What's new in Portable Desktop Ticker 1.14.1.647

Oct 10, 2021
  • Bug fixes for non-English systems.

New in Portable Desktop Ticker 1.14.0.646 (Jun 1, 2021)

  • Added branding type option - choice of splash screen when starting or ticker item.
  • Added support for Linux with Mono - use the same exe on Windows and Linux.
  • Added options to hide the scroll, minimise, and close buttons.
  • Colour of button icons can now be customised.
  • Added option for background to become transparent when application not active (Windows only).
  • Text filter page added to Options window - show or hide items based on words and phrases.
  • Add option to automatically start Desktop Ticker (Windows only).
  • Added function to restore from backup on the Options and Manage Feeds windows.
  • Added option to disable the creation of backup files.
  • Fixes for crashes when starting or closing the application.

New in Portable Desktop Ticker 1.14.0.590 Preview (Dec 28, 2020)

  • Changes:
  • Text filter page added to options window - show or hide items based on words and phrases

New in Portable Desktop Ticker 1.13.0.569 (Oct 23, 2020)

  • Read later list - save feed items to a list to access later.
  • Option for ticker to stay 100% opaque when the active window.
  • Option to turn off shared settings, so each instance of Desktop Ticker has its own feed and settings configuration.
  • Option to change control & click behaviour.
  • Dock mode can now span multiple displays (float only, display dock edges must be aligned and have same DPI).
  • Ability to import and export settings.
  • Improvements on high DPI displays (standard hand cursor, button image size scale, larger icon images).
  • Improved extraction of feed URLs from HTML pages.
  • Backup copies of settings files automatically created.
  • Changes to prevent XXE attacks.
  • New application information window to show environment and configuration details (press F12 on help window).
  • Common Feed List synchronisation removed.
  • Menu item to enable/disable profile settings removed.

New in Portable Desktop Ticker 1.12.1.520 (Oct 15, 2020)

  • Added option to display reload feeds button on the right side of the ticker.

New in Portable Desktop Ticker 1.12.0.510 (Dec 29, 2017)

  • Font can now be changed.
  • Added support for Windows 10 virtual desktops.
  • Added support for TLS 1.2 servers.
  • Added support for HTTP compression.
  • Added option to show icon in the notification area.
  • Taskbar icon can now be completely disabled.
  • Corrected link URL for Atom feeds.
  • Atom feeds can now be set to use either updated time or published time (useful for YouTube feeds).
  • Ticker can be stopped from scrolling (speed 0).
  • Startup feed error window can be disabled, and is by default.
  • The feed list can now be sorted.
  • Feed tooltips can now be disabled.
  • Added delay to feed loading when PC is resuming from sleep to allow network to connect.
  • Clicking on a feed item with the middle button will now hide it.
  • Changed menu button icon.
  • Maximum font size increased to 96.
  • Yahoo stocks feed removed.
  • Minor bug fixes.

New in Portable Desktop Ticker 1.11.0.405 (May 31, 2016)

  • Mouse wheel scrolling
  • Ctrl+click to hide items
  • Animated GIF images
  • Stock gain/loss indicators

New in Portable Desktop Ticker 1.10.1.360 (Dec 19, 2015)

  • Fix for crash when closing the application whilst feeds are loading
  • Fix for System.Web errors
  • Reduced connection timeout to 15 seconds

New in Portable Desktop Ticker 1.10.0.358 (Apr 20, 2015)

  • Text and image files can now be added to the feed list.
  • Items can be hidden from the ticker.
  • Ticker size now adjusts for high DPI displays.

New in Portable Desktop Ticker 1.9.3.310 (Nov 11, 2014)

  • Fix for bug where the application would disappear on Windows 8.

New in Portable Desktop Ticker 1.9.1.298 (Sep 29, 2014)

  • Added option to use a browser style user agent string when downloading feeds.
  • Added option to display feed item images.
  • Added support for RSS enclosures.
  • Added option to outline text.
  • Added option to make the application become opaque when under the mouse cursor.
  • Minor bug fixes.

New in Portable Desktop Ticker 1.8.0.256 (Feb 17, 2014)

  • Added option to display feed title images.
  • Added option to sort the feed items.
  • Added option to limit the number of feed items displayed.
  • Removed the copyright message from the ticker.
  • Fixed issue with docking on high DPI displays.

New in Portable Desktop Ticker 1.7.0.215 (May 14, 2013)

  • Added option to scroll left to right.
  • Added option to prevent ticker hiding behind fullscreen applications.
  • Added new color schemes (white, grey, blue).
  • Added option to automatically generate custom color scheme based on background color.
  • Moved show reload button option from Options window to menu.
  • Moved check for updates option from Options window to About window.
  • Fixed issue where settings would not be saved if user had no access to temp folder.
  • Fixed issue where text case option would not reset to default.

New in Portable Desktop Ticker 1.6.1.181 (May 14, 2013)

  • Enabled Windows Authentication.
  • Fixed issue with some stock symbol titles.
  • Minor bug fixes.

New in Portable Desktop Ticker 1.6.0.176 (Aug 3, 2011)

  • Fixed issue with high DPI displays.
  • Added option to show ticker text in lowercase or uppercase.
  • Added feed list import and export functions.
  • Added feed performance form showing load time for each feed.
  • Minor bug fixes.

New in Portable Desktop Ticker 1.5.0.150 (Jun 14, 2011)

  • Added option to synchronize feed list with Windows Common Feed List (requires Internet Explorer 7 or greater).
  • Added support for file system feed addresses, for example file://c:\rss_feed.xml.
  • Added more opacity options.
  • Ticker window no longer stays on top of fullscreen applications.
  • Added an option to flash the taskbar button when a feed is updated.
  • Added help links to options windows.
  • Feed jump list now shows new and total item count for each feed.
  • Added glass effect to dialog windows (requires Windows Vista or greater with suitable display adapter).
  • Minor bug fixes.