Version 1.8

New Features

Changes

Bugs Fixed

Released on January 28, 2002

New Features

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Instant formatted message preview added to Channel Properties window ® 'Message Template' tab. Editing the message template will affect the preview immediately.
WatzNew will remember channel list scroll position and currently selected channel on next start.
Windows XP theming support added.
Icons to main menu and pop-up menus added.
WatzNew can snap itself to desktop edges now.
In Alert Window, you can use [Esc] keyboard button now to close the window, [Enter] to launch the default action or [Down] button to show the list of additional actions.
Almost any unicode punctuation symbols (&#XXXX; codes) are converted to corresponding symbols now. Other unicode symbols will now appear as middle dots.

Changes

WatzNew should now determine the default font charset properly depending on current system language settings.
Main window resizing is much more faster and smoother now.
WatzNew Documentation has main web site design now.
FAQ section to WatzNew Documentation has been added.
<TD> tags from the source HTML are converted to space now, not line breaks.
Please note that due to changes in HTML handling, WatzNew 1.8 can give false alerts the first time it updates some of your old version 1.7 channels. Once it updates them, it will work as usual.

Bugs Fixed

Problems with occasional freezing of the main window client area fixed.
WatzNew would freeze at uninstall — fixed.
WatzNew would stop checking channels after some socket errors — fixed.
WatzNew would render cell heights improperly when using non-default font sizes in scheme — fixed.
WatzNew would display some dialogs improperly with 'Large Fonts' system display setting turned on — fixed.
WatzNew Channel Wizard would allow creating folders with duplicate names — fixed.
Newly created channels won't have the default text message assigned until refreshed — fixed.
Under some circumstances, WatzNew won't validate action fields, allowing to create actions with wrong parameters — fixed.
WatzNew would ignore 'Invisible' property of actions — fixed.
'</p>' tags won't be removed from plain-text messages (when copying to clipboard or displaying them as tray popup hints — fixed.
Fixed a bug in installer when it would try to execute WatzNew on exit on some cases, even if WatzNew installation was aborted.
WatzNew would not allow to change text case in the channel's title, telling "The channel with such a name already exists" — fixed.
When testing search pattern in Channel Properties window, source HTML wouldn't be converted properly, thus resulting in false alert next time the channel was updated.