What's new in Monitors AnyWhere 3.0.0.37
Mar 13, 2018
- New features and enhancements:
- Enhanced Network Video Wall feature:
- In the new version we present the Displays Configuration tool with a Video Wall section.
- This tool can be found in File menu > Displays configuration
- Please note: In order to work with the new Displays configuration tool you must use OSBASE driver v.1.0.2970 and above
- The tool was designed as a super-friendly and intuitive tool, allowing the users to create multiple video walls, by a simple drag and drop action.
- Once the initial setup is done, Windows® will identify the new setting as one big extended display, allowing the user to run any type of content on the new video wall setup. You can also set the new extended display to duplicate your primary screen.
- Your video wall will be up and running within minutes!
- Enhanced content mirroring:
- In the new version we present the Display Configuration tool with a Mirror Mode section.
- This tool can be found in File menu > Displays configuration
- Please note: In order to work with the new Displays configuration tool you must use OSBASE driver v.1.0.2970 and above
- This tool was designed as a super-friendly and intuitive tool, allowing the users to create multiple cloned groups, by a simple drag and drop action.
- Once the initial setup is done, Windows® will identify the new cloned group as one extended screen, allowing the user to run any type of content in full sync. You can also set the new extended display to duplicate your primary screen.
- You can easily add more cloned groups if required and run everything from a single PC.
- Chrome browser support:
- In the new version we present full support of Chrome browser in addition to our past support with Internet Explorer.
- It now allows multiple browser instances to be open, in regular mode or in full screen mode.
- The new enhancement allows users to fully integrate CMS or dashboard systems, which require Chrome, with Monitors AnyWhere, to present different web pages on different screens.
- Minor changes and bug fixes:
- Open browser in full screen check box will add the switch automatically, both for Chrome and Inernet Explorer.
- Fixed issues with the Simple Playlist feature.
- Fixed issues with the Calendar feature.
- Issues Fixed:
- NEW – Added a better support for Excel spreadsheets.
- NEW – Japanese translation.
- Fixed – Support for Windows 10 newest build 16299 (Creators Fall update).
- Fixed – Powerpoint presentations issue in full-screen mode.
- Fixed – Better support for newest graphics card drivers.
New in Monitors AnyWhere 3.0.0.7 (Sep 13, 2017)
- NEW – Bezel correction user interface added.
- NEW – Added the option to design multiple video walls in different shapes.
- NEW – Added an option to rotate each screen in a video wall by 180 degrees.
- NEW – Added an option to save a profile of a Display configuration.
- NEW – Added Quality property to allow changing the compression rate.
- NEW – Chrome browser now appears on the list of applications by default.
- Fixed – Issues related to saving Videowall and Mirror mode settings.
New in Monitors AnyWhere 3.0.0.1 (May 15, 2017)
- Enhanced Network Video Wall feature:
- In the new version we present the Displays Configuration tool with a Video Wall section.
- This tool can be found in File menu > Displays configuration:
- Please note: In order to work with the new Displays configuration tool you must use OSBASE driver v.1.0.2915 and above
- The tool was designed as a super-friendly and intuitive tool, allowing the users to create multiple video walls, by a simple drag and drop action.
- Once the initial setup is done, Windows® will identify the new setting as one big extended display, allowing the user to run any type of content on the new video wall setup. You can also set the new extended display to duplicate your primary screen.
- Your video wall will be up and running within minutes!
- Enhanced content mirroring:
- In the new version we present the Display Configuration tool with a Mirror Mode section.
- This tool can be found in File menu > Displays configuration
- Please note: In order to work with the new Displays configuration tool you must use OSBASE driver v.1.0.2915 and above
- This tool was designed as a super-friendly and intuitive tool, allowing the users to create multiple cloned groups, by a simple drag and drop action.
- Once the initial setup is done, Windows® will identify the new cloned group as one extended screen, allowing the user to run any type of content in full sync. You can also set the new extended display to duplicate your primary screen.
- You can easily add more cloned groups if required and run everything from a single PC.
- More information on the new Mirror Mode enhancement.
- Chrome browser support:
- In the new version we present full support of Chrome browser in addition to our past support with Internet Explorer.
- It now allows multiple browser instances to be open, in regular mode or in full screen mode.
- The new enhancement allows users to fully integrate CMS or dashboard systems, which require Chrome, with Monitors AnyWhere, to present different web pages on different screens.
- Minor changes and bug fixes:
- Open browser in full screen check box will add the switch automatically, both for Chrome and Inernet Explorer.
- Fixed issues with the Simple Playlist feature.
- Fixed issues with the Calendar feature.
New in Monitors AnyWhere 2.5.0.23 (Oct 20, 2016)
- Monitors AnyWhere is now compatible with Microsoft's User Account Control (UAC). Now it will allow you to use the software with a user that doesn't have administrative rights.
- Installer bug fixes.
New in Monitors AnyWhere 2.5.0.14 (Aug 5, 2016)
- Added – Automatic installation of PowerPoint Viewer 2010 and SP2 as part of the installer.
- Fixed several usability issues.
New in Monitors AnyWhere 2.5.0.10 (Aug 5, 2016)
- Added – Automatic save layouts.
- Added – Automatic renaming of Monitors when the software is installed on the first time.
- Added – Resizing and arranging the screens according to a grid layout on first installation.
New in Monitors AnyWhere 2.5.0.9 (Aug 5, 2016)
- Fixed an issue when running the Native PowerPoint Viewer on a PC where Office 2007 is installed as well.
- Fixed an issue with the Video Wall function to support artistic mode screen layouts.
New in Monitors AnyWhere 2.5.0.8 (Aug 5, 2016)
- Fixed an issue when updating from a previous version, the Clone Group settings would not be saved.
- Fixed an issue when using the Simple Playlist to run multiple Internet Explorer instances in the Non-automatic mode.
- Fixed an issue when using Logicity application.
New in Monitors AnyWhere 2.0.0.23 (Dec 29, 2015)
- Issues Fixed:
- Monitors AnyWhere is now compatible with Microsoft's User Account Control (UAC)
- Now it will allow you to use the software with a user that doesn't have administrative rights
- Installer bug fixes
New in Monitors AnyWhere 2.0.0.15 (Dec 29, 2015)
- New features and enhancements:
- Calendar playlist is now enhanced with full multi-threading capabilities – better performances and better support for multiple displays scenarios (more than 10 displays)
- Added configuration file entry which handles certain applications differently once played with the Simple Playlist feature. Allows adding more applications easily to that list in case there is an issue with the Simple Playlist feature
- Better support for Windows 10 Operating System
- Better compatibility for Virtual Machines (VMware, Hyper-V, VirtualBox)
- Issues Fixed:
- Changing timing of Simple playlist while running would cause an exception
- Setting tasks for a 24hrs schedule on the Calendar Playlist would cause an exception
- Fixed an issue with the Grouping and Mirroring feature with Internet Explorer, which caused a white screen to show on the screens
New in Monitors AnyWhere 2.0.0.2 (Jan 29, 2015)
- New features and enhancements:
- Enhanced User Interface
- The User interface has been updated with new menu icons for an easier usability and the Playlist control panel has been re-designed with new buttons and new capabilities.
- Enhanced Playlist and Calendar configuration:
- The two functions are now merged into one window for selecting the working mode for each screen.
- Enhanced Send function:
- When you add a new task to a Playlist you can choose to open the applications in Maximized or Regular window state.The new "Regular" mode will send the application without maximizing it on the selected screen.
- Colors annotations:
- Monitors AnyWhere v2 includes an advanced color annotation function to allow identifying each application easily. Colors can be changed easily by pressing on the Rename and Set Color.
- Enhanced Renaming screens:
- It is now possible to edit screen's name.
- Screen ID and Name:
- Monitors AnyWhere v2 includes the capability to identify all screens in order to allow easy naming process. This feature is also very useful for a Video Wall configuration.
- The notification on the screen will show the selected name and the Screen's Windows ID.
- Allowing updates and built-in automatic upgrades:
- Starting from Monitors AnyWhere v2 it is now possible to update the software whenever a new version is release simply by press on the Help menu and choosing Check for updates.
- Also if downloaded the new version manually, no need to save the configuration, uninstall and preform a new installation. Simply install the new version on the current installed version.
- Issues Fixed:
- Fixed an issue where the Simple Playlist won't send applications to the correct window and many times leave them on the Primary screen.
- Fixed an issue related to the annotation appeared on the screen's thumbnail when the Calendar option was in use.
- Fixed an issue where the Simple Playlist wouldn't send IE when only one task was configured per screen.
- Fixed an issue where the Simple Playlist in Non-Automatic mode would note rotate between applications.
- Fixed high CPU and RAM usage issue.
- Fixed an issue in the Screen Grouping and content Mirroring feature where content would stop duplicating after some time.
New in Monitors AnyWhere 1.99.5 (Oct 15, 2014)
- New Simple Playlist mechanism:
- Completely re-written the code for the Playlist feature which makes it work much better, more reliable.
- Added visual annotations to make it more user friendly.
- New general enhancement:
- Added visual annotation to the Scheduled Playlist as well
- New splash screen added.
- Color theme changed
- Issues Fixed:
- All issues with the old "Simple Playlist" feature were resolved by completely re-writing the feature.
New in Monitors AnyWhere 1.9.9 (May 29, 2014)
- New features and enhancements:
- Screen grouping and content mirroring:
- Monitors Anywhere has developed a new unique capability that allows screen grouping and content mirroring. This new feature enables to create groups of monitors connected to the host PC and by doing so it can mirror the content from one monitor to all other screens in that group.
- Automatic Start Options feature:
- This function allows you to choose which operation will be initiated on each monitor separately on system startup. You can choose one of the following functions:
- Simple playlist, Calendar, Send All, Send All+Simple Playlist
- New general enhancement:
- Monitors Anywhere infrastructure was upgraded to support Microsoft .NET framework 4.5.1.
- Issues Fixed:
- Fixed a bug in the Simple Playlist feature which caused the application to crash.
- Fixed a bug with MAWPPTLauncher, were presentations wouldn't open in full screen.
- Fixed a bug which caused the task bar to disappear when using the "Persistence Mode" on Windows7 OS.
New in Monitors AnyWhere 1.8.2 (Mar 26, 2013)
- New features:
- Play list feature allow you to set a list of application for a each screen and to configure the time interval for each application to run.
- To configure the Playlist settings: Options > Scheduler Settings > Playlist Settings
- It's also possible to Play or Stop the timer from the main console screen.
- You can multi-select screens and set the timer On or Off on all of them.
- Right click on an empty space in the main console will open the Options menu for a better and easier accessibility.
- The licensing mechanism has been upgraded. In the first installation a trial period will run for 30 days and will allow you to control up to 3 extended rmonitors. To activate the software after purchasing a license, please use the following manual:http://www.monitorsanywhere.com/how-to-activate-monitors-anywhere
- Now you can set a running process to Persistence Mode, by pressing Right-Click on the running process in the Application Planner control panel.
- Major enhancement in the speed of transferring applications to each screen.
- Issues fixed:
- Fixed a bug which prevented controlling the Background image of the 10th screen.
- Fixed a bug which prevented configurations from being saved when pressing OK in the Browse console.
New in Monitors AnyWhere 1.6.1 (Nov 22, 2012)
- Fixed a bug in the "kill processes" mechanism which caused inconsistency in the database.
- Fixed a bug which prevented Sending application to a display screen without saving the configuration to the database.
- Fixed a bug in the Multi-Select mechanism which prevented normal of this feature.
- Fixed a bug which caused the screens layout to change if you had changed their size.
- Fixed a bug which caused the software to crash in case you send an application to one of the display screens, terminate it manually and then try to connect to this screen.
- Fixed a bug that prevented saving Main screen background of being saved in the database.
- Fixed a bug which caused the software to crash if the UAC is being used within the Operation System.
- Fixed a bug that caused the software to crash in case one of the screens are disconnected and any sort of operation is conducted on them.
- Fixed a bug which prevented Sending websites to any display screen using Internet Explorer 8, when the operating system is Windows XP.
- Fixed a bug which prevented Sending files that their file names include special characters.
- Fixed a bug that caused the screen's thumbnails to appear in a faulty order when using the software in Windows XP operating system.
- Fixed a bug that caused videos not to be sent properly to their designated screen.
New in Monitors AnyWhere 1.4.8 (Oct 8, 2012)
- New features:
- The layout of thumbnails images in the main window are now saved in the database. You can either choose to save the layout while working or it will be automatically saved when exiting the software.
- Alternative images can be set as background for the monitor's thumbnails. This function is designed to reflect the monitor's placements in a building or a floor plan.
- Set background image feature allows you to present different images on each monitor to be used as a static bulletin board.
- System configuration can be saved by using the new Import Export feature. It saves all Application Planner's configurations, layouts and background settings.
- A new online Knowledge Base is available on our website and can also be accessed by pressing F1 while using Monitors AnyWhere.
- Enhanced Browse window:
- When browsing for an application to open on specific screen, it's now also available to Browse in the Parameters field. It's very useful feature when using it to open files.
- Parameters field also saves cache of any recent entry. (already implemented for the application field)
- Right click on the arrow which is located on the right side of Parameters field. It allows you to Remove an entry from cache or to clear all entries from cache. (already implemented for the application field)
- Full free-text support in the Parameters field.
- Enhanced Application Planner:
- Multi Select of rows in the Application Planner console is now available. It's now possible to select a number of monitors to preform a Send All function or a number of applications.
- Terminate a running process is now available from the Application Planner console.
- Monitor's list now present the Operating System Identifier for each screen.
New in Monitors AnyWhere 1.4.2 (Oct 8, 2012)
- Enhanced Resize screen feature:
- Now it enables you to change the size of monitors' thumbnails that appear in the main windows.
- Enhanced user interface abilities:
- Right-click on monitors' thumbnails enables you to Connect, Rename and view its properties.
- Right-click on monitors list (upper table) enables you to Connect and Rename its properties.
- Also, double click on a monitor in that table will connect you to that specific monitor.
- Right-click on applications list (middle table) will enable you to send the selected application to any monitor.
- Right-click on the list of applications for a selected monitor (bottom table) will enable you to send it back to primary screen.
- Icons added for all applications which are currently running on the computer.
- New icons added for all buttons in the Application Planner section.
- New icons added indicate if an application is saved in the database for future use on a specific monitor.
- New icons added indicate if an application is currently running on the computer.
- New browse function:
- New browse window opened when pressing the button in the bottom list.
- It enables you to Browse your computer and select the application you would like to open.
- It recalls all applications opened in the past and presents its icon if available.
- You can erase a specific record or clear all records in the cache.
- Special shortcuts are available: iexplore, pptviewer, chrome, etc…
- Enhanced improved usability in the list of applications for a selected monitor
- Presenting real-time information on all applications running on a selected monitor