What's New in This Release of Ultra Screen Saver Maker

Version 2.4.1 (4 February 2012)

• Some Flash animations not being played completely fixed
• Special symbols not displayed when editing text messages fixed
• Removed text messages limit
• Added double-click the text message to edit
• Changed default text messages character set to ANSI
• "Duration of last frame" now always behave as it should
• Changed default setting for Slide text effect to "To Right"
• First frame not shown when playing some Flash animations fixed

Version 2.4 (30 October 2011)

• New 'Effects' tab to select transition effects
• Smoother transition and text effects
• New multi-monitor option: independent or extended mode
• New "Full screen" image and movie resizing option
• New option to control animated GIF duration
• Improved movie looping
• Improved animated GIF playback
• Improved look and feel of application
• Removed pause after movie playback
• Adobe Flash version 10.3 support
• Fixed crash using background PNG, BMP, TGA or TIF image
• Skip saving background image which is not used
• Added error message when the file format is wrong
• Fixed blinking text when "No effect" is chosen
• Fixed crash importing text messages when the file name contains non-English letters
• Temporarily increase the MIDI volume if it's mute
• Fixed crash when testing screen saver from the Flash tab
• Reverse order of added objects fixed
• Not all project properties were saved fixed
• Drag and drop not working fixed
• Incorrect 12-hour time format at noon fixed
• Non transparent background in animated GIF fixed

Version 2.3 (28 April 2011)

• Full Windows 7 support
• Windows Media Video (.wmv) support
• Flash 10 support
• Significantly improved movie playback
• Full multi-monitor support
• New screensaver distribution type: Archive containing Screen Saver (.zip)
• Improved Flash playback
• Showing number of files each multimedia tab contains
• Slide effects speed up
• Better random position of multimedia elements on the display
• Improved overall stability
• Displaying short file names in the list and the full path using tooltip
• Display command-line switches for screen saver using /help
• Disable adding an empty text message
• Showing "Display properties" window when setting screen saver as default
• "Show mouse cursor" option is enabled for all exit conditions
• Triggering system font smoothing fixed
• Increasing temporary folder size when playing screen saver fixed
• Screensaver crashes if link is attached fixed
• Not properly working on Windows Vista fixed
• Issues with non-English Windows locale fixed
• "Exit condition" crash fixed
• Crash when adding certain Flash files fixed
• Double sound playback with certain Flash files fixed
• Wrong Flash player version detection fixed
• Crash when Flash player installation is refused fixed
• Cannot play compressed AVI files fixed
• AVI files freezing fixed
• Crash when testing Flash screensaver and Flash player is not installed fixed
• Crash when having "On mouse button" exit condition on registered version fixed
• Crash when adding text with hyperlinks on registered version fixed
• Animated GIF does not loop fixed
• Footer overwritten by Flash animation fixed
• Cannot install screen saver with specific files but test works fixed
• Screen saver code signing works now

Version 2.2

• New transition effects
• Improved stability
• High CPU usage problem is fixed
• Working with footer text problems are fixed
• Flash player installation not working is fixed
• Movie background not working is fixed
• Screen saver containing one flash file Exit condition is fixed
• Control Panel/Display Properties/Screen Savers/Preview is working properly now
• Test and Make buttons are activated immediately after first project change
• Working with movies problems are fixed
• CMYK & CYY JPEG pictures are displayed ok now
• Footer font properties are correctly saved and used now
• Strange behavior of Exit condition is fixed
• Strikeout font style not working is fixed
• Add/Files of type/GIF Files shows .GIF files properly now
• System menu options fixed
• "Buy now" button not working is fixed
• Targa (TGA) files are properly opened now
• Sometimes "double size" of image didn't work
• Changed position of program icon to the first level of Start menu
• Movie background type setting as image background fixed
• Fixed text messages across Flash animation leaving the trace
• Mute background sound during movie playback is fixed
• Blocking during MIDI playback fixed
• Inaccessible application while opening Help file fixed
• Added hyperlinks support (URLs are underlined and launch browser window on mouse click)
• Added Flash 7 support (performs up to eight times faster than its predecessors)
• Added import/export of text messages
• Added multi-monitor support
• Improved testing speed
• Pretty smaller size of generated screen savers
• Lower CPU usage of generated screen savers
• Fixed Flash background color, size and "Duration of last frame" problems
• Fixed few text messages bugs
• Fixed MIDI playback bug
• Fixed bug when some JPEG images displayed as color negatives.
• Footer font properties are correctly saved and used now.

Version 2.1

• Added footer (text, visible all the time, centered, at the bottom of the screen)
• Added "Exit condition" for choosing what type of activity stops screen saver execution
• Added "Show mouse cursor" option for displaying mouse cursor while screen saver running
• Improved installation process (uninstalling previous version, registry clean up)
• Added Windows XP look & feel
• It is possible to create empty text message by entering space character now
• Added horizontal scroll when needed.
• Random background sound muting bug fixed
• Fixed error when calculating free space
• Fixed bug with the style of text effects
• Fixed bug with movie resizing
• Fixed bug causing crash in Control Panel when using Flash generated screen saver
• Fixed bug with date and time text variables: $$HH$$MM is working now
• Fixed bug with relative paths

Version 2.01

• Added "Duration of last frame" slider for Flash animations
• Improved screen saver preview
• Improved playing of single Flash files
• Improved visualization of screen saver with text messages only
• Fixed bug with background sound during movie playback
• Fixed several bugs with text messages and effects
• Fixed bug saving projects made with previous versions

Version 2.0

• Added Macromedia Flash (SWF) file support.
• Animated GIFs are supported now.
• Added multi-line text support.
• Added image double size attribute.
• Added date and time text variables (e.g. $HH:$MM:$SS).
• Added slider for movies.
• Added Help file.
• Added random text effect.
• Added smart font properties handling for text.
• New defaults for images and movie: original size, random position and shuffle turned on.
• The process of creating test screen saver can now be stopped.
• Improved text effects duration control.
• Synchronize text with objects bug fixed.
• Miscellaneous bug fixes.

Version 1.32

• Added synchronize text with objects feature.
• Improved sound playback.
• Fixed bug when first image does not appear in during transition effect.
• Fixed bug calling help file.
• Fixed random position bug.

Version 1.31

• Roll effects have been improved.
• All text effects have random position as default.
• Fixed bug when adding movies using "Add Supported Files" button.
• Fixed bug when closing screen saver.
• Fixed bug causing test screen saver working but mute sound.
• Fixed bug causing crash when using text effects.

Version 1.3

• "Flying Chars" text effect added.
• "Add Supported Files" button added, so it is possible to add all supported files at once.
• Background image and gradient support added.
• Graphical menu added.
• "Typewriter" text effect added.
• Fixed several bugs causing freezing and crash.
• Sound slider now works properly.

Version 1.2

• "Set as default screen saver" option added.
• Added "Duration of transition effects" control.
• Added fine control of image and movie resizing.
• "Tip of the Day" has been added.
• "Check for Updates" option has been added.
• "What's New" has been added.
• Added screen saver size information in "Make" dialog.
• "Technical Support" option added.
• Self-installing screen savers now have /I switch providing quiet installation as Windows default screen saver.
• Added notification dialog after installation of generated screen saver.
• Paths to multimedia files are now relative (instead of absolute) to saved project position.
• Displaying sequence of elements has been improved.
• Removed registration information in configuration dialog of generated screen saver.
• Scrolling effects have been improved.
• Fixed Images/Add/File open bug with non-existing paths.

Version 1.1

• Renamed "Slide Show Pause" to "Pause between images"
• Renamed "Sound Pause" to "Pause between sounds"
• Sometimes test couldn't be done due to temporary directory problems.
• Fixed crash on changing text effect previously set to "no effect".
• Fixed Rundll32 error when closing the screen saver.

Version 1.0 (6 January 2002)

• First release