New in Friendly Pinger 5.0 (Aug 10, 2007)
- Added: Romanian and German interface languages.
- Added: Thanks to the built-in error report system
- (activated on the error) a lot of reports were received and operated on.
- Almost all the errors were detected and fixed.
- Added: No more e-mail update notifications. Now the notification is built in the program and is enabled if you want it.
- "File|Options|Other|Check for new version on startup"
- Added: "Create shortcut in Quick Launch panel" during the installation process.
- Map:
- Added: Opening several maps at a time.
- Added: Display of the map edit and changing modes in the map tabs.
- Added: Maps server - allows users to update maps synchronically,
- and administrators can synchronically edit them.
- "Help|Options|Maps Server".
- Added: "File|Options|Maps".
- Added: View/Edit mode with the map write-protection.
- Added: Menu "File|Reopen" is now duplicated in the control panel, near the Open Map button.
- Added: Plugins - allows you to differentiate the device scan methods, and create the new ones.
- Added: "File|Update Map".
- Added: Interface settings are now saved with the map.
- Added: Adding labels/rectangles.
- Added: Horizontal aligning by centre.
- Added: External commands execution for a group of selected devices.
- Added: Support of e-mail servers, required authentication.
- (File|Options|E-Mail|My server required authentication)
- Added: Export to PNG.
- Added: Export to FTP.
- Added: FTP support for
- "Notification|Notification options|Display events on Web-page".
- Added: The ability to export without the backgroung image.
- Added: sufficient increase in animation.
- CPU load is greatly reduced.
- Added: Objects dragging speed-up.
- Added: Maps open much faster,
- due to the sub-map graph caching.
- Sub-map opening speed up,
- due to the thing that they are always taken from the cache.
- Select "File|Open" to read from the file again.
- Added: New mean of internal binding allowed notification binding by the identifiers.
- It allowed assigning notification to the non-address devices (nubs, switches etc.).
- Added: Notification on several maps at once.
- Added: You may now connect non-address devices (hubs, switches etc.) to each other.
- In this case they act as one object,
- i.e. all the hubs in a binding will be switched on,
- if at least one device, attached to any switch in the binding is on.
- Added: Start/Go down notification for non-address devices (hubs/switches).
- Allows assigning "complicated conditions",
- when several devices go down, for example.
- Added: Saving all the animation shots in one bitmap file -
- memory economy and a sufficient decrease in the number of GDI objects used.
- It was especially critical in Windows 9x/ME.
- Added: External commands are easy to use now.
- Their interface is now moved to 'File|Options|Commands'.
- Added: Re-sort of the external commands.
- Added: Paused devices state is now saved on exit.
- Added: Device may be opened in FAR now.
- Added: Line types (File|Options|Lines).
- Added: You may now specify the line's length and type.
- Added: New map information dialog window style.
- Added: Representation of the number of lines of each type and their length
- (View|Map Information|Line Types)
- Added: You may use '�dress' macros instead of the device address
- Added: Control panel was done anew.
- Added: Trace Route for additional addresses.
- Added: Serach of the devices in the sub-maps by device's additional information.
- Added: Generalized search.
- Added: Representation of cursor position on the map while moving it.
- Added: Enter works as a double-click on the device,
- when you are in the edit mode,
- instead of calling in the configuration dialog window.
- Added: The ability to change the colors of several lines at once.
- Added: You may now point the line node insertion point with the mouse.
- Added: Now enabling the grib (hold the Ctrl key)
- is also applied to the lines adding.
- Added: You may now drag the lines by the edge.
- Added: You may now use %Time and %Name keys in
- the notification external command parameters.
- Added: Scroll bars ar now moved automatically
- when you select a group of objects with the mouse.
- Added: F2 - call in the selected device's configuration dialog window.
- Added: Ctrl A (select all) in Lite version.
- Added: Ping/Trace context menu in the Lite version.
- Added: The ability to scan all the devices,
- not just the ones that are switched on.
- Added: Map rendering is now faster.
- Added: Last map position is now saved.
- Added: F5 pings devices, even if pause mode is enabled.
- Added: "Copy Address" button in the device context menu.
- Added: "Change" button in the notification window.
- Added: Plugins now require the new way of saving the devices' state.
- The format of Status.dat was changed.
- Added: FPServer is not used anymore, its functions were transferred to the plugins.
- Added: Additional addresses settings configuration was simplified.
- Added: ESC now cancels the line addition during the process of line adding,
- instead of minimizing the application.
- Added: Switch icon (Switch.gif).
- Added: Cable laying date option in the line properties.
- Fixed: Edge flipping while dragging the map.
- * Fixed: Modem and minicomputer icons bug.
- * Fixed: Error when working with several post servers.
- * Fixed: After calling in the file dialogs,
- the current program directory changed.
- * Fixed: Icons are not transparent in the hints, when using gifs.
- * Fixed: Some control panel bugfixes.
- * Fixed: Red color map background filling bug,
- when the tracing was on and a different map was opened.
- * Fixed: Additional addresses flipping during the ping process.
- * Fixed: Standard palette color selection bug.
- * Fixed: Device search bug, when a lot of maps are included in the process.
- * Fixed: Large CPU load when dragging objects.
- * Fixed: Same IP addresses were regarded as the same e.g., 127.0.0.1 and 127.0.0.01
- * Fixed: Additional scroll barsappearance bug.
- * Fixed: Device ping process circularity, if a device is removed during the check.
- * Fixed: Letters division bug in the hints.
- Connections:
- Added: Status bar.
- Added: New style of customization window.
- Added: "Options|Notification|Only according to kicklist".
- Added: "Options|Notification|Play sound file".
- Added: "Options|Service".
- Added: "Options|Other'.
- Added: "Options|Remote|Brose".
- Added: Refresh rate in milliseconds.
- Added: Hot keys for some operations.
- Added: "Report" in context menu.
- Added: Representation of the browsed computer in the header.
- Added: Defining of computer or user name in black/white list as a mask:
- ? - one symbol;
- * - zero, one or several symbols;
- | - all that further - exclusionary mask.
- Added: Kick all mode while executed defined application.
- Added: Opportunity to remember connections only with opened files.
- Added: Notification sound file is improved.
- * Fixed: Information panel size was not remembered.
- * Fixed: Bug with checking only by computer name in black/white list.
- * Fixed: Fatal error at deleting computer from the list
- while looking its context menu.
- * Fixed: When "notify on connection" only option is enabled, it notified on each file opened.
- Inventory:
- Added: New product: Friendly Network Inventory - inventory from FPinger.
- Added: New style of configuration window.
- Added: Support of e-mail servers with authorization.
- (Options|Parameters|E-Mail|My server required authorization)
- Added: Export departments to SQL/ADO/Text.
- * Fixed: Some small bugs.