WimpWall v0.3
I've just put out an unexpected new version of WimpWall, my freeware wallpaper changer. It's unexpected because I had thought that my last release was feature complete, but after a number of requests from users I decided to add one little option.
It is now possible to turn off the countdown dialog preceding wallpaper changes. I won't use this option myself, because I prefer the ability to cancel a change if I particularly like the current wallpaper, but I appreciate that some people prefer the silent approach.
Although adding this to WimpWall was pleasantly straightforward, it did necessiate rewriting the settings parsing code. This is because I had assumed that, as mentioned before, v0.2 was feature complete, and the settings would never change. In v0.3 I had to add the countdown setting. Related to this, to cater for people upgrading from v0.2, I had to change from a hard-coded to a modular method of parsing. Fortunately, this means that any future unexpected changes will be easy to accommodate.
With this new release I also added polish to a couple of items, which you'd never notice, but make me feel better.
Comments
I love this program! I have adigital camera and all my images are stored on the PC and it is a joy to have long-forgotten memories on screen every day. Thanks.
Paul.
Posted by: Paul Darnell | March 4, 2005 5:12 PM
Thanks for the kind comments. It's good to hear that you are finding it useful.
Posted by: James Minchin | March 4, 2005 10:16 PM
This is a really great program, but it doesn`t seem to work. I have it set to 'Automatically run at start up', but each time my comp boots, I see the same wallpaper. I`m running Win XP. I can change the wallpapers manually by clicking the 'Change Wallpapers Now' button, but I can`t get them to change automatically.
Any ideas?
Posted by: David | March 29, 2005 3:39 PM