Version 1.6 of EmpegFace is available at my home page and at the Downloads section of
www.riocar.org .
NOTE TO SKIN AUTHORS: A slight change was made in the skin format. You may wish to make edits to your skins. Please peruse the relevant information in the release notes below.
Version 1.6, 12-11-2003:
- Windows can snap to each other and to the screen edge. "Snap" option is in the right-click menu. Skin authors: If you want your skins to snap exactly to the edge with no gap, please change your skins as described in the next entry, below.
- Fixed the bug in the RegionWindow code that required the skins to have one purple pixel all the way around the edge. Now your skins can go all the way up to the edge of the bitmap if you like. In fact, all skins should be edited now so that they are cropped exactly to the edge of the picture (so that they work with snap). Make sure to perform the exact same crop on your button hit test skins, too. And don't forget to edit the INI file to reposition your VFD after the crop.
- The "transparent" color in the skin file can no longer be arbitrary. It now *must* be 255,0,255.
- Edited the default skins that ship with EmpegFace so that they all go up to the edge of the picture exactly.
- Network name and IP Address are now shown in the Tooltip for the system tray icon.
- Systray icon changes color depending on the Screen Color selection.
- When changing colors, screen repaints with the existing screenshot instead of a blank rectangle (if there *is* a current screenshot to paint).
- Better handling of locked up connections, blank screen will paint instead of garbage screen.
- Tooltip and config screen will display (Connection Error) if the winsock control returns an error or if it takes longer than a few seconds to retrieve a screen shot.
- Window no longer blinks funny at program startup.
- Fixed a bug that caused button outlines to be drawn in semi-random places whenever you used a shortcut key.
- Fixed some more bugs with the -minimized startup option.
- Mouse pointer changes shape depending on whether you're over a clickable button.
- Reworked the configuration dialog box a little bit.
Enjoy!