Release Notes

27/11/2013: v4.2u3

• bugfix: task edit: wasn't able to drag multi-selected items
• bugfix: web scene element: crashes in various places on KitKat
• bugfix: web scene element: couldn't resize/move in scene editor on KitKat
• bugfix: event Alarm Clock: wasn't working at all on KitKat (now works but can't match label)
• bugfix: scene properties: documentation of Geometry and Orientation parameters
• bugfix: event Intent Received: unparcel bundles before converting to string
• bugfix: encryption on KitKat (including encryption of passcode for action Lock)
• bugfix: various attempted user-reported crash fixes

22/11/2013: v4.2u2

• change: Notify action: action buttons: restrict max local var size passed
• bugfix: JavaScript: function shell() was never returning any command output
• bugfix: scene edit: various problems returning from editing element/properties under low memory conditions
• bugfix: app creation: scene AB icons weren't being packaged into APK
• bugfix: prevent showing an overlay scene with an illegal element (was crashing)
• bugfix: Say To File: was always using default locale
• bugfix: JS: warnings from console were causing crash
• bugfix: scene properties edit: changing background colour wasn't having immediate effect unless in beginner mode
• bugfix: various attempted crash fixes

18/11/2013: v4.2u1

• bugfix: actions with items: dragging wasn't working
• bugfix: Search Tasker: only first matching action was shown for a each task
• bugfix: complaint about missing temp. sensor when new builtin %TEMP var previously used
• other attempted crash fixes

16/11/2013: v4.2

Incompatibilities

• event Intent Received: variable names of extras are now converted to lower case
• %TEMP is now a builtin variable, please rename any existing variable with that name

Added

• action: Array Process (sort,rotate etc)
• action: Element Depth
• action Test: Display Resolution and DPI (Dots Per Inch)
• action Element Destroy
• element TextEdit: Maximum Characters parameter
• scene element: number picker
• plugin protocol: pass referenced local var names from the current task to Setting plugin edit activity
• JS: funtion elemPosition
• JS/webview: extract global variable references (from global() function), use for monitor activation, variable picker lists etc
• text,edittext,button,toggle elements: text size param accepts text entry, note auto-scaling is then not possible in some situations
• element button,text,edittext: corner positions
• manual entry of scene/element geometry (not in beginner mode)
• scene edit: element picker button
• action Scene Element Create (dynamic element creation, no event tasks unfortunately)
• xxhdpi launcher/action bar icon
• var %TEMP (ambient temperature) (untested)
• state Temperature (ambient temperature) (untested)
• scene element checkbox
• scene element toggle
• scene element spinner
• action Element Value: apply also to checkbox
• scene element WebView: parameters for AppCache API and DB API
• action Set Tasker Pref: added sensor settings when display off
• state Docked: support for he/le desk docks
• state Docked: Other category (initially supported Samsung keyboard)
• variable %UIMODE: additional possible values tv, appliance and undef
• app select: include le/he desk dock apps with All
• action Take Photo: added Focus Mode parameter
• task edit, test button: long-click to run with a specific priority
• action Show Scene: Animation parameter for non-overlay display types
• action Hide Scene: Animation parameter (only relevant when displayed as non-overlay)
• scene edit: menu item 'scene properties'
• action bar scene properties: ab style, title, subtitle, home icon (+click event), actions, tab labels (+ click event)
• other scene properties: orientation, key event
• action Show Scene: extra display type, Activity, Full Window, No Title
• state HDMI Plugged (untested)
• element Slider: Default parameter
• scene edit: touch mode resize for adjusting scene size
• scene element Image: image uri can be directly specified (non-beginner-mode)
• developers: support for synchronous action plugins, return status, local var setting,
• developer: support for specification of 'relevant' vars for Tasker's var selector (both state and action plugins)
• action edit: plugins: timeout parameter
• confirm dialogs when creating a new profile and task creation is cancelled (e.g. by clicking outside task selector)
• menu, spinner, action bar items accept variables in item label
• profile export human-readable: show task order, restore settings and display in notification values when not at default vals
• state Docked: added code for Asus keyboard dock ('Other' category)
• action Say: Respect Audio Focus parameter

Bugfixes

• action Destroy Scene: was crashing (dependent on timing) with overlay scenes occasionally
• icon parameters with variable specification: when executed more than once (e,g in a loop) the variable was sticking with the first value
• Goto, Label, wasn't working if label contained a variable
• var tab/var selection dialog: indexed vars weren't sorted correctly by index
• app creation: export of actions using image buffer was failing
• new scene: element task: scene selector wasn't showing the new scene name
• new scene: references to the new scene name were showing the problem icon
• scaling scene elements with scene was sometimes resulting in a 1-pixel gap at right or bottom
• attempted: fix for Wietse's 'invalid record' location warnings after reboot
• JS: dynamic declarations of vars as both arrays or simple vars was only handling the array case
• action labels with newlines were disrupting Run Log
• HTTP Post: problem with non-ASCII character sets and a non-file body
• action Variable Split: local var: was not causing an update of things referencing the resulting array
• Text/Button/EditText elements: local vars in text/label fields weren't replaced
• JS: function exit(): sometimes the JS would continue execution for a short time after the exit() (timing issue)
• array pop/push wasn't broadcasting changes for local vars
• action Element Value for spinner wasn't updating display or triggering the Value Set event
• JS: enableProfile wasn't asking for right args in function selector and wasn't processing them properly anyway
• was in some cases responding to variable changes which were prefixes of referenced variables
• in some places, changes to local scene vars were not being reacted to
• grid size was snapping scaled coordinates to grid, not underlying unscaled coords
• global user (project) vars weren't alpha sorted in selection lists
• action plugins weren't showing icon within the Plugin category
• was accepting bundle attributes from plugins which later caused failed data load
• scene element text: format Text With Links wasn't linkifying links
• action Set Widget Icon: No Image was resulting in warning icon
• action Say respects audio focus (but doesn't support ducking)
• some misc crashes
• action Goto, Start of Loop, wasn't acting like 'continue' as intended
• action Goto: onto onto a previous loop from outside, wasn't starting loop at first index again as intended
• file actions with Use Root checked: quote filenames to prevent problems with e.g. filenames with spaces
• WebView scene element: wasn't displaying source specified with variable
• state BT Status: wasn't matching parameter correctly
• action Javascript: vars in path weren't being replaced
• action phone number params: wasn't accepting array reference
• action Take Photo: initial action creation, was giving spurious warnings about picture size
• app creation: when monitor vars were only used in tasks, monitor was being killed on ending of a task
• scene element menu: background was not noticing changes to colour vars
• scene edit: work around S4 (some ROMs?) crashing retrieving wallpaper
• action create scene: wasn't initializing scene vars from task local vars
• vars tab: wasn't showing vars from tasks in scene events
• spurious warning on profile deletion "warning: no profile ID: xxx"
• scene edit: screen rotation: was sometimes losing zoom status
• element EditText: event Text Changed: was responding multiple times to a single press
• scene edit: graphical artifacts when selecting touch mode and some other cases
• event Notificaton Click on Android 4.3: was only working for clicking Tasker notifications
• flag bt actions/states unavailable when no adapter on device
• file selection was returning absolute instead of SD-relative path, wasn't puttin cursor to end
• task edit: small flick at end of long-clicking an item could result in list scrolling to top
• elements with items: bottom bar was over items
• UI drag margin wasn't correctly adjusting for screen density (was too wide on very high res screens)
• action Say/SayToFile: problems in more recent Android version (changed Android behaviour)
• element background border: bottom and right had a 1-pixel thinner border than top and left
• UI lock applies also to Menu / More / Run An Action (prevent e.g. disable Tasker that way)
• plugin state context: disabling profile while plugin active: enabling at a later date was causing immediate activation without first querying plugin
• plugin: exception handling plugin completion codes
• plugin actions: Continue On Error was not being respected for timeouts
• plugin actions: added TaskerPlugin.hostSupportsOnFireVariableReplacement(Activity) for backwards compat with older Taskers
• action Popup Task Buttons: bad link to help text
• action Variable Search Replace: was giving exception for undefined variables
• export task description: Set Tasker Pref was failing to export with some pref types
• unchecking profile property 'Restore Settings' wasn't always being handled correctly in combination with other profiles referencing the same setting(s)
• disallow vibration related actions if no vibrator on device
• contact photo/thumbnail: if 2 contacts had same number, only first was checked for a photo/thumbnail
• contact photo/thumbnail: weren't showing in widgets on desktop
• non-admin user: don't do MMS checks, was timing out querying DB
• beta: scrolling within elements wasn't working for non-overlay scene types < JB 4.3
• beta: scene edit: centre of Number Picker elements wasn't responding to touch
• owing dialog scene over activity scene: wasn't hiding softkeyboard when dialog dismissed
• beta: Spinner: events/item actions were again firing immediately scene shown, grr
• beta: Search Tasker: wasn't searching in items of relevant elements (list,spinner,scene properties)
• theme Light/DarkAB: popup lists weren't legible
• app creation: child config screen: empty extra permissions were preventing later apk install by Android
• webview element: alert and other js dialogs weren't workingw

Changes

• resolving math expressions in task edit screen: don't give warnings, probably come from undefined local vars
• state edit, wifi ssid/mac params: successive selections append the entry with / instead of setting it to the selected
• %BLUE: was only reacting to on/off states, not in-between
• menu scene elements: accept (scene) local vars when specifying a var to fill contents
• scene elements, colour parameters: accept (scene) local vars
• action Test Scene: child app: returns 'background' when the scene has been shown but is currently not on the screen
• scene edit: moved background colour setting to scene properties screen
• NewsRob -> GrazeRSS
• action Element Visibility: Element Name parameter is now a simple match to allow hiding/showing multiple elements at once (e.g. to simulate a tab)
• store display characteristics of scene creation device, scale up/down when importing to new devices (also for builtin scenes)
• warning icon for unresolvable file Uris
• %QTIME is deprecated, please use %qtime instead
• support for SDK 18 method to retrieve BT adapter, bring on the SDK 19 method!
• de/es language updates
• event Intent Received: variable names of extras are converted to lower-case
• array pop broadcasts for the array name, not the particular index
• main screen variables tab: auto-capitalize first letter of variable name
• app context: don't count Tasker's dialog scenes for app detection
• scene animation max 5secs
• scene edit: geometry in action bar is always unscaled (i.e. doesn't show zoomed values)
• action Set Clipboard: allow zero-length text
• exponential backoff on failed lock code entry
• shortcut creation: limit icon selection instead of complaining about unavailable types afterwards
• Say/SayToFile: support for new speech progress reporting, including stopping task on error (API 15+)
• added AutoShare and AutoNotification to plugin selector