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[!] Important
[+] New
[-] Fixed error
[*] Changes
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Actual Title Buttons 6.2 (04.08.2010)
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[+] Support of regular expressions has been added for the Window Caption
criterion.
[+] Classic window snapping supports the "Snap to windows from inside" mode
(see the Window Snapping panel in the Options window).
[+] You can temporarily disable the classic snapping by pressing and holding
the Ctrl key.
[*] The Maximize to Desktop action now takes into account the work areas of
monitors, i.e. maximized windows do not cover (or hide under) the taskbars.
[*] New Align title button icons have been added for "left/right/top/bottom
only" alignment modes.
[-] Title buttons did not appear in MS Office 2010 applications.
[-] Title buttons interfered with the tabs dragging in Google Chrome under
Windows 7.
[-] At the high load on the system (with dozens of windows opened at once),
the program began to consume too much graphic resources under Windows 7 x64.
[-] Windows disappeared after maximizing to desktop if the primary monitor was
not leftmost.
[-] Window maximized to desktop shrank automatically to the primary monitor only
after the "deactivation-activation" cycle.
[-] Maximize to Desktop worked incorrect with MS Office 2007 applications.
[-] The Quick Settings dialog in some cases used wrong values while modifying
window's position.
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Actual Title Buttons 6.1 (03.06.2010)
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[+] The new Maximize to Desktop title button has been added.
[+] The ability to close a window by clicking its title bar is added.
[+] The button to invoke the Context Help in the Options window has been added.
[+] The ability to create specific window settings from the Windows Monitoring
Log window is added.
[*] Administrative tools (like Regedit, Event Viewer, etc.) are now extended
in Vista/7.
[*] Support of console windows under Windows 7 is improved.
[*] The default key combination for the Make Transparent window action has been
changed to Win+Y instead of Win+T because of a conflict with the Windows 7
reserved hotkey.
[*] Separate Configuration dialog opened for certain window settings
now displays the name of settings being edited.
[*] Monitors' ordinal numbers displayed in the lists of available displays now
match actual display device indexes shown when you press the "Identify"
button in the Windows Display Properties dialog.
[*] Maximize to Desktop action now performs correct maximization:
maximized window has no borders and it can't be dragged.
[*] The multi-selection editing mode is significantly accelerated for large
quantities of selected window settings.
[-] Title buttons were drawn incorrectly in windows using right-to-left
languages.
[-] Easy windows dragging/sizing did not work for 64-bit applications.
[-] The bug with empty custom tray/screen icon after restarting the application
is fixed.
[-] Maximize to Desktop action worked incorrectly for windows maximized via
regular Maximize button.
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Actual Title Buttons 6.0 (12.02.2010)
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[!] The console windows support is available on Windows 7.
[!] Checking for updates online by contacting Actual Tools website and
retrieving information about latest version available has been added.
The check process can be launched either automatically with the defined
period (daily, weekly, monthly) or manually by pressing the Check Now
button (see the "Check for Updates" group in the General Options panel).
[+] All executable files (including setups) are digitally signed.
[+] The option to prevent running the library from the %Temp% folder has been
added (see the "Run the library from the installation folder" option in the
"Control Center Options" group).
[+] The long-awaited Window Snapping feature has been added: when you drag or
resize a window with the mouse it can stick certain window border/corner to
- desktop/monitor border (from inside);
- other windows (from outside);
- grid with defined cell size.
To customize this feature, see the Window Snapping panel in
the Options window.
[+] The ability to drag window by holding the left mouse button anywhere within
window's interior while certain modifier keys are pressed (Ctrl+Win
by default) has been added.
[+] The ability to resize window by holding the right mouse button anywhere
within window's interior while certain modifier keys are pressed (Ctrl+Win by
default) has been added. You can enable/disable this feature and customize
the set of modifier keys in the Options window (select the new Triggers->Mouse
item to display the Mouse Options page).
[+] The set of advanced window actions to invoke via mouse clicks on standard
window parts (such as title bar, regular Minimize/Maximize/Close buttons,
etc.) has been extended - the following combinations have been added:
- minimize window by clicking the title bar (Win+RClick by default);
- minimize window to tray by clicking the title bar (Ctrl+RClick by
default);
- minimize window to screen by clicking the title bar (Ctrl+MClick by
default);
- roll window up by clicking the title bar (Shift+RClick by default);
- minimize window to tray by clicking the Minimize button (RClick by
default);
- minimize window to screen by clicking the Minimize button (MClick by
default);
- maximize window to desktop by clicking the Maximize button (RClick by
default);
- maximize window just horizontally by clicking the Maximize button
(Shift+RClick by default);
- maximize window just vertically by clicking the Maximize button
(Ctrl+RClick by default).
You can customize the default combinations in the Options window (select
the new Triggers->Mouse item to display the Mouse Options page).
[+] The Minimize to Screen action has been improved: now when you minimize
a window to screen, the icon will appear by default exactly under the mouse
pointer so that you can quickly restore window back or immediately drag
the icon anywhere you like. If you need to store certain icon's position on
the screen, you can enable the newly added "Save position" option.
[+] AltMin screen icons now snap to desktop borders and other windows.
[+] The option to select the click type (single or double) to restore
a window from the tray/screen icon has been added.
[+] The Transparency and Ghost features are available for console windows
on any version of Windows starting from Windows 2000 and up to Windows 7.
[+] The Cut to Clipboard title button has been added.
[+] Preview thumbnails are now shown over rolled up windows.
[+] The Aero Snap mode now supports the horizontal maximization: just drag
the left or right window border towards the corresponding monitor boundary
to make window fit monitor width.
[+] New hotkey combinations to suspend/resume the Control Center
(Ctrl+Alt+Num-/Ctrl+Alt+Num+ by default, respectively) have been added.
Please note that they are disabled by default.
[+] New hotkey combination to move a window to the previous monitor in a
multi-monitor environment (Win+Shift+/ by default) has been added.
[*] The Unhide submenu and hints over tray/screen icons now correctly display
the Unicode window captions.
[*] The "Custom Window Size" dialog is improved: it's initialized with
actual window dimensions for the first use and displays values for all
available measure units (pixels, percent of monitor/desktop).
[*] Tracking of window caption changes has been improved.
[-] The problem with the not responding Control Center while logging off is
fixed.
[-] Intermittent crashes of Control Center after reboot are fixed.
[-] The intermittent crashes of applications written in Visual Basic have been
fixed.
[-] Title buttons looked and placed incorrectly in non-standard screen DPIs
(e.g. if the "Large fonts" option was enabled).
[-] Aero Snap emulation didn't work for console windows when the
"Show window contents while dragging" system option was turned off.
[-] Switching maximized windows between monitors in Windows Classic
theme is fixed.
[-] When you make a window always-on-top via Quick Settings dialog it
does not get behind the window.
[-] The hotkey conflict with TextPad is fixed.
[-] The problem with title buttons in Mozilla applications (Firefox,
Thunderbird) maximized to desktop is fixed.
[-] After minimizing and then restoring Photoshop CS4 there was a redundant set
of title buttons.
[-] The bug with the blurred title buttons in Windows Explorer windows under
Vista Aero has been fixed.
[-] Crash of some programs (e.g. WinZip 14 Professional) when using system
menu commands has been fixed.
[-] Auto-restoration of some windows (like Acrobat Reader 8.1.2) which were
maximized using the Aero Snap works as expected now.
[-] Specifying more than 1000 pixels for window width/height in the
Quick Settings dialog no more led to window shrinking.
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Actual Title Buttons 5.4 (09.07.2009)
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[!] The core engine has been slightly improved: now startup actions
are applied to a window before it becomes visible so there will be
no annoying blinking when changing window's position/size upon its startup.
[!] The ability to invoke advanced window actions via system window menu
is added.
[+] The Windows 7 Aero Snap emulation is added. It allows you:
- auto-maximize a window by dragging it to the top edge of desktop;
- auto-restore a maximized window by starting drag it as any normal window;
- auto-span a window to the left/right half of desktop by dragging it
to the left/right edge of desktop correspondingly;
- auto-maximize a window just vertically while dragging its top/bottom edge
to the top/bottom edge of desktop correspondingly.
[+] Windows Thumbnails feature is added. Once enabled, it creates a small
preview copy for each running window (either visible or hidden) and displays
this preview as a visual tip in one of the following places:
- over Taskbar buttons;
- over AltMin screen icons;
- over Virtual Desktops Switcher buttons.
[-] Conflicts with the following products have been fixed:
- Microsoft NetMeeting
- NetOp Remote Control (Host)
- RAdmin Server
- Ad Muncher
- Calendar Magic
- Microsoft Flight Simulator X
[-] The bug is fixed: in full screen applications (like games) title buttons
were though invisible but still active and responded to mouse clicks.
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Actual Title Buttons 5.3 (31.03.2009)
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[+] The "Start Program" action is added: you can select a program or document
to be launched in a manner similar to defining regular Windows shortcuts and
then start it via special title button or system window menu command.
[+] Now you can quickly align a window by clicking the right mouse button on
window's border with the Ctrl key pressed.
[+] The Description field is added for Exclusions.
[*] The amount of consumed Windows graphics resources is decreased
significantly (this prevents the resource exhaustion when too many windows
stay open).
[*] Now you can switch on/off different ways of invoking the Quick Settings
dialog in the General panel of the Options window.
[*] Now you can customize hotkey groups for quick window alignment/stretching.
[*] The option to make additional title buttons Office 2007-like is added.
[*] Now hotkeys in active window work even if it has no title bar.
[*] Now Configuration windows remember their Maximized state between sessions.
[-] The bug in Configuration user interface with non-disappearing horizontal
scroll bar is fixed.
[-] Now the additional title buttons and system window menu items work
as expected in Windows Live Mail.
[-] Now console windows are correctly extended in the zero user session
on Windows XP SP3 and Windows 2003.
[-] The long unwanted pause, when closing console windows via Close
title button, is removed.
[-] The crash of Windows Vista Snipping Tool, when closing it, is fixed.
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Actual Title Buttons 5.2 (14.10.2008)
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[+] The new Quick Settings feature is added: now you can open for a certain
window the special dialog which gives access to most popular Actual Tools
features at once. Using this dialog, you can quickly set up window's
appearance (including its position, size, transparency, caption icon,
caption string, etc.).
You can invoke the Quick Settings dialog either clicking the
middle mouse button on desired window's title bar, pressing the special
hotkey (Win+Q by default) or via extra "Quick settings..." item in window's
system menu. To close this dialog, you can simply click anywhere
outside of it.
The important thing is that you can use this dialog even with windows that
have been excluded.
[*] Now the title buttons look fully native under Windows Vista Aero.
[*] Now you can cancel the changes of Target Window edit fields made with
the Window Finder by pressing the Escape key.
[*] Now the window settings commands (like "Modify applied settings", "Create
new specific settings", "Exclude this window") open the specially
designed light-weight Configuration dialog containing the subject settings
only.
[*] The overall stability is improved when running on Windows x64.
[-] The bug caused the Explorer crash when trying to delete files under
Windows Vista/2008 x64 is fixed.
[-] Now Total Commander refreshes its file lists as usual while being
pinned to desktop.
[-] No more crashes of NoteZilla when closing its Preferences dialog.
[-] Extra title buttons are again displayed correctly in the
title bar of IncrediMail XE.
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Actual Title Buttons 5.1 (15.05.2008)
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[+] Now you can edit multiple specific settings at once in the Configuration
Module (use Ctrl+ to select several items).
[+] Now you can specify a custom icon for a window minimized
either to the system tray or on the screen.
[+] The custom hotkeys for standard Windows "Minimize"/"Maximize" commands are
added (by default Win+/Win+ accordingly).
[+] The compatibility mode for moving maximized windows between monitors is
added: if you have troubles when trying to move a maximized window to
another monitor then try to activate this mode to fix the problems.
[-] Now extra title buttons don't appear in the fullscreen mode of
Microsoft Word 2003/2007.
[-] The compatibility with applications written in Visual Basic is improved
(in particular, with WorkCentrics and NCSS 2007).
[-] The bug is fixed: enabling the Command Prompt Windows Support
when Tiny Personal Firewall is running led to system crash.
[-] Now window size can exceed the size of a single monitor in multi-monitor
configurations when resizing window in pixels and the "Keep window within
the desktop boundaries after resizing" option is enabled.
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Actual Title Buttons 5.0 (16.01.2008)
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[!] The support for command prompt (or console/CMD/DOS) windows in Windows
2000/XP/2003/Vista is added.
[!] The full support on native 64-bit applications running on any Windows x64
platform is added.
[!] Now the Control Center automatically defines the order of specific
settings considering their preference rank (this order affects the process
of selecting a proper rule for a certain window). See the
"Principles of Operation -> Preference Rank" article in program's Help
for more information.
[+] There are added some predefined hotkeys (non-configurable yet)
for easy window alignment/stretching: now you can use the
Win+NumPad1..NumPad9 key combinations to quickly align a window to 9
predefined positions, and the Win+Ctrl+NumPad1..NumPad9 (except for
NumPad5) key combinations to quickly stretch a window to 8 predefined
directions. Note: NumLock must be turned on to make these hotkeys
operational.
[+] Now when you resize a window manually (either with a mouse or keyboard)
the tooltip is displayed showing the actual window size.
[+] Now it's possible to use almost any key when specifying a hotkey
combination.
[+] Now you can provide a custom skin path relative to
Actual Title Buttons's installation folder.
[+] Now it's possible to double-click an item in the list of "Copy Settings
from..." window to auto-select this item and close the window.
[+] Now it's possible to sort the list of specific settings and the list of
exclusions by clicking on their column headers.
[*] Both Control Center's and Configuration Module's memory consumption
is optimized.
[*] Now Align Window/Resize Window actions can be applied only if the target
window is in proper state: normal - for Align Window, normal or maximized -
for Resize Window. Otherwise, corresponding title buttons/window menu
commands are disabled.
[*] Now the "Enable logging" option can be turned on/off via tray icon's menu and
the log window is independent of the logging status so the log contents can
be viewed any time.
[*] The "Manage Window Settings" menu is renamed and slightly redesigned.
[*] The overall stability of "Send Configuration" commands is improved.
[-] The compatibility is improved with the following applications/windows:
- Windows Vista Start Menu user picture (doesn't turns black if transparent)
- Xfire 1.81 (now it correctly minimizes to tray)
[-] The constant CPU utilization by the Configuration Module application
is fixed.
[-] Crashes of Sysinternals Process Explorer and Microsoft IntelliPoint when
using the Window Finder are fixed.
[-] The bug caused sometimes the "green-filled" desktop appearance in
Vista Aero is fixed.
[-] The bug is fixed: title buttons were painted twice in Vista Aero
after restoring a window minimized to tray.
[-] The bug is fixed: title buttons appeared displaced in Windows Media Player
in Vista Aero.
[-] The custom skin drawing procedure is fixed: now it correctly handles the
fully transparent background.
[-] The bug caused "black windows" problem (e.g. with Windows Vista Sidebar)
is fixed.
[-] The "As before" option related to "Stay always-on-top" action is now
functional.
[-] The bug is fixed: when "Rolled up if inactive" and "Smooth Rollup" options
were enabled, dragging the rolled window led to "Roll Up" function's
disability.
[-] The bug is fixed: using the "Roll Up" hotkey along with "Smooth Rollup"
option enabled led to window's hang-up.
[-] The bug of absense of title buttons in Remote Desktop Client is fixed:
now extra buttons are correctly displayed when Remote Desktop Client is
launched in full-screen mode and then switched to window mode.
[-] Now the Resize Window action works as expected with PuTTY.
[-] Now Configuration window's status bar doesn't cut long hint strings.
[-] The incompatibility of the "Send Configuration -> Send to the Tech Support"
command and Microsoft Outlook is fixed.
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Actual Title Buttons 4.5 (20.06.2007)
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[!] Windows Monitoring Log tool is added into the Control Center. It allows
detecting newly appeared windows and check, which window rule has been
applied in each particular case. Now you can easily solve any configuration
ambiguities and detect properties of short-living windows (like tool tips,
popup menus etc.). Be careful using this feature: turned on it may slow down
your system!
[+] The ability to hide the mouse pointer, while it is floating over the
specific window, is added.
[+] The ability to copy settings from a selected window rule to others is added.
[+] The new hotkeys are added:
- "Reapply settings" action (Win+F5 by default)
- Configuration Module's launch (Win+C by default)
- "Unhide" submenu that shows the list of currently minimized/hidden
windows (Win+H by default)
[+] Now the hotkey status is displayed in the "Hotkeys" panel of the "Options"
window: when defining a new key combination, you can see, if the defined
combination is already in use with another application or assigned to
another action.
[+] The on-the-fly transparency setting is added: when right-clicking the
"Make Transparent" title button, the slider control appears instead of the
context menu with predefined values; while dragging this slider, the
transparency level is being changed immediately, thus allowing a quicker
and easier choice of desired appearance.
[+] When minimizing to screen, now you can make screen icons
semi-transparent.
[+] New title buttons are added: Copy to Clipboard, Paste from Clipboard.
[+] Now the balloon tip is shown over the Control Center's tray icon at first
start after the installation.
[+] Translation to the Dutch language is added (thanks to Onno Verschoor).
[*] The internal mechanism of hotkeys processing is significantly improved.
[*] The long-awaited improvement for permanent tray/screen icons is made: now
permanent icons behave like buttons in the Taskbar (i.e. active window is
minimized, inactive window is activated, minimized window is restored).
[*] The options structure is redesigned: new "Triggers" and "Actions" grouping
nodes are added.
[*] The "Hide Configuration Module while using Window Finder" option has been
moved from General to User Interface.
[*] "Custom Position" and "Custom Size" dialogs now display current window
position/size values in their captions.
[*] Title buttons appearance in Windows Vista is improved.
[-] The "orphaned title buttons" bug in Windows Vista is fixed:
sometimes title buttons used to get detached from their owner window and
stuck on the desktop.
[-] Compatibility conflicts are solved with:
- Quattro Pro X3 menus
- GrabIt internal windows
- MS Office XP CTFMON.EXE service
- X-NetStat application
[-] Now the "Configure..." item of Control Center tray icon's context menu
is displayed correctly in Windows Vista.
[-] Transparency effect conflicts are solved with:
- CDArtdisplay application
- Emerge Desktop application
- Windows Vista Start button
[-] The bug of the "minimize-to-screen" feature is fixed: sometimes screen
icons used to go out of visible area after minimization.
[-] Title buttons now work properly in PowerPoint 2007.
[-] Title buttons' behavior in Outlook 2007 is improved.
[-] Sometimes windows used to freeze in the rolled state and needed to be
resized manually instead of unrolling - now the Unroll function works always
as expected.
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Actual Title Buttons 4.4 (16.04.2007)
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[!] The long-awaited feature of "smart saving" is added: now only relevant
windows will re-apply their settings when the configuration has been saved.
[+] The long-awaited feature is added: now all the minimized windows can
be restored via "Unhide"/"Unhide All" items of Control Center's tray icon
context menu.
[+] The ability is added to adjust the font used by the Configuration Module
(refer to the "User Interface" property sheet in the "Options" window).
[+] The ability is added to turn on smooth transitions between different
transparency levels (refer to the "Make Transparent Action" property sheet
in the "Options" window).
[+] The ability is added to turn on the smooth rolling up/unrolling of windows
(refer to the "Roll Up Action" property sheet in the "Options" window).
[+] The ability is added for the "Send Configuration to Tech Support" main menu
command: if the automatic e-mail creation is failed then you can save the
archive with the configuration files somewhere to send it manually later.
[+] Translations to Brazilian Portuguese, Serbian (both Latin and Cyrillic) and
Polish languages are added.
[*] Run-time memory consumption is slightly reduced.
[*] All property sheets for window rule settings are significantly redesigned;
the new window rule features' Index panel is added.
[*] Now the Configuration Module remembers its main toolbars' placement and
column widths in most of list boxes.
[*] The transparency effect compatibility with Stardock WindowBlinds is
improved.
[*] The Resize Action Options property sheet is improved: now you can copy
items and adjust the height of Sizes list box.
[*] The "Unused Buttons" button (grouping button) is improved: now it takes the
icon and the tooltip of assigned function, if mouse-hovered.
[*] Now title buttons are displayed correctly when using Vista Transformation
Pack, XP Media Center Edition theme or some of StyleXP themes.
[-] The bug with Microsoft Project 2002/2003 is fixed.
[-] The bug with command shell extenders (like 4NT) is fixed.
[-] Transparency effect's conflict with Rainlendar 2, RocketDock, Samurize
and Y'z Shadow is fixed.
[-] The bug is fixed: XP Remote Desktop client was crashed if minimized to the
system tray, and then the configuration was saved.
[-] The bug is fixed: the Windows Vista Firewall with Advanced Security's GUI
was hung when the "New Rule..." button was pressed while running the Actual
Tools program.
[-] The bug is fixed: the Always-On-Top state wasn't correctly stored between
sessions when the "As before" option was selected.
[-] The bug is fixed: now title buttons work correctly in Excel 2007.
[-] The bug is fixed: now multiple instances of Excel 2003/2007 workbooks and
Acrobat 7 documents can be correctly minimized to the system tray.
[-] The bug is fixed: if in multi-monitor configuration some windows were placed
to a secondary display, and it was unplugged during the session then such
windows are moved automatically to the primary display.
[-] The bug with Microsoft Office Shortcut Bar's hang is fixed.
[-] Conflicts with Microsoft Office 2007 tool tips and popup menus are fixed.
[-] The bug is fixed: Mozilla applications (Firefox, Thunderbird) left their
taskbar entry if they were minimized to the system tray via the standard
Minimize button.
[-] The bug with VMware Workstation 5.5 crash while opening the Snapshot Manager
is fixed.
[-] The visual glitch is fixed when using the Tabbed Browsing plugin of
Windows Live! Toolbar.
[-] The bug is fixed: Eudora was crashed immediately at startup if there
any of extra Actual Tools buttons were added.
[-] The bug of incorrect window placement to a primary display while it's
resized on secondary display is fixed.
[-] The bug of adding a new rule to the empty Specific Windows list is fixed.
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Actual Title Buttons 4.3 (15.12.2006)
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[!] Since this release Actual Tools are fully compatible with Windows Vista.
[!] Now the title buttons are displayed correctly in Windows Vista (both in Aero
Basic and Aero 3D modes).
[!] Now all the configuration files are stored in user's profile (in the folder
like "%UserProfile%\Application Data\Actual Tools\Actual Window Manager").
[+] The new "Manage Window Settings" title button is added.
[+] The support of extra title buttons in Microsoft Excel 2007 and Microsoft
Word 2007 is added.
[*] Now the title buttons are displayed correctly for the non-standard sizes.
[*] The old known issue with the Lotus Notes client's crash at startup is fixed.
[*] The known issue with the Internet Explorer 7 crash while saving the
configuration is fixed.
[*] Now the Internet Explorer windows are correctly processed in Windows Vista.
[*] The issue with the Mozilla-based browsers' (like Firefox, Seamonkey etc.)
undesired focus switch is partially fixed (the issue still presents in
Win9x).
[*] The issue of the malfunction of drag-n-drop in the Opera browser is
fixed.
[*] The visual glitch of Windows Vista Sidebar widgets when they are made
transparent is fixed.
[*] The visual glitch of Stardock's ObjectDock is fixed.
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Actual Title Buttons 4.2 (10.10.2006)
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[!] The long-awaited feature is added: now the "Window caption" criterion
correctly detects windows which quickly change their captions at startup
(like Notepad, Internet Explorer, MS Word, MS Excel etc.).
[*] The "Manage Window Rule" submenu is renamed to "Manage Window Settings".
[+] The "Modify default settings" command is being included now into the "Manage
Window Settings" submenu if the "All Windows" settings were applied.
[+] The translations to German, French, Spanish and Ukrainian are added.
[+] Now you can suspend the ghost mode with the special hotkey pressed
(Ctrl+Shift by default).
[+] The support for the default Windows XP Media Center Edition visual theme is
added (the proper title button skin was contributed by Riza Bërbatovci).
[*] The skin naming system is changed: now when you select a theme for
Windows XP the program will use the proper skin automatically if it's present in the
"Skins" sub-folder.
[+] The special "grouping button" is added; it contains all the commands of
currently unused buttons.
[+] The blocking of the undesired self-activation for windows minimized to the
tray is added.
[*] The minimization of the modal dialogs is improved.
[*] The Move-to-Monitor action now works correctly with the maximized
windows.
[*] The Stretch Window action now remembers the previous sizes for the four
main directions independently.
[-] The bug with the blocked Move-to-Monitor hotkey is fixed.
[-] The bug with the neglect of options other than "keep aspect ratio" in the
"After Moving to Another Monitor" group is fixed.
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Actual Title Buttons 4.1 (01.08.2006)
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[+] Multi-monitor support: the new "Move to next monitor" title button is added.
[+] The ability to maximize window to desktop by the right-click on the standard
Maximize title button is added.
[+] The ability to stretch window by the right-click on its border is added.
[+] Currently assigned hotkey's display is added in the title buttons' tooltips.
[+] The translations into Japanese, Russian, Chinese Simplified and Chinese
Traditional are added.
[*] The work speed and overall stability were slightly improved.
[-] The bug with the internal windows of MS Visual Studio 2003/2005 is fixed.
[-] The minor visual glitch with the Excluded Windows list in the right pane is
fixed.
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Actual Title Buttons 4.0 (05.05.2006)
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[!] The Configuration Module's user interface is redesigned totally.
[!] Settings file size is significantly reduced comparing to the previous
versions.
[!] Executable modules' size and run-time memory consumption are slightly
reduced.
[!] The Help contents is redesigned almost from scratch.
[+] The Help system has become context-sensitive.
[+] Added the ability to copy window rules.
[+] Added the ability to customize an icon for a particular Specfic Window rule.
[+] Added the ability to automatically create the e-mail message with the
attached configuration file.
[+] Window Selector tool form now has the "Refresh" button.
[+] Window Selector's "Flash window" indication is improved: now it shows
the window border even for a covered windows and also flashes window's
taskbar button.
[+] "Create/Modify window rule" window menu option was transformed into
a submenu named "Manage Window Rule" which provides the following abilities
for a particular window:
- create a new/modify the existent Specific Window rule
- create an Excluded Window rule
- re-apply the window rule
[+] If a window was processed with the particular Specific Window rule the
"Modify window rule" window menu item now indicates this rule's name.
[+] Added the ability to customize some user interface's options (like toolbars'
buttons size).
[*] Now every new Specific Window rule is created using the All Windows rule as
a template.
[+] Added the "Restore to Defaults" command which resets a particular Specific
Window rule's options to All Windows rule's options.
[*] The correct scaling of the user interface forms is implemented when using
the non-standard screen DPIs.
[+] Added the ability to set the desired width/height values as a percent of
the corresponding desktop size.
[+] Window Finder internal tool was adapted for the detection of the
current window size and position.
[+] The ghost mode was separated from the transparency and now can be turned
on independently.
[+] Added the new title buttons items for the following actions:
Ghost, Change Priority.
[+] Added the indication of the current state for the following title buttons:
AltMin, Change Transparency, Align, Resize, Ghost, Change Priority.
[+] Added the skin support for the title buttons to fit them into the different
visual themes.
[+] Added the ability to change the order of title buttons' appearance.
[+] Added the ability to enable/disable all the extra title buttons for a
particular window rule.
[+] Added the ability to "freeze" the window stay-on-top state which
prevents the application from resetting this state.
[-] Fixed the bug with Windows Movie Maker: it had hung after stream capture was
started.
[-] Fixed the bug with Adobe Photoshop: the image window had lost the focus
after selecting any tool in the Tools panel.
[-] Fixed the bug with the Windows folders: if you close the rolled up
folder window then it will be restored with the incorrect size.
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Actual Title Buttons 3.8 (23.09.2005)
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[*] Fixed the bug: if minimized-to-tray application was
restored by self or other application and not through the tray icon, in
some programs icon remained in tray. To name just a few: Windows Task
Manager, TextPad, Microsoft Outlook.
[*] Work with almost all integer-valued entry fields has been simplified.
Now, one can start entering numbers from empty line and minus as a first
symbol in window position fields is possible.
[*] Options Dialog: the disappearance of hotkeys list when all flags are
disabled and all "Hotkey" values are set to "None" is fixed.
[-] Window Rule: "Window class" criterion's "Substring match" option has
been removed. Now the criterion's test is always made as checking a join of
"Window class" field's entered string into real window class name.
[*] Window system menu: the problem with incomplete activation of
Configuration Module when choosing command "Create/Modify Window Rule" was
finally solved.
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Actual Title Buttons 3.7 (02.08.2005)
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[-] Fixed the bug that caused blinking of the title buttons. Support of
visual themes in Windows XP for title buttons has also been improved.
[-] The "Resize Window" action have been improved. The new version restores
window sizes correctly. Also the program works fine with windows opened
full screen.
[-] Fixed the bug that didn't allow setting the previous level of
transparency correctly in Windows 2000.
[+] Added supports of RAdmin remote access windows.
[*] We have improved window class identification. Exact matching of the
entered window class with the real window class is no longer required.
[-] Fixed the bug that didn't allow the Configuration Module to restore
correctly when accessed through the "Create/Modify Window Rule"
command of the menu.
[-] Fixed the bugs in the contextual menu in the Configuration Module tree.
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Actual Title Buttons 3.6 (06.04.2005)
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[!] New way to create the custom options for specific windows.
The new item "Create Window Rule" is included in the system window menu
of all windows. With a right mouse click on the window title call a
menu and follow the item "Create Window Rule" to create a rule for this
window. The new rule will be created automatically and what is left is
to specify the actions which you would like to apply to this window.
[+] New option "Restore total visibility to the window" is added to
Resize Window action. It enables to enlarge the window without having
it partly hidden beyond the bottom right-hand corner of your desktop.
The window is automatically shifted in the top left-hand corner
direction and thus recovers entire visibility.
[+] New "Do not add icon to the tray" option is added to "Minimize to Tray"
action. This option is useful for windows that have their own tray
icons, such as Microsoft Outlook 2003, Windows Messenger and so on.
[*] Custom window rules are added in for the browsers Mozilla Firefox and
Opera. Moreover, some settings of already existing rules are modified.
[*] The interface of the program is slightly changed.
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Actual Title Buttons 3.5 (20.01.2005)
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[!] Windows Extension Engine is improved.
[+] Added "Hide Configuration Window when using the Window Finder
(gunsight) tool" option.
[+] Added "Enable All Rules" and "Disable All Rules" commands.
[+] Added context menu for Window Rules.
[+] Supports of MFC windows (window class like Afx:X:X:X:X:X)
[*] Memory usage and load speed optimization.
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Actual Title Buttons 3.0 (13.10.2004)
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[!] Hotkeys support: Now you can minimize programs to the system tray,
always keep them on top, roll up windows, make them semitransparent,
etc. by means only one keystroke combination. Such a possibility lets
you manage the same actions much quicker on condition of using
keyboard.
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Actual Title Buttons 2.8 (31.08.2004)
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[+] Added a "Resize Window" action. A Resize Window option lets you set
the size of any selected application window to have it always opened at
the size you want. A Resize Window tool is extremely useful for website
designers. They can quickly see how their web project looks like in
different resolutions by flicking through default window sizes or
setting any unique window size on their own.
[+] Added command line support.
[+] Added a "silent" installation option.
[+] Added Dutch language.
[*] Some interface features changed and added.
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Actual Title Buttons 2.7 (28.07.2004)
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[+] Added an "Align window" action. Now the user may get any application
window aligned with any of the 9 positions on the desktop: upper-left,
upper-central, upper-right, etc.
[+] Added a new "Temporarily stop program" option to a context menu.
[+] Now supports Mozilla FireFox and Netscape browser.
[*] Some small bugs were fixed.
[*] Some interface features changed and added.
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Actual Title Buttons 2.6 (26.05.2004)
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[+] Added tooltips for additional caption buttons.
[+] Added Danish and Russian languages.
[+] Added a description field for Window Rule.
[+] Added commands for moving windows' rules up and down, in order to make
them easier to find.
[*] Optimized memory usage and increased execution speed.
[*] Some interface features changed and added.
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Actual Title Buttons 2.5 (27.10.2003)
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[+] Added a context menu for the "Make Transparent" title button. Now you
can select a different transparency level for any window on the fly,
while it is open!
[+] Added a new "Send to Bottom" title button.
[+] Added a "Shift Buttons" option to use when adding title buttons.
This allows you to shift the buttons you add so they will not overlap
or hide the existing program buttons at the top margin of your program.
[+] Added a command for sorting windows rules by name, in order to make
the rules easier to find.
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Actual Title Buttons 2.0 (12.03.2003)
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[!] Added "Default Window Rule." The Default Window Rule now lets you
define and apply new options to ALL windows in your system. The
ability to apply different options to individual windows still
exists.
[+] Added a "Program" choice for applying individual
settings to selected windows.
[+] Added a dialog for choosing a window among existing windows to apply
individual settings.
[*] Improved Windows XP Visual Styles support for new title buttons.
[*] Replaced rollup/unroll engine with newer, faster engine.
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Actual Title Buttons 1.9 (12.03.2003)
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[+] Added a new "Rollup/Unroll Window" title button. Roll up windows so only
the title bars remain visible.
[+] Added a right-click context menu for tray icons with two commands:
Restore Window and Close Window.
[+] Added German language.
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Actual Title Buttons 1.8 (16.12.2002)
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[+] Added French and Turkish languages.
[-] Some small bugs were fixed.
[*] Some cosmetical changes in the user interface.
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Actual Title Buttons 1.7 (11.11.2002)
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[!] Added multilingual support.
[+] Added English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, Catalan and
Polish languages.
[*] Highly increase program's launching speed.
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Actual Title Buttons 1.6 (07.10.2002)
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[+] Added a "Make Transparent" title button.
[+] Added an option "Enable\disable tray icon".
[+] Added an option "Load at startup".
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Actual Title Buttons 1.5 (26.08.2002)
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[+] Added an option "Save state of Stay On Top" button and restore it at next
time.
[*] Improved windows enhancement techniques.
[*] Some interface features changed and added.
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Actual Title Buttons 1.4 (25.07.2002)
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[*] Improved windows enhancement techniques.
[*] Maintenance release.
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Actual Title Buttons 1.3 (17.06.2002)
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[!] Support of Unicode Windows (Windows Explorer, Internet Explorer, etc.).
[!] Support of MS-DOS prompt windows under Windows 95/98/ME.
[+] Added an option "Permanent tray icon".
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Actual Title Buttons 1.2 (26.05.2002)
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[+] Added a "Make Transparent" title button.
[+] Full support of Windows XP themes.
[*] Improved windows enhancement techniques.
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Actual Title Buttons 1.1 (14.05.2002)
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[+] Added an option "Use large icon" for a "Minimize to Desktop Edge" action
[*] Some interface features changed and added.
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Actual Title Buttons 1.0 (01.05.2002)
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[!] Initial Release
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