From alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com Sat Nov 29 08:27:00 2014 From: alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com (Alchemy Mindworks) Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 08:27:00 -0500 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: <20141129144640.46504940CB8@mindworkshop.com> _______________________________________________________________________ THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC POSTING FROM THE ALCHEMY MINDWORKS UPDATE MAILING LIST _______________________________________________________________________ Contents: 1. Animation Workshop 5 Revision 3 2. The Ultimate Screen Clock 5 Revision 3 (Second Notification) 3. Graphic Workshop Professional 5 Revision 5 (Additional Notification) 4. 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Note that if you disagree about the helpfulness in question, the progress display can be disabled in Setup. - Updates the validation logic to address some occasional hiccups that could manifest themselves during updates. You'll notice that it now displays an additional window after you complete the validation of this update. Fear not - it's a one shot deal. - Refines the metrics of the Shape object generator to address a number of unanticipated conditions that could cause some o9f the shapes to render... well, a little oddly at times. - Speeds up the animation rendering engine. - Fixes a troublesome resource leak. IMPORTANT: If you're still using Animation Workshop 4, we urge you to consider upgrading to Animation Workshop 5. Doing so will resolve the aforementioned resource leak, and prevent it from sending Animation Workshop... and possibly Windows itself... into a dark nether-world from which none ever return. You have to hate it when that happens. - Fixes a bug that hitherto caused the entry in the Insert menu for Shape objects to be disabled in some circumstances, when it shouldn't have been. - Fixes a bug in the Extract function that could cause it to create somewhat peculiar still images files if Windows found itself squeezed for resources. - Speeds up the File menu history. - Updates the documentation. - Fixes a number of issues that appeared during the upgrade to version 5. You can download Animation Workshop 5 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/animwork.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you registered or upgraded a registration for Animation Workshop 4 on or after June 1, 2013, you?re welcome to a free upgrade to Animation Workshop 5. If you registered or upgraded a registration for Animation Workshop 4 prior to June 1, 2013, you can upgrade to Animation Workshop 5 for half the cost of a new single-user license. When you first run Animation Workshop 5, it will check to see if you have a registration for Animation Workshop 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 Animation Workshop 5's menu bar. You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/anmkey.html and the upgrade order page at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html _______________________________________________________________________ 2. The Ultimate Screen Clock 5 Revision 3 (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ The Ultimate Screen Clock 5 has been updated. This release: - Adds a new clock style - taste the salt, smell the sea and try not to get cracked across the head by a jib while you enable the Mariner style. Mariner is a mostly digital custom clock style. If you right-click on its entry in the Select Style window of The Ultimate Screen Clock, you'll be able to choose its size and its color palette. We could probably indulge in a few more nautical references here, but we're too classy for that. - Adds an optional delay in the Net Time window at such time as it appears to set your system clock when your computer boots up, to allow for Internet connections that take a while to wake up. See the Net Time Delay field in Setup. - Fixes a really, really nasty bug in the custom clock styles that caused them to leak memory in some situations, eventually crashing The Ultimate Screen Clock and, not infrequently, Windows and all who sailed in her. That might have been one of the aforementioned nautical references we were too classy to indulge in... - Fixes a bug that prevented The Ultimate Screen Clock from appearing in the system tray or notification area under some configurations of Windows. - Improves a number of aspects of the clock rendering engine. - Updates the Copy Time and Date function. - Improves a number of user-interface, GDI and performance issues... these being the things software developers just can't stop refining. - 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 ........................................................................ 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 _______________________________________________________________________ 3. Graphic Workshop Professional 5 Revision 5 (Additional Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ Graphic Workshop Professional 5 has been updated. This release: ...was something of an experiment. Graphic Workshop has been extensively optimized to maximize its performance under Windows 7 and Windows 8. The result of all this refinement, stealth and treachery has been a measurable performance improvement across the entire application. It's quicker and has a smaller memory footprint. We've been impressed with how well this has worked - it's cool on any platform, but especially when it's running on older, slower systems. While Graphic Workshop still runs under Windows XP and Vista, should you be feeling retro, its current persona may suffer a slight performance hit if it's confronted by antique builds of Windows. Time marches on. In addition: - Graphic Workshop's View window now defaults to showing oversized pictures centered, rather than starting in their upper left corners. You can disable this by unselecting Center Oversize Images In View in the Setup window if you prove not to like it. - Updates the e-Paint UltraLight rendering engine and fixes a really nasty resource leak. - Fixes a number of cosmetic issues in GIF Construction Set UltraLight. - Fixes a number of cosmetic and performance issues in Montage Builder UltraLight. - Fixes a bug in GWS Camera which could cause it to grab the wrong screen area in some... admittedly unlikely... circumstances. - Updates Resource Extractor to allow it to deal with even more weird- beard resource types that turn up under Windows 8. - Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with. - Updates the documentation. Please visit: http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download to download Graphic Workshop Professional 5. ........................................................................ 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 _______________________________________________________________________ 4. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ This message has been sent from an unmonitored address - please do not reply to it. To remove your address from this mailing list or to change your address, please visit our web page at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/update-list.html Removal requests will be processed instantly. ....................................................................... 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