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Announcing Carousel 5.0.4
Greetings!
Today, Tightrope is announcing the release of Carousel 5.0.4. This is a maintenance release that resolves several issues, including:
To request this update,>Your name and organization Your> If you haven't>We won't be able to issue an update until we have a registration form on file.
If you have any questions, please let us know!
Thank you
-John
Release Notes - Carousel v5.0.4
Bug - 2331: Deleting copied media could delete too many items
If you had copied media items across "My" and "Zone" media sections, deleting the item in the "My" section would confirm deleting the item for "My" sections, but would delete any "Zone" items without checking, and vice versa. Now, deleting "My" media will only delete "My" items, and deleting "Zone" media will only delete "Zone items.
Bug - 1934: Background audio is unstable
Revamped the inter-process communication model that controls audio playback. The new architecture should be much more stable.
Bug - 2215: DisplayEngine Crashes if service hasn't yet started.
Poor error handling was causing a crash if the DisplayEngine couldn't contact the Carousel service. The DisplayEngine now correctly displays the "red bar" and runs in cached mode whenever the service is unavailable.
Bug - 2216: VideoHelper crashes randomly
A particular version of the NVidia video drivers was causing sporadic crashing when playing videos. The correct driver to use is "84.21"
Bug - 2219: Antenna/Cable setting doesn't work for live video input
A logic mistake in the code never allowed the TV input to tune in channels above 13.
Bug - 2259: Weather Bulletins can contain too much text
Weather Bulletins never allowed you to restrict the amount of weather data to display in the "outlook" section, which could lead to text that was so small as to be unreadable. You can now specify the amount of outlook data to display.
Bug - 2260: Double-clicking too fast on the DisplayEngine can launch multiple instances
A timing issue caused the DisplayEngine to not "clean up" extra instances of the application, leading to strange behavior as the DisplayEngines "fight" between themselves. Now, the "last" DisplayEngine will win, and terminate any extraneous processes.
Bug - 2281: Empty template list isn't very user-friendly
If you didn't have any templates installed on a zone, you were greeted with a blank screen whenever you wanted to create a new bulletin. Now, a message informs you that there are no templates, and gives a suggestion on how to add some.
Bug - 2315: Event Display bulletins don't update
When there was no schedule for event display bulletins, they would be automatically set to update again on 12/31/9999, which effectively caused them to never update again. They now update every 15 minutes, even if there is no new schedule.
Bug - 2102: Video helper apps don't have Windows error reporting disabled
The video player programs should no longer leave a "This program has encountered an error and needs to close" dialog box on screen in the event of a crash.
Bug - 2123: Zones aren't being added to the "All Zones" tag
Adding a zone to Carousel wasn't refreshing the "All Zones" tag list properly, so it wouldn't be included in the "All Zones" tag.
Bug - 1977: Alert bulletins do not play sound clips
The DisplayEngine was searching in the wrong place for Alert bulletin sound clips.
Bug - 1530: Copying items to another user's media collection only copies the item in your own collection
A bug in the code was always passing in your user name to the copying code, rather than the user name intended recipient of the media. We now pass in the correct user name.
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John Reilly
Developer
Tightrope Media Systems
Today, Tightrope is announcing the release of Carousel 5.0.4. This is a maintenance release that resolves several issues, including:
- Fixes the “Live video doesn’t work for channels over 13” problem
- DisplayEngine>
- Amount of text in Weather Bulletins can be configured
- Fixes>
- Resolves strange “All Zones” tag behavior
- Background>
To request this update,>
If you have any questions, please let us know!
Thank you
-John
Release Notes - Carousel v5.0.4
Bug - 2331: Deleting copied media could delete too many items
If you had copied media items across "My" and "Zone" media sections, deleting the item in the "My" section would confirm deleting the item for "My" sections, but would delete any "Zone" items without checking, and vice versa. Now, deleting "My" media will only delete "My" items, and deleting "Zone" media will only delete "Zone items.
Bug - 1934: Background audio is unstable
Revamped the inter-process communication model that controls audio playback. The new architecture should be much more stable.
Bug - 2215: DisplayEngine Crashes if service hasn't yet started.
Poor error handling was causing a crash if the DisplayEngine couldn't contact the Carousel service. The DisplayEngine now correctly displays the "red bar" and runs in cached mode whenever the service is unavailable.
Bug - 2216: VideoHelper crashes randomly
A particular version of the NVidia video drivers was causing sporadic crashing when playing videos. The correct driver to use is "84.21"
Bug - 2219: Antenna/Cable setting doesn't work for live video input
A logic mistake in the code never allowed the TV input to tune in channels above 13.
Bug - 2259: Weather Bulletins can contain too much text
Weather Bulletins never allowed you to restrict the amount of weather data to display in the "outlook" section, which could lead to text that was so small as to be unreadable. You can now specify the amount of outlook data to display.
Bug - 2260: Double-clicking too fast on the DisplayEngine can launch multiple instances
A timing issue caused the DisplayEngine to not "clean up" extra instances of the application, leading to strange behavior as the DisplayEngines "fight" between themselves. Now, the "last" DisplayEngine will win, and terminate any extraneous processes.
Bug - 2281: Empty template list isn't very user-friendly
If you didn't have any templates installed on a zone, you were greeted with a blank screen whenever you wanted to create a new bulletin. Now, a message informs you that there are no templates, and gives a suggestion on how to add some.
Bug - 2315: Event Display bulletins don't update
When there was no schedule for event display bulletins, they would be automatically set to update again on 12/31/9999, which effectively caused them to never update again. They now update every 15 minutes, even if there is no new schedule.
Bug - 2102: Video helper apps don't have Windows error reporting disabled
The video player programs should no longer leave a "This program has encountered an error and needs to close" dialog box on screen in the event of a crash.
Bug - 2123: Zones aren't being added to the "All Zones" tag
Adding a zone to Carousel wasn't refreshing the "All Zones" tag list properly, so it wouldn't be included in the "All Zones" tag.
Bug - 1977: Alert bulletins do not play sound clips
The DisplayEngine was searching in the wrong place for Alert bulletin sound clips.
Bug - 1530: Copying items to another user's media collection only copies the item in your own collection
A bug in the code was always passing in your user name to the copying code, rather than the user name intended recipient of the media. We now pass in the correct user name.
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John Reilly
Developer
Tightrope Media Systems
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