Nexus Ultimate History (c) Copyright 1999-2011 by Jorge M.R.Coelho Winstep Software Technologies E-mail: support@winstep.net WWW: http://www.winstep.net -------------------------- Version 11.4 build 955 - New Features: *Updated the German language file. * Updated Polish language file. * Removed 'dead' bitmaps from resource file. * Changed the default sub-dock indicator images. * Changed the default icon used for themes with no thumbnail. * Most dock mouse over effects can now be combined with the magnify effect. * Split the Position & Behavior tab in the Dock Properties dialog into two tabs. * Re-arranged the Effects tab in Preferences. * Added a new 'Contents' tab to the Dock Properties dialog. * Moved 'Indicator Offset from Icon Reflection' to its own dialog box with preview. * Icon Spacing in docks now has independent vertical and horizontal settings and was moved to its own dialog box with preview. * Dock transparency now has independent settings for icons and background and was moved to its own dialog box with preview. * Re-organized some settings in the Dock Properties dialog for a more logical layout. * Improved the bounce animation that occurs when launching an icon from a dock. Fixes: * Icon in the Version Information dialog had a dark gray background. * Opening native Winstep theme files from FireFox failed with an error. * It wasn't possible to change the icon of a sub-dock placeholder after editing a module in the Item Properties Editor dialog. * Icon reflections for the Zoom mouseover effect where not being cropped properly. * The 'Keep this dock visible when pressing WIN+D' setting would always be checked after a re-start. +++ * A dock with the persistent Flare/Afterglow mouseover effects could appear partially on screen after auto-hidding into the screen edge. * A magnifying dock could suddenly appear garbled if you quickly moved the mouse pointer back and forth over it. * On beta 1, a dock at the top of the screen with the 'Do not flip background' setting enabled would magnify the icons off the screen edge. * Fixed automatic icon size problem that could sometimes occur when the dock was too large to fit on screen. * Single .ICO files displayed in the Icon Browser dialog appeared jagged. * Fixed problem with URLs dragged from FireFox which would not be saved into folders displayed by the Shelf. -------------------------- Version 11.2 build 948 - March 14, 2011 - Official Release New Features: * Added Greek language file. * Added Finnish language file. * Added Croatian language file. * Added Indonesian language file. * Updated Polish language file. * Updated French language file. * Updated Farsi language file. * Updated German language file. * Non-square icon images and document thumbnails are now displayed with the proper aspect ratio. * Added an automatic retry after 30 seconds if Weather.com returns an 'unknown error' when polling weather data. * URL files (such as shortcuts to Steam games) now show the correct icons. * The 'Delete Item' explosion animation is now smoother and twice as fast. * Glass blur for semi-transparent backgrounds on Vista and 7 is now enabled by default. * Moved dock's 'Lock Position' Nexus menu setting to the 'Screen Position' sub-menu. * Changed UI background color so buttons no longer have ugly white border under Vista/7. * Added support for the new NOOA Weather module METAR URL * The My Computer (Drives) Shelf tab now updates automatically when adding and removing drives. * Besides the already existing right-click option, you can now also customize the image displayed by a system tray expand icon by dropping an .ICO, .PNG or .TIF file into it. * You can now use CTRL+TAB and CTRL+SHIFT+TAB to switch Shelf tabs via the keyboard, provided the Shelf has the focus. * Languages in the About tab of Preferences are now sorted in Alphabetical order. +++ Beta 2 * Set the Tab order of all dialogs. * It's now possible to 'Browse', via the right click context menu, the contents of virtual folders in Internal Commands (e.g.; My Computer). * Added support for the new Help system. +++ Release * You can now drag files over taskbar window thumbnails - after half a second the associated window is restored and brought to the foreground. * Added support for RocketDock skins with negative margin coordinates. * Re-organized the Advanced dialog in the Advanced tab of Preferences. * Added a 'Thumbnail File Types' button to the Advanced Settings dialog from where you can set which document, video and image files generate thumbnails. * Changed the default clock and recycler module images so they are no longer NeXT based. * Improved usability of task window thumbnails in the dock. * Right clicking on a folder in an Explorer window and selecting Send to -> WorkShelf, now automatically creates a new tab in the Shelf displaying the contents of that folder. +++ * Added two extra messages to help troubleshoot when registration fails for some reason. * Added troubleshoot warning that pops up if Comctl32.ocx is not installed correctly. * Optimized handling of RocketDock backgrounds with negative coordinates. * Theme wallpapers that are not set to tile are now automatically set to stretch. Changes: * Edge bump activation when dock are visible is now turned off by default. Fixes: * Fixed problem preventing the application from being registered with a serial number. * The 'Exit' button in Preferences was not being translated when switching languages. * If the dock was set to 100% transparent with opaque icons and the dock background skin was already semi-transparent, mouse movement over the dock and drag & drop operations could become erratic. * Selecting the first monitor in the Monitors right-click menu was not docking a dock to the selected monitor but instead toggled the dock position lock. * Fixed issue where deleting a Shelf tab in the Content tab of Shelf Properties was not updating the currently selected tab view. * Selecting 'Shelf Properties' from the Shelf's body context menu was opening the tab properties dialog instead. * Application was not being high DPI virtualized on Vista/7 with high DPI (150%) when starting up. * Fixed crash when mousing over a module if the current mouse over effect was 'Sonic boom' and the modules icon cache had been disabled in Performance Settings. * Customized system tray expand buttons images were not being shown unless the dock was also set to display the currently running applications. * The Shelf's body context menu displayed 'Exit Ultimate' twice. * Fixed some major issues with high DPI virtualization on 7 and Vista. +++ Beta 2 * The right click 'Insert New Dock Item -> NextSTART Hotspot' method was not working properly on docks. * The Effect 'Settings' button was sometimes enabled when it should not be. * Editing a virtual shell folder with the Item Properties dialog would break the ability to browse it's contents via the context menu. +++ Official Release * Under XP non-square image and document thumbnails displayed white borders. * Hotkeys were being activated even if the Shift key combination wasn't an exact match (for instance, CTRL+1 would also activate if the user pressed CTRL+SHIFT+1) * When moving a dock from one quadrant of the screen to another, so that the background would flip or mirror, under Vista/7 the 'glass' region wouldn't always update to overlap the new background. * Added missing icon to Weather.com's icon set. * When switching to a new theme, a collapsed Shelf would not properly update the glass blurred region. * Fixed some minor issues with the size and position of the 'number of instances' text that overlaps the icons of running applications in groupped mode. * Windows preview thumbnails sometimes lost their 'Always on top' status just before Aero Peek, which could cause windows to overlap the thumbnails. * Groupped task icons could sometimes not display the number of running instances. * The 'Enable Send to Nexus Ultimate in Explorer Menus' setting said 'WorkShelf' instead of 'Nexus Ultimate'. +++ * Fixed ugly system tray icon. * Since beta 1, Ultimate was crashing after displaying the uninstall survey. * Fixed an issue that could cause Ultimate to stall for a while after installing a new font if another application was not responding to broadcasted messages. * Fixed bug that could cause icons on vertical magnifying docks to appear cropped. -------------------------- Version 10.9 build 932 - October 13, 2010 - Official Release New Features: * Added Chinese Simplified language file. * Added Norwegian language file. * Added Bulgarian language file. * Balloon tooltip now also displays thumbnails of document files. * Decreased the time the dock/shelf bouncing arrow identifier remains on the screen by half. * Added option not to show icon reflections on vertical sub-docks to the Advanced dialog of the Dock Properties Behavior tab. * Added 'Use Theme Wallpaper' setting to the Themes tab of Nexus Preferences, which enables users to change the current theme and the wallpaper at the same time. * Alignment of docks attached to screen edges (docked) can now also be set by dragging the dock horizontally or vertically. * It's now possible to dock multiple docks and the Shelf to the same screen edge. * Sub-docks can now open parallel or perpendicular to the parent dock, or always horizontal or vertical. * Sub-docks can now open automatically on mouseover with a user-specified delay. * Added 'Do Not Launch Multiple Sessions' setting to the Misc.Advanced dialog so clicking on a shortcut to an already running application brings that application forward instead of launching a new instance. To force launch a new instance, press SHIFT while left-clicking. * Added 'Show window previews (thumbnails) on mouseover' setting to the Tasks tab in Preferences. This makes window thumbnails with peek ability pop up when mousing over task icons and brings Windows 7 "superbar" functionality to Nexus. * Added support for 3rd party dock themes with negative content offsets. * Added Squish, Spin, Sonic Boom, Heal, Fire, Magic, Flare, Wind and Water mouseover effects. * Effect settings specified in the Effects tab of Preferences are now specific to each effect. * The new particle effect animations (Heal, Fire, Magic, Flare, Wind and Water) can be colorized in the Effect Settings panel for that effect. * New mouseover effects added to the Shelf. * Added setting to change the color of the dock mouseover label to the Appearance tab of each dock Properties panel. * Added 'Disable edge activation' setting to the Position & Behavior tab of the Dock Properties dialog. When enabled, bumping the screen edge a dock is attached to does not bring the dock forward. * Shelf Sub-docks can now open automatically on mouseover with a user-specified delay by specifying the relevant setting in the Advanced Behavior dialog of the Shelf Properties dialog. +++ Beta 3 * New animated mouseover effects are now gray-scaled before being colorized. * Moved thumbnail exclusion list in the Tasks tab to the Advanced dialog. * Moved the 'Show window previews (thumbnails) on mouseover' setting to the 'Window Preview Thumbnails' section in the Advanced dialog. * User can now specify the size of the window previews. * Added option to disable 'AeroPeek'. * Added 'Wallpaper' setting to the Themes tab, which, when enabled, allows any existing theme wallpaper to be applied as well as the new theme. * Added 'Keep this dock visible when pressing Win+D (Show Desktop)' setting to the Advanced Behavior dialog of each dock. * You can now minimize the Shelf by clicking on the currently open tab header. * Icons can no longer be dropped into a dock when the 'Lock Icons' setting is enabled. * Added 'Enable/Disable Background Blur' entry to the Effects menu of the Shelf. * The Effect Settings button is now disabled for the 'Spin' effect, which has no settings. * Added 'Lock/Unlock Position' to the dock's main context menu and the synonimous 'Prevent dock from being moved by dragging with the mouse pointer' setting to the dock's Advanced Behavior dialog. +++ * Added support for the Y'z Dock format. Changes: * Increased the default range of the bounce mouseover animation. * The bounce mouseover animation no longer 'holds' the icon at the top while the~ pointer is over it. +++ Beta 3 * Moved the Shelf and Docks 'Z-Order' and 'Monitor' right-click sub-menus to 'Screen Position'. +++ * Task grouping is now turned on by default. Fixes: * Double clicking the first icon of a floating icon without the Nexus control icon was causing the dock to collapse. * Nothing would happen if the user dropped an ICO, PNG or TIFF file into an empty dock or sub-dock. * Sub-docks of docks at the top of the screen would open off-screen if the 'Do not flip background...' setting was enabled. * Size of the application icon overlayed to the thumbnail of running applications is now always half the size of the icon, independent of dock magnification size. * Application icons overlayed to the thumbnail of running applications now also use the application icon (instead of the window icon) for sizes over 32x32 pixels, so they don't appear too blurred. * The magnification size slider no longer allows you to chose values lower than current dock icon size. * Fixed potential dock corruption with loss of contents when adding an in-shelf dock as the last item of a Shelf tab. * Assigning huge PNG or TIF files as shortcut images no longer slows down magnifying animations. * The 'Prevent maximized windows from overlaping the dock' setting is now disabled if 'Auto-hide the dock' is enabled, as in that case no screen space is reserved. * Wallpaper is no longer changed when reseting settings to application defaults. * Fixed problem that could cause Nexus to hang when restoring from a previous backup. * Fixed bug that preventing re-organizing icons in the tasklist section of a dock via drag & drop. * Sometimes restoring a maximized window that was minimized would make it lose the maximized status. * Shelf tabs were not switching on mouseover if both 'Select a different tab by mousing over it' and 'Hide tabs when the shelf is collapsed' were enabled. +++ Beta 3 * The sub-dock open on mouseover delay was not being properly saved on exit. * Disabling the balloon tooltip was also disabling running program's mouseover previews. * Hidden/collapsed docks would stop magnifying and auto-hidding when changing to a new theme until the Dock Properties dialog was open and closed again. * New animated effects would become cropped if the dock icon size was dynamically changed to fit all the icons on the screen. * Spin effect wasn't working properly for large icon sizes. +++ * Window thumbnails were not updated in XP unless icons of running tasks were also displayed as thumbnails. * WorkShelf would corrupt memory and crash if it failed to retrieve the configuration settings of a 3rd party dock theme. * It was impossible to use system tray popups if the dock popup delay was set to 0 ms. * The dock clock label displayed the date with the month and day reversed. * A hidden taskbar was being restored with the auto-hide status on. * The grouped tasks menu was sometimes displaying the wrong icon for running applications. -------------------------- Version 10.7 build 914 New Features: * Updated Spanish language file. * Added an Exit button to Preferences. * The Windows taskbar no longer reserves screen space when hidden. * Added proper In-Shelf Dock management and In-Shelf docks can now be added to a regular tab in the Shelf via the right-click Insert menu. * It is now possible to insert items at the proper position via the right-click context menu when clicking in-between icons on the Shelf. * You can now right-click drag & drop in the dock to get the copy/move/create shortcut context menu. * Added option to disable the Explosion Animation, shown when you delete an item, to the Misc.Advanced dialog in the Advanced tab of Preferences. Fixes: * Empty balloon tooltip was appearing when mousing over an empty dock. * Sub-dock items were showing the main right-click Nexus menu. * It was not possible to get the Insert right click menu on an empty sub-dock. * The Shelf was auto-collapsing even when an in-shelf dock was open. * It was not possible to drag items from the Shelf to an open in-shelf dock as the in-shelf dock would close as soon as the user clicked on the Shelf. * Dock settings changed in the Dock Properties dialog were not being applied or saved if the dock was not visible. * The 'left click and hold' feature to open shortcuts to folders as menus was not working properly with the 'Windows 7 Xtreme' menu skin. * Dropping files into a shortcut to a folder in docks or the Shelf was always copying the source file to the target folder, even if SHIFT was pressed. * When dragging a shortcut over a dock, the dock would start magnifying again even if a sub-dock was open if the source object exited and re-entered the parent dock. -------------------------- Version 10.6 build 914 - July 13, 2010 - Official Release New Features: * Added Serbian language file. * Added Slovak language file. Changes: * Moved the 'Show dock control icon' item from the main Nexus menu to the 'Insert New Dock Item' sub-menu. Fixes: * It was not possible to dock a new dock to a screen edge occupied by a *disabled* dock. * The dock was not displaying running application thumbnails when the dock was set to display running applications via the context menu. * Fixed issue in which Nexus could freeze for up to a minute after resuming hibernate due to 3rd party services being busy and blocking. * The Zoom dock effect could sometimes cause currently zooming icons to be cropped when sitting next to icons that updated frequently (like the clock). * Fixed other visual glitches with special dock effects and icons getting cropped. * Fixed item positioning problems when hovering a magnifying dock and shortcuts were added, removed or had their running status changed. * Setting a dock with a semi-transparent background to be 100% transparent with opaque icons prevented the dock from working properly. -------------------------- Version 10.4 build 910 - May 22, 2010 - Bug Fix Release New Features: * Added option to disable the 'Initializing' splash-screen at startup to the 'Misc.Advanced Settings' dialog in the Advanced tab of Preferences. Fixes: * A drag & drop move of the first icon on a dock with no control icon would corrupt the dragged item and would not allow the item to be copied. -------------------------- Version 10.4 build 905 - April 29, 2010 - Initial Release