Magic Lens Max 5.0.2 - Changelog

What's new in Magic Lens Max 5.0:

June 9th, 2008

· Supports hardware overlay of various types of video cards. This feature makes Magic Lens Max an unique state-of-the-art tool with smoother and flicker-free visual effects, now completely capable of viewing any layered or transparent windows underneath the lens.
· Reduces screen glare with realistic anti-glare texture filters.
· Allows adjusting the brightness and contrast of lens view.
· Supports the maximum lens size of 1280 x 1280 pixels.
· Fixed the settings saving issue while rebooting the system.

What's new in Magic Lens Max 4.2:

April 16th, 2008

· Locked mode improved to capture layered windows and mouse cursor from outside the lens. In this way you can view any transparent windows (including any desktop Widgets, Vista Gadgets, and balloon hints, etc.) in the lens
· Click the tray icon to Show/Hide the lens, and double-click it to Minimize/Restore the main window. Now the latter operation will not result in the former
· When main window is to be closed, minimize it to tray instead of exiting the application
· When program started, the options to Minimize Main Window to Tray and to Display Lens are now available
· Improved Capture to File dialog with resizable window

What's new in Magic Lens Max 4.0:

March 25th, 2008

· Completely new designed user interface with usability and accessibility greatly improved
· Supports full-screen mode
· Allows locking/unlocking the lens on screen
· Allows adjusting Red/Green/Blue color levels of the lens view
· Capture output supports most of the popular image formats, including transparent PSD/PNG/TIFF/TGA images with alpha channel
· Improved the compatibility with Windows Vista, Magic Lens Max will automatically detect and disable Desktop Composition (Aero Effects) to run correctly, and restore it when exited
· Optimized refreshing performance for smoother movement of the lens
· Lots of other minor improvements

What's new in Magic Lens Max 3.1:

February 13th, 2008

· Fixed the caret tracking issue in Word 2003
· Fixed the compatibility issue with Windows Mail
· Improved the compatibility with Windows Vista

What's new in Magic Lens Max 3.0:

January 25th, 2008

· Simultaneously tracking the system caret
· Allows positioning the lens center by setting the offsets from mouse cursor and system caret
· Click the tray icon to Show/Hide the lens view
· Resetting the lens to Default more accessibly
· Provides a shortcut to choose the mouse pointer scheme
· Optimized performance of refreshing the lens view

What's new in Magic Lens Max 2.5:

July 25th, 2007

· Usability Improvement
· Ctrl Mouse Wheel to zoom in/out the lens view
· Ctrl Shift Mouse Wheel to rotate the lens view clockwise/counter-clockwise
· Ctrl Alt Mouse Wheel to lighten/darken the lens view
· Ctrl Shift Up/Down to zoom in/out the lens view
· Ctrl Shift Right/Left to rotate the lens view clockwise/counter-clockwise
· Lens Size - Ctrl Shift 3 - 9 to change the lens size to 300 x 300 - 900 x 900 pixels. Now supports up to the maximum size of 1024 x 1024 pixels
· Capture - Capture the snapshot masked with lens border or not
· Output now supports BMP/JPG/GIF/PNG/PDF/TIFF/TGA/PPM/PCX image formats
· Color Mode - Now supports setting the sepia depth from 10% to 100%
· Hotkeys - The unnecessary global hotkeys are disabled when the lens view is hidden