------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Release 2012-02-24, Win Conn 2.3 (2.3.0.1) - Live Preview: Added new setting to monitor the power state of the device - Live Preview: Added new setting to check if the light is switched on while Live Preview is starting - Live Preview: Added new setting to control if a device should automatically powered on if a Live Preview is starting - Live Preview: Added new setting to display device status information in Live Preview windows - Live Preview: Added new setting to store/restore the position of different Live Preview windows - Live Preview: Added new setting to use the device description instead of the standard device information as Live Preview window title - Live Preview: Improved resizing of Live Preview window. The window can now also be resized by only changing width or height - Live Preview: Added possibility to remove all Live Preview window locations in settings file, by resetting Live Preview in Preferences dialog - General: Added command line option /AutoStartLivePreview to start a Live Preview window on startup with the first detected device - General: Display Streaming Pause and Video Pause status icons in device list - General: Implemented new device discovery command - Annotation: Information message about reduced performance when using Annotation in conjunction with Video Recording and/or Streaming is now always displayed correctly if the user selects the Annotation tab - Annotation: Last used tool is now stored permanently in the settings so it gets remembered even if the application gets restarted - Annotation: Added possibility to change properties of Annotation elements after drawing (e.g. font, line width, color, fill color,...) - USB: Improved stability of picture transfer - USB: Improved sending/receiving data to/from devices - LAN: Improved device discovery by sending both broadcasts simultaneously - LAN: Fixed an error in handling Authentication - LAN: If a known LAN device is detected and the device doesn't support the device description, use the entered description from the Known LAN Device list - LAN: If there are LAN and WLAN connections selected for device discovery, not found Known LAN devices are only listed for LAN connections - Remote Control: Added memory state to RC buttons (Memory 1 - 9) - Remote Control: Changed way of updating the RC status. Now the RC no longer has to wait for the thread, which was blocking the app for some time, to complete - FW Update: Message gets displayed if a newer firmware version is available but Automatic FW Update is disabled to ensure that the user always gets informed about the latest firmware version - FW Update, Update Tool: Improved check for Internet connection to prevent long wait period if network connection is present but Internet is not working - Overlay: Information message about reduced performance when using Overlay in conjunction with Video Recording and/or Streaming is now always displayed if the user selects the Overlay tab or Overlay information is selected or changed - Bug fix: Some tabs and values were displayed in Device Info even if the selected device doesn't support them - Bug fix: Subscribe to additional event to get rid of wrong positioning of Overlay information on first startup - Bug fix: Added help link for Annotation and Overlay preferences - Bug fix: SetDescription dialog cursor position automatically jumped to the end after typing or removing a character - Bug fix: Spotlight and Cover selection did not work correct in full screen Annotation toolbar - Bug fix: Opening same Live Preview with different connection type does not work correctly if multiple Live Preview windows are opened - Bug fix: Improved setup routine to prevent incomplete installations - Bug fix: Prevent unhandled exception in Update tool if path to remote firmware file is invalid - Bug fix: Live Preview windows can now also be resized if you are in scale mode - Bug fix: Update Annotation color after selecting a new color from the color dialog - Bug fix: Automatically set the page orientation to landscape or portrait when print preview is called - Bug fix: Restore Live Preview size after releasing full screen mode - Bug fix: Multiple device list entries for the same Known LAN device are now automatically deleted - Bug fix: Multicast commands are not supported by old devices therefore don't send them while picture transfer is running ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Release 2011-10-03, Win Conn 2.2 Update 1 (2.2.1.1) - Bug fix: Update tool crashed with unhandeled exception while downloading update files ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Release 2011-09-30, Win Conn 2.2 (2.2.0.1) - Streaming: Added streaming profiles (incl. default profiles) - Streaming: Added unicast streaming (MJPEG stream to a specific IP address) - Administration: Added OSD menu support - Annotation: Added full screen Annotation toolbar - Firmware Update: Added check for newer firmware files on application startup - Firmware Update: Every time the firmware file repository is checked for updates, the user is asked to update outdated devices if there are any present - Remote Control: Renamed View button to Source and changed all related texts - USB: Increased Sync timeout from 500ms to 2sec. This ensures better compatibility with older devices - Settings: Added handling of corrupt user config file while application startup - Setup: User can control if a Desktop shortcut and/or a Start Menu entry is created - Updated Video Capture II driver to version 1.3.0.1 (improved stability) - Bug fix: USB picture transfer for VZ-8 devices was not working properly on USB 1.1 because the block offset calculation was wrong - Bug fix: Remote Control buttons are no longer focused after they were pressed. Also the Preset and Memory buttons don't stay checked after they were pressed - Bug fix: If a firmware update is executed and a Live Preview window of the updated device is open, close it before the update is started to ensure that a possible change in the version string doesn't invalidate the display name of the view - Bug fix: If a firmware update only changes the version information of a device, ensure that the new version information is also represented in the device list. This is done by deleting the old device list entry and adding the new one. This is only necessary for entries where the version information has changed - Bug fix: When shutting down the Remote Control window, remove all event handlers and event subscriptions first before all other cleanup stuff is done. This ensures that event handling is not executed anymore while the shutdown process is in progress - Bug fix: Added event handling to our Single Instance Manager class to prevent application crashes in while starting up multiple instances of the application - Bug fix: If saved window position (main, RC or picture window) is no longer valid (outside of the visible screen bounds, e.g. a dual screen system was reduced to a single screen), the window position gets adjusted to be in a visible area of the screen (screen center or relative to the main window) - Bug fix: If an SCB-12 is detected, use the EYE-12 image as device image instead of Unknown - Bug fix: Right-aligned and bottom-aligned positioning of overlay Logos larger than the captured image did not work - Bug fix: AutoSave with key space did not work - Bug fix: Added exception handling at multiple locations in the application - Bug fix: Fixed some spelling mistakes in different translations ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Release 2011-04-29, Win Conn 2.1 Update 1 (2.1.4136.18684) - Added support for capturing pictures from very old Visualizer models (VZ-8, VZ-8light, VZ-27, VZ-57 and VZ-C10) - Added a command line parameter (-config='FileName') which can be used to provide a custom user configuration file. On startup the provided file is loaded and the configuration values override the already present setting values - Video Capture II: Updated driver to version 1.2 (additional resolutions have been added) - Added function to get rid of black bars in 16:9/16:10 pictures captured over USB from old Visualizer models (e.g. VZ-8², VZ-9) - Added capability to switch Visualizer on if Live Preview is started while the device is switched off - Improved setup process and fixed some minor bugs in the setup program - Improved check for working Internet connection (Ping and WebClient) - Moved some timeout values to the user configuration file to provide a way to changed them from outside - Bug fix: Handling of unknown device type for firmware updates added - Bug fix: Messages boxes can now be moved by clicking and dragging it on the title bar - Bug fix: Image Turn (180 degrees) works now for older Visualizer models (e.g. VZ-8²) - Bug fix: Changing the Detail Level while the application language is not set to English works now - Bug fix: Closing the Remote Control window sometimes triggered an application crash - Bug fix: Working with LAN devices which have authentication enabled did not work properly all the time - Bug fix: If Annotation feature is not installed, prevent rest of application to access Annotation functions - Bug fix: On some older PCs starting streaming the first time often failed with an error message caused by a timing issue - Bug fix: Removed layout error on Login window if application language is not set to English ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Release 2011-03-04, Win Conn 2.1 (2.1.4080.14750) - Added Russian language - Bug fix: Fixed device discovery for VZ-P18/P38 devices in WIA driver - Bug fix: VZ-8² picture transfer works now - Bug fix: Device list context menu was not always shown - Bug fix: Silent installation of application gets now registered correctly - Added support to select multiple LAN Connections - Added support to search for known LAN devices which are not in the local network - Added support to expand/collapse all groups in list view - Added support to show Live Preview in a real fullcsreen mode - Added support for enabling/disabling visibility of Annotation and Overlay in video recording/streaming output ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Release 2011-01-31, Win Conn 2.0 (2.0.4048.28179) - First Release Version