What's new in Desktop Ticker 1.14.1.647
Oct 11, 2021
- Bug fixes for non-English systems.
New in Desktop Ticker 1.14.0.646 (Jun 1, 2021)
- Added branding type option - choice of splash screen when starting or ticker item.
- Added support for Linux with Mono - use the same exe on Windows and Linux.
- Added options to hide the scroll, minimise, and close buttons.
- Colour of button icons can now be customised.
- Added option for background to become transparent when application not active (Windows only).
- Text filter page added to Options window - show or hide items based on words and phrases.
- Add option to automatically start Desktop Ticker (Windows only).
- Added function to restore from backup on the Options and Manage Feeds windows.
- Added option to disable the creation of backup files.
- Fixes for crashes when starting or closing the application.
New in Desktop Ticker 1.14.0.590 Preview (Dec 28, 2020)
- Changes:
- Text filter page added to options window - show or hide items based on words and phrases
New in Desktop Ticker 1.13.0.569 (Oct 23, 2020)
- Read later list - save feed items to a list to access later.
- Option for ticker to stay 100% opaque when the active window.
- Option to turn off shared settings, so each instance of Desktop Ticker has its own feed and settings configuration.
- Option to change control & click behaviour.
- Dock mode can now span multiple displays (float only, display dock edges must be aligned and have same DPI).
- Ability to import and export settings.
- Improvements on high DPI displays (standard hand cursor, button image size scale, larger icon images).
- Improved extraction of feed URLs from HTML pages.
- Backup copies of settings files automatically created.
- Changes to prevent XXE attacks.
- New application information window to show environment and configuration details (press F12 on help window).
- Common Feed List synchronisation removed.
- Menu item to enable/disable profile settings removed.
New in Desktop Ticker 1.12.1.520 (Oct 15, 2020)
- Added option to display reload feeds button on the right side of the ticker.
New in Desktop Ticker 1.12.0.510 (Dec 29, 2017)
- Font can now be changed.
- Added support for Windows 10 virtual desktops.
- Added support for TLS 1.2 servers.
- Added support for HTTP compression.
- Added option to show icon in the notification area.
- Taskbar icon can now be completely disabled.
- Corrected link URL for Atom feeds.
- Atom feeds can now be set to use either updated time or published time (useful for YouTube feeds).
- Ticker can be stopped from scrolling (speed 0).
- Startup feed error window can be disabled, and is by default.
- The feed list can now be sorted.
- Feed tooltips can now be disabled.
- Added delay to feed loading when PC is resuming from sleep to allow network to connect.
- Clicking on a feed item with the middle button will now hide it.
- Changed menu button icon.
- Maximum font size increased to 96.
- Yahoo stocks feed removed.
- Minor bug fixes.
New in Desktop Ticker 1.11.0.405 (May 31, 2016)
- Mouse wheel scrolling
- Ctrl+click to hide items
- Animated GIF images
- Stock gain/loss indicators
New in Desktop Ticker 1.10.1.360 (Dec 19, 2015)
- Fix for crash when closing the application whilst feeds are loading.
- Fix for System.Web errors.
- Reduced connection timeout to 15 seconds.
New in Desktop Ticker 1.10.0.358 (Apr 20, 2015)
- Text and image files can now be added to the feed list.
- Items can be hidden from the ticker.
- Ticker size now adjusts for high DPI displays.
New in Desktop Ticker 1.9.3.310 (Nov 11, 2014)
- Fix for bug where the application would disappear on Windows 8.
New in Desktop Ticker 1.9.1.298 (Sep 29, 2014)
- Added option to use a browser style user agent string when downloading feeds.
- Added option to display feed item images.
- Added support for RSS enclosures.
- Added option to outline text.
- Added option to make the application become opaque when under the mouse cursor.
- Minor bug fixes.
New in Desktop Ticker 1.8.0.256 (Feb 17, 2014)
- Added option to display feed title images.
- Added option to sort the feed items.
- Added option to limit the number of feed items displayed.
- Removed the copyright message from the ticker.
- Fixed issue with docking on high DPI displays.
New in Desktop Ticker 1.7.0.215 (May 14, 2013)
- Added option to scroll left to right.
- Added option to prevent ticker hiding behind fullscreen applications.
- Added new color schemes (white, grey, blue).
- Added option to automatically generate custom color scheme based on background color.
- Moved show reload button option from Options window to menu.
- Moved check for updates option from Options window to About window.
- Fixed issue where settings would not be saved if user had no access to temp folder.
- Fixed issue where text case option would not reset to default.
New in Desktop Ticker 1.6.1.181 (May 14, 2013)
- Enabled Windows Authentication.
- Fixed issue with some stock symbol titles.
- Minor bug fixes.
New in Desktop Ticker 1.6.0.176 (Aug 3, 2011)
- Fixed issue with high DPI displays.
- Added option to show ticker text in lowercase or uppercase.
- Added feed list import and export functions.
- Added feed performance form showing load time for each feed.
- Minor bug fixes.
New in Desktop Ticker 1.5.0.150 (Jun 14, 2011)
- Added option to synchronize feed list with Windows Common Feed List (requires Internet Explorer 7 or greater).
- Added support for file system feed addresses, for example file://c:\rss_feed.xml.
- Added more opacity options.
- Ticker window no longer stays on top of fullscreen applications.
- Added an option to flash the taskbar button when a feed is updated.
- Added help links to options windows.
- Feed jump list now shows new and total item count for each feed.
- Added glass effect to dialog windows (requires Windows Vista or greater with suitable display adapter).
- Minor bug fixes.
New in Desktop Ticker 1.4.0.120 (Mar 9, 2011)
- Added faster scrolling speed options.
- Added option to prevent application overlapping other windows when docked.
- Added option to prevent application always staying on top of other windows.
- Minor bug fixes.
New in Desktop Ticker 1.3.0.98 (Nov 24, 2010)
- The list of feeds and other settings can now be stored in the same location as the application file instead of the user profile, allowing transfer on removable storage such as USB memory.
- Application now searches HTML web pages for feed addresses.
- Summary tooltips now show last updated time.
- Minor bug fixes.