Background Changelog

What's new in Background 2.6.3.6

Feb 11, 2009
  • ADDED an option to fill the center-tiling offset spaces by stretching the image a bit... but as I thought... without a good resizing filter, the images look like crap... Well... some images are ok looking, without any noticeable jaggedness, but most do... I'll leave this option here in case I get a better resizing filter later on.
  • ADDED code to really scale small images. Somehow... that bit of code was missing?... probably I never really thought about it much and didn't write it so now I have written it.
  • ADDED code clause to make the image be stretched if the image size ratio is equal or similar to the screen aspect ratio.
  • CHANGED the checkbox sizes since it would not show all of it when the program was running, even though in the resource editor it would show all of it.
  • CHANGED Screen Ratio Calculation. It now actually calculates the screen ratio given screen width and screen height. Before, I hadn't had the need to do it since I was using a 4:3 screen ratio... and then some files were at 5:4 screen ratio so I thought that was all... until I got my new laptop... 16:10... Oh well... now it calculates the ratio and now it seems that the centering calculation got fixed by this.
  • CHANGED the default location pick chance from 0 to 100. Now, it's set to 100% by default.
  • CHANGED the GetRandomNumber a bit... just made it return 0 if the MaxLimit number was less than 0.
  • FIXED Incorrect Tiling offset code. The original idea was that if Windows considered the image to be fit for tiling across the screen, then my app would see if it could tile it a bit better in a neat way, but there are some images that my app would tile, but Windows would not consider them to be fit for tiling, thus my app would not calculate the offset right, which ended up not including the offset when center-tiling some images. Now, that's fixed. All I did really, was to remove the dependency check for whether Windows wants to tile the image or not. So now it doesn't matter whether Windows wants to tile the image or not, my app will calculate whether it is fit for tiling by itself. lol~ ^-^
  • FIXED Previous List code. It was giving me errors at times when the list was full, so I fixed it... hopefully it works alright now.

New in Background 2.3.3.3 (May 23, 2007)

  • ADDED PNG File support.
  • ADDED reset control code. Now when you press Cancel, it truly works like it. When you press Cancel, it resets all controls.
  • ADDED code to set wallpaper with ActiveDesktop enabled.
  • CHANGED code so that the tray icon would change with the AboutBox/Splash images.
  • CHANGED automatic starting with windows code.
  • CHANGED the way for the dialogs to pass data back and forth.