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[!] Important [+] New [-] Fixed error [*] Changes ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 8.15 (26.06.2023) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Security: Now all Actual Tools runtime executables natively support the Data Execution Prevention (DEP) and Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) security technologies provided by the system. That hardens the overall system security by preventing various exploit attacks. [*] Title Buttons: Numerous fixes and improvements in Chromium-based apps: - glyphs on extra buttons did not change their color when toggling an app's window active/inactive - automatic gradual compact mode did not work in Opera and Vivaldi (so the extra buttons covered the browser tabs and the "New tab" button) Note: If you have specific windows settings for these browsers (either factory or custom) then you need to reset there the "Title Buttons > Options > Shift the buttons horizontally" value back to 0 to make the gradual compact mode work properly. - in some cases current title bar color could not be detected correctly, and the glyphs looked wrong (e.g. white in the Light visual theme) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 8.14.7 (22.06.2022) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Memory consumption and overall system load is slightly reduced. [!] In some rare cases multi-window applications might crash silently after closing and re-opening a window of the same type (e.g. separate message window in email client). [*] Compatibility is improved with custom cursors provided by Yolo Mouse. [*] Title Buttons: Compatibility with Bluebeam Revu is improved. [-] After exiting and then starting Actual Transparent Window back, some features in some applications might work erratically. [-] In multi-window applications memory leaked slightly after each cycle of closing a window and then opening two windows in a row. [-] Excel 2007+ hung after closing some of its standard dialogs: Protect Sheet, Conditional Formatting, Chart Data, etc. [-] Windows 11, Title Buttons: In some system applications (e.g. Windows Paint) unwanted visual effects might appear if any extra buttons were added to their windows. [-] Title Buttons: X1 Search hung at startup if any extra buttons were added to its window. [-] Title Buttons: In some specific applications (especially having windows with non-standard frames) title buttons might appear invisible. [-] Title Buttons: In some specific applications (e.g. X1 Search, SnagIt!) the Compact View popup toolbar appeared empty. [-] Title Buttons: In some cases, extra buttons might not work in MDI windows. [-] Configuration: For some combinations of non-default font and non-default font size, the layout of controls got messed in the "Options" group of the "Title Buttons" property sheet. [-] Configuration: The Send to Tech Support feature did not recognize Windows 11 marking the sent configurations as Win10-built. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 8.14.6 (22.11.2021) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Some internal components are made more concurrency-friendly by removing redundant locks and eliminating bottlenecks that might cause a noticeable system slowdown on multi-core CPUs in some scenarios. [!] Internal consumption of memory and system resources is slightly reduced, some memory/resource leaks are fixed. [+] Windows 10: Some improvements for UWP apps: - extra menu commands added by Actual Transparent Window are finally available in the system window menu invoked by a title bar right click - mouse actions assigned to a title bar and standard title buttons now work as expected [+] Title Buttons: The option is added to disable the button's context menu showing in response to a "long" left click (see the "Window Settings > Global Options > Title Buttons" panel). [*] Windows 10 build 19041+, Title Buttons: Glyphs on extra buttons now are contrast in Chromium-based apps, like web browsers (Google Chrome, Opera, Vivaldi, Brave), collaboration tools (Microsoft Teams, Slack for Desktop, Upwork), media players (Spotify), etc. [-] Windows 10 build 19041+, Title Buttons: Glyphs on extra buttons were not contrast in desktop apps in the Dark visual theme. [-] Title Buttons: Extra buttons covered the standard ones in Google Chrome windows on monitors with high (> 200%) DPI resolutions. [-] Title Buttons: Extra buttons covered the tabs in Microsoft Edge windows. [-] Title Buttons: Extra buttons covered the standard ones in Slack for Desktop 4.20+. [-] Title Buttons: dragging/sizing a window by the mouse imposed some excessive CPU consumption if any extra buttons were added to the window's title bar. [-] Title Buttons: Extra buttons became clipped at the bottom after moving their host window from a monitor with a low (< 150%) DPI resolution to a monitor with a high (> 200%) DPI resolution. [-] Window Settings, Windows 7+: Another proper specific settings did not apply to a File Explorer window with some specific settings already applied when its caption changed after switching to a certain folder and the Explorer option "Display the full path in the title bar" was on. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 8.14.5 (12.02.2021) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Windows 10 Insider x64 build 21277+: The program crashed at startup. [+] Licensing: The evaluation period is prolonged by a third of its original duration for the update versions released after the Free Updates Subscription expiration date. [-] An invalid memory operation could cause cascading errors in the Control Center at its startup if the "Collect usage statistics" option was enabled. [-] Some application windows (e.g. Directory Opus) stopped reacting on Control Center commands (like pausing/resuming or modifying the settings). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 8.14.4 (10.10.2020) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Internal security has been accurately revised and tightened to follow the principle of least privilege (in particular, for kernel objects used for inter-process communication). [!] Internal error handling has been revised and improved for better interoperability with apps using .NET runtime (and probably some other frameworks). [!] Internal handling of display-related information has been optimized to reduce the overall delay after changing the desktop geometry (i.e. attaching/detaching a monitor or changing a monitor resolution). [+] Window Settings: The ability is added to apply window settings to such system pop-up windows as Action Center, Volume Mixer, Network, and tray notifications. [-] In some rare cases some apps might get hung after reapplying their window settings or unloading Actual Transparent Window. [-] Title Buttons, Windows 7+: MS SQL Server Management Studio got hung after trying to close it via "File -> Exit" menu command if any extra buttons were added to its main window's title bar. [-] Title Buttons, Windows 10 x86 build 19041+: UWP apps crashed at startup if any extra buttons were added to their window's title bar. [-] Title Buttons: Mozilla Firefox got hung after activating an Adobe Flash element in a web page, if any extra buttons were added to its window's title bar. [-] Title Buttons, Slack for Desktop 4.5+: Extra buttons covered new elements in Slack window' title bar (like Search edit box, Help button, or user's avatar button). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 8.14.3 (27.12.2019) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] In some rare cases, running applications might crash randomly. [!] Some applications (Adobe products, TechSmith products, Parametric Technologies products, and some others) got hung if two or more Actual Tools programs were running at once (exiting all but one Actual Tools programs made hung applications responsive back). [-] Title Buttons, Windows 10: Extra buttons looked shorter than regular ones in maximized windows of Chromium-based applications (Google Chrome, Slack for Desktop, Vivaldi, Opera, Yandex.Browser, Spotify, etc.). [-] Title Buttons, Slack for Desktop: The following bugs are fixed: - extra buttons covered the regular ones if zero horizontal button shift was specified - extra buttons were almost invisible as their glyphs were of the same color as the title bar - window couldn't be maximized correctly if there were any extra buttons [-] Title Buttons: In some rare cases, extra buttons might disappear until a window got dragged/sized. [-] Title Buttons: Extra buttons might either get behind their host window's title bar or get visible through other windows in the following cases: - after minimizing and then restoring windows via Aero Shake - after starting a capture in Windows Snipping Tool - in Excel 2013+, after opening the "Find and Replace" dialog and then activating a main Excel window [-] Text on buttons in the Evaluation dialog was garbled in some Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 8.14.2 (29.10.2019) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Numerous fixes of runtime internals to improve speed, robustness, and reliability. [+] Ability to update an existing license key is added: see the "Enter new license key" item either in the "Tools - License" Configuration window panel or in the Actual Transparent Window notification area icon's context menu. [*] Title Buttons: Automatic placement of extra buttons is restored in Google Chrome 75+. [-] Windows Monitoring Log: The following bugs are fixed: - dragging an excluded window filled the log quickly with duplicate "New window" events - a "Caption changed" event was always followed by the duplicate "New window" event - the Log window itself did not appear in the log ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 8.14.1 (09.07.2019) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Internal logic of global hook handlers is revised to improve the compatibility with the systems running on multi-core CPUs. [!] Title Buttons, Windows 10 build 18362+: Notepad got frozen when opened empty (i.e. with no document specified). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 8.14 (15.05.2019) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Microsoft Office 2013+: Application windows got frozen for a long time (up to several minutes) after locking the user session and then unlocking it back. [+] Window Actions: The ability is added to turn off automatic semi-transparency on deactivation or mouse hovering for a certain window (see the "Options - Transparency" submenu in window's context menu). [*] Configuration: Now configuration windows and dialogs correctly scale their content to a current DPI resolution, including on-the-fly scaling when dragging them between monitors with different DPI resolutions. [-] Title Buttons: Extra buttons covered the standard ones in Firefox Quantum windows maximized on a secondary monitor that was shifted up or down relative to a primary one. [-] Title Buttons: Main window of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010+ got hung after closing it via the "File - Exit" menu command or the Alt-F4 hotkey if the Aero visual theme was active and any of extra buttons was added to that window's title bar. [-] Title Buttons: Extra buttons looked and placed wrong in Microsoft Office 2019 windows in high DPI resolutions. [-] Title Buttons: Extra buttons did not work in Sticky Notes windows. [-] Window Actions: Service window "Change transparency" did not scale properly to a current DPI resolution. [-] Configuration: The "Copy settings from" command stopped working. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 8.13.3 (28.11.2018) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Windows 10 build 17763+: System SmartScreen process ate up to 100% CPU resources when Actual Transparent Window was running. [!] Window Settings: Exclusions stopped working since the version 8.13. [*] Configuration: Specific Settings editing windows now are truly independent of the main Configuration window: - clicking the Apply button in such window now immediately saves the changes (no need to click Apply in the main window as well) - after closing the main window these windows remain fully functional [-] Title Buttons, Windows 10: Glyphs on extra buttons flipped in systems with right-to-left writing languages (Arabic, Hebrew, etc.). [-] Title Buttons: Extra buttons did not update properly after toggling any of them on/off in the Aero visual theme in systems with right-to-left writing languages (Arabic, Hebrew, etc.). [-] Title Buttons, Windows 10 build 17763+: - extra buttons appeared in wrong place if any of secondary monitors was located in negative screen coordinates - extra buttons overlapped the system ones in maximized windows of Microsoft Office 2007 apps and might cause temporary hanging when moving the mouse over the overlapped Minimize button - glyphs on extra buttons blended with title bar in the Dark visual theme if the "Show color on title bar" system option was off [-] Title Buttons, Windows 10 Insider build 18267+: - glyphs on extra buttons blended with title bar if the "Show color on title bar" system option was off - extra buttons did not react on changing the system accent color [-] Title Buttons: Mozilla Firefox 50+/Quantum might hang when displaying content-rich pages. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 8.13.2 (12.10.2018) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Windows Vista/7: Process dwm.exe crashed each time after unloading Actual Transparent Window Control Center. [*] Title Buttons, Windows 10: Extra buttons automatic placement is improved in Google Chrome of version 66 and higher in non-standard DPI resolutions. [*] Title Buttons: Extra buttons now work in such Chromium-based applications as Opera/Vivaldi/Yandex web browsers, Slack desktop client, Spotify UWP app. [*] Mouse Actions: Invoking advanced window actions now work in such Chromium-based applications as Opera/Vivaldi/Yandex web browsers, Slack desktop client, Spotify UWP app. [-] Configuration: In really high DPI resolutions (> 200%), caption of a first option in each group overlapped the group's title. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 8.13.1 (27.09.2018) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Windows 10: In some cases the Task View window might get broken when Actual Transparent Window was set to load at system startup. [*] Configuration: Now all toobars respect the options of the "Toolbars" group in the "Options - User Interface" panel. [-] Windows 10, Window Settings: Specific settings did not apply to UWP apps running full-screen (e.g. Groove, Solitaire Collection). [-] Windows 10, Title Buttons: After switching a UWP app from full-screen to windowed, the extra buttons did not show in its title bar. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 8.13 (21.08.2018) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Windows x64: The overall workload on a system has been reduced significantly, especially on multi-core CPUs. [*] Configuration: Windows are now properly scaled at startup to conform with the DPI resolution set for a monitor, which they are opening on. [-] Title Buttons: Extra buttons did not react on right clicks in Foxit Reader. [-] Title Buttons: Detecting free place for extra buttons stopped working in Google Chrome in high DPI resolutions since its version 67. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 8.12.2 (21.05.2018) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Windows 10 Spring Creators Update: Metro/UWP apps crashed at startup when Actual Transparent Window was running. [-] Windows 10 Spring Creators Update, Title Buttons: In some cases, extra buttons got invisible in some windows (like Settings applet). [-] Title Buttons, Windows 7: Auto-detection of free space for extra buttons did not consider the own extra buttons in Mozilla Thunderbird and the Microsoft Office 2013/2016 apps in the Classic and Aero Basic visual themes. [-] Title Buttons, Windows 7: Extra buttons got shrunk vertically in maximized windows of Mozilla Thunderbird and the Microsoft Office 2013/2016 apps in the Aero Basic visual theme. [-] Title Buttons, Windows 10: Extra buttons got shrunk vertically in maximized windows of the Microsoft Office 2016 apps. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 8.12.1 (21.04.2018) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-] Windows x64: In some rare cases applications might crash. [-] Title Buttons, Windows 10: In some applications extra buttons looked and located incorrectly when dragging an application window between monitors with different DPI resolutions (from lower to higher). [-] Title Buttons, Windows 10 Spring Creators Update: In some applications glyphs on extra buttons looked too large on monitors with high DPI resolutions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 8.12 (03.03.2018) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-] Title Buttons: Extra buttons overlapped the My Account button in Google Chrome since its version 64. [-] Title Buttons: In some cases extra buttons in Firefox Quantum got misplaced and drawn in wrong color. [-] Some applications (e.g. Malwarebytes) might hang at startup if Actual Transparent Window was running. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 8.11.3 (30.12.2017) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 8.11.2 (28.09.2017) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Windows 10 Creators Update: Metro (UWP) apps crashed at startup if Actual Transparent Window was running. [*] Windows 10 Creators Update: Extra title buttons now have correct glyph/background colors in Metro (UWP) apps with custom-colored title bars (Edge, People, Store, Maps, Settings, Connect, Xbox, Alarms & Clock, Calculator, Paint 3D): - while being mouse-hovered/pressed - in the Compact View popup toolbar [-] Title Buttons: In Metro (UWP) apps, popup toolbar popped up again instead of closing after a second click on the Compact View title button. [-] Title Buttons: Metro (UWP) apps crashed after invoking twice the semi-transparency slider (right click on a Make Transparent additional title button). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 8.11.1 (27.07.2017) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [*] Title Buttons: Auto-detection of free space for extra title buttons is improved in the latest versions of Google Chrome. [-] Windows 10: Some apps (like Visual Studio 2012 installer and components, or iTunes Helper) crashed when Actual Transparent Window was running. [-] Windows 10: Windows Magnifier got hung when its Lens mode was active and Actual Transparent Window was running. [-] Title Buttons: System window menu flickered constantly in apps where auto-detection of free space for extra title buttons enabled (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Windows Explorer, Microsoft Office apps). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 8.11 (20.06.2017) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Windows 10: Now you can create specific window settings for Metro (UWP) apps (e.g. Settings, Edge, Skype, Store, Xbox, Calculator, etc.). [*] The factory exclusion rule "All unnamed windows" is added to skip all windows with an empty caption. [-] Windows 10: Actual Transparent Window prevented the background spellchecking in Microsoft Word 2016. [-] Configuration: Captions on the Tools panels got cut in high DPI resolutions. [-] Configuration: Exclusion detail panel did not refresh after adding a new exclusion in the list. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 8.10.2 (28.03.2017) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-] Title Buttons: Numerous Windows 10 compatibility fixes: - incorrect Compact View background color fixed - incorrect glyph color fixed with the enabled auto-selection of the main UI color - incorrect glyph color fixed in UWP apps in the recent builds of Windows 10 Insider Preview [-] Title Buttons: Extra buttons overlapped the standard ones in the Start Screen window of Office 2016 apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) since the recent update. [-] UltraEdit main window consumed CPU a lot with Actual Transparent Window running. [-] Configuration: In Windows 7+, web links always opened in Internet Explorer, not default web browser. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 8.10.1 (20.02.2017) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Localizaton: Arabic language is added (translation made by Thamer Mousa). [*] Windows 10: Title buttons now look correct in the Office 2013/2016 apps when their "File" tab gets active. [-] Configuration: Test Regexp dialog displayed an error if it was opened on a monitor with high DPI resolution. [-] Updating: If the "New version is available" balloon notification was shown, right click on the Actual Transparent Window notification area icon started the installation instead of displaying icon's context menu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 8.10 (29.12.2016) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Windows 10: Extra title buttons now look correct on windows with colored title bars (Messaging, Phone, Photos, Windows Mail) and in the Dark visual theme. [!] Windows x64: Stability is greatly improved (there should be no more high CPU usage or app crashes at Actual Transparent Window startup). [*] Configuration: Test Regexp and Select Window From List dialogs now look and work correct in high DPI resolutions. [-] There was possible (of low probability, though) security breach when running Actual Transparent Window library from the %Temp% folder. [-] Extra title buttons covered standard title buttons in the Microsoft Office 2016 apps. [-] Windows 10: Extra title buttons covered tabs in Google Chrome windows. [-] Windows got completely opaque upon activation instead of restoring their initially set transparency level when both the "Make transparent - At startup" and "Make transparent - While inactive" options were enabled. [-] Configuration: Check box and radio button captions got cut in high DPI resolutions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 8.9 (22.07.2016) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] The CFL command line switch is expanded with the ability to specify an arbitrary folder where the configuration files should be stored: ActualTransparentWindowCenter.exe CFL "<full_path_to_the_folder>" [*] Overall stability is improved. [*] Proper scaling in high DPI resolutions has been finally implemented for: - extra title buttons - Log window [*] Evaluation dialog has been restyled. [*] Proper scaling in high DPI resolutions has been finally implemented for program dialogs (About, Register, Check for Updates, etc.). [-] Auto-detection of free space for extra title buttons worked incorrectly in high DPI resolutions for Windows Explorer and Microsoft Office windows. [-] Some features stopped working in Skype windows after saving the Actual Transparent Window configuration. [-] Windows 7+: Specific window settings with certain Window Caption criterion specified did not apply to Microsoft Management Console windows (Event Viewer, Task Scheduler, Disk Manager, etc.). [-] Intuit QuickBooks windows hung for a while after right clicking the extra title buttons. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 8.8.3 (13.05.2016) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 8.8.2 (06.05.2016) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [*] Configuration: Navigation pages now display a tooltip with the full caption text over their header if the caption text does not fit the header visible area. [-] Configuration: With large interface font size (either set manually in the User Interface settings or generated automatically because of a high screen DPI resolution), navigation page captions did not fit the headers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 8.8.1 (29.04.2016) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Windows 10: False-positive SmartScreen warning about setup file corruption is finally remedied. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 8.8 (31.03.2016) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Configuration: List of specific Window Settings has been removed from the Window Settings navigation tree. Now, you can edit certain Specific Window settings item in a separate window that can be opened in the following ways: - double click the required item in the Specific Settings list - select the required item in the Specific Settings list and press Enter - use the Edit Window Rule command in either the toolbar or the context menu of the Specific Settings list Known issues (subject to fix in the future updates): 1) the multi-editing of several specific settings does now work as before 2) there is no way to adjust the natural order of specific settings [!] Configuration: Global Options subitems have been removed from the Window Settings navigation tree and transformed into tabs of the Global Options detail panel. [+] Configuration: Back/Forward buttons have been added into each Configuration window to provide the navigation through the user interface panels like in web browsers. [*] Configuration: Undo/Redo commands now track the changes separately for each window. [-] If both "Transparent while inactive" and "Transparent while mouse-hovering" options were enabled, the transparency level did not restore to "While inactive" value after moving the mouse out of a window. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 8.7 (04.02.2016) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] The navigation panel in the main Configuration window has been replaced. [!] Configuration: Global options of window settings (like title buttons skin, window menu items order, pre-defined window sizes, etc.) have been moved from the Options category to the Window Settings category in the main Configuration window. [+] Configuration: Ability is added to select all items in the lists with multi-selection allowed by pressing the Ctrl-A hotkey. As this key combination was reserved for adding a new item to a list, the New Item hotkey has been changed to Ctrl-N. [*] Configuration: Hotkey combinations for list operations have been unified for all list-editing panels: Ins, Ctrl-N - add new item Del, Ctrl-D - delete selected item F5 - copy selected item Ctrl-=, Ctrl-Num+ - enable all items (where available) Ctrl--, Ctrl-Num- - disable all items (where available) Ctrl-A - select all items (where available) [*] Configuration: Confirmation request for the Delete Item operation has been removed in all list-editing panels. If you accidentally removed the needed item - you can click the Undo button in the bottom-left corner of the main Configuration window or press the Undo hotkey (Ctrl-Z by default). [*] Configuration: The flickering has been reduced significantly when resizing either the Configuration windows themselves or their internals. [*] Windows 10: Hotkeys now work in Metro apps. [*] Windows 10: Extra title buttons now work in the Edge web browser (and probably other Metro apps). [*] Configuration: Separate Window Settings windows now retain their position and size when you open them again. [-] Office 2013+: Extra title buttons overlapped the standard ones. [-] Outlook 2016 window dropped the transparency applied at startup. [-] In some cases, extra title buttons did not redraw in the Aero visual theme. [-] Installer: The uninstaller popped up interactive dialog requests even if it had been launched with /SILENT or /VERYSILENT command line option. [-] Configuration: Minimized windows did not restore on clicking the notification area icon or pressing the Configure hotkey. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 8.6.2 (23.11.2015) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 8.6.1 (20.11.2015) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [*] Overall stability is improved. [*] Buttons on the "Tools - Control Center" panel are made more usable. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 8.6 (06.10.2015) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Now you can suspend/resume Actual Transparent Window via command line using the following syntax, respectively: ActualTransparentWindowCenter.exe suspend ActualTransparentWindowCenter.exe resume [*] If Actual Transparent Window was installed into a trusted location (such as "Program Files" folder) using administrative privileges and then used under non-privileged user account, Actual Transparent Window update installer now warns that it must be run as administrator to update the installation in a trusted location. [-] If a Remote Desktop Client window was open full-screen and then was switched back to windowed mode, extra title buttons did not appear in the title bar. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 8.5.3 (19.09.2015) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] On some combinations of video hardware and drivers Actual Transparent Window crashed at startup. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 8.5.2 (09.09.2015) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 8.5.1 (04.09.2015) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-] On some hardware configurations, Actual Transparent Window crashed at startup. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 8.5 (26.08.2015) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-] Windows 10: Numerous fixes for extra title buttons: - size was calculated incorrectly - used button glyphes were of improper color - Compact View window looked wrong - detecting free place for extra buttons worked wrong [!] Windows 10 known issues (subject to fix in the next updates): - extra title buttons do not work in Microsoft Edge web browser - extra title buttons look wrong in applications with non-standard title color (like Photos, Windows Mail) - hotkeys do not work in Metro apps - extra menu commands do not appear in Metro apps - gradual Compact View does not work in Metro apps ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 8.4 (27.05.2015) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Automatic detection of free place for extra title bar buttons is added in: - popular web browsers: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox; - Microsoft Office applications (since Office 2007); - Windows Explorer (since Windows 8). This feature should prevent the overlapping of extra title bar buttons provided by Actual Transparent Window with standard controls available in a window (like standard buttons, browser tabs, New Tab button, etc.). [+] Automatic gradual Compact View is added for extra title bar buttons: now the buttons are getting hidden/shown 1-by-1 if there is not enough (or enough again) place in the title bar to show the full list of enabled extra buttons. When some buttons get hidden, the special Compact View button automatically appears on the left of remained buttons: click on this button will display the currently hidden buttons. [-] Sometimes running programs might crash after unloading Actual Transparent Window. [-] The bug prevented NuSphere PhpEd 15 debugger from starting is fixed. [-] Magix products (Movie Edit, Music Maker) stopped responding during loading. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 8.3 (15.04.2015) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] The overall support of high screen DPIs is improved. [*] Last used path is saved in the Configuration Backup/Restore dialogs. [-] Windows 8/8.1: Title buttons didn't change their color on mouse hovering. [-] The multi-selection of specific window settings got broken. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 8.2.2 (01.11.2014) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-] Windows disappeared after minimizing/restoring them on the taskbar button click. [-] If the compact view for title buttons was on, sometimes the popup toolbar appeared behind the main window. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 8.2.1 (24.10.2014) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [*] Title buttons compact mode now works correctly in systems with right-to-left languages (like Arabic or Hebrew). [-] Title buttons in compact mode were positioned incorrectly in the following cases: - in Windows 7 and later with the Aero visual theme activated - with vertical shift applied - when maximizing/restoring a window where the compact mode was activated automatically (i.e. the window's title in normal state was too narrow to embrace the full list of buttons) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 8.2 (22.09.2014) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] The Configuration Module now can run multiple windows at once. For example, you can open several Window Settings windows using the "Manage window settings" title button (separate window for each settings). When several configuration windows are open at once, changes made within a particular window are isolated there until you click the Apply button in that window. [!] Changes made in the Default Window Settings now are propagated automatically to all existing specific window settings (provided that the old value was the same in both Default and particular specific settings). [+] Quick Setup wizard is added. It allows to tune up quickly the most frequently used features (according to collected and analyzed usage statistics) without diving into details. [+] Compact mode for extra title buttons is now available: it displays the small narrow button instead of the full list of active buttons. Click on this button expands the list of active buttons so they can be used as usual. Second click on this button or click somewhere else collapses the list of active buttons so they do not block the view (this can be especially useful in non-standard windows like Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox). The compact mode activates either automatically (when the extra buttons do not fit the title bar) or it can be set permanently for particular windows in the Window Settings options (see the "Title Buttons - Options" group). [+] In addition to a right click on extra title buttons, now you can hold the left mouse button on them for some time to invoke their extended abilities (like context menus or special dialogs). [*] Compatibility with Windows 8.1 Service Pack 1 has been improved. [*] Manage Window Settings button is a regular button now: it can be enabled or disabled in window settings on a per-window basis as any other button. [*] The window invoked by the "Copy Settings from..." command now does not display the target Window Settings item. [-] Downloaded setups of newer versions were installed automatically even if the automatic updates were disabled (which prevented the rolling back to any previous version if a newer version setup was available). [-] In some cases extra title buttons in Microsoft Word 2013 might disappear. [-] Extra title buttons did not work in Autodesk Design Review 2013. [-] Extra title buttons did not appear in X1 Search. [-] NuSphere PhpEd 12 crashed when trying to scroll the File Explorer view. [-] Unloading 1st Clock right after restoring from hibernation made Windows Explorer hung. [-] Canceling the download in the "Check for Updates" dialog caused an error. [-] Pressing Enter in the "Check for Updates" dialog after the download was started caused the restart of downloading. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 8.1.4 (10.04.2014) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [*] German translation is revised. [-] Windows XP/Vista: Command prompt windows launched after starting Actual Transparent Window remained unprocessed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 8.1.3 (20.03.2014) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [*] Incompatibility with Mikrotik's Winbox windows is fixed. [-] Adobe Acrobat Standard X/XI crashed upon trying to start a new scan. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 8.1.2 (04.03.2014) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Ability to specify file masks (using the "*" and "?" symbols) for the Program target window criterion is added. [*] Additional title buttons are now compatible with Stardock WindowFX. [*] Compatiblity with Agnitum Outpost Security Suite is restored. [*] Compatibility with Foxit PDF Reader is improved. [-] Windows 8/8.1: Internet Explorer 11 closed immediately when running in Metro mode. [-] In some cases opening a new window of Internet Explorer 11 also opened additional unwanted IE window. [-] Adobe Flash Installer crashed after clicking the Quit button if Actual Transparent Window was running. [-] In some cases changing Actual Transparent Window language made some of additional title buttons and window menu commands disappear. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 8.1.1 (31.01.2014) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Sometimes running programs might crash after unloading Actual Transparent Window. [-] Some kinds of windows stopped working correctly when extended by Actual Transparent Window (in particular, windows of the Investor/RT app). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 8.1 (22.01.2014) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Now it is possible to specify the default location of configuration files via command line: run "ActualTransparentWindowCenter.exe CFL 1|2|3|-", where 1 - program installation folder 2 - "Application Data" folder in the All Users user profile 3 - "Application Data" folder in the current user profile (default) - - remove the value from the Registry [+] Sending of collected usage statistics is added. [*] Check for Updates options are moved into separate panel in the Options page. [*] Now it is possible to open the Check for Updates options from the Check for Updates window. [*] Now it is possible to restore the lost registration code from the Registration dialog. [-] Windows 8/8.1: Running programs in "Windows XP/Vista compatibility" mode made them hung at startup. [-] Flash Player running in the Firefox Plugin Container consumed system resources constantly. [-] Unloading 1st Clock made Windows Explorer hung. [-] Zoom screen sharing utility worked improperly when Actual Transparent Window was running. [-] Google Chrome crashed when Actual Transparent Window tried to display tooltips for its title buttons. [-] Windows 7+: Title buttons did not appear in: - Remote Desktop Client - Steam client - Spotify [-] Flickering of title buttons in MS PowerPoint 2010 windows is reduced. [-] Windows 7+: The "Program" target window criterion did not work in console windows. [-] Automatic update always downloaded the latest available setup file from the server no matter it was already downloaded or not. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 8.0.3 (14.09.2013) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-] After downloading the update, setup did not run after clicking on the tray balloon "Click here to install it right now" message if the "Load at startup" option was enabled. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 8.0.2 (30.08.2013) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-] With larger size of system dialog font, registration codes were cut down after pasting into the Registration dialog so that the program could not recognize them as valid codes. [-] Installer froze for 10 seconds after copying the files. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 8.0.1 (19.08.2013) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-] Uninstallation did not work because of the "DLL not found" error. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 8.0 (15.08.2013) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Beginning from the version 8.0, the Licensing Policy changes: now you must purchase as many copies of the program as many users will use the program simultaneously. There is no limit on the number of computers the program can be installed on and registered with the same registration code as long as the number of simultaneous users is less than or equal to the number of purchased copies. For more information, please refer to the license.txt document in the program's installation folder or visit this page. [!] Beginning from the version 8.0, the Upgrade Policy changes: now purchasing the registration code grants you the Free Upgrades Subscription for a certain period (a year). During this period, you are eligible to get any new versions of the program for free. After this period expires, you will have to purchase another registration code to prolong the Free Upgrades Subscription (in case you want to do so). Otherwise, you can continue to use the last actual version of the program, it will remain registered and fully functional. [+] Support of child windows within multi-document interface (MDI) applications is added. The most well-known example of such windows are Microsoft Excel workbooks. However, because of speciality of such windows some window actions cannot be applied to them, and others work differently than for usual top-level windows (for more information, please refer to User Manual). [+] Korean language is added (translation provided by pCsOrI). [+] AutoUpdate is finally available. Now, Actual Transparent Window not only checks for a new version but also downloads and installs it automatically. [+] Collection of usage statistics is added. When enabled, it is keeping record of any window manipulation you undertake in a special log file. Collection of usage statistics is enabled by default. If you encounter any problems with it then you can disable it in the "Options - General" panel. Otherwise, please keep it enabled for a sufficient time (at least several days) to let Actual Transparent Window collect enough statistical data. Then, please send us your configuration using the Send to Tech Support button in the "Tools - Configuration" panel. This will help us analyze and better understand the preferences and needs of our users and improve our products more consciously and purposefully. [*] Dutch translation is revised. [-] Title buttons did not appear in Bluebeam Revu windows. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 7.5.1 (12.04.2013) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-] Windows x64: In some environments, memory might leak gradually in the Control Center. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 7.5 (25.03.2013) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Global system hooks are replaced with the hooks local for each process. This should fix some known compatibility problems (e.g. with Lotus Notes, Adobe Acrobat) and also improve the overall stability. [*] Hotkeys now work in applications (mostly, video games) that use DirectInput to provide keyboard/mouse control (e.g. Elder Scrolls: Skyrim, Battlefield 3, etc.). [-] Windows 7: If Internet Explorer is already open, launching a new instance of it opened an unwanted extra window. [-] The bottom of title buttons was clipped in JRiver Media Center window. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 7.4.3 (19.02.2013) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [*] Compatibility with MAXQDA is improved. [-] In some cases specific window settings did not apply to 64-bit applications (e.g. Waterfox). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 7.4.2 (05.02.2013) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [*] Compatibility with PTC products (Creo, Windchill, Arbortext, Mathcad, Integrity) is improved. [*] Program dialogs now look correct in the systems with the right-to-left writing language installed (like Hebrew, Arabic, etc.). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 7.4.1 (31.12.2012) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] The ability to toggle the logging on-the-fly in the Log window is added. [+] The ability to open the Configuration window for certain window settings or an exclusion by double-clicking its entry in the Log window is added. [*] Compatibility with Adobe Premiere is improved. [*] Title buttons now look correct in the systems with the right-to-left writing language installed (like Hebrew, Arabic, etc.). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 7.4 (18.12.2012) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [*] Windows 7: The ability to start Actual Transparent Window at the end of the installation is restored. [*] Additional title buttons work correct in Mozilla Thunderbird 17. [*] Compatibility with JRiver Media Center 18 is finally fixed. [-] SURFCAM 6 crashed in some cases. [-] If there were hotkey combinations already by the system, other hotkey combinations might work incorrectly. [-] Control keys (e.g. Backspace) were blocked while editing file names in the Configuration window. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 7.3 (22.11.2012) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [*] Compatibility with the following programs is restored: - Logitech SetPoint - WordPerfect 12 [*] Compatibility with the following programs is improved: - SmartDraw 12 - HTML-Kit Tools [*] Windows 8: Look of title buttons is improved. [*] Additional title buttons are now available in JRiver Media Center. [-] Language Bar's context menu disappeared immediately after popping up. [-] In some cases, on 64-bit systems some windows might display their caption text in Chinese. [-] The "&" symbol did not displayed in window captions. [-] Tooltips disappeared in Microsoft Office 2007 and higher. [-] Title buttons appeared on fullscreen GOM Media Player. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 7.2 (16.08.2012) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] The library file atwemb64.dll is built using another compiler so we expect the increased stability on 64-bit systems (especially on Windows 7 and Windows 8). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 7.1 (07.07.2012) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Italian language is added (translation provided by Davide Pari). [*] Compatibility with Windows 8 Release Preview is improved: - correct work with 64-bit Internet Explorer and administrative tools - correct size and look of the additional title buttons [*] Compatibility with NVIDIA nView is improved. [*] In the Aero visual theme, now it's possible to resize a window when the mouse is over additional title buttons. [-] Trying to select several Window Settings items in the left panel and delete them resulted in the deletion of a single item only. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 7.0 (13.03.2012) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Configuration window has been revamped. [*] Compatibility with Windows 8 Consumer Preview is improved. [*] Compatibility with Windows Snipping Tool is improved. [*] Compatibility with TechSmith's Snagit is improved. [*] Compatibility with GOM Media Player is improved. [*] Compatibility with Gyazo is improved. [*] The "C" command line option has been modified: now it expects a fully qualified name of a folder that contains alternative configuration files to load. [-] In some rare cases, window settings did not re-apply after modification. [-] Crashes in dwm.exe happened occasionally. [-] In some cases, Control Center might crash upon reloading the configuration. [-] When launching Actual Transparent Window after Stardock DeskScapes, Windows Explorer crashed or became unstable. [-] With Actual Transparent Window running, capturing a video in TechSmith's Jing made it crash upon closing. [-] Title buttons did not appear in the Windows Media Center window. [-] Additional commands did not appear in the Windows Media Center window menu after switching its window back from full-screen. [-] After unghosting a window with the "Unghost temporarily" key combination, the window could not be ghosted back. [-] Configuration windows stayed out of sight when they were located on a secondary monitor and the monitor got disabled. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 6.7.2 (22.11.2011) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-] Sometimes the dwm.exe process crashed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 6.7.1 (11.11.2011) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-] Title buttons did not update their placement in Mozilla Firefox 7 windows after maximizing/restoring a window. [-] In some cases, console windows might hung for some time at startup. [-] Some Configuration windows (like Select Window from List, Test Regexp) did not return into a visible area after their last monitor was disconnected. [-] Sometimes, empty match lines appeared in the Test Regexp results. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 6.7 (21.10.2011) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Norwegian language is added (translation provided by Stale Pedersen). [+] Ability is added to toggle the "Run the library from the installation folder" option via program's command line (use the L+/L- command line option to turn this option on/off, accordingly; by default, this option is off). [*] Window rules (specifics and exclusions) are now compatible with windows of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. [*] Compatibility with many Adobe products is improved (however, some functions may be unavailable yet). [*] Compatibility with Mindjet's MindManager is improved. [*] Compatibility with TechSmith's SnagIt is improved. [*] Tracking of window caption changes is improved (in particular, for own Actual Transparent Window configuration dialogs). [*] Title buttons look and behave correctly in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 windows. [-] Microsoft Excel 2007/2010 crashed after opening/closing the Chart Source Data dialog. [-] Various Adobe products (like Photoshop, Flash, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Illustrator) crashed upon exiting. [-] Autodesk Softimage hung at startup if Actual Transparent Window was running. [-] Title buttons' glow effect looked wrong with non-standard values of Screen DPI. [-] If a window was made always-on-top, it did not reset to a normal state after unloading Actual Transparent Window. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 6.6 (01.08.2011) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Indonesian language is added (translation provided by Elda Taluta). [*] Windows Vista/7: When installing a new version, special system mechanism is used to avoid the reboot after updating program's runtime library. [-] Windows Vista/7: Sometimes Actual Transparent Window caused Desktop Window Manager's crash. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 6.5.1 (11.07.2011) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-] Console windows hung for 5 seconds after launching. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 6.5 (25.05.2011) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [*] Compatibility with the fullscreen mode of Adobe Flash Player is improved. [*] The look of a single title button in Aero is improved. [-] Crashes of skinned Media Monkey windows are fixed. [-] Edit boxes for time delays worked incorrect with large values. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 6.4 (11.02.2011) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] The ability to backup/restore the configuration is added (see the Backup/Restore commands in the File submenu). [+] The ability to undo/redo made changes in the main Configuration window is added (see the Undo/Redo commands in the Actions submenu). [*] The look of extra title buttons is improved in Aero theme. [*] The separate Start/Stop Actual Transparent Window hotkeys are replaced with the single Toggle Actual Transparent Window hotkey. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 6.3 (19.11.2010) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] The glow effect when hovering the extra title buttons with the mouse pointer in Aero visual theme is added. [+] Title buttons' skins for the Black and Silver Office 2007 styles are added. [+] The option to select which kind of click (single or double) on the program's tray icon is used to launch the Configuration is added. [*] The ability to make the taskbar transparent by creating certain specific settings is restored. [*] Multiple Specific settings can be selected in several ways: - by pressing and holding the left mouse button and dragging the "rubber frame" over desired items - by holding the Shift key and clicking on some item above/below the selected one - by holding the Shift key and pressing the Up/Down keys [*] Specific Settings list and Exclusions list do not display the value of criterion (class, caption, program) for a certain item if the criterion in this item is disabled. [*] Configuration panels can be scrolled with the mouse wheel. [-] Title buttons did not work in Office 2010 64-bit edition. [-] Title buttons disappeared after moving a window to secondary monitor on some display configurations. [-] If the Configuration window was closed on a secondary monitor and then the monitor had been unplugged - the Configuration window had not returned into a visible desktop area. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 6.2 (04.08.2010) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Support of regular expressions has been added for the Window Caption criterion. [-] 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 6.1 (03.06.2010) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] The button to invoke the Context Help in the Options window has been added. [+] The ability to set a delay before making an inactive window transparent 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. [*] Support of console windows under Windows 7 is improved. [*] The default key combination for the Make Transparent window action has been changed to Win+Y instead of Win+T because of a conflict with the Windows 7 reserved hotkey. [*] Separate Configuration dialog opened for certain window settings now displays the name of settings being edited. [*] The multi-selection editing mode is significantly accelerated for large quantities of selected window settings. [-] Title buttons were drawn incorrectly in windows using right-to-left languages. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 6.0 (12.02.2010) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] 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 panel). [+] All executable files (including setups) are digitally signed. [+] 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 Transparency and Ghost features are available for console windows on any version of Windows starting from Windows 2000 and up to Windows 7. [+] 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. [*] Tracking of window caption changes has been improved. [*] Now if the "Transparent when inactive" option is enabled for some window the window won't become transparent if it loses focus because of its child window appearance (i.e. you still continue to work with the same application so that it remains active in whole). [-] The problem with the not responding Control Center while logging off is fixed. [-] Intermittent crashes of Control Center after reboot are fixed. [-] The intermittent crashes of applications written in Visual Basic have been fixed. [-] Title buttons looked and placed incorrectly in non-standard screen DPIs (e.g. if the "Large fonts" option was enabled). [-] After minimizing and then restoring Photoshop CS4 there was a redundant set of title buttons. [-] The bug with the blurred title buttons in Windows Explorer windows under Vista Aero has been fixed. [-] Crash of some programs (e.g. WinZip 14 Professional) when using system menu commands has been fixed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 5.4 (09.07.2009) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-] The bug is fixed: in full screen applications (like games) title buttons were though invisible but still active and responded to mouse clicks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 5.3 (31.03.2009) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] The Description field is added for Exclusions. [*] The amount of consumed Windows graphics resources is decreased significantly (this prevents the resource exhaustion when too many windows stay open). [*] The option to make additional title buttons Office 2007-like is added. [*] Now hotkeys in active window work even if it has no title bar. [*] Now Configuration windows remember their Maximized state between sessions. [-] The bug in Configuration user interface with non-disappearing horizontal scroll bar is fixed. [-] Now the additional title buttons and system window menu items work as expected in Windows Live Mail. [-] The crash of Windows Vista Snipping Tool, when closing it, is fixed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 5.2 (14.10.2008) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [*] Now the title buttons look fully native under Windows Vista Aero. [*] Now you can cancel the changes of Target Window edit fields made with the Window Finder by pressing the Escape key. [*] Now the window settings commands (like "Modify applied settings", "Create new specific settings", "Exclude this window") open the specially designed light-weight Configuration dialog containing the subject settings only. [*] The overall stability is improved when running on Windows x64. [-] The bug caused the Explorer crash when trying to delete files under Windows Vista/2008 x64 is fixed. [-] No more crashes of NoteZilla when closing its Preferences dialog. [-] Extra title buttons are again displayed correctly in the title bar of IncrediMail XE. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 5.1 (15.05.2008) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Now you can edit multiple specific settings at once in the Configuration Module (use Ctrl+to select several items). [-] Now extra title buttons don't appear in the fullscreen mode of Microsoft Word 2003/2007. [-] The compatibility with applications written in Visual Basic is improved (in particular, with WorkCentrics and NCSS 2007). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 5.0 (16.01.2008) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] The full support on native 64-bit applications running on any Windows x64 platform is added. [!] Now the Control Center automatically defines the order of specific settings considering their preference rank (this order affects the process of selecting a proper rule for a certain window). See the "Principles of Operation -> Preference Rank" article in program's Help for more information. [+] Now it's possible to use almost any key when specifying a hotkey combination. [+] Now you can provide a custom skin path relative to Actual Transparent Window's installation folder. [+] Now it's possible to double-click an item in the list of "Copy Settings from..." window to auto-select this item and close the window. [+] Now it's possible to sort the list of specific settings and the list of exclusions by clicking on their column headers. [*] Both Control Center's and Configuration Module's memory consumption is optimized. [*] Title buttons' drawing is optimized and improved. [*] In the Configuration window time units are changed from milliseconds to seconds so now it's possible to provide fractional values for time delays (e.g. 0.2 seconds, 1.7 seconds etc.). [*] Now the "Enable logging" option can be turned on/off via tray icon's menu and the log window is independent of the logging status so the log contents can be viewed any time. [*] The "Manage Window Settings" menu is renamed and slightly redesigned. [*] The overall stability of "Send Configuration" commands is improved. [-] The compatibility is improved with the following applications/windows: - Windows Vista Start Menu user picture (doesn't turns black if transparent) - Xfire 1.81 (now it correctly minimizes to tray) [-] The constant CPU utilization by the Configuration Module application is fixed. [-] Crashes of Sysinternals Process Explorer and Microsoft IntelliPoint when using the Window Finder are fixed. [-] The bug caused sometimes the "green-filled" desktop appearance in Vista Aero is fixed. [-] Now the title bar double-click is correctly handled in Office 2007 windows. [-] The custom skin drawing procedure is fixed: now it correctly handles the fully transparent background. [-] The bug caused "black windows" problem (e.g. with Windows Vista Sidebar) is fixed. [-] The bug of absense of title buttons in Remote Desktop Client is fixed: now extra buttons are correctly displayed when Remote Desktop Client is launched in full-screen mode and then switched to window mode. [-] Now the "Unghost temporarily" key combination is checked exactly as specified (in previous versions there was an ability to press any extra keys but the combination was still considered as valid). [-] Now Configuration window's status bar doesn't cut long hint strings. [-] The incompatibility of the "Send Configuration -> Send to the Tech Support" command and Microsoft Outlook is fixed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 4.5 (20.06.2007) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Windows Monitoring Log tool is added into the Control Center. It allows detecting newly appeared windows and check, which window rule has been applied in each particular case. Now you can easily solve any configuration ambiguities and detect properties of short-living windows (like tool tips, popup menus etc.). Be careful using this feature: turned on it may slow down your system! [+] The ability to copy settings from a selected window rule to others is added. [+] The new hotkeys are added: - "Reapply settings" action (Win+F5 by default) - Configuration Module's launch (Win+C by default) - "Unhide" submenu that shows the list of currently minimized/hidden windows (Win+H by default) [+] Now the hotkey status is displayed in the "Hotkeys" panel of the "Options" window: when defining a new key combination, you can see, if the defined combination is already in use with another application or assigned to another action. [+] The on-the-fly transparency setting is added: when right-clicking the "Make Transparent" title button, the slider control appears instead of the context menu with predefined values; while dragging this slider, the transparency level is being changed immediately, thus allowing a quicker and easier choice of desired appearance. [+] Now the balloon tip is shown over the Control Center's tray icon at first start after the installation. [+] Translation to the Dutch language is added (thanks to Onno Verschoor). [*] The internal mechanism of hotkeys processing is significantly improved. [*] The options structure is redesigned: new "Triggers" and "Actions" grouping nodes are added. [*] The "Hide Configuration Module while using Window Finder" option has been moved from General to User Interface. [*] Title buttons appearance in Windows Vista is improved. [-] The "orphaned title buttons" bug in Windows Vista is fixed: sometimes title buttons used to get detached from their owner window and stuck on the desktop. [-] Compatibility conflicts are solved with: - Quattro Pro X3 menus - GrabIt internal windows - MS Office XP CTFMON.EXE service - X-NetStat application [-] Now the "Configure..." item of Control Center tray icon's context menu is displayed correctly in Windows Vista. [-] Transparency effect conflicts are solved with: - CDArtdisplay application - Emerge Desktop application - Windows Vista Start button [-] Title buttons now work properly in PowerPoint 2007. [-] Title buttons' behavior in Outlook 2007 is improved. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 4.4 (16.04.2007) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] The long-awaited feature of "smart saving" is added: now only relevant windows will reapply 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 4.3 (15.12.2006) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] 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 Transparent Window"). [+] 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 Internet Explorer windows are correctly processed in Windows Vista. [-] 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. [-] 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 4.2 (10.10.2006) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] 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 Bërbatovci). [*] 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" subfolder. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 4.1 (01.08.2006) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Key combination of a currently assigned hotkey now is displayed in title button tooltips. [+] Key combination of a currently assigned hotkey now is displayed in system window menu command captions. [+] 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 4.0 (05.05.2006) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] 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 - reapply 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 3.8 (23.09.2005) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [*] 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 3.7 (02.08.2005) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-] 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's correct restoration when accessed through the "Create/Modify Window Rule" menu command. [-] Fixed the bugs in the contextual menu in the Configuration Module tree. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 3.6 (06.04.2005) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 3.5 (20.01.2005) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 3.0 (13.10.2004) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] The Make Transparent button can be added to a window's title bar. Now you can toggle the semi-transparency on/off by a simple click on this button. [+] New Transparency item can 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 toggles the transparency for an active window. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 2.8 (31.08.2004) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Added command line support. [+] Added a "silent" installation option. [+] Added Dutch language. [*] Some interface features changed and added. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 2.7 (28.07.2004) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 2.6 (26.05.2004) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 2.5 (10.12.2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] 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 window rules by name, in order to make the rules easier to find. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 2.0 (20.08.2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 1.5 (03.03.2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Added a "Ghost mode" option for transparent windows. Ghost mode lets mouse be clicked and move through the transparent window to underlying windows. [+] Added German language. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 1.4 (09.12.2002) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 1.3 (18.11.2002) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Added multilingual support. [+] Added English, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish and Polish languages. [*] Program's launching speed is highly increased. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 1.2 (21.10.2002) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [+] Added an option "Enable/disable tray icon". [+] Added an option "Load at startup". [+] Added an option "Stay On Top" for transparent windows. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 1.1 (10.09.2002) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [*] Some interface features have been changed and added. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actual Transparent Window 1.0 (12.08.2002) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [!] Initial Release
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