What's new in Alarm 3.5.18
Dec 7, 2011
- Change: Added ability to specify alarm time by link. Use this format: “alarm.exe /s19:30″
- Change: Moved color scheme dialog into main Options window.
- Change: Option to ask to confirm alarm reset, snooze, and silence.
- Change: Can now save and load alarm times to .alarm files.
- Bug Fix: Tray Icon flashes on startup.
New in Alarm 3.5.17 (Dec 7, 2011)
- Change: Added confirmation dialog when resetting the alarm time via the button.
- Change: Changed “Alarm Off” to “Reset”
New in Alarm 3.5.16 (Dec 26, 2010)
- Bug Fix: Issue when 24 hour clock is used with Snooze or Quick Alarm.
- Change: Rewrote clock and alarm functionality to always store 24-hour times
New in Alarm 3.5.15 (Dec 26, 2010)
- Bug Fix: Problems when “Remember Screen Location” and “Minimize to Tray” are enabled together.
New in Alarm 3.5.14 (Dec 26, 2010)
- Bug Fix: Playlist didn’t advance to the next song while going off.
New in Alarm 3.5.12 (Dec 26, 2010)
- Bug Fix: Color problem on Windows XP Classic theme
- Change: Beep Audio file
- Addition: WAVs can now be used in the playlist
- Addition: 24 Hour Clock option
- Change: Media is now played through Windows Media Player API. This should fix all issues with playback.
- Removed: Retain Focus option. Too many complaints.
- Addition: Safe Mode for Antivirus software
- Change: “Media” tab in Options is now the “Sound” tab
- Addition: 5 Minute Quick Alarm
- Addition: Remember Screen Location option
- Change: Massive refactoring throughout the program to increase efficiency
- Bug Fix: Focus Alarm Time + Snooze = UI Issue
New in Alarm 3.5.11 (Apr 20, 2010)
- Addition: 2,3,4,6,8 Hour and Custom Quick Alarms. Thanks to Missy for the suggestion.
- Addition: Alarm 4 About dialog added.
- Change: Removed one of the first startup dialogs. (The thanks dialog)
- Change: Code refactoring
- Change: Automatically Displays Morning Reminder when Alarm goes off.
- Change: Some changes to the default settings.
- Addition: Release Notes Viewer
- Change: Check for Updates doesn’t run on first startup.
- Addition: University of Akron (Grad School) Color Scheme.
- Change: Adjust Volume now disabled when media isn’t selected.
- Change: Windows 7 compatibility change.
New in Alarm 3.5.10 (Apr 20, 2010)
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug in the app launcher.
- Change: Changed the way “Prevent Windows Update Restart” is done.
- Change: Compiled under Visual Studio 2008 for first time.
New in Alarm 3.5.9 (Apr 20, 2010)
- Change: Update has been changed to prepare for Alarm 4 updating.
- Addition: Ability to set volume. This only applies to the application so
- you can have your system volume at whatever you want. A special thanks
- to JJ Fullmer for the suggestion.
- Addition: Ability to choose whether or not the alarm time takes the place of
- the time when the alarm is set. Thanks to “OldeFart” for the suggestion.
New in Alarm 3.5.8 (Apr 20, 2010)
- Addition: Ability to Launch an Application when the alarm goes off.
- Change: The Automatic Update Feature has now been updated to AUA v4.2 which is
- a completely re-written system which future versions will use.
- Addition: New “Alarm Off” button when the alarm is set, but not going off.
- Change: “Turn Off” has been renamed to “Silence”
- Change: Internally capable of using a product activation system. However, it
- is not active at this time.
- Change: Loads of refactoring done.
- Bug Fix: Stupid little issue with automatically turning on certain settings. Ugh.
- Addition: Option to make the Alarm retain focus while it’s going off. This is a
- very good feature if you’re using a media center remote to hit snooze in the morning.
- The focus stops when the mouse moves over the main window.
New in Alarm 3.5.7 (Apr 20, 2010)
- Bug Fix: Some songs aren’t properly faded in.
- Change: Playlist now asks to confirm clearing it.
New in Alarm 3.5.6 (Apr 20, 2010)
- Bug Fix: Some songs took longer than others to start and they were skipped.
- Bug Fix: WMA files weren’t actually loaded back into the playlist on startup.
- Change: Instead of “Themes”, now they’re more appropriately called “Color Schemes”
- Change: Playlist re-randomizes when it completes.
- Change: Updated Russell’s, Crimson Clock, Dark Night, Ohio State(Now Scarlet and
- Grey), and Purple Haze color schemes to be better on the eyes. Ohio Northern is
- now called “Alma Mater” since I’m going to be graduating here in couple months.
New in Alarm 3.5.5 (Apr 20, 2010)
- Change: Report a Bug Dialog.
- Change: Added Limited Account Warning on the Options Menu.
New in Alarm 3.5.4 (Apr 20, 2010)
- Bug Fix: Random playlist was not properly reordered after adding
- or removing items.
- Bug Fix: Vista UAC and Limited Accounts. Should work now…finally!
- Bug Fix: Prevent Windows Update Restart shown on limited accounts
- even though it can’t be set on them.
- Bug Fix: Cannot load/save playlist on Vista with UAC enabled.
- Bug Fix: Custom theme edits sometimes still applied on Cancel.
- Bug Fix: Crash on Custom Theme editing for first time.
- Bug Fix: Ability to change update branch never worked in 3.5.
- Change: Disallowed options now invisible if on Limited account.
- Change: Playlist now stored in Application Data.
- Change: Updates are now downloaded into Application Data.
New in Alarm 3.5.3 (Apr 20, 2010)
- Bug Fix: Resetting the Alarm didn’t clear the stored alarm time
- Bug Fix: Custom Theme saved improperly in some situations
- Bug Fix: Fade Alarm option was not properly initialized
- Bug Fix: Options were not applied to new instances
- Bug Fix: Always on top applies to settings windows too
- Bug Fix: Playlist Editor sometimes allowed for beeping and music
- at the same time.
- Bug Fix: New and Restart items weren’t re-disabled if the playlist
- were emptied.
- Addition: 10 new themes
- Addition: Can now make Alarm beep without clearing the playlist
- Change: Playlist randomization will now play all the songs before
- it repeats one.
New in Alarm 3.5.2 (Apr 20, 2010)
- Bug Fix: Restart Current Song doesn’t work with Test Volume
- Addition: Now able to add and remove multiple songs from the
- playlist
- Addition: Now able to drop audio files into the playlist
- Removed: “Sound Alarm Until User Intervention” Option. This
- is now default behavior when auto snooze isn’t enabled.
New in Alarm 3.5.1 (Apr 20, 2010)
- Addition: Quick Alarm Feature
- Addition: Always on Top Option
- Addition: Unprotected WMA support
- Addition: Will Now Run under a restricted user account on Vista/XP
- Bug Fix: Stray right-click menu on playlist
- Bug Fix: Next Song after a song completes during never stop alarm
New in Alarm 3.5 (Apr 20, 2010)
- Playlist Functionality (infinite number of songs to cycle through)
- New Song Every Time Option
- Reorganized Dropdown menus
- Redesigned default theme
- New options menu layout
- Theming support
- Intermittent update check
- Music fader
- Morning Reminder – leave a message for yourself
- Randomize playlist
- Reset auto snooze count on user intervention
- Alarm now restores its self when it goes off and is minimized to the tray
- Bug Fix: Update Check doesn’t properly handle new months/years
- Bug Fix: Themes dont properly restore
- Bug Fix: Themes dont carry into new instances