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Desktop Info v3.16.0

Version 3.16.0 November 2024 Change 1: Some more tinkering with the hyperlink scaling. Change 2: Increased the process priority during display painting to avoid the black background. Change 3: Fixed a small bug in the alarm display. Change 4: Added the BOX item. Change 5: Added the enumerated format. Change 6: Added bluetooth items BLUETOOTH …

Desktop Info v3.15.2

Version 3.15.2 September 2024 Change 1: Fixed collector timing exception and tidy up code. Change 2: Added display-change in [options]. This will cause a configuration reload when a display change such as scaling is detected. Change 3: The font-size option on the ITEMS now supports user variables and expressions but only on configuration load. The …

Desktop Info v3.15.0

Version 3.15.0 August 2024 I’ve been trying to track down a situation where the collector locks up and stops returning data. I’m almost convinced there’s a bug in the Windows WMI subsystem that randomly causes a WMI query to never return. If you’ve been experiencing such apparently random lockups, you can try to pin down …

Desktop Info v3.14.0

Version 3.14.0 July 2024 Change 1: If the ‘d’, ‘f’ or ‘n’ format gets something that looks like text, it will attempt to convert it to a number. Change 2: Fixed a regression issue when no ini files can be found. If all options for finding an ini file fail, DTI will use a default …

Desktop Info v3.13.1

Version 3.13.1 May 2024 Change 1: New code signing certificate courtesy of a few financial supporters. Change 2: The thread-timeout option is available only if the no-wait/thread option is set. Change 3: Looking for the bug that is causing a lockup when coming back from sleep. Change 4: Some defensive code around the charts to …

Desktop Info v3.13.0

Version 3.13.0 March 2024 This was going to be a minor release fixing a few bugs in v3.12 but once again I got carried away. I’ve noticed while working on the scaling that some fonts give more accurate height measurements than others. Change 1: Added ‘xr’ and ‘yb’ to absolute positioning to position from the …

Desktop Info v3.12.0

Version 3.12.0 February 2024 I’ve been trying to pin down a random lockup. I’ve found a few possible culprits but I’m not yet convinced I’ve solved it. I’ll continue looking. There’s a lot of code changes in this release. The following is what I can remember, there may be other changes I’ve not documented. I’m …

Desktop Info v3.11.0

Version 3.11.0 October 2023 Change 1: Added FORMCOLOR, TRANSPARENCY, DISPLAY-OFFSETX, DISPLAY-OFFSETY, WIDTH, HEIGHT to both the [options] section and the [items] section. This allows you to make decisions about the display layout during load. See the Options section and keywords for an example. Change 2: Fixed global IMAGE bug. Change 3: Fixed IMAGE bug where …

Desktop Info v3.10.2

Version 3.10.2 May 2023 Change 1: The IMAGE item is now playing better. I’ve added the column option to put the image in the left or right column. Along with the wide, width, align, offset and other options, we have better control of the layout and also the ability to put text alongside the image. …

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