Release Notes

11/10/2011: v1.1.1u2

• bugfix: menu tasks: large icons were disrupting layout
• bugfix: creating a new named task via widget configure, task didn't run till data saved via main UI
• bugfix: exiting UI via cancel, then save after all, was not giving monitor new data
• bugfix: Perform Task: subsequent invocations of same task were using the same temp data
• bugfix: during a restart monitor could sometimes generate false warnings about cooldown times

04/10/2011: v1.1.1u1

• bugfix: editing existing named task, deleting all actions, add action, rotate, accept action, was causing UI disaster
• bugfix: Zoom Element Colour: UI was not accepting valid colours
• bugfix: Zoom Element Colour: execution didn't work either :-)
• bugfix: menu task: diff geom icons were messing up grid
• bugfix: icon selection: icons of different sizes could mess up grid formatting
• bugfix: crash from %MTRACK monitoring in some situations
• bugfix: allow expressions in slider-replacement vars in action edit again
• bugfix: all-numeric variable names were being treated as local
• bugfix: variable editor was accepting local variables names with +

01/10/2011: v1.1.1

Removals

• action Test File (replaced by action Test, backwards compatibility is maintained)
• variables %FDIR, %FMODS, %FNAME, %FSIZE, %FTYPE
• action List Variables (superceded by variable editor in UI)
• Set Clipboard for Honeycomb devices (pending ammendment for new API)

Additions

• action category Task, moved several Tasker actions there
• Menu / More / View Run Log
• new maths parser inc. bracket support and lots of maths functions. Operator precendence may have changed, specify with brackets if in doubt
• File / Remount (root only, only /system ATM)
• action Perform Task: two fields for parameters to give to the target task as local variables
• action Perform Task: return variable field to place return value in (see Flow Control for more info)
• action Task / Return
• app contexts: FAQ entry for app detection and tip linking to it in the UI
• block collapsers, movement of whole blocks when collapsed
• task-local variable support: variables with all-lower-case letters are only visible in the current task, existing all-lower-case names have their first letter capitalized for backwards compatibility
• %MTRACK: support built-in Music app (all devices?), Power Amp, Phantom Music Control Pro
• action Button: added search
• action Misc / Test
• action Setting Dialog / Power Usage Settings
• action Task / Else
• actions For/EndFor (iterative loops, see action help / Flow Control in Userguide for more info)
• array slices (%ARRVAR[1:3] etc), see Variable Arrays in the Variables section of the userguide
• actions Array Push, Array Pop and Array Clear
• action File / List Files
• task edit: block indentation and colour marking
• task edit: red/green marker for status of action conditions
• mod (remainder) operator for maths expressions (%)
• actions in an execute-type task can also have a label
• action Goto: accept also label, loop start/end, if end
• task edit screen: menu options toggle action label/toggle param label/action type icon
• variables SIM Serial Number (%SIMNUM), SIM State (%SIMSTATE)
• temporary app detection logging
• action Misc / Run Shell
• action action parameter: 'continue task on error' for many actions, let me know if useful for other actions
• action Variable Convert: new parameter Store Result In
• state: Cell Near: support for scanning of neighbouring cells (only on some phones, seemingly not Samsung)
• when adding a location context to a profile, allow selection of a previously created location
• profile export options: email xml/description
• events Alarm Clock/Done: added LG clock package (experimentally)

Bugfixes

• Perform Task: parent launching a child with higher pri could continue running before child arrived in queue
• action condition: large left-hand-side was crowding out rest of condition
• update existing widget priorities when the preference changes
• time picker on MIUI ROM
• action Test: show var picker for all, don't show chooser for var length
• Variable Convert: 'Seconds to Date Time' was giving Time Date
• Variable Convert: Name is now a required parameter
• Variable Convert: rounding of bytes to MB/GB now takes into account localized decimal point character
• Take Call, Radio, Silence Ringer: show available on modified ROMs if Tasker is installed in /system/app
• don't try BT backwards compatability code for SDK < Eclair
• Say: consecutive Says with continue immediately, second would block
• going to prefs monitor tab but not selecting anything was stopping monitor service on prefs exit
• action edit: parameter-specific changes were clearing condition fields
• action/state/event edit: with text field selected and keyboard out, changing a slider was scrolling to text field
• menu task with just icons layout was messed up
• event Variable Cleared wasn't allowing built-in dynamic vars
• handle a couple of null values passed as an external call
• prevent selection of Query Action when ... Querying an action or with Menu / More / Run An Action
• tips and some other popup texts had bad formatting
• state Light Level: wasn't handling 0 very well
• action parameters with colour specification weren't accepting variables
• Prefs screen wasn't obeying user-selected orientation
• don't reload monitor if data save failed on UI exit
• action Set Timezone: massage Etc/ entries to give the expected result
• %CELLID: sometimes clear notification wasn't sent
• event Missed Call: was firing sometimes when > 1 existing missed call hadn't been acknowledged
• CPU: don't mark as unavailable when there are 2 cpus and cpu1+ can't be validated
• various passcode dialogs, set the text input box explicitly to single line
• UI Lock: after reboot, widget configure activity could be started without lock code
• UI Lock: exiting UI didn't always reset lock
• Variable Join: joiner wasn't having variables replaced

Changes

• Perform Task and monitor reload efficiency improved dramatically
• inserting variables, goes to cursor/selection rather than end
• action label supports simple HTML markup, also as menu label
• Variable Add/Subtract: accept (and round) non-integer variable values, result is an integer
• preference Profile Activation History -> Run Log, changed filename to runlog.txt and added task status logging
• settings help dialogs were showing HTML tags
• auto-show soft keyboard for several text entry boxes
• better Goto parameter validation
• took out UI character auto caps for variable fields
• %MTRACK, Music Play Dir: use ID3 title where available
• state Cell Near: recent cell IDs list: show youngest first
• allow absolute file paths in file actions (/data etc)
• file browser can go back to root dir (defaults to SD still)
• don't show indexed vars in UI var selector
• tweaked descr export of If action
• don't allow action condition for End actions
• show action labels in action list
• state edit: Cell Near: recent cell IDs list: mark whether already included in state or not
• action Variable Split: clear all existing indices before doing the split
• refreshed flow-control, action edit, task edit userguide pages
• subtasks with higher priority and in a wait now block their parent task
• action Browse URL: default to scheme http if none detected
• include orphan tasks when searching for variables to include in the variable editor, variable selector
• sort user var list in variable selector
• developers: changed TaskerIntent.java to support passing local task parameters (see addParameter(String))
• Tasker/tmp -> Tasker/cache/tmp, write .nomedia when created
• CPU: diagnostic instead of warning for some log messages for CPUs > 0