What's new in Input Director 2.2 Build 164
Feb 7, 2024
- New features include:
- Mirror feature - send relative or absolute mouse positioning
- Mirror feature - Only mirror when the cursor is on the Director's primary monitor
- Mirror feature - Lock the cursor to the Director's primary monitor
- Mirror mode has been upgraded to its own navigation tab
- Fixed mirror bug that could cause the cursor on the client to be out of alignment by 1 pixel
- New Director Preference to disable the use of the Windows enhanced pointer precision when directing a client
- New advanced Director Preference can enable Input Director to listen for network configuration changes and clear cached ip addresses
- Fixed bug that could cause Input Director to miscategorise a user logging out with a system shutdown event
- Fixed bug when using unicode characters in hostnames
- Minor bug fixes
New in Input Director 2.1.4 Build 159 (Jun 18, 2023)
- Improvements to the shared clipboard
- Fixed bug that could cause copy/paste notification errors
- Fixed bug that could cause shared clipboard issues when a system using Modern Standby switches into sleep mode
- Reduced lag when a system resumes from sleep
- Minor bug fixes
New in Input Director 2.1.3 Build 157 (May 18, 2023)
- New features include:
- Hostnames now support unicode characters
- Includes 64bit native version
- Supports Windows Modern Standby
- When in mirror mode, can optionally automatically mirror to new clients when they become available
- Fixed bug that could force cursor to continue being shown when using a touch device
- Fixed bug that cause a Director to think that a Client, when shutting down, was still available
- No longer resetting clients skip status when switching off mirror mode
- Upgraded OpenSSL library to v3.0.7
- Minor bug fixes
New in Input Director 2.1.2 Build 153 (Jul 1, 2022)
- New features include:
- Key bindings support binding a key to multiple target keys across the Director and Client systems
- Bindings can now bind mouse buttons as a source or target action
- Upgraded OpenSSL library to v3.0.3
- Fixed a bug that could stop transitioning to a client when it's status changes to being available
- Fixed a bug that could cause incorrect transitions between non-adjacent monitors
- The encryption set on the Director system will now be used as the default encryption for each client
- Commercial customers can set a mandatory encryption policy
- Minor bug fixes
New in Input Director 2.0.1 Build 139 (Oct 2, 2020)
- New features include:
- Fixed a bug that could suppress mouse clicks, particularly with Logitech mice
- Fixed a bug in the shared clipboard that could cause file copy/pastes to fail for filenames that included extended unicode characters
- Fixed a bug that could cause the shared clipboard to stop sharing clipboard contents
New in Input Director 2.0 Build 138 (Aug 23, 2020)
- New features include:
- Input Director's user interface has been refreshed, modernised and improved
- Adding a new system is easier with a new 'Scan Network' feature to find other systems on the network running Input Director
- There are no longer separate Master and Slave modes. Whether a computer is controllable and/or can control another comes down to how Input Director is configured
- The merging of these two modes offers an opportunity to retire the terms Master and Slave. In v2.0, systems controlling other systems are referred to as Directors and the systems being controlled are Clients
- Can control the frequency that input data is sent over the network between systems (useful for those with hi-resolution mice or less than perfect WiFi connections)
- Networking connectivity improvements for folks with complex network setups
- Can exclude file copy/pastes from shared clipboard
- Improvements to the installer to minimise reboots and automatically run a hands free upgrade if there is an existing installation of Input Director
- I'd like to thank the following volunteers for kindly giving their time to beta test v2.0: Roger Howland, ch4os, Rowan Gibbs, Bid0uille, Clay Z., Steve M, Michael Brown, Clifton, Defria Manda, Michael Ateek, klugemann, Mark Johnson, mozoy, Flavio Endo, Luis Carlos Frederico and Scott C.
New in Input Director 1.4.3 Build 128 (Dec 15, 2019)
- Windows 10 systems no longer require a mouse attached to keep the cursor visible
- Upgraded Openssl library to v1.1.0l
- Shared clipboard improvements
- Minor bug fixes
- Minor enhancements
New in Input Director 1.4.1 Build 120 (Dec 28, 2018)
- New features include:
- Shared clipboard reworked to improve performance and bug fixes
- Improved compatibility with Windows 8/10
- Performance improvements when adding/deleting slaves
- Master can now control up to 32 slave computers
- Fixed bug that caused the cursor intermittently not to hide properly on Windows 10
- Minor bug fixes
- Minor enhancements
New in Input Director 1.3.101 Beta (Sep 28, 2012)
- Fixed a bug that could cause keys on the slave to remain depressed
- Minor bug fixes
New in Input Director 1.3.100 Beta (Sep 28, 2012)
- Fixed a bug that could cause the cursor on the slave not to hide properly
- Fixed a bug in the shared clipboard that could cause Windows to temporarily freeze when right-clicking on the desktop
New in Input Director 1.3.91 Beta (Feb 16, 2011)
- New features include:
- Can auto-switch between master and slave roles allowing you to use any mouse/keyboard to control any system
- Can right-click on a network shared file in Windows Explorer and choose to open it on any computer running Input Director
- Can bind a keyboard key (e.g. volume key) to a specific system regardless of which system is being directed
- Improved communications mode to better support unreliable Wireless networks
- Horizontal scrollwheel actions are now supported
- Can setup a hotkey to re-scan slaves
- Can set up a single hotkey (e.g. scrolllock) as a toggle to enable/disable screen-edge transitions
- Can shutdown just the slaves or the slaves and master from the right-click context-menu
- Clears the 'Shared Clipboard' if the system that owns that data is shutting down
- Increased the maximum monitors supported on a single system to 10
- Improved keyboard layout translation support and now supports 64bit O/Ses
- Fixed bug which would block transitions from a Vista/Win7 master
- Fixed bug that blocked file copy/pastes from a Win7 master
- Fixed bug that could cause transitions to occur 1" from the monitor edge
- Various minor bug fixes and improvements
New in Input Director 1.2.2.76 (Feb 2, 2010)
- Supports flexible monitor layouts for systems with 3+ monitors attached
- Improved keyboard layout translation support
- Fixed security problem with Vista and Windows7 masters that could block the cursor from transitioning to slaves
- The master can be set to automatically rescan slaves when resuming from standby
- Mirror input mode can be limited to just keyboard or mouse only
- Can setup a hotkey to fast switch between mirror and master modes
- Fixed an issue with display resolution changes that could block the cursor from transitioning between systems
- Fixed an issue in which a locally attached slave mouse could trigger an input transition
- Fixed a number of issues that could cause keys to become 'stuck' on a system
- Fixed an issue that could stop screensavers synchronising across systems
- Fixed issue with held keys not recognised after playing a macro locally on the master
- Now using IP addresses instead of hostnames in UNC paths for File copy/pastes
- Various minor bug fixes and improvements
New in Input Director 1.2.1 (Jul 9, 2009)
- New transition option: Double-tap on the edge of a screen to transition
- New transition option: The cursor must linger at the edge of a screen to transition
- New transition option: No transitions occur in close proximity to the corners of a screen
- Can suppress warnings about clipboard pastes, different versions of ID and slave unavailabilities
- Supports using the master's keyboard layout when controlling a slave
- Option to limit changes to Input Director's configuration to local adminstrators only
- Automatic startup of Input Director can be set for all users or just specific users
- Can default all slaves to skip on startup to avoid transitions to unavailable slaves
- Can copy files to the clipboard that are located on network shares mounted on the source system
- Can be set to remember whether screen-edges should be enabled or disabled on startup
- Installer no longer warns about installing to incompatible O/S on Windows 2008 and Windows 7
- Installer now correctly adds Input Director firewall rules on Windows 2008 and Windows 7
- Slaves can be upgraded "hands-free" for those systems without keyboard/mouses attached
- New Re-scan slave systems option from the "ID" icon's right-click context menu
- Fixed bug - Vista slaves used to occasionally incorrectly broadcast their availability on shutdown
- Fixed bug - reversed mouse buttons are now honoured when using the Master's mouse preferences when directing a slave
- Various minor bug fixes and improvements
New in Input Director 1.0.7 (Nov 10, 2007)
- Mirrored input mode
- Keyboard Macros
- Ability to skip slaves
- Visual Indicator on transition
- Numerous Bug Fixes
- Improved Usability