What's new in Multi Photo Quotes Portable 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 Portable 2.07.01 (Mar 24, 2017)

  • First High-dpi compatible version beta

New in Multi Photo Quotes Portable 2.00.01 (Mar 29, 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.
  • Improvement] Automatically detects changes in attached monitors and screen resolutions.

New in Multi Photo Quotes Portable 1.36.01 (Mar 29, 2013)

  • [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 Portable 1.35.01 (Mar 29, 2013)

  • [Feature] 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.
  • [MajorFeature] 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.
  • [BugFix] Errors could occur if monitor configurations changed while program was running (ie connecting/disconnecting multiple monitors).

New in Multi Photo Quotes Portable 1.33.01 (Mar 29, 2013)

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

New in Multi Photo Quotes Portable 1.32.03 (Mar 29, 2013)

  • [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 Portable 1.31.01 (Mar 29, 2013)

  • [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 Portable 1.30.01 (Mar 29, 2013)

  • [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 Portable 1.29.01 (Mar 29, 2013)

  • [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 Portable 1.28.01 (Mar 29, 2013)

  • [Feature] 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 Portable 1.27.01 (Mar 29, 2013)

  • [BugFix] Some computers had fonts with large linespacings which could cause mpq to oversize characters resulting in cut-off text. New code takes line spacing into account [thanks ewemoa!]

New in Multi Photo Quotes Portable 1.26.01 (Mar 29, 2013)

  • [Feature] Added advanced custom tiling option -- you could now create your own custom tiling of panels/grids.
  • [Feature] Rewritten window/preview mode to try to dynamically rescale to fit a window what would normally span screens.

New in Multi Photo Quotes Portable 1.25.01 (Mar 29, 2013)

  • [MinorFeature] Added border/margin option -- good for creating letterbox effects.
  • [MinorChange] Now if you set minimum images to display to 1 *and* uncheck "fill with images" then you will only see 1 image (good for minimalist display)
  • [Feature] Added new dynamic quote processing directives.

New in Multi Photo Quotes Portable 1.24.01 (Mar 29, 2013)

  • [Feature] About box now shows all *credit*.txt files in the mpq directory -- useful for adding credits to your mediapacks and sceensavers.
  • [BugFix] Program could close if user browsed for a book directory from options.

New in Multi Photo Quotes Portable 1.23.02 (Mar 29, 2013)

  • [Feature] New version of the Builder tools is much improved (still uses batch files)

New in Multi Photo Quotes Portable 1.23.01 (Mar 29, 2013)

  • [Feature] 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