1.1 Release

See CHANGES.md

v1 release, many bugs fixes and improvements

Many new features and bug fixes, including:

• Auto-detect running applications
• Fine grained options for overlay: properties view, on focus gained events, etc.
• Options are save in settings file
• Improve accessible table support
• Improve error handling (double click error to see details)

Improve responsiveness, display more data for AccessibleText components

• Improve overall responsiveness by lazily expanding property groups in the "Component Properties" window
• Display more data for AccessibleText components, including the full text contents
• Code generation improvements: generated code (source and compiled) is smaller
• Fix flickering issue on Windows7 when using capture tool
• Split code related to Java Access Bridge interop into separate assembly for easier re-use in other applications

Add support for legacy WindowsAccessBridge.dll (32-bit only)

Some older applications (e.g. OpenOffice 3.x) use the legacy access bridge API and can only be examined by loading the legacy WindowsAccessBridge.dll (as opposed to WindowsAccessBridge-32.dll). This release adds support for loading the legacy DLL to interact with these older applications.

This release also adds a new option menu to limit the size of the enumeration of collections. This is so that Access Bridge Explorer does not hang when enumerating the cells of a worksheet application containing millions of cells, .

From an implementation perspective, this was achieved by creating a code generation tool that generates all the C# <=> Access Bridge interop code automatically. This also improves a few other things along the way, such as the way events handlers are implemented (cleaner, less obstrusive).

Fix 32-bit support, periodically check for new versions

Access Bridge Explorer version 0.9.1

• Add a "notification" popup tooltip window for important messages
• Periodically check for new releases, and display a message if a new release is available.
• Fix issue where the 32-bit version of AccessBridgeExplorer would not work properly with a 32-bit version of the Java Access Bridge.
• Add the ability to always run in 32-bit (even on a 64-bit OS) by including a 32-bit version of AccessBridgeExplorer.exe on the "x86" directory of the zip installation file.
• Improve error reporting in case the Java Access Bridge is not installed or not enabled.

Initial release

Initial release of Access Bridge Explorer.

See homepage for details.

Requires Windows 7 or later, Microsoft .NET 4.0 or later, Java SE Runtime Environment 7 or later.