Konfabulator for Windows

 

READ ME Version 2.1

 

Changes in 2.1

- Added Localization for Taiwan.

- Internal changes to help us cache more object positions
and sizes for improved view drawing performance.

- Added an evaluation field to the debug window to allow you
to check the value of variables,

set variables, and call functions.

- Added URL.fetchAsync( proc ) to URL object. The function
passed as first parameter is called

with the url in question when the request is completed. You
can call URL.cancel() to cancel an

outstanding request.

- Added URL.addPostFile( name, path ) to allow multipart
POST of images, etc.

- Automatic cookie handling in URL object is now turned off.
To continue to use cookies you must now use setRequestHeader and
getResponseHeaders, two new methods on URL.

- Added URL.clear(). Use this if you want to reuse a URL
object for another request. If an async request is pending, it will be
cancelled.

- Added ability to define text for an about box. One special
element, “about-version” can be used to show the Widget’s version. A normal
text element is just called “about-text”. Both have many of the properties of a
text object, plus the ability to have a solid shadow.

- Added popupMenu( menuItems, x, y ). The menuItems
parameters is an array of MenuItem objects (just like for context menus). The x
and y parameters are in window coordinates.

- Added asynchronous animation support.

- New XML Parser with a new ‘strict’ mode. Added ability to
nest image, text, and textarea objects inside window objects.

- Added new ‘secure’ attribute for text areas to provide a
password-like field.

- Added ‘truncation’ tag to text object to allow end
truncation with ellipses.

 

Fixes in 2.1

- Worked around a bug in Netware Client which could lead to
a BSOD

- Fixed an occasional crash in our URL object

- Fixed bug in getDirectoryContents when called at the top
level (e.g. C:\)

- Fixed problem where moveTo wasn’t working for any window
but the main window

- Fixed problem where getDisplayName wasn’t working properly
on W2K

- Fixed problem where chooseFile was changing the working
directory

- Fixed issue where you couldn’t call showWidgetPreferences
inside the onPreferencesChanged handler.

- Fixed issue where using a with clause didn’t work for the
optionValue property of a preference item.

- Fixed ability to change opacity on the fly

 

Changes in 2.0.1

- Added
Debug Mode menu item. Hold down the control and shift modifier keys and click
the icon in the system tray to access it. Once on, this option overrides any
Widget's debug setting when launched. No more having to modify a Widget just to
turn debugging on.

- Fix
strange rounding issues with CPU Portal.

- Deal
properly with missing parameters to COM calls.

- Fix
several memory leaks in filesystem.isDirectory, Konspose, Reminder Window and
About Boxes.

- Fix
window title of preferences window to be the name of the Widget.

- Fix some
divider issues in the Widget context menu.

- Fixed
issue bringing up Preferences in Calendar (“The parameter is incorrect”).

style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>- Fixed problem where if an error
happened during onLoad and the window object was marked visible even though no
platform window had been shown, we would not display an error.

style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>- Fixed problem where we were
passing INPROC_HANDLER in our context flags to createObject. This fixes the
problems people were seeing connecting to Outlook in PIM Overview (we hope).

- Made
tellWidget non-blocking to all a tellWidget back to originator as well as COM
to be used while handling the tellWidget call. Fixes problem where
double-clicking a date in Calendar wasn't talking to Outlook properly.

- Fixed
‘secure’ attribute for items used with form() function.

style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>- Fixed keydown/up handlers at the
Widget level. Fixes key events in game Widgets like Brick n Ball.

style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>- Fixed dynamic text area resizing.
Fixes Widget such as Paper.

style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>- Fixed scrolling text (in iTunes
Remote for example).

style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>- Fixed small issue with
registration code checking for double-byte languages.

style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>- Fixed crash in Battery Widget that
would occur after wake from sleep.

- Fixed
problem where PIM Widget was not disconnecting from Outlook properly.

- Added
ability to read iCalendar (.ics) files in PIM Overview on Windows as well.

- Fixed
issues with The Weather when resizing and it encountered the bottom of the
screen.

- Fixed
problem in Waste Basket where the context menu said “Trash” instead of “Recycle
Bin” on Windows.

 

What’s New in 2.0 For End Users

 

- Multi-Pane
Preferences dialogs for Widgets

- New Widgets

- Improved Proxy support for web resources (AutoProxy)

 

What’s New in 2.0 For Widget Authors

 

- COM support

- Inter-Widget messaging

- Image Tiling/Scaling

- ClipRects on Images

- vAlign on images and text areas

- Colorization (colorize, hsl adjustment, hsl tinting)

- Context menu addition support

- filesystem.read/writeFile (utf-8 only)

- filesystem.volumes – array of currently mounted volumes

- filesystem.move/copy

- filesystem.getFileInfo

- filesystem.getDisplayName

- chooseFile/chooseFolder dialog functions

- saveAs dialog function

- chooseColor dialog function

- Trash/Recycle Bin open/empty

- Multiple Window support

- Multi-Click handling

- New Timer object

 

New Icons

 

Version 2.0 has new icons. If you are upgrading to 2.0 from
a previous release, the wonders of Windows icon caching may not let you see the
new icons (you’ll be stuck with the old ones). To fix this, you can use
TweakUI, available from Microsoft’s website. In that utility is an option to
rebuild your icons. Witness the splendor!