What's new in PlayStatic 2.1.0
May 30, 2021
- Added:
- User interface changes for better user experience.
- User can set the replay speed of a macro with a control on the Run tasks tab.
- Saved scripts are compressed and encrypted from version 2.1. Compressed scripts are 90% smaller than previous version's scripts.
- Clicking on a macro row shows its index.
- Possible to copy and paste rows in macro list, the feature available in the context menu of macro list (right click in the list).
- Quick select window for recently used macros.
- Auto updating capability.
- Premium features like executing command prompt commands, trigger on clipboard changes, scheduler for macros.
- Changed:
- Blur effect applied on the main window if new PlayStatic window opened. This small visual improvement helps users identify which windows is active, and which is not.
- Obsolete csv saving option removed.
- Smarter macro merging.
- Removed save settings with the macro save feature, settings are saved automatically when user closes the application.
- Removed obsolete start with windows/autostart features
- Patched:
- Playstatic no longer pops up when played a script, even when an event triggered the script. If Playstatic minimized to system tray, it stays there until user clicks on its icon.
- Annoying bug fixed that caused to reset macro list view to default after task(s) edited.
- Smoother scrolling and selecting of macro list items.
- Fixed a bug when, PlayStatic ask the user to save script even they not modified it.
- Fixed every known bugs reported by users.
New in PlayStatic 2.0.0 (May 29, 2019)
- Added:
- User interface changes for better user experience.
- Support for french, spanish and japanese languages.
- Scripts could be triggered by 3 more event type:
- Filesystem watcher
- User idle time watcher
- Process monitor watcher.
- Tasks could be moved up and down easily in script with buttons.
- Playstatic now can be minimized to system tray.
- Changed:
- Improved performance of script replay engine.
- Improved the precision of recording.
- Very fast scripts could be stopped now, even Playstatic is under heavy load.
- Better user interface of modifying a script or an event list.
- Event's implementations are changed under the hood, new event types can be added easily by future versions, but previous versions are not supported anymore.
- Patched:
- Fixed every known bugs reported by users
New in PlayStatic 1.8.2 (Nov 6, 2018)
- Patched:
- Fixed Mouse wheel up and down task type on Add task manually tab.
- Fixed task type changing on the modifying form.
- Few bug fixes related to user interface.
- Added:
- A Run until stop option on the Run tasks tab
New in PlayStatic 1.8 (Oct 19, 2018)
- Added:
- User interface changes for better user experience
- 7 more task type that Playstatic can record and play:
- Middle mouse button click
- Middle mouse button is down
- Middle mouse button is up
- Right mouse button is down
- Right mouse button is up
- Keyboard key is down
- Keyboard key is up
- It is possible now to record special keyboard keys like windows key, alt, F1-F12 etc. Playstatic will catch every shortcut and it can replay it.
- It is possible now to add manually to task list from all the supported task type, instead just a few.
- A new feature called Events at the Run tasks page. The user can create one or more events, and they will be triggered automatically and play his task list when the right shortcut pressed.
- Playstatic now can associate .playstatic files and play it instantly without any interface. This feature can be switched off and on at Settings page.
- Full compatibility with the previous version, loading and playing csv files was made by Playstatic 1.0.
- Playstatic now can be controlled by hotkeys. It is possible to start and stop a recording, and also start and stop playing of a task list. The hotkeys can be modified.
- Paging for the list of tasks. Big task list are easily manageable from now, changing pages possible with a drop-down menu and arrow buttons.
- Support for drag and drop task loading.
- Logging for important functions and possible errors.
- Changed:
- Improved the performance of application:
- ~100 times faster list modifying.
- ~10 times faster list loading and constantly fast update of the list.
- Improved performance of play engine: it can play 10-20 times more task per second, depending on the task type.
- Improved the precision of replay, Playstatic has now 2-3 times lower overhead.
- User can now send Keydown and Keyup for applications. Previous version supported only Keypress, now you can simulate the holding and releasing a key. It's applied to recording at version 2.0.0.
- User can save the task list as a .playstatic file.
- Delay precede the simulated command in every task now, instead following it.
- From version 1.8.0 only mouse events change the cursor position.