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Version History

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This shows you how often xStarter was updated with us over the past few months. Whenever available, we also include additional information for each update (new features, changes etc.).

version 1.9.3.85 - posted on Jul 20, 2009

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version 1.9.3.81 - posted on Jul 07, 2009

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version 1.9.3.75 - posted on Jul 01, 2009

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version 1.9.3.74 - posted on Jun 27, 2009

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version 1.9.2.85 - posted on Feb 18, 2009

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version 1.9.2.80 - posted on Feb 10, 2009

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version 1.9.1.115 - posted on Jul 28, 2008

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version 1.9.0.64 - posted on Feb 28, 2008

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version 1.8.9 - posted on Aug 29, 2007

  • New actions to automate work with databases via ADO.

version 1.88 - posted on Jun 06, 2007

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version 1.87 - posted on Jan 21, 2007

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version 1.86 - posted on Nov 26, 2006

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version 1.85 - posted on Oct 23, 2006

  • Windows events now has the option to trigger on top-level windows only or on any windows.
    In action editing window, it s possible to select the Actions to show: Standard or Advanced.
    Now possible to store global variable values in files. In this, it can be saved to file or read from file. It s useful for tasks that deal with different processes that use the same variables. Additionally, these values can be stored after each computer or program restart.
    Action ReplaceText now can replace text in the specified file.
    In the action Delete, an option was added to check file existence before deletion. If this option is not selected and a file list is specified, if one of files does not exist, none of the files will be deleted.
    New statement While.Do. statement for loops creation.
    New action ShowPopup with possibility to show any text with specified timeout.
    New actions ASCIIToChr and ChrToASCII.
    New action WaitWindow will allow the task to continue only after the specified window appears on screen.
    New action SendYahooMessage, it allows you to send messages to Yahoo Messenger.
    A lot of changes in action SendKeys. Now it s possible to specify window in the send keys. Additionally, now application activating works much better.
    New action for turning computer on. It s working only if computer was slept via Hibernate mode.
    Fixed some bugs.

version 1.84 - posted on Sep 03, 2006

  • Integrated COM server,
    action HTTPPostFile,
    new mathematical actions

version 1.83 - posted on May 03, 2006

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version 1.82 - posted on Mar 21, 2006

  • Tab Additional of each task now contain option to stop running task if it already runned and does not finish working yet.
    New function RUNNINGTASKSCOUNT return number of running in current moment tasks.
    New action WinAmpControl.
    New action MathOperation.
    New action TextReverse.
    Was added option to select printer in the action Print.
    In all password fields now possible to use action parameters and functions.
    Modified actions Zip, Backup allows to archive occupied by another processes files.
    New actions to turn monitor on and off: MonitorOn, MonitorOff.
    New action what allow to work with the Windows registry: ReadRegistryValue, WriteRegistryValue.
    New options in the action SendICQMessage to perform authorization.
    Was added new text functions what returns square brackets and braces.
    In the action AskMessage was added option to close window by Timeout.
    Action for macro playing renamed to PlayMacro.
    New action to convert texts WIN<->DOS: AnsiToOem, OemToAnsi.
    TextLoop statement now works much faster.
    Fixed errors in actions Zip, Backup. Now folders adds in the archives with correct structure.
    Fixed other minor bugs.

version 1.81 - posted on Feb 28, 2006

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version 1.72 - posted on Jan 10, 2006

  • A lot of changes, main of them: Tasks can be runned by keywords, new action WakeUpOnLan, etc.

version 1.71 - posted on Nov 23, 2005

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version 1.70 - posted on Oct 17, 2005

  • A lot of changes, main of them: Else cna be used with If statement, can be selected actions to run, many new actions, etc.

version 1.70 - posted on Oct 17, 2005

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version 1.65 - posted on Aug 12, 2005

  • NTEventLogMessage action
    this action allows to write your own messages in the NT Event log.
    MessageViaTCPIP
    Now it s possible to send some strings to TCP/IP host, e.g. to xStarter installed on another network computer or to any other program what can process this data
    Now there are new events available by which tasks can be launched: TCP/IP socket listener. With this event it s now possible to run tasks then xStarter receives commands or simple strings from another programs, devices, computers. For example: it s now possible to run tasks through commands from your website
    All FTP related actions are now added with `Passive mode` option for passive FTP connections.
    FTPSyncDownload action now contain option `Copy only files created or modified during last N days`. It can be useful for coping only recent files.

version 1.64 - posted on Jun 28, 2005

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version 1.63 - posted on May 16, 2005

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version 1.62 - posted on Feb 16, 2005

  • New actions for working with Clipboard has been added. It s possible now to use action CopyText for writing any text or value of internal variable into Clipboard. Has been added new action Paste for inserting clipboard contents into currently active window. For extracting clipboard content has been added action TextFromClipboard
    Has been added actions for processing of file s groups. With action FirstLastFile it s possible now to find first or last file in specified folder by file size, modification date/time, file name, etc. Action FileNames can be useful for extracting file name parts, for example, file folder, disk, short name, etc. Also for files processing can be useful action SearchFolders
    Some modifications in the file system trigger. It s possible now to specify running of task only then size of new file is not changing in some period of time. This modification can be useful for monitoring new files what was copied to current computer by FTP protocol.

version 1.61 - posted on Dec 16, 2004

  • New options MoveFiles
    New SerialPort event for launching tasks

version 1.60 - posted on Nov 25, 2004

  • New actions for playing audio files have been added, so you can now play WAV, MP3 files and also Windows system sounds.
    New option: SearchFiles. With this action it s possible to search files in specified folder and exclude files from search results by masks.
    Now you can directly use the results from SearchFile as input parameters for other actions. For example if SearchFile found the string `c:log.txt
    c:lso_log.txt, this could be used to delete, backup etc all files within the search results string.
    Some file and archive actions now contain the option to Exclude Files. For example, using the mask facility you can exclude `*.exe
    *.txt`. These files will be not processed by this action.
    New action: FileProperties. This action checks the main properties of a specified file or folder. Can be used to perform file operations only with files what satisfy some conditions (e.g. if size of file more than 2Mb or file is read-only). If this action returns Success=False then the file will not be processed.
    New action: HTML2Text. With this option it s possible to convert webpages or html files into plain text. It s possible now to create a Webpage trigger with this option, e.g. show a notification only when some webpage changes was founded. Or it s possible to track internet availability if Ping is not possible (e.g. beyond any Firewall).
    New action: ScreenShot. It s possible to create screenshots of full screen or active window or screen region (by coordinates). Screenshots can be saved as BMP or JPG files. ...

version 1.55 - posted on Sep 19, 2004

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version 1.54 - posted on Sep 07, 2004

  • New action for reading strings from text (log) files.
    New option in File trigger what allow to launch tasks only after completing coping or creating of new files.
    It s possible now to create shortcuts to xStarter tasks on the Windows Desktop.
    Window trigger was extended. Now task can be launched on the child or main process window focusing.
    New parameters what returns parameters of the window on which was launched window trigger.
    Was added Spanish language. A lot of thanks to Angel Julio Liarte.
    Was added Slovenian language. A lot of thanks to Dusan Stojanovic.
    Fixed: Critical error what was periodically crush the xStarter program.
    Fixed: Was particularly rewritten File trigger system, now it will create smaller system loading.
    Fixed: Other minor errors.

version 1.53 - posted on Aug 13, 2004

  • New action for connecting and disconnecting shared network resources. Program fill username and password itself
    All tasks now can be ran in different process. In this case its possible to run task from other user then current logged on
    All password filled in program now stored in crypt form
    Now even if main program (xstarter.exe) works like NT service then the main configuration window (xstartui.exe) runs from current logged on user and with security rights of this user
    Its possible now to see log of runs/executions of all xStarter tasks
    In Zip action was added option for archiving with password
    Idle trigger was extended. Now tasks can be executed not only after some idle time but also then this idle time will finished (user press keys or move mouse).

version 1.52 - posted on Jul 23, 2004

  • New action for folders creating.
    Program launching speed up.
    Directory changing event now return created/changes/deleted files and in subfolders.
    Fixed: Errors with launching program on fast processors (2.6GHz and above).
    Fixed: Freezing program on exit if it was launched as NT service.
    Fixed: Some other errors.

version 1.51 - posted on Jun 29, 2004

  • New action for launching xStarter task from another xStarter task.
    All errors what occured while file coping now writes in the program s log file.
    In integrated functions was added functions what returns: YEAR, MONTH, DAY, HOUR, MINUTE, SECOND and MILLISECOND.
    Fixed: Memory leaks.

version 1.50 - posted on Jun 18, 2004

  • Fully re-engineered complex format of time. Now it s possible to start tasks by list of specified time masks. Each mask can be simple or complex.
    New statement TextLoop. With it now possible to make email triggers.
    Was added option for sending ICQ messages.
    Was added option for sending network messages.
    Was added action for deleting emails from ISP server.
    Full context help included now.
    Fixed: Some errors with statements.

version 1.41 - posted on May 22, 2004

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version 1.41 - posted on May 22, 2004

  • New action CheckEmail.
    Added possibility to make some operations with windows.
    Fixed some errors.

version 1.40 - posted on May 09, 2004

  • xStarter now can work as NT service.
    Added functions support.
    Event parameters (results) can also be filled at action fields.
    Results of execution previous action in task action sequence can be filled at params.
    Task can be started after some NT event occuring (application, security,
    system).
    Events can be filtered.
    Added plugin for operations with text files.
    It include writing to log file, comparing two text files, searching text in file or text block
    (regular expression supported as well).

version 1.34 - posted on Apr 13, 2004

  • Feature to folders synchronizing
    FTP file upload

version 1.33 - posted on Mar 31, 2004

  • Now xStarter can record and play keyboard and mouse macroses.
    Tray menu can be used for quickly tasks running.
    Plugin for memory free added.

version 1.32 - posted on Mar 22, 2004

  • Hotkey support added.
    Tasks now can be started after some time when system idle.
    Also was added HTTP download, FTP download, Ping, CD-Eject functions.

version 1.31 - posted on Feb 16, 2004

  • xStarter now allow to create statement IF
    Added new plugins for:
    turning computer in sleep (hibernate) mode,
    terminating applications,
    sending keystrokes to applications,
    making pause between some actions in task,
    establishing RAS connections (modem, GPRS modem, VPN connection, etc),
    disconnecting of RAS connection,
    sending email messages.

version 1.31 - posted on Feb 16, 2004

  • xStarter now allow to create statement IF
    Added new plugins for:
    turning computer in sleep (hibernate) mode,
    terminating applications,
    sending keystrokes to applications,
    making pause between some actions in task,
    establishing RAS connections (modem, GPRS modem, VPN connection, etc),
    disconnecting of RAS connection,
    sending email messages.

version 1.30 - posted on Feb 04, 2004

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