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Multi Photo Quotes Changelog

What's new in Multi Photo Quotes 2.09.01

Dec 31, 2019
  • [BugFix] Mobile phone or other photos with rotation information are now auto-rotated to correct orientation.
  • [Improvement] Settings file location shown in about box.

New in Multi Photo Quotes 2.07.01 (Mar 24, 2017)

  • First High-dpi compatible version beta

New in Multi Photo Quotes 2.02.01 (May 18, 2013)

  • [Minor Feature] Current program version now shown on About tab.
  • [BugFix] Program would sometimes show quotes using large white font, regardless of custom font settings.

New in Multi Photo Quotes 1.38.01 (Feb 19, 2013)

  • [MajorFeature] MPQ will now avoid repeating images as long as possible -- both within a single display and between display cycles.
  • [MajorFeature] MPQ now understands video files (avi,mpg) and will display random frames from them if they are found in image directories.
  • [Feature] You can now backup and restore settings to different files, to allow you to switch between sets of settings.
  • [MinorFeature] Added option to disable normal default image directories (useful for quick testing custom additional directories).
  • [MinorFeature] Click to browse+add new folders to default image directory list.

New in Multi Photo Quotes 1.36.01 (Jul 7, 2012)

  • [BugFix] Improved startup time.
  • [MinorChange] Clears screen as soon as it starts, before preparing first mosaic.
  • [MinorChange] Much faster to exit immediately after starting up -- useful if screensaver kicks in when not wanted.
  • [MinorChange] Use the 'n' key to advance to next arrangement of images/quotes in full screen mode (used to be spacebar); spacebar will exit if configured to exit on keypress.

New in Multi Photo Quotes 1.35.01 (Jun 21, 2012)

  • For portable users, program now checks for ConfigDir_Default.ini if ConfigDir.ini not found; prevents your custom ConfigDir.ini file from being overwritten when unpacking portable distribution zip.
  • Executable and setup are now digitally signed for extra security; instead of a zip-compatible installer, there are now 2 separate downloads for installer and portable version.
  • Errors could occur if monitor configurations changed while program was running (ie connecting/disconnecting multiple monitors).

New in Multi Photo Quotes 1.33.01 (Aug 5, 2011)

  • Rebuilt with small improvements from Little Voice Commander code.
  • Added new feature to auto-watch image and quote directories and automatically content when it changes.
  • Added second-instance commandline parameters to let you effect an already running instance.

New in Multi Photo Quotes 1.32.03 (Jan 3, 2011)

  • [Feature] Added commandline arguments to display a specific away message, or show a quick away message box with past away message history to choose from.

New in Multi Photo Quotes 1.31.01 (Jan 3, 2011)

  • [BugFix] Fixed some bugs with cropping images.
  • [MinorFeature] Improved memory usage when working with large images.
  • [MinorFeature] Improved speed of image updating.
  • [MinorFeature] Added new crop goal size setting (small images can be set to show fully with black borders on one side).
  • [MinorFeature] Added a few new meta commands for dynamic commandline tools and quote files.

New in Multi Photo Quotes 1.30.01 (Jan 3, 2011)

  • [Feature] Added $apprunasync to run a commandline in hidden window asynchronously; useful for background image/quote downloading. See flickr downloader tool download for sample of this use.
  • [MajorFeature] Added support for image-directory based commandline tool execution.

New in Multi Photo Quotes 1.29.01 (Mar 16, 2009)

  • [Feature] Added max. image count option to Image Cell tab -- let's you turn off images completely (and just show quotes/clock) limit the # of images shown.
  • [BugFix] Sped up loading of quote books (significantly if you have lots of disabled books).

New in Multi Photo Quotes 1.28.01 (Mar 4, 2009)

  • Added option to choose whether the goal of the crop mode should be to shrink minimally to fit the shorter edge (leaving part of image offscreen), or fit entire image on screen.

New in Multi Photo Quotes 1.23.01 (Jan 12, 2009)

  • The free tool pscrape.exe (from www.websrape.com) is now included in the tools subdirectory, and can be used to fetch simple quotes from online; a sample quote "book" that fetches random quotes from QuotesDaddy.com is now included.
  • [Feature] Added support for reading .wqxs wikiquote screensaver data files -just put them under the books directory

New in Multi Photo Quotes 1.18.01 (Jan 9, 2009)

  • It has some unique and noteworthy features:
  • It was designed with multimonitor setups in mind (but can work on single monitor pcs too).
  • It can be configured to show images that span multiple monitors, or show different images on each monitor.
  • Quotes can be displayed from standard quote/fortune files.
  • Images and Quotes can be combined easily into Media packs that can be shared.
  • Autosizing of Quote text.
  • Monitors can be tiled by uneven grids for a pleasing visual mosaic/collage effect even on single monitor systems.

New in Multi Photo Quotes 1.15.01 (Jan 6, 2009)

  • [BugFix] -- An extra virtual monitor was being added which was entire desktop -- could cause misaligned panels on some systems.