Tixoft Font Plug II History Log
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What‘s new?
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Tixoft Font Plug II 2.0 (9 March 2000)
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* New! configurations system.
* New! code rewritten.
* Added! "Double scroll when winamp double size" option.
* Added! "Force scroll" option.
* Added! "Use Skin's Shadow Color" option.
* Added! "Auto play a song when winamp start" option.
* Added! "End of playlist do close/shutdown" option.
* Improoved! skin color read method.
* Improoved! drawing method.
* Improoved! start up message display.
* Changed! max height of drawing region to prevent lossing some song info (bitrate and sample rate).
* Removed! "fontplug.txt" skin configuration file support (useless and often confusing).
* Control Winamp with hot keys.
* Playlist font fixer (base skin not supported).
* PiMP installer (Thank Nullsoft).
* Something special "Happy birthday to me !" :=)

Tixoft Font Plug II 1.20 beta 1 (17 November 1999)
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* Just test a new feature "Playlist Font Fixer"

Tixoft Font Plug II 1.11 (12 October 1999)
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* Supported charset selection (Thank ).
* Better mute logic.
* Fixed Auto-unmute when start a next song bug.
* Reset volume (unmute) on exit.

Tixoft Font Plug II 1.10 (11 October 1999)
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* Used new Winamp 2.05 IPC commands, so Tixoft Font Plug II now work on Winamp 2.05+ only.
* No more help file.
* Now the option "Transparence Display" and "Use Skin Color" will be enabled by default.
* New menu appending logic (support language package).
* Fixed incorrect menu appending on taskbar bug.
* Fixed a song-title scroll at begining after pressed any button bug.
* Fixed mouse cursor flicker on other Winamp's window when the plug-in paint to a Winamp's main window.
* Improved time delay for scrolling (more accurate scrolling).
* Improved drawing routine (title text disappear sometime on some machine now should fix).
* Improved drawing algorithm for Winamp PE.
* Corrected drawing region (again).
* Added "Super Fast" speed for scrolling (Thank! KUBA).
* Added a preview feature of Tixoft Font Plug II 2.0 the hot key controls.
   - 'Ctrl' + 'Numpad +' to volume up
   - 'Ctrl' + 'Numpad -' to volume down
   - 'Ctrl' + 'Numpad 0' to mute/unmute
   Note: 1. This is a preview feature, you can not change the keys.
            2. To disable this feature edit "plugin.ini" manualy (by set HotKeyEnabled=0).

Tixoft Font Plug II 1.0 (8 February 1999)
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*  New! scrolling algorithm, more efficiency.
*  New! "Scroll Type" option, select two type of scrolling.
*  New! "Auto Adjustment" option, for someone who like a big font-size.
*  New! "Shadow" option, just a pretty look font effect :)
*  New! "Playlist Shademode Font Plug Enabled" option, font enabled for playlist.
*  Seperated configuration file for each skin.
*  Title display font now skinable.
*  Added "About Tixoft Font Plug II..." menu item to activate about dialogbox :)
*  Added Winamp's hot-spot detecting in Winamp and Equlizer.
*  Fixed stupid system-resources freeing bug.
*  Fixed menu catching in Winamp 2.09 bug.
*  Fixed stupid song-lenght displaying after playlist was clear then stop bug.
*  Fixed crazy scrolling when italic font-style was set bug.
*  Fixed ugly line appear on some skin after "Transparence Display" was clear bug.
*  Corrected the drawing regions in a title display.
*  Improved Winamp's window redrawing.
*  Used monochrome bitmap masking instead of color bitmap, less than memory usage.
*  Auto idle when Winamp is in window-shade mode or minimized.
*  More information in help file.

Tixoft Font Plug II Final Beta (30 November 1998)
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*  New "Speed" option for scrolling.
*  Scrolling is now adjustable.
*  Fixed flicking display when Winamp's "AutoScroll Songname" and/or "Scroll title in taskbar" enabled (enabled or disabled this two options don't effect Tixoft Font Plug II).
*  Improved masking and drawing the display buffers.
*  Used Help system for all informations of this plug-in.
*  Adding "Auto Adjustment" option (in progress).

Tixoft Font Plug II beta 1.20 (7 November 1998)
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*  Fixed Skin Chang Detector to work for all Winamp status.
*  Used bitmap scrolling instead of character scrolling for better scroll.

Tixoft Font Plug II beta 1 (31 October 1998)
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*  Added Skin Tracer, for someone who tell me it should be, thank :)
*  Added Transparent option for transparent background display.
*  Added Use Skin Color option.
*  Added Apply button to Configutation dialog, let you see what you think.
*  Random skin supported
*  Faster access to configuration dialog by right clicking on Winamp's window
*  Fixed Winamp message don't display when user change volume control or panning control bug.
* Fixed stupid font size calculation.
*  Fixed choose font dialog initialization.
*  New variable name in .ini file (no compatible to old version of this plug-in).
*  80% code rewrote.
*  Changed plug-in name : Tixoft Font Plug II for winamp 2.04+.
*  And a lot of minor changed and bux fixed.

Tixoft Font Plug v0.01 beta 1 (15 October 1998)
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*  Now you can choose font color from configuration dialog.
*  Configuration now can cancel to ignore changed.
*  plugin.ini write failed fixed
*  You can change font by editing plugin.ini file.

Tixoft Font Plug v0.01 FINAL alpha (Just test not released)
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*  Added color reading from plugin.ini.
*  Added font reading from plugin.ini.
*  It possible you to change font and color in plugin.ini like these

  [Tixoft Font Plug]
  Enabled=1
  Scroll=1
  Font=MS Sans Serif	// try CordiaUPC
  Size=8			// try 16
  DS_Font=MS Sans Serif	// ..
  DS_Size=20		// ..
  TxtColor=00ff00		// ..
  BkColor=000000		// ..

*  little fun with it :)

Tixoft Font Plug v0.01 alpha 3 (14 October 1998)
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*  Added configuration.
*  Removed some stupid line and got 7 kb plug-in he he :)
*  Added song lenght to song name.
*  little changed.

Tixoft Font Plug v0.01 alpha 2 (13 October 1998)
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*  Added scroll mode.
*  Supported double size mode.
*  little bugs fixed.

Tixoft Font Plug v0.01 alpha 1 (12 October 1998)
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*  First released ! and just test only.