What's new in IDelight (formerly Desktop Picture Frame) 4.1.3748.34296
Apr 7, 2010- Initial program release under the new brand. IDelight is former
- Desktop Picture Frame.
- New features:
- List shows thumbnails turned in frames.
- Hotkeys added.
- Help file updated.
- User is now asked to let the program compile a list at the first start.
- Application settings and image list is stored now in user application
- data folder.
- Desktop Picture Frame bugs fixed:
- Image does not disappear after cleaning the image list.
- Total time does not update during cut and paste operations.
- Program crashes if item has been dropped upon itself while drag and
- drop operation within the list.
New in IDelight (formerly Desktop Picture Frame) 4.1 (Mar 13, 2010)
- Bugs found and fixed:
- Bug is fixed: only one image is dropped from several that has been dragged
- on drag and drop over image list.
- Bug is fixed: target image stays selected after paste from clipboard.
- Bug is fixed: images paste after target image.
- Bug is fixed: rare artifact - some image pixels (regions) become
- transparent at 100% opacity.
- Bug is fixed: "Apply to all portrait/landscape images" button (placed on
- "Setup frames and caption options" window) does not update according to
- current image.
- Bug is fixed: current frame name (placed on "Setup frames and caption
- options" window) does not update on frame select.
- Bug is fixed: image, that has been displayed last, reappears after closing
- Options pages if image list is empty.
- Autoupdate system now performs overwriting of frameset files that are
- in use by the program (i.e. current frame and frame definitions).
- Slide-show begins from the last added image while in the reverse show
- order.
- Installer made ready for handling additional framesets that will come
- as separate install packages.
- Frames of polaroid format is replaced with frames of habitual format.
- New frames are included in framesets.
New in IDelight (formerly Desktop Picture Frame) 4.0 (Sep 11, 2009)
- Program user interface is refactored to appear and behave like modern
- sidebar. This is experimental.
- "Toggle autoscrolling to active image" button is added to the sidebar.
- When it's on, active image is always visible
- Disabling "Prior page" and "Next page" buttons while image list is in
- details mode and longer than one page is fixed.
- "Prior page" and "Next page" buttons misbehavior is fixed.
- Mess with go/pause mode and autostart option is cleared out. "Autostart
- show" option is deleted from "General" options page.
- "Prior" and "Next" button logic is changed to loop through list.
- Bug with total time remains untouched at status bar after default image
- show time adjusted is fixed.
- Default image title, when in image filename mode, is made to be shown
- without extension.
- Program options page "Show order" is added. It introduces forward,
- reverse and two random show orders controls.
- Program options page "Image list" is added. It includes new toggle
- named "Show titles instead of filenames in thumbnail mode".
- "Swapping smoothness" control is added to "Transitions" options page.
- It is intended for user ability to adjust transition speed and smoothness
- according system speed.
- Thumbnail generation routines are hardly rebuilt to bring up acceptable
- speed on slow machines and eliminate 100% system load working with huge lists.
- Some image list routines are worked out.
- Entire list selection and invert selection procedure is made notable faster.
- Image list scrolling is made much smoother.
- Program forgetfulness of last folder opened is fixed.
- Ugly image list navigation through program icon in the taskbar is
- substituted by feature named "DPF Assistant". It can be called from taskbar
- icon and acts like remote control. This is experimental.
- Image list scrolls down when images are dropped there by drag-n-drop.
- "Open" button is added to "Image list tasks" group. It’s logic is to
- replace current image list with previously saved.
- "Add existing" button is added to "Image list tasks" group. It’s logic
- is to add previously saved image list to current.
- "Save as" button is added to "Image list tasks" group. It’s logic is to
- save current image list.
New in IDelight (formerly Desktop Picture Frame) 3.0 Beta 1 (Feb 5, 2009)
- “Title” column is added to the image list
- List columns can be reordered by the user
- “Edit title” context menu item is added in order to allow user enter and edit titles
- “Portrait title” and “Landscape title” options pages are added to imply displaying titles
- Title position, size, background and foreground colors, font, background and border paint options are user customizable; user is able to setup titles as image filename, as fixed text, or get from “Title” list column or combine title sources
- Frameset definitions file format is extended to handle titles
- Default image show time is changed to one minute
- “Portrait frame” and “Landscape frame” options tabs: visual frame selection is implemented
- Essential frameset content is extended to frame thumbnails and xml-format definitions file
- “Portrait frame” and “Landscape frame” options tabs: “Restore position” button is added, it’s purpose is to restore default image position stored in frameset definitions file
- “Portrait frame” and “Landscape frame” options tabs: “Pick up landscape” and “Pick up portrait” buttons are added, their purpose is setup the same frame for another-oriented images
- “Portrait frame” and “Landscape frame” options tabs: “Frameset” dropdown is added, it’s purpose is select default-supplied or additional frameset if any
- Recent versions bug with changing list colors inconsistency is fixed
- “Zoom” button click event is bounded to popup zoom window
- Bug with displaying of the image window’s icon in “alt+tab” bar is fixed
- Code to make program hide its icon in “alt+tab” bar when “do not show program in the taskbar” option is set and list is minimized
- Simple startup splash screen is implemented
- “Fit on screen” dock mode is added to the “Dock” button menu; feature is intended for displaying images at best-fit size on a secondary monitor
- Bug with image jumping to the primary screen after change dock mode is fixed
- Some minor bugs of multi-monitor configuration are fixed
- Image rendering and positioning routines hardly rewritten to implement new kinds of transitions (wiping left, right, down, up and center); default transition style called “drop out” (feature was tested internally as 2.3 beta)
New in IDelight (formerly Desktop Picture Frame) 2.5 (Jan 30, 2009)
- Bug with disappearing image while mouse is in drawing rectangle, but not
- quite upon image, is fixed.
- "Activate" button renamed to "Start".
- Minor code changes.
- Minor bugs fixed.