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Screentime for Flash 4.0

Re-engineered support for Mac OS X 10.6 gaining a vast improvement in speed and useability.
Added Language Support. The PC installer now speaks English, Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Japanese, German, or Dutch depending on the user's system locale selected for non-unicode applications. The Mac installer supports English, French, Japanese, German, or Dutch.
Added Flash Player 10.1
Added Play On Main Monitor Only feature. Just check a box and your screensaver will only play on the main monitor. Good for screensavers with CPU intensive animations.
Includes slew of bug fixes…
- PC: we got rid of the “grey flash” at the launch of the screensaver.
- PC: resolved an age old Windows quirk enabling you to control capitalization in your screensaver’s name in the Display Control panel.
- PC: Screentime “Preview” now works for projects that include external files.
A new STF class. Now you can access a bunch of desktop properties as soon as the component is initialized. Check out STFEvent.INITIALIZATION_COMPLETE for more information.
Improved AS3 Support and Documentation. V392 inlcuded AS3 support but the new component works a lot better in the Flash IDE.
A new Screentime Help Panel. With Flash CS4/CS5 Adobe moved to a new Help system that we couldn’t hack like the old one so we have now added our own Help Panel. Click Window > Other Panels > Screentime Help to see it in action. Screentime Help works online and offline.
Added Command Line Build for work flow folks: pathToScreentime -c pathToYourProjectFile
TraceViewer, our version of the Output window. You can log all your STF commands and STF.trace() messages to the TraceViewer application. The only caveat is that messaging does not work when your screensaver is running with passwords on. To see messages on TraceViewer launch the screensaver from the Preview button in Screentime or uncheck “On resume, display logon screen” (Vista and 7) or ”On resume, return to Welcome screen” (XP) in your Screensaver control panel.
A new Utilities menu, a big time saver. Navigating around Windows can be a drag. With this menu you can make your computer sleep (CNTL-L), open the Screensaver control panel (CNTL-D), launch TraceViewer (CNTL-T), and install the screensaver onto your computer (CNTL-I).
New Help menu has links to take you directly to Screentime video tutorials and our screensaver designer guide.
Release Date: 12/30/2010

What’s New on Windows

Screentime for Flash version 3.9.0

Added Actionscript 3.0 STF ActionScript Component for Flash.
Added Actionscript 3.0 STF ActionScript Component for Flex.

Release Date: 02/27/2010

Screentime for Flash version 3.8.4

Updated Flash Player 10.
FIXED BUG - Installer was hanging in some cases when installing Flash Player.

Release Date: 10/14/2009

Screentime for Flash version 3.8.3

FIXED BUG - Corrected problem causing quiet install option to be ignored.
FIXED BUG - Corrected hidden taskbar problem caused by hibernation.
Verified Screentime Windows 7 compatiblity.

Release Date: 09/17/2009

Screentime for Flash version 3.8.1.1

FIXED BUG - Corrected problem in Screensaver's manifest that caused problems in Vista 64 support.

Release Date: 06/03/2009

Screentime for Flash version 3.8.1.

FIXED BUG - Corrected link to WTSRegisterSessionNotification and WTSAPI32.dll that effected juvenile installations of Windows 2000.

Release Date: 05/29/2009

Screentime for Flash version 3.8.0

Added support for Vista 64
Added STF.getSecurityMode() method.
Modified STF.launchAndQuit() method.

Release Date: 05/10/2009

Screentime for Flash version 3.7.0

Added Support fo Flash CS4 and Flash Player 10.
Updated Screensaver to be Vista User Account Control (UAC) compatable.
Updated Installer to be Vista User Account Control (UAC) compatable.
Added expiration information to the Settings window.
Added Windows 64 OS detection. Screentime does NOT yet support Windows 64 bit Systems. This version will not allow the screensaver to be installed.
Updated firewall detection. System now to pings services.Screentime.com instead of WC3.org.
Updated Screentime Flash Extension.
FIXED BUG - fixed bug in STF.downloadFile.
FIXED BUG - The screensaver installer was the active application but it's window needed to be clicked to activated.
Improved user feedback during Display Control Panel launch.

Screentime for Flash version 3.5.3 Windows Edition

Increased the size of the settings window graphic.
Updated builder UI with new installer and settings window size information.
Updated localized German and French installers to support closing Vista Screensaver settings panel on install.
FIXED BUG - fixed backgound color bug.

Release Date: 07/31/2007

Screentime for Flash version 3.5.2 Windows Edition

Increased the size of the installer graphic.
FIXED BUG - fixed ERROR 18 in STF.downloadFile()
FIXED BUG - removed offset of custom installer graphic swf.
FIXED BUG - installer taskbar item closes when close box is clicked.
FIXED BUG in STF.readString() command.

Release Date: 07/26/2007

Screentime for Flash version 3.3 Windows Edition

Added support for Windows Vista.
Added support for Flash 9 player.
FIXED BUG - STF.downloadFile command that caused downloads to fail on some computers.

Release Date: 01/25/2006

Screentime for Flash version 3.0.0 Windows Edition

Added STF class - cross-platform AS2 native ActionScript class that adds support for 50 cross platform Mac/Windows desktop API's.
Integrated Screentime into Flash development environment with support for STF code completion, hints, and Screentime Help.
Added online documentation.
Added "connected" saver and stf commands samples.
Added support for run-time debug tracing.
Enhanced hibernation support for Windows OS computers.
Enhanced "Quiet Install" support for installing the screensaver across networks.

Release Date: 09/5/2005

What’s New on Macintosh

Screentime for Flash version 3.9.0 Mac Edition

Added Actionscript 3.0 STF ActionScript Component for Flash.
Added Actionscript 3.0 STF ActionScript Component for Flex.

Release Date: 02/27/2010

Screentime for Flash version 3.8.0 Mac Edition

Added Support for Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6

Release Date: 01/05/2010

Screentime for Flash version 3.6 Mac Edition

Major Performance Improvements - This is a substantial under the hood revision that enables more accurate framerate playback.
Added Quiet installation Support - In the Quiet mode, your installer will not display any messages - but your screensaver still becomes the currently selected screensaver - enabling simple integration into projects that do not need a complete interactive installer.
Installer Zip - Screentime automatically zips your installer so it is ready for immediate upload to the internet.
Added Support for mProjector Commands - All commands are available, but we highly recommend not using window handling and other commands not applicable to screensavers. To enable mProjector commands in flash, download mProjector from the Screentime web site and install the mProjector mxp file.
Added Firewall Trigger at Installation Time - Insures firewall software windows open during screensaver installation when the user can respond to it and not during screensaver playback when it's windows may be hidden behind the screensaver.

Release Date: July 24 2008

Screentime for Flash version 3.5.8 Mac Edition

FIXED BUG - fixed problem with installer's ReadMe and License files.
FIXED BUG - Language problems have been fixed, the installer and screensaver should all be in English, French, German and Dutch. Localization is straightforward. If you want to add your language, send us an email.

Screentime for Flash version 3.5.4 Mac Edition

Fixed a namespace collision. This bug appeared when installing a new Screentime screensaver on a system where an older Screentime screensaver was set as the current screensaver.
Fixed a small memory leak
Added better support for AS3, Screentime should work with the mProjector beta AS3 Component. (beta level, use with care!)

Release Date: August 1 2007

Screentime for Flash version 3.5.3 Mac Edition

FIXED BUG - high ASCII characters in paths.

Screentime for Flash version 3.5.2 Mac Edition

FIXED BUG - Intel Code being stripped on pre 10.4 installs.
FIXED BUG - various builder UI problems.
FIXED BUG - Registration not working.
FIXED BUG - more than one screensaver being previewed was not updating the screen properly.

Screentime for Flash version 3.5 Mac Edition

Comprehensive rewrite of Screentime for Flash using mProjector.
Added fully cusomizable installers.
Added support for mProjector commands.
Added support for project files.
Added auto update feature allowing you to automatically download updates
FIXED BUG - fixed a variety of bugs to improve stability and compatibility across spectrum of Mac hardware and OSs.

Release Date: May 31 2007

Screentime for Flash version 3.1.0 Mac Edition

Added support Flash 8 in OS X screensavers, the builder still uses Flash 7 for preview playback. Mac OS 9 screensavers also still uses Flash 7.

Release Date: 11/15/2005

Screentime for Flash version 3.0.2 Mac Edition

FIXED BUG - user privileges problem.

Release Date: 9/15/2005

Screentime for Flash version 3.0.0 Mac Edition

Added STF class - cross-platform AS2 native ActionScript class that adds support for 50 cross platform Mac/Windows desktop API's.
Integrated Screentime into Flash development environment with support for STF code completion, hints, and Screentime Help.
Added online documentation.
Added "connected" saver and stf commands samples.
Added support for run-time debug tracing.