Sizer – Release History

Sizer version history

Sizer was born in February 1997 and came as a direct response to a usenet post by Kevin Kalp. The original post can be viewed here. The first version was knocked up over a lunch hour. Version 1 of Sizer had a limited circulation.

A few weeks later the program had a number of configuration features added and was then submitted to Tucows. Version 2 was the first publicly available version and can still be found on various web sites despite by best efforts to get links redirected.

In about mid 1999, I reworked Sizer to operate in the manner I'd originally intended (i.e. right clicking on the window border to bring up the popup menu). This code is substantially different from previous versions and uses a technique that injects a portion of code into all running processes. Nothing happened with version until July 2000, when I released it as version 3 on this web page.

Version 3.01 followed in October 2000 and is just a bug fix for Windows 2000. (Thanks to Rick Robinson for reporting the issue.)

Version 3.10 (May 2001) adds interactive sizing and tooltip support, this development was prompted by suggestions from Ken Schiff. This version includes a few minor bug fixes including a fix to a problem where the status bar of a window could become corrupted during precise sizing. This version made it onto the web site in late May 2001.

Version 3.20 (Feb 2002) adds the ability to reposition windows as well as resizing them. Thanks to Freddy Leitner (and others) for this suggestion.

Version 3.21 (Feb 2002) Fixes a bug in the generation of default menu options (thanks to Charles Lutz for reporting this). Also the old style resize operations on the system tray context menu have been reintroduced.

Version 3.22 (Apr 2002) Fixes a bug when resizing windows on multi-monitor systems, thanks to Pascal Lagarde for the initial report. Also the uninstaller was updated to cope with differences on Windows XP, the uninstaller should not report bogus errors about removing shortcuts that weren't added in the first place.

Version 3.3 (Feb 2003) Includes a workaround for a problem with tooltips not disappearing on console windows, credit to Markus Jakobi for reporting this issue (this issue was incorrectly reported as fixed in v3.22, the code change never made it into the final build). Fixes some System Tray resizing issues on 2000/XP. Further fixes to resizing on multi-monitor systems. Includes option to disable system tray icon as suggested by Claus Vestergaard. Includes system menu integration.

Version 3.31 (Jun 2010) Changes to support Vista and Windows 7. Updated installer to use msi format.

Version 3.32 (Aug 2010) Workaround to address right-click system menu in Google Chrome.

Version 3.33 (Jan 2011) Bug fix for repositioning on the right side of a secondary monitor.

Version 3.34 (July 2012) Bug fix for "not a valid Win32 application" in Windows 2000.