What's new in Hourglass 1.15.0
Dec 13, 2021
- Update to .NET Framework 4.8
- Replace "Reset" button with "Restart" button
New in Hourglass 1.14.0 (Oct 10, 2021)
- Resolve #218: System.NotSupportedException on Windows 8.1
New in Hourglass 1.13.0 (Oct 4, 2021)
- Resolve #78: Add About dialog
- Resolve #213: "Update" button not scaling with the rest of the UI
- Fix usage text for --use-factory-defaults
New in Hourglass 1.12.0 (Sep 28, 2021)
- Resolve #210: InvalidWmpVersionException on start when no WMP installed.
New in Hourglass 1.11.0 (Sep 27, 2021)
- Resolve #97: Add option to remove Window frame/title bar
- Resolve #164: Add option to disable progress display in taskbar
- Resolve #183: Add "Reverse progress bar" option
- Resolve #187: Fix minimize button not working
- Resolve #202: Fix crash due to invalid Width property
- Resolve #204: Add option to prefer 24-hour time when parsing
- Resolve #206: Fix minimize, maximize, and close buttons still functional when title bar is hidden
- Resolve #207: Check for updates via HTTPS
- Resolve #208: Fix Crash loop if Hourglass closed while full screen with no title option enabled
- Resolve #209: Fix "Full screen" option not working if window is already maximized
- Show title in center of screen when timer expires
- Do not show "Click to enter title" when the timer expires
- Add "Restore", "Minimize", and "Maximize" menu options when full screen
- Use immersive dark mode on Windows 10 for dark themes
- Parse strings like "until 00:10:30" as "until 12:10:30 am"
- Parse times without am/pm contextually (this ensures that, for example, "1:30" gets parsed as "1:30 am" at midnight and "1:30 pm" at noon)
- Report media errors to the user
- Update to .NET Framework 4.5
- Update code signing certificate thumbprint and timestamp URL
New in Hourglass 1.10.0 (Jul 15, 2018)
- Resolve #157: Add options to disable certain functions, such as pause, stop, or reset
- Resolve #165: Support different install path from the bundle installer
New in Hourglass 1.9.0 (Nov 14, 2017)
- Resolve #130: Outer whitespace -- such as "4pm " -- causes the timer to not start
- Resolve #152: Add option to show both title and time left in the window title
New in Hourglass 1.8.0 (Jul 11, 2017)
- Resolve #119: Clicking update button causes error
- Do not lose settings after updating the app
New in Hourglass 1.7.0 (Jul 11, 2017)
- Resolve #114: When timers are set to open on start, not all timer window positions are remembered
New in Hourglass 1.6.0 (Jul 11, 2017)
- Add dark color themes
- Add ability to make own color themes
- Resolve #110: Add option to show timer title as window title
New in Hourglass 1.5.0 (Jun 30, 2016)
- Resolve #75: Add option to show time elapsed rather than time remaining
- Resolve #94: Option to not keep screens active
- Resolve #104: Add options to resume all closed timers on restart
- Resolve #107: Add option to shutdown the computer when expired
- Resolve #108: Timer displays values like "4 minutes 60 seconds" when counting down
- Add option to open all saved timers to context menu
- Wake up computer when next timer expires
New in Hourglass 1.4.0 (Jun 30, 2016)
- Resolve #106: Timer should round up seconds when displaying time left
New in Hourglass 1.3.0 (Jun 30, 2016)
- Resolve #101: Crash when "Pop up when expired" and "Prompt on exit" are both enabled
New in Hourglass 1.2.0 (Jun 30, 2016)
- Resolve #79: Show timer duration in tooltip in Windows system tray
- Resolve #83: Optional warning when closing Hourglass
- Resolve #92: Confusing UI after initial install
- Resolve #100: Add support for formats like "@16"
New in Hourglass 1.1.0 (Nov 7, 2015)
- Show time elapsed since the timer expired
New in Hourglass 1.12 (Dec 5, 2014)
- Added an option to count up instead of down
New in Hourglass 1.11 (Jul 7, 2014)
- Added portable version that saves settings to app folder
New in Hourglass 1.10 (Jan 31, 2014)
- Prefill last countdown time when clicking on expired timer window
New in Hourglass 1.9 (Apr 26, 2013)
- Look for Sounds folder relative to the path of the *.exe instead of the current working directory
- Fix choppy progress bar on taskbar in some cases
New in Hourglass 1.8 (Nov 26, 2012)
- Minor improvement to performance while minimized
New in Hourglass 1.7 (Oct 29, 2012)
- Added option to always stay on top of other windows
- Added command line option to start minimized
New in Hourglass 1.6 (May 17, 2012)
- Added option to display a tray icon
New in Hourglass 1.5 (May 17, 2012)
- Added option to flash taskbar when done
New in Hourglass 1.4 (May 17, 2012)
- Added option to pop up when done
New in Hourglass 1.3 (May 17, 2012)
- Added option to scale the user interface
- Added option to loop the notification sound
- Added option to close when done
- Added command line option to close when done
- Fixed parsing of some time and date strings
New in Hourglass 1.2 (May 17, 2012)
- Added option to automatically loop the timer
New in Hourglass 1.1 (May 17, 2012)
- Added ability to time until a specified date and time
- Added option to remember the current timer on close
- Added ability to use arbitrary .wav files as the alarm sound
- Fixed high CPU usage on some machines