VPLauncher history:

• VPLauncher will now "remember" last selected table when exiting

• List displays now show favourite tables with three stars as suffix

• Jpeg-images can't be used for rules any more
• In file dialog in Edit window, VPLauncher didn't remember the last used Screenshots, Flyers- and Rules directory.

• There is now a font dialog where the font used by the main windows can be specified.
• Installer used instead of self-extracting archive.

• Some dialogs had german Yes- and No-buttons.
• Menu item "Start Future Pinball" started Visual Pinball.

• Future Pinball support
• Font size for main windows is adjustable in configuration dialog
• Easier import of screenshots (just press <Alt>>-<Print> while playing the table and in VPLauncher, right click and select menu item "Take Over Screenshot From Clipboard")
• Minor enhancements

• Data base hase been updated by Jonathan Bovard
• Initial table scan is now approximately 25% faster
• Executable is smaller

• Jon also has updated the screenshots and flyers packs!

• You can now create more than one configuration. Configurations can be switched at startup and from System menu.
• The key , cycles through screenshot, rules and flyers in compact display and through screenshots and flyers in multi window displays.
• Shortcuts for most menu items (for example CTRL-R to play random tables)

• Data base has been updated by Cobracure and myself
• The initial table scan is now much faster
• Due to the fact that some table authors write stupid information into the table information, matching entries in the data base override table information now.
• Chance for table mismatch decreased dramatically due to a better 'match by name' method implemented.

• Tree displays: Some functions had problems when a sub item was selected.
• Menu item "Show Newer Versions of Existing Tables" sometimes showed wrong results.
• Minor bugfixes

• You can now export table information to be used in MS-Excel. See online help for details.

• A lot of additions to the data base.

• A lot of additions to the data base.

• User changed table information could be lost when using a new data base file.
• When selecting screenshots or flyers or rules in edit dialog, the last used directory was not used as the initial directory.
• Minor bugfixes

• In config dialog you can now switch off automatic extraction of screenshots and rules from the table file (but it is not recommended to do so).

• In compact display modes, if you select an entry the appropriate file name will be displayed in main dialog title.
• Minor improvements

• In some cases, editing table information did not work.

• Table Rating: You can now rate tables with a number between 1 (horrible) to 10 (just perfect). These ratings can be send to me automatically. I will compile these ratings and create some web pages showing the ratings of all users.

• Emails are now sent with built-in email support instead of using Outlook
• Additions/corrections to the table data base. It has been improved to minimize wrong table matches.

• Rules and screenshots were not extracted automatically from table information when matching tables.
• Minor bugfixes

• Multi language support (besides the standard english version, there is now an optional french language pack available).
• Optional (small) flyers- and rules-pack available.

• Major improvement of the data base. It is now very accurate and contains information about more than 760 unique tables and almost 2300 versions.

• In rare cases, VPLauncher always matched all tables at startup (instead of doing this only when the once)

• Favourite Tables were not shown.

• You can now get to a table authors website from the Table Information dialog
• You can now write an email to a table author from the Table Information dialog
• Help menu contains an entry for direct web links for the main Visual Pinball sites.

• Additions/corrections to the table data base

• Using button 'Get Screenshot From Clipboard' in Edit dialog failed with a table which hasnt't any screenshot previously.
• In rare cases, startup produced an error message sometimes for TB6 tables.

• Some code for an upcoming feature (invisible to the user) caused V2.3 to crash on some systems.

• Table Information stored in the table file are automatically used if available (table created with Visual Pinball TB6 or higher only). This includes rules and screnshot! You can view these information from the table context menu.
• You can now create your own screenshots with VPLauncher (from the Edit dialog). Read online help of Edit Dialog for more information.
• Tree Views can now be sorted by Authors, Company, Year etc.
• Optionally, the file path of tables can be displayed in Tree- and Grid modes

• A lot of additions/corrections to the table data base
• If a file is selected from wrong directory in Edit dialog, the user is asked whether or not to copy the file to the correct directory

• When editing table info and using a table type not yet known, the table type was not displayed in the table type lists

• VPLauncher can now check your VPinMame ROMs
• Four new display types available, three tree displays and one more list display. Now a total of 9 display types are available
• VPLauncher can now show you, if there are newer versions available for your tables.
• You can now specify additional directories where VPLauncher searches for flyers and rules.

• A lot of Corrections/additions to the table data base

• Now rtf-rule files can be used.
• Minor bugfixes

• Favorite tables are now shown in bold face in grid modes.
• Right click on a table shows a popup menu, where you can choose 'Add to Favourites' and 'Edit Table Information'

• Corrections/additions to the table data base

• Sometimes, editing table information didn't work.
• Minor bugfixes

• There is a menu item in Extra menu to select and start a table randomly (funny!).

• Corrections/additions to the table data base
• Minor improvement when matching tables

• VPLauncher couldn't use jpg-images in progressive mode
• Editing table information didn't work for tables matched by file name.

• Edit button didn't work in 'Grid Multi Window' mode.
• Rule files were not searched in sub-directory Rules of VPLauncher installation directory.
• Edit didn't work, when no version number was given.
• Minor bugfixes.

• VPLauncher now uses checksums (CRC32 values) to identify tables. VPlauncher.dat contains checksums to identify many versions of a table (more than 530 tables with a total of more than 1600 versions!). With this, tables can be identified even if you have renamed the file. Search names are only used to identify new versions. Now more than one version of a table can be identified.
• Editing table information completely rewritten (now using a new, easier to use dialog). Table information changed with the last version of VPLauncher can't be used with this version, but changed information is now stored in a way that should be stable from now on.
• Grid now uses a stable search algorithm (i.e. you now can sort by year and then by company to have for example all Bally tables sorted by year)
• Switching from table to table is now faster.
• Up to three flyers can now be used
• Flyers are now searched in table directory and in sub-directory Flyers of VPLauncher installation directory.
• Rules are now searched in table directory and in sub-directory Rules of VPLauncher installation directory.
• Screenshots are now searched in sub-directory Screenshots of VPLauncher installation directory and in table directory.
• Recursive directory search can be switched off

• Recent changes broke the Editor. Now it works again.

• Saving hidden categories didn't work correctly. This has been fixed.

• New 'scroll to table entry when pressing a letter' feature messed up the editor. This has been fixed.
• If you have changed table information using the editor and press the 'Launch' button, you are asked whether or not you want to save your changes.

• VPLauncher now ends VisualPinball if you quit a table
• VPLauncher now shows flyers (if provided with the tables)
• Exiting VPLauncher will save complete state of all display types to disk (i.e. window positions and size, hidden categories, grid column sizes etc.). The state will be reloaded on startup.
• Grid contains now table file date information (and can be sorted accordingly)
• If you press a letter on the grid, selection jumps to first row where the cell with the selected column contains a word beginning with the pressed letter (i.e. if you sort the grid by table name and you press k, then the grid scrolls to the first table beginning with k).
• Some small enhancements

• Changing table information finally works now for newly found tables
• For selecting directories there is now a directory selector used (instead of a file selector)
• Directories are now searched recursively for tables
• You can now display tables you don't have

• When adding tables to favourites, wrong table types appeared in Show/Hide list
• When selecting a table in the grid, not the complete row was selected

• Changing table information didn't work for newly found tables and table name changes. This has been fixed.
• Sometimes, the online help could not be found.
• At startup, the list of tables wasn't correctly sorted in grid display.

• There are now four types of display: simple, compact, multi-window and simple multi-window (see online help for details).
• Changed table information will now be stored in a separate file so that a new dat-file will not override your changes.
• Table rule files can now be text- or jpg-files.
• You can now specify your favourite tables (as one type of table)
• Tables can now be of more than one type (for example Historic and Favourite)
• VPLauncher now 'remembers' size and position of all windows.
• Table information file contains more than 40 new entries (with a total of about 440 tables)

• Fixed a bug with the standard configuration (it gave an access violation error)

• Initial revision