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[ June.27-08 ] - Truly Random v1.61 released. New features: Wizard windows can be resized. Options window added for printer margins, page numbering and UDP. Fixed bugs: Better compatibility with VISTA and non administrator user privileges. Both pseudo- and truly- random generator could be selected by keyboard simultaneously. Space in Separator, Front text and Back text fields was sometimes lost on program restart. [ Mai.26-08 ] - Truly Random v1.60 released. New features: Pull-down menus. Printing text. Shortcut-keys. Saving/loading of all settings, Masks or random data. [ Feb.12-08 ] - Truly Random v1.52 released. New features: Remote control using UDP and 3rd party applications. Output text windows scrollbar now aligns to the text that has just been generated. Bugs: On some computers two clicks on the Generate button would exit the program, fixed. [ Jan.16-08 ] - Truly Random v1.51 released. New features: Resizable main window. [ May.30-07 ] - Truly Random v1.50 released. New features: Windows Vista compatible. [ Feb.28-07 ] - Truly Random v1.481 released. Bugs: Uppercase and Lowercase checkboxes were switched in the Random characters area of the main window, fixed. [ Feb.16-07 ] - Truly Random v1.49 released. New features: Exactly what characters that are to be used when generating "Random characters" is now configurable trough a right click popup menu. See program help for more information. Ten user defined characters sets are now available for masks. Using mask <d#> where # is a single decimal. The characters are configured by right clicking on the mask box and selecting configure. Mask {}, lets you use random strings instead of just letters. For example you could randomly select from the names Tom, Dick and Harry. Other: Description of 'G' mask added to the help file. [ Oct.28-06 ] - Truly Random v1.48 released. New features: Random values in bell curves aka normal distribution. Random fractions, between two numbers. Support for exponential numbers. Random series containing negative values. round function, rounds fractions to nearest whole number. Other: New help icon in windows program menu. The text for the Chaos meter and Volume indicators now makes in clearer that these indicators should be ignored in pseudo random mode. Bugs: Mask: Syntax error would at times be shown when no more unique random values could be generated, fixed. Mask: Data generation was not always aborted after a syntax error, fixed. Part of a random string could on rare occasions come out as blank (an empty string), fixed. Exception errors/messages while the application was running would at times generate an infinite number of error messages on program exit, fixed. Changing the date format on the PC could generate an date critical error on startup, stopping the application from starting, fixed. [ Sep.22-06 ] - Truly Random v1.47 released. Other: Reduced delay for volume to Normalize on startup. Added graphical icons on main window buttons. Added option to switch to pseudo random if sound randomness is too low. Bugs: Some soundcards would cause the scanning for soundcards on startup to hang. If the fix above does not work, a option to disable soundcard scans in the future will be given the next time the application starts. When no soundcards was detected the Truly random generator option would become available after the generate button was pressed once, fixed. On old and slow computers the Chaos level meter would cause the application to hang, fixed. The chaos level meter will now be automatically disabled if the computer is too slow. [ Aug.13-06 ] - Truly Random v1.46 released. New features: Handles changes in the default soundcard while Truly Random is running, changes can be made in the windows multimedia mixer. If audio input line on a soundcard is changed while Truly Random is running, normalize volume will now shift to the new channel. Bugs: Separator text is now longer added to the last text entry, so that the separator would separate between the last entry and nothing. More robust mask handling, undefined mask strings could cause the program to not process a mask string. Fixed. [ Jul.24-06 ] - Truly Random v1.45 released. New features: Normalize volume feature adjusts MS Windows' volume automatically to the best level. Color coded text on the volume gauge gives more easily understood information about the current input volume level. Bugs: Obsolete registration instructions in nag window fixed. Better handling of computers without sound cards. Empty mask could make the program hang on exit, this would also block normal program exit. Registration window was garbed in Windows 95, fixed. Other: Hint text (mouse over) for volume and "Normalize volume" gives dynamic information about the current status of the sound input. Color coding of the "Normalize volume" text shows how well the PID controller is handling the fluctuations in the input sound volume. Improved window positioning for multiple display/monitor systems. Message and dialog windows now center on the main program window. [ Mar.18-06 ] - Truly Random v1.40 released. New features: Real time random noise chaos meter, using artificial intelligence. Multiple mask lines, and variable size for maskedit field. Warning for low quality input noise from sound card. Warning for low or high volume from sound card. Shortcut keys and edit popup menu for mask edit field, text output field and the other input fields for numbers. Shortcut keys and popup menu for saving and loading mask-text from files. Bugs: During data generation, the interface would at times freeze for a period. “You are trying to generate more unique strings than there are possible combinations in your current configuration” warning, was displayed even when generation was aborted. Other: Enter key in mask field no longer starts generation of numbers, it just adds a new mask line. Added mouse over text for wizard-button, close-button, mask-field and text-output-field. Help information for the wizard added to the help file. Help file reworked, with small improvements here and there. Help file now has mouse over text on images in IE. [ Nov.18-05 ] - Truly Random v1.38 released. Other: Improved and simplified registration system. Licence information and change-log now available via help. [ Oct.16-05 ] - Truly Random v1.37 released. Other: Removed incorrect entries from the dictionary. Improved registration system. [ Sep.29-05 ] - Truly Random v1.36 released. Bugs: Mathparser would freeze if the user tried to generate more random values than the maximum possible for that configuration, fixed. Some illegal math expressions would freeze Truly Random, fixed. Some illegal math expressions would flood the user with a very large number of error messages, fixed. Other: The math expression tan added (same as tg). Variations statistics no longer rounded to nearest 1000. If the user tries to generate more random values than the maximum possible for that configuration, a warning message box is displayed. [ Sep.18-05 ] - Truly Random v1.35 released. New features: Math parser added to the mask feature. New mask commands, constant symbols can now be specified using ascii codes. All text inside " in masks is written exactly as is. Bugs: Nagscreen still visible after registration, fixed. When mask was enabled on start and then disabled, variations would not be automatically calculated/updated, fixed. [ Jul.31-05 ] - Truly Random v1.32 released. Bugs: Would refuse to run without QTINTF.DLL. If the wizard was set to run on startup it would give an error when it returned focus to the main window. The wizards would not work if pronounceable checkbox in the main window was checked. The Not In Dictionary option would sometimes give invalid results in the Statistics Variation box. Other: Improved look of the buttons under windows 98. Old registration information is no longer overwritten on a program update or reinstall. [ Jul.20-05 ] - Truly Random v1.31 released. New features: Get help by pressing F1 or right-clicking on a feature directly from the Truly Random window. Bugs: Configuration during creation of random data is now disabled, to avoid crashes. Clicking on "Random generator" text in the main window in help now works. [ Jun.30-05 ] - Truly Random v1.30 released. New features: Dictionary added, to exclude common words from results. Optimized generation of very large sets of pseudo random data. Added link to help in the startup menu. Bugs: Wizard would sometimes lockup, when "run this wizard when Truly Random starts" was selected. Other: New uninstall icon. New install graphics. [ May.19-05 ] - Truly Random v1.21 released. Bugs: Mask <H> generated lowercase hexadecimal numbers. Fixed. [ Mar.22-05 ] - Truly Random v1.20 released. New features: Option to generate pronounceable passwords/strings added. [ Aug.07-04 ] - Truly Random v1.10 released. New features: Added wizards to generate passwords, PINs and numbers. Bugs: Improved on messy main window-look in Win 95, 98 and Me. Other: Removed need to install IE5.5 (or higher) to run Truly Random. Added help text to startup window for demo mode. [ Jun.06-04 ] - Truly Random v1.02 released. Bugs: Fixed problems with large mask %n1-n2 values, ranges up to 999,999,999 are now possible. [ Mar.30-04 ] - Truly Random v1.01 released. Bugs: Fixed problem with long strings and large amount of strings, where the program would stall. [ Jan.07-04 ] - Truly Random v1.00 released. First release.