This is a modified version of Console 2 for a better experience under Windows Vista/7/8 and a better visual rendering.
This fork supports:
+ Splitting Tabs into views (horizontally and vertically)
+ Grouping views (so input sent to one goes to all of them)
+ Windows Vista aero glass theme
+ Windows 7 jumplist
+ Windows 7 wallpaper positions and slideshow
+ Windows 8 wallpapers on dual screen
+ Zooming with Ctrl-Mouse
+ Quake style console animation
+ Strict monospace font rendering
+ Settable opacity of text background color
+ and more...
* : fixed
- : removed
! : changed
+ : added
Changes in 1.06.0 (24 Mar 2013)
! the cloned tab title is suffixed with (2)
! about dialog box improvement
! hotkeys are displayed in the menu
! restart is no longer needed for these appearance settings:
"Caption"
"Resizable"
"Border"
"Taskbar button"
+ new option "Net Only" to "Run as user"
the user credentials are used only to access network resources
the user is displayed in tab title surrounded with braces
+ "Run as user" supports UNC user names
+ new buttons in the toolbar:
"Rename tab"
"Split Horizontally"
"Split Vertically"
+ new hotkeys:
"New Tab 11" (default: CTRL+F11)
"New Tab 12" (default: CTRL+F12)
"Switch to left view" (default: ALT+LEFT)
"Switch to right view" (default: ALT+RIGHT)
"Switch to top view" (default: ALT+UP)
"Switch to bottom view" (default: ALT+DOWN)
+ Windows key can be used in global hotkeys
+ The glass frame extended in client area (toolbar and tabs) can be used to
move the window.
+ The glass frame extended in client area (tabs only) can be used to
maximize or restore the window by double clicking.
* If the only one tab was cloned, the "delete" button remained disabled.
* Under Windows 8, the call to GetTextMetrics function failed with some fonts
The return code wasn't checked and char metrics wasn't correctly initialized.
* wrong tabs scrolling
* close button drawing
* background of tab was black with basic Windows theme
* error handling and return code checking
* Re-add tray icon if Windows Explorer restarts.
* When files are dropped on a view, this view gets the focus.
* Title was not updated when view changed.
Changes in 1.05.0 (2 Feb 2013)
! FreeImage 3.15.4
! Visual Studio 2012
! WTL 8.1.12085
! force monospace displaying
by adjusting the size of chars larger than average width font
! limit vertical scrolling to the furthest buffer location viewed
+ Windows 8 can use a wallpaper per monitor
+ display a closing confirmation when there is only one tab
but multiple views
+ improve the status bar with:
console buffer size, console screen size,
selection size and console PID
* dropping a file affects all views in a group
* aero glass margins are resetted when composition change
(hibernation disables DWM, at wakeup ConsoleZ was fully transparent)