Version 22.0.3 (to be released)

• Bundled Live Screensaver Creator 22.0.3

Version 22.0.2 (04 December 2022)

• Bundled Live Screensaver Creator 22.0.2

Version 22.0.1 (12 February 2022)

• Prevent screen saver appearing blurry when display scale greater than 100%
• Raised the maximum value of “Pause after image” and “Pause after movie” to 999 seconds
• Fixed newlines in text messages not being rendered
• Fixed sharing violation issue when using some videos
• Bundled Live Screensaver Creator 22.0.1

Version 22.0 (04 October 2021)

• Windows 11 support
• Bundled Live Screensaver Creator 22.0

Version 21.1 (22 August 2021)

• New option to create digitally signed screen saver (.scr) with separate data file (.dat)
• Fixed screen saver hanging when using some videos
• Windows XP and Vista are no longer supported

Version 21.0 (04 February 2021)

• Significantly faster creation of screen saver installation package (.exe)
• Removed Flash support since Adobe blocks it from running beginning 12 January 2021
• Display proper error message when screen saver is larger than 2 GB
• Cannot properly exit screen saver when having issue with video playback – fixed
• Bundled Live Screensaver Creator 21.0

Version 3.6.4 (14 December 2019)

• Properly align tab selection background in Standard and Professional editions
• Bundled Live Screensaver Creator 2.6.1

Version 3.6.3 (11 July 2019)

• Bundled proper version of Live Screensaver Creator 2.6

Version 3.6.2 (17 June 2019)

• Sometimes screen savers were crashing on exit – fixed

Version 3.6.1 (28 April 2019)

• Video screen saver sometimes hanging on multiple monitors – fixed
• Dynamic footer overwrites itself while playing video – fixed
• Multi-line text messages export sometimes does not create valid file – fixed
• Better handling of WM_CLOSE message

Version 3.6 (2 October 2018)

• User interface, icon and installation wizard image redesign
• Bundled Live Screensaver Creator 2.6

Version 3.5 (20 August 2018)

• Significant speed improvements
• Bundled Live Screensaver Creator 2.5

Version 3.4 (8 August 2017)

• Multi-language screen saver installation package support (25 languages included)
• Center crop media when “Original size” is set and “Random position” is unchecked
• Improved random order of elements
• More descriptive error messages when adding files
• Bundled Live Screensaver Creator 2.4

Version 3.3 (27 October 2016)

• Some monitors were not displaying screen saver in more than two monitors environment – fixed
• If unable to display screen saver on multiple monitors, display it on the primary monitor only
• Dual code signing support
• Bundled Live Screensaver Creator 2.3

Version 3.2 (3 October 2015)

• Windows® 10 support
• Smaller size of created screen savers
• Day of the week (##DDD and ##DDDD) in text messages shows day in advance – fixed
• Bundled Live Screensaver Creator 2.2

Version 3.1.4 (1 May 2014)

• Bundled Live Screensaver Creator 2.1.5

Version 3.1.3 (6 January 2014)

• Added screen saver installation package parameter /noicons to avoid creating icons
• Thick border on the bottom of the screen when “Use multiple monitors as independent displays” is unchecked – fixed
• Test button doesn’t work on some configurations – fixed
• Crash on computers having an older AMD processors – fixed
• Bundled Live Screensaver Creator 2.1.4

Version 3.1.2 (23 November 2013)

• Screen savers requiring HKEY-LOCAL-MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Licenses permission – fixed
• No sound in multi monitor environment – fixed
• Added explanation how to deploy .scr files
• Bundled Live Screensaver Creator 2.1.3

Version 3.1.1 (21 March 2013)

• Unable to create installer on some computers – fixed

Version 3.1 (16 March 2013)

• Completely changed screen saver installation procedure to prevent antivirus software false positives
• Faster movie and Flash playback
• Significantly improved screen saver testing speed
• Images are no longer converted to GIF and JPEG
• Fixed video random position not working correctly
• Fixed MIDI playback sometimes doesn’t work
• Unable to create screen savers having short filenames – fixed
• Flash player is no longer bundled with screen saver, but redirects to Adobe website
• Local OpenMP runtime library installation instead of system wide
• Bundled Live Screensaver Creator 2.1.1

Version 3.0.1 (15 September 2012)

• Transition effects were not working as designed

Version 3.0 (12 September 2012)

• Added Web component to create screensavers based on websites or keywords
• Windows® 8 support
• Significantly improved Flash video playback
• Added Fly in/out transition effects
• Adobe® Flash® Player 11.4 support
• Check for duplicates when adding Flash files
• Introducing multiple editions: Standard, Professional and Premium
• Removed Previous and Next buttons

Version 2.5 (7 July 2012)

• Added Fade transition effects
• Adobe® Flash® Player 11 support
• Full Microsoft ClearType™ support
• Added Make default button
• Fixed text flickering when effects are disabled
• Fixed text messages size in Display properties window preview
• Enabled scroll bar in text messages edit box
• Changed screen saver command line parameter /c to /qi
• Clicking on hyperlink doesn’t always launch the browser – fixed
• Not all project properties were loaded – fixed
• Small user interface improvements

Version 2.4.1 (4 February 2012)

• Some Flash animations not being played completely – fixed
• Special symbols not displayed when editing text messages – fixed
• Removed text messages limit
• Added double-click the text message to edit
• Changed default text messages character set to ANSI
• “Duration of last frame” now always behave as it should
• Changed default setting for Slide text effect to “To Right”
• First frame not shown when playing some Flash animations – fixed

Version 2.4 (30 October 2011)

• New ‘Effects’ tab to select transition effects
• Smoother transition and text effects
• New multi-monitor option: independent or extended mode
• New “Full screen” image and movie resizing option
• New option to control animated GIF duration
• Improved movie looping
• Improved animated GIF playback
• Improved look and feel of application
• Removed pause after movie playback
• Adobe® Flash® Player 10.3 support
• Fixed crash using background PNG, BMP, TGA or TIF image
• Skip saving background image which is not used
• Added error message when the file format is wrong
• Fixed blinking text when “No effect” is chosen
• Fixed crash importing text messages when the file name contains non-English letters
• Temporarily increase the MIDI volume if it’s mute
• Fixed crash when testing screen saver from the Flash tab
• Reverse order of added objects – fixed
• Not all project properties were saved – fixed
• Drag and drop not working – fixed
• Incorrect 12-hour time format at noon – fixed
• Non transparent background in animated GIF – fixed

Version 2.3 (28 April 2011)

• Windows® 7 support
• Windows Media Video (.wmv) support
• Adobe® Flash® Player 10 support
• Significantly improved movie playback
• Full multi-monitor support
• New screensaver distribution type: Archive containing Screen Saver (.zip)
• Improved Flash playback
• Showing number of files each multimedia tab contains
• Slide effects speed up
• Better random position of multimedia elements on the display
• Improved overall stability
• Displaying short file names in the list and the full path using tooltip
• Display command-line switches for screen saver using /help
• Disable adding an empty text message
• Showing “Display properties” window when setting screen saver as default
• “Show mouse cursor” option is enabled for all exit conditions
• Triggering system font smoothing – fixed
• Increasing temporary folder size when playing screen saver – fixed
• Screensaver crashes if link is attached – fixed
• Not properly working on Windows Vista – fixed
• Issues with non-English Windows locale – fixed
• “Exit condition” crash – fixed
• Crash when adding certain Flash files – fixed
• Double sound playback with certain Flash files – fixed
• Wrong Flash player version detection – fixed
• Crash when Flash player installation is refused – fixed
• Cannot play compressed AVI files – fixed
• AVI files freezing – fixed
• Crash when testing Flash screensaver and Flash player is not installed – fixed
• Crash when having “On mouse button” exit condition on registered version – fixed
• Crash when adding text with hyperlinks on registered version – fixed
• Animated GIF does not loop – fixed
• Footer overwritten by Flash animation – fixed
• Cannot install screen saver with specific files but test works – fixed
• Screen saver code signing works now

Version 2.2

• New transition effects
• Improved stability
• High CPU usage problem – fixed
• Working with footer text problems – fixed
• Flash player installation not working – fixed
• Movie background not working – fixed
• Screen saver containing one flash file Exit condition – fixed
• Control Panel/Display Properties/Screen Savers/Preview is working properly now
• Test and Make buttons are activated immediately after first project change
• Working with movies problems – fixed
• CMYK & CYY JPEG pictures are displayed ok now
• Footer font properties are correctly saved and used now
• Strange behavior of Exit condition – fixed
• Strikeout font style not working – fixed
• Add/Files of type/GIF Files shows .GIF files properly now
• System menu options – fixed
• “Buy now” button not working – fixed
• Targa (TGA) files are properly opened now
• Sometimes “double size” of image didn’t work
• Changed position of program icon to the first level of Start menu
• Movie background type setting as image background – fixed
• Fixed text messages across Flash animation leaving the trace
• Mute background sound during movie playback – fixed
• Blocking during MIDI playback – fixed
• Inaccessible application while opening Help file – fixed
• Added hyperlinks support (URLs are underlined and launch browser window on mouse click)
• Adobe® Flash® Player 7 support (performs up to eight times faster than its predecessors)
• Added import/export of text messages
• Added multi-monitor support
• Improved testing speed
• Pretty smaller size of generated screen savers
• Lower CPU usage of generated screen savers
• Fixed Flash background color, size and “Duration of last frame” problems
• Fixed few text messages bugs
• Fixed MIDI playback bug
• Fixed bug when some JPEG images displayed as color negatives.
• Footer font properties are correctly saved and used now.

Version 2.1

• Added footer (text, visible all the time, centered, at the bottom of the screen)
• Added “Exit condition” for choosing what type of activity stops screen saver execution
• Added “Show mouse cursor” option for displaying mouse cursor while screen saver running
• Improved installation process (uninstalling previous version, registry clean up)
• Added Windows® XP look & feel
• It is possible to create empty text message by entering space character now
• Added horizontal scroll when needed.
• Random background sound muting bug – fixed
• Fixed error when calculating free space
• Fixed bug with the style of text effects
• Fixed bug with movie resizing
• Fixed bug causing crash in Control Panel when using Flash generated screen saver
• Fixed bug with date and time text variables: $$HH$$MM is working now
• Fixed bug with relative paths

Version 2.01

• Added “Duration of last frame” slider for Flash animations
• Improved screen saver preview
• Improved playing of single Flash files
• Improved visualization of screen saver with text messages only
• Fixed bug with background sound during movie playback
• Fixed several bugs with text messages and effects
• Fixed bug saving projects made with previous versions

Version 2.0

• Added Macromedia Flash (SWF) file support.
• Animated GIFs are supported now.
• Added multi-line text support.
• Added image double size attribute.
• Added date and time text variables (e.g. $HH:$MM:$SS).
• Added slider for movies.
• Added Help file.
• Added random text effect.
• Added smart font properties handling for text.
• New defaults for images and movie: original size, random position and shuffle turned on.
• The process of creating test screen saver can now be stopped.
• Improved text effects duration control.
• Synchronize text with objects bug – fixed.
• Miscellaneous bug fixes.

Version 1.32

• Added synchronize text with objects feature.
• Improved sound playback.
• Fixed bug when first image does not appear in during transition effect.
• Fixed bug calling help file.
• Fixed random position bug.

Version 1.31

• Roll effects have been improved.
• All text effects have random position as default.
• Fixed bug when adding movies using “Add Supported Files” button.
• Fixed bug when closing screen saver.
• Fixed bug causing test screen saver working but mute sound.
• Fixed bug causing crash when using text effects.

Version 1.3

• “Flying Chars” text effect added.
• “Add Supported Files” button added, so it is possible to add all supported files at once.
• Background image and gradient support added.
• Graphical menu added.
• “Typewriter” text effect added.
• Fixed several bugs causing freezing and crash.
• Sound slider now works properly.

Version 1.2

• “Set as default screen saver” option added.
• Added “Duration of transition effects” control.
• Added fine control of image and movie resizing.
• “Tip of the Day” has been added.
• “Check for Updates” option has been added.
• “What’s New” has been added.
• Added screen saver size information in “Make” dialog.
• “Technical Support” option added.
• Self-installing screen savers now have /I switch providing quiet installation as Windows default screen saver.
• Added notification dialog after installation of generated screen saver.
• Paths to multimedia files are now relative (instead of absolute) to saved project position.
• Displaying sequence of elements has been improved.
• Removed registration information in configuration dialog of generated screen saver.
• Scrolling effects have been improved.
• Fixed Images/Add/File open bug with non-existing paths.

Version 1.1

• Renamed “Slide Show Pause” to “Pause between images”
• Renamed “Sound Pause” to “Pause between sounds”
• Sometimes test couldn’t be done due to temporary directory problems.
• Fixed crash on changing text effect previously set to “no effect”.
• Fixed Rundll32 error when closing the screen saver.

Version 1.0 (6 January 2002)

• First release