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Actual Multiple Monitors Full Changelog
[!] Important
[+] New
[-] Fixed error
[*] Changes
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Actual Multiple Monitors 2.3 (04.08.2010)
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[+] Secondary taskbars are able to group similar taskbar buttons in a same way
as the primary taskbar does.
[+] Window thumbnails are available for button groups on secondary taskbars.
[+] Support of regular expressions has been added for the Window Caption
criterion.
[+] Classic window snapping supports the "Snap to windows from inside" mode
(see the Window Snapping panel in the Options window).
[+] You can temporarily disable the classic snapping by pressing and holding
the Ctrl key.
[+] New "Lock mouse" hotkey (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+L by default) has been added.
Press it to prevent the mouse pointer from going outside the current window;
press it once more to make the mouse pointer free again.
[+] New "Ignore deactivation" hotkey (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+I by default) has been
added. Press it to prevent the current window from reacting on losing
the input focus (so the window would "think" it's still active); press it
once more to let the current window react on deactivating.
[*] The Maximize to Desktop action now takes into account the work areas of
monitors, i.e. maximized windows do not cover (or hide under) the taskbars.
[*] Now Aero Peek on secondary taskbars depends on the value of the "Use the
Aero Peek for a Desktop preview" system option.
[-] Title buttons did not appear in MS Office 2010 applications.
[-] Title buttons interfered with the tabs dragging in Google Chrome under
Windows 7.
[-] At the high load on the system (with dozens of windows opened at once),
the program began to consume too much graphic resources under Windows 7 x64.
[-] At the high continuous load on the system, Multi-monitor Taskbar began to
mix up the icons on secondary taskbars.
[-] Second activation of the desktop profile having the slideshow mode set
stopped the slideshow.
[-] If certain display device did not support the resolution stored in desktop
profile's settings - the resolution was reset to a first available (usually
low and therefore inappropriate).
[-] The Show Desktop button on secondary taskbars hid windows on a primary
monitor only.
[-] The Show Desktop button on secondary taskbars showed the frames of hidden
windows after showing the desktop.
[-] The icon of a button pinned on secondary taskbar changed to the icon of
the first window opened via that button.
[-] Some programs (e.g. Sticky Notes) could not be pinned on secondary taskbars
under Windows 7 x64.
[-] Phantom buttons appeared on secondary taskbars for MS PowerPoint and
MS Access.
[-] Program constantly made redundant queries into the Registry.
[-] Windows disappeared after maximizing to desktop if the primary monitor was
not leftmost.
[-] Window maximized to desktop shrank automatically to the primary monitor only
after the "deactivation-activation" cycle.
[-] Maximize to Desktop worked incorrect with MS Office 2007 applications.
[-] Creating/modifying window settings from the Windows Monitoring Log window
did not work.
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Actual Multiple Monitors 2.2 (03.06.2010)
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[+] The new Maximize to Desktop title button has been added.
[+] The new Maximize to Desktop system window menu command has been added.
[+] The Show Desktop button has been added to secondary taskbars under
Windows 7.
[*] Maximize to Desktop action now performs correct maximization:
maximized window has no borders and it can't be dragged.
[*] The Start button on secondary taskbars works more similar to the main one.
[-] When clicking the Start button on a secondary taskbar, the Start menu
flickered on a primary monitor first (fixed in all visual themes except
Windows Classic).
[-] The main Slideshow options did not refresh properly after applying
a profile.
[-] Pinning to secondary taskbars did not work for 64-bit applications.
[-] Easy windows dragging/sizing did not work for 64-bit applications.
[-] Maximize to Desktop action worked incorrectly for windows maximized via
regular Maximize button.
[-] Sometimes under Windows 7 secondary taskbars' buttons displayed icons
smaller than normal.
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Actual Multiple Monitors 2.1 (01.05.2010)
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[!] Multi-monitor Taskbar now supports the "Pin to taskbar" feature on secondary
taskbars.
[+] Multi-monitor Taskbar now supports the "Show captions" option under
Windows 7.
[+] Multi-monitor Taskbar now supports the Aero Peek mode under Windows 7.
[+] Multi-monitor Background Wallpaper now has the Slideshow mode (either
a single slideshow on entire desktop or a separate slideshow on each
monitor).
[+] The ability to toggle secondary monitors via tray icon's context menu
is added.
[+] New hotkeys to disable/enable all secondary monitors at once have been
added. (Please, note that these hotkeys are turned off by default - you
can enable them in the "Options - Hotkeys" panel).
[+] The ability to switch the primary monitor via tray icon's context menu
is added.
[+] The ability to customize the layout of monitors and their settings without
the need to create a desktop profile is now available (see the "Monitors
Layout and Settings" panel).
[+] New group operations have been added into the context menu of secondary
taskbars:
- Move all windows from this monitor to a specified one
- Move all windows from a specified monitor to this one
- Gather all windows to this monitor
[+] Now you can invoke window's system menu by the right-click on its taskbar
button's live preview.
[+] The ability to watch a preview of the Multi-monitor Screen Saver is added.
[+] The ability to create specific window settings from the Windows Monitoring
Log window is added.
[*] Administrative tools (like Regedit, Event Viewer, etc.) are now extended
in Vista/7 (only in case Actual Multiple Monitors is installed into
a trusted location - e.g. the "Program Files" folder).
[*] Monitors' ordinal numbers displayed in the lists of available displays now
match actual display device indexes shown when you press the "Identify"
button in the Windows Display Properties dialog.
[*] Support of console windows under Windows 7 is improved.
[*] Multi-monitor Screen Saver has been made compatible with screen savers that
do not clear the screen completely (such as Windows 7 Bubbles).
[*] Factory key combination setting for the Desktop Profiles popup menu has been
changed to Win+W because of a conflict with the Windows 7 reserved hotkey.
[*] The ability to turn off the resizing tool tip is added.
[-] Now Multi-monitor Taskbar reacts correctly on pressing the Win+M system
hotkey or using Windows 7 Aero Shake.
[-] Multi-monitor Background Wallpaper works correctly when the leftmost monitor
is not primary and Active Desktop is enabled.
[-] The bug with empty icons in secondary taskbars after changing the visual
theme is fixed.
[-] Taskbar buttons for console windows are displayed on a correct secondary
taskbar in the individual Multi-monitor Taskbar mode.
[-] Title buttons are drawn correctly in windows using right-to-left languages.
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Actual Multiple Monitors 2.0 (01.02.2010)
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[!] The main Taskbar toolbars (like Quick Launch, Desktop, Address, etc.) are
available on secondary taskbars as well.
[!] The Multi-monitor Taskbar now emulates the notification area (system tray)
on secondary monitors with the ability to display the clock and manually
re-order icons by dragging them with the mouse.
[!] The console windows support is available on Windows 7.
[!] Checking for updates online by contacting Actual Tools website and
retrieving information about latest version available has been added.
The check process can be launched either automatically with the defined
period (daily, weekly, monthly) or manually by pressing the Check Now
button (see the "Check for Updates" group in the General Options tab).
[+] The manual re-ordering of icons in the primary notification area by dragging
them with the mouse has been added.
[+] The ability to minimize all windows on a particular monitor has been added
(see the "Minimize all" command in secondary taskbar's context menu).
[+] The Multi-monitor Taskbar extension now supports the "Small icons" option
in Windows 7.
[+] The ability to make taskbars transparent is added (see the "Transparency"
option in the "Taskbar" panel).
[+] The ability to stretch the Start button out to the multiline Taskbar
in old visual themes (such as Windows Classic, XP Blue/Green/Silver)
has been added (see the "Stretch the Start button out to the taskbar" option
in the Taskbar panel).
[+] Move to Monitor at Startup action is available in the Default settings.
[+] You can specify the "Primary" value for the "Target monitor" option
of the Move to Monitor at Startup action.
[+] The long-awaited Window Snapping feature has been added: when you drag or
resize a window with the mouse it can stick certain window border/corner to
- desktop/monitor border (from inside);
- other windows (from outside);
- grid with defined cell size.
When it is enabled, you can control it on-the-fly for a particular window
via window's system menu (see the Snap item in the menu itself and in its
Options submenu).
[+] The Aero Snap mode now supports the horizontal maximization: just drag
the left or right window border towards the corresponding monitor boundary
to make window fit monitor width.
[+] The set of advanced window actions to invoke via mouse clicks on
the regular Maximize title button has been extended - the following
combinations have been added:
- maximize window just horizontally (Shift+RClick by default);
- maximize window just vertically (Ctrl+RClick by default).
[+] The ability to drag window by holding the left mouse button anywhere within
window's interior while certain modifier keys are pressed (Win+Ctrl by
default) has been added.
[+] The ability to size window by holding the right mouse button anywhere
within window's interior while certain modifier keys are pressed (Win+Ctrl
by default) has been added.
[+] New "Crop to fit" wallpaper position mode has been added.
[+] The ability to customize the background color for the "Single picture"
wallpaper mode is added.
[+] New hotkey combinations to suspend/resume the Control Center
(Ctrl+Alt+Num-/Ctrl+Alt+Num+ by default, respectively) have been added.
Please note that they are disabled by default.
[+] New hotkey combinations to save/restore the desktop icons order
(Ctrl+Shift+S/Ctrl+Shift+R by default, respectively) have been added.
Please note that they are disabled by default.
[+] New hotkey combination to move a window to the previous monitor in a
multi-monitor environment (Win+Shift+/ by default) has been added.
[+] Now you can customize the modifier keys for reordering taskbar buttons.
[+] The partial ability to control display orientation via desktop profiles
has been added. It will work only for the display adapters that explicitly
report to Windows about their rotation capabilities; in other words,
the list of supported video modes for such adapter will contain appropriate
entries (for example, 768x1024 for the "portrait" orientation).
If your display adapter allows such way of display rotation, you will see
the additional "Display Orientation" group of controls on the "Multiple
Monitors -> Desktop Profiles -> Monitors Layout and Settings" tab.
[+] The option to prevent running the library from the %Temp% folder has been
added (see the "Run the library from the installation folder" option in the
"Control Center Options" group).
[*] The Multi-monitor Taskbar/Task Switcher now correctly display the Unicode
window captions.
[*] The Multi-monitor Background/Screen Saver tabs in the Configuration window
more accurately display the current system settings.
[-] The problem with the not responding Control Center while logging off is
fixed.
[-] Intermittent crashes of Windows Explorer when using the Multi-monitor
Taskbar extension has been fixed.
[-] Intermittent crashes of Control Center when using the Multi-monitor
Taskbar extension has been fixed.
[-] The crash of Control Center because of graphics resources exhaustion
when using the Multi-monitor Taskbar extension has been fixed.
[-] The leaks of graphics resources on Windows x64 when using the Multi-monitor
Taskbar extension have been fixed.
[-] The intermittent crashes of applications written in Visual Basic have been
fixed.
[-] Intermittent crashes of Control Center after reboot are fixed.
[-] The unwanted auto-exit of the multi-monitor screen saver on some display
configurations is fixed.
[-] Intermittent crashes when exiting the multi-monitor screen saver
are fixed.
[-] The problem with the interrupted desktop slideshow in Windows 7 has been
fixed.
[-] Monitors' names were not detected correctly in some cases.
[-] Switching maximized windows between monitors in Windows Classic
theme is fixed.
[-] Some applications now minimize correctly on secondary monitors - their
taskbar button does not jump to the primary monitor's Taskbar.
[-] Auto-restoration of some windows (like Acrobat Reader 8.1.2) which were
maximized using the Aero Snap works as expected now.
[-] Title button looked and placed incorrectly in non-standard screen DPIs
(e.g. if the "Large fonts" option was enabled).
[-] The problem with title buttons in Mozilla applications (Firefox,
Thunderbird) maximized to desktop is fixed.
[-] The bug with the blurred title buttons in Windows Explorer windows under
Vista Aero has been fixed.
[-] After minimizing and then restoring Photoshop CS4 there was a redundant set
of title buttons.
[-] The redundant Excel button appeared on secondary taskbars.
[-] Aero Snap emulation did not work when the "Show window contents while
dragging" system option was turned off.
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Actual Multiple Monitors 1.0 (01.07.2009)
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[!] Initial Release
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