1. John Conners
   Administrator
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Version 3.1 is a release dedicated to bug fixing. A few crashes and bits of strange behaviour cropped up in 3.0 - including switching appearing to keep choosing the same pictures over and over in 'Select Pictures' and 'Monitor Folders' mode - and these have all been corrected.

   891: Make help file links to the website open in a new window
   Links to the home page within the help file now open in a new browser window rather than the current help window. This makes things less confusing.

   898: Don't show the Phanfare password in plain text
   The Phanfare password was previously shown in plain text so prying eyes could see it if it was on your screen. That is no longer the case.

   875: Crash when the connection times out in Yahoo! mode
   It was possible to crash JBS in Yahoo! mode if the connection timed out at one particular point. This has now been fixed and the unlucky few who came across the bug will no longer have to worry about it!

   886: Crash when switching when the switcher is already switching
   When the switcher is in the process of switching, it shouldn't be possible to kick off the switching process again. Apparently there was a bug allowing this to happen which caused a crash, which has now been fixed.

   900: Crash when swapping the current and previous backgrounds over
   At the point of swapping over the previous and current backgrounds (when in mosaic or montage mode) a virus-scanner could lock the files or folder which caused JBS to crash. Now it simply shows an error message instead.

   861: Crash when storing thumbnails in montage or mosaic mode
   The application would sometimes crash when storing the thumbnails for montage or mosaic backgrounds (which are used in the 'Browse All Pictures' dialog) as the file system would lock a folder it shouldn't have. This problem has now been corrected.

   868: Crash when saving the current background picture
   An over-zealous virus scanner can sometimes lock the current background picture on disk (or an over-zealous user could too I guess) and in this case, the background can't be changed. Rather than just pop up an error message, JBS was instead crashing - which it really didn't need to do. This has now been corrected.

   877: Crash when the disk is full and the background is about to be switched
   If your hard disk was full and the background was being switched, JBS would crash on you. Instead it now politely informs you what the problem is.

   889: Monitor folder mode is not as random as it should be
   Depending on how many folders you added to 'Monitor Folder' mode, you could get into a state where the same pictures would come up more often than not. This was due to a bug in the random selection algorithm and has now been corrected.

   887: The same pictures keep showing up no matter what settings you use
   If you used 'Select Pictures' or 'Monitor Folders' modes and pointed them at read-only files, you would find yourself continually getting the same pictures set as your background all the time. This problem has now been fixed.

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