What's new in Actual Transparent Window
Actual Transparent Window
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What's new in the latest version
[!] Important
[+] New
[-] Fixed error
[*] Changes
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Actual Transparent Window 4.4 (16.04.2007)
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[!] The long-awaited feature of "smart saving" is added: now only relevant
windows will re-apply their settings when the configuration has been saved.
[+] The ability is added to adjust the font used by the Configuration Module
(refer to the "User Interface" property sheet in the "Options" window).
[+] The ability is added to turn on smooth transitions between different
transparency levels (refer to the "Make Transparent Action" property sheet
in the "Options" window).
[+] The ability is added for the "Send Configuration to Tech Support" main menu
command: if the automatic e-mail creation is failed then you can save the
archive with the configuration files somewhere to send it manually later.
[+] Translations to Brazilian Portuguese, Serbian (both Latin and Cyrillic) and
Polish languages are added.
[*] Run-time memory consumption is slightly reduced.
[*] All property sheets for window rule settings are significantly redesigned;
the new window rule features' Index panel is added.
[*] Now the Configuration Module remembers its main toolbars' placement and
column widths in most of list boxes.
[*] The transparency effect compatibility with Stardock WindowBlinds is
improved.
[*] Now title buttons are displayed correctly when using Vista Transformation
Pack, XP Media Center Edition theme or some of StyleXP themes.
[-] The bug with Microsoft Project 2002/2003 is fixed.
[-] The bug with command shell extenders (like 4NT) is fixed.
[-] Transparency effect's conflict with Rainlendar 2, RocketDock, Samurize
and Y'z Shadow is fixed.
[-] The bug is fixed: the Windows Vista Firewall with Advanced Security's GUI
was hung when the "New Rule..." button was pressed while running the Actual
Tools program.
[-] The bug is fixed: now title buttons work correctly in Excel 2007.
[-] The bug with Microsoft Office Shortcut Bar's hang is fixed.
[-] Conflicts with Microsoft Office 2007 tool tips and popup menus are fixed.
[-] The bug with VMware Workstation 5.5 crash while opening the Snapshot Manager
is fixed.
[-] The visual glitch is fixed when using the Tabbed Browsing plugin of
Windows Live! Toolbar.
[-] The bug is fixed: Eudora was crashed immediately at startup if there
any of extra Actual Tools buttons were added.
[-] The bug of adding a new rule to the empty Specific Windows list is fixed.
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Actual Transparent Window 4.3 (15.12.2006)
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[!] Since this release Actual Tools are fully compatible with Windows Vista.
[!] Now the title buttons are displayed correctly in Windows Vista (both in Aero
Basic and Aero 3D modes).
[!] Now all the configuration files are stored in user's profile (in the folder
like "%UserProfile%\Application Data\Actual Tools\Actual Window Manager").
[+] The new "Manage Window Settings" title button is added.
[+] The support of extra title buttons in Microsoft Excel 2007 and Microsoft
Word 2007 is added.
[-] Now the title buttons are displayed correctly for the non-standard sizes.
[-] The old known issue with the Lotus Notes client's crash at startup is fixed.
[-] The known issue with the Internet Explorer 7 crash while saving the
configuration is fixed.
[*] Now the Internet Explorer windows are correctly processed in Windows Vista.
[-] The issue with the Mozilla-based browsers' (like Firefox, Seamonkey etc.)
undesired focus switch is partially fixed (the issue still presents in
Win9x).
[-] The issue of the malfunction of drag-n-drop in the Opera browser is
fixed.
[-] The visual glitch of Windows Vista Sidebar widgets when they are made
transparent is fixed.
[-] The issue with the Yahoo! Widgets windows' hang-up is fixed.
[-] The visual glitch of Stardock's ObjectDock is fixed.
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Actual Transparent Window 4.2 (10.10.2006)
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[!] The long-awaited feature is added: now the "Window caption" criterion
correctly detects windows which quickly change their captions at startup
(like Notepad, Internet Explorer, MS Word, MS Excel etc.).
[*] The "Manage Window Rule" submenu is renamed to "Manage Window Settings".
[+] The "Modify default settings" command is being included now into the "Manage
Window Settings" submenu if the "All Windows" settings were applied.
[+] The translations to German, French, Spanish and Ukrainian are added.
[+] Now you can suspend the ghost mode with the special hotkey pressed
(Ctrl+Shift by default).
[+] The support for the default Windows XP Media Center Edition visual theme is
added (the proper title button skin was contributed by Riza Berbatovci).
[*] The skin naming system is changed: now when you select a theme for
Windows XP the program will use the proper skin automatically if it's present in the
"Skins" sub-folder.
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Actual Transparent Window 4.1 (01.08.2006)
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[+] Currently assigned hotkey's display is added in title buttons' tooltips.
[+] Currently assigned hotkey's display is added in window options' names.
[+] The translations to Japanese, Russian, Chinese Simplified and Chinese
Traditional are added.
[*] The work speed and overall stability were slightly improved.
[-] The bug with the internal windows of MS Visual Studio 2003/2005 is fixed.
[-] The minor visual glitch with the Excluded Windows list in the right pane is
fixed.
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Actual Transparent Window 4.0 (05.05.2006)
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[!] The Configuration Module's user interface is redesigned totally.
[!] Settings file size is significantly reduced comparing to the previous
versions.
[!] Executable modules' size and run-time memory consumption are slightly
reduced.
[!] The Help contents is redesigned almost from scratch.
[+] The Help system has become context-sensitive.
[+] Added the ability to copy window rules.
[+] Added the ability to customize an icon for a particular Specific Window
rule.
[+] Added the ability to automatically create the e-mail message with the
attached configuration file.
[+] Window Selector tool form now has the "Refresh" button.
[+] Window Selector's "Flash window" indication is improved: now it shows
the window border even for a covered windows and also flashes window's
taskbar button.
[+] "Create/Modify window rule" window menu option was transformed into
a submenu named "Manage Window Rule" which provides the following abilities
for a particular window:
- create a new/modify the existent Specific Window rule
- create an Excluded Window rule
- re-apply the window rule
[+] If a window was processed with the particular Specific Window rule the
"Modify window rule" window menu item now indicates this rule's name.
[+] Added the ability to customize some user interface's options (like toolbars'
buttons size).
[*] Now every new Specific Window rule is created using the All Windows rule as
a template.
[+] Added the "Restore to Defaults" command which resets a particular Specific
Window rule's options to All Windows rule's options.
[*] The correct scaling of the user interface forms is implemented when using
the non-standard screen DPIs.
[+] Added the ability to set different settings for the different window
events/states for the following properties:
transparency level - for the creation, movement, resizing, deactivation,
mouse hovering, title bar double-click,
"Transparency" title button
priority level - for the creation, minimization, deactivation,
"Priority" title button
[+] Added the ability to combine automatically some window states:
transparency - with stay-on-top, ghost
rollup - with stay-on-top
[+] The ghost mode was separated from the transparency and now can be turned
on independently.
[+] Added the new title buttons items for the following actions:
Ghost, Change Priority.
[+] Added the new window menu items for the following actions:
Ghost, Change Priority.
[+] Added the indication of the current state for the following title buttons:
AltMin, Change Transparency, Align, Resize, Ghost, Change Priority.
[+] Added the skin support for the title buttons to fit them into the different
visual themes.
[+] Added the ability to change the order of title buttons' appearance.
[*] The recognition of window mouse-hovering is improved.
[-] Fixed the bug with Windows Movie Maker: it had hung after stream capture was
started.
[-] Fixed the bug with Adobe Photoshop: the image window had lost the focus
after selecting any tool in the Tools panel.
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Actual Transparent Window 3.8 (23.09.2005)
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[*] Default Window Rule: the bug with transient transparency effects
(when "set transparency while being moved/dragged" and "set transparency
while being resized" options are enabled) was fixed.
[*] Work with almost all integer-valued entry fields has been simplified.
Now, one can start entering numbers from empty line and minus as a first
symbol in window position fields is possible.
[*] Options Dialog: the disappearance of hotkeys list when all flags are
disabled and all "Hotkey" values are set to "None" is fixed.
[-] Window Rule: "Window class" criterion's "Substring match" option has
been removed. Now the criterion's test is always made as checking a join of
"Window class" field's entered string into real window class name.
[*] Window system menu: the problem with incomplete activation of
Configuration Module when choosing command "Create/Modify Window Rule" was
finally solved.
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Actual Transparent Window 3.7 (02.08.2005)
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[-] Fixed the bug that caused blinking of the title buttons. Support of
visual themes in Windows XP for title buttons has also been improved.
[-] Fixed the bug that didn't allow setting the previous level of
transparency correctly in Windows 2000.
[+] A new rule has been added to apply a semi-transparency effect to
Tablet PC Input Panel.
[+] Added supports of RAdmin remote access windows.
[*] We have improved window class identification. Exact matching of the
entered window class with the real window class is no longer required.
[-] Fixed the bug that didn't allow the Configuration Module to restore
correctly when accessed through the "Create/Modify Window Rule"
command of the menu.
[-] Fixed the bugs in the contextual menu in the Configuration Module tree.
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Actual Transparent Window 3.6 (06.04.2005)
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[!] New way to create the custom options for specific windows.
The new item "Create Window Rule" is included in the system window menu
of all windows. With a right mouse click on the window title call a
menu and follow the item "Create Window Rule" to create a rule for this
window. The new rule will be created automatically and what is left is
to specify the actions which you would like to apply to this window.
[*] Custom window rules are added in for the browsers Mozilla Firefox and
Opera. Moreover, some settings of already existing rules are modified.
[*] The interface of the program is slightly changed.
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Actual Transparent Window 3.5 (20.01.2005)
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[!] Windows Extension Engine is improved.
[+] Added "Hide Configuration Window when using the Window Finder
(gunsight) tool" option.
[+] Added "Enable All Rules" and "Disable All Rules" commands.
[+] Added context menu for Window Rules.
[+] Supports of MFC windows (window class like Afx:X:X:X:X:X)
[*] Memory usage and load speed optimization.
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Actual Transparent Window 3.0 (13.10.2004)
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[+] The button Make Transparent is may be added to a window title bar.
Now you can switch on/off semitransparency just pressing it.
[+] New item Transparency is may be added to the system menu of a window.
You can change a level of transparency via a new submenu at any time.
[+] Support of hotkeys. A keystroke Win+T switches on/off the transparency
for the active window.
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Actual Transparent Window 2.8 (31.08.2004)
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[+] Added command line support.
[+] Added a "silent" installation option.
[+] Added Dutch language.
[*] Some interface features changed and added.
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Actual Transparent Window 2.7 (28.07.2004)
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[+] Added a new "Temporarily stop program" option to a context menu.
[+] Now supports Mozilla FireFox and Netscape browser.
[*] Some small bugs were fixed.
[*] Some interface features changed and added.
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Actual Transparent Window 2.6 (26.05.2004)
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[+] Added Danish and Russian languages.
[+] Added a description field for Window Rule.
[+] Added commands for moving windows' rules up and down, in order to make
them easier to find.
[*] Optimized memory usage and increased execution speed.
[*] Some interface features changed and added.
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Actual Transparent Window 2.5 (10.12.2003)
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[+] Added the option "Set Transparency so the Window Becomes Transparent
While Being Moved/Dragged or Resized."
[+] Added the option "Toggle Transparency\Opaque Window State by Double
Clicking on Title Bar."
[+] Added a command for sorting windows rules by name, in order to make
the rules easier to find.
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Actual Transparent Window 2.0 (20.08.2003)
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[!] Added "Default Window Rule." The Default Window Rule now lets you
define and apply new options to ALL windows in your system. The
ability to apply different options to individual windows still
exists.
[+] Added a "Program" choice for applying individual
settings to selected windows.
[+] Added a dialog for choosing a window among existing windows to apply
individual settings.
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Actual Transparent Window 1.5 (03.03.2003)
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[+] Added support and predefined settings for standard Windows and
Microsoft Office Comboboxes and DropDown lists.
[+] Added French and Turkish languages.
[*] Some small bugs were fixed.
[*] Some cosmetical changes in the user interface.
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Actual Transparent Window 1.4 (09.12.2002)
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[!] Added multilingual support.
[+] Added English, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish and Polish languages.
[*] Highly increase program's launching speed.
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Actual Transparent Window 1.3 (18.11.2002)
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[!] Added multilingual support.
[*] Highly increase program's launching speed.
[+] Added English, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish and Polish languages.
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Actual Transparent Window 1.2 (21.10.2002)
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[+] Added an option "Enable/disable tray icon".
[+] Added an option "Load at startup".
[+] Added an option "Stay On Top" for transparent windows.
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Actual Transparent Window 1.1 (10.09.2002)
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[*] Some interface features changed and added.
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Actual Transparent Window 1.0 (12.08.2002)
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[!] Initial Release
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