News archive

News - 20/05/2006

JPEG Saver 3.0 released! I've finally got around to cleaning it up and releasing it. The ugly GUI I promised back in January is in there, but a bit less ugly than I was thinking about back then. That's part of the reason it has taken me so long to finish it. As usual, you can get it from the downloads page.

For anyone who thinks version 3.0 is too bloated, I plan to add the relevant bugfixes from 3.x into the 2.x branch. There are a few fixes to the BMP loading code that should be appearing soon in version 2.1.3.

News - 10/01/2006

CRCDropper 3.0.1 fixes some bugs that made version 3 give incorrect results under various circumstances. I can't have done much testing when I released that.

Back in the screensaver department, JPEG Saver version 3 is getting closer, but I've got to add some changes to the dialog. I hate doing GUI stuff. With a bit of luck I might get a preview version up on the site by the end of the month. With a really ugly GUI.

News - 30/06/2005

Version 2.1.2 of JPEG Saver fixes a bug that prevented the images being displayed - all you would see would be the "Finding images..." text bouncing around the screen. Oops. I've also fixed a bug in the installer, where configuring JPEG Saver could make it sluggish or even crash.

In other news, you can now double-click on an entry in the folders tab to enable/disable it, and adding folders to the list should be much more responsive.

News - 22/06/2005

The new timer in JPEG Saver 2.1 seems to be a bit buggy - version 2.1.1 reverts to using the Windows timer. If the blocky-fading transitions are crashing or the delay between images is totally wrong, this version is for you.

News - 18/06/2005

JPEG Saver 2.1 is here, and it contains a whole load of changes. The only really visible change is a new background mode, "Pile," which leaves the previous image on the screen and displays the new image over the top of it. The other changes are a couple of bugfixes, a HUGE rewrite to the code that decides where everything goes and how big it should be, and a new timer that should be a bit more responsive than the old one.

These latter changes are required for what I am going to be working on next: more and better text options, an optional clock that will update between images, and being able to control all these things from the dialog.