What's new in Talisman Desktop 3.4 Build 3400
Aug 16, 2011
- New LMedia plugin to play Video,Audio files and DVD.
- Dragging buttons and list items in "topforms".
- Edit option for "Common lists" in Object Editor.
- Smoothed fonts and "Opacity" option for all text objects and labels.
- Opacity option for clock.
- Other changes and corrections.
New in Talisman Desktop 3.3 Build 3300 (Apr 4, 2011)
- Fixed a problem with "User Account Control" in Windows7/Vista (error message at start)
- Added new option for HTML object "Show/Hide scrollbars"
- Fixed some small bugs
New in Talisman Desktop 3.2 Build 3200 (Apr 4, 2011)
- Support of Vista/Windows7 icons 256x256 pixels size.
- New "Custom icon size" option.
- New "Common Lists" option for List object. Common Lists allow to use the same user defined lists in all Talisman themes where this option is supported. You do not need to customize each new theme manually for your own applications.
- New "Hot Zone" object. Hot Zone is an active area on the screen that can react on "Mouse cursor enter" and "Mouse cursor leave" events.
- New "stopscript"command. May be used with Hot Zone objects to make delays before starting scripts.
- New "Show hint" option for List object.
- New "Show/hide border" option for HTML object.
- New "Hide Popup Menu" option for HTML object.
- New "Hide Window after pressing any button" option for TopForm objects.
- New "Window opacity" option for TopForms.
- New "Wrap text" option for Button object.
- New textual functions (may be used in Text object, text labels and hints of Button and List objects):
- gettext(recbinsize) - get Recycle Bin size.
- gettext(recbinfiles) - get number files in Recycle Bin.
- gettext(drivesize c:\) - get drive size.
- gettext(drivefreesize c:\) - get free drive size.
- - break string.
- Fixed bug in Form object "hide by click outside" procedure.
- Fixed bug in "control panel" procedures for List and Menu objects.
- Updated "tasklist" procedures for List object.
- Fixed bug in "Create New Form" procedure (zero values in width/height fields)
- Fixed bug in "Create New List" procedure (zero values in width/height fields of default button)
- Other changes and bug fixes.
New in Talisman Desktop 3.1 Build 3100 (Dec 15, 2009)
- Windows 7 support.
- Removed a limitation for top forms. Now you can create any number of independent windows.
- New command "showwindow " to open any form as an independent window. Parameter=0/1 (normal window/top window)
- New command "sendcommandto " to send a Talisman command string into any opened topform.
- New command "closewindow " to close any opened topform.
- New command "moveform" to move any opened topform.
- New wallpaper effects for Windows wallpapers: flip, stretch, mirror functions.
- New "scrolling" effects for Talisman forms.
- Fixed problem in LVolume plugin for Windows Vista and Windows 7.
- Fixed mistake in startup desktop effect. Now Talisman does not show white screen while executed effect for a main desktop.
- Fixed mistake in "New Button" procedure (lost text properties).
- Added function "Enable/Disable WIN-hotkeys" in shellmode of Talisman.
- New themes were added in the installation: Windows Wallpaper Changer, Cuckoo Clock, 6 screens.
- Other changes and bug fixes.
New in Talisman Desktop 3.0 Build 3006 (Dec 18, 2008)
- Updated Button object.
- New button file format - TBTN.
- Updated Calendar object.
- Updated AClock object.
- New "Add/Edit Item" dialog for List object.
- New "Theme Manager 3.0".
- New options for desktop wallpapers.
- New "Button Click delay" option.
- Other changes and bug fixes.
New in Talisman Desktop 3.0 Build 3002 Beta 1 (Mar 19, 2008)
- Updated Button object. Added alpha-blended PNG support for all phases of a button; added vertical text labels
- New button file format - TBTN instead the old BTN3 format. TBTN stores 3 alpha-blended PNG pictures and all button settings in one file
- Updated Calendar object. Added support of alpha-blended PNG backgrounds; new "Horizontal Line" and "Vertical Line" styles of calendar; vertical text labels
- Updated AClock object. Added support of alpha-blended PNG arrows; separated centers for each arrow; top picture (alpha-blended PNG)
- New "Add/Edit Item" dialog for List object
- New "Theme Manager 3.0", including: Theme Manager, Theme Installer, Theme Builder, Shape Builder, Object Collector
- New options for desktop wallpapers: Fit by Width (Arange to Top/Center/Bottom) and Fit by Height (Arrange to Left/Center/Right). These options help to set standard (4:3) wallpapers to wide screens without distortions
- New "Button Click delay" option in Program Settings window of Object Editor to set up any delay in msec. This option was added to avoid unexpected double clicks or long pressings on touchscreen displays
- New "Preview Panel Color" option in Program Settings window of Object Editor to change background color of preview windows in Object Editor
- New screenwidth.tscr and screenheight.tscr script commands
- Updated Drawpic command. Added rotation angle parameter for PNG pictures
- Fixed bug in List object "show Winamp playlist" option
- Fixed bug in Callendar object "Next/Previous year" command
- Other changes and bug fixes
New in Talisman Desktop 2.99 Build 2990 (Mar 12, 2007)
- Windows Vista support.
- New "Theme Manager 3.0 beta", including: Theme Manager, Theme Installer, Theme Builder, Shape Builder, Object Collector.
- New TSHAPE 3.0 format for alpha-blended Shape objects.
- New "Resize" function for Shape objects. Now you can resize an unlocked Shape object by dragging its bottom-right (8x8 pixels) conner.
- New internal commands: restart, poweroff, hibernate. Use these commands to directly restart/shutdown or hibernate computer without Windows dialog.
- Antialiased arrows in AClock object.
- "Create new object" dialog window for dragging file procedure.
- Added new presets for "Default Button" in form settings.
- Added new icons for drives (Hard, Floppy, CD/DVD, Net, RAM).
- Fixed bug in commenu.mnu for inputbox object.
- Fixed bug in "load default menu" command of TOE.
- Fixed bug in "move cached form" procedure.
- Fixed bug in Button object "Redraw" command.
- Other changes and bug fixes.
New in Talisman Desktop 2.98 (Apr 10, 2006)
- - Updated "wallpaper=windows" option for OnTop forms. If you set "wallpaper" parameter of such form in "windows" - the topform will be drawn over all opened windows using all transparency and alpha-blending effects. Note: this function doesn't use the "alpha-blend" procedures of Windows2000/XP. The function works in Windows9x systems too. But the function doesn't redraw the screen when you move any window under your "transparented topform". You can use only "autohided" or "closed-by-click-outside" forms with "wallpaper=windows" parameter.
- - Fixed the "Hide only with parent form" bug of HTML and Flash objects in forms with "Caching" parameter.
- - Corrected "moveform" and "sizeform" commands for forms with "Caching" parameter.
- - Added PNG support in "Draw" and "Drawex" commands.
- - Added new command "Drawicon " . Where - size of icon (16,24,32,48,64,72,96,128); - number of icon in ICL,DLL,EXE files (use 0 for usual ICO files). The Drawicon function draws icons from ICO, ICL, DLL, EXE files.
- - Added new command "Drawpic ". The Drawipic function draws any pictures from BMP, JPG, PNG files.
- If and parameters =0 - the picture will be drawn in its original size. If and parameters are not zero - the picture will be scaled.
- - Added new command "Drawrect ". The Drawrect function draws rectangle and fills it using the current .
- parameter may be defined as decimal or hex RGB value. For example: 0 or $000000 is Black color; 16777215 or $FFFFFF is White color.
- - Added new command "Drawtext ". The Drawtext function draws text in the specified rectangle using the current Font. Font attributes must be defined by another command: SetDesktopFont.
- - Added new command SetDesktopFont ". Where is 0 - normal;1 - bold;2 - italic;3 - bold-italic. The SetDesktopFont function sets a current Font for Drawtext command.
- - Fixed the "PNG picture alligned to right/bottom" bug.
- - Added new command "tobject alteros3d.command=". This function send any command string in Alteros3D program. See the list of Alteros3D commands in Alteros help file.
- - Other changes and bug fixes.
New in Talisman Desktop 2.97 (Mar 28, 2006)
- Alpha-blended PNG support.
- New functions.
- Bugs fixes