. 

     If you registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop 
     Professional 4 prior to May 1, 2013, you can upgrade to Graphic 
     Workshop Professional 5 for half the cost of a new single-user license.

     When you first run Graphic Workshop Professional 5, it will check to see 
     if you have a registration for Graphic Workshop Professional 4 on your 
     system. If it finds one, it will display a window to tell you which of 
     the foregoing upgrade options is applicable. Click on the Upgrade button
     to visit our web page and request or order an upgrade. 

     The upgrade window can subsequently be accessed through the Help > 
     Upgrade Manager > Upgrade from Previous Version item of Graphic Workshop 
     Professional 5's menu bar.

     You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwskey.html

     and the upgrade order page at:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html     




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     3. Graphic Workshop 4 Resource Leak
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     It has come to our attention that the recently-discovered resource leak
     in Graphic Workshop Professional 5 also affects earlier releases of 
     Graphic Workshop. 

     We suspect that it may have been caused by a recent Windows update, as
     it hasn't been detected previously.

     Users of Graphic Workshop Professional 5 can resolve this issue by 
     installing the revision announced in the foregoing item of this posting.

     If you're still using Graphic Workshop 4... or the seriously ancient
     Graphic Workshop 3... we'd like to take this opportunity to urge you to
     consider upgrading to Graphic Workshop Professional 5.

     Left to its own devices, this resource leak could cause Graphic Workshop
     to crash unexpectedly, possibly destabilizing Windows.

     Please see: 

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html 

     to upgrade.




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