HomeVisionXL Beta Download

HomeVisionXL

Operating system	Version	Date	Size	File	Downloads
Linux	2.0b10	September 9, 2008	4232054	homevision	49
Windows	2.0b10	September 9, 2008	3264065	homevision.exe	399
Mac PPC	2.0b10	September 9, 2008	2914605	homevision.zip	6
Mac x86	2.0b10	September 9, 2008	2800358	homevision.zip	9

Changelog

Version 2.0b10 - 9 Sep 2008

• Add optional system tray icon (Windows only)
• Option to minimize to the system tray when closing the main window (Windows only)
• Add key bindings for Undo/Redo functions in the Action Editor
• Make all general resource file settings accessible from a plug-in
• Remove some obsolete code for unzipping help files
• Quick-editting of HomeVisionXL only commands produced bad results
• Execute X-10 off actions command was not flagged as HomeVisionXL only
• Fix typo in hvConfigFile open subcommand

Version 2.0b9 - 24 Aug 2008

• Redesign action editor
• Introduce quick-edit: Quickly change commands via the context menu
• Add tool tips to the action editor, showing current object values
• Allow commenting/uncommenting of multi-line selections
• Add undo/redo functionality to the Action Editor
• Update signals in an X-10 sequence instantaneously, without the need to click a "Change This Signal" button.
• Make tool bars on the Action Editor and Main screen user configurable
• Provide some more actions for users to add to the tool bars
• Add new hvConfigFile command to the plugin API
• Add menu with templates for serial commands on transmit string command
• Add menu with templates for directives to the comment edit screen
• Add optional confirmation dialog before termination of HomeVisionXL
• Automatically rescan for plug-ins after running the plug-in wizard
• Remember previously used serial commands on serial command test screen
• Update the appearance of the wait command entry screen
• Upgrade to Tcl 8.5.4
• Errors when accessing functions of a plug-in while a file selection dialog from the same plug-in is open
• Error when running a macro from the control screen: bad cell index "k,state"
• Stop messing with pwd when loading a plug-in
• The plug-in "center" command should not place a window's top bar off the screen
• Center the text on the toolbar buttons of the Help screen (Windows)
• Pressing Alt-I on the help screen to invoke the Index button didn't work
• Fix error when trying to enable a plug-in that has been deleted

Version 2.0b8 - 25 Jul 2008

• Give plug-ins the possibility to delay termination so they get a chance to clean up.
• Gracefully handle Command-Q on Mac
• Only record serial commands in the command history if they are non-empty and different from the previous command
• Improve the look of the control screen instruction labels
• Adding objects after reordering may cause error during download.
• Serial commands "read text file" and "read data file" were disabled if the controller connection was not a local serial port.
• Event hooks were not removed when a plug-in was disabled.
• Client should not send commands to the server if it is not connected to the homevision controller.
• Handle all kinds of errors that could occur when the homevision controller is not connected.
• Fix error when double clicking on a deleted object in the object usage viewer.
• Some actions of clients connected to the telnet server caused a HvXL error.
• Ctrl-U doesn't work when entering text for "Transmit ASCII string" command.

Version 2.0b7 - 8 Jun 2008

• During download all HomeVisionXL remote internet clients and servers should exhibit special behavior (suspend logging, disable terminal emulator output), if so configured.
• Give user the possibility to save the resource file on demand
• Automatically save the resource file on the server when a client has remotely opened a new schedule
• Fix error message after switching the interface type from "Remote Internet Host" to another type.
• Errors from disabled plug-ins were not handled correctly
• Display of "And" and "Or" could become incorrect when editing action code
• Error when running a macro and immediately closing the macro control screen

Version 2.0b6 - 16 May 2008

• Automatically scroll Messages window to the end when a new message comes in.
• Error when reading some schedules created with a previous version.
• It was not possible to change only the description of the main serial port.
• On the Timer command window the last part of "Hundreths" was clipped off.
• Text on button "Set Controller To Specific Time" only shown partly.
• Periodic event control screen should get sunrise/sunset time from controller when rescheduling events.
• The "start" trick described in the help page for the "run program" serial command doesn't work.
• Preserve case of the file name when sending schedules between remote internet client and server, if possible.
• Add easy method to synchronize the schedule on the remote internet server to the client.
• Action patching of input ports showed wrong port in window title
• Custom lighting object screen is not accessible after custom lighting has been setup by a plug-in
• Only enable the download button when connected to the controller
• If remote internet connection failed the file menu could get corrupted
• Error when trying to change the stat type of a thermostat zone

Versions 2.0b1 through 2.0b5 - 23 March 2008

• Fix tiny font in message windows.
• Error when saving schedule with .bak extension
• HvXL shuts down after 20 seconds without any error message
• Security system zone 0 name is displayed as "UNDEFINED !!!" in action code
• Using macro control screen changes "startup macro" configuration.
• Last Power Recovery value on Status Screen should be centered.
• Improve determination whether to save schedule as txt or pdf file
• Saving to pdf from schedule viewer changes font of titles
• Creating damaged PDF files
• Optionally include schedule notes when exporting to PDF.
• Correct tab behavior in schedule notes
• Automatically update control screens when objects change
• Experimental option to change mouse behavior for menus on linux
• Correct notebook tab background when Windows XP theme is set to classic.
• Speed up download over fast link by disabling terminal emulator output
• Options to show only command or condition details on object use screen
• Individually show/hide recognized serial commands
• When selecting multiple objects in reorder screen by dragging a box around them the window may scroll too far to the right.
• An object should not move when dragging and dropping it outside the window while reordering.
• Fix error message when closing reorder screen after dragging an object outside the window.
• Make Control-U binding work in object summary tables as well.
• File dialogs should use theme colors instead of their own hardcoded ones.
• Reorder Custom Light Extra data if it contains a homevision object number.
• Ask the user to update start-up macro setting if it has been moved during reordering.
• Only generate double-click event if the second click is on the same widget.
• Limit the amount of data in the controller messages screen to 500 lines
• Set the clock at 30 seconds after the time specified by the user to avoid scheduled events targeted at the time of the clock update to be skipped.
• Plug-in wizard creates a directory called --