Release Notes for Quick Mixer 1.4.0 - 1.7.2

NEW! (in ver. 1.4.0) If you have an on/off check-box located in 'Other Controls' when you press the "Advanced" button of the Windows Volume Control (SNDVOL32.EXE), Quick Mixer will give you access to the first one on the list. This is usually something like "3D Stereo Enhancement" or "Digital Audio Only". If you have this, it will appear as Advanced Control #1 on Quick Mixer's menu and will be checked when turned on. You can also toggle this using the F12 key, or by clicking the small special-control-box on the master-volume device-icon. The special-control-box is green when this is on and red when it is off.

NEW! (in ver. 1.5.0) Quick Mixer can now display all of it's menu and other text in any language which can be displayed with the 'MS Sans Serif' font! But, you'll have to teach it your lingo! Just edit the 'Multi Language Support file', and rename it LANGUAGE.TXT. This file must be in the same folder with Quick Mixer's program file (MIXER.EXE). See the file itself, for further, and very strict, instructions... If you translate this file to another language, please send a copy to nave@neo.rr.com so he can distribute it with Quick Mixer. -- Thanks! (Look for multi-language support file in the LANGUAGES.ZIP file)

Release 1.5.1 is just a minor revision to allow key-board shortcuts in the LANGUAGE.TXT file. 1.5.1 also contains a very minor cosmetic improvement in the special-control-box.

Release 1.5.2 just fixes a problem with the tool-windows forgetting their second language while using multi-language support.

Release 1.5.3 fixes a problem which was causing Quick Mixer to crash in extremely rare circumstances. Much thanks to Danny Vergauwe of Belgium for his infinite patience and excellent technical skills -- without which I'd never been able to solve this problem! 1.5.3 also re-locates the special-control-box to a better place, the master-volume device-icon which is really where it should have been to start with. It also makes this bigger so it easier to click. You'll only see this if your sound-card supports it. (See 1.4.0 release notes, above.) 1.5.3 also adds Dutch, Romanian, and Serbian translations! Thanks once again to Danny Vergauwe of Belgium for the Dutch translation. And, a special thanks to Milan Cekic of Yugoslovia for the excellent Serbian translation -- nice job! Also, special thanks to Alex Mihaila of Romania for the excellent Romanian translation -- very nice work as well!

Release 1.5.4 fixes several problems: In the previous versions, if the menu was obtained by right-clicking the tray-icon while the mixer was hidden and then the user right-clicked a menu-item, Quick Mixer would crash, but only under Windows 98... A somewhat obscure bug, but it has been corrected and it was tougher than I thought it would be to do so. :) A kind user, who is also an experienced programmer, pointed out that Quick Mixer was using a very large percentage of his processing resources! After just a quick look at 'System Monitor' in Windows '98, I had to agree. Quick Mixer was using a ridiculously high percentage of processing resources! I've made several modifications which are transparent to the user but drastically reduce the usage of processing capacity! While Quick Mixer is visible but at rest, it now uses about 3% (on average) of my processing resources according to tests I've run with the simple 'System Monitor' tool and taking into account all other processor overhead. (Of course, this number will vary on your computer due to a number of factors.) And, when Quick Mixer is hidden, it now performs almost no processing at all, at least I can't measure any taking place! So, even though you won't notice any visible changes in this release, Quick Mixer has been improved greatly and, once again, this resulted from a user being kind enough to write with his concerns. So, please, if you find any problem with Quick Mixer, don't hesitate to write! -- nave@neo.rr.com (Evan Edwards)

Release 1.5.5 fixes the tray-icon not changing status from black to red and vice-versa when the mixer is hidden. This updates very quickly now when mute is clicked on the menu from the tray, but to further reduce processing requirements, the tray icon may take up to 5 seconds to react if the mixer is hidden and the master-mute status is changed by some external means or another instance of Quick Mixer. (You can run as many instances as your machine can handle, but only the last one you close will remember it's settings.) Also, the mute butons react to clicking much more quickly when the mixer is visible and there is no delay to the mute buttons acting after the mixer is restored from the hidden state. None of these various speed-ups are made at any expense to the processing savings enacted in version 1.5.4! Quick mixer is at it's very best, so far, with this release!

Release 1.6.0 is full of good things! Some more GUI speed-ups for better responsiveness to control changes. Intelligent form sizing has been implemented! Quick Mixer will go into and out of Single Slider Mode just by resizing the form horizontally far enough either way! Since this is what you're trying to do anyway, Quick Mixer will just do it for you. Also when you use the menu or the tool-window to turn Single Slider Mode on or off, the form is automatically resized. The form is also prevented from being resized too small to function properly. I added quite a few contol-keys this time around (see the list above), there are now keys for just about every function!

Release 1.7.0 adds audio-profiles to Quick Mixer! You'll find them on the Advanced Settings menu...

Release 1.7.1 corrects a problem with Quick Mixer not remembering to start in Single Slider Mode when it was shut-down in Single Slider Mode. This problem was caused by revision 1.6.0 and is now corrected. This release also moves the QMIXER.INI file from the C: root to the QMIXER folder.

Release 1.7.2 corrects a problem that could cause Quick Mixer to crash if an audio profile is saved with the first charachter of the name being a number. Quick Mixer will now insert an underscore if a profile name starts with a number. If you are presently getting a crash when you open the Audio Profiles dialog, simply delete the QMixer.ini file. This release will keep the audio profiles located in the ini file from being corrupted again.