Release Notes

14/01/2012: v1.2u2

Bugfixes

• spurious variable clear warning removed
• was warning about plugin edit activities with icons instead of those without (oops)
• scenes shown as activities weren't completely filling background window with their background colour
• pre-ICS custom notification: adapt some text characterisics to system values
• text element: allow scrolling: was adopting wrong size sometimes
• state plugins passing variables: variables bundle wasn't being detected
• action Get Location: was allowing variable for timeout in UI but not handling on execution
• added text-received vars to dynamic list for selection
• selection dialogs for dynamic vars wasn't including user globals

Changes

• show scene: Dialog types: don't show any native decorations, window is totally transparent
• show scene: Blur Behind: not available on ICS, changed to Dim Behind Heavy
• post-ICS custom notification: use ICS-style layout, workaround for background bug

12/01/2012: v1.2u1

Additions

• action Show Scene: parameter 'show exit button'
• variable tab: updates in real time
• tip about TeslaLED when Torch is unavailable

Bugfixes

• removed spurious warning message after cloning task
• Variable Length was return variable instead of its length
• widgets with app icons: icons for some apps were not displaying
• scene element actions weren't allowing variable names
• scene names weren't allowing variable names
• cloning scenes: anonymous tasks weren't being duplicated
• profile properties: display conditions for some parameters were messed up
• HTTP Get: on ICS was always POSTing
• builtin scenes were getting bad button backgrounds when displayed
• scene edit: positioning/resizing elements: buttons weren't going to scene edge
• scene edit: opposite side was occasinally jumping during resize
• slider element: was crashing upon returning to scene edit
• oval element: border was filling whole shape instead of just edge
• menu scene crash, cause unknown, bit now caught and reported
• scene element event Stroke was not working without a Tap event also being set
• profile list, toggling enabled state, next touch on list was dragging items
• removed various sources of the warning 'getEntity: bad type: xxx'
• userguide help for slider element was missing
• Honeycomb 3.1+: newly-downloaded ipacks were not available for use even after reboot
• action: element back colour: was causing exception for some element types
• oval/rect element: userguide doc was corrupt
• rotating task edit view lost all changes made to the task (and sometimes put UI in a mess)

Changes

• Menu Element: item configuration: selecting Load/Kill app or Peform Task fills in app icon and label
• allow renaming of base project
• updated some es translations and main page of userguide
• ICS+: don't cache app icons for widgets (was a workaround for earlier Android bug)
• AccessibilityServer bind warning -> diagnostic
• Map Element: action Test (value): returns the current displayed coordinate if available in preference to the last set coordinate
• Popup Buttons: clicking text doesn't dismiss (but builtin scene can be changed to do that)
• Menu / Browse Profiles -> Menu / Browse Examples
• speeded up scene resize, don't resize too-big elements until resize finished

Removed

• Menu / Profile Data / tasker-profiles.de (site unmaintained)