[Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks
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Sat May 9 10:09:57 EDT 2015
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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
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1. Graphic Workshop Professional 5 Revision 8 (New This Weekend)
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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.
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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.
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2. Presentation Wizard 5 Revision 5 (Second Notification)
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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.
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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.
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