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.