Release Notes 2006-06

12.0.30 (6/30/06)

1. NEW: Added animation to player button state changes.
2. NEW: Added state-change animation to all standard buttons, comboboxes, and radio buttons.
3. Optimized: Improved bottom border / status bar drawing performance.
4. Fixed: Clicking on some sliders without moving the mouse could cause them to reposition slightly.
5. Changed: Some buttons wouldn't honor skins that used different text colors for each button state. (Noire, etc.)
6. Changed: Mouse over state of standard windows controls (buttons, comboboxes, etc.) is more responsive.
7. NEW: Added "Stop After Current File" to Player menu. (also Ctrl+Shift+S)
8. Fixed: Toolbar customization dialog could show the wrong images.
9. Fixed: Contrast value set on DX Video player settings drifted lower the next time MC was started.
10. Changed: Updated the Korean translation. (thanks Junghwan)

12.0.29 (6/29/06)

1. Changed: When sending images with email, the "large email" warning now factors in any image conversion being performed to the size.
2. NEW: Added a one-click clear button to the search control when it has text.
3. Changed: Search control drop arrow and clear button are both skin items.
4. Changed: Renamed "Playing Display" Action Window to "Display".
5. Changed: Action Window no longer uses all caps for title text.
6. NEW: Added tooltips to the search control buttons.
7. Changed: Took care of COM interface marshaling in DX video player.
8. Fixed: "Choose DirectShow Filters" windows title misspelled.
9. Fixed: Filter names in "Choose DirectShow Filters" were editable.
10. Fixed: File extensions in DirectShow Options list ctrls were editable.
11. Changed: ListCtrl columns in "DirectShow Options" and "Choose DirectShow Filters" dialogs are no longer resizable.
12. Changed: Added a "Select Filters" button on "DirectShow Options" dialog.
13. Fixed: The sharing plugins could display garbage or crash when processing too many informational messages.
14. Fixed: Empty paranthesis were getting added to proxy (virtual) device names.
15. Fixed: Deleting a proxy (virtual) device was performing 'Remove & Ignore Device' functionality unnecessarily.
16. Changed: Updated the translation files.
17. Fixed: Tree not getting updated on device changes/arrivals.
18. Fixed: TV Channels lists showed both horizontal and vertical scroll bars (when vertical scroll bar was needed).
19. Fixed: Restore License dialog had an unnecessary black box in its top left corner.
20. Changed: Revised handling of row-style tree items when expanding a non-selected item, or selecting an item with a different item expanded.
21. Changed: Updated how the handheld conversion options look.
22. NEW: Add new "Watch Folders" configuration to Options > Library.
23. Changed: Mini View no longer has a close button.
24. Changed: Made mini view less wide.

12.0.28 (6/26/06)

1. Fixed: During a fresh install, the skin list on the appearance installer page could be empty.
2. Changed: Removed the "registered" / "not registered" text from the about box title. (use Help > License Info... to see this information)
3. NEW: Added handheld image type and size conversion to upload process. (useful for devices with 240x320 and 480x640 screens where 6MP+ images are a waste)

12.0.27 (6/23/06)

1. Fixed: Media Center would not load with an empty library. (compiler bug!)
2. Changed: Updated Splash and About image for Media Center 12.
3. Changed: Media Center 12 now requires its own license.
4. Fixed: Uninstall could report unregistration errors towards the end.
5. Changed: Improved support for skins that center titlebar text. (Noire, etc.)

12.0.26 (6/21/06)

1. Fixed: Video views in "Automatic" list style would use details instead of thumbnails.
2. Fixed: The uninstall icon in Control Panel could be incorrect.
3. Changed: Fullscreen borders and mouse no longer hide while a popup dialog is showing.
4. Changed: Increased the minimum size of the OSD. (again)
5. Changed: The OSD display no longer shows "Paused" when paging through images.
6. Changed: The OSD automatically adjusts its position depending on if fullscreen borders are showing or not.
7. Changed: Clickable Podcast status column items look like browser links on mouse over.
8. Changed: Double-clicking an empty playing now no longer shows Access Control filtered files. (even though they wouldn't play)
9. Fixed: Double-clicking the header area of the player while in full screen Display View didn't always return to windowed Display View.
10. Changed: Increased delay on reacting to folder changes to prevent possible busy loops on files download with external programs, etc.
11. Changed: Streamlined folder watching to better deal with download podcasts and other file creation actions in Media Center.
12. New: Revised handheld options system. (mostly internal)
13. New: Select handhelds now show images of themselves instead of a generic placeholder image.
14. Fixed: Minor fixes in Quicktime playback.

12.0.25 (6/20/06)

1. Fixed: Skins with different button text colors for mouse over and mouse down wouldn't work properly with focused buttons.
2. Fixed: When a library would fail to load, the prompt for restoring a library backup was not working properly.
3. Fixed: TV would fail to play the correct channel with a fresh library.
4. Fixed: COM reference count problem in TV control.
5. Fixed: View scheme "dot" icon had a gray border on the right side.
6. Fixed: Typing a search in "My Library" then switching to a view that didn't support search (like a sharing plugin) would draw incorrectly.
7. Fixed: Showing fullscreen borders on mouse move could take longer than expected.
8. Changed: Fullscreen borders no longer hide while a menu is showing.
9. Changed: Fullscreen borders wait longer to hide when the mouse is in the top border.