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  • Home / Windows / Desktop Enhancements / Other Desktop Enhancements / Actual Window Manager / Changelog

    Actual Window Manager 5.2 Beta 1 - Changelog


    What's new in Actual Window Manager 5.2 Beta 1:

    Multi-monitor support: The feature to display the Taskbar on secondary displays is added. Secondary taskbars emulate the functionality of the primary Taskbar with the following remarks:
    · the secondary taskbars can work either independently or consistently with the primary Taskbar: in former case each secondary taskbar displays only the buttons of windows that reside on the same monitor; in latter case all secondary taskbars display the contents of the primary Taskbar (the mirror mode)
    · you can change the order of buttons on secondary taskbars dragging the desired button by the mouse with the Shift key pressed
    · there is a limited compatibility with some certain applications (such as Microsoft Excel, Acrobat Reader)
    · the minimizing/maximizing animation, if enabled, is played always regarding to the primary Taskbar despite which display the minimized/maximized window resides on
    · Multi-monitor support: The feature to display the Task Switcher (special system window invoked via Alt Tab) on secondary displays is added.
    · Now Windows Layout tool is compatible with Vista Sidebar.
    · Extra title buttons are again displayed correctly in the title bar of IncrediMail XE.
    · No more crashes of NoteZilla when closing its Preferences dialog.



    What's new in Actual Window Manager 5.1:

    · The ability to create/manage virtual desktops is added.
    · Now you can edit multiple specific settings at once in the Configuration Module (use Ctrl to select several items).
    · Now you can specify a custom icon for a window minimized either to the system tray or on the screen.



    What's new in Actual Window Manager 4.5:

    · Some minor improvements
    · The hotkeys processing is significantly improved
    · New hotkeys are added: 'Reapply settings' action (Win F5), Configuration Module's launch (Win C), 'Unhide' submenu (Win H)
    · title buttons' appearance in Windows Vista is improved
    · now permanent tray/screen icons behave like buttons in Taskbar, i.e. when you click such icon: 1) the active window will be minimized 2) the inactive window will be activated 3) the minimized window will be restored
    · When minimizing to screen, now you can make screen icons semi-transparent
    · Now you can temporarily disable the automatic rolling up via Roll Up title button's context menu or Roll Up window menu's submenu
    · Now you can easily copy settings from a selected window rule to others
    · 'Options' window: the Hide Configuration Module while using Window Finder option has moved from the General property sheet to the User Interface property sheet
    · 'Options' window: new 'Triggers' and 'Actions' grouping nodes are added
    · current window size and position now are displayed in 'Custom Size' and 'Custom Position' dialogs accordingly; current position is also displayed in the 'Alignment' window menu's submenu
    · Some minor bug fixes
    · The "orphaned title buttons" bug in Windows Vista is fixed
    · Title buttons now work properly in PowerPoint 2007
    · Title buttons' behavior in Outlook 2007 is improved
    · Conflict with the Microsoft Time Zone window is solved
    · Transparency effect conflict with Emerge Desktop is solved
    · Transparency effect conflict with the Start button in Windows Vista is solved
    · Sometimes windows used to freeze in the rolled state and needed to be resized manually instead of unrolling (now the Unroll function works always as expected)
    · The conflict with Quattro Pro X3 menus is solved
    · The conflict with the Internet Explorer 7 'Search on this page' window is solved
    · The bug of incorrect behavior of 'Restrict placement' feature in multi-monitor configurations is fixed



    What's new in Actual Window Manager 4.4:

    · The new Pin-to-Desktop feature is added: when window is pinned it disappears from taskbar and Alt-Tab sequence and can't be minimized in any way so it's visible all the time until it's unpinned.
    · The ability is added to adjust the font used by the Configuration Module (refer to the "User Interface" property sheet in the "Options" window).
    · The ability is added to turn on smooth transitions between different transparency levels (refer to the "Make Transparent Action" property sheet in the "Options" window).
    · The ability is added to turn on the smooth rolling up/unrolling of windows (refer to the "Roll Up Action" property sheet in the "Options" window).
    · The ability is added for the "Send Configuration to Tech Support" main menu command: if the automatic e-mail creation is failed then you can save the archive with the configuration files somewhere to send it manually later.
    · Translations to Brazilian Portuguese, Serbian (both Latin and Cyrillic) and Polish languages are added.
    · Run-time memory consumption is slightly reduced.
    · All property sheets for window rule settings are significantly redesigned; the new window rule features' Index panel is added.
    · Now the Configuration Module remembers its main toolbars' placement and column widths in most of list boxes.
    · The transparency effect compatibility with Stardock WindowBlinds is improved.
    · The Resize Action Options property sheet is improved: now you can copy items and adjust the height of Sizes list box.
    · The visualization of allowed area provided by the Show button of the "Restrict placement" feature is improved: now it displays the semi-transparent green rectangle that shows the area of allowed placement.
    · The "Unused Buttons" button (grouping button) is improved: now it takes the icon and the tooltip of assigned function, if mouse-hovered.
    · Now title buttons are displayed correctly when using Vista Transformation Pack, XP Media Center Edition theme or some of StyleXP themes.
    · The bug with Microsoft Project 2002/2003 is fixed.
    · The bug with command shell extenders (like 4NT) is fixed.
    · Transparency effect's conflict with Rainlendar 2, RocketDock, Samurize and Y'z Shadow is fixed.
    · The bug is fixed: XP Remote Desktop client was crashed if minimized to the system tray, and then the configuration was saved.
    · The bug is fixed: the Windows Vista Firewall with Advanced Security's GUI was hung when the "New Rule..." button was pressed while running the Actual Tools program.
    · The bug is fixed: now title buttons work correctly in Excel 2007.
    · The bug is fixed: now multiple instances of Excel 2003/2007 workbooks and Acrobat 7 documents can be correctly minimized to the system tray.
    · The bug is fixed: if in multi-monitor configuration some windows were placed to a secondary display, and it was unplugged during the session then such windows are moved automatically to the primary display.
    · The bug with Microsoft Office Shortcut Bar's hang is fixed.
    · Conflicts with Microsoft Office 2007 tool tips and popup menus are fixed.
    · The bug is fixed: Mozilla applications (Firefox, Thunderbird) left their taskbar entry if they were minimized to the system tray via the standard Minimize button.
    · The bug with VMware Workstation 5.5 crash while opening the Snapshot Manager is fixed.
    · The visual glitch is fixed when using the Tabbed Browsing plugin of Windows Live! Toolbar.
    · The bug is fixed: Eudora was crashed immediately at startup if there any of extra Actual Tools buttons were added.
    · The bug of incorrect window placement to a primary display while it's resized on secondary display is fixed.
    · The bug of adding a new rule to the empty Specific Windows list is fixed.



    What's new in Actual Window Manager 4.2:

    · The long-awaited feature is added: now the "Window caption" criterion correctly detects windows which quickly change their captions at startup (like Notepad, Internet Explorer, MS Word, MS Excel etc.).
    · The "Manage Window Rule" submenu is renamed to "Manage Window Settings".
    · The "Modify default settings" command is being included now into the "Manage Window Settings" submenu if the "All Windows" settings were applied.
    · The translations to German, French, Spanish and Ukrainian are added.
    · Now you can strictly but flexibly constrain window placement on the desktop by defining the limits for window's top-left corner (so window can't be
    · upper/left than the defined values) and/or bottom-right corner (so window can't be lower/right than the defined values).
    · Now you can suspend the ghost mode with the special hotkey pressed (Ctrl Shift by default).
    · Now you can minimize a window by clicking the standard Close caption button
    · The support for the default Windows XP Media Center Edition visual theme is added (the proper title button skin was contributed by Riza Berbatovci).
    · The skin naming system is changed: now when you select a theme for Windows XP the program will use the proper skin automatically if it's present in the "Skins" sub-folder.
    · The special "grouping button" is added; it contains all the commands of currently unused buttons.
    · The blocking of the undesired self-activation for windows minimized to the tray is The minimization of the modal dialogs is improved.
    · The Move-to-Monitor action now works correctly with the maximizedwindows.
    · The Stretch Window action now remembers the previous sizes for the fourmain directions independently.
    · The bug with the blocked Move-to-Monitor hotkey is fixed.
    · The bug with the neglect of options other than "keep aspect ratio" in the"After Moving to Another Monitor" group is fixed.



    What's new in Actual Window Manager 4.2 Beta 2:

    · The blocking of the undesired self-activation for windows minimized to the tray is added
    · The speed of window processing is improved
    · The minimization of the modal dialogs is improved
    · The Move-to-Monitor action now works correctly with the maximized windows
    · The bug with the blocked Move-to-Monitor hotkey is fixed
    · The bug with the "pixels" measure units in the "Restrict window placement" feature is fixed



    What's new in Actual Window Manager 4.2 Beta 1:

    · Now you can strictly but flexibly constrain window placement on the desktop by defining the limits for window's top-left corner (so it can't be upper/lefter than the defined values) and/or bottom-right corner (so it can't be lower/righter than the defined values).
    · Now you can temporarily cancel the ghost mode with the special hotkey pressed (Ctrl Shift by default).
    · Now you can minimize a window by clicking the standard Close caption button.
    · The special "grouping button" is added which contains all the commands of currently unused buttons.
    · The issue is fixed: now the "Window caption" criterion correctly detects windows which quickly change their captions at startup (like Notepad, Internet Explorer, MS Word, MS Excel etc.).



    What's new in Actual Window Manager 4.1:

    · Multi-monitor support: the new "Move to next monitor" title button is added.
    · Multi-monitor support: the new "Move to" window menu option is added.
    · Multi-monitor support: the ability to move a window to the selected monitor at window's startup is added.
    · The ability to maximize window to desktop by the right-click on the standard
    · Maximize title button is added.
    · The ability to stretch window by the right-click on its border is added.
    · the ability to set the custom position for a window on the fly is added.
    · Currently assigned hotkey's display is added in the title buttons' tooltips.
    · Currently assigned hotkey's display is added in the window options' names.
    · The translations to Japanese, Russian, Chinese Simplified and Chinese Traditional are added.
    · The work speed and overall stability were slightly improved.
    · The bug with the internal windows of MS Visual Studio 2003/2005 is fixed.
    · The bug of MS Outlook Express auto-restoration from the tray while changing the display properties is fixed.
    · The bug is fixed: even if the maximal window size was constrained in the configuration, the Maximize button still had expanded it to the whole desktop.
    · The minor visual glitch with the Excluded Windows list in the right pane is fixed.






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