Win7shell Changelog

What's new in Win7shell 2.0

Nov 15, 2011
  • Re-wrote most of the code
  • New drawing system
  • New settings system
  • Added new thumbnail buttons and drawing options

New in Win7shell 1.14 Test 6 (Oct 25, 2010)

  • This expands on the previous test versions by fixing some localisation related
  • issues, attempts to fix the player buttons disappearing/being clipped when the
  • taskbar title is removed & adds a restart prompt when the player controls are
  • altered. Extract the file into your plug-ins folder replacing the previous version to
  • test. Remember that this is a test version.

New in Win7shell 1.13 (Oct 25, 2010)

  • Added a bit smoother scrolling (optional). Some bugfixes. Rating drawing is a bit
  • different, little circles are drawn instead of nothing when there are no 5 stars

New in Win7shell 1.10 (Nov 4, 2009)

  • Fix: got rid of an important and old memory leak (it caused several other bugs, especially if you didn't restart Winamp for a long time)
  • Fix: Corrected icon order in the jump list
  • Fix: Corrected several text formatting bugs, such as the shadow being sometimes one character short
  • New: Added two more text formatting flags:
  • %s% - Draws text shadow for containing line using selected shadow color
  • %b% - The line containing this will have a darker background for the text, using the selected shadow color
  • Fix: Right-to-left works yet again
  • Translations: Added 5 lines to the translation file

New in Win7shell 1.09 (Nov 4, 2009)

  • New: Added media library playlists to the jump list
  • New: Thumbnail button: "Stop after current song"
  • Fix: Small bugfixes
  • Translations: Added 2 lines to the translation file

New in Win7shell 1.08b (Nov 4, 2009)

  • Fix: Taskbar icon progressbar always showed 0 or 100 for some users

New in Win7shell 1.08 (Nov 4, 2009)

  • Improvement: Recent and frequent categories reworked. The list contains links instead of files. (Artist, title and track length are added to the list)
  • Translations: Added Hungarian, updated some others

New in Win7shell 1.07 (Nov 4, 2009)

  • New: APE (Musepack format) tag support. Album art is extracted from APEv2 tagged music files.
  • Improvement: Another fix on the settings path finding...
  • Translations: Updated translations (template not changed)

New in Win7shell 1.05 (Nov 4, 2009)

  • Improvement: Using Winamp's official path finding for the settings file
  • Improvement: All version checking is done in a separate thread
  • Fix: Lots of reported annoying bugs fixed
  • Translations: Updated translations (template not changed)

New in Win7shell 1.04 (Oct 8, 2009)

  • New: Added Media Library bookmarks to the jump list
  • New: Added "Mute" button on the aero peek thumbnail
  • Fix: A bug that prevented empty lines on the thumbnail text
  • Improvement: Added vertical scrollbar to the text editor
  • Fixed some more bugs with the settings file
  • Fix: Several other bugfixes
  • Translation: Updated some translations and template file

New in Win7shell 1.03 (Oct 8, 2009)

  • New: Added "Play from beginning task to the jump list. It plays the current playlist from the start
  • New: Added "Resume Playback" task to the jump list. It starts Winamp playing the last song before it was shut down, from the same position.
  • Fix: Settings are saved correctly for users who have Unicode characters in their Windows user name
  • Fix: Media info wasn't updated when stream was playing
  • Fix: Jump list tasks do not open other players settings when Winamp is closed
  • Fix: Some other minor reported bugs
  • Fix: Other bugs with .ini file path

New in Win7shell 1.0 (Oct 8, 2009)

  • Improvement: Album art is read from embedded picture from ID3v2 tag
  • Improvement: Album art is drawn with higher quality
  • New: You can select what to use as background, if selected is not available
  • New: Jump list is configurable by categories
  • Fix: Previous version didn't update title and artist while stream was playing
  • Translation: 6 new lines in translations, 1 removed

New in Win7shell 0.92 (Oct 8, 2009)

  • Fix: Several huge bugs from 0.91

New in Win7shell 0.91 (Sep 30, 2009)

  • Fix: LOTS of important fixes, reported bugs
  • Fix: Fixed and improved jump list, added Recent, Frequent and Tasks category.
  • Improvement: Re-designed thumbnail progressbar.
  • Improvement: Added notice about the thumbnail buttons taking effect only after restart.
  • New: Added application ID 'Winamp', for the taskbar control. It "should" fix lots of related issues, including the dual monitor one.
  • Translation: 3 new lines in translation.

New in Win7shell 0.90 (Sep 28, 2009)

  • Improvement: Re-wrote a large part of the code; significantly reduced CPU usage (If you had performance drops while using some features of this plug-in, they should be gone now)
  • Improvement: You can now customize thumbnail buttons, enable and disable them one by one
  • Improvement: Any ID3 tag (text only) can be used as metaword, just surround the tag with '%' (percent) characters. e.g. %comment%
  • New: Added 3 new thumbnail buttons: Volume Up, Volume Down and Open File
  • New: Added feature to show playback progress on thumbnail
  • New: Installer now contains all language files, and will copy the selected one into the destination folder.
  • Translation: Added 4 lines, removed 'addfav'

New in Win7shell 0.84 (Sep 28, 2009)

  • Fix: a bug that crashed Winamp on saving settings
  • Improvement: Lots of code optimization, hopefully fixing some of the reported bugs (file size under 200kb!!!)
  • Remake: Removed Winamp logo, if no album art is found, transparent background is used
  • Translation: "Author" is translatable

New in Win7shell 0.83 (Sep 28, 2009)

  • New: The plug-in is now compiled as pure native code. File size is half of the previous size, and it should be more robust.
  • Improvement: 'Favorite' button is now optional, and it's semi-last button on the thumbnail.
  • Improvement: Some minor GUI adjustments

New in Win7shell 0.82 (Sep 21, 2009)

  • Improvement: Re-sized config window
  • Fix: Some texts weren't translated

New in Win7shell 0.81 (Sep 21, 2009)

  • Fix: Ugly bug crashing Winamp when trying to save settings

New in Win7shell 0.80 (Sep 21, 2009)

  • Improvement: Re-designed all the GUI, it's much smaller now, with tabbed windows
  • New: Customizable text font, text color and shadow color:
  • As a side-effect, the font size is measured in different units
  • To disable the shadow, set the shadow color to white (RGB 255,255,255)
  • New: Added a new 'Favorite' button on thumbnail. It rated the current song with 5 stars.
  • New: feature allowing images to be displayed as icons:
  • You can display the selected background as a 50x50 image on the left of the thumbnail
  • Select album art as background, and lower the text size to have album art on the left and text on the right (like the Winamp modern skin notifications)
  • New: feature that uses the taskbar icon progressbar as a VU meter:
  • It doesn't really uses more CPU as I've noticed, someone might like it
  • Improvement: you can now load images with alpha channel (partial transparency)
  • Lots of other fixes / improvements.
  • Translations texts changed, 12 lines added, please update if you can

New in Win7shell 0.74 (Sep 21, 2009)

  • Fix: Some lines in the GUI weren't translated correctly.
  • New: Fully customizable drawing font. Color is only applied to shadow color. Shadow won't be drawn in transparent background mode. Removed %red% metaword
  • New: Support for "Right to Left" languages. You can mirror the GUI by settings a value in the translation file
  • Improvement: Re-sized GUI again

New in Win7shell 0.73 (Sep 21, 2009)

  • Fix: plug-in didn't check online version correctly.

New in Win7shell 0.72 (Sep 21, 2009)

  • Remake: GUI is somewhat larger to make room for more text.
  • New: The plug-in doesn't check for Windows version anymore, it's done in the installer. (Removed 3 associated lines from translation file)
  • Fix: Winamp isn't reporting streaming playback status correctly, added a workaround to detect all streaming medias
  • New: Added an option to remove Winamp title, making the thumbnail cleaner. This could cause some side-effects, I didn't really try it out. (New line in translation file)

New in Win7shell 0.71 (Sep 21, 2009)

  • New: Translation support
  • New: added metawords %track%, %rating1% and %rating2%. Read help in the configuration window for more info
  • Fix: previous version didn't save settings