What's new in ZBar 0.86
May 28, 2014
- Clock colour fixed in Noir style
- ZBar will now time out when getting icons, meaning fewer hangs
- App will hide itself when an XP virtual session is full screen
- Windows 8 small and large styles added
New in ZBar 0.85 (May 28, 2014)
- "Leave Taskbar Alone" value now saved
- XP Silver theme now draws correctly in double height
- Explorer icons under W7 now update when their window changes
- Crash with FireFox fixed (by introducing a small memory leak ...)
- XP and Chrome styles distinguish between focus/no focus on mouseover
- "Fix wallpaper on resolution change" option
- Xcalday class ignored
- Royale Noir style added
- Fixed up the hint close icon
- DISPLAYV4 name now handled for a USB screen in Japan
- wallpaperonlyquiet command line option added
- Sunday as first day of the work option added
- Tidied the layout of the options dialog
- Fixed ??This?? button text in Lync
- DLL updated to hook12.dll, custom keys and alt/control options, but can only be set from the registry
- SendMessage -> Postmessage when handling WM_RBUTTONDOWN to avoid crash when using a right-click menu
- MSO_BORDEREFFECT_WINDOW_CLASS class windows excluded
New in ZBar 0.82 (Mar 10, 2012)
- Only one instance of the app will run at a time
- Skype and Paint windows a little better handled
- Tweaked hyperlink opening code
- AM/PM shown in twelve hour displays
- Bug causing "Oops should not be here" to show in wallpaper dialog fixed
- Clicking the middle mouse button on a button closes that window
- Option to zoom images smaller than the monitor in wallpaper dialog
- MusicBee no longer handled - the window class it uses is not unique
- "Premiere Pro Monitor EchoPort" and "PSViewC" now fill the screen
- Choosing "None" in the keyboard hook now actually clears it
- Wallpaper previews could be displayed off the preview area
- Option to leave taskbar alone (does not add or remove buttons on it)
- Button text colour can be chosen
- Ampersands in tooltips now display correctly
- Some notication tray icon menu commands added to ZBar menu
- Windows 7 theme colour now also affects "W7 small"
- Maximise to virtual screen shortcut can be disabled
- Bug fixed with calendar which could cause it to jump a month ahead
New in ZBar 0.81 (Dec 27, 2010)
- Click and dragging the calendar scrolls to more months
- The Windows 7 large style has a "theme" colour
- Buttons can be dragged to change position
- Screen resolution changes are detected and bars are reset
- Using the reset option will re-read monitor count and positions
- Clicking the clock a second time when the calendar is showing hides the calendar
- WinAMP better handled with Windows 7 style preview tooltips
- Toad from Quest slightly better handled
- MusicBee better handled
New in ZBar 0.8 (Dec 27, 2010)
- New "Royale" style
- Using "maximise to virtual screen" a second time restores the window to its original size
- Windows 7 support improvements
- Wallpaper "zoom" function to fill the screen with images with a different ratio
- Icons drawn better
- App improvements: WinAMP, terminal services client
- Buttons now show tooltips when hovered over
- 'Mirror mode' to display all buttons on all bars
- -wallpaperonly command line option which opens the wallpaper setting screen, and then exits
- Transparency, and auto-hide options
- Improved visual style of the calendar
- Screen Exceptions, to tell ZBar not to create a bar on certain screens
- Display bug fixed with second line of buttons when using the Zune style
New in ZBar 0.7 (Dec 14, 2009)
- A screen is selected when you first open the wallpaper dialog better show how to use it
- Works a little better with the Windows 7 RC
- New: The bar can now be positioned at the top of monitors as well as the bottom
- The "zbartitle" entry has been removed from the Task Manager applications list
- The shortcut keys to move windows between monitors can no longer move ZBars!
- ZBar now has a decent icon
New in ZBar 0.6 (Dec 14, 2009)
- Bug: Clicking anywhere in the Options dialog no longer closes it
- Bug: Calendar no longer shows when clicking the RHS of a bar with the clock off
- Bug: Bars no longer cover the MS RDP client when used in full-screen mode
- Bug: Icons are more reliably retrieved from applications
- New: cross added to the calendar close button
- New: Right-clicking a bar shows a menu to open Task Manager
- New: Bars can be made double-height for two rows of buttons
- New: No error is thrown when solhook11.dll can't be found (in case you don't like keyboard hooks)
- New: Clicking the button for a window which has focus minimises it, as with the main task bar
New in ZBar 0.5 (Dec 14, 2009)
- Bug: Arrow keys moving window trap passing arrow to app with focus bug fixed
- Bug: "Improved" mode now always on, and bug with closed windows not disappearing fixed
- Bug: alt-F4 keypress no longer closes a bar
- Bug: WinAMP special case handled a little better
- New: Drag and hover files over a button to bring to the foregound
- New: Windows 7 shadow windows ignored correctly
- New: mouseover highlight added to buttons
- New: time and date formats taken from Windows preferences
- New: Six month calendar (click the clock or choose the menu item)
- New: put a file "zbar.ico" next to the exe to use that as the tray icon
- New: three visual styles - Zune, Windows 7 small, and Windows 7 large
New in ZBar 0.4 (Dec 14, 2009)
- Checkbox to spot when moving a window between monitors with the mouse at the cost of some CPU
- Control-alt-arrow keys can be used instead of z / x / c
New in ZBar 0.3 (Dec 14, 2009)
- The keyboard shortcuts to move windows between monitors are now optional