From alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com Sat May 9 10:09:57 2015 From: alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com (Alchemy Mindworks) Date: Sat, 09 May 2015 10:09:57 -0400 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20150509100957.01abecb8@localhost> _______________________________________________________________________ THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC POSTING FROM THE ALCHEMY MINDWORKS UPDATE MAILING LIST UNSUBSCRIBE: http://mindworkshop.com/mailman/options/newsletter _______________________________________________________________________ Contents: 1. Graphic Workshop Professional 5 Revision 8 (New This Weekend) 2. Presentation Wizard 5 Revision 5 (Second Notification) 3. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ You can accomplish more with a kind word and a wicked sharp sword than you'll ever manage with a kind word alone. http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/theorder.html _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 1. Graphic Workshop Professional 5 Revision 8 (New This Weekend) _______________________________________________________________________ Graphic Workshop Professional 5 has been updated. This release: - Updates the logic underlying the recent folder panes that appeared in the Destination and Move and Copy windows in the previous release, to make them considerably quicker. - Adds a recent folder pane to the Search window, so you can quickly return to your frequently used destinations without having to manually navigate to them. We hasten to add that you can change the number of recent folders in Setup, or disable this feature entirely if you decide that you'd rather keep your mouse guessing. See the discussion of the Search function in the Reference document of Graphic Workshop's manual for more about this option. - Improves a number of aspects of the Search window and its user- interface elements. - Fixes a problem which prevented the Open and Save As windows in Graphic Workshop and its ancillary applications from correctly setting the keyboard focus in the file name field. Users who like to open one of these windows and type blindly into them have found this a bit irksome... and this included a few of us. - Nails what we're pretty sure are the last of the weird-beard graphic types that can turn up in Resource Extractor. It handles them all correctly now. - Correctly supports a peculiar circa-1992 format variation of BMP files. Not that there are a lot of them still around, but Graphic Workshop will open the beasts if you bump into one. - Adds a new screen to the installer to make the creation of desktop shortcuts for Graphic Workshop and its ancillary applications optional. We were surprised to find that the previous release, which for the first time created shortcuts for all the applications in the Graphic Workshop suite, made a number of users of this software suspect it was installing stuff it wasn't supposed to. In fact, it was installing what it had always installed - it was just making all the software easier to find. We hasten to add that the desktop shortcuts screen of the Graphic Workshop installer will remember which shortcuts you select. The next time you install an update to Graphic Workshop, you'll be able to skip past it. - Improves the plugin interface logic. This should reduce the time Graphic Workshop requires to boot up by several seconds if you have a full bucket of its plugins installed. - 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. ........................................................................ If you're still using Graphic Workshop 4, we invite you to upgrade to the current software and enjoy all the new and enhanced functionality it offers. As of this writing, upgrades to Graphic Workshop 5 are still available for half the single-user registration cost - $22.49. Please visit http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html to upgrade. _______________________________________________________________________ 2. Presentation Wizard 5 Revision 5 (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ Presentation Wizard 5 has been updated. This release: - Adds a Back option to the Button, Timer and Applet objects. Back buttons will allow your users to step back through the pages of your presentations as they would with a web browser, even if they didn't access them in the order in which they appear in your document. In practice, the Back function has a lot of other possible uses. It will allow you to create Help or About pages that return to whatever page called them, for example. Using a Timer object set to Back will allow you to create a page that closes and returns to the calling page automatically after a specified time. We were at a bit of a loss to come up with a practical application for this, but it was cool to watch. The Back function can be accessed from an ANIMAL applet through the JumpToPage function if you provide it with -1 as its page number argument. - Fixes a problem which prevented the Open and Save As windows in Presentation Wizard from correctly setting the keyboard focus in the file name field. Users who like to open one of these windows and type blindly into them have found this a bit irksome... and this included a few of us. - Fine-tuned the runtime in a number of areas to make the executable documents created by Presentation Wizard more memory-efficient, and hence a bit quicker. - Improved a number of elements in the right-click menus. - Addresses a potential security issue. We seriously urge all users of PNG MNG Construction Set to update to this release. - Addresses several user interface issues throughout the application. - Updates the documentation. - Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with. Please visit: http://www.mindworkshop.com/prspro.html#download to download Presentation Wizard 5. ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you're still using Presentation Wizard 4, we invite you to upgrade to the current software and enjoy all the new and enhanced functionality it offers. As of this writing, upgrades to Presentation Wizard 5 are still available for half the single-user registration cost - $14.99. Please visit http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html to upgrade. _______________________________________________________________________ 3. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ This message has been sent from an unmonitored address - please do not reply to it. 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