History V0.11d 27 Oct 2005 New: - Surfer now supports simonc's Description Extender TAP. V0.11a 15 Oct 2005 New: - Window Resize/Reposition. The various Surfer windows can now be repositioned and resized to provide users more flexibility to cater for personal choice and allow for TV overscan. Invoke via the Menu options. Two options are available: 1. Quick Window Configuration. Sizes and positions the windows based on user setting the boundaries of their screens. Note: This will reset any advanced window configurations that may have been made. 2. Advanced Window Configuration. Allows for resizing and repositioning of each window independently of each other. Note: During Advanced Window Configuration window movements there may be some screen components that are not entirely cleaned up as a window is moved. This is cleaned up when your press OK to move to another window. - Playback Progress Information. If a playback is running in Surfer then its playback progress information will be recorded and updated every minute. - Main/Guide Window Shrink Option. A new configuration option #16 “Main/Guide window” can be used to control the size of the Main Channel Window when the Guide Window is opened: 1. “Shrink to fit” – The Main Window is shrunk to its configured size to allow it to fit next to the Guide Window. 2. “Normal Size” – The Main Window is left as it is in its larger size and the Guide Window may cover over the Main Window. - Playback Folder Support. Recordings can now be played back from within folders and sub-folders. - Guide Timeframe View. Within the Guide window users can now move to previous/future events based on a timeframe (eg. 8:00pm, 8:15pm, 8:30pm). With the Guide window open user can move backward/forward using the |< and >| keys (PiP and TEXT for 5800 users). Pressing PAUSE alternates the timeframe interval between 15, 30 and 60 minutes (default is 30 minutes). - Page Through Channel Logos. The channel logos can now be paged through using the << and >> keys to page through the channels one page at a time. Changed: - Guide Window Events. With the Guide Window open, scrolling up and down the channels will keep the pointer located at the Next or Earlier events instead of switching back to the Now event each time. If the channel you switch to doesn’t have a corresponding event then it will move to the closest event. - Playback Duration Information Refresh. Whilst a recording is playing back in Surfer, Surfer will update the duration/progress information each minute whilst Surfer is open. - INI file renamed. The INI file for Surfer has been renamed to Surfer.ini. The old UKChannel.ini file will be automatically renamed. - PiP Swap Key. The PiP Swap key can now perform the same function as the Recall key as defined by Surfer Option #8. Fixed: - Folder Playback Crash. When recording from a folder was selected to playback it would report and error and then crash. Fixed so that just an error is reported. - Graphics Cleanup. Cleaned up several graphics lineup and positioning aspects. - INI File Created In Wrong Directory. If a recording was played back and then the Surfer configuration was changed, then the Surfer.ini file would be created in the wrong directory. V0.10f 29 Sept 2005 New: - Changed: - Fixed: - Playback EventName. The description of the playback event would get corrupted for long descriptions. - Surfer Invocation. Surfer would not start up if the Toppy Mute or Volume graphics were displayed. This restriction has been removed. - Playback Crashes. When Surfer was started with a playback running it would sometimes crash the Toppy if the playback had a long event name, filename and/or description text. Would also occur if playback of this recording was started from within Surfer. V0.10e 15 Sept 2005 New: - TSR Commander Support. Surfer can now be configured and/or stopped using TSR Commander. - Guide Startup Option. There is a new Configuration option #14 “Guide At Start” which determines whether the Now/Next overview guide is displayed at startup. With the following options: • “Start Hidden” no guide is displayed at startup. • “Start Displayed” guide is always displayed at startup. • “Start as it was when last exited” the guide will startup in the state that it was when you last exited Surfer. - TV Screen Ratio. There is a new Configuration option #15 “TV Screen Ratio” that you can set to specify the type of TV you are using. Surfer will then resize the Main and PiP windows of Surfer for the appropriate 16:9 size for your screen. This option was added to try to help stop some of the ratio changing issues with the TF5800. Note: it will not control or prevent any automatic ratio changes that the Toppy may do based on the broadcast stream. - Changed: - Screen Layout. Moved the logo and guide windows down so hopefully they are out of most TV overscan areas. - Text Layout. Cleaned up some of the text positioning. - Logo Highlights. You can now change the logo highlight when using the Linear mode if displaying logos. Option is the existing option #4. (Normal yellow highlight for Linear mode is option #4) - Fixed: - Invocation Key Stuck on OK. V0.10c had an issue that the invocation key would get stuck on “OK” V0.10c 13 Sept 2005 New: - Channel Entry. When in Surfer you can now manually enter the channel number via the number keys. Pressing OK after entering the channel number, or waiting approx 2 seconds (without pressing a key) will select the entered channel in the logo list. The number being entered will be displayed in the green bar at the top of the logo display. - Channel Name Display. The name of the channel that is highlighted in the logo list is now displayed at the top of the logos in the green bar. (Due to the limited space, the channel name is truncated at a word break to fit on a single line.) - Automatic Screen Fade. There is a new Configuration option “Screen Fading”. With the following options: • “Off” no screen fading is possible. • “Manual” screen is faded in/out with the Blue key. • “Automatic after x seconds” screen will automatically fade out after x seconds. It will fade back in when a key on the remote control is pressed (except the Recall key). (Increase the time in the config menu using the Vol -/+ keys for -/+ 1 seconds or <> for -/+ 10 seconds.) - Starting Channel. There is a new Configuration option “Start Channel” that you can set to determine the channel which Surfer has highlighted when it starts. - Timer Offsets. Two new configuration options “Timer Start/End Offset” allow you to specify the number of minutes to offset the start and end of a manual timer. NOTE: Because Surfer does not handle timer conflicts, you will not be able to create two consecutive timers if you have the offsets set. Changed: - Fixed: - Timers on the hour. If a timer was set for a show starting on the hour (eg. 4:00), Surfer would incorrectly make the timer for 3:60. - Surfer Invocation. Surfer would not start if the Toppy PVR icons were displayed in the top right of the screen (eg. Recording status, fast forward, pause icons). Surfer will not invoke if there is anything displayed on the screen between: • 50x,30y and 200x,200y • 150x,390y and 400x,510y AND OK is the activation key. - Now/Next/Later Events. With a small number of events, Surfer would incorrectly mark the “Next” event as a “Later” event if it was the last event. - “No Service” Indicators. The “No Service” indicators were not completely erased when changing channels in V0.10 in widescreen mode. - V0.10 10 Sept 2005 New: - Recall Key option. The Recall key can now be configured to swap the main and PiP channels over, rather than moving back to the original starting channel. - Pressing the Blue key whilst Surfer is displayed will fade in/out the channel and event information. All Surfer keys will still be active even if the channel and event information is not displayed. - Now updates the event progress information each minute. - Changed: - Timer events cannot be created when there is no event information. - Colour of tuner number in recording indicator circles. - Changed Recording indicators to show when % of event covered is 0 or more. - Fixed: - Toppy would hang if Surfer was started in Radio mode. Fixed. - Surfer now can match logos for Radio channels based on LCN. Fixed. - Removed extra space in front of hours in textual progress information. - If you directly enter a channel number outside of Surfer and then pressed OK it would incorrectly start Surfer. It now operates as normal and takes you to the channel. - Surfer would incorrectly make a timer (eg. 8:60) if it was to start on the hour. V0.09b 8th September 2005 Initial Beta release.