What's new in RainbowTaskbar 2.4.1
Nov 6, 2023
- Actually fixed crunchy radius for multiple monitors.
New in RainbowTaskbar 2.4 (Nov 6, 2023)
- Bug fixes:
- honestly i kinda forgot there are a lot of bug fixes
- Underlay border radius is now no longer crispy (taskbar border radius still is sadly, windows limitation)
- New features:
- More default presets
- Duplicate gradient with swapped colors
New in RainbowTaskbar 2.3.2 (Aug 22, 2023)
- New features:
- Added Chinese (Simplified) translations (thanks @wcxu21)
- Added installer releases
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed numerous issues with the new Windows 11 patch
- Fixed 32 bit release
New in RainbowTaskbar 2.3.1.1 (Aug 19, 2023)
- Bug fixes:
- Fix auto error detection with the new Windows 11 patch
- Fix auto update app restart bug
- Fix weird issue when starting multiple instances of the app
New in RainbowTaskbar 2.3.1 (Aug 17, 2023)
- Fix too-many-months-old Windows 11 bug with the new taskbar.
- Fix another weird transparency bug.
New in RainbowTaskbar 2.3.0.1 (Dec 30, 2022)
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed Japanese possibly not being chosen when UI language is set to system language.
New in RainbowTaskbar 2.3 (Dec 29, 2022)
- New features:
- Localization! Featuring: English, Romanian and Japanese
- Please report any translation errors as an issue or a pull request!
- Rounded rectangles
- Automatically fit rectangles/ellipses to taskbar(s)
- High contrast preset example
New in RainbowTaskbar 2.2.3 (Dec 22, 2022)
- Just some minor quality of life fixes and tweaks to the UI.
New in RainbowTaskbar 2.2.2 (Nov 1, 2022)
- Better UI design (ModernWPF)
New in RainbowTaskbar 2.2.1 (Jul 21, 2022)
- New features :
- Instruction labels are now more explicit (#8)
- Changed GUI number increments to 1 instead of 10
- Bug fixes:
- Removed image transparency option as it is no longer valid - use layer transparency instead.
New in RainbowTaskbar 2.2 (Jul 20, 2022)
- New features:
- New drawing behaviour option : make graphics span across all taskbars.
- True multi taskbar support.
- Bug fixes:
- Icon not set to editor window.
- Underlay now doesn't hide when peeking desktop or app.
- Preset manager now saves new preset by default.
- Fixed blur.
- Other minor fixes:
- Better (lower) memory usage using shady hack.
- Layer bitmaps are now created on demand (attempt to lower memory usage).
- Only 1 config thread to fix syncing.
New in RainbowTaskbar 2.1 (Apr 19, 2022)
- Bug fixes:
- Transition list on wrong color types #14
- Full crash on bad image path #10
- Gradient preview uses angle
- New features:
- New rendering logic: all instructions now draw on a shared layer-specific bitmap.
- To complement the feature before, Shape, Image and Text instruction have received a "Draw Once" option (since they have either a transparency option or antialising).
- Shape instruction! (line, ellipse, rectangle)
- Preset manager (all credits to zCri)
- Failing instructions now report exception to user and are automatically removed.
New in RainbowTaskbar 2.0 (Apr 15, 2022)
- Layers!
- Brand new website
- Better editor, written in WPF
- GPU Rendering (also because of WPF)
- Transparency and color previews
- HTTP API, for integration with other apps
- Performance! (hopefully)
- The old update system is now obsolete. The latest version (https://ad2017.dev/rnbver.txt) will always be set to 2.0 and future updates will be done using the GitHub API.
New in RainbowTaskbar 1.3.10.1 (Nov 9, 2021)
- App should now be fully portable (untested)
New in RainbowTaskbar 1.3.10 (Nov 6, 2021)
- Second monitor now works if placed on the left of the primary monitor
- The app will actually build from source code now
New in RainbowTaskbar 1.3.9 (Oct 31, 2021)
- New features:
- Ease functions! you are no longer limited to the boring linear interpolation for fading, instead you can use
- Sine
- Cubic
- Exponential
- Back
- Source code file structure refactor (spread out the almost 2k gui.c file)
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed crash bug on Windows 8.1 and older
- something else i forgot :D
New in RainbowTaskbar 1.3.8.4 (Oct 29, 2021)
- Replaced GetDpiForWindow as it only seems to work for Windows 11 and 10, and also made the app crash instantly on older systems.
New in RainbowTaskbar 1.3.8.3 (Oct 29, 2021)
- Fixed underlay overflow on the second monitor if the taskbar is placed site to side with it
- Fixed taskbar blur not adjusting to rounded corners
New in RainbowTaskbar 1.3.8 (Oct 29, 2021)
- New features:
- Rounded corners!
New in RainbowTaskbar 1.3.7 (Oct 28, 2021)
- Bug fixes:
- Now checking if cURL is installed before performing update check (would cause an update loop)
- Removed colored window underlay, as it would randomly pop up on older machines
New in RainbowTaskbar 1.3.6 (Oct 27, 2021)
- New features:
- Randomizer: randomizes the next color effect
- Donation button, just for the sake of it
- New config example - "Randomizer" (duh)
- Bug fixes:
- The file version and description is now set
- The app will no longer get stuck on checking for updates if there is no internet connection
- Re-added definitions for WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN and VC_EXTRALEAN (removes weird unused libs, smaller file)
New in RainbowTaskbar 1.3.4 (Oct 25, 2021)
- Bug fixes:
- Taskbar is finally hidden from ALT+TAB menu
New in RainbowTaskbar 1.3.3 (Oct 17, 2021)
- New features:
- Integrated config examples.
- Bug fixes:
- Apply will actually restart the config from the beginning instead of waiting to end the current config.
New in RainbowTaskbar 1.3.2 (Oct 17, 2021)
- Bug fixes:
- Taskbar should now revert to original taskbar style when exiting program normally
- Fixed weird control behavior issue which caused the editor to delete the wrong line
New in RainbowTaskbar 1.3 (Oct 10, 2021)
- New features:
- GUI config editor
- 2 monitor support
- Tray icon: left click to open config editor, right click to close RainbowTaskbar
- Bug fixes:
- RainbowTaskbar underlay now always hides from taskbar
New in RainbowTaskbar 1.2.1 (Aug 13, 2021)
- Bug fixes:
- Config without c or d (containing Sleep functions) no longer cause huge CPU usage
- Actually fixed bitmap flicker with double buffering