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Nimi Places 20161212 released

Nimi Places 20161212 addresses in batch erratic application behavior and performance issues.

Nimi Places 20161212 released.

After over three months since the last public build today we fin­ally release the lat­est build 20161212 of Nimi Places. In general it fixes numerous issues that could cause con­tain­ers ​and applica­tion erratic behavior along with addr­ess­ing various performance issues.

Nimi Places 20161212

  • Added automatic con­tainer ele­ment sorting.
  • Changed con­tainer items re-scaling to occur ​in painting interval.
  • Delay­ed con­tain­ers menu initial­ization.
  • Unified con­tain­ers painting with those painting while scrolling, as well as surface repainting.
  • Fixed ​and revised finding dis­play from coordinat­es.
  • Fixed ARGB color to integer con­version.
  • Fixed asynchronous con­tainer ele­ment opera­tions.
  • Fixed con­tainer cap­tion miss­ing.
  • Fixed con­tainer mouse clicking being processed twice ​on some condi­tions.
  • Fixed con­tainer non-shar­ed elements target path not being updat­ed upon renaming.
  • Fixed con­tainer scroll bar horizontal offset late initial­ization.
  • Fixed con­tain­ers asynchronous opera­tions locking order.
  • Fixed detec­tion of icon handlers.
  • Fixed dis­play­ing cue text ​in con­trols.
  • Fixed dynamic vari­able being used instead of static ​for con­tainer multi­ple selec­tion.
  • Fixed encoding estima­tion.
  • Fixed file ​and fold­ers rule checking.
  • Fixed file system opera­tions batch list crea­tion.
  • Fixed file system opera­tions ​on multi­ple files.
  • Fixed multi­media front end player playback swapping.
  • Fixed multi­media player front end interlocked opera­tions.
  • Fixed non-DPI aware variables being used ​for some elements draw­ing calcula­tions.
  • Fixed off-screen con­tainer elements not being repaint­ed upon re-scaling con­tainer ​and being ​in view.
  • Fixed open­ed windows counter miscounting ​on certa­in condi­tions.
  • Fixed opening files with no extension.
  • Fixed references swapping.
  • Fixed restoring focus to con­tainer after renaming ele­ment.
  • Fixed retrieving Internet Shortcuts properties crashing.
  • Fixed sand-boxed API queue.
  • Fixed saving primary home network interface IP reference.
  • Fixed scaling shar­ed thumbnails.
  • Fixed support ​for icons con­taining single entry.
  • Fixed theme resources not being scaled, when no visible elements were pre­sent.
  • Fixed time based condi­tions not being synchronized.
  • Fixed update settings not being shown correct­ly ​in updat­es dialog.
  • Remov­ed waiting until scrolling ends ​for drop opera­tions.
  • Improv­ed high-DPI support.
  • Improv­ed interlocked opera­tions.
  • Improv­ed newer ​and older operational systems support.
  • Optimized clearing caches when need­ed upon upgrading.
  • Optimized con­tainer keyboard input process­ing.
  • Optimized database batch removal queries.
  • Optimized database saving.
  • Optimized file system opera­tions asynchronous process­ing.
  • Reduced embedd­ed applica­tion icon bit depth.
  • Revised applica­tion initial­ization (license agree­ment checking stage).
  • Revised collec­tions.
  • Revised con­current con­tainer opera­tions.
  • Revised con­tainer ele­ment renaming.
  • Revised con­tainer ele­ment sorting.
  • Revised con­tainer elements batch painting.
  • Revised con­tainer menu.
  • Revised con­tainer themes calcula­tions.
  • Revised con­tain­ers dragging cursor.
  • Revised con­tain­ers elements collec­tion.
  • Revised con­tain­ers elements images ​and text blocks handling.
  • Revised con­tain­ers elements locking.
  • Revised con­tain­ers locking.
  • Revised con­text menu icons genera­tion.
  • Revised en-framing images.
  • Revised error handling.
  • Revised file-system IO front end.
  • Revised handling tasks with cool down.
  • Revised hour span selector scaling support.
  • Revised icons handling.
  • Revised multi­media front end.
  • Revised multi­media player front end full screen toggling.
  • Revised resources indexing.
  • Revised retrieving cursor posi­tion ​for con­text menus.
  • Revised sorting dialog.
  • Revised timed tasks.
  • Revised typography calcula­tions.
  • Revised windows initial­ization sequence.
  • Other changes, fixes ​and updat­es.

Mentioned projects

Nimi Places
Organizes desktop into con­tain­ers, dis­play­ing files ​and fold­ers.