What's new in DarkAdapted 3.0.1 Build 244
Feb 15, 2011
- New: DarkAdapted Pro: When changing between percentage and raw value displays using [tab] followed by [spacebar] in the Control Window, all Control Windows on all screens change to reflect the new type of display.
- Fixed Control Window bug where tabbing to change Gamma values would only work when pressing [enter] and not when [tab] was pressed to move to the next field.
- Changing values by tabbing to colors in Control Window no longer adjusts text in percentage mode.
- Implementing Preset Set fade now updates Presets pop-up menu in Control Window.
New in DarkAdapted 3.0 Build 243 (Feb 8, 2011)
- Updated User Guide, Read Me File, License File, and added new Quick Start Guide. All are available via the Help menu (Mac) or Options menu (Windows).
- Quick Start Guide is offered for viewing when opting to Try DarkAdapted from the Welcome to DarkAdapted window. The dialog may be suppressed.
- Fixed bug where Gamma Toggle Keys would ignore some displays on multiple-display setups, even with Apply to all displays was specified.
- The pricing structure for DarkAdapted Standard and DarkAdapted Pro has changed. Read more here.
- DarkAdapted maintains registration information between DarkAdapted 2.x and 3.x.
- When a demo period ends — and the DarkAdapted Preferences window is open — preferences are now saved for the next demo period and/or when DarkAdapted is registered.
- Improved memory management.
- Eliminated slight CPU usage when DarkAdapted was inactive and not set to refresh gamma setting periodically.
- Gamma fades that affect multiple screens now occur simultaneously instead of consecutively. Examples include invoking a Preset Set and implementing Gamma Toggle Keys that are set to affect all displays.
- DarkAdapted should now work with a few additional displays, video cards, and drivers.
- Improved memory management.
- Visual glitches fixed on Windows 7.
- Gamma fades now perform much more smoothly.
New in DarkAdapted 3.0b3 Build 241 Pre-release (Jan 26, 2011)
- This pre-release expires on 01 April 2011.
- Fixed spurious error message that could occur when saving preferences when re-launching to show or hide the Dock icon.
- Fixed error in showing the System-Wide Menu statusitem after a new DarkAdapted Pro registration, if the Dock icon was set to hidden and the Control Windows were set not to show during demo mode.
- Numerous performance improvements and bug fixes.
- Presets and Preset Sets may now optionally be placed at the top level of the system-wide menu, and show their hotkeys.
- Fixed bug where Gamma Toggle Keys would ignore some displays on multiple-display setups, even with Apply to all displays was specified.
- Documentation is now contained in the DarkAdapted application bundle. Note that documentation has not yet been updated for version 3.0.
New in DarkAdapted 2.3.7 Build 229 (Jan 17, 2011)
- Updated User Guide.
- Internet Update window now shows estimated download time remaining.
- Show Control Window menu item has been moved from Special menu to Edit menu.
- DarkAdapted should now work with a few additional displays, video cards, and drivers.
- Special menu has been renamed Options.
New in DarkAdapted 2.3.7fc1 Build 228 (Nov 3, 2009)
- This is a final candidate release. If no significant issues are reported, this will become DarkAdapted 2.3.7 final.
- This final candidate expires on 15 December 2009.
- Fixed type sizes in some control buttons.
- Updated User Guide.
- Other changes since Version 2.3.6:
- Show Control Window menu item has been moved from Special menu to Edit menu.
- Internet Update window now shows estimated download time remaining.
- DarkAdapted should now work with a few additional displays, video cards, and drivers.
- Special menu has been renamed Options.
- Internet Update window: Increased accuracy of estimated download time remaining.
New in DarkAdapted 2.3.6a Build 225 (Aug 6, 2009)
- License window now appears only when DarkAdapted detects that you are opening a build that is more recent than any other build previously launched.
- Fixed slight display issue when Control window’s Show Details control was not checked.
- Improved gamma fading performance.
- Preferences window: Added dialog explaining that, due to a Mac OS X bug, the Hidden login item setting may not work as expected, and suggesting a workaround. This dialog appears when changing the login state of DarkAdapted to hidden when it was previously not set to open hidden.
- DarkAdapted no longer writes changes to login items, unless those settings are explicitly changed in the DarkAdapted Preferences window.
- Installer does better job of archiving previous version(s) of DarkAdapted
New in DarkAdapted 2.3.5 Build 222 (Jun 16, 2009)
- About window now displays name/organization and serial number. For copies registered before Build 218, the name will appear as “DarkAdapted Pro User.”
- Chime and AppleScript Scheduling window: Selecting an event now displays the next event execution time below and to the right of the Events listing. Hold down a modifier key while clicking an event to display the next execution time with dates.
- Updated documentation with section explaining how to use DarkAdapted with display calibration software.
- Performance Enhancements:
- Build framework has been completely rewritten.
- Minor tweaks for Mac OS 10.5.7.
- New version of compiler used.
- Changed layout of Registration Window. Paste Serial Number button now operates much more rapidly when large amounts of text have been copied.
- Standard permissions on installed and created files are now read/write/execute for owner and group, and read/execute for other users.
- Internet Update Improvements:
- Improvements made to performance and reliability of Internet Update Checks.
- Internet Update now yields time back to time display updates (and the rest of DarkAdapted) as it checks for updates.
- Internet Update now downloads updates to the user's Downloads folder, unless that folder cannot be found, in which case it reverts to downloading to the desktop.
- Internet Update continues to preserve existing download files with the same name, but now automatically renames duplicate files, instead of presenting a Save As dialog.
- Internet Update may now be forced to check in asynchronous mode by holding down the [control] and [shift] keys when beginning an update check.
- Internet Update should now automatically complete installation, instead of sometimes stopping after the downloaded disk image mounts. Note that this will only occur when performing an in-application upgrade using version 2.3.5b1 or later.
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed bug where fixed-size windows could open at an incorrect size when opened by a different version of DarkAdapted.
- Fixed issue where some scroll wheel drivers could affect non-front windows.
- Fixed bug in sunrise and sunset calculation where longitude could be reset to 90 degrees if a longitude greater than 90 degrees was used.
- Chime and AppleScript Scheduling Window: Sorting events by “Time” now correctly sorts numerically instead of alphabetically, and also takes into account the time of sunrise and sunset events.
- Fixed display of Gamma Toggle Keys on Windows Vista.
New in DarkAdapted 2.3.4 Build 208 (Oct 22, 2008)
- Preferences Window: Miscellaneous Options: Refresh gamma values now defaults to “on” with a period of 5 seconds. This only affects new installations, and will not affect existing settings.
- Waking from sleep will now refresh screen gamma(s) within 2 seconds, if machine has been in sleep mode for more than 3 minutes.
- Edit menu's Edit Presets... and Edit Preset Sets... now function without a Control window open.
- System-wide menu commands that bring DarkAdapted to the front now do so with a delay of 0.25 seconds, to work around window layering issues.
- Fixed bug on some testing setups where Color Picker would appear invisibly after first access.
New in DarkAdapted 2.3.1 (Jun 15, 2008)
- All references to our old server have been changed to aquiladigital.us.
- Internet Update: Now checks for updates much more quickly.
- Windows: DarkAdapted is now packaged as a standard Setup installer.
- Internet Update: DarkAdapted will now perform a complete in-application install, including copying files and launching the new version. This will be available only when upgrading via DarkAdapted 2.3.3 or later.
- Control Window now includes a contextual menu.
- Updated documentation.
New in DarkAdapted 2.3.1 (Nov 3, 2007)
New in DarkAdapted 2.3 (Oct 23, 2007)
- Control Window: You may now change gamma slider values via the keyboard. Click a gamma value readout (or press the TAB key) to select the value for editing, then type in a new value.
- To implement the change, press the RETURN, ENTER, or ESCAPE key, move the mouse, click in another area of the window, or � to also select the next readout display � press TAB or SHIFT-TAB.
- The TAB key cycles through the displays in this order: Red, Green, Blue, None. SHIFT-TAB reverses the editing order.
- Type a percent sign (�%�) after the value to enter a percentage; all displays change to show gamma percentages, if necessary. Enter a number without a percent sign to specify a raw value (0 to 255); all displays change to show raw gamma values, if necessary.
- When editing a percentage value, the percent sign (�%�) is not selected, so that the text you enter will automatically replace only the numbers, followed by the percent sign.
- Press the SPACE key to toggle between entering percentage and raw values.
- Fixed bug where Save Current Screen as Preset� would be unresponsive if selected from the system-wide menu.
- Preferences Window: Modified control captions for clarity and fixed duplicate help tags.