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4.3 (26 May 2009)

- fixed "flash backlight" option
- keep a backlight on if a device was locked
- sometimes default sound was played instead of the custom one
- added "Run at dismiss"  option to an "execute program" action
- improved accuracy of volume increasing while playing sond
- optimized "chimes" code
- now it is possible to automatically unlock a device when leaving "flight mode" by manually setting a PIN code in options
- windowless timer could not be deleted automatically
- windowsless notification did not stop LED blinking

4.2 (11 May 2009)

- Added ntp0.fau.de to the list of time servers
- Added option of changing today plugin height
- Lets clear autosnooze count after manual snooze
- Today plugin: fixed update of timers
- Fixed initial selection in snooze time selection dialog
- Fixed memory leak in screensaver
- Fixed notification dialog drawing
- Fixed: autosnooze event can mute sound of another event

4.1 (27 April 2009)

- Added missed support of gsm wav (default wince recording format)
- Optimization of slideshow memory comsuming
- Fixed error of clock in landscape mode
- Some UI fixes

4.0 (16 April 2009)

- A lot of fixes
- New skins added
- Time correction via atomic clock feature
- Redesing of panel selection
- Snooze support in timers
- New action "Change device volume/vibration"
- Added option to run a screensaver at system startup

3.9.6.3 (9 October 2008)

- Fixed audio quality
- Improved responsiveness of stopwatch buttons
- Added support of vibration to Samsung i900 PDA

3.9.6 (28 September 2008)

- New installer
- fixed Stop Timer action
- added new Clock skins
- fixed possible hang off after opening alarm/timer properties from today plugin
- Chronos should not show skipped alarm on today plugin

3.9.5 (2 September 2008)

- Fixed mp3 problem
- Updated Chinese traditional

3.9.4 (2 September 2008)

- Improved the today plugin, it is now a slider and can be controlled via buttons
- Compatibility with wm5torage, you can install Chronos on flash card an remove it and you will be notified about an alarm or timer
- Shortcuts for common actions - add alarm and so on
- Fixed vibration issue on Samsung devices

3.9.1 (11 August 2008)

- Fixed audio quality
- Fixed skipping an alarm from today plugin
- Indication of inactive alarms in today plugin menu

3.9 (9 August 2008)

- Updated today plugin
- Fixed sound on some devices
- Play random sound from folder feature
- Fixed force snooze
- "Skip next alarm" feature
- Fixed an alarm reliability issue

3.8 (25 April 2008)

- Fixed saving of alarms and timers
- Fixed infinite vibration when option "respect system sound state" is on
- stopwatch saves its state
- menu bar icons for notifications
- multiple autosnooze for alarms
- ability to edit an alarm snooze time
- added confirmation to a soft reset action
- fixes of today plugin
- support of AppToDate (http://www.modaco.com/content/apptodate/267363/apptodate-in-the-news/)

3.7.3 (2 April 2008)

- Fixed sound after snooze on ASUS (at least)
- Fixed notification after cold start
- Improved flash light function
- Decreased CPU usage while playing mp3/ogg
- Removed a message box while installing
- We should not start a screensaver while there are active notifications on the screen

3.7.2 (26 March 2008)

- Improved alarms reliability if CPU is oveloaded by other software
- Fixed saving stopwatch data
- Fixed notifications menu after turning device on from full off state
- Fixed size of days of week in landscape orientation

3.7.1 (20 March 2008)

- Dismiss with options "Force snooze" should immediately go to snooze without showing any dialogs
- Fixed "vibrate before sound" option - it should not start sound if we manually stopped an indication

3.7 (19 March 2008)

- Fixed vibration/LED issues on various devices
- Fixed Enable/disable WiFi actions
- Fixed hang ups on some devices
- Fixed a screensaver exceptions detection

- Improved compatibility with S2U2, Mort Player, Sakramento
- Added "Start a timer" action
- Updated Japanese, Spanish translations, added the Norwegian one
- Improved one hand navigation
- Improved notifications reliability

3.6 (28 January 2008)

- New design of alarm and timer dialogs
- Notification dialogs are able to bypass a password promt
- New "smart" mode of alarm notification dialog
- A today plugin!
- A LOT of bug fixes and optimizations
- More stable notifications
- Many new languages

3.5 (24 August 2007)

Localization:

fixed: Chinese Traditional and Turkish
fixed: Translation of system menu of properties in WM2005
added: New localization subsystem
added: Finnish, Swedish, Hebrew, Italian language

ALARMS:
fixed: Alarm autosnooze after 'Stop snooze'
fixed: very rarely alarms or timers could disappear

added: Improved days selector
added: if an alarm/timer name is not defined, use name of the current action
added: advanced notification dialog for 'hard to wake up' people

TIMERS:
fixed: Can't turn off autoclose option of timer
fixed: Do not activate SIP while marking a checkbox
added: A counter of 'self' next timer

SCREENSAVER:
fixed: sometimes slideshow shows a broken images
fixed: AV while loading a huge pictures
fixed: a screensaver exceptions
fixed: do not start a screensaver while talking
fixed: a screensaver driver uses much less CPU
fixed: gdi resources leaks in exceptions dialog
added: graphic routines was rewritten in assembler

CHIME:
fixed: chime and waking up on some devices
added: Indication of the hours by means of chime
added: New sounds chime1.ogg and chime2.ogg

ACTIONS:
added: Send an SMS and Change time zone actions
added: Turn on/off flight mode actions (pocket pc phone edition)
added: do not enable display if there is some action and the timer/alarm does not show event dialog

NOTIFICATIONS:
added: Delete 'zombi' notifications while repairing a notification queue
added: Do not vibrate on AC power option
added: The ability to record your own sounds

fixed: "cannot execute" problem
fixed: Playing WMA files on WM2006
fixed: Conversion of settings from 2.X versions
fixed: a registration module
fixed: improved one-hand navigation

added: today plugin

3.3 (16 January 2007)

fixed: French language
fixed: Assigned D-Pad and arrows keys have not worked in the system menu
added: One-hand navigation in properties
added: WM2005 style menu to all dialogs

3.2 (4 January 2007)

fixed: Alarm displays one minute earlier, but goes off at the selected time
fixed: Height of icon in options
fixed: Some translation errors

3.1 (30 December 2006)

fixed: alarms that have been set on 31 of December actually have been set on 1 of January
fixed: while using 'force snooze' option it was impossible to stop the alarm
fixed: increased accuracy of alarms

3.0 (29 December 2006)

MISC:
fixed: Chime intervals
fixed: days of week, fixed the day letters for some countries
fixed: Many resources and memory leaks
added: WMA support! (wmp10 required)
added: Optimized alarms and timers data storage
added: 'Auto repair notifications' option

changed: Dropped SH3 and MIPS targets, more effective code and decreased a size of installer

HARDWARE KEYS:
added: A new redesigned dialog for hardware keys assigning
added: Added action: 'Show context menu', 'Start/Pause timer', 'Enabled/disable alarm', 'Go to the next tab', 'Go to the previous tab'
fixed: After using hardwar button in Chronos it stops working in wince until soft reset (recorder button for example)

MENU:
added: Improved context menus for alarms and timers
added: A menu for soft keys in WM2005
added: 'Delayed screenshot' and 'Contact developer' menu items (wm2005)
added: An ability to copy an alarm and timer from its context menu

SCREENSAVER:
added: A screensaver - exceptions list, AC only option
added: A slideshow mode for screensaver, now you can view your favorite pictures
fixed: A screensaver locked an exe file, that prevents the Chronos from uninstalling/reinstalling

VIBRO & SOUND:
added: Sound and vibration settings have been moved to the alarm/timer properties to be accessed easier
added: A new better default sound
added: Do not vibrate on AC power
added: Do vibrate if we cannot initialize sound
fixed: Do not set the system volume to 100% if you use ascending volume mode
fixed: Vibrate if vibration is turned on, sound is turned off and vibro should vibrate during the sound

STOPWATCH:
fixed: A stopwatch when you press a Pause and turn defice off
fixed: in stopwatch, clear should also reset the display to 00:00:...
fixed: in stopwatch view - after beeing in alarms - when pressing D-pad it opens properties of the alarm selected in alarm's list (only if no other action is assigned explicitely)
fixed: centered a stopwatch label
added: "Keep device on" option for stopwatch
added: Combined start and stage stopwatch buttons
added: Enumeration of stopwatch data

ALARMS:
added: An autosnooze feature to alarms
added: 'Stop snooze' action to alarms context menu
fixed: correct range of snooze time in alarm properties dialog

TIMERS:
fixed: Add index to the name of each new timer
added: Added button 'Reset timer'
added: 'Restart timer' and 'Stop sequence' items to menu of a notification (WM2005)
added: "keep device on" feature for timers
added: "Autosnooze" option
removed: Second timers, it is replaced by 'Next timer' mechanism

NOTIFICATIONS:
added: Greately improved non system style notification dialogs. Now you can use an entire screen area.

fixed: Improved buttons of the notifications balloons for all languages
fixed: Improved notification setting code, it is as stable as possible now
fixed: Notifications has not been set up after reinstalling if we do not launch chronos
fixed: Finish chronos if a notifications does not show a notification dialog

POWER:
fixed: Do not sleep a device, turn it off after a notification
fixed: May turn off a device immediately after notification if device has been locked and turned on
added: Option 'Obey system power settings'

GUI:
fixed: An order of controls in several dialogs
fixed: Removed SIP button in main window
added: Ability to change dialog title height
added: A new nice icons theme
added: Increased speed of an options dialog loading
added: 'Bluetooth connectable' option to a 'bluetooth on' action
fixed: support landscape mode in graphical clock
fixed: the buttons have been optimized for landscape orientation

TRANSLATIONS:
added: French, Italian, Chineze, Chineze taiwan, German, Czech, Turkish, Portugues, Japanese and Polish languages of an interface

2.9.5 (10 June 2006)
added: Dannish translation, thanks to Stefan Borch! (PPC)

2.9.4 (6 June 2006)
fixed: repeating TIME_CHANGE notifications (harmless bug inroduced in 2.9.2) (All)

2.9.2 (2 June 2006)
fixed: Rewritten and optimized notification code. Bugs on some devices should go away. (All)
fixed: Bug introduced in 2.9 - alarm sound is always 'default' (All)

2.9 (24 May 2006)

added: Notifications can be controlled by softkeys on WM2005 (PPC)
added: Multi-language interface, English and Russian are supported, more can be added later (PPC)
added: Interface can be controlled by pocket pc buttons (PPC)
added: Treo smartphone compatibility, 240x240 screen support (PPC)
added: Advanced support of small screens - optional dialogs headers (PPC)
added: Support of QVGA, VGA displays and landscape mode (All)
added: Selection of a notification style (PPC)
fixed: Chime worked fine until an exception has been set that is between two days (All)
fixed: Option vibrate before sound have not worked properly (All)
fixed: Force snooze alarm bug (All)
Many cosmetic fixes and improvements.

2.8 (20 Jan. 2006)

fixed: removed annoying log files (PPC)
fixed: bug in timers initialization that may lead to improper work (All)
fixed: 'data abort' in clock visualization code (All)
fixed: extracting arrows info from bitmaps could produce AV (All)
fixed: could not stop vibration manually (PPC)
fixed: vibration off period (PPC)
added: updated sound playing engine

2.7  (16 Nov. 2005)

fixed: days of week, fixed selection of day (All)
fixed: days of week, selectin of control (SPV)
added: improved stopwatch timer (SPV)

2.62 (14 Nov. 2005)

fixed: days of week with some international settings (at least Italian) - sunday have not worked (All)
fixed: displaying days of week on Chinese/Japan/Korean Pocket PC (All)
fixed: could not disable LED while showing a notification (PPC)
fixed: removed beep sound from notification dialog (PPC)

2.61 (11 Nov. 2005)

fixed: Sound volume bug (All)
added: Icons for stopwatch buttons 'clear' and 'save' (PPC)
added: New exciting set of sounds (All)

2.6 (10 Nov. 2005)

added: Option 'Exit application on tap of the smart minimize button' (PPC)
added: Improved stopwatch - added graphical indicator, saving results to CSV (All)

2.5 (07 Nov. 2005)

fixed: Timer sound and vibro could not be stopped by 'close' button (PPC)
fixed: Template timer can disappear after restarting the Chronos (All)
fixed: Avoided flickering in a timer list (PPC)
changed: Improved font in lists of alarms and timers (PPC)

2.41 (25 Oct. 2005)

! Fixed 'Respect system sound volume' option on some devices
+ Added 'Reset timer' to a context menu of timer

2.4 (23 Oct. 2005)

! Fixed force snooze option (All)
! Fixed days of week option (All)
! Fixed high CPU usage on WM2003 (All)
+ Added support of devices with MIPS and SH3 processors (PPC)
+ Improved support of PPC2000
+ Added auto-close option (All)
+ Skins converted to PNG/ZIP format, decreased size (All)
+ Improved screensaver code (All)

2.32 (17 Sep. 2005)

! Fixed ascending volume bug (All)
! Fixed problem with uninstalling resources.dll (All)

2.31

! Fixed Hourly Chime (All)
! Temporarly disabled screensaver feature (SPV)
! Fixed vibration stopping in timers
+ More smooth volume ascending
+ Optimized vibration code (SPV)
+ Added buttons 1, 4, 5, 6 to add, start, stop, reset timer (SPV)
+ Added timer reset feature (SPV)
+ Inactive alarm warning (SPV)
+ Using button 1 to create alarms (SPV)
+ Added Exit menu (Button 'Back' also closes the Chronos) (SPV)

2.30

! GUI bug - more responsive interface (All)
! Fixed waking up on PPC2002 (PPC)
+ Chime quarterly, every half an hour, hourly (All)
+ Support of OGG files (All)
+ Using localised names of files for sound notifications (All)
+ OS style popups (PPC)
+ Settings button-link (PPC)
+ Colored lists of alarms and timers (PPC)
+ Flash light on iPaq (PPC)
+ Inactive alarm warning (PPC)

 
News

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