What's new in Sideo 1.0.0.0 Beta 8
Nov 9, 2019
- Log backups now use the date/time as an extension instead of a counter and “.bak” extension.
- Added a new “Reflection” plugin under “Effects” for screen shots (allows you to add a reflection of the screen shot using specific settings).
- The “Maximum characters for captured feedback:” setting now defaults to 500 characters.
- The “The border size to use for the preview screens:” setting now defaults to a border size of 3 (much easier to see).
- Added new global hot key “Select the hot key to capture a background screen shot:”, which can be used to force capture a background screen shot.
- Added new setting “Select the screen shot saving size:” to “Saving Formats” under the “Settings” area (defaults to “Ignore”).
- The Resize plugin is now less blurry when changing making an image smaller.
- Fixed a fault that caused the sliders to appear slightly out of place on some of the windows. They should all appear centred now.
- Added “Balance” support to the “Video” and “Audio” player windows (with adjustments to the UI, Tooltips, positions, etc).
- Fixed a crash that occurred in the “View Screen Shot” window when pressing “Delete” (when the menu item was not visible).
- All extra controls on the “View Screen Shot” window are now disabled and hidden when previewing a capture type.
- All windows now have an additional darker and smaller border around them (so they can be seen more clearly when overlapping each other).
New in Sideo 1.0.0.0 Beta 7 (Oct 6, 2019)
- All “Opacity” (except where changing levels is required) is now shown as a percentage (instead of a maximum value of 255.
- Fixed a fault that stopped the percentage symbol being shown in the “Sharpen” plugin options.
- Fixed some spacing issues on the main window for some of the setting areas.
- Fixed a fault that caused the checkmark/circles of the check box and option box fields to not show the highlight colour when then mouse is over them.
- The settings drop down areas are now fully styled and no longer rely and the default Windows colours.
- Fixed a fault that caused some of the settings to remain enabled when a recording session is started.
- Fixed a fault that caused some focus dotted lines to appear in various areas around the problem.
- Fixed a fault that prevented shortcut, arrow, control, shift (etc) keys being used in any list (would always deselect everything in the list).
- Minor speed enhancements when load windows (due to data conversation improvements).
- The setting “Time between captured screen shots” can now except values smaller than 1 second (for example, 0.5), allow better playback in videos.
- Fixed a fault that would cause the “Save As” dialog to reappear after saving a session in the “Review Your Session” window.
- Silent audio is now more accurate and no longer contains invalid audio samples (being read as not silent).
- Minor renames to a few of the settings to make it more clear about the values they accept.
- Added new setting “Allow logging of background screen shots” to the “Recording” section under “Settings” (defaults to false).
- The Video and Audio player windows now show the total duration in the title bar.
- Logging support when stopping, pausing and resuming recording (allowing better audit trails).
- Project upgraded to .NET 4.7.2 and Windows XP, Vista and 7 support dropped.
New in Sideo 1.0.0.0 Beta 6 (Sep 21, 2019)
- Fixed a fault that allowed the same hot key to be used more than once (in the “Settings” area on the main window).
- Fixed some minor grammar issues in the “About” window when checking for updates.
- Fixed a fault that caused the spacing used between screen shot previews to be smaller than expected, causing some minor overlaps.
- Added setting “Select border colour for the preview screens:” to “Preview Screens” (defaults to “Red”) the "Settings" area.
- Added setting “Select where the preview screens should be placed:” to “Preview Screens” (defaults to “Top Right”) the "Settings" area.
- Added setting “The border size to use for the preview screens:” to “Preview Screens” (defaults to 1) the "Settings" area.
- Plugin effects applied during recording sessions are now also applied to the preview screens (if available).
- Preview screens are no longer added when feedback is added (with notes) to the screen shot (due to them getting in the way of the intended information).
- Fixed a fault that caused the selected region of another screen to include parts of the other screens.
- When recording the selected region, you can no longer include a preview of the other screens in the screen shots (violates the privacy settings).
- Fixed a fault that caused the full view of the other screens to be shown in the preview screens (even when the working area is your intended capture area).
- Reworded all the setting areas, using uppercase characters where needed and removed the word “setting” where required.
New in Sideo 1.0.0.0 Beta 5 (Sep 16, 2019)
- Fixed a fault that caused straight edges to appear for side buttons on the main window when hovering over them.
- Fixed a fault that allowed adding a capture type of “Background”, which is an internal name used for background screen shots.
- Fixed some positing faults with buttons on various windows (only slightly off, but still noticeable).
- Moved the clipboard menu actions for “Take A Screen Shot” under a new “Clipboard” sub menu.
- Added hot key support to Stop, Restart an Pause recording (all hot keys are now under a new “Settings” area called “Global hot key settings”).
- Fixed a fault that caused accessor keys pressed and let go to sometimes caused the “What Was Your Experience?” window to open.
- Added support to change the playback time for screen shots (if they don’t contain recorded audio) in the “Properties” window.
- Fixed a fault that caused audio in the “What Was Your Experience?” window to still be added when “Include audio recording” is unchecked.
- Fixed a fault that caused “Playback time” in the “What Was Your Experience?” window to be disabled when “Include audio recording” is unchecked.
- The recording buttons on the “What Was Your Experience?” window are now on the title bar and relate to voice only (with some wording changes).
- Minor renames to some of the tooltips across various windows (should be easier to understand what each toolbar button does now).
- Only one silent audio file is now written for spacing instead of as multiple files per second (less storage space used).
- Fixed a fault that caused the title on the main window to be set wrong after previewing a current session (when playing the video).
- Added support for introductions/endings to be included in a session after the recording has been finished (only one of each can be added).
- Increased the default height of the main window and added some quick-access links for adding introductions/endings.
- Fixed a crash that would sometimes occur when showing error messages after attempting to capture feedback.
- Fixed a fault that prevented case changes for names (Capture Types or Email Templates) being set.
- Progress bars are now shown on the main window and the “Review Your Session” window when rendering/previewing a video.
- Added full support for multiple screens (a new window is shown asking you to select your screen to capture, which is also setting based).
- With multiple screen support, a new option is available to include a preview of your other screens in the screen shots (optional, off by default).
- Pressing Ctrl+Down on the main window will minimize it (based on your settings, to either the task bar on system tray).
- Removed the “Running Status” window (as it was getting the way of recordings) and all settings around it.
- Added support to add images to a current session (when paused) via the “Current Session” context menu (under “Options”).
- Fixed a fault that allowed pressing “Ctrl+A” in the “Current Session” area to select all the items in the list.
- Fixed a fault that caused the “Select Region” window to sometimes load slowly when used on a screen that is using a larger resolution.
- Added an “ID” column to the “Current Session” area on the main window (so it’s easier to tell, after sorting, the recorded order).
- Fixed a fault that caused the “View” option for “Clipboard” to always use the “View Screen Shot” window (even with the setting turned off).
- Added preview support to the “Edit Capture Type” (which uses the default viewer), which allows a greater view of how it will look.
- Added “Underline” and “Strikeout” font style support for “Capture Types” via the “Edit Capture Type” window.
- Added full support in the “Edit Capture Type” window to use multiple font styles (opposed to just one), which are now shown as check items.
- Default system sounds are now played whenever a message is shown (either an error or a question).
- Added support to select the volume on the “Audio Player” and “Video Player” window (which is saved between uses).
- Minor re-organisation of the areas some of the settings are under (should make a bit more sense now).
- Added support for captured feedback text to be cantered in the screen shots (see the “Edit Capture Type” window).
- Added support to specify the padding that should be used around the captured feedback text (see the “Edit Capture Type” window).
- The border size for captured feedback can be set up to 100 (see the “Edit Capture Type” window).
- Fixed a fault that caused copied screen shots to appear in a slightly different quality when pasted into another program.
- Fixed a fault that allowed invalid HTML for an email template to be previewed (via the “Edit Email Template” window).
- Added support to make a copy of an “Email Template” or “Capture Type” (see the configuration windows).
- Fixed a fault that caused a crash to occur when pressing “Del” in one of the configuration windows (without selecting an item).
- Fixed a fault where some of the shortcut keys available for the menu items in the configuration windows were not shown.
- Fixed a fault that prevented pressing “Escape” from closing any of the configuration/player windows.
- Fixed a fault that sometimes prevented changes made to Email Templates from being reverted.
- Added support to specify the width/height of a watermark image to use in the screen shots (zero reverts to the current size).
- Fixed a fault that sometimes prevented actions being carried out in the Configure windows.
New in Sideo 1.0.0.0 Beta 4 (Sep 2, 2019)
- Added support to the “File Dialog” window to show the associated icons for each file (reverts to a default if not available).
- Added support to select the icon size via a new “View” context menu (file list). Supports Small, Medium, Large and Tile icons, defaulting to medium.
- When a text field is in error mode (its red), changing the text in said text field will turn off erroring mode.
- All error messages shown for text fields are now shown as a popup just below the field (instead of in the title bar, which much cleaner).
- Fixed a fault that caused files to appear in directories they are not stored in.
- The “Pick Colour” window now shows the title for the area that has opened it (slightly more user friendly).
- Fixed a fault that caused the files shown in the “File Dialog” window to not be in the right order.
- The drive names in the “File Dialog” window are now shown in bold.
- Fixed a fault that caused the sub-menus for context menus (and regular menus) to use straight edges instead of round.
- Fixed a fault that caused a strange looking focus rectangle to appear around any list where an item is deleted (using the shortcut “Del”).
- UI improvements to the configure “Email Templates”, “Capture Types” and “Processes” windows (less buttons, menus, better errors, etc).
- Fixed a fault where changes in the configure “Email Templates”, “Capture Types” and “Processes” windows were not logged.
- The configure “Email Templates”, “Capture Types” and “Processes” windows now show “•” in the title bar (when something is changed).
- Fixed a fault that allowed all zeros entered into a numeric text field to be accepted as a valid value.
- The “File Dialog” window now only shows files that are not hidden, system, offline or temporary (based on hidden settings).
- The configure “Email Templates”, “Capture Types” and “Processes” windows now support reverting all changes made.
- Fixed a fault that prevented key-stroke finding support from working correctly in the “File Dialog” window.
- Fixed a fault that caused numerical key searches in any list to fail (would never find anything).
- Pressing “Ctrl+S” in the “Video Player” and “Audio Player” windows (when enabled) will called the Save As method.
- Removed the buttons at the bottom of the “Video Player” and “Audio Player” windows (now title bar buttons, allowing area viewing space).
- Fixed a fault that allowed list items that are disabled to be included in the key stroke searches (causing the selection to disappear).
- The settings area on the main window now has a context menu, with support for expanding/contracting all sections.
- The side tabs on the main window now have icons just above the text (the image preview area size has been decreased slightly in size).
New in Sideo 1.0.0.0 Beta 3 (Aug 25, 2019)
- Background screen shots now show “N/A” instead of “(background screen shot, no notes captured)”.
- Added a new styled “Properties” window that is shown for recorded session screen shots (allows some additional configuration).
- Fixed a fault that prevented Check For Updates from finding a version that is no longer in test mode.
- Clicking on the path selector in the “File Dialog” window and pressing backspace on the keyboard will take you back on folder level.
- Fixed a fault that prevented the split grabber on the “File Dialog” window from filling the entire area.
- The default subject used in Email Templates is now “Enter subject…”.
- Fixed a fault that caused the “File Dialog” window to load the file list twice when loading (causing it to load slowly in some cases).
- Fixed a fault that caused links to move the “About” window around.
- The “File Dialog” widow will now load large file lists without freezing the entire program.
- The preview area on the main window is now hidden if the selected screen shot in the current session does not exist).
- Added new watermark positions “Middle Top” and “Middle Bottom”.
- Fixed a fault that caused the setting “Opacity percentage that should be applied:” to always remain enabled.
- Fixed a fault that caused the setting “Also check for pre-release (beta) versions” to check its enabled state against the wrong area.
- Added “View Clipboard” menu option to the “Take A Screen Shot” button (will show the image in the “View Screen Shot” window.
- The “Filter” plugin effects now ask for a percentage level before applying the effect (they cannot be used as effects anymore while recording).
- Added new effect plugins that can be used across all areas of Sideo:
- 1. Filters - Yellow (converts the image to a filtered yellow effect).
- 2. Filters - Cyan (converts the image to a filtered cyan effect).
- 3. Filters - Magenta (converts the image to a filtered magenta effect).
- 4. Filters - Black (converts the image to a filtered black effect).
- 5. Filters - White (converts the image to a filtered white effect).
- Moved the “Rotate 90°” plugin into a new category called “Rotate” and renamed it to “90°”, while adding the following:
- 1. 180°- Rotates the image 180 degrees.
- 2. 270°- Rotates the images 270 degrees.
- All numerical controls for plugins that have a maximum/minimum value (like percentages) now use a slider control (much easier to set).
- Fixed a fault that caused a horrible focus effect to be shown around the sliders.
- The “View Screen Shot” window now shows the “•” character at the end of the title when the screen shot has been changed.
- Renamed the “Colour Picker” window to “Pick Colour”.
New in Sideo 1.0.0.0 Beta 2 (Jun 30, 2019)
- When checking for updates, the beta version of the software is now also checked to ensure you are on the most recent test version
- Added new setting “Also check for pre-release (beta) versions” (off by default) to the “Settings” area
- Added a new shortcut key “F5” to the “Refresh” context menu item on the “File Dialog” window
- The sections in the “Settings” are can now be opened/closed (remembered between uses). Only “Recording Settings” is open by default
- Fixed a fault that prevented the changes for “Capture Types” from loading the next time Sideo is opened
- The “Select type” dropdown list on the “What Was Your Experience?” window now auto sizes to the largest capture type you have configured
- The setting “Maximum characters for captured feedback:” now only allows a maximum of 5000 to be set
- Some of the setting descriptions have been renamed to make them a bit easier to understand
- You can now lock the main windows position by pressing “Ctrl+L” and “Ctrl+U” to unlock it
- Added “Lock/Unlock Position” control menu item items onto the main window
- Improved some of the tooltips on the main window (will show additional shortcut information)
- Fixed a tabbing fault on the “Message” window (the “OK” button was never defaulted to be the first)
- When sorting the columns in the “Current Session” section on the main window, a warning message is now shown (can be turned off)
- Fixed a fault that caused checking for updates to sometimes fail
- The “File Dialog” windows path selector now allows you to open specific folder paths in a new window (via a new context menu)
- Fixed a fault in the “File Dialog” window that allowed the same directory (currently being viewed) to be opened again (forcing a refresh)
- Fixed a fault that caused Sideo to crash when closing after sending a file via the default email client
- The area that is selected on the main window is now shown in a bolder text
- The main window section openers now have subsection links, allow easy access to common tasks
- Added support to “Revert All Settings” via the “Settings” area on the main window (be careful, as this deletes everything apart from the logs)
- The section tabs on the main window now show a different mouse cursor when hovered
- Added support for “Middle Left” and “Middle Right” watermark positions via the “Settings” area on the main window
New in Sideo 1.0.0.0 Beta 1 (May 31, 2019)
- Improved error logging in the file management areas (if something goes wrong, the logs should be a clear indication of the problem).
- Version numbers now only show the Major, Minor and Revision values (build value is not required).
- Added new setting "Allow plugin effects to be applied to recording session screen shots" (off by default) to the "Settings" area.
- Added a new window called "Select Plugins", which will allow you to specify the plugins you want to apply to each recording session screen shot.
- Windows that require an action now have a "Cancel" button instead of "Close" (makes a bit more sense).
- Fixed some formatting faults with the Snippet plugins (some of the HTML data was not correctly laid out).
- Added support for snippets in captured feedback (in the "What Was Your Experience?" window, a "Snippets" sub menu is shown in the context menu).
- Fixed a fault that caused either the top or bottom border for captured feedback to be missing when no notes are supplied.
- Added support for snippets in email template subjects.
- Improved the layout of the "Edit Email Template" window (Export/Import buttons are now context menu items for the HTML text field).
- Minor improvements to some of the names used for settings in the "Settings" area on the main window.
- Added "Refresh" context menu support to the "File Dialog" window (for the file list).
- Fixed a fault that caused the context menu items in the "Logs" section to remain disabled when there is only one item available.
- Added support to use the "Quick Search" area on the main window in the "Logs" section.
- Added "Undo All" to "Tools" on the context menu in the "View Screen Shot" window (reverts to version shown when window was opened).
- Capture Type and Email Template "Name" fields now only support 30 characters (fixes a filename to long saving fault).
- The capture type drop-down list on the "What Was Your Experience?" window now shows tooltips for long text items.
- The "Edit Capture Type" window now shows the correct fonts and font styles for selected drop down items.
- The main window now shows the correct font styles for selected drop down items.
- Added "Refresh" to the context menu in the "View Screen Shot" window (update the current screen shot, showing any external changes).
- Added a "Save As" option to the "Take A Screen Shot" button drop down menu (will prompt you to save the screen shot).
- Renamed the "Take A Screen Shot" button drop down menu item "Clear" to "Clear Clipboard" (bit more obvious).
- Email Template subjects are now restricted to 256 characters.
- Add new effect plugins that can be used across all areas of Sideo:
- 1. Filters - Red (converts the image to a filtered red effect).
- 2. Filters - Green (converts the image to a filtered green effect).
- 3. Filters - Blue (converts the image to a filtered blue effect).
- 4. Adjustments - Contrast (allows you to adjust the contrast by a custom level).
- 5. Adjustments - Gamma (allows you to adjust the gamma levels for red, green and blue).
- 6. Effects - Pixelate (pixelates the image by a desired pixel size).
- 7. Effects - Jitter (moves every pixel by a specific degree).
- Fixed a fault that caused the filter categories (in all areas) to appear in non-alphabetical order.
- When previewing a video using the built in “Video Player”, the “Save As” option is no longer available. Will be available for future work.
- Added new setting “Always write the session details (video, audio, etc) to a ZIP file” (on by default). If turned off, only the video will be saved.
- All drop-down lists that contain categories now indent the items listed under them to make it clearer which one they belong to.
- The “File Dialog” window will now automatically update when it detects changes to the currently opened folder (or drives have been changed).
- Fixed a fault that caused images to appear out of place when recording only the active windows (when viewing the saved video).
- The plugin effect “Category” has been changed to an enum field called “CategoryType”. You can set it to “CategoryType.None” if it does not require one.
- Fixed a fault that allowed “IFramePlugin” plugins to be shown without names being defined (causing blank menu items to appear).
- Fixed a fault that allowed “ISnippetPlugin” plugins to be shown without names being defined (causing blank menu items to appear).
- Added support for “To, CC and BBC” email addresses for “Email Templates” (can be left blank if not required).
- Filenames generated for sending emails now include the name of the “Email Template” (useful if temporary files are not automatically deleted).
- Added new setting "Select background colour for resized screen shots" (Black by default) to the "Settings" area (only visible in different size screen shots).
- Fixed a fault that caused the “Pick Email Template” window to close when double clicking in the lists empty space.
- Added new “IFramePlugin” attribute “IsColour” support (states if a string property should be treated as a hex colour.
- Added support for the plugin “Canvas Size” to state the background colour that should be used when making the image larger (defaults to Black).
- Added support for the plugin “Halftone” to state the colour that should be used for the circles (defaults to White).
- Fixed some very bad named settings in the “Settings” area on the main window (and their storage names).
- Added support to center watermark images within the screen shots (no padding will be applied).
- Added support to specify the opacity percentage that should be applied to the select/default watermark shown in the screen shots.
- The sliders in the “Colour Picker” window now show hover and press colours (more consistent with the rest of the program).
- A tooltip is now shown in the “Colour Picker” window to state the name of the colour that has been selected.
- Fixed a large range of errors occurring on start up (for the first time) when trying to read data storage.
- Fixed a fault that caused empty “Frames” and “Snippets” folders to be created in the root folder with nothing in it.
- Fixed a fault that caused blank context menu items to appear in the “Edit Email Template” window when there are no snippets available.
- The “File Dialog” window now uses a pickable File Path display (so you can easily jump around the various path sections).
New in Sideo 0.9.9.0 Beta 1 (May 20, 2019)