Updates

A new version of LauncherPro is now available to download from the Android Market. Here’s what’s new in 0.8.0.0:

For all users:

• Fixed force close issues when setting the homescreen grid rows/columns to 1.
• Fixed the problem where increasing grid size with auto-fit would make it hard to move items to the bottom right area of the grid.
• Changed folders to always open full-screen regardless of the grid size.

For Plus users only:

• Fixed a force close issue with the Friends widget.
• Fixed the Friends widget not being able to post comments to Facebook.
• Added an option for the Calendar widget to set the week to start on Monday instead of Sunday (after releasing the update, I found a glitch where busy days are marked wrong with this setting on, will be fixed later today in 0.8.0.1).
• New Feature: Dock Popups! A perfect complement for dock notifications and dock swipe actions, the new dock popups give you quick access to information without leaving LauncherPro. In this release I’ve included two popups: Missed Calls, and Unread SMS. More popups will come in future updates.
   
  To enable them, long-press on the desired dock icon, choose “Swipe gesture action”, then “Show Popup…” and choose the popup. Now when you swipe that icon up, you’ll get a popup showing you the selected information.
   
  Both of these popups mark all items as read/viewed when you open them, so they’ll automatically clear the dock notification bubble. You can click on an item (SMS or call) to open it in their respective apps.

   
  

That’s it for now.

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A new version of LauncherPro is ready to download. Here’s what’s new in version 0.7.8.0:

For all users:

• New: Ability to use custom icons and labels on homescreen shortcuts. Long-press on a homescreen and choose “Shortcuts”. After selecting the shortcut, you’ll get a popup with the icon and label for the shortcut. You can click on the icon to choose a custom icon from your gallery, and you can edit the label before adding the shortcut.
   
  Edit: There’s a bug in this new feature when adding “Applications” shortcuts. If you don’t use a custom icon, next time LP is restarted, the icon for that shortcut will be missing. Will be fixed in next update. In the meantime, if you want to add an application shortcut without a custom icon, you can open the app drawer, long-press on that application until the drawer closes and the icon lifts up, then drop it on your homescreen.
   
  Edit 2: The aforementioned bug is now fixed in 0.7.8.1

For Plus users only:

• Fixed a problem with the Twitter widget putting some mentions in the timeline view instead of the mentions view.
• New: Facebook Widget. It took a lot of work but the new Facebook widget is ready. It works very similarly to the Twitter widget. There’s two views: news feed and wall. You can switch between the two views with the buttons at the top, or use the “Compose” button to create a new post.

   
  Clicking on a post will open it in a new window, where you can “Like” that post, read comments, write your own comment, or open any link/photo/video associated with it.

   
  Here’s a couple of screenshots:

  

 
Next widget will combine both Twitter and Facebook updates into one stream. After that I have a very cool new feature planned for Plus users, along with some new stuff for all users. Stay tuned.

 
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A new version of LauncherPro has just hit the market. Here’s what’s version 0.7.7.2 brings:

For all users:

• Fixed a force-close issue when clicking on contact shortcuts inside folders in Android 2.2
• Fixed a memory issue with both Glow and Outline highlights.
• Fixed a problem with the 3D app drawer where scrolling very slowly would sometimes trigger a long-press.
• Added gradient shadows to the 3D app drawer’s top and bottom parts to enhance the 3D effect.
• 0.7.7.1 fixes a bug in 0.7.7.0 that made it impossible to change dock backgrounds or icon highlight colors. It should be back to normal now.

 
For Plus users only:

• Fixed a problem with the Calendar widget, where if you had a multi-day event that started in the past, the Agenda list view would start on that day instead of the current/selected day.
• Fixed a bug with the Messaging widget that could potentially cause LauncherPro to be unloaded from memory causing redraws.
• New: Twitter widget. The fifth widget for LauncherPro Plus users is the new Twitter widget. I originally planned to just have a Twitter/Facebook combo widget, but upon further investigation once I began its development, I decided it will be better to have three widgets instead: a Twitter widget, a Facebook widget, and the combo (“Friends”) widget. That way the individual widgets can exploit features available only on that service (for example, the Twitter widget having three separate lists for timeline, mentions, and direct messages).

   
  The Twitter widget is pretty straightforward. Go to Menu > Preferences > LP Widget Settings > Twitter Widget, and choose “Twitter Login” to authorize LauncherPro to access your Twitter data. When you add the widget to a homescreen, the first update (You’ll notice it says “Loading…” at the bottom of the widget) might take a few minutes since it has to fetch quite a bit of data for the initial set up. After that, updates should be pretty quick.

  Inside the widget, you have three different views: Timeline, Mentions, and Direct Messages. You can switch between these views using the three buttons at the top. There’s also a “Compose” button to write a new tweet. Clicking on a tweet on the list will bring up a menu with options to reply, retweet, or send a direct message to the user.

  The update rate is fixed at 15 minutes for this initial release. Future updates will include selectable update intervals. You can force an update at any time by pressing the “Refresh” button (the one with the little arrows) at the bottom of the widget.

  Update: version 0.7.7.2 makes links inside tweets clickable.

   
  

 
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A new version of LauncherPro is now available in the Android market. Here’s what 0.7.4 brings:

For all users:

• New: Activity shortcuts. When adding shortcuts to your homescreens or dock, there’s a new option called “Activities”. This will let you create shortcuts to activities (screens within applications) that are not usually accessible directly. For example, you can set it to open your calendar’s Agenda screen, or even LauncherPro’s preferences screen. The activities are sorted by application, and you can choose the label for the shortcut. Please be ware that a LOT of activities aren’t meant to be called from external applications, so with many of them you’ll get an error message saying that we cannot open that activity, or the activity might open and crash immediately because it’s missing information that it expects to receive.

 
For Plus users:

• Fixed a bug with the Calendar widget. The system that made it update at midnight every day (to keep the calendar updated) was leaking memory and causing force-closes after several screen rotations. For now, you’ll need to manually refresh the widget (use the little Refresh icon at the bottom of the widget) every day, until I can find a solution to keep it up to date without causing memory issues.
• For Droid X users: Initial support for proper resizing of Blur widgets! Many of the Blur widgets now resize just like on the Blur launcher. Some widgets still show some weird behaviour when resized, hopefully I will be able to fix it in a future update.

 
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Sorry for not having posted a changelog for 0.7.2 yet. I’ve been super busy working on another major new feature for Plus users and didn’t have time to do a proper changelog (with screenshots and all), so I’m going to post a quick one until next update.

Here’s what’s new in version 0.7.2.0:

For All users:

• Improved code for 3rd party scrollable widgets. This should improve stability and performance when using 3rd party scrollable widgets like Pure Messenger, Android Agenda Widget, etc. Credit goes to Francois Deslandes (creator of Pure Messenger) for the code.
• Fixed force-close when opening the “Hidden Apps” screen on the preferences on some phones.
• New Calendar icon on the LauncherPro Icons menu.
• New: Option to change the icon only on dock shortcuts. When you long-press on a shortcut you’ll get choice to either change the shortcut or just change the icon.
• NEW: Dock shortcut gestures! Now each dock shortcut has an optional secondary action that you can trigger by swiping your finger upwards or downwards on it. Actions vary from launching any app selected by you, showing screen previews, showing notifications, hiding/showing the status bar, and opening the app drawer. Option to set a shortcut as the swipe action (so that you can set it to a Direct Dial shortcut, for example) will come in a future release.

 
For LauncherPro Plus users only:

• Fixed (hopefully) a bug when generating thumbnails for the Bookmarks widget, where the process would fail halfway through and many bookmarks would end up with incorrect thumbnails.
• NEW: Calendar widget. The third widget in the LauncherPro Plus series is the Calendar widget. By default it shows you a grid calendar for the current month, highlighting days that have events. You can scroll it vertically to switch to another month. Clicking on a day will change the widget to an Agenda view, where you can view your events for that day and the following 30 days. You can return to the calendar view by clicking the icon at the top right corner of the widget.

   
  An “Add” button to open the “New Event” screen on your calendar will be added in a future release. So please stop requesting it

   
  Also, I’m already aware of a bug when opening events from the Agenda view will show the date as being in 1970. Don’t worry, it hasn’t modified your events, it’s simply displaying the wrong info. It will be fixed on the next release.

 
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