Release Notes

07/01/2012: v1.2

Highlights

• scenes: user-designed graphical interfaces, displayable as overlays, dialogs or full activities
• projects: for grouping profiles, tasks and scenes
• main screen tabbed into profile, tasks, scenes and variables
• fixes for ICS

Incompatibilities

• %SILENT: values were being translated in foreign-language localizations. It now always return on,off or vibrate, as documented
• action Lock: passcode must be all digits, old codes with non-digits will result in lock not showing
• profiles/tasks exported with 1.2 cannot be imported via previous versions

Removed

• profile list context selectors (sort profile list by context type is an alternative)
• profile list profile options icon (long-click now)
• action Torch not available on ICS

Additions

• Prefs / UI / Hide Status Bar
• Prefs / UI / Beginner Mode (mainly: hide advanced options)
• action category Scene
• use any local media image as an icon in many places
• task edit: action options dialog: insert,copy,paste etc (on long-click by default)
• multiple task export options
• include last edit date in saved (not exported) data for Tasks,Profiles and Scenes
• tasks: multi-level warning icon for bad references to profiles, other tasks, scenes, plugins, apps, icons and scene elements
• states: multi-level warning icon for bad references to plugins
• file-based icons can be cropped
• task cloning
• action Test: package name
• 3rd Party action: DailyRoads Voyager
• added object versions to data definition export
• independent locking for tasks, scenes, projects
• action Menu (replacement for menu tasks)
• action Popup Task Buttons (replaces Popup Task Names and Popup Task Icons), with extra task slot
• profile properties: show in notification (not clicked, just counted)
• landscape-specific version of main screen
• attempted non-intrusive workaround for Cell Near-not-working-while-off
• external callers: specify arbitrary local names and values
• condition plugins: allow specify local vars to make available to resulting tasks that run
• back button to file selector
• Apps / Set Alarm and associated Android permission SET_ALARM

Bugfixes

• a profile with an event context and then a non-repeating time context was interpreted as 'not instant'
• menu tasks: large icons were disrupting layout
• prevent widget creation while main UI active, could cause data loss
• Text events/states: stop warning if there are no MMSs in the DB
• 1.6 compatibility
• center list on new profile wasn't working
• exporting of task descriptions: action condition was repeating action name
• prevent import of anonymous tasks not linked to profiles or scenes
• numeric variable indices with local vars were crashing in task edit
• location edit: long-click on map registers *before* finger is removed
• Default Ringtone: accept Silent in UI
• monitor was restarting sometimes nnecessarily after exiting prefs
• remove all whitespace before maths evaluation, they were sometimes choking up the maths library
• event Package Updated/New Package: was crashing on later OS versions
• colour parameters weren't accepting #FFFFFFFF
• action Variable Query: cancelling led to failure to continue task after all subsequent showings
• task editor was crashing sometimes on else/endif constructions without a matching if
• action For: 5:3 was only showing 5.
• action For: ignore 0 increment specifier
• action For: 5:2:1 and 2:5:-1 do nothing
• action For: 5:5:1 shows 5
• action Variable Convert: bad time format was causing crash
• %LAPP: was crashing. Maybe still is, but probably less :-)
• task editor: dragging items after a collapsed block to the bin was deleting wrong item
• event Received Text: don't show Stop or Priority flag, they doesn't work
• CPU detection bug could cause crash during Tasker initialization
• actions Compose SMS/MMS/Email: weren't always giving choice of selecting default app
• action Music Play Dir: some extra pointer checking
• action List Files: dir now mandatory
• action Variable Clear: match was not working correctly for local vars
• clipboard functions (export, %CLIP, action Set Clipboard) fixed in Honeycomb+
• new ICS keyevent Play supported for Media Button state
• new ICS keyevent Pause supported for Media Button state (treated as Stop)
• action Variable Set: no name specified: task-local vars (of current task) are cleared too
• catch infinite answers in maths evaluation
• removed annoying message for event Received Text
• state Calendar Entry fixed for ICS
• action Calendar Insert fixed for ICS
• action edit: changing slider position was causing auto-scroll to focused edit text field
• action Wifi Tether on ICS wasn't detecting state correctly

Changes

• improved lock indicators for UI
• more efficient internal data handling, may overcome too-much-data problems for some people
• event Alarm Clock: use alarm description field to match event 'Name' if it's present in the event
• drag for main screen and tasks: drag starts immediately without long press
• profile list click/long-click: now respects same settings as context/tasks
• default profile list click action is edit, default long-click is options
• dramatically improved Task Edit load time and draw speed
• prefs screen: switched away from native tabs for MIUI compatibility
• task export moved to main screen
• exported tasks now have TaskerData wrapper container (like other exported objects)
• action Perform Task: accept global vars for return value (and handle them....)
• Variable Split: don't trim whitespace from ends of resulting parts
• Default Ringtone: show current ringtone initially
• Call log states/event: respond a lot faster
• action Lock modified to use an overlay layout scene, much more effective
• actions Popup, Variable Query, Enter Passphrase, Popup Task Icons/Names modified to use scenes
• data file: write tags in sensible alphabetic order
• action Lock: passcode must be all digits
• Popup actions: timeout extended, potentially forever
• popups/scenes that the task is waiting to finish are removed when the task is killed
• list drag-scroll takes place without having to jiggle finger :-)
• list drag-scroll: up/down indicators disappear at list ends
• action Array Pop: now supports popping to global (user) variables
• widget task default priority to 7
• Zoom actions prefixed with word Zoom to distinguish from Scene actions
• several (imperfect) workarounds for Android ICS notification/component-status-change bug
• shortcut menu label is now 'Task Cut' to differentiate from widgets in ICS
• refreshed de/zh/fr/es on-device translations