What's new in ArtSaver 2.2
Apr 7, 2011
- New features:
- ArtSaver can handle multiple monitors (screens), i.e., it will store different preferences for each screen; in particular, this will allow you to display different image lists on different screens. (For this to work, you must uncheck "Main screen only" in System Preferences / Screen Savers!)
- There is a deliberate offset between the two (or more) screens, in order to prevent disk fighting in the case all screen savers have the same duration per image. (In that case ArtSaver would have to load the new images at the same time for all screens.)
- Keyboard input (pause, forward, backward, show in Finder) goes to all screens simultaneously.
- You can switch cross-dissolve off, and you can change the duration of a cross-dissolve
- ArtSaver can now automatically re-scan the directory / photo album after a user-specified time
- The "skip patterns" are now regular expressions (not file patterns any more!); this gives you more flexibility
- The "skip patterns" (err regexp's) can handle unicode now (i.e., characters from all languages)
- You can switch off the displaying of the image file name's extension (e.g., the ".jpg" suffix)
- General improvements of the user interface of the configuration sheet
- When displaying images in sequential order ("Randomize images" is off), you can now go back (cursor left) indefinitely
- Bug fixes / changes:
- Matching of the skip patterns was buggy
- When presenting images sequentially, ArtSaver "forgot" where it was stopped last time, so it always started with index 0 (= first image in the list) each run; now, it continues with the image it displayed during the last run
- Should work under 10.5 again (it does work on my machine with 10.5.8 / PPC G4)
- Improved the part of the UI controlling the options for the displaying of the file names
New in ArtSaver 2.1 (Nov 11, 2009)
- Bug fixes:
- Path names with '/' were not handled correctly.
- Maybe, version 2.0 contained a bug when searching was done by hand ("Use Spotlight" box is off); this should be fixed.
- The usual installation via double-click should work now.
New in ArtSaver 2.0 (Oct 26, 2009)
- New features:
- pause animation (space bar)
- leaf through previously shown images (left/right cursor)
- show image in Finder (return key)
- switching images is now done with cross-fading
- CPU usage is now only 5% (before 60%!); at least on my MacBookPro under 10.5.8 with an Intel Core 2 Duo and using the GeForce 9400M. This is made possible by utilizing Core Animation, which entailed a heavy internal restructuring of the code
- correctly observes the EXIF orientation tag
- new control over whether/how many images should be displayed without black border
- non-randomized image picking (always goes through the images in the same order)
- runs under both Snow Leopard (10.6) and Leopard (10.5)
- raised the text line with larger displays
- version number in config sheet is extracted automatically from the Info.plist
- Bug fixes:
- New preferences sometimes didn't get saved; code for preferences handling is much cleaner now.
- Works on PPC again (still needs 10.5 or higher)
New in ArtSaver 1.7 (Oct 3, 2009)
- Can use iPhoto albums now. (Still creates a list of images, thus iPhoto does not have to get invoked during actual screen saver runs, only during configuration.)
- Works only under 10.5 (Mac OS X Leopard).
New in ArtSaver 1.6.3 (Feb 27, 2008)
- Compiled for Leopard.
- Improved handling of error messages, for instance, "Image gone: ..." is
- being displayed now for only 3 seconds.
- Improved the scanning for images "by hand", i.e., without using Spotlight.
- Version number in config sheet and info.plist