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Fixed 'Invalid
Property Value' crash that could occur on the 'Agent Look & Feel' tab of
the Configuration dialog with some combinations of large font point sizes and
logos
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Corrected the update behaviour of the screen preview when
adjusting the 'screen width' slider on the 'Agent Position Control' tab of the
Configuration dialog in large jumps
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Corrected issue where colour picker on 'Agent Look & Feel'
tab of Configuration dialog stopped functioning once the 'Browse for Logo'
dialog (accessible from the same tab) had been shown, leading to new colour
selections being seemingly ignored
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Agent Maintenance Wizard (previously Deployment Wizard) now
increments failed deployments count as intended when Agent MSI copy fails due
to existing read-only Agent MSI on target
computer
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Agent Maintenance Wizard (previously Deployment Wizard) now shows
failure text in red consistently on grid view as
intended
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Corrected Agent launch command in Registry to specify debug
parameter as intended (either /debug or /nodebug, with no 'debug='
prefix)
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Fixed 'Invalid procedure call' error that could occur when the
Administrator attempted to refresh the status of the Sites while certain
prompts such as the 'Exit Ticker Tape?' confirmation was on
screen
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Corrected issue where a newly received Agent message was not
displayed as it was determined to be 'already expired' by the Agent under
certain scenarios and with certain regional date
settings
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'Please select the Sites to which this message applies' pane on
main Administrator interface no longer 'randomly' switches to show Sites 22-42
when Site status is refreshed when 'Message Send Confirmation' is on
screen
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Tooltips shown within 'Message currently active in each Site'
pane on Administrator now correctly indicates status of messages that have
just expired
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Loading of previously saved Site selections now functions as
expected rather than setting all to unselected under some
circumstances
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Administrator Tools / 'Upload data to
Ambersoftware...' no longer displays an error message during compression of
files if Message Log file doesn't exist (as no messages have been
sent)
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Each Site can now be assigned an Agent configuration profile,
allowing the 'Look & Feel' of an Agents' Message to differ per Site (Agent
configuration profiles are loaded and saved via the new 'File' menu on the
Configuration dialog)
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Agent Maintenance Wizard (previously Deployment Wizard) now
caters for Agent software to be uninstalled from computers as well as its
installation status to be checked
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Ticker Tape Agent no longer disallows multiple instances of
itself to run on the same computer - this opens up the possibility of running
two or more agents configured for different Sites, displaying different
messages with their look & feel (and position) controlled by the new
'Agent configuration profiles'
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Agent Maintenance Wizard now indicates where an Agent
installation failure occurs due to a Windows 'duplicate name on network' error
rather than just showing the associated error
number
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Administrator Tools menu now contains new options to export and
import the Administrator configuration settings, allowing configuration
backups to be taken and the Administrator configuration to be easily
transferred between machines
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Where a multi-monitor system is detected, the secondary mouse
click context menu on the Agent Message bar now allows you to choose which
specific monitor to display the message on
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Agent debug log file is now flushed to disk in near-real time,
ensuring it's contents are always accurate and reflect the latest Agent
status
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Active Directory Browser on the Agent Maintenance Wizard now
includes an option to additionally show system-related OUs that have been
previously filtered out by default
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Agent now automatically resumes scrolling if a new message
arrives and the user had previously paused the message
scrolling
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When deploying the Agent, the Agent Maintenance Wizard now includes an
extra option to attempt to start the Agent immediately after
installation
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Version number changed from 1.5.0 to
v1.5.1
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Deployment Wizard renamed to 'Agent Maintenance Wizard'
through-out to reflect additional exposed
functionality
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Miscellaneous spelling / grammar corrections as well as internal
HTML tidy-up to in-built Help
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Corrected spelling error on tool tip help for 'Don't show this
again' check box on Welcome dialog
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Image within the "What to do if the Agent isn't displaying
messages" help file topic updated to show correct manual install command
line
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Updated Help/About with additional contributors - thanks for your
feedback!
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Added a prompt to Ticker Tape Administrator on startup for the
user to take the Ticker Tape survey if they haven't already done so (shown
about 1 in every 10 launches only)
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Corrected capitalization on hint text shown on 'Messages' tab in
Configuration dialog
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Foreground and background colours shown in 'Messages currently
active in each Site' pane now reflects the actual colours in use by the active
Message itself rather than the currently defined default 'Information',
'Warning' or 'Critical' colours
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Added icons, hints and shortcut keys onto menu choices in
Administrator GUI
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Ticker Tape icon for both Administrator and Agent
altered
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Wording on Help / About screen altered
slightly
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Configuration dialog no longer offers to restart Ticker Tape
following changes; just advises that the changes will be active on the next
Ticker Tape Administrator launch
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Agent Maintenance Wizard now defaults the configuration of Agents
that it deploys to creating a debug log file (this behaviour can be overridden
in the Wizard if necessary, though that's not
recommended)
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Agent Maintenance Wizard now instructs the Agent MSI to create a
verbose, rather than standard, MSI installation log on the target computer(s)
and also includes the date and time of installation in the filename
(TickerTapeAgent-InstallLog-YYMMDD_HHMM.txt)
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Wording regarding Manual Agent installation on 'Sites' tab of
Configuration dialog altered to clarify that it relates to when the Agent
Maintenance Wizard isn't used
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Current Site name now shown in banner at top of 'Sites' tab in
Configuration dialog
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Altered the wording of the dynamically generated 'Sites without
an active message' choice on the Load Site choices
form
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Copyright date and minor grammatical error in license file
altered
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'--> Free-text' button on Message Log Viewer now disabled if
there's no prior messages to show
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After hovering over the Proposed Message on the main
Administrator interface, mouse pointer should default back to normal arrow
when moving away more consistently
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When an Agent message is already being displayed and a new
message arrives, the message now restarts at right-hand side of message bar,
rather than at the point where the old one was
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Tooltips added for Logo-related checkbox and other controls on
'Agent Look & Feel' tab of
Configuration
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Example Ticker
Tape Agent installation commands file is now rich, rather than plain,
text
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Corrected
License file to refer to Ticker Tape 'Sites' rather than 'Geographical
locations' as intended
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Proposed
message on Administrator now 'blinks' as the Agent would when paused rather
than remaining static
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Time the
proposed Agent message would expire is now also indicated on the Administrator
interface if appropriate
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Minor cosmetic
tweaks to log files / dialogs