Release Notes

20/07/2012: v1.3u1

• bugfix: false warning message when setting display brightness
• bugfix: action Set Tasker Icon was allowing (unused) uri spec for the icon
• bugfix: app creation: if only one named task is present, was not auto-filling it as the launch task sometimes
• bugfix: JS: sendIntent(): wasn't passing data field
• bugfix: %FOTO was using dcim instead of DCIM
• bugfix: Take Photo: double check white balance, flash mode and scene mode are supported before setting
• bugfix: Take Photo: catch exceptions when setting parameters
• bugfix: regular expression matching in conditions: match on any part of target, not necessarily whole target
• bugfix: action: JavaScript: task wasn't waiting until JavaScript finished

18/07/2012: v1.3

Highlights

• create your own standalone apps from tasks and projects (Android 2.3+)
• JavaScript integration: sequenced inline in tasks, embedded in WebView HTML (Android 2.3+)
• most Tasker actions available as JS functions (Android 2.3+)
• masses of other additions, improvements and bugfixes

Additions

• action Run Shell: Store Result In parameter
• Take Call available for Gingerbread+
• prefs option Net/Cell Wake Screen (optional workaround for screen-off-no-updates problem)
• action cat Script
• action Script / Javascriptlet
• Market version: clicking on action with missing plugin, show install popup with Market link
• event / Button Widget Click / Type: Launcher (only standard Android currently)
• ContentProvider so developers can query existing named tasks
• developer: TaskerIntent.testStatus(), updated examples in HTML doc
• developer: ContentProvider for task names and some prefs values
• action Variable Section: parameter Store Result In
• developer: TaskerIntent.getExternalAccessPrefsIntent to let user enable external access easily
• detect problems in event tasks of scene elements and indicate higher up in UI
• data version field in data files 'dv'
• event: 3rd Party / NotifyMyApp
• Menu / More / Make A Donation
• matches Regex and Doesn't Match Regex to action (and Variable Value state) conditions
• variable Root Available (%ROOT)
• HTTP Get/Post: https:// and http:// supported in Server:Port parameter
• HTTP Post: Data: allow file specification in place of attributes (untested)
• action: Net / Airplane Radios
• variable Airplane Radios, %AIRR
• check for SuperSU when deciding root status
• action File / Read File
• state Sensor / Pressure (requires relevant hardware sensor, untested (no hardware available))
• variable %PRESSURE (requires relevant hardware sensor, untested (no hardware available))
• action Take Photo: Resolution, Flash Mode, Scene Mode, White Balance parameters
• action Variables / Search Replace Variable
• action Copy Dir
• actions Move/Copy/Delete File, Create/Delete Dir: added Use Root parameter
• contact photos selectable for images in some places (ICS+)
• a variable can now be specified for action image parameters
• action Misc / Test: Contact Photo / Thumb URI
• new action category 'Image'
• actions Image / Load/Save/Rotate/Resize/Crop/Flip Image
• Image Buffer selectable for images in some places (related to Image category actions)
• Monitor prefs: Monitor Accel/Prox/Pressure/Light sensors when display off (no, when plugged, yes)
• variable Input Method (%IMETHOD)
• task edit: long-click on empty list brings up dialog with Paste (if an action previously copied)
• Send Intent: Mime Type option
• Send Intent: can use Action and Package/Class together
• HTTP Get/Post: added optional Cookie parameter
• HTTP Get/Post: returned header fields are stored in local array %header
• state categories: Display, Tasker
• state : Display / Display State
• state : Display / Display Orientation
• state : Tasker / Profile Active
• state : Tasker / Task Running
• event Email Received: added To parameter
• event category Tasker
• event Tasker / Monitor Start
• variables Calendar Title/Descr/Loc (%CALTITLE, %CALDESCR, %CALLOC)
• action Test: new types: Calendar Cal,Title,Descr,Location,Start,End,AllDay,Busy
• action Get Location: Keep Tracking parameter
• action Stop Location: stop tracking
• action Test Scene: Horizontal and Vertical offsets
• action Tasker / Set Tasker Icon
• action Music Play: extra parameter Stream
• action Calendar Insert: All Day parameter
• action Variable Convert: To and from Base64
• action Variable Convert: To SHA1 and MD5
• action / Call Log: action parameter (clear missed etc)
• android permission Write Contacts (to enable clearing call log)
• state Magnetic Field (strength), variable %MFIELD
• allow 3 states per profile instead of 2
• action For: Items parameter supports following array variable specifications: %arr(#), %arr(#>), %arr(#<), %arr(>), %arr(<) e.g. 1:%arr(#)
• action: Tasker / Set Tasker Pref (monitor timings etc)
• action: Scene / Element Text Size
• Menu / More / Developer / Save JS Library Template
• profile properties: Restore Settings checkbox
• action Alert / HTML Popup
• scene element WebView: params Mode, Allow Phone Access
• scene element WebView: JS interface to Tasker functions
• action Script / JavaScript
• app creation: packaging of JavaScript scripts (and run straight from APK)
• 3 or 4 icons to builtin selection from Tasker UI
• action Image / Filter Image
• variables Device ID/Manufacturer/Model/Product (%DEVID, %DEVMAN, %DEVMOD, %DEVPROD)
• variable SDK Version (%SDK)
• action Sound Record: added audio codec and output format selectors, default format now mp4
• prefs section Prefs / Misc / Factory
• Menu / More / Developer / Create/Delete Keystore
• action Test: test types: Action/Event/State available, Have Root
• task/project long-click option Export / As App (requires Tasker App Factory, Android 2.3+)
• catch security exceptions for some ROMs from intent category ALTERNATIVE
• Export / As App for tasks and projects

Bugfixes

• Calendar Entry and other low-power state: on other state active, calendar wasn't being immediately checked
• jumping with Goto was not clearing in-between For loop status
• poweramp: after pause, %MTRACK was only staying cleared for a few seconds
• rectangle scene elements: with multiple, a 'focus' tap was required before the real tap would register
• catch crash on SonyROM/ICS from Cell Near scanning
• Tasker icon was not shown when selecting an app icon for an image
• fix for all-day calendar event GMT offset
• %MTRACK: wasn't handling playback-complete signal from Android music player
• action Element Visibility: setting false without a delay wouldn't have any effect till redraw
• datadef had missing entry
• action Say To File: workaround for bug in some pre-ICS Android versions deleting file on TTS shutdown
• another attempted workaround for cell-near-not-working-with-screen-off
• several monitors were not being restarted after a reboot until screen was unlocked
• deleting a project contents could result in profiles with no tasks in other projects
• don't show problem icon for missing builtin scenes
• disabling and enabling a profile with an active orientation context would not reactivate it
• beta: scene/profile export options were sometimes mixed up
• importing scene with bad data format was crashing instead of complaining
• Take Photo: save to DCIM, not dcim
• Day Context: validation was slightly bugged
• colour validation was not accepting #80000000 (and possibly some others)
• text/image scene element: stroke event wasn't triggering unless a tap handler was also specified
• action Photo: misspelling of Discreet
• scene element button: bad image references were not being noticed
• action Lock, parameter Code: don't show var selector
• unzip: handle files in dirs which havn't had their directory unpacked yet
• action Enter Key (also via En/decrypt Dir: was crashing upon reaching timeout
• beta: Load Image: don't show Image Buffer as source
• some situations were causing the monitor to activate even when disabled
• Variable Length wasn't working with array indices
• add element: keep Paste element on top instead of alpha-sorting it
• certain actions (e.g. Compose SMS), contact selector was replacing number instead of adding to existing number(s)
• Show Scene: check offsets in range
• variable monitor in UI wasn't deregistering on exit

Changes

• actions taking a colour/elementname parameter name allow single-array-index references e.g. %arr(%index)
• Cell Near states with variable in spec will dynamically update if variables change
• refreshed es/fr/zh translations
• data file size cut by approx 30%, 50% for internal data and app creation
• data load time reduced by approx 30%, more for internal data and app creation
• data write times improved by approx 80%, more for internal data and app creation
• data file readability improved
• action Call: number is now optional so action can be used to go straight to dialpad
• action Zip File: also handles directories recursively
• show main-screen export options in beginner mode
• export builtin scenes when exporting project (may have been changed...)
• plugin package details are stored so they can be referred to when plugin is missing
• inserting variable names into action text params, append instead of replacing if ends in (
• %NTITLE: ignore new notifications Tasker can't find the title of
• removed documentation references to a certain competing product
• %HTTPL: if the server doesn't return a value, calculate our own when possible
• %HTTPD: upped max length to 250K
• variable %GPS is now monitored and dynamic (Gingerbread+ only)
• merged Photo actions into single one (Take Photo)
• action cat Audio -> Audio Settings
• Default Ringtone -> Audio Settings category
• merged Send Component Intent and Send Action Intent into Send Intent
• Send Intent: can specify package without class (not cupcake)
• state Incoming Call: became Call and handles also Outgoing
• HTTP Get/Post: user-agent in header now includes OS version
• prevent use of Element Web Control from external caller (security)
• don't show developer menu option in beginner mode
• default popup size
• Zip File -> Zip, Unzip File -> UnZip, Music Forward -> Music Skip
• mark missing images with warning sign instead of leaving blank
• action Disable Tasker -> Disable
• action Send SMS: reduced max chars limit to 140.
• state Variable Value: allow array references (where applicable to operator parameter)
• moved actions Run Script, Run Shell to new category Scripts
• action Run Script -> Run SL4A Script

Removed

• android.permission.RECEIVE_SMS, not used anymore (hopefully...)