[Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks
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, youre 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, youre 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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