Access Bridge Explorer Version History

Version 1.1

Fix issue where some events are lost
Show count of active Java Objects in the status bar
Add a button to manually force a Garbage Collection in the status bar
Improve support for multi-monitor setups
Add options (Options | Component Overlay | Hook ...) to enable/disable global keyboard hooks (Ctrl+\ and Ctrl+Shft+\)
Improve CodeGen to support XML doc comments in generated code
Add option (Options | Component Overlay | Synchronize Tree) to synchronize the Accessibility Tree when the Component Overlay is updated.

Add options (Options | Component Overlay | Activate on xxx) to offer finer grained control on when to update the component overlay window
- To simulate screen readers, a new options allows activating the component overlay when the input focus
- There is also an option to activate the overlay when the active descendant of a container changes (e.g. when the selected item of a list changes)
Add options (Options | Component Overlay | Show xxx) to allow choosing between a tooltip window and/or semi-transparent overlay when displaying the component overlay.
Auto-refresh list of running application bt reguarly polling the list of Windows on the system.
Display the details of errors when double-clicking an error in the "Messages" window
"Component Properties" view is improved for tables. It now contains headers, selections, children.
"Component Properties" view now contains the list of children
When the row selection in the "Component Properties" view switches to a property associated with a screen reactangle, update the component overlay location to that of the rectangle.
A few more properties shown in the "Component Properties" view
Settings/options are saved in a the "%APPDATA%\Roaming\AccessBridgeExplorer\settings.txt" file
Fix a bug where the Text of text components contains a "..." suffix, incorrectly indicating there was more text.

"Component Properties" view
- Improve performance as sub-properties are evaluated on demand (i.e. when node is expanded)
- For "Text" component, add a node to expose the full text content
- Add a "Focused element" entry
Fix bug on Windows 7, where component overlay window would flicker
CodeGen: Improve generated code for "out" parameters
CodeGen: Generate less code when wrapper classes are not needed

Add support for loading the legacy Windows Access Bridge DLL (version 1.x), required to work with older Java Application (e.g. OpenOffice 3.x and earlier)
The Windows Access Bridge P/Invoke wrapper is now automatically generated. This was required to make it easier to support the legacy access bridge DLL.

Add notification Window when a new version of Access Bridge Explorer is available