Fences revision history and future updates

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Hi,

I'm very interested in getting Fences.  I don't know why but my desktop looks much more messed up in Winwows 7 than it was in XP.  I believe it's because of the new look of icons.  Fences seems the best looking desktop organizer I can find.

I read all informations tabs of that apps and I cannot find a revision history and latest changes made to Fences.  I always looks for such when interested in a program.  Are those well hidden or not available?  In a message I saw Zargon discussing 1.0.1.270 then in another message a sort issue was fixed in 1.0.2 and above.

Finally, when we buy do we get all future updates?

Best regards

fences
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Well...  20 days later and no reply.  <_<

In the meantime, I found a review of Fences where it was possible to download it without having to install Impulse and I had to give it a try.  WOW!  I like it.

Now I'd like to know, the version was 1.0.1 and like I said above, I saw a post about 1.0.2 where a few things where fixed.  How can I get that update?  Is it even possible without having to install Impusle?  For sure it's possible to get 1.0.1 without it!

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Impulse is required to download updates for Fences. You can download the entire updated installer as a standalone for the free version of Fences here:

http://download.cnet.com/Fences/3000-2072_4-10909535.html

 

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

The one I found was in an AnandTech review of Fences IIRC and I looked at the link you wrote and it's exactly the same version, 1.0.1

What is the latest revision of the free version?  Is it 1.0.2 or there is even a newer one?

And going back to my original question in my first post, is there a revision history and latest changes made to Fences written somewhere?  I'm sure you know what I'm talking about but just in case, there is an exemple: http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/version-history

I'm always looking for those whenever I plan to update or not...

Thank you.

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

The current version of Fences is 1.01. Version history is available through Impulse by right-clicking on the Fences entry and selecting "View History". 

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

Here is the history for those of you who don't use Impulse:

 


Fences Pro 1.1.0.348
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-Added ability to toggle hidden fences at startup
-Added "Hide shortcut arrows on desktop icons" to Appearance tab
-Reliability improvements based on user feedback
-Numerous small UI tweaks
-Improved multimonitor support (newly plugged-in monitors set to 'primary' have all your icons/fences moved over to them, fixed 'align-to-grid' on secondary monitors, etc)
-Icons no longer have risk of falling out of their fence on F5 and/or monitor resize
-Fixed flicker when moving a fence behind the taskbar on Win7
-Fixed issue where new icons could become "stranded" until interacted with, particularly on XP
-Fixed issue where moving Fences beneath the bottom of the screen exhibited odd behavior
-Improved "Disable Fences" functionality
-Fences now "come to the front" when moved. Fixes behavior where you could move a Fence behind another and then lose access to it.

Fences Pro 1.01
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-Added Hide Desktop icons to right click menu
-Changed behavior when removing a Fence excluded from quick-hide to un-hide all Fences.
-Change Customize tab name to Appearance
-Renamed Delete Fence to Remove Fence
-Fixed bug where scroll bars would not appear when resizing Fence.
-Fixed bug where all icons would leave all Fences on reboot/restart/logoff.
-Fixed bug where an icon moves out of a Fence when resolution changes.

Fences Pro 1.0 refresh
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-Fixed issue on XP systems wherein a certain refresh operation could get stuck on repeat, causing CPU levels to get stuck up high and causing frequent disk access as debug log is written to.


Fences Pro 1.0
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-Added to Pro: Sorting (per-fence, and for the desktop itself)
-Added to Pro: Rules & Auto-Organizing (certain file types go to certain fences, etc)
-Added to Pro: Daily automatic-snapshots
-Added to Pro: "Ghosted fences" support (set the opacity of fences individually, become fully visible on mouseover)
-Added: Icon "flicking" for touch-enabled systems

Bug fixes & improvements:
-Added localization support
-Added high-dpi support on Vista/Windows 7
-Fixed issue with the quick-hide feature on older systems / with remote-desktop (desktop would not draw correctly & require a refresh)
-Improved multi-monitor support
-Snapshots now have their thumbnail taken correctly on Windows 7 while a slideshow is active

Misc bits:
-New frameless UI
-Please note that auto-snapshots are not currently enabled on Windows XP

Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting rumenta, reply 6
Any clue about the promised customization features release date?

I'm talking about this (last point): https://www.stardock.com/products/fences/information_pro.asp
End of rumenta's quote

Unfortunately, I don't have a specific date to give you at this time.

Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Zargon0225, reply 8
We have it on the list for next year.
End of Zargon0225's quote

Close to one year later, anything new?