Wikiquote Screensaver Changelog

What's new in Wikiquote Screensaver 2.0.0.1

Mar 4, 2010
  • Mediawiki "403 Forbidden Error" fixed

New in Wikiquote Screensaver 2.0.0.0 (Dec 21, 2009)

  • added complete French translation
  • corrections of Spanish translation
  • changed Webpage URL
  • updated libraries
  • some minor changes

New in Wikiquote Screensaver 1.9.0.99 (May 11, 2009)

  • updated Spanish translation
  • updated Italian translation
  • fixed text scaling issue in 3d mode
  • improved English quote parsing heuristics
  • removed settings bug
  • screensaver title included in resources
  • minor changes to installer
  • changes to range of some graphical settings
  • removed bug that prevented screensaver from determining system language correctly
  • removed some other bugs

New in Wikiquote Screensaver 1.3.0.0 (Jan 30, 2009)

  • added support for French quotes
  • added French translation
  • new threading architecture:
  • using Wintellect threading lib
  • allows updating several items at once
  • speed improvements
  • improved quote detection heuristics
  • improved regular expressions
  • small gui improvements
  • bug preventing custom language selection resulting in speed improvements (especially improved startup time)
  • memory consumption reduced
  • changes to installer

New in Wikiquote Screensaver 1.2.0.1 (Dec 15, 2008)

  • Changed light to ambient light in order to avoid color distortions
  • Changes to the installer: No longer querying the return values of the bootstrapped installers, since this caused an error .NET and Windows Installer now installed quietly

New in Wikiquote Screensaver 1.2.0.0 (Dec 10, 2008)

  • Spanish translation added
  • Spanish quotes from es.wikiquote.org can now be obtained
  • Changes to screensaver appearance: Changed the rotation angle of the text
  • Bugfixes in the quote parser
  • Improved regular expressions in the quote parser
  • Some minor stability improvements
  • Installer improvements:
  • Installer now bootstraps Windows Installer 3.1, before installing .NET
  • Added Spanish localization
  • Language now determined automatically (now longer determined through language selection dialog)
  • Other minor changes

New in Wikiquote Screensaver 1.1.0.2 (Nov 25, 2008)

  • Installer now entirely translated to German and Italian
  • Some minor installer bug fixes
  • Some graphical changes to installer

New in Wikiquote Screensaver 1.1.0.1 (Nov 23, 2008)

  • removed settings bug: settings were overwritten on startup
  • quote collector now recognizes another type of disambiguation pages of the English wikiquote project
  • improved popup messages
  • improved exception classes in library
  • bootstrapped .NET installer no longer demands a system restart
  • WQSS installer now asks for reboot, if .NET has been installed
  • installer now checks the .NET setup success

New in Wikiquote Screensaver 1.1.0.0 (Nov 22, 2008)

  • reduced startup time
  • reduced cpu usage
  • reduced memory usage
  • new installer:
  • nsis engine
  • bootstraps .net 3.5 sp1
  • sets screensaver as default
  • now capable of installing scr on a 64 bit windows
  • changed output path to windir
  • bugs fixed:
  • language bug on win xp
  • severe threading bug in quoteselector
  • fixed Italian translation
  • ui improvements:
  • new icons
  • application icon improved
  • usage of message boxes instead of statusbar message label
  • changes to toolbar:
  • 2 bands instead of 1
  • search options now placed on a separate canvas
  • added tooltip to donate button
  • topic label font size reduced to 12
  • quote collector engine improvements:
  • quotecollector now replaces , on English wiki pages with space characters
  • several code improvements
  • settings belonging to versions are now upgraded