BrightnessTray Changelog

What's new in BrightnessTray 1.2.5

Jun 18, 2019
  • Customise the colors used to render the tray icon text (See README)
  • Fix system brightness erroneously changing when the slider wasn't actually changed (bug was occurring when first opening the flyout)
  • Add crash logging (will output a text file on an unhanded exception)

New in BrightnessTray 1.2.4 (May 18, 2019)

  • Add "Start screen saver" to tray menu
  • Fix bug where some tray menu items did not work until the Flyout window had been rendered at least once

New in BrightnessTray 1.2.3 (Feb 23, 2019)

  • Simplify WMI query. Hopefully fixes app crash during log-off/shutdown

New in BrightnessTray 1.2.2 (Nov 2, 2017)

  • Your screen brightness should now flicker less when the brightness is changed from external sources (hotkeys, etc.).

New in BrightnessTray 1.2.1 (Nov 2, 2017)

  • Only call set brightness method if window is visible

New in BrightnessTray 1.2 (May 19, 2017)

  • Attempt to catch OS shutdown events to exit cleanly
  • Destroy the brightness-changed event listener upon exit
  • Ignore GetCursorPosition() failures
  • Bugfix with creation of startup entry
  • Hardcode name of startup entry file (enforce only one BrightnessTray entry)
  • Hoping this solves the random crashes during logoff/shutdown!

New in BrightnessTray 1.1 (May 19, 2017)

  • The tray icon now shows the brightness level as text:
  • Turn off with the /NoTextIcon parameter to show a static icon instead.
  • The fly-out panel now also displays a label with the current brightness percentage:
  • Hide the label with /NoPercentageText