What are the latest new features in SwitchResX ?

What's new in latest version of SwitchResX

Corrects a crash when saving icons by Display Sets and when no set was preexisting
Preserves existing windows data when saving windows by display set and more than one set is active
Preserve display status (active or inactive) across restarts
Can show information regarding Extended EDID on displays supporting it (CEA and VTB extensions)

What was new in previous versions of SwitchResX

SwitchResX 3.8.2

Saves desktop icons positions & windows sizes and positions with display layouts: you can have different desktop layouts (with and wihout an second monitor for example), and swicth automatically between the layouts when you plug or unplug your monitor
Allows to disable a plugged display without unplugging it. Uses can be: having a TV always plugged to the Mac, but not willing to use it, without having to deconnect it phyiscally; or use a laptop on external display with the internal screeen dimmed...

Brings a shortcut to System Monitors Preferences
Corrects a missing feature where the previous resolution was not applied back after a restart
Shows the Blanking & Total values when creating a new timing
Displays the localized floating point values in the exported EDID data

Corrects a bug when trying to restore position of Finder windows
Corrects a bug when a Display Set was not automatically applied during application startup
Corrects a bug where the Preferences window could sometimes not be closed on Leopard
Corrects a bug where a "0x0" resolution could appear in SwitchResX lists of resolutions

SwitchResX 3.8.1

Brings back the Menu Extra in the menu bar, on certain configurations of Leopard where it wouldn't be displayed
APE Runs back on Leopard, thanks to the hard work of Unsanity. Reminder: APE is not required for SwitchResX to work, but can enhance some of its key features
Doesn't crash any more while trying to get info about the latest version
Dropped Panther Support, requires Tiger 10.4.0 at least (for the APE module - the other parts should still work)

SwitchResX 3.8.0

Doesn't crash any more when launching/quitting the Daemon from within the Control Panel
Corrects even more unstabilities that have been seen on Leopard and could lead to Control Panel crashes
Corrects some memory leaks in the Control Panel
Shows right detailed timing parameters again for existing scaled resolutions
Removed some system private calls that are now public APIs
Removed one limitation for the unregistered version

SwitchResX 3.7.11

Contextual Menu works in PathFinder now, and displays a correct menu without garbage
Corrects a crash when trying to replace windows positions if no window position was saved
Corrects a crash when Control Panel was used from an other user account than the account used during installation

Compatible with Leopard: Corrects the unstabilities that have been seen on Leopard and could lead to Control Panel crashes

Vertical and horizontal positive synchronisations were mixed on previous releases

SwitchResX 3.7.10

Contextual Menu works in PathFinder now, and displays a correct menu without garbage
Corrects a crash when trying to replace windows positions if no window position was saved
Corrects a crash when Control Panel was used from an other user account than the account used during installation<

SwitchResX 3.7.9

Common timings were not kept activated when SwitchResX was quit
Better options to reset to factory when womething is messed up after activating a bad resolution: you can reset all displays, even if you cannot boot from a messed one
Corrects some bigs where reset to factory could remove the name of the display given by MacOS X itself

SwitchResX 3.7.8

Corrects a bug with interleaved resolutions, which were not correclty saveed after 3.7.7 update
Corrects a bug with Display Rotation menu, which was not updated on Powerbook G4
Corrected some bugs while defining the key shortcuts used by SwitchResX (visual and functional)

SwitchResX 3.7.7

Restore icons works correcty if align on grid option is not selected
Correctly updates the Menu in Apple Remote Desktop in curtain mode
Changed exported EDID formatting output to match Custom Timing format
Corrected some old URLs in the software

SwitchResX 3.7.6

Quick change arrow buttons in the Custom Timing dialog box are now working in the correct direction
Can again launch Applescripts from within Display Sets
Can manage Display Overscan from Menus and Display Sets
More coherency tests in the Display Sets

SwitchResX 3.7.5

Corrects a rare crash with multiple monitors, seen mostly on MacBooks
Corrects a problem where the Control Panel would report that current settings are not already applied right after opening it
Corrects a problem where the SwitchResX Menu could sometimes not be loaded at restart (again)

SwitchResX 3.7.4

Corrects a problem where some resolutions settings were not reloaded correctly
Corrects a problem where the SwitchResX Menu could sometimes not be loaded at restart
The (optional) APE Module is now Universal Binary - this marks the return of the resolution blocking and redirection features on Intel based Macs

SwitchResX 3.7.3

Automatically checks for new versions online
On video cards that allow it, can flip the display horizontally/vertically/diagonally
Can launch and quit the SwitchResX Daemon from within the Control Panel
Can set and reset display overscan for TVs (via AppleScript only at this time)

Better AppleScript recording possibilities: records screen mirroring/unmirroring, screen orientation changes, grayscale changes
Better Application sets handling, even for applications that don't provide a bundle name

Corrects a bug where two arrow buttons when configuring a custom timing were mixed
Corrects a bug where two monitors could falsely get the same name when the second was plugged
Corrects a bug when replacing icons
Corrects a Display Sets bug, where the menu was not in sync with the created sets

SwitchResX 3.7.2

Corrects crashes and bugs on the Intel version. This version works well on Intel MacMinis
Enhances compatibility between Intel and PPC version

SwitchResX 3.7.1

SwitchResX can now save and restore position and size of the windows in all applications, and not only in Finder
Icons could bounce to a wrong position in some cases
In some cases the Vertical back and sync parameters of custom resolutions were not used
Corrects some bugs on the Intel version

SwitchResX 3.7

New functions
Lots of new features in this version. Most features were taken from user reviews (requests or rants).

On Tiger: SwitchResX saves (and restores) Finder Icons positions and Desktop Windows positions and sizes. This is the comeback of a long wanted feature, that was there on Mac OS 9 and often asked back
The Control Panel can be launched just to tweak monitor settings without installing all the SwitchResX tools if you don't need all the features, in which case the interface is simplified
Can now change the default resolution used after restart: that should avoid situations where a new resolution could be added, enabled by the System, and used, but the monitor would stay black, (and the user thought it destroyed its monitor)
Can now edit advanced settings (new resolutions, monitor characteristics, ...) of unattached monitors, if you know their vendor ID
Lets you copy and paste the parameters of custom resolutions as Windows "Powerstrip" or X11 "modeline" settings that you can find on the web - no need to make the conversion to enter the parameters in SwitchResX, it does that automatically for you
Includes the Kagi Registration Module for direct registartion from within SwitchResX itself
More resolutions are shown as VESA timings that can be enabled
Universal Binary available, although the x86 version is not fully tested

Structure changes

Changed the positions of files: now less items are installed on your disk
Interface has been slightly changed, to take user remarks into account: it should be less difficult - the About Box is also simplified
Simplified and removed unused functions
SwitchResX enters the registration data automatically if it finds some in the Clipboard

Bugs corrected

DDC report could sometimes show bad and false text values
SwitchResX would crash if a bad formatted serial number was entered
Arrow key was unusable in resolutions list
A crash could occur or bad values could be read when reading custom scaled resolutions
Can again add/remove daemon from the login items
Can again add/remove menu item from the menu bar
Sometimes a custom monitor name was not saved

SwitchResX 3.6.3

Contextual Menu was not working any more
"Detect Displays" Menu item was not working any more
Doesn't automatically run the Daemon any more if it is put in the Trash after reinstall (should get rid of the annoying Registration question that could continue to pop up even after uninstall)
Correctly manages display rotation angle on interleaved devices

SwitchResX 3.6.2

Correction of a crashing bug introduced in version 3.6.1

SwitchResX 3.6.1

Corrects a problem with MacOS X 10.4.3
Should be less sensible to preferences loss during system upgrades
Corrects a crash when Display Name was stored as localized name in preferences file

NB: x86 version is provided - no support is assured for this version, though

SwitchResX 3.6

Structural:

Moved code base from CodeWarrior to XCode 2.1 for Intel transition: Intel version is ready for the D-day
Moved all the User Interface from old Resources to Interface Builder
Unified both localized versions in one installer and one product - repackaged the installer

Functional:

Can read and write preferences file even if Daemon is not running - can be use to create resolutions even without running Daemon
Properly shows the correct key shortcuts in all supported languages - dynamically
Toolbar is customizable - desktop functions that are still useless on MacOS X are no more included by default
Added modifications buttons in timing definitions for quick changes (moving picture, changing size of picture) without touching frequencies
Added button to export Display information in a text file
Can customize display range properties
Made custom display name changes system-wide

Debug:

Corrects a bug where an incorrect resolution could be applied fro m a Display Set if the resolution was disabled after restart
Corrects a bug that could crash the Daemon when fast-switching between users
Corrects a bug where the Daemon could be added multiple times to the startup items
Corrects a bug where orientation information of a display was not updated after a display rotation

SwitchResX 3.5.2

Corrects a bug where it could save an incorrect number of built-in resolutions in unregistered mode
Corrects a bug where bad pixel clock was written to system file, causing unuseable and weird resolutions to be shown
Corrects a bug where a crash could occur when plugging or unplugging a monitor
Some interface corrections

SwitchResX 3.5.1

Can define custom resolutions very easily by use of three timing formulas (GTF, CVT, CVT-RB)
Can manage rotation of displays on Tiger

Better handles resolutions that are temporary unavailable in a display set (for example in case of rotation of a display)
Horizontal parameters multiplicity is got from the IORegistry, and thus should be compatible with all cards

Modified the code for detection of configuration changes outside SwitchResX...
Corrects a bug that crashed the French version of the Menu extra module

SwitchResX 3.5

Proofed on Tiger
Redesigned user interface
Corrects nasty bugs introduced in SwitchResX 3.4 - when hotplugging a monitor, when editing a resolution by double-click...
Uses standard MacOS X toolbar elements instead of custom design code, making the code cleaner and easier to maintain
Changed parts of the code to prepare eventual transition to XCode