MetroTwit

Version 1.0.0.0 release notes:

• Added multiple account support
• Added support for filtering
• Added new out-of-box-experience for first time users
• Added ability to preview larger user avatars
• Added undo tweet functionality
• Added Twitter events support for user follows, list membership and tweet favorites
• Added support for adding users to lists
• Added user full name to username autocomplete
• Added CTRL+F shortcut to quickly activate search
• Added remove column confirmation
• Added faux border for when DWM shadows are not available
• Added sidebar artwork
• Added “compact sidebar” functionality
• Added button to indicate custom column sizing
• Added CTRL+TAB shortcut to switch between accounts
• Added left/right arrow shortcut to navigate columns
• Added add to filter shortcut by right clicking on hashtags and usernames
• Added double-click column heading shortcut to scroll to top and mark tweets as read
• Added “duplicate tweet “error message
• Added ability to mention user from profile options
• Added inline errors to application and columns
• Added error prompt about Windows 8 compatibility
• Changed Embed.ly media preview to NoEmbed (work in progress, stylings incomplete)
• Changed code signing certificate to Comodo (Will prompt install)
• Changed “What’s happening” text to include account name
• Changed settings default to not show “name of Twitter application”
• Changed empty tweet columns to show “No tweets” message
• Changed restart button in update screen to be at top of screen (will show on next update)
• Changed unread marker to be smaller in scrollbar and scrollbar thumb to be larger
• Changed default URL shortening to native t.co
• Changed retweeted by tooltip to include username text
• Updated visual style of buttons in light theme
• Removed favorite button from tweet on hover
• Removed “public” column due to Twitter announcing it would discontinue it
• Fixed direct message permalink not going to useful URL
• Fixed direct messages displaying weirdly if text included &
• Fixed potential crash with notifications
• Fixed international characters when typing hashtags
• Fixed typing illegal characters in username search
• Fixed possible crash when user cache was updated while new tweet was received
• Fixed usernames, hashtags and URLs appearing broken in user profile bios
• Fixed favorite columns to support infinite scroll
• Fixed username/hashtag parsing to conform to latest Twitter guidelines
• Fixed empty search results for random corrupt results from Twitter
• Fixed changing reply tweet to direct message does not send
• Fixed large progress bars under Windows 8 Aero Lite
• Fixed dark theme autocomplete black text under Windows 8 Aero Lite
• Fixed “favourite tweet” in context menu (for our bureaucratic American buddies)
• Fixed hashtags and usernames not displaying properly in some search column tweets
• Fixed blank search columns do not get refreshed
• Fixed rare cache issue causing 100% CPU load at startup
• Fixed retweets not showing usernames/full name as per display setting
• Fixed potential crash caused by AddInProcess
• Fixed crash when horizontal scrolling with Logitech or Apple mouse drivers
• Changed MetroTwit server API calls to HTTPS for enhanced privacy
• Fixed changing themes sometimes wouldn’t show dialog
• Fixed adding image to tweet ensure URL has prepend space
• Fixed notification crash if set to monitor which has been disconnected
• Fixed closing window when maximized overriding the restored window size
• Fixed minimize and restore resizing bug
• Fixed MetroTwit not displaying on same-resolution secondary displays if no longer connected
• Fixed window maximizing issue with multi-monitors
• Fixed streaming error text
• Tweaked calendar blackout to use cursor instead of cross
• Fixed links not opening in browser for notifications of search columns
• Removed popup column animation to improve performance
• Fixed twitlonger showing up when character count was less than 140 using native t.co shortening
• Fixed direct messages not showing both username/full name
• Fixed rare Aero Snap issues

Version 0.9.3.0 release notes:

• Fixed view conversation to display tweets instantly than waiting for whole thread
• Changed URL shortening setting to show native Twitter URL shortening
• Fixed pause columns utilizing the new backlog functionality
• Fixed URLs not counting correctly in tweet compose box
• Fixed media preview for very small images not appear tiny
• Fixed MetroTwit Plus verification to email addresses with “plus” symbols
• Fixed context-menu text appearing black on dark theme for Windows 8 Aero Basic users
• Fixed changing themes leading to columns no longer adapting to resizing
• Fixed media preview crashing for corrupt images
• Changed Proxlet naming in settings to generic “API Proxy”
• Fixed copying tweets with square brackets becoming HTML entities
• Attempted fix at profile corruption issue by reducing the number of save points
• Added pasting links prepend space before to prevent unclickable links
• Fixed duplicate tweets when resuming from Twitter streaming disconnect
• Added support for profile updating event from Twitter streaming
• Fixed high DPI bug popup column positioning
• Tweaked inline popup positioning logic when the screen might not fit
• Fixed copying expanded URL overriding normal URL
• Fixed popup column crashing if closing while moving back
• Fix blocked users tweet being retweeted in the timeline
• Fixed tweet buttons disabled if sending tweet failed once
• Fixed notification toast to show at least two lines of text with RT
• Optimized media preview to not jitter at launch
• Fixing resizing bug if lots of columns displayed
• Changed MetroTwit Plus verification failing on some locales
• Tweaked ad refresh cycle now adaptive to inactive/idle application
• Attempt to fix tweet fade in animation which caused invisible tweets
• Removed the retweet grouping functionality which deleted the original tweet
• Removed arrows and animations from popups for performance
• Fixed a popup column positioning bug after cycling back/forward
• Fixed popup column might appear out of screen
• Fixed URL displays to new Twitter format
• Added support for Twitter entities in Twitter searches
• Swapped RT/refresh icons to be more consistent with UI standards
• Changed profile column layout
• Fixed tweets appearing out of order when streaming
• Added new sign-in experience to simplify the Twitter OAuth process
• Added error if computer time is off and streaming cannot connect
• Fixed trends showing selected location name by accident
• Fixed media previews to use new Embed.ly service
• Fixed taskbar notification not updating after settings change
• Added a tip to bypass media preview
• Changed style of overlays, introduced popup column overlay
• Tweaked size of popup columns
• Fixed pressing “c” accidentally closing windows

Version 0.9.2.0 release notes:

• Added “save search”, “remove saved search” and recent searches functionality
• Added local/weekly/daily trends support
• Added new and more reliable “keep scroll at top” behavior
• Fixed “show all replies from friends” option not working
• Fixed favorites column constantly refreshing
• Fixed support for GIF images in media uploading
• Fixed profile avatar disappearing after tweeting
• Fixed support for horizontal mouse tilting to scroll left/right in columns
• Fixed rare media popup window crashing on load
• Fixed invalid focus of tweet box after sending a tweet
• Fixed notifications positioning away from bottom corners
• Tweaked button design style
• Tweaked direct message layout style
• Tweaked ad display style
• Fixed bit.ly “Find API key” link
• Fixed “service disrupted” typo

Version 0.9.1.0 release notes:

• Added advanced search builder for complex searches
• Fixed media preview descriptions with clickable links
• Changed unread marker to be more visible on top of scrollbar
• Changed ad colours to use accent color and added label
• Changed layout design on popups to improve performance
• Improved network performance when communicating to Twitter and services
• Fixed issues with proxies using Basic or Integrated Authentication (new Settings for Basic Proxies)
• Fixed corrupted settings or cache files crashing MetroTwit
• Fixed a number of window position and sizing problems on startup and maximise
• Fixed infinite scrolling on profile columns
• Fixed issue with tweets being removed incorrectly from columns
• Fixed issue with saving settings very quickly after opening
• Fixed profile popup when opening from Incoming/Outgoing Friendship request
• Fixed link displays from Twitter without http://
• Fixed issues causing avatars to not download or cache correctly
• Fixed bit.ly URL Shortening with special characters
• Fixed mark all as read and unread marker not updating
• Fixed timestamp to use Windows regional setting
• Fixed update dialog for small screen resolutions
• Fixed rare autocomplete crashing
• Fixed rare notification crashing
• Fixed popup errors stacking if sign in failed

Version 0.9.0.0 release notes:

• Introducing ads and MetroTwit Plus – check blog for more details
• Countless performance improvements and tweaks
• Added backlog feature to collate streaming updates for a single update
• Added support for selectable tweet font sizes
• Added ability to “undo retweets”
• Added loading animation to tweet columns
• Added pause indicator to columns that are paused
• Added support for viewing follow requests for private accounts
• Added ability to disable link shortening
• Added “copy tweet link” to tweet context menu
• Added grouping of retweets
• Added ability to rename columns
• Added verified account icon to tweet columns
• Changed style of tweet metadata and buttons to be more streamline
• Improved “keep scroll when refreshing” behavior
• Reduced tweet duplications in alerts and notifications
• Enhanced secure encryption of OAuth token
• Fixed Unicode text in tweets could exceed boundary of tweet
• Fixed Twitter sign in crashing when user’s computer time is not correct
• Fixed Twitter trends display
• Fixed username autocomplete behavior to be more consistent with non-alphanumeric characters
• Fixed support for Microsoft Mouse back button in popup columns
• Fixed ClearType not displaying for popup columns
• Fixed showing retweets in notifications
• Fixed pasting text from OneNote
• Fixed accidentally sending tweets while “shortening” URLs
• Fixed not being able to send multi-line tweets
• Fixed Twitter usernames not showing on search columns when display set to “full name only”
• Fixed high DPI issues for first-launch and popups

Known issues:

• When “Keep scroll position when refreshing” is enabled, scroll position when initially loading is incorrect