“Eclecticism, (from Greek eklektikos, “selective”), in philosophy and theology, the practice of selecting doctrines from different systems of thought without adopting the whole parent system for each doctrine.” – Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Change 1: Added an Export tool to the context menu. This exports all active, non-hidden items to a file using the selected template file. The menu is populated with files found in the templates directory. You can hide it by setting menu-export in the [text] section to blank. The resulting file is automatically opened in …
This release specifically addresses issues with the IF and CONTROL/CONTROL2 items and how they behave and interact. Change 1: The IF item will now evaluate every cycle. Therefore the interval option is redundant. Change 2: The relationship between CONTROL and CONTROL2 is more complete and robust. I discovered a fatal flaw in the config loading …
Change 1: Fixed introduced bug where the display would fail to update if nothing was displayed on the initial refresh. Change 2: Added remote monitoring option. This provides a mechanism for Desktop Info to retrieve raw data collected by another instance of Desktop Info. See the Options section to switch on the server and the …
What started out as a couple of quick fixes to deal with display issues has turned into a major refactor of the display routines. Fixes that work on one machine don’t work on another so it’s taken a bit of time to figure out what works in all cases. Change 1: Button and hyperlink controls …
Change 1: Fixed bug where alarms were not changing color. Change 2: Fixed bug where threshold would fail if property was the last one in the list. 2+
There was a fatal flaw in the new CONTROL code which threw an exception and sent the application into a tail spin. This has been resolved along with a couple of other minor code cleanups. 3+
Change 1: Added the common item option text-color which allows us to specify a color for the left column text. Change 2: Added the key word TEXT-COLOR which allows us to specify a new default color for the left column text for all following items. This is distinct from the item option text-color above. See …
This is a bug fix release targeting specific user bug reports. Change 1: Fixed bug where the left column text would not display if there are no results. Change 2: Fixed bug where ini reload is not resetting the default page number. Change 3: Added the code-page option to the CMD item so that tools …
Change 1: Refactored the thresholds to support return values, user variables and expressions. Change 2: Increased the number of thresholds to nine. Change 3: Added the filter option to TOPPROCESSCPU and TOPPROCESSPF. Change 4: Added maxrows and filter options to TOPPROCESSMEM. In 64 bit mode maxrows is capped at 10. Change 5: The filter options …
December 2019 Change 1: Fixed broken FILE2TEXT. Change 2: Fixed broken TEXT. Change 3: CMD is now Unicode aware. The target command executable must also be Unicode aware for this to be effective. I am yet to figure out exactly how to initiate a Unicode Powershell process so I don’t know if this works for …