Release Notes

17/06/2013: v4.1u3

Bugfixes

• bugfix: directory selection: top-left icon accepts current dir
• bugfix: app creation: config: min version always initialized to 14

17/06/2013: v4.1u3

Bugfixes

• action edit: scene actions: fill in scene name if only one scene exists
• bugfix from u2: text entry box obscured after pressing + on main screen (doh)

15/06/2013: v4.1u2

Bugfixes

• crash in UI leaving info pages while zoom controls showing
• attempted fix for new task name box disappearing
• attempted fix for some people where Tasker crashes on startup
• attempted fix for some people popup text box obscured by soft keyboard
• other misc crash problems
• when data backup file doesn't exist, mention that explicitly with expected location

14/06/2013: v4.1u1

Bugfixes

• action Element Web Control: reload wasn't working due to Tasker caching
• crash exiting task edit screen on some systems
• attempted fix for crash exiting from main screen on some OS versions
• action/event/state select: back in category screen wasn't cancelling

14/06/2013: v4.1

Additions

• scene edit: touch mode Edit
• deleting single profile: show name in confirmaton box
• support for %MTRACK intents from app Media Utilities

Bugfixes

• app creation: missing permissions for events Received Text, SMS Success/Failure in some cases
• app creation: root task/project with name containing e.g. & was failing
• app creation: version name containing e.g. & in was failing
• variables tab: only show project indices in proj where base proj referenced, if possible
• variables tab: update when moving profiles,tasks,scenes between projects and other common data changes
• variables tab: update when switching to it, in case we missed something
• variables tab: with Empty deselected, was showing variables which had a stored value which was empty string
• source of crashes after leaving some UI screens for an extended period then returning
• was needlessly reinitializing some static data every time on starting several components
• state edit: Wifi Near/Connected: scan dialog had wrong title
• action Notify: using an Ipack then later a non-Ipack, or vice versa, resulted in 2 separate notifications
• scene edit: light theme with dark scene background, control buttons weren't visible
• root detection: accept pkg com.lbe.security.miui with SU
• HTTP Get: Content Type: is only used as a hint to Tasker as what type is coming back, no longer sets Content-type header
• builtin icon select: approx 20th icon was a blank space and shouldn't have been selectable
• scene element webview: source type File: selector icon wasn't showing file selector
• app creation: swiping kid away from recent lists was crashing under most conditions on 4.2+
• selecting End If / End For had a graphical glitch before return to task edit screen
• using %arr(#?key) in an actions If parameter LHS crashed on return to action list
• action Menu: bad formatting of error message when no items had been entered
• action/element Menu: dragging items not via a widget was failing every second time
• on creating new Menu action, items could not initially be dragged via widgets
• Profile Properties: Task Priority value 0 wasn't displaying textually on screen start
• (attempted) action Type and other shell-based: IllegalThreadStateException (and catch error in case not fixed)
• new boolean params added to actions: apply default when loading old copies of action without the param (not just when edit)
• prevent setting of builtin variables via Variables tab
• very fast drags were picking up adjacent items
• time context without from time: description had space at start
• app creation: Notify actions: action item icons weren't appearing
• action Element Visibility: was warning about 'no display' if scene wasn't showing yet
• action JavaScriptlet: If condition: variable selected from the list was having % stripped
• action Set Widget Icon: uri specification of icon wasn't working
• action Send Intent: wasn't accepting setting of Mime Type and Data together
• action Variable Convert: number base conversions were working with integers instead of long integers
• app creation: including USB Connected profile was causing a badly formed manifest
• action Go Home: wasn't handling variables for Page parameter
• task edit: very long conditions were pushing true/false marker off screen
• action/event/state select: don't show text suggestions
• action/event/state select: wasn't handling soft input window appearance well
• scene image element with variable for background colour: wasn't updating when variable changed
• scene map element: satellite and traffic overlay options were mixed up
• was accepting whitespace for Lock passcode
• some variables were showing up twice in variables tab
• JavaScript(let): runShell and getVoice: timeouts were being interpreted as ms instead of seconds in places
• Scene Edit: resize/move mode: make sure icons still visible when background matches icon colour
• action Element Text: allow empty text
• fixed spurious 'warning: udg: no display' after creating a new element when Android destroying activities on-exit
• multiple quickly-consecutive activity/dialog scenes could result in timing problems
• more code tightening targeted at memory leak(s)
• action Test: don't require file to exist to test it's name or dir
• catch OOM on icon select screen (builtin icons)
• some steps to prevent data leaks in some screens
• action CPU: incorrect validation of variable name for Governor param
• monitor notification: on Android 4.2+, with transparent icon selected, use normal date (not in status bar anyway)
• developers: TaskerIntent.java: prefSet() call was using wrong URI
• Notify actions, Actions paramters: click actions weren't working
• action/event/state selection: pressing back with filter text set was getting into bad state
• action edit: using %var(>) in condition was causing lockup loop
• scene element web: some systems: when editing scene Android was launching external browser
• state plugins: wasn't taking Invert setting into account
• List Files: Hidden parameter was ignored if no Match was entered
• JS: functions getLocation and enterKey weren't working correctly
• export task descriptions: Notify and Menu actions: show Actions and Items param (though only count for the content)
• event Received Intent: array extras weren't getting the right Tasker variable names
• event Received Intent: extras with null values were causing Tasker crash
• app creation: all xhdpi icons from Tasker were being included in kid unnecessarily, keep only needed
• app creation: hdpi icons weren't being included at all, keep needed (only)
• exe service logging: action If had two Ifs in a row
• action If: in edit screen, condition parameter wasn't labelled

Changes

• enable/disable menu entry: visible and always flashes tip, until user uses icon for toggle first time
• Zoom category actions: removed 'element' from action names to fit better in selector
• action List Files: sort results alphabetically
• list item / notify action config: labels now word capped without suggestions
• custom monitor notification: changed some colour values to holo default
• action Variable Add/Subtract: treat empty var as 0
• speeded up profile list scrolling
• int text parameters: allow 40 characters instead of 20 (for vars)
• scene edit: don't sort touch mode menu
• task edit: restrict condition display to single line
• main screen task select list: use centre instead of end truncation