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Console v1.5 Sep 2005 ===================== for Windows NT/2000/XP Copyright (C) 2001-2005 Marko Bozikovic This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA Send bug reports, bug fixes, enhancements, requests, flames, etc., and I'll try to keep a version up to date. I can be reached as follows: bozho@kset.org Console icon is Copyright (C) 2001-2005 by Ante Vukorepa (orcinus@kset.org) 1. Requirements =============== WinNT 4.0 SP4 or later (it won't work on Win9x/Me) IE 4.0 (or later) installed. 2. File list ============ console.exe FreeImage.dll FreeImagePlus.dll console.inf console.xml console_big.xml console_small.xml devel-changes.txt Readme.txt License.txt Tab Completition.reg FixedMedium*.fon TerminalMedium14.fon 3. Installation =============== Unzip Console.zip file somewhere :-) If you'd like to have "Console here" in the Explorer right-click menu for drives and directories, install console.inf file (right-click on console.inf and choose "Install") Remember to do it in the Console directory! 4. Uninstall ============ If you have installed console.inf (see "Installation" section), run "Add/Remove Programs" Control Panel applet and remove "Console Here Extension". Delete all the files. 5. Overview =========== Console is a Win console window enhancement. It was inspired by eConsole (http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~corion), a great console-enhancement program (unfortunately, it seems that it's no longer being developed) Console features include configurable font, color, size, background image and transparency (on Win2000 and later) Console is *not* a shell. It's simply a nice-looking front end for a shell of your choice (cmd.exe, 4NT, ksh, Cygwin bash, etc.) 6. Acknowledgements =================== A big thanks to Ante Vukorepa for the program icon. Also, big thanks to Alen Ladavac for help with painting optimizations. Many thanks to code contributors: - Francois Leblanc for mouse wheel messages patch - Daniel Soto for adding multiple monitors support - Dean Scarff for adding <inverse_shift> stuff - Adam Hodson for adding flat scrollbar support - Daniel Cheng for making Console window looking like a regular window when <taskbar_button> is set to 'tray' or 'hide' - Rob Davenport for config reload prompt patch and initial comments in the sample console.xml file Thanks also goes to all the people using and testing Console, reporting bugs and asking for new stuff :-) 7. Included fonts ================= The fonts included with Console are XFree86 'misc' fonts converted to TTF. I added them here, since Windows could use nicer console fonts. If you wish to use them, simply install them as you would any other TTF font (go to Control Panel -> Fonts and follow instructions :-) I guess these fonts are distributed under XFree86 licence, and if you think I'm in violation of any licence terms by providing these fonts, please drop me a line. 8. FreeImage library ==================== Console uses FreeImage library for background image loading and manipulations. Console source distribution includes only FreeImage library, include and DLL files. Complete source code for FreeImage can be obtained at: http://freeimage.sourceforge.net 9. Configuration & usage ======================== 9.1 Running Console ------------------- The first thing you might want to set is your COMSPEC environment variable, since that is the shell Console will start. Set it to your favorite shell (cmd.exe, 4nt.exe) Console command line syntax: console.exe [<config_file>] [OPTIONS] <config_file> is the path to the configuration file. If ommited, Console will try to locate console.xml configuration file in console.exe directory. If the path contains blanks, enclose it in double quotes. Options: -c <initial shell command> - sets initial shell command -t <window title> - sets default window title -r <config auto reload> - sets default new configuration auto-load flag You can pass initial shell command by using "-c" switch. If the command string contains blanks, enclose it in double quotes. If the command string itself contains double quotes, put two double quotes for each double quote appearing in the command string. E.g: console.exe console.xml -c "cd ""C:\Program Files""" Note: If you use cmd.exe as your shell, you must use /k switch in your command line string (4NT doesn't need the /k switch): console.exe console.xml -c "/k <command string>" -t switch specifies the default Console window title. Using the 'title' attribute in the config file will override this switch. -r switch specifies the default new configuration auto-reload flag. Possible values are: 'yes', 'no' and 'prompt'. 'prompt' is the default. Using 'reload_new_config' tag in the config file will override this switch. 9.2 Copy/Paste -------------- To copy text, press and hold shift+left click (or simply left click if Console is not mouse draggable) Drag to select text, and then left-click inside the selection to copy. Left-click outside the selection clears it. If you set copy_on_select tag to true, the selection will be copied immediately after releasing the mouse button. You can paste text into Console using shift+right click or middle click (you might want to disable middle-button click support for Console in your mouse drivers for better performance) Note: text selection and copy work for fixed-width fonts *only*. Use Lucida Console or the supplied fonts (if you have any nice looking free fixed width fonts, feel free to share them :-) 9.3 International characters ---------------------------- Console fully supports Unicode characters, so it should be able to handle all national characters, but there are some things to note: The font you use in Console must include international characters (this one is obvious, isn't it? :-) Supplied FixedMediumXX fonts don't include all of them. I have found some FixedMedium Unicode fonts, but I wasn't able to convert them from bdf to ttf format yet. Your best bet is using Lucida Console font supplied with Windows. After that, you have to configure the Windows console. Start Console and unhide Win console. By default, the Win console uses the Raster Font that doesn't have international characters. Open Win console properties and on the Fonts tab change the font to Lucida Console. Click OK and on the next small dialog select "Save properties for future windows with the same title" This will make Win console windows started by Console use Lucida Console font that has international characters. 9.4 Controlling Console from other applications ----------------------------------------------- Console can be controlled from other applications that support sending messages to application windows (e.g. PowerPro) Console can handle messages for its menu commands sent from other applications. The other application should send WM_COMMAND message (0x0111 in hex, or 273 decimal) to the main Console window, with wParam set to command ID, and lParam set to 0. Command IDs (decimal values) are: Show Readme.txt file...............40001 Show About dialog..................40002 Copy selected text.................40003 Paste from clipboard...............40004 Toggle 'always on top' status......40005 Toggle show/hide Windows console...40006 Edit configuration file............40008 Reload settings....................40009 Exit Console.......................40010 For selecting a configuration file, wParam should be between 1000 and 2000 (1000 being the first .XML file in the startup config file direcotry, files sorted by filename, ascending) 9.5 Maximizing Console window ----------------------------- Console window can be maximized by setting 'rows' and/or 'columns' of the <size> tag to 'max'. Maximum number of rows and/or columns is determined by both maximum Windows' console dimensions and maximum Console window size. The smaller will be used (since Windows console cannot be resized beyond desktop size) If the size of your Console window is limited by Windows console maximum size, you can choose a smaller font in Windows console properties. Note that increasing the number of rows and/or columns and reloading the settings can sometimes result in a corrupt output. I haven't found a solution for this yet, but it seems that restarting Console solves the problem. 9.6 Misc stuff -------------- Using left button double click you can toggle between z-order selected in the configuration file and "always on top" z-order. Right-click pops up a menu. You can copy/paste text from the menu, toggle 'always on top' and 'hide console' flags, work with configuration files. You can switch configuration files by selecting a file from 'Select configuration file' submenu (currently active configuration file is checked) and reloading configuration. Configuration files are enumerated from the initial configuration file's directory. You can drag-n-drop a file or directory to Console. If several files are dropped at once, they will be sent to Console, separated by spaces. Filenames that contain spaces will be enclosed in double quotes. The supplied .reg file is a registry file that will turn on file and directory name completion for cmd.exe (thanks to Rob 'insanitee' for the idea) To install it, just double-click on it, and click 'Yes'. You can map console font colors to custom values (see configuration section) Check out supplied console.xml for an example with default values. Color indexes for default colors are: 00 - Black 08 - Gray (bright black) 01 - Blue 09 - Bright blue 02 - Green 10 - Bright green 03 - Cyan 11 - Bright cyan 04 - Red 12 - Bright red 05 - Magenta 13 - Bright magenta 06 - Yellow 14 - Bright yellow 07 - White 15 - Bright white 10. Configuration file ====================== The console configuration file is a simple xml file. Here's a general layout of the configuration file: <?xml version="1.0"?> <console title="Da console" editor="metapad.exe" editor_params="/e %f"> <font> <size>8</size> <color r="255" g="255" b="255" /> <bold>false</bold> <italic>false</italic> <name>Lucida Console</name> </font> <position> <X>150</X> <Y>150</Y> <docked>bottom left</docked> <snap_distance>10</snap_distance> <z_order>regular</z_order> </position> <appearance> <hide_console>true</hide_console> <scrollbar> <style>flat</style> <color r="192" g="192" b="192" /> <width>10</width> <button_height>10</button_height> <thumb_height>120</thumb_height> </scrollbar> <border>false</border> <inside_border>1</inside_border> <taskbar_button>normal</taskbar_button> <size rows="10" columns="80" /> <transparency alpha="150">alpha</transparency> <background> <color r="10" g="30" b="30" /> <tint r="0" g="30" b="30" opacity="50" /> <image style="resize" relative="true" extend="false">2.bmp</image> </background> <cursor> <color r="255" g="255" b="255" /> <style>horizontal line</style> </cursor> </appearance> <behaviour> <mouse_drag>true</mouse_drag> <copy_on_select>true</copy_on_select> <inverse_shift>true</inverse_shift> <reload_new_config>prompt</reload_new_config> </behaviour> </console> If you ommit tags and/or attributes, default values will be used. Here are the tags and attributes: console ------- Description: root tag Parent: none Attributes: - title -> sets the console window title (default: console) - change_refresh -> change refresh interval (in ms) for window repaint (default: 50) It controls how long window repainting is delayed after a change has been detected in the real console. The minimum value for this setting is 5. Note that small values will increase CPU usage when console contents changes rapidly (like dumping a large text file on the console) - refresh -> sets main refresh interval (in ms) for window repaint (default: 500) Console window is periodically refresh even if there are no changes detected. This is needed for proper operation of some DOS programs (eg, RAR). You can switch this off (by setting it to 0) to reduce CPU usage, but some DOS programs will not be displayed correctly (if at all :-) - shell -> sets shell program, overriding COMSPEC environment variable (if you change this while Console is running, you'll have to restart it for chages to take effect) - editor -> specifies text editor that will be used to edit the configuration file (notepad.exe by default); if the program is not in your PATH, you'll need to specify the full path - editor_params -> specifies additional parameters to be passed to a text editor used to edit configuration file and view the Readme file; %f in editor_params will be replaced by the configuration/readme file name; if there's no %f in the editor_params, the configuration/readme file name will be concatenated to the editor_params string; if there are spaces in the filename, place " around %f ("%f") Data: none Note on 'change_refresh' and 'refresh' attributes: Console v1.4 introduced some window painting improvements, increasing the speed and reducing CPU usage. You might want to set these parameters much lower for better performance (something like 5-10 for 'change_refresh' and 100-200 for 'refresh') <font> ------ Description: Sets the font and its properties Parent: console Attributes: none Data: none <size> ------ Description: sets font size in points Parent: font Attributes: none Data: font size in points (default: 8) <bold> ------ Description: sets font's bold flag Parent: font Attributes: none Data: true/false (default: false) <italic> -------- Description: sets font's italic flag Parent: font Attributes: none Data: true/false (default: false) <color> ------- Description: sets font color Parent: font Attributes: - r -> 0-255, sets Red component (default: 0) - g -> 0-255, sets Green component (default: 0) - b -> 0-255, sets Blue component (default: 0) Data: none Note: if this tag is not present, Console will use font colors from the real console (useful if your shell, like 4NT, supports different coloring options) <colors> -------- Description: groups font color mapping tags Parent: font Attributes: none Data: none <color_XX> ---------- Description: maps color No. XX to a new color Parent: colors Attributes: - r -> 0-255, sets Red component (default: 0) - g -> 0-255, sets Green component (default: 0) - b -> 0-255, sets Blue component (default: 0) Data: none Note: XX goes from 00 to 15 (you may ommit colors you don't want to change) See 'Misc Stuff' section above for color indexes <name> ------ Description: sets font's name Parent: font Attributes: none Data: font name (default: Lucida Console) <position> ---------- Description: groups window position tags Parent: console Attributes: none Data: none <x> --- Description: sets initial window X coordinate Parent: position Attributes: none Data: X coordinate Note: Set to -1 to let the system place the Console window at startup <y> --- Description: sets initial window Y coordinate Parent: position Attributes: none Data: Y coordinate Note: Set to -1 to let the system place the Console window at startup <docked> -------- Description: sets initial window docking position Parent: position Attributes: none Data: docked position: none, bottom left, bottom right, top left, top right (default: none) <snap_distance> --------------- Description: sets window snap distance Parent: position Attributes: none Data: snap distance in pixels; use -1 for no snapping (default: 10) <z_order> --------- Description: sets window z ordering Parent: position Attributes: none Data: window z-order: regular, on top, on bottom (default: regular) <appearance> ------------ Description: groups window appearance tags Parent: console Attributes: none Data: none <hide_console> -------------- Description: sets real console window visibility Parent: appearance Attributes: none Data: true/false (default: true) <hide_console_timeout> ---------------------- Description: sets timeout for initial console hiding (during startup); some shells need real console window visible during startup in order to initialize properly Parent: appearance Attributes: none Data: timeout in milliseconds (default: 0) <start_minimized> ----------------- Description: sets initial 'minimized' status Parent: appearance Attributes: none Data: true/false (default: true) <scrollbar> ---------------- Description: groups scrollbar attributes (if visible) Parent: appearance Attributes: none Data: none <color> ------- Description: sets scrollbar background color Parent: scrollbar Attributes: - r -> 0-255, sets Red component (default: system default) - g -> 0-255, sets Green component (default: system default) - b -> 0-255, sets Blue component (default: system default) Data: none <style> ------- Description: sets scrollbar style Parent: scrollbar Attributes: none Data: scrollbar style: regular, flat, encarta (default: regular) Note: Other attributes will not be applied for regular scrollbars. This is a limitation I have introduced due to strange behaviour (bad redraws) I got on Win2k SP4 with Windowblinds 4.x <width> ------- Description: sets scrollbar width Parent: scrollbar Attributes: none Data: scrollbar width in pixels (default: system default) <button_height> --------------- Description: sets scrollbar arrow button height Parent: scrollbar Attributes: none Data: scrollbar arrow button height in pixels (default: system default) <thumb_height> -------------- Description: sets scrollbar thumb height Parent: scrollbar Attributes: none Data: scrollbar thumb height in pixels (default: system default) <border> -------- Description: sets visibility of window border Parent: appearance Attributes: none Data: none/regular/thin (default: none) <inside_border> --------------- Description: sets client area border in pixels (text is drawn a bit further from the window edge for a more 'relaxed' look) Parent: appearance Attributes: none Data: inside border in pixels (default: 0) <taskbar_button> ---------------- Description: controls Console taskbar button appearance Parent: appearance Attributes: none Data: normal, hide, tray (default: normal) Note: if you put Console icon in the sys tray, left-clicking on it will bring the Console window to the foreground, right-clicking will bring up the popup menu and left double click will hide/show the Console window <icon> ------ Description: sets custom program icon Parent: appearance Attributes: none Data: icon filename (full path) <size> ------ Description: sets number of console rows and columns Parent: appearance Attributes: - rows -> number of console rows or 'max' (default: 25) - columns -> number of console columns or 'max' (default: 80) - buffer_rows -> size of the text buffer (default: not used) Data: none <transparency> -------------- Description: sets window transparency Parent: appearance Attributes: - alpha -> sets the level of transparency when alpha transparency is used (0-255) - inactive_alpha -> if > 0 sets the transparency of the inactive window (useful for making Console window more transparent while in background) Data: transparency type: none, alpha, color key, fake (default: none) - alpha and color key transparencies are available on Win2000 and later only <background> ------------ Description: groups background tags Parent: appearance Attributes: none Data: none <color> ------- Description: sets background color (this color is used as color key if 'color key' transparency is used; set it to your real console background if you use background image) Parent: background Attributes: - r -> 0-255, sets Red component (default: 0) - g -> 0-255, sets Green component (default: 0) - b -> 0-255, sets Blue component (default: 0) Data: none <tint> ------ Description: sets tinting color and opacity Parent: background Attributes: - r -> 0-255, sets Red component (default: 0) - g -> 0-255, sets Green component (default: 0) - b -> 0-255, sets Blue component (default: 0) - opacity -> 0-100, sets tinting opacity, in % (default: 50) Data: none Note: Tinting can be applied only to background images and fake transparency. <image> ------- Description: sets background image Parent: background Attributes: - style -> resize/center/tile (default: resize) - relative -> true/false (default: false) - extend -> true/false (default: false); if set to true, the background image will be stretched to the entire virtual display covered by multiple monitors Data: image filename (complete path) <cursor> -------- Description: goups cursor settings Parent: appearance Attributes: none Data: none <color> ------- Description: sets cursor color Parent: cursor Attributes: - r -> 0-255, sets Red component (default: 0) - g -> 0-255, sets Green component (default: 0) - b -> 0-255, sets Blue component (default: 0) Data: none <style> ------- Description: sets cursor style Parent: cursor Attributes: none Data: cursor style: none, XTerm, block, noblink block, pulse block, bar, console, noblink line, horizontal line, vertical line, rect, noblink rect, pulse rect, fading block (default: console) <behavior>/<behaviour> ---------------------- Description: groups behavior tags Parent: console Attributes: none Data: none <mouse_drag> ------------ Description: sets 'mouse draggability' of the window Parent: behavior Attributes: none Data: true/false (default: true) <copy_on_select> ---------------- Description: sets 'copy-on-select' flag Parent: behavior Attributes: none Data: true/false (default: false) <inverse_shift> --------------- Description: inverts the use of shift for selecting/dragging (when mose drag is enabled) Parent: behavior Attributes: none Data: true/false (default: false) <reload_new_config> ------------------- Description: controls new configuration auto-loading; if set, overrides '-r' command-line option; otherwise, '-r' option value is used (default: prompt) Parent: behavior Attributes: none Data: yes/no/prompt (default: prompt) <disable_menu> -------------- Description: disables Console popup menu for the main window and the tray icon; the system menu is still available Parent: behavior Attributes: none Data: true/false (default: false) Have fun! 11. Known bugs and limitations ============================== Console will NOT run under Win9x/Me. It runs on WinNT, Win2000 and WinXP. If you use scrollable text buffer, and then resize the console by executing something like "mode con lines=50", you will lose the text buffer. This is a tradeoff, so that I could make programs like DOS RAR nad ncftp work properly with the text buffer. I have no idea how to make *both* of these work, but I'll keep on trying :-) You can get the text buffer back by reloading settings (you will keep the screen output in the new buffer) Paste does not work for some DOS programs (eg, QEdit, DOS RAR) Copy has not been implemented for variable fonts yet (and probably never will) There's a very rare crash when exiting some programs (happened to me when exiting ncftp on two occassions) This is so rare, I wasn't able to trap it... There's a strange window repaint bug when using some programs (e.g. less.exe from GnuWin32 packet) This bug occurs only in release build of Console, and not in debug version. I still haven't found the solution for this. Another paint bug occurs with FTE editor from SourceForge: Console doesn't show it. This one is also very puzzling... Tray icon uses 256 colors, and it looks ugly if you don't use WinXP, since Explorer under WinNT and Win2000 shows tray icons in 16 colors only. You can download patched explorer.exe (shows tray icons in 256 colors) from this URL: http://www.dr-hoiby.com/TrayIconIn256Color/index.html (I use it without problems under Win2k SP2) Increasing the number of rows and/or columns and reloading the settings can sometimes result in a corrupt output. I haven't found a solution for this yet, but it seems that restarting Console solves the problem. 12. ToDo ======== - fix bugs :-) - add more stuff to the context menu - ideas for new cursors are welcome 13. Version history =================== v1.5 - removed debug output from Release build (forgot to do it sometime in the past) - removed "resize" attribute from <image> tag under <background>; added "style" and "extend" atributes - fixed fake transparency and relative backgrounds for multiple monitors (I hope :-) - a fix for failed transparency when using fake transparency; only the color you set as the background color will be treated as the background color and painted transparently (before, Console was trying to guess the current background color, but that didn't work reliably with some programs like vim that seem to change background color while painting their screen) - tweaked background creation a bit - improved startup time for tinted backgrounds - added <hide_console_timeout> tag to the <appearance> tag; it contorls how long the Win console window will be visible (but minimized) during shell startup; some shells (like 4NT) need Win console window visible during initialization - window position is not changed when reloading settings - you can set initial X or Y position to -1 to let the system place the Console window at startup - if Console title is set to "", " - " is no longer displayed at the beginning of the window title - added a few more cursor types: "noblink block", "pulse block", "rect", "noblink rect", "noblink line" - copied text now has \r\n at the end of each row - added <start_minimized> tag to <appearance> tag; if set to true, Console will start minimized - Minimize option is now available if Console has visible taskbar button (used to be disabled for some configurations) - added <console_color> tag under <background> element that specifies console background color; this color will be replaced with the <color> color; this enables you to keep Windows' console background black (the least problems) and set your own background color for Console window - rows and columns of <size> tag can be set to 'max' to maximize the Console window; see chapter 9.5 for details v1.42 - reduced CPU usage for window repainting - proportional fonts work again (they got broken during optimizations) - mouse wheel scrolling looks better now - mouse whell messages are now redirected to console window (thanks to Francois Leblanc for submitting a patch) - fixed a small text selection bug (multiple selection rectangles could be drawn) - text can now be selected by left-click and drag if Console window is not mouse draggable - text can now be pasted by clicking the middle mouse button - added copy_on_select tag for X Windows style select/copy - fixed a text copy bug some people have reported - added a .reg file for activating file and directory name completion for cmd.exe (thanks to Rob 'insanitee' for the idea) - Console now supports Unicode characters - added the <inside_border> tag to <appearance> tag for setting client area border (text is drawn a bit further from the window edge for a more 'relaxed' look) - added a command line switch for console title (-t) - files and directories can now be drag-n-dropped to Console - Console window is sent to foreground at start now - finally fixed selection problems (they appeared when inside border size was greater than character width/height) - Console will now use cmd.exe as shell if no shell was specified in the config file and COMSPEC environment variable was not found - added support for custom program icons (<icon> tag under <appearance> tag) - console font colors can now be mapped to custom values - fixed "dead characters" handling (hopefully) - added support for non-truecolor bitmap backgrounds - new <behaviour> tag; moved <mouse_drag> and <copy_on_select> there, added <inverse_shift> tag that inverses SHIFT behaviour for selecting when mouse drag is enabled (thanks to Dean Scarff for contributing code) - Console window title set by -t command line option is no longer cleared after settings reload - added FreeImage library for image loading/manipulation stuff - added 'Edit configuration file' to the right-click menu. It will open a text editor of your choice (notepad by default) - added 'editor' attribute to <console> flag: used to specify text editor for the configuration file (default: notepad.exe) - fixed some GDI, handle and memory leaks - fixed a small clipboard bug (text copied from a console could not be pasted into the same console) - added flat scrollbar support (thanks to Adam Hodson for the code) - extended scrollbar supprot, added a new tag <scrollbar> for setting several scrollbar attributes - fixed a problem with custom icons (no custom icon was shown in the ALT-TAB menu) - Console window now looks like a regular window even when <taskbar_button> is set to 'hide' or 'tray'; clicking on the minimize button when Console shows tray icon minimizes the Console window to tray (single click on the tray icon to restore, double- clicking on the tray icon still works the same); Thanks to Daniel Cheng for the code - Console windows with hidden/tray taskbar option are no longer shown in the ALT-TAB menu (a bug introduced in b339) - added several things to the right-click menu: copy, paste, 'always on top' toggle and configuration file selection submenu - fixed keyboard layout switching - cleaned up and reorganized the code a bit - added 'Readme' option to the menus; it opens the Readme.txt file - added support for behavior/behaviour tag spelling (no, I will not add alternate spellings for 'color' tags and attributes :-) - a user is prompted for configuration reload when changing a configuration file (thanks to Rob Davenport for the patch) - fixed a small handle leak introduced in b340 (in config file enumeration) - fixed a memory leak when variable-width fonts were used - tweaked cursor drawing a bit (this fixed a bug with fading block cursor and variable-width fonts) - added <reload_new_config> under <behavior> tag and '-r' command-line option to control configuration auto-loading (when a new configuration file is selected from the popup menu); supported options: 'yes', 'no' and 'prompt'; default is 'prompt' - fixed a bug with non-animated cursor painting - configuration files submenu is now populated at startup, so the list can be used by external programs; it is still refreshed when opening the popup menu - fixed a small bug with custom icons (if the icon file is not found, the default icons are loaded) - fixed a background image bug: if a background image is not found, Console will use solid background - added some comments to the sample console.xml file; thanks to Rob Davenport for the initial comments - added 'editor_params' attribute to <console> tag; it can be used to pass additional parameters to a text editor used to edit configuration and view the Readme file - both Console window and the hidden Windows console window have the same titlebar text now, so Console titlebar text just copies whatever Windows console titlebar shows (i.e., currently running command), except when Windows console titlebar text is completely changed (in that case Win console titlebar text is concatenated to the default Console title) - improved files drag'n'drop handling; if several files are dropped at once, they will be sent to Console, separated by spaces; also, filenames that contain spaces will be enclosed in double quotes - added <disable_menu> tag to <behavior> tag; it disables the popup menu for main window and tray icon, system menu is still available - improved text selection (fixed some small bugs as well) - if the Console title was changed in the config file and settings were reloaded, it got broken; that's fixed now - back to old window titles; Windows console window has "Console Command Window" title again; this simplifies things and fixes some bugs v1.41 - fixed window repainting problem with a non-relative background image - fixed a painting problem with 'console' style cursor - fixed a crash after reloading settings when cursor style was changed to 'none' from something else - added multi-monitor support (without breaking WinNT compatibility, I hope :); many thanks to Daniel Soto (danisoto@users.sourceforge.net) for providing the code - minimize box is back! It got lost... Note that Console window will have minimize box only if its border is set to 'regular' and taskbar button to 'normal' - setting Console window title is now done only when a title text changes; this will, hopefully, fix a titlebar/taskbar flicker problem reported - improved copy code and fixed a little bug with 'jumpy' window when copying selection; note that copy behaviour is slightly different now: selection is copied when you release the left mouse button after clicking inside the selection v1.40 - speed improvements - background painting bugfixes - improved cursor drawing (now the previous position is erased) - text selection got a bit screwed up due to painting optimizations, fixed - added change_refresh attribute to <console> tag; it controls how long window repainting is delayed after a change is detected in the real console - improved window title handling - fixed a small reload bug (window repainting) v1.32 - fixed a console resizing bug (setting different number of columns) - improved screen refreshing (problematic ReadConsoleOutput function :-) - changed paste code a bit - better text selection redrawing (no more flicker) v1.31 - a small alpha transparency painting bugfix v1.30 - a small window sizing fix (with regular border) - window scrolling with background looks as it should now - changed 'stretch' attribute of 'image' node to 'resize' - added 'refresh' attribute to 'console' tag; it controls how often the console window redraws if there are no changes detected in the console; this timer is neccessary to ensure proper operation of some DOS programs (like RAR); this refresh timer can be switched off to reduce CPU usage, but some DOS programs will not be displayed correctly (if at all :-) - fixed Console crash if cursor style was set to 'none' - real console can have any background color; there was a problem with non-black console background and Console background image (please read instructions for background 'color' tag regarding background images) - added 'shell' attribute to 'console' node to override COMSPEC variable - improved window painting a bit - added background tinting for background images and fake transparency v1.20 - console resizing bug fixed (occurs when running some DOS apps, like RAR) - added console title as an option - added font color as an option - changed font options' layout a bit - taskbar_hide tag changed to taskbar_button tag - you can put Console icon to sys tray now if you left-click on it will bring the Console window to the foreground, right-clicking will bring up the popup menu and left double click will hide/show the Console window - added a scrollable text buffer as an option (use buffer_rows attribute in size tag) - added paste (shift+right click) - added copy: shift+left click and drag to select, left click inside the selection to copy, left click outside of the selection to clear it - current command is now displayed in the Console main window (if the titlebar is visible, of course :-) - problems with some combinations of window border and taskbar button when reloading settings have been solved v1.10 - changed border types: none, regular, thin (true and false are still accepted, and interpreted as regular and none, respectively) - if the window has a border (regular or thin) and mouse_drag is true, the window border is also mouse-draggable - added inactive_alpha attribute to transparency tag; if it's set to a value > 0, it sets the transparency of the window while it's inactive - you can toggle between configured z-order and "always on top" z-order with left double click - added "Reload settings" to the menu - some performance improvements - a new icon (hail and glory to Orcinus :-) - a new cursor: pulse rect - a new cursor: fading block -> alpha blended fading cursor! :) On WinNT it uses fake blend that's really useful only with solid backgrounds - fixed console cursor - added console.inf file that creates "Console Here" entry in the Explorer right-click menu - added "-c" command line option for sending an initial command to the shell - entries from the right-click menu are added to Console system menu (the one you get when you right-click on Console taskbar button) - if no configuration file is given in the cmd-line, Console will try to locate configuration file in console.exe directory, *not* in the current directory v1.0 - initial release