Countdown Live

Hello there!

I have some good news for you all! Countdown Live 2.1 lost its Beta tag today and the Pre-Release has been sent to the official translators. Now that the translators are busy, I have some time to summarise what happened the past three months.

Apart from the big features mentioned in the previous news entry, some small yet interesting changes have been made to improve the script:

• The tabs are now scrollable. A button with an arrow to the left and right on both sides of the tabs are added, which allows you to scroll through the tabs. This is especially interesting for users with smaller screens, as I can keep the window relatively small while still being able to add a new preferences tab if necessary. When you enlarge the window, more tabs will be visible until all tabs are visible, and vice-versa.
• The preview area is bigger and has more options. You can now force a refresh and toggle the countdown state from the preview itself. A new tab with options for the preview is also added with two options. The first one controls if the preview should be refreshed every time you change a setting, this is especially interesting for slower computers. The second one allows you to always have the countdowns enabled in the preview, regardless the real state of the countdowns. The real state will be displayed at the right of the preview, about at the same place where it is in 2.0.
• The languages list is now sortable. This is mostly because of practical reasons, as the current view doesn't allow long filenames. The list now also has a version column, so you can see if the language file you want to use is compatible with your version of the script without having to click the file. Aah... laziness!
  

And that concludes this news entry. Expect Countdown Live to be released in a week or two, when I hopefully have all translations. Then, the new version will be available from the thread on the Plus! forums and from this site, and later also through the script's updater and the official scripts database.

- Matti.

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