Version history for VisualWget
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Changes for v2.3 - v2.4
- Auto Shutdown now not try to close the main form before performing action
- An option to auto start VisualWget at Windows logon
- Add way to set speed limit through right clicking the speed pane on the status bar
- Add hours to the basic scheduler
- Add option - No prompt when creating a new job externally
- Check and flush unsave settings to disk every 0.1 second
- Double click on job list item to open file with associated program
- [Bug fixed] Download speed cannot go over 1-2m per second on fast connection
- The ability to set UI font, especially a larger font size
- Autopaste URL from clipboard
- Job note
- Pre-define user agent
- New Multiple toolbar button
- Make all dialog resizable.
- Edit multiple jobs
- Better info on status bar, total jobs, total size
- Detecting clipboard
- Allow setting unit for the Size column, i.e., KB MB GB
- Remove IE Extension, replaced by clipboard detection
- Sound notification when download has been finished
- Downloads finished action Freezable & Cancelable options
Changes for v2.3 - v 2.4b4
- Auto Shutdown now not try to close the main form before performing action
- An option to auto start VisualWget at Windows logon
- Add way to set speed limit through right clicking the speed pane on the status bar
- Add hours to the basic scheduler
- Add option - No prompt when creating a new job externally
- Check and flush unsave settings to disk every 0.1 second
- Double click on job list item to open file with associated program
- [Bug fixed] Download speed cannot go over 1-2m per second on fast connection
- The ability to set UI font, especially a larger font size
- Autopaste URL from clipboard
- Job note
- Pre-define user agent
- New Multiple toolbar button
- Make all dialog resizable.
- Edit multiple jobs
- Better info on status bar, total jobs, total size
- Detecting clipboard
- Allow setting unit for the Size column, i.e., KB MB GB
- Remove IE Extension, replaced by clipboard detection
- Sound notification when download has been finished
- Downloads finished action Freezable & Cancelable options
Changes for v2.3 - v2.4b3
- Auto Shutdown now not try to close the main form before performing action
- An option to auto start VisualWget at Windows logon
- Add way to set speed limit through right clicking the speed pane on the status bar
- Add hours to the basic scheduler
- Add option - No prompt when creating a new job externally
- Check and flush unsave settings to disk every 0.1 second
- Double click on job list item to open file with associated program
- [Bug fixed] Download speed cannot go over 1-2m per second fast connection
- The ability to set UI font, especially a larger font size
- Autopaste URL from clipboard
- Job note
- Pre-define user agent
- New Multiple toolbar button
- Make all dialog resizable.
- Edit multiple jobs
- Better info on status bar, total jobs, total size
- Detecting clipboard
- Allow setting unit for the Size column, i.e., KB MB GB
- Remove IE Extension, replaced by clipboard detection
- Sound notification when download has been finished
Changes for v2.4b1 - v2.4b1u3
- Auto Shutdown now not try to close the main form before performing action
- An option to auto start VisualWget at Windows logon
- Add way to set speed limit through right clicking the speed pane on the status bar
- Add hours to the basic scheduler
- Add option - No prompt when creating a new job externally
- Check and flush unsave settings to disk every 0.1 second
- Double click on job list item to open file with associated program
- [Bug fixed] Download speed cannot go over 1-2m per second on fast connection
- The ability to set UI font, especially a larger font size
- Autopaste URL from clipboard
- Job note
- Pre-define user agent
- New Multiple toolbar button
- Make all dialog resizable.
- Edit multiple jobs
- Better info on status bar, total jobs, total size
- Detecting clipboard
- Allow setting unit for the Size column, i.e., KB MB GB
- Remove IE Extension, replaced by clipboard detection
- Sound notification when download has been finished
- Downloads finished action Freezable & Cancelable options
Changes for v2.3 - v2.4b1
- Auto Shutdown now not try to close the main form before performing action
- An option to auto start VisualWget at Windows logon
- Add way to set speed limit through right clicking the speed pane on the status bar
- Add hours to the basic scheduler
- Add option - No prompt when creating a new job externally
- Check and flush unsave settings to disk every 0.1 second
- Double click on job list item to open file with associated program
- [Bug fixed] Download speed cannot go over 1-2m per second on fast connection
- The ability to set UI font, especially a larger font size
- Autopaste URL from clipboard
- Job note
- Pre-define user agent
- New Multiple toolbar button
- Make all dialog resizable.
- Edit multiple jobs
- Better info on status bar, total jobs, total size
- Detecting clipboard
- Allow setting unit for the Size column, i.e., KB MB GB
- Remove IE Extension, replaced by clipboard detection
- Sound notification when download has been finished
- Downloads finished action Freezable & Cancelable options
Changes for v2.2.2 - v2.3
- HTTPS support.
- Chinese [Traditional] translation by Yang.
- Japanese translation by Tilt.
- Polish translation by RafaĆ Rakowicz.
- Spanish translation by Juan Diaz Quintanero.
Changes for v2.2.1 - v2.2.2
- German translation by Dennis Seid.
- [Bug fixed] Access denied to language files and wget.cfg when running as limited user.
Changes for v2.1 - v2.2.1
- VisualWget translation.
- Basic scheduler.
- Make it easier to specify proxy location.
Changes for v2.0.18 - v2.1
- Wget 1.11.4.
- Cleanup jobs.
- Export jobs as bacth file.
- Closing confirmation.
- Easier access to output-document option.
- New multiple jobs.
- Use RichTextBox for log to remove flicker.
- The new Check for Updates code.
- An option to auto remove a download once completed.
- Context menu for jobs list header to choose which columns are shown.
- Add 'Log Off' and 'Lock Computer' to the list of auto shutdown options.
Changes for v2.1a2r1 - v2.1a3
- Add 'Log Off' and 'Switch User' to the list of auto shutdown options.
- Change settings registry key and application data folder.
- Update resource files.
- Improve auto shutdown code.
- Use ansi character encoding in an exported batch file.
- [Bug fixed] Tray balloon tip timeout was incorrectly set to less than 10 seconds.
- [Bug fixed] Percent signs not properly escaped in an exported batch file.
Changes for v2.1a2 - v2.1a2r1
- [Bug fixed] 'Start all jobs' and 'Stop all jobs' not disabled properly when the main window is not visible.
Changes for v2.0.16 - v2.1a2
- An option to auto remove a download once completed.
- Context menu for jobs list header to choose which columns are shown.
- Change log font to Tahoma.
Changes for v2.0.17 - v2.0.18
- Change settings registry key and application data folder.
- The new Check for Updates code.
- Update resource files.
- Improve auto shutdown code.
- [Bug fixed] Tray balloon tip timeout was incorrectly set to less than 10 seconds.
- Remove the build number.
Changes for v2.0.16 - v2.0.17
- [Bug fixed] 'Start all jobs' and 'Stop all jobs' not disabled properly when the main window is not visible.
Changes for v2.0.15 - v2.0.16
- Only refresh log every 1 second to reduce flicker.
- Change log font to Tahoma.
Changes for v2.0.14 - v2.0.15
- [Bug fixed] Main window not hide immediately when get closed by an error loading wget.opt file.
Changes for v2.0.13 - v2.0.14
- [Bug fixed] Open Containing Folder can open the wrong folder in some case.
- [Bug fixed] Start all jobs and Stop all jobs now disabled when useless.
Changes for v2.0.12 - v2.0.13
- [Bug fixed] Main window not show itself when it is invisible and there is a MessageBox that need to be shown.
Changes for v2.0.11 - v2.0.12
- [Bug fixed] Main window will not be properly restored after being minimized to tray in some more cases.
Changes for v2.0.10 - v2.0.11
- [Bug fixed] Main window will not be properly restored after being minimized to tray in some cases.
Changes for v2.0.8 - v2.0.10
- [Bug fixed] Killed flag not set to true when job was started causing retry count to be incorrect.
Changes for v2.0.8 - v2.0.9
- [Bug fixed] The exception, "ContextMenu cannot be shown on an invisible control.", can get thrown when using MSVDM.
Changes for v2.0.7 - v2.0.8
- [Bug fixed] VisualWget supports only english language in the "Save files to:". (Thanks to fortunatestar)
Changes for v2.0.5 - v2.0.6
- Stopped jobs that wait for retrying are now count as running jobs.
- [Bug fixed] Context menu for jobs listview can getting displayed if right clicking the listview header when selected item count is non zero and the first item is not the top item.
- [Bug fixed] Retry count not set to zero when "Start all jobs" is selected from the system tray context menu.
- [Bug fixed] NullReferenceException get thrown when program start on 120 DPI display.
- [Bug fixed] Jobs that wait for retrying sometime not stop when stop command was chosen.
- [Bug fixed] ObjectDisposedException can sometime get thrown when VisualWget try to stop all jobs when "Stop all jobs" is selected or on application exit.
- [Bug fixed] InvalidOperationException can sometime get thrown when VisualWget try to stop a job but the job has already exited.
Changes for v2.0.4 - v2.0.5
- [Bug fixed] An IE extension can intercept a new download and send it to an already running instance of VisualWget that has executable path different from the one located in the same directory as an IE Extension when VisualWget is not running as a portable application.
- [Bug fixed] InvalidOperationException get thrown when VisualWget (not running as a portable application) try to save its settings while there are subkeys within "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VisualWget". (Thanks to Abezz)
Changes for v2.0.3 - v2.0.4
- Skip unnecessary saving when running as a portable application. Unnecessary saving can cause some delay especially when running as a portable application from a thumb drive or a floppy disk.
Changes for v2.0.2 - v2.0.3
- [Bug fixed] ArgumentNullException get thrown when the log pane is empty and "Copy All" is selected.
- [Bug fixed] Main window bounds are not properly restored from maximized state if its visible state get changed from invisible to visible while it is maximized.
Changes for v2.0.1 - v2.0.2
- Use socket instead of registry/file for interprocess communication between a new instance of VisualWget and an already running instance of itself.
- [Bug fixed] Setting that contain double quotation marks characters are not properly loaded when running VisualWget as a portable application.
Changes for v2.0 - v2.0.1
- [Bug fixed] When VisualWget window try to set itself as a foreground window and the foreground was locked by another application, VisualWget will stop responsing (in the background) for a while (approximately 16 seconds).
Changes for v2.0 Beta 4 Rev 3 - v2.0 Beta 4 Rev 4
- Option to check for updates automatically.
- MD5 and SHA1 Hash computation tools.
- VisualWget can now be run as a portable application.
- Better prevention of downloading same file at the same time which can lead to a garble file.
- [Bug fixed] Main window can sometime be unaccessible.
- [Bug fixed] IE Extension not accept a URL that match with the URL regular expression if more than one URL regular expressions were specified.
- [Bug fixed] Thousands of local tcp-connections are leaved in TIME_WAIT state. (Thanks to Ingo)
- [Bug fixed] UI not displayed correctly at 120 DPI.
- [Bug fixed] High CPU usage when a lot of jobs (1000+) are selected.
- Skins has been removed.
- Log pane has been removed.
Changes for v2.0 Beta 4 Rev 2 - v2.0 Beta 4 Rev 3
- New job with no options specified now use the Default Download Properties.
- [Bug fixed] Select or deselect a lot of jobs (1000+) at once consume a lot of time.
- [Bug fixed] IE Extension always fail to register if not already registered.
Changes for v2.0 Beta 4 Rev 1 - v2.0 Beta 4 Rev 2
- [Bug fixed] N/A not displayed immediately on program start when download size is zero.
- [Bug fixed] Info (name, size, done, log) not initialized after the job was edited.
- [Bug fixed] Setup Uninstaller does not unregister an IE Extension when perform update.
Changes for v2.0 Beta 4 - v2.0 Beta 4 Rev 1
- Option to check for updates.
- [Bug fixed] Done column still draw when the column is hide on Windows XP.
- [Bug fixed] CenterToParent AboutBox & AutoShutdownPrompt.
- [Bug fixed] AutoShutdown conflict with Retrying.
- [Bug fixed] SpeedHistory not clear when job restarted.
- [Bug fixed] Speed calculation.
