EventGhost

0.5.0-beta1 (2016-08-12)

Important changes for plugin developers:

• Migrate from `PIL` to `Pillow` #27 (blackwind)
• Upgrade to `wxPython` 3.0 #35 (topic2k)
• Deprecate `eg.revision`, remove previously deprecated items #50 (blackwind)
• Parse documents starting with "<md>" as Markdown #59 (blackwind)

Enhancements:

• Upgrade to Python 2.7 #8 (topic2k)
• Search for modules in `[python-install]\Lib\site-packages` and `%PYTHONPATH%` #20 (blackwind)
• Preserve view settings when switching versions #21 (blackwind)
• Restore changelog panel in about dialog #22 (blackwind)
• Refresh environment variables automatically or via action #24 (blackwind)
• Add File > Restart menuitem #32 (blackwind)
• Add hotkeys to most menuitems #33 (blackwind)
• Support wildcard patterns in event bindings #46 (blackwind)
• Calculate "Python Script" indent size from script #48 (blackwind)
• Replay events via log control's context menu #49 (blackwind)
• Restore automatic and manual update checking #51 (topic2k)
• Add option to hide system tray icon #62 (blackwind)
• Disable log scrolling automatically when not at bottom #64 (blackwind)
• Integrate useful debug menu functionality into core #67 (blackwind)

Fixed bugs:

• [Lirc] Prevent an exception if no device is connected #29 (topic2k)
• [MceRemote_Vista] Prevent an exception if no device is connected #30 (topic2k)
• [Speech] Prevent an infinite loop on configuration reload #54 (blackwind)

Yes, this is an official release approved by Pako.

All plugin developers should be running the beta and should make any necessary adjustments to their plugins as soon as possible, as the final release isn't far off. I recommend that regular users running only stock plugins test this version as well, as it should be just as stable as v0.4.1r1722.

From here on out:

• Please submit all bug reports to our issue tracker at GitHub rather than the Bug Reports section here at the forum.
• If you want your code included in the next version, send us a pull request at GitHub rather than posting here in the release thread.

The future is now. Join us, won't you?

Cool, thank you very much!
Anyway, I just wanted to install EG and I did get this screen on my German Windows: What confuses me here is the second option, I have no idea what it means.
When I translate the German to English it says:

Begin of the Setup:
Start automatedEventGhost

Also I get lot's of plugin errors when I run the new version, should I post errors with plugins in gitHub or in the forum?

Edit: Waht does the new Option: Refresh environment before executing "Run" actions do?

Thank you!

Nice, I recognize that all my existing non-official plugins are preserved in the plugin directory, that is good. Notice that if you have added some site-packages to lib26 directory in previous versions, you need to move them to lib27 instead.
After fixing some errors mainly related to 'wxFlexGridSizer::AddGrowableCol(), my system is back & up running

Sem;colon wrote:What confuses me here is the second option, I have no idea what it means.
When I translate the German to English it says:

Begin of the Setup:
Start automatedEventGhost

That's really odd, as I'm using the official translation from Inno Setup and not my own. Please do send them a pull request with the correct translation. In English, the option is "Automatically start EventGhost" (with Windows).

Also I get lot's of plugin errors when I run the new version, should I post errors with plugins in gitHub or in the forum?

If they're stock plugins, post on GitHub; if not, inform the author in the appropriate thread here.

Edit: Waht does the new Option: Refresh environment before executing "Run" actions do?

From Add Action > System > Refresh Environment:

"Refreshes environment variables by reading their current values from the registry.

When a program launches, it inherits the current environment from the program that launched it, and EventGhost is no different. By default, if you modify an environment variable, EventGhost won't pass your changes along to the programs it launches because it doesn't know those changes took place. If you update your %PATH%, for example, then open a Command Prompt from EventGhost, you'll find you're unable to run commands from the new folders you've added.

In the past, the only solution to this problem was to restart EventGhost. Now, with the aid of this action (or "Refresh environment before executing Run actions" in Options), EventGhost can read the latest environment variables from the registry, apply them to its own environment, and thereby pass them along to anything it launches going forward."

krambriw wrote:Notice that if you have added some site-packages to lib26 directory in previous versions, you need to move them to lib27 instead.

Better still, because of #20, you can install Python 2.7 (x86 version, as it has to match EventGhost), run `pip install modulename`, and EventGhost will pick up your modules automatically. Alternately, you can create the %PYTHONPATH% environment variable and put your modules there, where they can be accessed by any Python interpreter on your system.

After fixing some errors mainly related to 'wxFlexGridSizer::AddGrowableCol(), my system is back & up running

Glad to hear!