WALLMASTER PRO
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Welcome to the latest update of WallMaster Pro!

What's new in version 3.0a? (April 14, 2000)
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* New features and enhancements:
  - Improved and more user-friendly interface in the WallMaster
    Control Panel
  - HTML wallpaper support; now you can display web page, animation
    or movie on your desktop 
  - Now supports TIF images (uncompressed, LZW, CCITT, G3, G4)
  - New feature to let you specify a search path where WallMaster Pro
    will automatically search for new wallpapers on startup
  - Now you can play multiple sound files on wallpaper change
    e.g. "c:\windows\*.wav" (from the Options - General menu)
  - Removed "Enable Active Desktop support"
    WallMaster now detects Active Desktop setting automatically
    and will optimize the wallpaper changing when possible
  - Better screensaver detection (for Win98 and Win2000)
  - Allows you to disable hotkeys for certain events by selecting
    "<no hotkey>" from the Options - Hotkeys menu
  - Display long file name compressed (e.g. "...long file name.jpg")
  - All the source codes have been re-compiled with the latest
    Inprise Delphi 5

* Changes
  - Save the bitmap in WallMaster directory, instead of Windows
    directory, to avoid output error in NT
  - The showlist now uses "|" instead of "," to parse field names

* Fixed bug:
  - Fixed registry problem that caused the desktop icons are sometimes
    hidden on startup


What's new in version 2.7a (March 11, 1999)
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Please read the help file for complete information about the new
features introduced in this version since most of them are not visible
(work transparently).

* New exciting features and enhancements:
  - Multi-user support (allows multiple users keep their own wallpaper 
    settings separately from the other users)
  - Command-line support (useful for running from batch file or network)
  - Enable you to change the default WallMaster's icon as you like
  - Switch between safe/force mode in hiding the desktop icons
 
* Fixed bugs: 
  - Access violation error when clicking the tray icon (often happened 
    after deleting the last items on the showlist)
  - Fixed bug in the scan disk function that caused incompleted files scanning


What's new in version 2.5a (November 17, 1998)
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* New exciting features:
  - Produce high quality wallpaper with image resampling using 
    interpolation and averaging
  - Added supports for RLE-compressed BMP, Adobe Photoshop 3.0 (PSD), 
    WordPerfect Graphics (WPG), and Windows Metafile (WMF) graphics formats
  - Now with a built-in wallpaper editor, you can do basic editing of the 
    wallpaper easily (change color res, brightness, contrast, sharpen, 
    soften, emboss, filter, rotate, resize, and many more)
  - Allow you to convert your wallpaper format to other graphics formats 
    easily (BMP, JPG, GIF, PNG, TGA, PCX, PCD, PSD, WPG, and WMF)!
  - You can now print your nice wallpaper with just a few mouse clicks

* Some enhancements:
  - Much better and faster image decoding routine
  - Fully-integrated with Windows Explorer to ease you managing the wallpaper
    files from WallMaster Control Panel
  - Enhanced shuffle mode to prevent each wallpaper displayed twice
  - Added option "Recurse subdirectories" on the "Scan Disk..." dialog
  - Added option to copy the previewed wallpaper to the clipboard easily
  - Enhanced save showlist function 



What's new in version 2.0b (October 17, 1998)
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* New features and enhancements
  - Ability to suspend wallpaper change if screen saver is running
  - Make desktop icon text backgrounds transparent, allowing your wallpaper 
    to show through
  - Access Display Properties dialog quickly from the tray menu
  - Find current active wallpaper easily by pressing Ctrl+U on WallMaster 
    Control Panel

* Reduced memory usage and few minor bug fixes


What's new in version 2.0a (September 1, 1998)
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WallMaster Pro v2.0a is the commercial version of WallMaster and has many new
outstanding features and enhancements.

* New features     
  - Ability to set the timer to seconds, minutes, hours, and days!
  - Added "Move Files" feature beside the existing copy, delete, and rename 
    files capabilities
  - Added option to set default background color when adding new wallpapers 
    to the showlist
  - New context menu to change current wallpaper position on fly
  - New context menu to control your screen saver: activate screen saver and 
    enable/disable screen saver
  - New context menu to remove current wallpaper from showlist

* Some enhancements:
  - Reload menu now displays the current desktop wallpaper file name
  - Much better and faster "Scan Disk For Wallpapers" to scan your disk for 
    wallpaper files quickly
  - Added several new customizable hotkeys to activate screen saver, change 
    current wallpaper position, etc.
  - Prevent multiple instances of WallMaster Pro from being executed

* Bug fixed:
  - Sound file (in Options menu) doesn't work properly if using long file 
    name in the edit box


