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Topic: «
Actual Window Manager 5.0 beta 1 is available!
, The being-awaited-for-years CMD windows support has finally arrived! » on forum:
Beta Testing
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Alexey Fadeyev
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Posted:
07/18/2007 10:42:36
Actual Tools has released
the 1st beta version
of
Actual Window Manager 5.0
.
This first beta version of the upcoming major update of Actual Tools products introduces the
single but truly amazing
feature that is being requested again and again - the
fully-featured support for CMD windows (a.k.a. console windows) in
Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista
! This is a
tremendous technological breakthrough
our engineers happy to make public at last! For now, you can handle all those old-looking CMD windows in the same way as other normal windows - almost all Actual Tools features (except for
Make Transparent/Ghost
actions) available for them, including extra title buttons!
However, this console windows support needs some special actions and has some known issues. Please, read the following notes
extremely carefully
:
[*] To provide the advanced management abilities, we use two additional executable files -
ConsolePatch.exe
and
ConsoleHelper.dll
, which are located in the installation folder. Due to some specifics of their implementation, some antiviral suits may treat these files as dangerous and try to delete them. WE FULLY GUARANTEE THAT THESE FILES DON'T CONTAIN ANY HARMFUL CODE AND ARE 100% SAFE! Therefore, please, exclude them from your antivirus system's processing so they could stay untouched.
CAUTION!
IF YOUR ANTIVIRUS PROGRAM BLOCKS OR DELETES THESE FILES - THE CONSOLE WINDOWS SUPPORT WILL BE UNAVAILABLE!
[*] The
ConsolePatch.exe
application needs the Administrator privileges to run successfully. Therefore, in case you are not an administrator of your workstation, after each logon
Actual Window Manager
will display the standard "Run As..." system dialog allowing you to provide Administrator credentials (of course, you must know the login/password of any account with administrative privileges on your workstation).
CAUTION!
IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO PROVIDE THE ADMINISTRATOR PRIVILEGES FOR THE
CONSOLEPATCH.EXE
APPLICATION - THE CONSOLE WINDOWS SUPPORT WILL BE UNAVAILABLE!
[*] Once enabled, the console windows support will work
until the full system reboot (or session restart in Windows Vista)
even if you disable the "Enable support of console windows" option in the Options dialog.
[*] Due to intrincis peculiarities of CMD windows, it's impossible to affect them with
Make Transparent
and
Ghost
actions, therefore all features related to these actions (title buttons, menu commands, automatic handling options, etc.) will be automatically removed even if you enable any of them in certain window settings.
[*] The
Copy/Paste
title buttons just send to console windows the standard
Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V
key combinations - the actual handling of these combinations fully depends on a particular console application, which the target window belongs to.
[*]
Specially for software developers:
Once the console windows support is enabled, be careful when debugging console applications - in such case, all currently open console windows
may stop responding
until the debug session is finished or terminated. Therefore, we DO NOT recommend to use the
console debuggers
(like
Turbo Debugger 5.5
) to debug console applications, having the console windows support enabled - because in such case debugger's window itself may stop responding that will lead to mutual lock-up!
Anyway, I am sure that the advantage of console windows support will certainly compensate possible difficulties mentioned above!
Also I would like to remind that due to our beta-testing policy our
beta versions have an expiration date
after which they can't be used. Also, due to their nature,
beta versions can't be registered
, even with a valid registration data: they are not final products but betas! So when the beta version expires you should either roll back to the last stable release, update your beta to a new one (if available), or upgrade to a new stable release (if available).
The beta 1 of
Actual Window Manager 5.0
will expire
September 20, 2007
.
You can
download it here
.
I strongly recommend to install this beta into a separate folder (for example,
"C:\Program Files\Actual Window Manager 5.0 beta 1"
) so you could easily roll back to a previous version.
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